Book suggestions??? help me,help others,help eachother

[fujimi442]

LOL,Ok after my last post seemed to get a good response, and opened me up to some new films, Ive decided to enlist mac forums in the search for interesting books. Ok, I am really interested in books that explain things/events in a way that you dont normally hear about, for instance: why we are here,how we are here, time travel, the missing link,paranormal stuff,history, ect... So Im hoping my fellow mac users can help me here, maybe we should start a sticky book review thread???? Its pretty easy to hear about new movies, but tons of great books come out with out people ever knowing about them. So anyways, start suggesting, if you have the time give a little summary or a link.

THANK YOU

[mischief]

Tolkein's entire Middle Earth series including the incidental works about Tom Bombadil, the Shire, The Silmarillion and the collections of short stories.


Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.


Virtual Light, Idoru. By William Gibson.


Stephen King:

The Dark Tower series, Bag of Bones, The Langoliers, The Regulators, The Shining, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, Misery, Dreamcatcher, Hearts in Atlantis, It, The Long Walk, Collected short stories of Bachman (King's original Pen Name) The Green Mile.


Frank Herbert:

The Dune Series and subsequent Prequels by his son.


Roger Zelanzy & Son:

The Chronicles ofd Amber and Prince of Chaos Series'.


Phillip Jose Farmer:

The Green Brain, The World Of Tiers Series, The River World Series, The Santaroga effect, The Whipping Star Series.


C. S. Lewis:

The Chronicles of Narnia Series.

[000111one111000]

Beyond Good and Evil, The Genaology of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist all by Friedrich Nietzsche

Some "occult" books that I enjoy reading are:

"The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley" by Aleister Crowley

"777" by Aleister Crowley

"777 and other Qabalistic Writings" by Aleister Crowley

"The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee" by some dude, hehe, I forget his name

"Diary of a Drug Fiend" by Aleister Crowley

I've got a ton more fav. books, but my memory is shot right now, since I just woke up.

I strongly suggest you check out Crowley and Nietzsche though, tis an interesting read whether you think they're idiots or not.

enoch

[Thanatoast]

Stranger in a strange land - Heinlen. Provides an interesting philosophy on life.

[MacAztec]

This is an AWESOME Sci-Fi book:

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

After this, is another good one:

Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card

[scem0]

Here is my first post from my favorite fantasy authors thread.
If you want to look at the suggestions that are available in that
thread follow this link. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15021&highlight=favorite+fantasy+authors)

Originally posted by scem0
Here are some of my favs:
1) Terry Brooks
2) Terry Goodkind


Honorable mentions:

Melanie Rawn, Ursula K. Leguin, Storm Constantine, Elizabeth Haydon.


Right now I am reading the 4th book in the wit'ch war Saga by
James Clemens. He isn't a very good author, but he has improved
a lot from the 1st book, and I started the 1st book, and it would
be annoying if I didn't finish the series. It's like bags of chips, once
you start you can't stop.


Oh, and I might as well write why I didn't put JRR Tolkien. His
books are BORING . I could barely read the whole Lord
of the Rings series because I kept falling asleep halfway through
the chapters. I mean, he starts going off into pointless topics such
as the lineage of the kings of Kalimbor, and how they came to the
elvin forest of Llorithaine (I made all that up BTW). I just think
that his books aren't that great.

Now is when everyone is gunna start saying dune over and over.
Everyone loves dune, but I haven't read it.

And just to add this for those who have read both Terry Brooks
and RA Salvatore:

Who is better? I am adding this to settle an old altercation. It
seemed like it fit the topic.


Sa basically, Terry Brooks' Shannara series, and Terry Goodkind's
Sword of Truth Series. Most people like Goodkind better, but I like
Brooks more for various reasons. ;)

[mymemory]

Richard Bach

These are sort of introespective new age books, they are good. It talks about breaking your internal limits but this guy is the master about it, the first one.

A great book was Illusions but the amazing thing is how he explain that.

He has an airplane and travel thru the US and in one of his books he meet a guy that basictly was something like Jesus that though him lots of stuff.

The books are not long and I recomend them.

[cubist]

I thought he wanted science, not science fiction.

Isaac Asimov has a series of very interesting nonfiction science books. He wrote a science column for an SF magazine for many years. Willy Ley did so also. All of these books are probably out of print.

There is a book called "The Encyclopedia of the Strange" (can't remember the author's name) which explains in logical terms all of the various stories drifting around about Atlantis, Lemuria, the Philadelphia Experiment, etc. Probably out of print also, but a worthwhile reference because he puts it all in one place.

H. G. Wells' "The Outline of History".

[fujimi442]

cubist, your right, I am actually looking for non-science fiction. Thanks for the suggestions, keep em comin, I know theres gotta be more of these books out there than this:)

[e-coli]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, By Dave Eggers

(same guy who does McSweeny's)

It's brilliant.

[e-coli]

Originally posted by MacAztec
This is an AWESOME Sci-Fi book:

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

One of my favorite books of all time...and I don't like sci-fi.

Orson Scott Card was my literature professor in college. Good guy.

[cr2sh]

"The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath
hands down my favorite book of all time...