Writing Good Books

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo] I read alot, and I am always on the look out for unusual books on just about any topic...except romance novels. Can anyone suggest a couple good books (if you don't mind include a blurb on what type of book it is)...the more interesting the plot the better....Thanks--HC[/color]

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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
(Sci-fi)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is brought into this world with permission from the military because his parents are geniuses and their first two children, Peter and Valentine, tested too pacifistic or arrogant for military command. In their world people may only bear two children, unless requested by the military. Ender goes to battle school to learn how to fight against the buggers (aliens), while facing ageism, bullies, and competing to be the best of the best out of his toon (squad)....sarcasm, irony, cynicallness, and subtlety galore. Being smart was always in.
(If you like the book, read the entire Ender series!)

The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
(Fiction/Classic?)
A band of private school 'vigils' run their school. They basically go around pulling nasty pranks....and it gets deadly. Harsh realism and my kind of humor!

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (sp?)
(Satire/Classic)
What's funnier than an old man riding an *** with a jousting stick toward a windmill...which he percieves to be a 'giant'

[BabyGirl]

[color=deeppink]Well, let me think...gosh, most of my literary collection consists of Star Wars novels...and romance novels, so...once classic that I really love is [b]A Tree Grows in Brooklyn[/b] by Betty Smith. It's about a girl growing up in an impovrished family in early 20th century Brooklyn. It's really good, but...I don't know if you're into that kind of stuff. It's on most literature reading lists...or whatever the hell those are called...so yes, you should give it a try :)[/color]

[Charles]

Ah, anything by Anne Rice is usually a winner. She's the writer of the Vampire Chronicles for your info. The Street by Anne Petry isn't bad either. Or how about Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy? Be prepared though, it's long. Wuthering Heights is also an excellent, yet slightly melancholy book.

[Cecil]

Have you read the His Dark Materils Trilogy by Phillip Pullman?

Err... well they're a Fantasy books, and it involves killing the self proclaimed God, yes THE God up in heavan. But that doesn't happen until the third book, the other two involve a little golden compas that can tell the truth to any questions and a knife that can cut between differnt worlds. It's really good. Oh yeah and the end of the third book has some romacne in it but thats near the very end. Well here are the titles of each book in order

The Golden Compas
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass

[Guest SUPER CLOUD]

:D J.R.R Tolkiens the hobbit was a great book

[Guest Voodookanaka]

the whole discworld series by terry pratchett, part from the first two.

the book good omens is pretty good...but u might as well wait bout a year 4 the movie

[Phantasy Freak]

if you like stuff about vampire's then Amelia Atwater-Rhodes writes some good ones.She only has 3 so far,considering she was't published till she was 13.But the name of her books are In the Forest of the Night, Demon in my View, ad her lastest Shattered Mirror.Personally I like Demon in my View and Shattered Mirror better than her first but thats what I think.

[B]In the Forests of the Night[/B]
Can't remember anything,it was like 2 yrs ago when I read this one.Plus there i no summary on the book.Lets just say it flips back from 1700's to "Now".@~@~This has 21 chapters~@~@

[B]Demon in my View[/B]
Jessica isn't you average teenager.Though nobody t her high school knows it,she's a published author.Her vampire novel [I]Tiger,Tiger[/I] has just came out under the pen name Ash Night.Jessica often wises she felt as comfortable with her classmates as she does among the vampires and witches of her fiction.She has always been treated as an outsider at Ramsa High.But two new students have just arrived in Ramsa, and both want Jessica's attention.he has no patence with overly friendly Caryn,but sh's instantly drawn to handsome Alex,a cocky,mysterious boy who seems surprisingly familiar.If she ddn't know better,she'd thik Aubrey, the alluring villian from [I]Tiger,Tiger[/I],had just sprung to life.That's impossible,of course:Aubrey is a figment of her imagination.Or is he?

@~@~I recomend this book.This is 33 Chapters~@~@

[B]Shattered Mirror[/B]
To the casual observer, Christopher Ravena and Sarah Vida look like normal high school students-there's nothing to clue their classmates in to their real identities.He's a vampire who's sworn off human blood;she's a witch,a daughter of the most powerful vampire-hunting dynasty in history.Although Sarah recognizes Christopher as her enemy from the moment she sees him,he is too weak to sense her witch aura and keep his distance.In fact, he's attracted to her, and he pursues her.Slowly,without meaning to,Sarah finds herself won over by his sensitivity,his gentleness,and his kindness.When there together,she forgets that he's a vampire.Unfortunately, when they're apart ,it's al she can remember.Accordin to Vida lw,no hunter can befriend a vampire without facing unimaginable consequences.But when Sarah finally decides to reveal herself and end their friendship,she discovers that Christopher has secrets too.His past and her future collde as they both get tangled upp with Nikolas,one of the most reviled vampires ever.Suddenly a world where right and wrong were one clear as black and white leaves room for little more than shades of gray.

@~@~I reccomend this book too.I gt so caught up in it I couldn't put it down.Stayed up on a school night.Reading it, 31 chapters in about 5 hours.~@~@

Hopefully you will consider reading them,it took a long time to type this up.:)

[Heaven's Cloud]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Voodookanaka [/i]
[B]
the book good omens is pretty good...but u might as well wait bout a year 4 the movie [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=indigo] I read Good Omens, it was probably one of the best books I've read in quite awhile, If you haven't read it you should...[/color]

[James]

[size=1]Hmm...there are a few good ones that I can think of.

[b]Jurassic Park/The Lost World[/b]

These books are great. So much better than the movies...they go into quite some detail about the science of palaentology, as well as having some awesome parts that the movies didn't have.

[b]One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich[/b]

This is a story about a guy called Ivan Denisovich, who was sent to a re-education camp in Russia, during the rule of Stalin.

It's an awesome novel - one of my favourites. The entire book chronicles only one day...but it's so detailed. You get the impression of how terrible these camps really were.

[b]Brave New World[/b]

I think I've talked about this book here before, but anyway...it too is an awesome book.

It was written by Aldous Huxley in 1928, yet it demonstrates an incredible foresight into the future -- much of it is very accurate. It's very cool.[/size]

[Sara]

[FONT=century gothic]I read even more than I'm on the computer, if you can believe that. ;)

::looks at lists:: ::nods:: Good books, yes.... Robert Cormier is one of my favs...if you like the [i]Chocolate War[/i] books, read more by him. Sort of dark stuff, but if you're into it, there's no better author.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is also very good. I love her stuff, it's hard to believe she's a teen author.

And I [b]love[/b] [i]His Dark Materials[/i]! Yeah, I'm a Christian, blah, blah, blah.....but they are [i]excellent[/i] books. :D

Read [i]Sabriel[/i] by Garth Nix. One of my all-time favorite books, it chronicles the story of one called Abhorsen--it's a hereditary title, the current holder is a girl named Sabriel. Her "weapons" are a series of bells, if you can believe that. Each does something different, from putting people to sleep to killing everyone who hears it. [i]Very[/i] good book.

If your into freaky-strange stuff, read anything by William Sleator. [i]Interstellar Pig, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Others See us, The Boxes.[/i] All science-fiction-y stories. Set in the real world, each with a different twist. If you want short summs, PM me. ;)

And another good set of books starts with [i]Tomorrow, When the War Began.[/i] [The others are [i]The Dead of Night[/i] and [i]A Killing Frost[/i]] Its about a crew of kids who are camping out when their country gets invaded, and what they end up doing.

And I could keep myself up all night talking about more books, but...[/FONT]

[~Videl~]

If you like unusual books you will love Cobralingus by Jeff Noon, the man does things with the english language that just blow my mind. To understand this book you need to read some of his other stuff first and I would suggetst Vurt.

Vurt: It's about a near future cyberpunk world where humans, ghosts (psychics kinda), robo's (cyborgs) and dog people (you still with me? Out there I know but inspired!) co-exist in a future dystopia where the only diversion is a form of drug called Vurt, which is taken on a feather put into the mouth. Vurt is used to watch sensory tv shows and play all sorts of games from mundane replays of someone elses life to exotic and dangerous other worlds which have rules of their own. One day while taking the most dangerous yellow feather our hero, Scribble's, sister disappers into the vurt and he and his friends embark on a desperate search to bring her back, but it's a dangerous quest where anything can happen as in a yellow feather conventional rules of gaming do not apply. In a yellow you can be killed.

Am I selling it to you yet? It's hard to put into words how amazing this book is, it's Noon's use of language that is the most inspired thing but it's so hard to explain.

Anyway, Cobralingus......in one of his other books - Needle in the Groove - he invents the concept of a cobralingus machine. In Needle it's used for music but the book takes it to a different level.
Imagine this, you take a chunk of text and put it through a series of commands like a computer, say for example INLET:the start up text, DECAY:Breaks down the text, FIND STORY:Forces text into the nearest possible narrative, even if it makes no sense, MIX:combines other elements, PURIFY:Selects images or phrases from the text....and many more, combined with the twisted way Noon's head works this is a truly amazing book......arrrrgh it's so hard to explain in a way that makes any sense but trust me if you're looking for something really different this is what you need to read.

[Alexander]

The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore - Fantasy

Drizzt Do-Urden is the most loved and famous dark elf in all of fantasy. His masterful blades and precise strike pale before the elf's honesty, honor and goodness. But how can a dark elf turn against his heritage, with the evil Spider Goddess Lolth controlling the entire society?

The Conqueror's Trilogy by Timothy Zahn - Science Fiction

Humanity's first contact with a new alien superpower. However, the enemy fleet attacks and begins a merciless campaign against humanity as soon as the first radio message is sent. What caused the race to attack, and can they stop them before it's too late?

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tokien - Fantasy

This series pioneered the Fantasy genre... find out why!

The Q Trilogy (Q Zone, Q Strike, Q ????)

The Galazy is again threatened by a force that was locked away outside the galaxy by the Q continuum. But what part did Q play in the original struggle?

The Dune Series by Frank Herbert

The Atriedies family is given command of the planet Dune, the hub of the universe, and the family finds itself in a deep net of intruige, with the fate of the universe in one man's hands...

The Foundation Series by Issac Asimov

The great Empire has survived for thousands of years. However, one man has predicted it's fall and creates a planet, the Foundation, to re-create the empire after it's fall, to prevent thousands of years of glaxywide ruin.

[tetsuo]

if youre into horror then i wold suggest a few ooks by clive barker. Hellbound Heart or Cabal. i loved both.

sci-fi anything by Arthur C Clarke. wow he can write. i think i enjoyed the book Cradle above all of his other books. 2001- a space odysee is an amazing read. as well but all of his books are.

no romace for me either. bleagh.

i mostly like horror books. annete cutis clause wrote a book that i liked but i dont rememebr the name. i think it was either blood and choclate or silver kiss. i dont remember which.

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by tetsuo [/i]
[B]i mostly like horror books. annete cutis clause wrote a book that i liked but i dont rememebr the name. i think it was either blood and choclate or silver kiss. i dont remember which. [/B][/QUOTE][FONT=century gothic]I really liked [i]Blood and Chocolate[/i]. [The werewolf one.] [i]The Silver Kiss[/i] I still haven't had a chance to read....[/FONT]

[Guest Matt]

ayn rand's Atlas Shrugged and Anthem. good books. atlas is long tho, over 1000 pages.

[Heaven's Cloud]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cera [/i]
[B][FONT=century gothic]I really liked [i]Blood and Chocolate[/i]. [The werewolf one.] [i]The Silver Kiss[/i] I still haven't had a chance to read....[/FONT] [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=indigo] I read [i]Silver Kiss[/i] like eight or nine years ago so it is probably a good book cause I can remember the title...Thanks for all the book help, I'm keeping a list of the ones I haven't yet read and sooner or later I'll probably read them all (hopefully) If the book is really awsome I'll pm you a thanks--HC[/color]

[Baby Kiwi]

[color=crimson][I]Where the Heart Is[/I] is a really good book, even though it prolly is a bit girly, but I enjoyed it. It's about a guy who abandons his pregnant girlfriend at a Wal-Mart and she has her baby there. You could also try [I]Farenheit 451[/I]. A book about firefighters who burn books. I dont know who they're by, but I think you could look them up. ;) [/color]

[tetsuo]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cera [/i]
[B][FONT=century gothic]I really liked [i]Blood and Chocolate[/i]. [The werewolf one.] [i]The Silver Kiss[/i] I still haven't had a chance to read....[/FONT] [/B][/QUOTE]

yeah silver kiss is the one about vampires i like that one too. but yeah blood and chocolate is the one i was referring to. i loved that book with vivian the biatch and aiden the boy that whatever her name liked. man i remember that book so clearly.

more good books are the ones by Dean R Koontz

[Fall]

A Child Called It is a good book. Very emotional though. But it's a good read..... :)

[Phantasy Freak]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by tetsuo [/i]
[B]

yeah silver kiss is the one about vampires i like that one too. but yeah blood and chocolate is the one i was referring to. i loved that book with vivian the biatch and aiden the boy that whatever her name liked. man i remember that book so clearly.

more good books are the ones by Dean R Koontz [/B][/QUOTE]

I loved [I] Blood and Chocolate[/I]

[Duo Maxwell]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cera [/i]
And another good set of books starts with [i]Tomorrow, When the War Began.[/i] [The others are [i]The Dead of Night[/i] and [i]A Killing Frost[/i]] Its about a crew of kids who are camping out when their country gets invaded, and what they end up doing.
[/QUOTE]

When I first started to read the tommorrow series I got freaked out coz it made me realize how easy it could be for people to invade Australia, John Marsden is one of my fav authors.

um... lets see my love for reading is huge I just don't have many books...

The Chronicles of Tenebrak - Shannah Jay (sci-fi, fantasy)
consists of for books: Quest, Lands of nowhere, Shadow of the serpent and The price of wisdom.
when chlderen are fourteen they have some ritual (can't remember it's name) and girls are chosen to be taken to temples to serve her 'Brother' (their God) as a sister.
Discord is spreading across the plnet, an evil god known as the Serpent. They worship him by pretty much doing evil things and 'bondage' (in my words), they hate the sisterhood.
Up in space are a crew on a ship observing the planet, Davred one of the crew studies the sisterhood, and decides to go down and help fight the Serpent. the elder sister believes him the manifestation of their god. (actually in the prophecy it is said he is) he falls in love with Katia (one of the most important people in the story). In short its a story about good vs evil.

[KawaiiSakura]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cecil [/i]
[B]Have you read the His Dark Materils Trilogy by Phillip Pullman?

Err... well they're a Fantasy books, and it involves killing the self proclaimed God, yes THE God up in heavan. But that doesn't happen until the third book, the other two involve a little golden compas that can tell the truth to any questions and a knife that can cut between differnt worlds. It's really good. Oh yeah and the end of the third book has some romacne in it but thats near the very end. Well here are the titles of each book in order

The Golden Compas
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass [/B][/QUOTE]

very good bookz! I luved them!

anywayz good bookz...hmm.."the Blooding" is a good book, it iz by Particia Windsor itz about a gurl who accepts a summer job as an Au pair in England, she is desperate to prove to her mother that she can be responsible. At first her life abroad is peacefull, buit maris soon realizes something is strange about the family she works for.
When tragedy strikes the household . Maris is frightened, but when she discovers the truth about her employer, the truth about his transformations and his plans for her, she's no longer afraid.Bcuz Maris us beginning to see that being blooded means she will have something her mother can never take away..
pretty good book..that is what waz on the back of the book so u know...
hmm..a Book I am reading is The Prince and the Pauper by mark twain..pretty good book..but old english makes it a wee hard to read...but *shrugs* anywayz...:babble: I am gonna check out some of the bookz u ppl have said...I am a bookworm all the way...^_^

[Guest Queen_of_Hell]

and it's just my opinion.Terry Pratchett-he is an author of fantasy books(the best author, I think).I recomend you all books from "Diskwolrd".They are fantastic.
You got to read them if you haven't already did it

[KarmaOfChaos]

[color=deeppink][size=1]I believe someone already mentioned this, but [b]Sabriel[/b] and its sequels [b]Lireal[/b] and [b]Abhorsen[/b] are excellent.

[b]The Things They Carried[/b], by Tim O'Brien was a very thought-provoking book for me about the Vietnam War, the style is semi stream-of-consciouness, basically dealing with the realities and ambiguities of war, and the truth of what actually happens versus the memory that was left in the mind of the soldier.

[b]Catch-22[/b], by Joseph Heller, is also very good, if you haven't read it yet. It's a satirical piece about war, and its ridiculousness.

[b]1984[/b], by George Orwell, which you may have read too, is just one of those books with a shot-to-the-heart ending. It's about a future in which half the world operates on a government of communism, similar to things which occured in the Soviet Union, except perhaps even taken to a new level with the 'thought-police'.

[b]The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe[/b], by C.S. Lewis. Easily one of my favorite fantasy books ever, the story of a group of children who wander into wardrobe and enter into a whole new world - it allows the reader to enact one of the basic fantasies we all have - to escape from our own world into something completely different and mystical.

[b]Speak[/b], by Laurie Anderson. A book about the pain in denying extremely horrific memories, specifically about the agonies of a teenage girl. (<--Because I just know that's something you'd relate to. :))

[b]SATAN BURGER[/b] by Carlton Mellick the III. An extremely sick, perverse, and hilarious view of the world as it is sucked dry of its souls. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone even remotely antsy about their religion though, so don't pick it up if you might be offended by 'blasphmeous talk about Jesus'.

Yea. That's it for now.

-Karma[/size][/color]