Right, so Derek approved this. It's the Official LPA Suggest A Book Thread. Bow down before thy feet. Anyways, I suggest God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams. It's a really, really thought intriguing book. It makes you ponder how the universe really came about, if God himself has human emotions (if any), why would he create a race of humans if he could see into the future and see what the future holds for us, etc etc. It also provides interesting theories for God himself. It delves into the Big Bang Theory alittle, but it also talks about how we're all God's debris. Basically, God self-terminated himself, and we're the left overs of God. Why did he do that? Because being God means you can do whatever, and you know everything. The only challenge to being a God is to know if people can survive without you. Or something. It's theories are presented in a fiction way, with a conversation between an old man who literally knows everything, and a package delivery man who delivers, what else, a package to the man, but then sticks around and finds out more about the universe than he'd ever want to know. Even if he doesn't want to believe it, his life is changed forever most likely. Good book. I highly suggest it. I'm getting the sequel soon, called The Religion War.
Title: A Clockwork Orange Author: Anthony Burgess Summary (Taken From Amazon) "Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Burgess' 1963 classic stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a classic of twentieth century post-industrial alienation, often shocking us into a thoughtful exploration of the meaning of free will and the conflict between good and evil. In this recording, the author's voice lends an intoxicating lyrical dimension to the language he has so masterfully crafted. My Review: A Clockwork Orange is a futuristic book that shows the years to come filled with drugs and violence. It is also very sexual orientated, so it is for mature readers. This book also has it's own language, the Nadstat lanuage, used by the teenagers. The book revolves around four friends that form a nocternal gang. They go to school durring the day and reek havoc at night. Their nightly actions consist of robbery, drugs, fights, and rapes. The only thing that seperates this gang from the many others is that it is lead by a teenager that believes that the only thing better than a night full of drugs is a night full of Ludwig Van Beethoven's beautiful music. This book has it's own language created from Russian and the Author's creativity. It is difficult to read because of that, but there is a key in the back of the book to help you. Some examples of the language are: eggs-eggiweggs, stomach-guttiwats, and Ludwig Van Beethoven-Oh Ludwig Van. Due to mature content and the difficult style of this book.
His dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. "Why should I buy these books?" you ask. Because they're fucking awsome \m/
I would higly recommend 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville. I'm not that good in english to write it all down what I think about it, so here's a review I totally agree with. Reviewed by Lalith Vipulananthan
Lt.General Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands With The Devil its about the Rowandan genocide in 1994... and about humanity and stuff.... it's very moving, but it takes a while to get into it! Romeo Dallaire was even ranked something like 16 in the Greatest Canadian thingy.... I went to one of his lectures too.... he's amazing. can't pass it up!
To start off, The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore is freaking awesome! It's about this dark elf named Drizzt and his friends on this adventure, starting in... Icewind Dale! I would tell more, but then it would go into the storyline.
J.R.R. Tolkien's works The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Silmarillion And many many of his other books about Middle-Earth.
Currently reading that one, alongside Stephen Coont's "Under Siege". Will write a review when I'm done (like, 50 pages left).
That was the only book I actually read in reading class in 8th grade and got an A for Book I recommend...Stephen King's "The Shining"...one of the best books...EVER!
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (plot description stolen from Amazon.com) Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time...
Books: The Bourne Identity Author: Robert Ludlum Pardoned for the brutal execution of a man named Jason Bourne in the Vietnam war, David Webb has been given a second chance; to assume Jason Bourne's identity and draw out the world's most deadly and elusive assassin, Carlos The Jackal. "Jason Bourne" is a CIA operative, as part of the black-ops group "Medusa", in the government program "Treadstone Seventy-One", whose third identity is "Cain", a rival assassin who takes credit for the kills of The Jackal, infuriating him in an attempt to draw him out into the open. After a botched assignment, which left him clinging to life in the Mediterranean sea outside France, Jason Bourne is rehabilitated by a drunkard doctor in Marseilles. He has no recollection of anything besides his training. Amnesia, kidnapping, love, murder, paranoia; it's all in this book. Robert Ludlum has an incredible knack for creating amazing action sequences in his books. A constant thriller.
Green Angel is a great book, I forgot who the author was, but it is my favorite book of all time. It's short and very metaphoric, a young adult book.
Okay, I'm done reading "Under Siege" by Stephen Coonts. It rocks. Although the book was written in the 90s, the way the book deals with terrorism is very modern. It gives you chills. I won't tell you more, but if you like books in the Tom Clancy style, that one's for you.
That was the only book I actually read in reading class in 8th grade and got an A for [/b][/quote] Me too. Only I read it last year in seventh grade. Meh, I'm in Honors classes.
I recommend The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. Mrs. Richard Griffen, nee Iris Montfort Chase, tells the story of her sister Laura's suicide. Also, the story of two unnamed lovers who meet in secret, and Iris' own story. Complicated? Yes. Confusing? At times. Freaking awesome? Indeed, my friends.