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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #15 on: May 14, 2022, 03:10:29 PM »

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I recently started a new job with a whole lot of downtime, and am looking to delve into some great literature, rather than just constantly looking at my phone. What are some books that you think are must reads? Recommendations greatly appreciated!!

I prefer fiction, but open to non fiction as well.

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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #16 on: May 14, 2022, 03:11:37 PM »

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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2022, 03:17:22 PM »

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I highly recommend the Remembrance of Earths Past trilogy from Liu Cixin. It is exceptional. The best modern Sci-Fi novels I've ever read:

The Thee Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End


Utterly fascinating and highly intelligent.
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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2022, 03:27:37 PM »

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The Fountainhead

Almost anything by Stephen King is readable; same thing with his son, Joe Hill

Crime and Punishment

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are both must reads!

Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
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Depends on what you are looking for, but here are some I have really enjoyed over the last couple of years:

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Terry Hayes, I am Pilgrim
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
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The Lord of the Rings
• The Harry Potter series
• As Roy said, lots of well-written Stephen King books, some of my favorites being It, 'Salem's Lot, and The Outsider.
Relic (and other books involving Agent Pendergast)
• The Wayward Pines trilogy (Pines, Wayward, The Last Town)

If you want to read a great book about writing, I highly recommend Stephen King's On Writing.

If you want to read a great book about life, I highly recommend the Bible.
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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2022, 07:09:40 PM »

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I like Stephen King a lot, but tend to be less interested the more supernatural horror it gets.  Really liked Dolores Claiborne, The Mr. Mercedes trilogy (yes, some but not too much supernatural), 11/22/63, Billy Summers, Running Man.

If looking for easy read, easy to get into plots, my feeling is that John Grisham is among the best.  Earlier ones are great, but still manages to pull me in in almost all of his novels.  I wasn't a big fan of Sooley -- a recent Graham with a basketball theme -- but still worth the read. 
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1.) Crime and Punishment (I have The Brothers, but I haven't started it yet.) Dostoevsky is a must read.
2.) The Third Body Problem series. (The third book gets very abstract) edit: Nice hpantazo beat me to it. I agree with their assessment.
3.) A Song of Ice and Fire (GOT went off the rails because it ran out of source material)
4.) The Stormlight Archive (Sanderson is a truly masterful writer. He also does such an amazing job giving good faith representations of mental illness to main characters that are three dimensional. Their arcs slowly reveal themselves, and I highly recommend these works. I can't wait for the next book to be released.
5.) Nonfictions - When Breath Becomes Air, Just and Unjust Wars, The Things they Carried.

Also Dune and The Foundation series holds a special place in my heart.
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I recently started a new job with a whole lot of downtime, and am looking to delve into some great literature, rather than just constantly looking at my phone. What are some books that you think are must reads? Recommendations greatly appreciated!!

I prefer fiction, but open to non fiction as well.



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never thought this was the book board or the off topic board always thought this was celtics talk

what other topics can we start here??
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Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2022, 11:44:07 AM »

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I recently started a new job with a whole lot of downtime, and am looking to delve into some great literature, rather than just constantly looking at my phone. What are some books that you think are must reads? Recommendations greatly appreciated!!

I prefer fiction, but open to non fiction as well.

For capital L Literature it's hard to go wrong with Gravity's Rainbow. For Non-fiction, A Bright Shining Lie is really hard to top, especially if you're American.
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« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2022, 11:54:28 AM »

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Pick a series and go from there.

Vince Flynn - Mitch Rapp
Lee Childs - Jack Reacher
Tom Clancy - Many sub characters
Nelson DeMille - Many sub characters

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The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Broken Sky. Probably the best sci-fi series of the last 20 years. All three books won the Hugo Award for best novel of the year. That's unprecedented.

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« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2022, 11:03:02 AM »

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Dude!
Love reading lately. At work even better!!

1. The library at mount char. Awesome. Mind blowing. And fun.
2. Oryx and Crake - whole trilogy is good but this is the best one I think
3. I am Pilgrim
4. The chestnut man
5. The wasp factory.  A bit much. But crazy. And crazy good.

Hope this helps!
Looking forward to checking this thread for some new reads

Also should mention the Harry Potter books are among the best I’ve ever read. And the Passage trilogy by John Cronin.

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Thanks for The Chestnut Man recommendation!  Really enjoyed the book.   Also watched the movie adaption (in 6 episodes) on Netflix - after the book.  The movie was good - held true to the book.

Re: Your Top 5 Book Recommendations
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The Lost History of 1914 by Jack Beatty