book recommendation.?

Question

i have a lot of free time this summer, and i would really like to read something interesting. do you have any suggestions?

i graduated from high school in 2006. i'll be going to university this fall.

Answer 1

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Hunter's moon,Moon's web are novels written by Cathy Clamp and C.T. Adams about a werewolf Tony Giodone who is an assassin-for-hire by profession.It is written from Tony's first person POV (point of view).Tony meets his new client, one Suzi Quentin. She wanted someone offed. Well, this is child's play to our boy...um...wolf...Tony. Only she knocks him for a loop when she tells him the name of the person she wants killed - herself!So begins the story.

Dragonjousters series(joust,alta,sanctuary) by Mercedes Lackey.The setting is ancient Egypt.Hunger, anger, and hatred are constants for young Vetch, rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy. His training is intense, and his duty clear-cut: to tend his jouster, Ari, and his dragon, Kashet. He discovers that, because Ari himself had hatched Kashet, the dragon is different from others that have been captured live in the wild and must be drugged to be made tractable. Vetch finds he really likes and understands dragons, and soon he becomes the best dragon boy of all. He still harbors anger, however, toward the Tian invasion. Could he, perhaps, hatch a dragon, and then escape to help his people?

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad history.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.Forget the movie.The book is the real article."The Bourne identity" is the story of a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. The man is taken by the fishermen to a doctor in a nearby island, who helps him to recover physically and mentally. Our protagonist doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows for certain some things, for instance that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, that he knows a lot about firearms and that he carried on him a microfilm that contains the code to an account of four million dollars.

In the Swiss bank where the account is he also finds a name: Jason Bourne. But... is he Jason Bourne?. He cannot remember, and if it were for quite a few people, he won't. From the moment he leaves the island onwards, our man without a past will be followed, and attacked. He doesn't understand why, but he reacts in order to stay alive. Add to this already interesting mixture a woman he takes as a hostage, Marie, a number of assasins (including the most famous assassin in the world, Carlos), and the possibility that he is, as a matter of fact, also an assassin, and you will understand why this book is so good. The main character will be hunted all throughout the book not only by the "bad guys", but also by the "good" ones (mainly agents from the USA Government). You won't be able to stop reading this book, and you will find yourself asking aloud to nobody in particular "who on earth is this man?" and "what started this whole mess"?.
Warning:A character gets raped.

Answer 2

SCIENCE FICTION Everyone ignores sci-fi but the truth is that some books are nearly half philosophy. Read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein, Prey by Michael Crichton, and 2001: A Space Odyssey or Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. Plus, I agree that Agatha Christie is a must-read. After Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold the most number of books worldwide ever. Her best are And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express

Answer 3

Diary- Chuck Palahniuk
Blue Beard- Kurt Vonnegut
Crime and Punishment- Dostoyevesky
My Soul is rested-Howell Raines
Fluke- Christopher Moore
Demon- Hubert Selby Jr.

Answer 4

Something interesting....

Well my favorite author is Orson Scott Card. He writes mainly in the science fiction genre, with some exploration into fantasy and realistic fiction. And I find his Ender/Shadow series very interesting. But whether or not you'd like them depends on your personal taste. Ender's Game is his most well known. You might give it a try.

The Lord of the Rings (and the Hobbit and the Silmarillion) are all interesting if you like fantasy and mythology. But they are not to everyone's liking--some find fantasy boring or hard to imagine.

Here is a website where you might find the best suggestion catered just for you:

http://www.whichbook.net/

Answer 5

"Sabriel", "Lirael", "Abhorsen", "Shade's Children", and "Across the Wall" by Garth Nix are all really good reads. "The Nightmare Academy" or "Hangman's Curse" by Frank Peretti are excellent. "Shadowmancer" and "Wormwood" by G. P. Taylor, "The Bar Code Tattoo" by Suzanne Weyn, "Montmornecy" by Eleanor Updale, or "Heir Apparent" by Vande Velde are all good reads. Since I feel that you wish to know what each are about, if you have not read them, I must suggest that you ask around or look at so copies of these. I don't think you want to read a huge essay with at least a paragraph on each one. Hope that helps!

Answer 6

I read Lee Child's most recent NYT's #1 best seller"The Hard Way" and it blew me away! I could hardly put it down and was hooked in the first 5 minutes of reading. I was so impressed I started reading all 10 Child's books, and each one was really terrific. Here they are from the first: "Killing Floor", "Die Trying", "Trip Wire", "Running Blind", "Echo Burning", "Without Fail", Persuader--A personal favorite!", "The Enemy", and "One Shot."

I also like Dennis LeHane's books especially "A drink before war", "Darkness, take my hand","Sacred"--the best and comical of the lot, but all are great!), "Gone, Baby Gone--soon to be a major motion picture by Ben Afflack (his directing debut--hope it supercharges his career like Mystic River, also a LeHane book, did for Clint Eastwood), "Prayers for rain", and "Shutter Island"--Wow what a page turner with a great twist at the end.

A great oldie-but-goodie page turner is James Clavell's "Shogun."

Below are links to both Child and LeHane so you can read book summeries if you wish:

http://www.leechild.com/books.html

http://www.dennislehanebooks.com/

God Bless, and Great reading!! Your friend, Greg

Answer 7

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. An absolutely amazing and beautifully written book. I read it in three days during Christmas break last year. It haunts me to this day.

Answer 8

the lovely bones by alice sebold is a really good book. i had to read it for english over the summer and i couldn't put it down. there are sad parts and happy parts. but the way the author portrayed heaven made it sound soo beautiful.

Answer 9

Light reading -- To Kill a Mockingbird, Hemingway's short stories, Grapes of Wrath

Heavy lifting -- Sons and Lovers, Crime and Punishment

All great reads

Answer 10

John Steinbecks East of Eden
Tom Robbins' Skinny legs and all