what good book would you reccomend?

Question

name as many as you want im interested in all kinds of books i love to read but i havent read much outside my favorite author stephen king so some variety would be nice

yes kissybertha in fact desperation was the first one of his books i ever read when i was in jr high school it was so awesome that stephen king was pretty much all i read

Answer 1

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (i think thats the authors name) its billed as a cross between Oceans 11 and Pirates of the Caribean and it doesnt disapoint! Its my new FAVORITE book.

James Paterson is a great author of murder mystery novels....all the Alex cross books are good and some of them were made into movies (Kiss the Girls etc)

Clive Cussler has good adventure novels...all the Dirk Pitt novels are great fun reads (the Movie Sahara was one of his books)

I love the Harry Potter books...they arent just for kids you know

John Grisham's earlier books are good a lot of those were turned into movies as well (the Firm The Rainmaker etc)

The 13th Tale (i dont know the author) Its twisted and really good!

The Historian (Forgot the author again) its the most facinating vampire story i have ever read...it is truely a unique take on a story thats been done a thousand times.

The Vampire series by Anne Rice it starts with Interview with a Vampire and each book gets more and more interesting theres a whole bunch of em.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy...its kinda hard to get through but worth the effort.

Micheal Criton is good too...he has a lot of techno type thrillers like Jurassic Park the Spere etc

I love to see what movies were adapted from books, then if the movie looks good the book is usually even better! Good luck finding new authors thats always hard!

Answer 2

I like King too, the Stand is my favorite, so I think you might like some of these.

Larry Niven , his Gil Hamilton Stories, (The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton) and any of his Known Space stories - Neutron Star is good, Protector and World of Ptavvs are sort of weak IMHO, but both include mysteries as well as tech and hard sci fi. Tales of Known Space is good if you can find it. Ringworld is a classic.

The Mote in God's Eye is widely considered to be the best Sci-Fi novel written by anybody anywere, it was written by Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Robert Heinlien wrote some fantastic teen books back in the 50s for Scribners. Personally I consider them his best work. Starship Troopers is my favorite. Don' t let that horrid mess of a movie fool you, the book is WAY better, and significanlty different in several parts. Time for the Stars is another good one. Don't confuse it with Time Enough for Love though, I really hated that.

C.S. Lewis's Narnia Books and The Lord of the Rings have already been mentioned.

I liked S.M Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers (2001) and
Conquistador (2003) , but I haven't been able to "get into " a lot of his other stuff.

My best friend LOVES Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars books and his Tarzan Books.

If you want to stick with Horror, why not go for the classics? READ the original Dracula by Briam Stoker, the original Frankenstien by Mary Shelly.

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper by Philip Sugden gets high marks, but I haven't read it. Ripper books can be very very good, or can be total lunacy and foolishness depending on the author. They can be fun, but choose wisely or you will wind up with some total idiotic drek.

Sherlock Holmes is of course a classic and great fun.

The nice thing about reading the classics is that because of the way they are presented in school people are made to think that they are "hard" and "dull" and most of the time that simply not so..

. Nobody ever sat down and said "I'm going to write a book so that in the future English Lit Majors who could only get jobs teaching in Junior High Schools will have something something dull and uninteresting that they can make their bored and hormonal students read." No, the 18th and 19th century authors sat down and said, "I need to make a lot of money. To do that I need to write a book that most people will find easy to read, that has a really interesting story, and that will sell lots of copies." So that is what they did. Charles Dickens, Arthur Connan-Doyle, Mark Twain etc. were just as popular in his time as Steven King is today.

So most (not all but most) can be a lot of fun to read; but everyone still thinks that if you read them you are somehow super smart and all intelectual.

Answer 3

Stephen King is my favorite also! did you read Desperation? it is so good right now I am reading the Cell from him it is starting pretty good. Dreamcatchers is a great book the movie did not do justice for the book, and there is Rose red it is the actual diary from the main woman in the story because it was based on a true story. and The Stand was really good a lot better than the movie.

Answer 4

If you like Stephen King I think you will like Dean Koontz! I have been reading his books a lot lately. False Memory is my favorite so far. I also like Whispers, Watchers, Strangers, The Odd Thomas books, The Face.. there are a lot by him. Currently I am reading Velocity.
Dan Brown books are good too: Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Digital Fortress and Deception Point.
Hope that helped!

Answer 5

Once Were Warriors
One Night Out Stealing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Catch 22
Fast Food Nation
Eaters of the Dead
The Giver
Occupied America
Dude, Where's My Country
Franny and Zoey
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Timeline

Answer 6

You might like books by Michael Crichton, he's written lots of books, and has had several made into movies such as "Congo", the "Andromeda Strain", and of course "Jurassic Park". He's also written a lot of books that haven't been made into movies such as "Prey" and "Next" among many others. His books are always exciting, and push the next level of science.
If you're interested in something really different, and deeper, you might try Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" which is a very subtle, and all character development. I'll warn you though that there's no exciting plot, however the character development is very very good. It's also a movie staring Anthony Hopkins.

Answer 7

*early Ann Rice -- especially the Witching Hour trilogy, Cry to Heaven, Blackwood Farm
*Margaret George writes AWESOME historical fiction -- my fav is The Autobiography of Henry VIII
*The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova was EXCELLENT
*The Ezekial Prophesy was also a page turner
*Like Water for Chocolate
*Hannibal Rising and all previous Hannibal Lector books are great
*JK Rowling IS amazing -- sounds corny but Harry Potter is a great read (especially after book III, where it gets darker)
*The Alchemist

All of these, I thought, were great books! Sounds like with everyone else, too, you've got a lot of great choices! Have fun.

Answer 8

Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (2 books, soon to be 3)

Harry Potter by JK Rowling (Six books...seven next summer)

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Five books)

Magic Kingdom for Sale. Sold! by Terry Brooks (five books)

The Shanara series by Terry Brooks (Ummmm...like 10 books and counting?)

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein (four books, including The Hobbit)

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (seven books)

And there are a great deal of "classics" like Peter Pan, Huckleberry Finn, Mary Poppins, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Farenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five...the list goes on and on. Enjoy

Answer 9

Currently, I am sailing on the Pequod with Ishmael (Moby Dick).

Interesting book but very slow in parts. I usually read nonfiction and like Flags of our Fathers, anything by Ambrose, Ghost Soldiers, and books like that. When I read fiction I typically like to read anything by Cussler.

For the new year I am going I thought it would be interesting to read some of the great American authors (hence Moby Dick). On my list is Huck Finn, Absolam Absolam by Fulkner, In our time by Hemmingway, and Invisible Man by Ellison. I am also going to touch a bit on poetry.

Answer 10

All of James patterson's novels about Alex Cross, also his Lakehouse, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Mary Monroe-God Don't Like Ugly Dean Koontz-Odd Thomas