can you recommend me a good book for a young guy (18yrs) ?

Question

my brother recently got in trouble and is serving time in a facility he asked me to bring him a book but i dont know which kind to take him. i asked him about harry potter since they are popular but he said to try another one anyone can recommend any books that might be enlightening, self help or something good...any advice would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Its starts with the main charecter "Shadow" in jail. This is from Amazon:

American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.

Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.

More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Answer 2

Jeffery Deaver, Dennis Lehane, David Morrell and Lee Child, in my opinion they are the best thriller writers in the business!! I am a avid reader in this genre and have read Coben, King, Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Connelly, and many others but none can touch these authors I've listed! The Deaver book I've just finished reading now is "The Sleeping Doll"--a brand new release and has literally keeped me up at nights!! I'm quite sure you'll love his other thrillers as well, such as "The Bone Collector", "A Maiden's Grave", "The Coffin Dancer", "Praying For Rain", "Cold Moon", "The Twelveth Card", "The Vanished Man", "Devil's Tear Drop" et el. For Lehane, start with "A Drink Before War" (don't let the title fool you) then "Darkness Take My Hand", "Sacred", "Gone, Baby Gone", "Prayers For Rain", "Shutter Island" and "Mystic River." For Lee Child, you can start with his first and move forward, but it's Ok if you don't. Some personal favs are: "One Shot", "Trip Wire", "Hard Luck and Trouble"--a new release, "The Persuader"-my personal fav, "The Hard Way", but they are all page turners! Also, last but definately not least is David Morrell. All his books are good, but I especially enjoy his last two releases "Creepers" and "Scavenger" which are guaranteed page-turners. Enjoy, Greg

Answer 3

The Mayfair Chronicles by Anne Rice

Answer 4

"Gods and Generals," "The Last Full Measure," "Gone for Soldiers," "The Glorious Cause," "Rise to Rebellion," and "To the Last Man" by Jeff Shaara

"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara

"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" by Washington Irving

"The Time Machine" by HG Welles

"The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Victory" by Stephen Coonts

Answer 5

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Answer 6

Joshua by Girzone
The Locket by Evans

Answer 7

Try going to this site for a good book www.TheCircleTrilogy.com

Answer 8

some easy good reads like phantom toolbooth and a subscription to mad magazine

Answer 9

i would suggest the pendragon series its a sci_fi and my brother loved that series and i think you would to...

Answer 10

if he likes fantasy then terry pratchetts disk world its for adults-young adults
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