OT: Book recommendations- need help findng a good book

[Iamphilhughes]

Before I Go To Sleep


This is sort of a thriller/suspense/mystery version of Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates. A lot of times I find novels have long dead spots, but this one is truly very hard to put down.


Synopsis:
Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she's written three unexpected and terrifying words: "Don't trust Ben." Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can Christine’s story be trusted?

Read it. Was good. They're making it into a movie with Nicole Kidman as the lady with amnesia. Would totally recommend it.

[Ignitowsky]

You might like Stephen King's Dark Tower series. have you read the Hedge knight novellas that are sort of prequels to Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series?

[j4remi]

Before I Go To Sleep


This is sort of a thriller/suspense/mystery version of Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates. A lot of times I find novels have long dead spots, but this one is truly very hard to put down.


Synopsis:
Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she's written three unexpected and terrifying words: "Don't trust Ben." Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can Christine’s story be trusted?

Wow...this sounds really good! I'll be looking into it for sure!

[Timeless]

Some of my all time favorites are

When Gravity Fails
Tales of the Otori - Across the Nightingale Floor
Born On A Blue Day

[FlashFlood]

Ender's Game. BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME. Everybody I've passed it to has read it in one shot without consideration for eat sleep or rest.

[Iamphilhughes]

Ender's Game. BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME. Everybody I've passed it to has read it in one shot without consideration for eat sleep or rest.

It is pretty epic, but for me, the best book of all time is Cats Cradle. How are the enders game sequels?

[thebuzzardman]

Ok, which is the book where the cadets have to go to alien planets to fight, travel in suspended animation to get there, and each time they get back from a war, the earth is more out of sync with them? 50 years off, then 200, then a thousand.....

Not Starship Troopers
Not Enders Game

Sort of cross between the two of them.

[thebuzzardman]

Found it. I liked this. Wikipedia gives away the plot...

The Forever War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

[Iamphilhughes]

Found it. I liked this. Wikipedia gives away the plot...

The Forever War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

cool thanks. will check it out. for those sci-fi lovers out there, check out Dune. Pretty awesome book.

[Little Italia]

The Art of War.

Book changed my life.

[j4remi]

The Art of War.

Book changed my life.

The Art of War and the 48 Laws of Power is a combo that is untouchable. I read a non-fiction book coupled with a fiction book at a time. I could give a nice list of good non-fiction reads but usually people go for fiction more or biographies.

[TheGreatSatan]

I'm huge book freak for a long long time, red bunch of them, from basically middle age classics such as Geofrey Chaucer, Dante, to Romantics such as Blake, Lord Byron, Shelley, french literature from the last century (Andre Gide, Camus, Guy De Mauppasant), to russian realists (Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Gorki, to name a few), but absolutely the best book i've ever had my hands on, is;




This is what i call, not just a book, but the best piece of art in the last 200 or so years. This guy wrote a piece of work where all of his main characters are built on Carl Jung's psychological types while all of their's dialogues and moves in the novel are written in the manner of what is called in classical music, counterpoint (something that Bach was know for). This is just insanely difficult theme and technique. Huxley was probably a lone guy among all the writers who was both, a unbelivable intelectual as well as artist, in the same person. Some widly more popular guys like Hemingway, Dostoyevski, Hesse to name a few, are (in my opinion at least) nothing but intelectual and spiritual midgets comparing to this guy. He was really one of a kind.

[Rasho Brezec]

Anyone read Benioff's City of Thieves? I'm trying to find an ebook but no luck.

[TheGreatSatan]

What do you guys think of Bukowski and which of his novels would you recommend? Heard a lot of great things about him.

First of all, he's not a great writer. He's good for comedy purposes, and that's it. If you want to laugh, and just laugh like crazy, then you read Buki. But he's not a great, nor a good writer.

With that being said, if you want something abstract (so to speak), read South of No North, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, or if you want something that looks more like a true novel, Women, which is probably his best work.

[Perdido/BR]

To all of you praising Ender's Game: GO READ ENDER'S SHADOW!!!!!!! It's the same story, but from Bean's perspective. And Bean is a way more interesting character than Ender, who is all powerful, and never fails. And, you get to see the same events from the first, but from a completely different angle, including stuff that Ender never figured out on his own.