I need a book to read...

[slickdadd]

What's a book I can go pick up and be absolutely sucked right into. A great page turner. Something new, fresh, interesting, thought provoking, entertaining, and all that damn shit. I am in a rut as far as reading goes and I have some free time tonight. So help me out bromans.

 

[BradG]

I am reading a fantasy series right now. It is called the Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan. I have loved it so far and am on book #5. I don't know that that is what you are looking for but you never know...

 

[Raina]

I'm a wheel of time junkie. I have a tattoo of one of the chapter heading pics on my back (the sun on the whitecloak chapters).

I also liked Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth but sometimes they drive me nuts because they're a bit too similar to Wheel of Time sometimes. A really quick and fun read is Ender's Game...and then the "shadow" books that go along with it.

 

[slickdadd]

I'm not much into the Fantasy Genre I should state I suppose because I remember there being some wheel of time junkies on here.

 

[alien amp pharm]

Reeding is fur stoopid peeple

 

[Raina]

I thought fantasy as a whole was stupid until I read the Jordan books. Ender's game is science fiction though. Even my mom liked it. The "shadow" books that go along with it are more about global politics...kind of like a giant game of Risk.

The book Danger Waters is really good. It's nonfiction and is about modern piracy on oil tanker ships and ponders the danger of that issue in global terrorism.

 

[BradG]

I'm a wheel of time junkie. I have a tattoo of one of the chapter heading pics on my back (the sun on the whitecloak chapters).

I also liked Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth but sometimes they drive me nuts because they're a bit too similar to Wheel of Time sometimes. A really quick and fun read is Ender's Game...and then the "shadow" books that go along with it.

That's awesome! I would say you were into it, having a tatoo from the chapter headings. Thanks for the recommendations. I wrote them down. I had a friend recommend them to me and I started reading them a bit after that. So are you a fan of the Whitecloaks or just like the symbol?

 

[Raina]

I just liked that particular sun. I'd chosen it for a tat a year before I got it. I started reading them right before book 6 came out. Because since then I've had to buy them as soon as they're printed. Though the last few have just been like thousands of pages of buildup for the final battle.

 

[BradG]

I had heard they start to go bad with book seven

 

[Raina]

I don't think they're bad. It's a HUGE story. And to just skip to the dramatic climax wouldn't make sense without a very detailed and complex buildup. I think people just get antsy to know the ending. But there are going to be 13 books. The last couple of books have been setting things up-- how the relationships are, how the politics are, where people are physically located. I don't see how it could be any other way and be great.

 

[BradG]

yeah, great stories, imho, need to have a lot of character and plot devleopment, which I think Jordan does very well.

 

[jerseyart]

Ditto the Wheel of Times Series. I'm a complete junkie. That bastard Jordan has f'ed us good

As good in my opinion, and even better in many respects, is the series by George R.R. Martin. He's just a great writer, and the characters are incredibly well developed and real to life. There isn't anyone this guy won't kill off

 

[jerseyart]

Did anyone else buy the Wheel of Time game?

 

[BradG]

I thought about buying the game. Is it any good?

 

[jerseyart]

I bought it, and my friends loved it. My ex gf loved it so much she decided to keep it when we broke up. It would have been nice if she asked........

Truthfully I didn't like it, but I think that was because it was too complicated for me. I'm not a gamer, so anything more complex than pac man throws me off.

On the plus side I used to be able to impress the Hoboken High girls after football practice on the Jungle vine game at the entrance of the path.

In short, you prolly would like it.

 

[BradG]

lol! I do play video games some. I probably would like it. Too bad about the girlfriend. They do seem to run off with things don't they...

 

[jerseyart]

Get it, you'd like it.

Women are like pack rats, they don't throw anything away. She wouldn't even throw away the empty appliance or electronics boxes. For years they accumulated in my garage. I was like WTF does she need all those boxes for. Then we broke up and I found out. It was to pack all my stuff into and take with her

 

[BradG]

LMAO!!! shoulda known man shoulda known. jk but next time no hoarding of boxes in the garage, I bet.

 

[pitbullstl]

What's a book I can go pick up and be absolutely sucked right into. A great page turner. Something new, fresh, interesting, thought provoking, entertaining, and all that damn shit. I am in a rut as far as reading goes and I have some free time tonight. So help me out bromans.

Grab the new Harlan Coben book, Just One Look (mystery). Or any of his books really, they can not be put down, and seeing as how I won't be sleeping for the next year or so (newborn) I figured hey why not read all of em'.

 

[SanFrancisco]

Blindness by Jose Saramago

 

[westsnoop]

John Sandford's "Prey" series if you like cop vs. killer books. The villians he creates to match wits with his detective Lucas Davenport are really well crafted. (I'm a firm believer in the adage that it's the villian that makes the story).
Rules of Prey was first in the series.

Some other genre choices: (nonfiction) Angela's Ashes, (fantasy)Watership Down.