General / Off-Topic What books would you advise others to read once in their lifetime?

[Para Handy]

The Complete Collected Stories of PARA HANDY - by Neil Munro

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(Well I had to, didn't I? )

 

[wAsh67]

A couple of books I have had for years and re-read occasionally when nothing else floats my boat are the following.

Eric L Harry's 'Arc Light'
Joseph Heywood's 'The Berkut'
Dean R Koontz 'Lightning'
Tom Clancy's 'Red Storm Rising'

nothing intellectual or aflower with alliteration and prose, just good tales well told.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Any Larry Niven.
E.E. Doc Smith.
Dan Abnett.

 

[Jenner]

Dune (Frank Herbert)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
Great Expectations (Charles ens)

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Dune (Frank Herbert)
Ringworld (Larry Niven)
Great Expectations (Charles ****ens)

Lame auto-censor.

Guess it wouldn’t like Herman Melville’s Moby Richard either.

 

[Patrick_68000]

The Lucifer Principle of Howard Bloom.

A real escape for the imagination and the knowledge (even if some theories are disputed).

 

[Stigbob]

Anything by Noam Chomsky.

And the complete Conan chronicles.

 

[Arkadi]

Most things by Herman Hesse and Jack London,

Hesses "Siddhartha" Jack Londons "Call of the Wild" and "King Alcohol" being especially present in my memory

 

[jasonbarron]

In the "important" category:

Gates of Fire, Stephen Pressfield
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock

In the "entertainment" category"
Anything by Jack Vance
Anything by Roger Zelazny
The Imago Sequence, Laird Barron

 

[Arry]

Lame auto-censor.

Guess it wouldn’t like Herman Melville’s Moby Richard either.

Agreed: I think Jenner should sort it out, in their normally efficient manner.

I mean, what is this world, when one can not say: ensian?

 

[Felix DiCestria]

Like living in Scunthorpe?
Edit: That got through?

 

[SciTrekker]

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

 

[WeComeInPeace]

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari

A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

(Like eating a whole glass of Morpheus' red pills)

 

[WeComeInPeace]

... and Charles ****ens (are you kidding me?)

Yep I tried that the other day as well. Quite many "family friendly" words are no longer allowed as part of our vocabulary

It would of course be exceptionally childish, but someone might make an OT thread listing words that will trigger the filter. Just saying...

 

[Arry]

Yep I tried that the other day as well. Quite many "family friendly" words are no longer allowed as part of our vocabulary

Like: Boy or Girl and Him or Her.

'The person with the dragon tattoo', just does not do it for me.

 

[Caramel Clown]

War and Peace. If you have about a lifetime worth of time to kill. Because it feels to be about that long)

 

[Felix DiCestria]

Like: Boy or Girl and Him or Her.

'The person with the dragon tattoo', just does not do it for me.

Shouldn't that be the person with the unspecified reptiliforme body art?

 

[Arry]

War and Peace. If you have about a lifetime worth of time to kill. Because it feels to be about that long)

The issue I had with trawling through that monolith, (totals more words, than were ever produced by the Shakespeare Production Co) was you had to tune into the way the language, or the words, were put together. Sort of think in a different way, to get into the flow of the story. Brilliant imagery etc., but a nightmare to read.

 

[Caramel Clown]

The issue I had with trawling through that monolith, (totals more words, than were ever produced by the Shakespeare Production Co) was you had to tune into the way the language, or the words, were put together. Sort of think in a different way, to get into the flow of the story. Brilliant imagery etc., but a nightmare to read.

You won't believe it, but it's even harder to read in original language even if you speak it perfectly. I've looked through some English translation and language there got modernized quite a bit. Anyway, I couldn't agree more. A monumental work and in a way quite important, but dear lord it was a slog to get through.

 

[VR micmacmoc]

Para Handy ? Aye! was me granda's best, me da's fave an al . am a mcneill! Mey dad told me the stories. Not remembered them until the Gregor Fisher ones, flooded back.Proper tales of yore, funny and brilliant.....sorry fullof scotch as I just made it back from dw2...sure the wee small tred , aye?