Name three books you like. - General Discussion Discussion

[–] jobiwan58 (212) 5 years ago

As a side topic, I've finally gotten into eBooks for nighttime reading. One site that I've used a lot recently is https://www.pdfdrive.com/ . Their search engine could use some work but they have a lot of material available.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I've found ebooks to be a good alternative to my regular paperbacks. I do miss the feel of real books tho.
I'm going to check out that site. Thanks.

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[–] chilone (17637) 5 years ago

Is a trilogy considered one or three?

If three:

The Millennium Series - Steig Larsson:+
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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[–] AndyKing1967 (36473) 5 years ago

It's up to you. There's no rules set in stone. Let's count it as one.

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[–] db20db (16735) 5 years ago

With that in mind:

The Complete Sherlock Holmes ( 2-volume set) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lust for Life-Irving Stone
Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet-Jess Stearn

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I once owned the complete collection of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes works. Great stuff.

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[–] TimMC (9143) 5 years ago

I like classics more than modern but here's a few.

Frankenstein
Dracula
Treasure Island
Doctor Sleep 2013 - S. King.
Daemon(book 1 ) Freedom(book 2) - Daniel Suarez

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Those are all good. It's surprising how relatively short the old classics were.
As a freshman in high school in southern Georgia the library had an original unabridged copy of Dumas' Three Musketeers. It took a couple days to acclimate to the style of writing but it was really good.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9506) 5 years ago

Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
Puckoon (Milligan)

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

What's Puckoon about? I need a new stack of books to read.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9506) 5 years ago

It's a comedy about a little Irish town. It's filled comic farce, it goes after bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and there are hilarious fourth wall breaks. It's exactly the kind of thing you'd expect out of one of the Goons.

If comedy is your jam, and you can find it, I highly recommend it.

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[–] Ace_Spade (9506) 5 years ago

Also: I'd say that Graham Greene produces a worthy stack of books to read. I've read several of his, and not a dud among them (thusfar).

Standouts:
The Power and the Glory
Our Man in Havana
The Third Man

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Thanks I'll be sure to check 'em out.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Another of my favorites is a book by Niven and Pournelle(?) titled ' The Mote in God's Eye'.
It was a very long book (for a young kid) but hugely entertaining.

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie
Unusual in that it is a murder mystery set in ancient Egypt. Christie shows that she is more than a simple writer of pot boilers here because you really feel like you have been transported back in time.

Middlemarch - George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans )
Masterful examination of the personal lives of several families and individuals from many walks of life. Set in England in the 1820's.

A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
Tremendous imagination and beautifully written. Unfortunately it was all downhill after this book and the series was slowly driven into a ditch.

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[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

A Different Angle, Fly Fishing Stories By Women- various authors
All in One Person, John Irving
Jane Eyre, my all time fav. C. Bronte

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[–] Master (1494) 5 years ago

Ender's Game

Another Fine Myth

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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