Top 20 books

List them I need inspiration

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Animal Farm, George Orwell
An inspector calls
The emporer series - Conn Iggulden
Wheel of time - Robert Jordan
Westeros cycle - George R R Martin
A short history of nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Universe In A Nutshell - Stephen Hawking

Peter

Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Five Books (Douglas Adams)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)

The Bromeliad - "Truckers", "Diggers" and "Wings" (Terry Pratchett)
Strata (Terry Pratchett)

Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Princess Bride (William Golding)

The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

Any collection of H. P. Lovecraft stories (H. P. Lovecraft)

I honostly can't post my top 20 books, but here are some

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
THe Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Two Dianas by Alexandre Dumas (a part of the "Valois Romances" series)
War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy
The "Byzantium" novels by John Julius Norwich
The Iron King, by Maurice Druon ( a part of the "Accursed Kings" series)
A Hero of our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev (a short story, but oh well)


Hm. I might post some more later. As you can see, I read European authors mostly.

Heres mine
Emporer series
Ice station Mathew rielly
Area 7 mathew rielly
Scarcrow matthew reilly
7 deadly wonders mat rielly
Harry potter series good read
Deception point dan brown

Books, got to love books.

I'm just going to recommend a few.

Lars Ramslie: Biopsi (Don't think it's available in any other languages than Norwegian)
Erlend Loe: Naiv Super (One of the first books I really liked that didn't have any hobbits in it)
Edgar Allen Poe has some great short stories too.

I've read a lot of great books, but it seems like they're all condemned to only beeing published in Norwegian. So there seems like there is no point in recommending them.

I just bought a :wub: of books though, and I'll see if any of them are worth recommending later.
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot (I'm only going to read Dostoevsky to pose as a semi-intellectual of course. )
Cicero - Tusculanae Quaestiones (Thought it would be great to catch up on some ancient philosophy)
Herman Lindquist - Napoleon (Attack of the dwarf)
George Orwell - 1984 (On recommendation from an English teacher I respected)
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho (Liked the movie, probably like the book too)
Sun Tze - The Art of War (The fart will conquer the tornado if the tornado suddenly has a nose etc)
Bram Stoker - Dracula (Mirror, mirror on the wall, why I no reflection hold?)
Lars Ramslie - Ugly Bugly (It's about two siamese twins (Man and Woman) who's connected upside-down)

..and some other books I don't care to mention as you will all consider me to be a bookie from Bookland on the planet of Bookanus in the galaxy of Booky Way.

Originally Posted by Ghoulem

Books, got to love books.

I'm just going to recommend a few.

Lars Ramslie: Biopsi (Don't think it's available in any other languages than Norwegian)
Erlend Loe: Naiv Super (One of the first books I really liked that didn't have any hobbits in it)
Edgar Allen Poe has some great short stories too.

I've read a lot of great books, but it seems like they're all condemned to only beeing published in Norwegian. So there seems like there is no point in recommending them.

Of course there is a point in recommending them, Im Norwegian

Originally Posted by Mathias

Of course there is a point in recommending them, Im Norwegian

Knut Nærum - En himmel full av stjerner (About our and our society's focus on fame)
Abo Rasul - Macht ünd Rebel (I haven't figured it out yet, I need to read it one more time. So far I think it's about the hypocrisy of the left-side-movement against the global companies)
Eskil Engdal - Berserk (Pure entertainment)
Are Kalvø - Syden (Funny insight on our behaviour when outside our borders)
Erlend Loe - Fakta om Finland (I think it's existential, but don't take that as a good fish (Norvagisme ftw))
Erlend Loe - Doppler og Volvo Lastvagnar (About finding your place in society (or in this case, outside it))

Some of theese books combine entertainment with serious topics, but they still actually have some serious points about our society. Macht und Rebel is somewhat in the gutter concerning morals, but it's quite interesting anyway.
Do you got any good Norwegian books to recommend?

Ah, therussian you stole mine.
The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas(Much better than the movie)
Eagle in The Snow-Wallace Breem
The Killer Angels-Michael Shaara
Vampire Earth-E.E. Knight
Dragonlance-Weis&Hickman
Spartan-Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
Promise of Glory-C. X. Moreau
Th Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane
The Tell-Tale Heart and anything Edgar Allen Poe
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
Animal Farm-George Orwell

Originally Posted by Hub'ite

Th Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane

What do you see in that book? I read it in eigth grade for school, and to to tell you the truth, I didn't really like it. I mean, it's an aliright book. But it's notghing compared to Monte Cristo.

Originally Posted by therussian

What do you see in that book? I read it in eigth grade for school, and to to tell you the truth, I didn't really like it. I mean, it's an aliright book. But it's notghing compared to Monte Cristo.

I liked it when I was younger. I've just always had a Civil War fetish. Your right, its nothing compared to Monte Cristo.

Sharpe novels - Bernard Cornwell (all 19 of them)
Redcoat - Richard Holmes

War and Peace by Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground by Dostoyevsky
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
Nineteen Eight-Four by Orwell

"The Razor's Edge" by Sommerset Maugham
"Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
"The Once and Future King" by T.H. White
"Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier
"The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass
"Dog Years" by Gunter Grass
"The World According to Garp" by John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meanie" by John Irving
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
"Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein
"Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov
"Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol
"Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Cat's Craddle" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"The Caine Mutiny" by Hermann Wouk
"The 13th Valley" by John DelVeccio
"The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
"The Good Soldier Schweik" by Jaroslav Hasek
"The Russia House" by John LeCarre

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot (I'm only going to read Dostoevsky to pose as a semi-intellectual of course. )

Ugh, stay away from The Idiot if it's not too late.

Originally Posted by Octavian

Ugh, stay away from The Idiot if it's not too late.

I already bought it, so it's kinda too late. DAMN, I knew it was cheap for a reason.
I can hear Dostoevsky laughing from his grave: Who's the idiot now?!

in no particular order:

A People's History of the United States-Howard Zinn
Pengiun's History of Europe-JM Roberts
Red Badge of Courage-Steven Crane
What's the Matter with Kansas?-Thomas Frank
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
Osprey Series

The wasp factory: Iain banks (any banks is good)
The watchmen: Alan Moore : book+comic=genius,
helter skelter......if you dont know the story dont read it very grusome not for the weak of mind or stomach.
the bible: various' good story but ends a bit sad (like gladiator) don't like the begining either "in the begining"
anything by lovecraft' nutter
papillon: henri charrierr, this is a buetiful story of friendship (great film to)
clockwork orange: Anthony Burgess, viddy well young droogies and chelovecks,
catch 22: Joseph Heller, took me about four years to read it and fifteen to understand(i think)
i'lucifer: Glen Duncan (not really for american's but good for londoner's)

oh and moby dick....the story of all our lives.

http://www.iainbanks.net/f01.htm
i'm old i've read alot of books

The Riftwar Series - 3 books - Raymond E Feist
Serpent War Saga - 4 books - Raymond E Feist
1984 - George Orwell
Nightwatch Series - lots of books - Terry Pratchet
Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High, Wilt in Nowhere - Tom Sharpe
Riotous Assembly & Indecent Exposure - Tom Sharpe
The Many Cases of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Northern Lights series -The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass- Phillip Pullman

and more.....

(An Inspector Calls is reeeeally bad :laughing: )

Ooooh! Jeeves and Wooster by Wodehouse!!

EDIT: more books!

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card, want to read his other books now :laughing:
The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Deamons - Dan Brown
First and Only - Dan Abnett

A People's History of the United States-Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn... WHY I ask...WHY?

anyways....

Catch - 22 Joseph Heller
The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam
Cats Cradle
Candide
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas L. Friedman
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
A Bright Shining Lie - Neil Sheehan
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
A Rumor of War
The Choice
Inside the Asylum
Animal Farm
Darkness at noon
A Seperate Peace
The Great Gatsby
Fallen Angels
Night?

L'étranger - Albert Camus
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Candide - Voltaire
L'herbe rouge - Boris Vian
L'écume des jours - Boris Vian
Les fourmis - Boris Vian
Also Sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Dune (the whole serie) - Frank Herbert
L'étrusque - Mika Waltari
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
La disparition - Georges Perec (it's a book that contain no "e")
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll
Patience dans l'azur - Hubert Reeves

Sorry for the french titles, I have no idea how they are traducted...