What are Some Good Books to Read?
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Anything really. I lean more towards sci-fi, classical literature, and current events/ current science books, but since getting my kindle a couple months ago, I've been burning through 2-4 books/ week. I just need suggestions for good books to read.
I read this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction months ago, before it was even nominated. So, yeah, I'm cool.
Amazon.com: A Visit from the Goon Squad (9780307592835): Jennifer Egan: Books
Amazon.com: A Visit from the Goon Squad (9780307592835): Jennifer Egan: Books
Ever read Illiad or Odyssey? When I finally did, I was literally floored that a voice from 2800 years ago (plus or minus) spoke to me like it was a gripping modern novel.
Two favorites of mine:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (author graduated from Ames High)
Wikipedia summary: The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods. The first is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. The second narrative is set in the present day with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (author graduated from Ames High)
Wikipedia summary: The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods. The first is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. The second narrative is set in the present day with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons:
- Hyperion (sort of a sci-fi retelling of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales)
- The Fall of Hyperion
- Endymion
- The Rise of Endymion
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The classics, I guess.
If you type "Greatest novels" in Google, you'll find several lists of novels that are considered to be some of the greatest in English lit. You have your dystopians, sci-fi, etc.
100 Best Novels « Modern Library
Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME
The Greatest Books: The Best Books of All Time - 1 to 50
The Greatest Novels - The Top 100 (1-25)
If you type "Greatest novels" in Google, you'll find several lists of novels that are considered to be some of the greatest in English lit. You have your dystopians, sci-fi, etc.
100 Best Novels « Modern Library
Full List - ALL TIME 100 Novels - TIME
The Greatest Books: The Best Books of All Time - 1 to 50
The Greatest Novels - The Top 100 (1-25)
The "readers" list is full of L. Ron Hubbard at the top.
I suggest that everyone just ignore that.
