Books!

[Bullet]

 Anyone knows about any good books to read? Yeah, you heard me dammn straigt right, Books!

To all gamers, I'd recommend "The game" by Neil Strauss since most of you probably are single and never have got laid   

[DieOrFail]

What kind of books?

[Bullet]

Romans, based on history, they're awzome.  Also, crime books are good ( the Harry Hole Books! ). What kind of books ya like?

[DieOrFail]

Romans, based on history, they're awzome.  Also, crime books are good ( the Harry Hole Books! ). What kind of books ya like?

I like lits of books

The House of Leaves is great imo, DWF's Infinite Jest too.
I mostly read German books or translated books tho. Try Kafka, Dürrenmatt and Brecht if you can read German or if you can get your hands on a translation
The swarm by Frank Schätzing is also quite good. And there are tons of good and bad Fantasy books out there!

[Faun]

The Droll Stories of Honoré de Balzac (and nearly everything else from him), Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes or Simplicius Simplicissimus from HJC v. Grimmelshausen. The last one is one of the greatest books I've ever read, still I don't know how well translations work out. It's written in antique german (1668) and you have to find a version done by a careful publisher in german already to be able to dive into it.
Fazit: go with the classics. Doesn't matter if it's Frankenstein, Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver's Travels - If you know the name and the story somehow, but never read the book, its time to do it - they're great. School teachers kill a lot of good stories by forcing people to read them.

Bohumil Hrabal is a great writer too, he's Czech and to read him in original language would alone justify the learning of the czech language. Have been told that I can learn czech until I die to fully understand his humor and feeling for language, though.
Chinghiz Aitmatov should be mentioned here as well, along with Juri Rytchëu.
Other writers I'd recommend are Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins and Douglas Adams.

[Knoz]

if you want some easy but very well written historically correct novels:

Bernard Cornwell: The Saxon Stories. I enjoyed this serie very much. Vikings and brits! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories


Conn Iggulden: Conqueror series. This one is about Genghis khan and Mongols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_of_the_Plains


Also Finnish Mika Waltari has written many enjoyable historic novels such as The Egyptian.

[H3027]

One of my favourites:

Fernando Pessoa - Das Buch der Unruhe
Bernward Vesper - Die Reise
Guy Debord - Die Gesellschaft des Spektakels
Thomas Mann - Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull
Erich Fromm - Haben oder Sein
Patrick Süskind - Drei Geschichten
Slavoj Zizek - Die Tücke des Subjekts
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quijote
Niklas Luhmann - Liebe als Passion: Zur Codierung von Intimität
Peter Handke - Das Gewicht der Welt
Theodor W. Adorno - Minima Moralia
Hermann Hesse - Demian
Friedrich Schiller - Wilhelm Tell
Habermas - Politik, Kunst, Religion
Ilija Trojanow - Der Weltensammler
Oscar Wilde - Der Kritiker als Künstler
Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Das Versprechen
Max Frisch - Stiller
William Shakespeare - Ende gut, alles gut

[Tjens]

tom.

clancy.

[UnSaFe]

To all gamers, I'd recommend "The game" by Neil Strauss since most of you probably are single and never have got laid   

Aye, turn my life around, not that book by itself, but the whole idea behind it. Also PUA fo' life.

[hell']

+1 on the Saxon Stories by Cornwell

[Bullet]

Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes

I've not read Don Quijote, but i've seen a movie about the book. Very interesting. The rest of the books you mentioned, have I not heard about . I'm from norway and still in high school, so most of the older authors/books from outside of Norway is unknown to me.

 

if you want some easy but very well written historically correct novels:

Bernard Cornwell: The Saxon Stories. I enjoyed this serie very much. Vikings and brits! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror series. This one is about Genghis khan and Mongols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_of_the_Plains

Also Finnish Mika Waltari has written many enjoyable historic novels such as The Egyptian.

 
I've read the cornwell series, great books, loved'em ! Conn Igulden is also great, but I've read the Roman series he've written about the roman Empire. I'd look into the Ghengis Khan & mongols series aswell now!
The finnish author have I never heard of, but i'll check him out!

To all gamers, I'd recommend "The game" by Neil Strauss since most of you probably are single and never have got laid   

Aye, turn my life around, not that book by itself, but the whole idea behind it. Also PUA fo' life.

Yeah, was wondering if there was anyone else who had read that book here! The book was a major "gamechanger" for me. Though, i'm still a newbie when it comes to girls, but practice makes master!     

[Ikarus]

Limit from Frank Schaetzing, if you are interessted a bit in science and space travel...
It's a great book with action, science-fiction and crazy ideas!

[Faun]

Norway

makes me think of Knut Hamsun

[DieOrFail]

Limit from Frank Schaetzing, if you are interessted a bit in science and space travel...
It's a great book with action, science-fiction and crazy ideas!

Yeah, Schaetzing is a great author imo! Very detailed and accurate/realistic descriptions mixed with some crazy fantasy/sci-fi!

[Feathers]

If anyone is interested in some fantasy type books try Raymond E Fiest.