I want to start reading again...

[TomWilko]

...Basically i havn't read a book in years and i think its about time i started again.

I want to read adventure books, and am in the process of ordering 'Treasure Island.' I like Pirates so if anyone could giveme any more direction for books of this sort then please do

I am 19 and feel like i am asking a question a 10 year old would say!

[Shogun]

Really don't think this is the place for this, Should have put it in general discussion

[guybrush]

Well, here are some reccomendations of the top of my head..
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Soljeneitzin (or something) , a book about one day in the life or a prisoner in a russian gulag, absolutely fantastic.
SlaughterHouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (a incredible account of the bombing of Dresden)
The Orwell cannon (1984 (read it and realise that its happenend) , burmese nights, down and out in london in paris (a true story of orwells days homeless in paris and london) and a homage to catalonia are reccomends)

Slaughter house 5 is probably the best of the books there, in my opinion.

[ERU]

Hobbit > Lord Of The Rings > Silmarillion > Lost Tales

[PanzerKnight]

any of the Forgotten Realms books by R A Salvatore.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...747071-1532608


Also read Magician by Raymond E Feist, a truly awesome and epic tale of high adventure!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...747071-1532608

[GreenPiggy]

Hobbit > Lord Of The Rings > Silmarillion > Lost Tales

How the hell did you make it through the Silmarillion. My head hurts just thinking about that damn book.

[Grey M@a]

well apart from the books mentions above, try reading Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson and I know this isn't fantasy but try nineteen-eighty-four, you won't be sorry for reading that book

[TomWilko]

Right, forgot to point this out...being a little slow and all:

'Anything Lord of the rings or Hobbit related i am not interested in'

Fantasy like that just ain't my thing.

...Its all about the ships

[Grey M@a]

read 1984 if you want a sort of science fiction, it was written in the 1940's and basically gives a bleak picture of the year 1984, this book is amazing, you can tell minority report borrowed idea's from this book.

Another one to read is Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, yes it is computer related but looks at the lives and characters as they struggle to bring down their bosses, very funny read.

Filth by Irvin Welsh - Basically corrupt coppers based in scotland, very good book, on par with his train spotting novel.

To be honest I don't know of many books based around pirates and ships not my thing really.

[guybrush]

read 1984 if you want a sort of science fiction, it was written in the 1940's and basically gives a bleak picture of the year 1984, this book is amazing, you can tell minority report borrowed idea's from this book.

Not only a bleak picture, but a very accurate one..

Have you read the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy?, its pretty light but well worth reading even though its vaguely fantasy-ish.

[Moonshade]

Hms, heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad..not really pirates..but it's about men out in the sea . You can reed a review I wrote for a friend if you like..
Shougun - James Clavells

[Shogun]

Hms, heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad..not really pirates..but it's about men out in the sea . You can reed a review I wrote for a friend if you like..
Shougun - James Clavells

You called?

[Moonshade]

Hehe I'm always calling out for ya

[ACiD303]

read 1984 if you want a sort of science fiction, it was written in the 1940's and basically gives a bleak picture of the year 1984, this book is amazing, you can tell minority report borrowed idea's from this book.

Im reading this atm (on and off, dont have much time for reading) - really good so far, it reminds me of a chinese art film I saw a few years ago with the same sort of big brother theme to it.

Another one to read is Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, yes it is computer related but looks at the lives and characters as they struggle to bring down their bosses, very funny read.

This was my favourite book in school, Ive read it more than twice now it's purtty good.

[TeePee]

If you like the dystopian ideas of '1984' let me reccomend Aldous Huxley's 'A Brave New World'. For slightly lighter, but still anti-Wellsian fare, give Issac Asimov's 'The Caves of Steel' a read. While Asimov will be remembered for his laws of robotics, the robots in his stories are really only used to explore human ideas of discrimination and sexuality, and the limitations of human logic.

[G4Z]

Dune - by frank herbert, my favorite book ever.

the rest of the series is pretty good as well, especially God emporer Dune.