What to read?

[featuredwater]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

[Tickle Me Mercury]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

Fiction or non? And what's your reading level?

[Philosophickle]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

The shampoo bottle.

[featuredwater]

I Have a good reading and i like fiction.

[Raptor]

The shampoo bottle.
Done. What next? :teeth:

[Little Shepherd]

I read Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy not long ago, and I found it a pretty enjoyable read. He takes liberties with certain Biblical stories, and from reading it I get the impression that the 15th/16th century Roman Catholic Church peed in his oatmeal. But if that doesn't bug you, it's a really interesting story spanning multiple worlds. It's also a coming-of-age story of sorts, but in a good way. Not in a crappy teen movie way.

That's my recommendation.

[Mr. Christopher]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is a good one if you want inspiration.

Other than that, a short good one would be Animal Farm, or Lord of the Flies.

Or, if you're into magical stuff, Harry Potter works pretty well. Or


MY FAVORITE AUTHER IS PIERS ANTHONY, and the set taht starts out titled "On a Pale Horse." man, it doesnt get better than that.

[Tickle Me Mercury]

I read Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy not long ago, and I found it a pretty enjoyable read. He takes liberties with certain Biblical stories, and from reading it I get the impression that the 15th/16th century Roman Catholic Church peed in his oatmeal. But if that doesn't bug you, it's a really interesting story spanning multiple worlds. It's also a coming-of-age story of sorts, but in a good way. Not in a crappy teen movie way.

That's my recommendation.

I just got the set of His Dark Materials from Amazon.com not too long ago. I can't wait to read it.

featuredwater, fiction that I have read and enjoyed recently: Nausea - Sartre, Faust - Geothe, Anthem - Rand, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins - Twain, Life of Pi - Martel (highly recommended if you like religious allegory in your fiction), Eragon and Eldest - Paolini, and a collection of various short stories by Anton Chekhov.

If any of those strike your fancy, then enjoy!

[featuredwater]

I have actually read that trilogy already it was grand!!

[Iconoclastithon]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

Here are several:

*Thomas Paine= "Age of Reason",
*Thomas Paine= "Rights of man"
*Sam Harris= "The End of Faith; religion, terror, and the future of reason"
*Christopher Hitchens="god is NOT GREAT; How religion poisons everything"
*Christopher Hitchens="Letters to a young Contrarian"
*Robert M.Price= "The Reason Driven Life"
*John Armstrong= "God Versus The Bible
*Ayaan Hirsi Ali="Infidel"
*Anton Lavey="Book of Lucifer"{a particular section in his "Satanic Bible"}

In Reason:
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[Logan Nix]

I read Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy not long ago, and I found it a pretty enjoyable read. He takes liberties with certain Biblical stories, and from reading it I get the impression that the 15th/16th century Roman Catholic Church peed in his oatmeal. But if that doesn't bug you, it's a really interesting story spanning multiple worlds. It's also a coming-of-age story of sorts, but in a good way. Not in a crappy teen movie way.

That's my recommendation.
I read "His Dark Materials" not too long ago, and I didn't really care for it that much. I loved the Golden Compass, which was amazing, so I bought that book, but it just kinda seemed to go down hill from there. I'm glad you liked it, though; I wish I had...

But I have to admit that he has a wonderful imagination. I loved all the things he came up with so, for me, it was worth reading for that alone.

[Logan Nix]

I am looking for a good book to read and i do not know what would be a good book if you have any Ideas.

I don't know if you've read the Chronicles of Narnia, but those are good books. Terry Pratchett is good, too.

[hamandcheese]

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. He is so enjoyable to read.

[NSMinistries]

MY FAVORITE AUTHER IS PIERS ANTHONY, and the set taht starts out titled "On a Pale Horse." man, it doesnt get better than that. being a green mother was the best of that series...

[Christopher31]

Fiction:
The Father Brown Omnibus by, G.K. Chesterton
The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Book of Atrix Wolfe by, Patricia McKillip
David Copperfield by, Charles Dickens
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorne Trilogy by, Tad Williams
The Name of the Rose by, Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum by, Umberto Eco
Frankenstein by, Mary Shelly
Narcicuss and Goldmund by, Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf by, Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game by, Hermann Hesse
The Farseer Trilogy by, Robin Hobb
Treasure Island by, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by, James Hogg
The Man Who Was Thursday by, G.K. Chesterton
Crime and Punishment by, Fyodore Dostoevsky
Cancer Ward by, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Non-Fiction:
A History of Philosophy v. I-IX by, Frederick Coppelston
The God Who Risks by, John Sanders
The Openness of God by, Clark Pinnock, et al.
The History of the Church v. I-VIII by, Phillip Schaff
Christian Dogmatics v. I-III by, Francis Pieper
The Everlasting Man by, G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity by, C.S. Lewis
The Gulag Archipelago v. I-III by, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Apologia Pro Vita Sua by, John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Confessions by, St. Augustine

There's a good list to get started on! ;) Have fun.

[Spinyn00bman]

Anything by Jasper Fforde

[lucyR212]

The Madonnas of Leningrad: A Novel
by Debra Dean

[One Bad Pig]

MY FAVORITE AUTHER IS PIERS ANTHONY, and the set taht starts out titled "On a Pale Horse." man, it doesnt get better than that.
Piers Xanthony? :spew:

[The Curtmudgeon]

Here are several:

*Thomas Paine= "Age of Reason",
*Thomas Paine= "Rights of man"
*Sam Harris= "The End of Faith; religion, terror, and the future of reason"
*Christopher Hitchens="god is NOT GREAT; How religion poisons everything"
*Christopher Hitchens="Letters to a young Contrarian"
*Robert M.Price= "The Reason Driven Life"
*John Armstrong= "God Versus The Bible
*Ayaan Hirsi Ali="Infidel"
*Anton Lavey="Book of Lucifer"{a particular section in his "Satanic Bible"}

In Reason:
Icono

All very good suggestions, Icono, given that she prefers fiction. :thumb:

Feature, if you like fantasy, I can recommend Here, There Be Dragons: The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by James A. Owen. I've also got the second book in the series, The Search for the Red Dragon, but I haven't read it yet so I can't quite say I also recommend it. They're more nearly "young adult" fiction than adult-level, but still quite good.

If you like murder mysteries with a twist of horror, I found Monster by Frank Peretti to be a very good read.

The (wishing he were reading a good book right now instead of murdering time at work) Curtmudgeon