Recommend me a book

[lax_yay]

what are some good books you guys have read/reading. recommend any?

[ShockerAutc]

Cats Cradle. The last amateurs.

[laxiceman]

Harry Potter series, Eragon, Eldest, Pendragon series.......

Another great book is Kaffir Boy, I highly reccomend it.

[manup5183]

The lions game - Nelson Demielle

On second thought, the ending BLOWS. Just some fair warnning.

[czechinthepipes]

The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter series, and also a book called "The Dangerous Book for Boys". That book is really cool, its a book that has tons of facts that all boys from age 8-80 should know. Like knots, paper airplanes, how to make a real bow and arrow, how to make a good go cart and tons of other cool stuff like that. Its really cool I love that book.

[tiplax]

My losing season, The Lords of Discipline -Both by Pat Conroy
thoses are my 2 favorite books

[James]

I really liked the old man and the sea by ernest hemmingway but I hunt and fish so those kind of books appeal to me.

On the same type of books that I loved were white fang and call of the wild.

[laxmonster54]

Jugs magazine......ummm I mean lord of the flies, Night, animal farm and much more

[frankstoneline]

Hairstyles of the Damned- Joe Meno
Ask The Dust- John Fante
Ham On Rye- Charles Bukowski
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
Things I Like About America- Poe Ballantine
Dharma Bums or On The Road or Big Sur- Jack Kerouac
...That should keep you going for a bit.

[dubclax17]

the tin moon-stephen lacey

[twin58]

Moby Dick. You'll want to drop out of school and sign up for a voyage on the nearest whaling vessel.

Hey, Beavis, he said....

Get over it.

[Bobsch]

The Kite Runner and any book by Antony Beevor (Stalingrad, Fall of Berlin, etc.).

[italianstalion]

The King of Torts-John Grisham

[mullengoal141]

Eder's game-Orson Scott Card (trust me, everyone who reads it falls in love with it)
A Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
all of the rest of the books related to ender's game also.

[DJ Death]

A Brave New World is a must-read. So is All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried.

[Irishlax22]

Mitch Albom "The Five people you meet in heaven"
Great Book

[kb-lax_attack10]

Count of Monte Cristo, Cats Cradle, and And Then There was None

[laxitute]

The Things They Carried is a solid book. Brave New World is okay, just okay. If you're looking for a utopian society book I feel The Beach - yes it's the book they made a movie of with DiCaprio - tackles human nature a little better. Plus it's set in current times making it even easier to relate to.

Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter. There is a lot of him talking about his accomplishments, but there are tons of interesting facts. Sorry, I'm a politics nerd :sad:.
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times - HW Brands. My favorite President. Plus, many of his policies are vastly underrated. If you disagree I'll duel you.
Critique of Interventionism - Ludwig von Mises. See why the US should stay out of other countries.
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam - Reza Aslan. Always good to know about other cultures. Promotes good will and understanding.
I hate to admit it, but the Harry Potter series is good as well.

It'd be easier if you named a specific genre or two, because 3/4 books I've listed are probably of no interest to you. It's always good to broaden the horizons though.

[roycegracie47]

http://www.lacrosseforums.com/showthread.php?t=35739&highlight=good+books

Here's a thread that hadn't been bumped in a good while that should also have some good suggestions.

I read for fun and read a lot. I recently finished re-reading the Hitchhiker's Giude to the Galxay series. Currently I am reading R.A. Salvatore's Hunter's Blade Trilogy (currently on book 2 The Lone Drow) and Sergei Lukyanenko's Day Watch (the second book in his Night Watch Tetrology).

I also recently found my copies of The One Dimensional Man and Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (which I haven;t read in years and am looking foward to reading again).

[livin4lax09]

the ultimate zombie survival guide. Seriously, it's a great read.

[MaKiMaKi13]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

[JEeagleslax]

i like Dean Koontz i think his best books were By the Light of the Moon, Sole Survivor, and The Bad Place

[MidwestLAx101]

1984-Orwell

[thepalehorse]

savage nation, the political zoo, and liberalism is a mental disease-michael savage

[unionvillelax10]

THE GODFATHER

[ML_LAX09]

Animal Farm, George Orwell
1984, George Orwell
EDIT: Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime. Thank you Abomb.

both are great books.

[Valaxman17]

The Warrior Elite-Dick Couch
The Finishing School-Dick Couch

[goalie4JESUS]

why the caged bird sings
to kill a mocking bird
.....jusat two of my favorite i read them in eigth grade and i read them every summer just for fun

[abomb]

Eder's game-Orson Scott Card (trust me, everyone who reads it falls in love with it)

I cant stand that book


I highly suggest Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime
Its about an Autistic (I think thats his disability) kid trying solve this mystery about his neighbor's dog being skewered in her front lawn. Its great, heartwarming, funny, and not that long.

[GatorPole]

Read I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max.

It's about his supposed exploits in college and law school getting drunk and picking up women. Good vacation read.

[faceofflax15]

Holes by Louis Sachar.

Or any of the "Bourne" Serious.

[ML_LAX09]

I cant stand that book


I highly suggest Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime
Its about an Autistic (I think thats his disability) kid trying solve this mystery about his neighbor's dog being skewered in her front lawn. Its great, heartwarming, funny, and not that long.


That's a great book. I forgot that one. Honestly, how the auther tells the story is great.

[Riot]

"White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of. And the cards for the first and second place and third place were beautiful colours too: pink and cream and lavender. Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could."

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Lacrosse4life31]

THE GODFATHER
dangit you beat me too that, AMAZING!

also, not sure if you play any halo at all, but all the halo books, they are just very well written, even if you don't play it, the tactics and all just gets you involved and thinking!

[scruffy221]

Enders Game is good, anything from Orson Scott Card is...

Virtues of War- Dont know who wrote it
Gates of Fire- Steven Pressfield
1984- George Orwell
The Kite Runner- Cant spell author's name but good book
The Art of War- Sun Tzu


All good books.

[tkdlaxer]

Druids

The greener shore

Amazonia

All great books

[Lacrosse4life31]

to kill a mocking bird... one of my all time fav's by Harper Lee

[RgLax]

1984-Orwell
i agree wholeheartedly
and the Godfather

and the Gates of Fire- basically the 300

[Laxking31]

to kill a mocking bird... one of my all time fav's by Harper Lee


Good book. Endings great. Others I like are " Catcher in the Rye", " The five people you meet in Heaven". But my favorite of all time is " Of mice and men" by John Steinbech

[laxmandudeguy]

screw books!!! but the books ive read that ive liked are scar tissue, lord of the flies, and heavier than heaven or somthing like that

[moondog]

Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Mario Puzo, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, George Orwell, Joseph Heller, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, E.M. Forester

Harry Potter, LOTR, and most fantasy fiction is absolute rubbish in my (and Harold Bloom's) opinions

Try reading a challenging book--you will get out what you put in

What could I know? I'm only a HS English teacher (I know there are a few others here)...

[Riot]

Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Mario Puzo, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, George Orwell, Joseph Heller, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, E.M. Forester

Harry Potter, LOTR, and most fantasy fiction is absolute rubbish in my (and Harold Bloom's) opinions

Try reading a challenging book--you will get out what you put in

What could I know? I'm only a HS English teacher (I know there are a few others here)... I wish I could have an English teacher that liked reading books. Next year my AP English coach will also be doubling as a football coach. It's kind of depressing, kind of embarrassing.

[moondog]

Football coach and English teacher don't really sound like they belong in the same sentence. Just doesn't seem like a very common fit.

Of course, on the other side of the extreme, we're not all thespians in tights...

[CavsDefense]

Fight Club, Choke, Diary - Chuck Palahniuk

Johnny Got his Gun - Dalton Trumbo

[spyopticgoggles]

the wave by todd strasser
lord of the flies by william golding
stormbreaker and point blank (series) by anthony horowitz-theres actually a movie that came out last yr for stormbreaker called...stormbreaker
a journey to the center of the earth and 20,000 leagues under the sea by jules verne

[Jesse]

Any pop-up book.
1984 by Orwell is very good.

[kingwolf]

a long way gone memoirs of a boy soldier by ishmael beah. its an amazing book and you learn a lot about child soldiers and what they do to them. Also cats cradle by kurt vonnegut. Clockwork orange by im not sure its a great book a little disturbing but its main purpose is about human nature

[NHDSlax]

Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (my favorite book)

T.J. English - Paddy Whacked (AWESOME read)

Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten - One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century

Mark Steyn - America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time

[Doritos]

a book u will not regret is CIRQUE DU FREAK 1-12 i tell u u will fall in love with the book trust me ;) i read every day and the greats Gatsby god i dint like that book but i guess we all like different stuff

[-HSKR-]

a long way gone memoirs of a boy soldier by ishmael beah. its an amazing book and you learn a lot about child soldiers and what they do to them. Also cats cradle by kurt vonnegut. Clockwork orange by im not sure its a great book a little disturbing but its main purpose is about human nature

Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange".

[mmlaxplaya17]

Angels and Demons- Dan Brown

[AttackMan41100]

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max :thumbsup:

[-HSKR-]

Angels and Demons- Dan Brown

Is it just me or is this one exactly like the Da Vinci Code. I read both of them and they were good but I felt like I was reading the same book twice.

[mmlaxplaya17]

Is it just me or is this one exactly like the Da Vinci Code. I read both of them and they were good but I felt like I was reading the same book twice.
the style in which he writes is is similar but i like the story line for A+D better

[mullengoal141]

I cant stand that book

how can you say that? Ender's game is a very deep book that can also be read on a normal level. any writing about human nature like this is amazing

[bigDman]

anything by George Orwell
A Clockwork Orange and Dante's Inferno

[rebel_lax40]

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

[attacklax2]

the outsiders by se hinton is sick

[pole15]

Authors:

Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Chuck Klosterman, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Alan Ginsberg, Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain...

[lax4life6]

Check out some books by Dean Koontz. Theyre pretty good. My favorite author by far is Stephen King though. I love how his stories all have some extremely unique quality and many of them are tied together. Read the Gunslinger series, by far my favorite set of books.

[BergsLAX 00]

ya the kiterunner is an amazing book, and the guy who wrote just came out with another book also based on afghanastan on like may 22, so looking forward to reading that.

[HCrum05]

I've been hooked on some of R.A. Salvatore's books lately. Anything by Ted Dekker. He writes fiction novels and incorporates Christianity into them. It's very cool. Even if you aren't spiritual, his books are still really good.

[Live4It]

Looking for Alaska's a pretty good book, I haven't finished yet, I have about 60 pages I'll probably finish by sometime tomorrow.

[TheE3Man]

I'm amazed that noone said Catch 22 by Joseph Heller yet


It's such an amazing book

[Riot]

I'm amazed that noone said Catch 22 by Joseph Heller yet


It's such an amazing book Yeah, it really is an excellent book. It's probably the most fun I've ever had reading a book, and I love reading.

[moondog]

I mentioned Joseph Heller in my post on page 1. Yossarian is a wonderful protagonist.

[WSlax9]

the outsiders by se hinton is sick
i totally agree with him

[Reid]

ahem:
Read CHRISTOPHER MOORE'S books!
A Dirty Job.
Bloodsucking fiends

and Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughter-House Five in particular

[ByrdDpole]

the outsiders by se hinton is sick

Bleh.

Tex is better. By S.E Hinton too.

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlins was suprisingly good.

War of the Worlds.

I-Robot series, or anything by Isaac Asimov.

The Chocolate War books by Robert Cormier are awesome.

Alas, Babylon and We All Fall Down (Robert Cormier) look promising. I have to read them for my 10th grade honors english.

[navylax161]

any dr. seuss. hes mind blowing.

[mdawg]

the ultimate zombie survival guide. Seriously, it's a great read.


i second that. along with;
-catcher in the rye
-the kite runner
-into the wild
-to kill a mockingbird
-moby dick
-the count of monte christo
-the bourne identity/supremacey/ultimatum)
-jurassic park
-the hobbit
-holy blood, holy grail
-the power of one
-ni*ger: the autobiography of dick gregory
-the davinci code
-brave new world
-children of men
-candide
-1984
-terminal man

[cali feeder]

1984, Brave New World, The Count of Monte Cristo, Plato's Republic, The Odyssey, Homer's Illiad, Ender's Game, Lord of the Flies, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Cat's Cradle, The Hunt for Red October (any Clancy book for that matter), Mythology (fun to read), The Godfather, and The Giver.

The books I put in bold have been my absolute favorite.

[shoebag2000]

Death by Black Hole

[dpoleman7]

The Teammates-David Halberstam
A Child Called "It" Dave Peltzer
any kurt vonnegut(sp?)

[th365thli]

call of the wild-Jack London
any clive clussler book
lord of the flies
to kill a mockingbird

[XLaxClipper]

Anything by Vince Flynn, especially the Mitch Rapp novels. Go to amazon.com and search "mitch rapp" There all good spy/assassination novels dealing with the CIA, if you like that stuff.

[mvlax11]

the dune series by Frank Herbert are incredible...umm Douglas Adams's books will make you cry laughing, Michael Crighton- State of Fear, Tom Clancy books are sick, hunt for the red october, red storm rising

[jacedwards78]

scar tissue by:Anthony Keidis

[Mr.Pockets19]

The Green Mile- Stephen King

[Bedford lax13]

im not sure how old you are but the best book i've ever read is "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich

[LymanLax28]

-Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
-Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
-The Geographer's Library - Jon Fasman
-As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
-The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
-1984 - George Orwell
-North to the Night - Alvah Simon
-Into Africa - Martin Dugard
-The White Headhunter - Nigel Randell
-Last Train to Paradise - Les Standiford
-The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Gude to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

There's a couple more that are great and I know I'm forgetting. If/when I remember I'll edit this post. If you read any of these books, you won't be disappointed.

scar tissue by:Anthony Keidis
Yes. Even if you don't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keidis is a pretty interesting person, with more than few good stories to tell.

[etowahlax21]

Try the Halo series. They are some of the best books I've ever read.

[Emerican]

Chelsea Horror Hotel By Dee Dee Ramone

[dta06]

1984, Brave New World, The Count of Monte Cristo, Plato's Republic, The Odyssey, Homer's Illiad, Ender's Game, Lord of the Flies, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Cat's Cradle, The Hunt for Red October (any Clancy book for that matter), Mythology (fun to read), The Godfather, and The Giver.

The books I put in bold have been my absolute favorite.
I'm with cali feeder. The books that are in bold are some great books. I ended up reading The Art Of War twice. I also recommend The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

[AttackMan41100]

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max :thumbsup:

[lD lU lK lE 311]

the da vinci code - dan brown
angels and demons - dan brown
promise me - harlan coben
fight club - chuck palahniuk
house of leaves - mark danielewski
ill post some other good ones later.

[DaStringer]

tomorrow im gonna go get the fromer duke coach's book and see if its any good. are there any other good lax books. also flags of our fathers nd marlin brisco, the first black quarterback is a great book,

[Phillylaxkid]

The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, and Digital Fortress, all by Dan Brown. THE BEST books I've ever read.

[Phillylaxkid]

Is it just me or is this one exactly like the Da Vinci Code. I read both of them and they were good but I felt like I was reading the same book twice.

They both have basically the same plot.

[Riot]

Dan Brown is really really really really bad.

[abomb]

Try the Halo series. They are some of the best books I've ever read.
Are you kidding?

[redbirds07]

for those kids like me who dont read on the regular but enjoy reading a book every once in a while and dont have the worlds highest reading level, i suggest reading blood sports by eden robinson.. it doesnt have anything to do with sports its a real intense book that doesnt let you lose focus

[ramslac05]

the things they carried was a sweet book by tim o brien

and, since i love RHCP, Scar Tissue was my favorite book
its anthony kiedis' auto-biography

itll make u never want to do drugs

[chucktownattack]

Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers.
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
The Kite Runner - Can't Remember

[aviator]

Blades of Glory- No, its not the comedy. It is a true story about the bloomington-jefferson hockey team. I got it when it first came out, really good (Warning: contains language, drug use and other mature themes) I am gonna have to dig it up again

To Kill A Mockingbird- Read it for school this year. Best book imo. I almost teared up. Get over it

The Pearl-Another great book we read in school. Really deep if you make sense of it

Friday Night Lights- Another true story of a sports team. Still havent finished it though, have to pick it up again

The Outsiders- A classic, nuff said
^look for other books by S.E. too, they are kindof the same theme and mostly good

[Eagle Middie]

Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab

Immediate Action - Andy McNab

Excellent books describing the eperiences of British special forces operator Andy McNab. If you like action and covert type stuff these are the books. I was not able to put these books down. They are so interesting and intense you will actualy want to read them. capture, torture, firefights, terrorist, war, british peolpe. The got it all

[LymanLax28]

Forgot one:

-Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Great short story (around 130 pages in a news print book, if I recall correctly). Anything by Dostoevsky is going to be amazing writing though, you can't go wrong.

[laxgoalieguy123]

war an peace, that will keep you goin for a while :thumbsup:

[laxgoalie89]

my favourites:
First They Killed My Father - Loung Ung
Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
Harry Potter series
Stephen King books
The Acorn People - Ron Jones

thats so far i can remember

[stripes182]

Harry Potter, LOTR, and most fantasy fiction is absolute rubbish in my (and Harold Bloom's) opinions.

What could I know? I'm only a HS English teacher (I know there are a few others here)...

Please don't read this as rude, but as a High School English teacher surely you took courses in literary criticism. I'd really hope than an(other) teacher would know better than to use Harold Bloom's extensive work as any type of ultimate literary opinion. In the past forty-five years, fortunately, scholars have gone away from the "it's good because I say it's good, and I'm so what I say is right" school of thought to making argumentative claims and supporting them with a little thing called evidence. Just my $0.02...

As for books, I'd second the recommendations for O'Brien's [I]The Things They Carried . I'd also recommend Yann Martel's The Life of Pi and Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero. Of course, anyone who wants to end up like me (not recommended), should strongly consider reading Jack Kerouac's On The Road , but moving to Denver IS optional. Happy hunting and enjoy the reading, whatever you choose.

[Lacrosse4life31]

"Mein Kampf" - Adolf Hitler--great book i like it, maybe because i'm intrested in that type of stuff, but i enjoyed it. the sequel is good too.

[HRodLAX]

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (also wrote Fight Club. Yeah a book before a movie)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

[bigDman]

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Testosterone Principles by TC Luoma
Naked Pictures Of Famous People by Jon Stewart

[Laxking31]

any dr. seuss. hes mind blowing.

I am sitting alone in my house and I just started rolling. ROFL :chuckle: :rofl:


And I cant believe that no one besides me has said "Of mice and men" or any other John Steinbech books for that matter. Now I'm not a fan of his " The Red Pony", but he is still a great author. " Of Mice and Men" is the best book I have ever read, BY FAAAAAARRRRRR

[olentangylax22]

the little engine that could