Recommend a book!

[Viviana Montero]

One of my favorites is One Hundred Tears of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I cry like a baby every time! Also enjoy the work of Paulo Coelho, especially The Alchemist.

Would love to hear more recommendations.

[Guest102614]

Fantasy- Gregory maquire, adult fantasy, a spin on traditional children stories

Suspense- John Grisham, always something to do with the government. I'm currently reading, The Racketeer

Suspense- Dan Brown, I love all his books but in my opinion his best is Digital Fortress, and it's also my personal favorite.

I also love anime. But prefer to watch them. Any suggestion on anime?

I would like to know another author who writes good fantasy books.

[Viviana Montero]

Typo, it's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Originally Posted by Viviana Montero

One of my favorites is One Hundred Tears of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I cry like a baby every time! Also enjoy the work of Paulo Coelho, especially The Alchemist.

Would love to hear more recommendations.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by Mysterydate023

Since I am not sure of your tastes, here are a few random ones:

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas (my favourite)
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (my previous favourite)
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Flowers for Algernon
Pretty much anything by H. G. Welles or Jules Verne
The Gaunts Ghosts series, or anything written by Dan Abnett for the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
The Maltese Falcon, Dashail Hammet. Just as good as the movie.
The Plague Dogs. Only book that made me cry.

If you are more into history/non-fiction:
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, a man who witnessed it first hand.
Shattered Sword-an account of Midway from the Japanese perspective.
A World Lit Only By Fire- Europe struggles out of the Dark Ages.
Dreadnought, Robert K. Massie. The very first arms race was between Great Britain and Germany building their navies.
War Without Mercy- US vs Japan and the racial overtones of the conflict.

As you can see, I am somewhat of a military buff.

Like you, I enjoy military history. I read Shirer's book when I was in high school. I recently bought Dreadnought and Shattered Sword but have yet to read them.

These are some books I've recently read that you might enjoy.

Requiem for Battleship Yamato by Yoshida Mitsuru. This is a memoir (it's been described as an extended, 145 page, prose poem) by a survivor, Yoshida, of the April, 1945, surface-vessel kamikaze operation against U.S. forces attacking Okinawa. It was code named Operation Ten’ichigo. It appeals to the emotions. I rate it 5 out of 5, but it is not a traditional history.

Tears In The Darkness: The Story Of The Bataan Death March And Its Aftermath by Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman. I rate this book a 4 out of 5. The way the authors cover the Battle of the Points is especially poignant.

Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb by George Fiefer. I rate this book 4 out of 5. This book is the story of battle for Okinawa from the perspective of several of the participants: American, Japanese and Okinawan. Hence, it doesn't offer a detailed overview of the battle, but it does poignantly recount the nitty-gritty POV of some of the men and women who were there.

Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943 by Carlo D’Este. This is an excellent book: 5 out of 5. D'Este, in my estimation, is as good as Cornelius Ryan, John Toland and Stephen Ambrose. I've bought his Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge. It has deservedly become a classic. The HBO miniseries "The Pacific" was, in part, based on this personal memoir by an USMC veteran who was there. Very poignant: 5 out of 5.

[pyramider]

No one has mentioned Curious George or Where The Wild Things Are ...

[jbravo_123]

Recently read a bunch of the Rick Riordan books. I finished the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series as well as got caught up on the sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus. Pretty fast read and has a very Harry Potteresque feel (but Percy isn't as Marty Sue as Harry is).

Starting in on Riordan's, The Kane Chronicles now, which is Egyptian themed but along similar lines as the Percy Jackson books.

[Marcus Aurelius]

Originally Posted by zoebee

I also love anime. But prefer to watch them. Any suggestion on anime?

What type?
Ghost in the shell?

Full metal Alchemist?

Bleach?


Ecchi?
There are many genre.

[jbravo_123]

Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius

What type?
Ghost in the shell?

Full metal Alchemist?

Bleach?


Ecchi?
There are many genre.

The ones Marcus listed are all very good. As he asked, genre matters as well (just like regular television).

We recently started watching Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) and have been liking that one too.

[bojulay]

Anyone ever read Capote's In Cold Blood.
The all american family slaughtered like a bunch of rabid dogs.
I couldn't finish the damn thing, capote is so descriptive and detailed
you start to feel like you are reading about some of your own family.
That, and knowing that they really were real people.

The only book ever that I couldn't finish.
He did too good a job on that one.

Well that one and the phone book, I got bored at about G

[Guest102614]

Originally Posted by Marcus Aurelius

What type?
Ghost in the shell?

Full metal Alchemist?

Bleach?


Ecchi?
There are many genre.

I enjoy desert punk, full metal alchemist, bleach, DBZ, and death note is my all time favorite.

[Guest102614]

Originally Posted by jbravo_123

The ones Marcus listed are all very good. As he asked, genre matters as well (just like regular television).

We recently started watching Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) and have been liking that one too.

I will look into it! Thanks for the suggestion!

[proudoftexas]

Originally Posted by bojulay

Anyone ever read Capote's In Cold Blood.
The all american family slaughtered like a bunch of rabid dogs.
I couldn't finish the damn thing, capote is so descriptive and detailed
you start to feel like you are reading about some of your own family.
That, and knowing that they really were real people.

The only book ever that I couldn't finish.
He did too good a job on that one.

Well that one and the phone book, I got bored at about G

I love well written true crime books.

The thing that disturbed me most about In Cold Blood, was how well Capote got access to the murderer's mind. He did an amazing job of ingratiating himself with the murderer. Which, of course, is what a good journalist does. But there was a component of it in terms of using the murderer for his story --- appearing sympathetic to coax the murderer to tell him more --- that bothers me.

But very well written.

I've always found the story that Fatal Vision was based upon to be utterly compelling.

Jeffrey MacDonald - a true American psychopath still trying to get free

Here's a lengthy article about the case. I consider Brian Murtagh a personal hero after reading it.

[bojulay]

Originally Posted by proudoftexas

I love well written true crime books.

The thing that disturbed me most about In Cold Blood, was how well Capote got access to the murderer's mind. He did an amazing job of ingratiating himself with the murderer. Which, of course, is what a good journalist does. But there was a component of it in terms of using the murderer for his story --- appearing sympathetic to coax the murderer to tell him more --- that bothers me.

But very well written.

I've always found the story that Fatal Vision was based upon to be utterly compelling.

Jeffrey MacDonald - a true American psychopath still trying to get free

Here's a lengthy article about the case. I consider Brian Murtagh a personal hero after reading it.

The contrast of the whole thing was most disturbing to me I guess
because they lived in a much more innocent time, or so they thought.

It was like someone walked onto the set of the TV show father
knows best and shotgunned them all to death.

[rotciescorts]

I would recommend
A child called "it"
The Lost boy
A man called dave

These are my all time favorites!!!

[Charlotte Breeze]

Originally Posted by rotciescorts

I would recommend
A child called "it"
The Lost boy

These are my all time favorites!!!

Those two are really good!!

I recently read Heads In Beds. It's like a little tell all of the hotel industry, and was pretty funny. Definitely changed the way I stay in hotels! lol!

I also really like The Art Of Racing In The Rain. It's told from a dogs point of view. Funny, insightful, heartbreaking but will lift your spirits... It made me LOL and try not to cry several times.