Book Recommendations

[sexysilver]

This thread is meant for iDB'ers to recommend any book they've read that was so fantastic, they want to make others read it.

Please contain this information in your post:
Title
Author
Genre
Small Synopsis
Why You Love It

If/When I get books that are recommended by three different people, I will put them on the first post as top-recommended books

Feel free to discuss a book mentioned on here or ask questions about it

[birdjay11]

This thread is a good idea. I could use some recommendations, although I probably have plenty of books I need to read already x.x

[GIR]

Title: The Eye of the World
Author: Robert Jordan
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: As I'm sure Spaz, Kagemucha, and anyone else who has read this will agree, it's not a book one can really summarize... but needless to say it's the excellent first book of The Wheel of Time series. The series has a very intricately woven overarching plot, though within each book there are threads and patterns which reach conclusions by the end of the novel.

The series consists of 12 books, as Jordan has said it would for years. The 12th and final book is to be released next year at the soonest. Also, there is a single prequel novel, of 300-some pages. At the urging of fans, he wrote a short story set 3,000 years prior to the majority of the novels, which can be found at http://www.tor.com/shayol.html .

[sexysilver]

Doesn't Robert Jordan have like.. the unending series though.. that just never die?

[VermontHermit]

Things one reads when one is stuck at home with downed trees and no power....

Title: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Genre: stylized fiction
Synopsis: Eight-year-old girl learns to play chess from janitor at the orphanage where she lives, goes on to later become a prodigy in the U.S. and international chess circuit, while fighting growing up, a less than perfect adoption, herself, an addictive personality, and the gnawing question "is there more to life than chess"? Tevis' novels were the basis for the movies "The Hustler" and "The Player". Not a new book, and marginally dated in terms of things like prize money for tourney championships, but a good read.

[kagemucha]

eww.. you added a "mucha" .

Meh, the Wheel of Time series that GIR recommended isn't that great.. First few are awesome, but I felt like it just slooooowwweeeddd down afterward.

Silver, it's a 13-book series (with the last one releasing soon) with some prequels It's pretty gigantic..

Perhaps we should create a big list on the 1st post like on the previous thread?

[__kit]

Uhhh, crud, where to start?

It depends what genre you're into, if I were you (someone tight who doesn't spend money) find the closest library (yay, I've maxed out my library cards) and just look there, it will save you a lot of time.

I don't understand why people buy books, they only last for about maybe 12 hours tops then you never read them again.

[sexysilver]

Hmm.. well, if I get books recommended by three seperate people, I'll put them on a most recommended list (the number may be bumped up later)... otherwise the first post will be too cluttered. Sounds good?

And feel free to discuss any recommendation or ask questions

Maxed out your library cards? And haha Kit,my mum used to get on me all the time asking why should she buy me books when I'd finish a 500 page one in like 4 hours lol. She's like.. I refuse to buy you anything under 300 pages

[birdjay11]

12 hours? I must be a slow reader Or, I just choose long books.

[__kit]

well shes right its a waste of money! (I'm the worlds biggest miser) If theres one that you want to get and they don't have it - most libraries have some sort of way to 'suggest' books (a.k.a. order), my library annoys me, I'm into mostly sci-fi which comes in trilogies, and my library (small town one) is part of some sort of tri-library system with a couple of close towns, and they split up all the books in the series amongst libraries, those quite bastards

[GIR]

Title: Mister Monday
Author: Garth Nix
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: 10,000 years ago, the Architect disappeared from the House (which lies at the center of all creation; our universe and all others are the Secondary Realms, which exist on the periphery). The Will was left behind to provide instructions for the inheritance of the House, and the Keys to the Kingdom. The Trustees, refusing to give up their temporarily granted powers until an heir was provided, rebelled against the Will. Unable to destroy it, they broke it into seven pieces, each Trustee sealing away a section to prevent the selection of an heir. And so the Trustees ruled their sections of the House without interruption; Mister Monday neglecting the Lower House, Grim Tuesday mining the resources of the Far Reaches, Drowned Wednesday devouring everything in the Border Sea, Sir Thursday warring in the Great Maze, Lady Friday governing the Middle House, Superior Saturday managing the Upper House, and Lord Sunday dominating the Incomparable Gardens. Until, during a routine inspection, Part One (paragraphs 3 through 7) of the Will escape. It manipulates the Denizens of the House, and finds its way to Arthur Penhaligon... just as he has an asthma attack. Tricked into giving Arthur the Lesser Key of the Lower House, Mister Monday sends swarms of identical men (all wearing black bowler hats) into Arthur's hometown; but it seems nobody else can see them. The people in the town begin to fall ill to a strange plague caused by Mister Monday's servants, and Arthur must venture into the House to stop Mister Monday and discover a cure for the illness.