Books Recommendations

[Sonido]

Hi. So what books have you read lately that you liked?

I just finished 'The Hunger Games' by Suzanne Collins, I am reading the 2nd book now. I think it's OK. 7/10 in my opinion.
Another book I would recommends from the ones I recently read is 'Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat' by Hal Herzog. 8/10
Finally, one that I finished really quick on January and I have read it two more times since. 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson. 9/10

What do you recommend guys?

[InfinityRequiem]

Just started the fifth book in "A song of fire and ice" Series,
It's a good series, if you like huge plot lines and plot twists, but not so much if you like fast paced thriller.
I've recently read Inferno by Dan Brown(Da Vinci Code) a really good thriller novel.

The hunger games series was really good, but IMO the third book wasn't that great. Though the second book was fairly okay.
You could try the Divergent series which is similar to hunger games with the dystopian setting but a very different kind of story.

If you're into Fantasy novels i would suggest, The Dresden Files. Its a great series of novels(15 so far) each novel has a different story but adds on to a greater plot line.

And you should read, A hitchhikers guide to a galaxy, one of the most humorous books I've read. It always managed to keep a smile on my face.

[Phrygian Q'yth-az]

If you haven't already, read "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. Then read it again. Then wait a few years, and read it again, and so on. The novel gives something different for everyone every time they read it.

I also recommend the first short story in Ray Bradbury's "We'll Always Have Paris" collection, titled "Masinello Pietro." Seriously, just go to a library that has it and read it. It'll take you an hour at most, and contains the wisdom of a lifetime.

I might as well recommend a manga here too, Angel Densetsu. It's a comedy about love and fear, balancing awful, horrible prejudice with some of the best running gags I've ever seen.

So open up your heart and make room for Don Quixote and his squire Sancho, Masinello Pietro and his ducks and dogs and phonograph, and Kitano Seiichirou. They'll stay with you for a lifetime. :3

[elveraeris]

Hey, Cervance!
Actually, I'm from Spain and I've studied "Don Quixote" like a 100 times, though I've never read it (just some chapters)... But I think you really have to understand when it was written, and why it was written for, and then it gets funnier.
Do you know that there's a 2nd part?
I think that if you enjoyed "Don Quixote" you would probably enjoy "la Celestina" by Fernando de Rojas, I don't know its name in English, but it's really funny. It just tells people exactly how they're not supposed to be.

[Ouro]

It's a good book Don Quixote, I liked it. But it is not one of my favorites. I like short and sweet books when it comes to stories. I prefer The Little Prince, for example. It's an amazing book I read when I was 12 or so, I listened to the audiobook version not long ago. It's just delightful. And it only took 2 hours.

[Bastien]

Meh, ill consider myself a polar opposite then. I tend to love high fantasy novels, specifically Lord of the rings and Game of thrones, and maybe any other sci-fi/fantasy/mystery book that comes in between.