The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[Shenz0r]

I've been on a bookathon since the start of the holidays lol. Favourite classics so far:

• The House of God by Samuel Shem (not reaaally a classic but it's a pretty good satire of medicine!)
• Pride and Prejudice (Austen's language is so eloquent)
• The Great Gatsby (of course)
• Candide by Voltaire - one of the funniest and most satirical books I've ever read
• The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde - so freaky and gothic lol

Going to start Bleak House by Dickens after I finish Dorian Grey lol

[brenden]

Going to start Bleak House by Dickens after I finish Dorian Grey lol

Why would you do this to yourself?

[charmanderp]

Why would you do this to yourself?

I actually like Bleak House.

[slothpomba]

If you guys like audiobooks the humble bundle is doing an audiobook sale - https://www.humblebundle.com/ . It's got some really great titles there.

The cool thing about humble bundles is you can pay what you want (yes, even $0.02). Part of the money goes to the company offering up the books for sale, part goes to charity and part goes to the humble bundle organisers. You can choose what % of your money goes to each of these three splits.

Haven't yet bought for them so i can't vouch for them personally (my paypal is playing up) but i do plan to buy them a bit later today or tomorrow if i can. Be quick though since it only has about 48 hours left!

[ninwa]

Hmmm, maybe The Satanic Verses will be easier to digest in audiobook form. Thanks for the link!!

[ninwa]

Not having a phone in the last few days (and therefore unable to browse reddit aimlessly on the way to work) has done wonders for my reading. Finished 2 books in 3 days

Just finished last book of the girl w/dragon tattoo series, and this incredible book, the storyline of which becomes increasingly more depressing the more I think about it

[DisaFear]

Just finished the Soldier's Son trilogy by Robin Hobb, was interesting. A bit different from her previous novels.
The main character suffers a lot of hardship throughout the series, was a bit disheartening :O but the end was very good, satisfying read

[saradom136]

Just read the first two books from The Lies of Locke Lamora trilogy. Has an interesting writing style !

[pi]

(time to revive this thread for the holidays!)

Finished the Maze Runner series a few days ago, admittedly after first watching the film. Great series!

[aqple]

I've started reading The Godfather even though I've already seen all the films. I don't know why but I don't mind watching the films then reading the books lol I know most people will disagree.

[Bruzzix]

If your interested in science books the following list are books I've read/reading/have yet to read and seem interesting to say the least:

• A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence Krauss
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan
• The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
• The Fabric of the Cosmos - Briane Greene
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Magic of Reality - Richard Dawkins
• The Organized Mind - Daniel J. Levitin

[SilverTail]

Theres not nearly enough love for Brandon Sanderson in here. Best fanstasy writer ive seen. The world he creates and his magic systems are AMAZING. Mstborn and Way of Kings are amazing series but all his work is awesome and all part of the same universe, each book sort of tieing in with each other. If you like fantasy/good books you gotta read everything from him (or at least mistborn and then way of kings once you find how amazing misborn way )

[DisaFear]

Brandon Sanderson is pretty good, I first  heard of him after he helped out with the Wheel of  Time books. Mistborn is pretty cool

Just read  Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and wow, I haven't read too many sci-fi books but this was amazing. It's a story about viruses and the line between computer and human viruses, essentially, not to spoil much. Written in a form that is relevant to people today, also very very funny. Would recommend!

[InNeedForHelp]

"Night" - Elie Wiesel

One of the best holocaust memoirs that I've read. It was pretty hard to finish because of how sad it was.

[IndefatigableLover]

"Night" - Elie Wiesel

One of the best holocaust memoirs that I've read. It was pretty hard to finish because of how sad it was.

Ah yes "Night by Elie Wiesel is definitely one of the best holocaust memoirs I've read as well (the first holocaust memoir I ever read as well back in Year 7 considering there was Morris Gleitzmen's novel "Once" back in the day).

My favourite quote from "Night" was funnily enough in the preface (which doesn't happen often) but it was this:
"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."