Well, one that really sticks in my mind is Ender's Game. That book is just incredible to me, I've read it plenty of times...

A book I just finished which is quite good was "The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk. It's a 1000+ page novel on WW2, but it does a very good job at making the reader think for both sides of the war. Germans and Americans.

I'm going to start reading the sequel in a couple days once I get it..."War and Remembrance"

Any idea where I can get them? If any of them are anywhere NEAR as amazing as the Twilight of the Clans volume 1, where Trent betrays the Smoke Jaguars, then I'm more than willing to check it out.

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Amazon has a lot of them. Stackpole's Warrior Trilogy and Blood of Kernsky Trilogy are some of the most enthralling books I've read, sci-fi or otherwise.

I've read almost every BT book (50+) and though there are a few duds I've always enjoyed the books way more than SW universe novels, far more interesting and dynamic.

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I'll have to check it out. I wondered if they changed the series when switching to the MechWarrior title or not. Hrmm.

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no, MW ark Age is set 100 years later, and then there is a few new Mechwarrior single title books dealing with nothing really impacting the IS/Clans

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Awesome. I'm really going to have to get into that series. Too bad I can blow through 700 page books in the matter of a few days.

Reading's getting to be an expensive hobby.

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Catcher in the Rye

oh and...

HARRY POTTAR!!!!1111

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The Alchemist and Cats Cradle.

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie (sp?).
This guy is a genius; the way he described things is just amazing. If you've seen The Art of Fancy Dancing or Smoke Signals, they're based off his short stories (SS was based off TLR&TFFH).

Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac.
Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac and Charles Bukowski have influenced me a lot (or have they?) because a lot of stuff they wrote about parallels things in my own life. I read Howl and it's like going to a class reunion... there are lines I can point to that accurately describe people I've known. Same goes for Kerouac in the events he describes and to a lesser extent Bukowski (when my friends started to resemble his characters, I hung out with them less and less).

Otherwise, some existential stuff by Camus and Sartre and stuff you guys've already listed. Camus basically wrote the same plot over and over but I think the best version was The Stranger. It's more succinct and coherent than others like, say, A Happy Death (if that's even available in the US). For Sartre of course you'd have to read No Exit. Hell is other people.

I had to read The Stranger for English last year and found it an excellent read. It's the second book that I've had to read for school that I actually enjoyed reading. I've tried to get a hold of Camus' books from the library to no avail which really cheeses me off.

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