Books you have to read!

[Nettle]

This seems like quite a literate community, so I figured a general book thread was in order! We already have a thread for sci-fi books, but discussion is fine here too.



Resources:
Goodreads - Goodreads is a brilliant website for keeping track of your reading. Among other things you can share reviews and book recommendations with friends, and they offer the option of setting a reading-goal each year. If you're doing a reading challenge this year, post it here! It's never too late to start! If you just want more friends, throw a link to your account here and I'll make a list of them!

LibraryThing - More of a book cataloguing site than a social site, but easier to input books to if you have a lot you've read in the past.


Book of the Month
I'm always up for posting a recommendation each month! Throw any suggestions out in the thread for the first month!


Users
User : 2013 Goal
Nettle - 75 books

[randommonicle]

Oh interesting. Will thorw up an account when i have a moment tomorrow.

[Ortwin]

In order from 'light' to 'heavy' stuff:

Sword of truth series (a dozen 800 page volumes, so be prepared )

Deamon by Daniel Suarez
Ctrl Alt Del (follow up on Deamon)

And something 'deeper':
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

[Nettle]

My mum' on strong painkillers that give her intrusive thoughts, she read The Power of Now a while back and it changed her whole mentality, a good book.

Friend is also bugging me to read Daemon, so I guess that's what I'll be reading once I've finished A Suitable Boy.

[Ortwin]

On second thought, DO NOT read Deamon, it will make you completely paranoid about anything remotely related to technology with network connectivity.

I can't stop cleaning out histories, logs, and disabling all my tech to keep any logs.

[AvatarIII]

I don't read very much non-sci-fi to be honest,

the last few non-sci-fi books I read were Perdido Street Station and The Scar, both by China Meiville.

[Nettle]

I don't read very much non-sci-fi to be honest,

the last few non-sci-fi books I read were Perdido Street Station and The Scar, both by China Meiville.

That's why I'm challenging myself to read other things! Broaden my horizons!

[AvatarIII]

I don't read very much non-sci-fi to be honest,

the last few non-sci-fi books I read were Perdido Street Station and The Scar, both by China Meiville.

That's why I'm challenging myself to read other things! Broaden my horizons!

Sci-fi itself already has incredible variety, due to it's limitless potential, many genres, I find, can be made better with a splash of sci-fi.

Anyway, good luck with your 75 books a year. I think for me 30 books in a year would be more than enough

[Nettle]

Anyway, good luck with your 75 books a year. I think for me 30 books in a year would be more than enough

Heh, I'm up to 22, +3 ahead of schedule, kinda steamrolled some short ones, Death of Grass, Canticle for Lebiowiz and such, and now I'm reading a book that's only slightly longer than War and Peace...

I'm a stay-at-home-carer for my mum though, so I have rather a lot of time on my hands... All goals are good, you should just pick something that's achievable for you!

Yeah, you do get a lot of variety, but at the same time, I've read some brilliant books due to this, I'm not discounting it entirely, I just finished House of Suns, but you shouldn't stop yourself from reading something just because it's not sci-fi! I'd been doing this unconsciously for years.

Of Human Bondage, written in 1915, has to be my favourite book of the year so far, a total surprise and something I wouldn't have even looked at otherwise.

[AvatarIII]

My problem is that I have no spare time, I am full time employed and a part time student, and a gamer, and the rest of the time a fiancé , I really only have time to read on tea breaks at work, and sometimes before bed if I'm not completely exhausted from everything else

I'll be honest though 30 books would be very heard to read in a year, 20 would be much more reasonable, if I am only reading at breaks at work I probably only read about 100 pages per week, and I feel like that's enough, fast enough that I can get through books at a reasonable pace, slow enough that I can savour a book.