FF Book Club

[Rydin]

So I can't play the game for a couple days (out of town) and I just wanted to know....
What books does everyone recommend?
I figure this is as "General Discussion" as it gets
I have always found that Final Fantasy people are MY PEOPLE
So with that being said...
My personal favorites are:

1. "Daemon" and the followup book "Freedom" by Daniel Suarez
Far and away the best books I've EVER read... if you play any RPG, MMO's or FPS' and consider yourself a gamer, and you haven't read them... Then you most definitely should....
You can go google how awesome these 2 are... go ahead.... I'll wait...
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Back????

ok 2. Any of the Techno Thrillers from R.J. Pineiro (AMD CPU engineer turned novelist)
"Havok"
"Conspiracy.com"
"Cyberterror"
"Firewall"

3. While I didn't care for the critically acclaimed "Da Vinci Code" I did absolutely love Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress"


Anyone out there reading?

[Wolfie]

House of Leaves.

[Joeking]

Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich

Short Description: Explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. This book argues that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. It reveals the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Short Description : Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten.

[Rydin]

House of Leaves.

I've heard of it.... its the book with the unique layout..... I have been meaning to try it out... is it that good?

[Verecund]

Paradise Lost
The Count of Monte Cristo
...and R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy XD

[Wolfie]

I've heard of it.... its the book with the unique layout..... I have been meaning to try it out... is it that good?

It's a mindf***. Read it while high if possible, it enhances the effects.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

House of Leaves.

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Mistborn - fantasy series with a really interesting magic system

On Stranger Tides - best pirate story ever told

Game of Thrones - and all the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire

The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War - nonfiction, but quite good.

[Joeking]

One of my favorites!

In the Pool by Hideo Okuda

Short Description : A divorced man angry at his wife finds a painfully prominent outlet in a permanent erection; a model thinks every man on the street is a stalker; an overbearing magazine editor relieves his mid-life crisis by long-distance swimming . . . These are some of the patients who descend to the basement consulting room of Doctor Ichiro Irabu, an obese, eccentric neurologist with an injection fetish, an Oedipus complex. and a pea-green Porsche. This collection of five wacky stories has been adapted for TV and the movies in Japan.

[Rowyne]

Smile or Die by Barbara Ehrenreich

Short Description: Explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to be the dominant mode in the USA. This book argues that the insistence on being cheerful actually leads to a lonely focus inwards, a blaming of oneself for any misfortunes, and thus to political apathy. It reveals the dark side of the 'have a nice day' nation.

Interesting. I could definitely see this. You know statistically speaking suicide rates spike in the Spring? It's thought to be because it's difficult to watch rebirth all around you when you're inwardly unhappy. Cheerful people used to piss me off once upon a time. Now they just drain the life out of me and make me sad. I may need to read this.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Short Description : Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten.

I had to read this back in 8th grade English. Kind of a satire of Pre-World War II Starlin-era Russia. Unfortunately, the symbolism and its social impact was totally lost on a class full of 13 year olds.

Game of Thrones - and all the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire

HBO has turned this into an amazing series. Just watched the season 1 finale last night. I'm hooked.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

i would recommend "John dies at the end" by David Wong of cracked.com fame
its horror and comedy all in one brilliant package, look it up ^~^

The terror is rooted in a substance known as soy sauce, a paranormal psychoactive that opens video store clerk Wong's—and his penis-obsessed friend John's—minds to higher levels of consciousness. Or is it just hell seeping into the unnamed Midwestern town where Wong and the others live? Meat monsters, wig-wearing scorpion aberrations and wingless white flies that burrow into human skin threaten to kill Wong and his crew before infesting the rest of the world. A multidimensional plot unfolds as the unlikely heroes drink lots of beer and battle the paradoxes of time and space, as well as the clichés of first-person-shooter video games and fantasy gore films. Sure to please the Fangoria set while appealing to a wider audience, the book's smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next.

also "Kafka on the shore" by Haruki Murakami

Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters.