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A Song of Fire and Ice Series.

Amazing series.
Go read it.
Now.

You're welcome.

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+100000 great series. I would also recommend The Hunger Games series

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amazing with one word.

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Don't start on it if you don't mind spending years to wait (the last book took 6 years...). Each book took some time to be published and because of that, I forgot people, places and events by the time I started to read the next book. So I stopped reading at 3 (4 still had to come out back then) and decided to read the whole series when it was done. And I don't regret a thing (15 years later, 5 books published and it is still ongoing) :P

But the last two books (especially the very last), have mediocre (and "bad") reviews.

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I only saw negative reviews for A feast for crows. As far as I've seen, dance with dragons got some pretty positive reviews. probably those "bad" reviews you mentioned were due to the fact of how GRRM arranged the chronology of the two last books.

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the bad reviews were about the book being "A feast for crows" II. because the book didn´t advance in the plot

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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I was reading Anthem by Ayn Rand and enjoyed it.
But then my friend wanted his book back.

I can't really remember the story that well except that it was set in a dystopian setting.
You can read the first few pages on Amazon

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Captain Jack Zodiac by Michael Kandel, a strange scifi book with 4 stories in it. It is one of the weirdest reads ever but among my favorite books. Besides that, anything by Terry Brooks. Magic Kingdom for Sale series, Running with the Demon series, and anything Shanarra related are all great.

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the book thief

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+1 to that

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Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
The book is about a contest to find an easter egg in a video game, it's set in the future but it's all about retro eighties culture.

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The Night Angel Trilogy: Incredibly dark series.

http://www.brentweeks.com/books/the-night-angel-trilogy/

For better Synopsis

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It's a trilogy about Assassins using 7 magical relics. If that doesnt get your dick ROCK HARD, nothing will.

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Back in the 90's I read a book series about the life of a assassin. It wasn't what I expected (I thought it would focus on the assassin aspect, but it did not), but I still enjoyed it (well, except the last 3 books).

I'll keep The Night Angel trilogy in mind :)

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Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger

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If you want something intense, go for Ice Station by Mathew Reilly. My favourite book of all time.

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The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King

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How could you recommend this with the terribad ending?

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spoiler

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The ending sucks (as it does with almost every story King has ever written), but almost everything before that it worth the read.

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Ender´s Game - also one of the best audiobooks out there!
Discworld Series

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Did you just read my mind? :O Do exactly what this man said, and you shall not regret it!
And the Discworld audiobooks is also one of the best made series out there. I always keep at least one such book on my Ipod.

Also, you might try The Last Wish, which is a collection of The Witcher short stories. I read it a few weeks ago, and I quite likes the stories and the frame story structure. Recommend it :)

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The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov

Synopsis from Amazon:

Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. --Brooks Peck

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Everything from Asimov is a must read

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^quote

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I read the free books on Google Play (aka Android Book Store)

Other than that: Discworld series

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Shantaram
True story of an Australian man who breaks out of jail (in the 70 or early 80's? can't remember exactly) and goes on the run..ends up in India and has many adventures..from being a doctor in the slums to working for the mafia bosses of Mumbai. Best book i've ever read, by far.
http://shantaram.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel)

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not sure if you'll like this books but they are the ones that I read over the summer.
Dragon Bones : About a guy who acts stupid so his father doesn't kill him in case he triese to usurp the crown. Then his father dies and stuff happens and now he's trying to gain honor in battle to claim his rightful place and to show he's not stupid.
incarceron : about two people who lives in different worlds. One of this lives in an "alive" prison and is trying to get out. The other is the warden's daughter and she is trying to get out of an arranged marriage and they both must help each other.
Eona : About a girl who masquerade as a boy because girls can't be dragoneyes and political battle ensues for the throne and people want her for her new found powers as a dragoneye.
I also recommend the sword of truth series by terry goodkind.

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I haven't read most of what you're recommending, but I really wouldn't recommend the Sword of Truth books. The first one is pretty bearable except for a few stupid parts, but everything after that is just plain bad.

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yeah i kinda stopped halfway through the series, but i liked them. Though the ending to some of them is a bit anti-climatic

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  1. The internet is a playground.
  2. I'll go home then; it's warm and has chairs.
  3. Bartimaeus trilogy.
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I mostly read sci-fi and fantasy like a good little geek, so I'm going to recommend a book in each of those categories.

For sci-fi, read Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. It's a series of four books (in order: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion), and they're honestly some of the very best sci-fi books I've ever read (and I've read a lot), especially the first two. It deals with a lot of different stories and ideas that all tend to blend together and form something greater than the sum of its parts. If you have any interest in science fiction at all, you simply need to read them.

For fantasy, take a look at Chine Miéville's Perdido Street Station. It mixes elements of urban fantasy with steampunk and is just generally a very original and interesting book. The story is great with lots of twists and turns and the writing is absolutely top-notch. I very much recommend it to anyone, even if fantasy usually isn't your thing.

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anything by Christopher Brookmyre.

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Something fresh? Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, was the last good series I stumbled upon. Try it.

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Farseer trilogy by robin hob

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a song of Ice and Fire, some random wharhammer 40k book the eragon saga

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40k books are a delicate theme, if you are into the "lore of the grim darkness of the far future" some books may be good enough, some may just make you want to rip the book apart.
But if you just want to read a ci-fi book and don't care for the whole original lore, some books may be good enough, and some may just be... not so good.

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Graham Cole: On the Beat

If you ever was a fan of The Bill :)

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