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#1 TheHighWind
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I went to the library and ended up getting Tom Clancy's Command and Authority. Don't even know if I like him it's the first time im reading him but. Basically I was brain dead. Last good book I read was Moby Dick and that was when I was like: 17.

Please recommend me a good book here's what I like:

-Medieval Fantasy

-Norse Mythology

-Zombies

-War (ww2 mostly)

-Spies

Please help, I go to the library with nothing on my mind and end up getting Tom Clancy just because of his games. If you have something that's really good but not on my want list, list it anyways!

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@TheHighWind said:

I went to the library and ended up getting Tom Clancy's Command and Authority. Don't even know if I like him it's the first time im reading him but. Basically I was brain dead. Last good book I read was Moby Dick and that was when I was like: 17.

Please recommend me a good book here's what I like:

-Medieval Fantasy

-Norse Mythology

-Zombies

-War (ww2 mostly)

-Spies

Please help, I go to the library with nothing on my mind and end up getting Tom Clancy just because of his games. If you have something that's really good but not on my want list, list it anyways!

Game of Thrones is an obvious suggestion for the Medieval Fantasy category. There are five books out to date and even though I actually -don't- like Medieval Fantasy as a genre anymore it's literally my favorite book series.

For zombies, I'd recommend World War Z. The movie was only very loosely based on the book, which is actually a series of anecdotes from different people around the world about the start of a zombie outbreak with no central character. Really chilling descriptions.

-Byshop

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#4  Edited By Effec_Tor
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Medieval fantasy: Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen #1)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15750692-malice

Zombie: ARISEN, Omnibus One (Arisen #1-3)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22310885-arisen-omnibus-one

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Robert The Bruce (Colm McNamee) is good War/Biography.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a classic.

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For fantasy might I recommend - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. If you want something a little shorter to ease in you could also try Elantris. In fact any of his fantasy novels are pure gold.

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#8  Edited By lamprey263
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Chuck Palahniuk's "Pygmy", that guy who wrote Fight Club.

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Our preferred genres differ, but you liked Moby Dick so may I suggest some from the classics that seem like they might be up your alley?

Crime and Punishment - This book is very focused on the internal turmoil of a prisoner, and I bring it up because it seems to me like it might fit in with some of the aspects of war/crime/spies. It might be a bit of a stretch genre-wise, but it's brilliant.

Frankenstein might fit into the Medieval Fantasy genre a bit. I know people commonly attribute this as a horror book due to it's origin and protaganist, but it "feels" more like a fantasy novel than a horror novel.

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Necroscope By Brian Lumley

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Weaveworld by Clive Barker

America Alone by Mark Steyn

Ringworld by Larry Niven

Old Mans War by John Scalzi

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This theoretically has every single book ever written, and that will be written, or that could be written.

https://libraryofbabel.info/

Here is one I liked. https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?thehighwind:1

ctrl-f your username and start from there ;)

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#13 TheHighWind
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@darkmark91 said:

This theoretically has every single book ever written, and that will be written, or that could be written.

https://libraryofbabel.info/

Here is one I liked. https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?thehighwind:1

ctrl-f your username and start from there ;)

It would be funny if you wrote that whole thing with my username in it.

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@TheHighWind said:

I went to the library and ended up getting Tom Clancy's Command and Authority. Don't even know if I like him it's the first time im reading him but. Basically I was brain dead. Last good book I read was Moby Dick and that was when I was like: 17.

Please recommend me a good book here's what I like:

-Medieval Fantasy

-Norse Mythology

-Zombies

-War (ww2 mostly)

-Spies

Please help, I go to the library with nothing on my mind and end up getting Tom Clancy just because of his games. If you have something that's really good but not on my want list, list it anyways!

Here ya go, this was a fun adventure:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Adversary-Chris-Bruen-Novel/dp/1477849025/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2/186-0179933-7179576?ie=UTF8&refRID=0VRFENPK5K7344EATJDX

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#15  Edited By uninspiredcup
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The Conan collection is pretty fun and straight forward much like it's title character. In LOTR Frodo and Sam will spend 20 pages skipping with Elves singing incomprehensible poems, usually within 3 pages Conan will have maimed half a dozen folk.

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Green Eggs"n"Ham.I'm on chapter III.

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#17  Edited By Riverwolf007
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Not exactly in your genre's but I'm reading "the last stand of the tin can sailors" about a handful of usn destroyers, destroyer escorts and support carrier's of task force taffy 3 that stood off the most powerful japanese surface fleet ever assembled in the battle off sanmar during ww2.

The yamato alone had more tonnage displacement than the entirety of taffy 3 and they salied right into harms way to protect MacArthur's landing fleet.

It's an amazing story of courage in the face of hopelessness and overwhelming odds and a must read.

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon