Not necessarily a book you can recommend to everyone, just a book you personally like very much. Feel free to mention multiple books if you can’t name just one.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Not very original, I know, but I really enjoyed the humor.
Ian M. Banks - The Player of Games
I’ve somewhat recently read one called “Ensaio sobre a cegueira” (English title is “Blindness”) from José Saramago. I don’t know if it is my all time favourite, as that is too hard to pick for me, but I really really enjoyed it.
The Ringworld series from Larry Niven is actually an often overlooked masterpiece similar in scope to Dune.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I appreciate his wit and style of satire.
Also the entire Dune series, or at least the first four books. I worry that we are leading into an age where we give up our self-determination to thinking machines.
Meme answer
- Pinocchio
Serious answer
- Bible … I mean … The Exorcist from 1970.
Fiction: Foundation by Isaac Asimov; Non-fiction: The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
Se questo èin uomo - Primo Levi
Il mestiere di vivere - Cesare Pavese
Tough one, but I’ll have to go with the Silmarillion.
That is a tough one :) What did you like about it?
I really like the enormous scope of it, combining mythology, story telling, history, great characters, groups, themes that carry on through the ages. Tolkien created a universe in this book from its genesis through several ages.
I don’t think I can narrow it down to a favorite, but Blindsight is pretty darn good.
My favourite as well! It’s the epitome of speculative science/fiction: taking a fascinating concept and exploring its implications - precisely what I want out of the genre.
