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State some books that you'd recommend to everyone, (at least 2), and give a rating on it. No comics

1)Game of Thrones - 10/10 for the first three, 4 and 5 7/10
2) Hyperion 9/10

Here's a pair of 1920s children's stories for the hell of it:

- Roverandom. I'll give it a 10/10 for being J.R.R. Tokien's crowning achievement as an author -- there's a reason that Rover, Psamathos Psamathides, and Mew are household names while Frodo, Gandalf, and Legolas aren't.
- A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner. I'll give both of these a 9/10 collectively for being faithful adaptations of the Disney franchise.



Funny, I just started that today.

Monkey: Because it's fucking awesome, crazy and fun. Old chinese parody of an old chinese story.
Harry Potter: You're a wizard, Harry.

Jim Butcher's series, The Codex of Alera and Dresden Files. I also enjoyed Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind and a Wise Man's Fear.

I'd recommend Game of Thrones as well because everyone seems to like it, though I wasn't that impressed with it. No that's wrong, I wasn't that happy with it...

I just started watching Game of Thrones after my friend BEGGED me and told me that I owed her for showing me the beauty of Sherlock. I'm really excited to start reading the books.

I will always recommend Paper Towns to anybody. That book is literally an 11/10. It's so perfect.

George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm', and Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' are some of my favorites so I'd recommend them to anyone if they haven't given them a shot. I recently finished reading Haruki Murakami's 'Kafka on the Shore' which was also pretty good.

World War Z 10/10 - a really unique and awesome book about a zombie war!

Starter for Ten 8/10 - a great novel about a geeky British university student

Norwegian Wood 9/10 - an interesting novel by the Haruki Murakami

Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

Natsume Soseki's 'The Miner' - 10/10 The best existential book ever written. Changed my perspective on life, and I've never been able to find a better expressed book (and I've read A LOT of books).

George Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' - I have to recommend them both since they're too similar in exposition and theme. Both books get a 9.5/10 from me.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen W. Hawking
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Foudation Series - Isaac Asimov
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli

The Catcher in the Rye. - A classic, everyone should read this.
A Song of Ice and Fire series - Amazing story.

Arthur C. Clarke - Space Odyssey series very realistic sci-fi space travel with a small supernatural element.

Frank Herbert - Dune series An epic series of books spanning millenia. Honestly the story would make an excellent anime.

Louis Lamour - Sackett's Land, To The Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett. Unlike all his other western novels these take place in colonial times and have an extreme theme of adventure, and exploration. Swordfights, pirates, indians, and even a battle with a Mammoth. Nothing but epicness.

1. The General Forum Guidelines by Chavez

One of the foremost works of philosophical writing in the My Anime List canon, the General Forum Guidelines are the first of seven volumes which aimed to create a set of laws to regulate conduct and encourage good citizenship among members of the community.

Despite being one of the finest works on morality present on the MAL forums, the General Forum Guidelines are sadly under-read today, interested limited to a small group of contemporary scholars.

My favourite quotations from General Forum Guidelines appears in the seventh chapter, which discusses how frequently discussion topics should appear in the chamber:



This principle continues to exist to this day in contemporary courts, and is what spawned the legal concept of "autrefois acquit" or 'double jeopardy'.


Such a great book stands on its own, but if you wish to read an accompanying text than I can recommend:

2. How to Search for Old Topics: A Companion Text to the General Forum Guidelines by A. H. Kano

You may also enjoy the following

A Previous Topic by D. A. Javu

It Happened Again by Sylvester Synonymous

or

How About One of These? by Tulong Didnot-Reed

The forum guidelines and How to Search for Old Topics are inspiring reading indeed. The first two previous topics listed, however, are "please recommend a book to me" topics, so seem somewhat specific to the personal tastes of the OP. The third one has no particular subject aside from "I just read a book. Wheeeee." This topic is a twist on the theme, "Recommend 2 books for everyone. No comics."

Besides, what would be left here if we got really picky? About half the contents of the "Anime" forum seem to belong in "Casual Chat." The Korra thread would have fizzled out weeks ago without the arguments about "what is anime?" and continuous sniping from Avatar haters. Would you want this place to become... civilized? (shudder)

"100 Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
"Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn" by Sarah Miller

The hobbit, or there and back again - J.R.R. Tolkien. (9/10)
Very great book, if you like TLOTR. But it is huge.

Net-Force and OP-center series - T. Clancy (8/10)
If you like modern day war fiction with a lot of research to get the facts right, this is your thing.

Something I would recommend to everyone?
No such book.

This was exactly what I was thinking after reading Kano's response. Glad you were able to express our point so eloquently XD

So this post stays on topic, here's a few short story/play recommendations:
- Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'
- Ibesen's 'A Doll House'
- Ryunosuke's 'Mandarins' (the short story itself, not the collection of stories)

On that note, anyone who's ever read 'The Trial' and 'The Metamorphosis' will be able to see that Kafka had pervading issues with his father (this can further be seen throughout Kafka's other stories). In response, Kafka wrote an unsent letter titled 'Dearest Father," which highlighted his father's plaguing animosity towards Kafka's decisions and behavior. And so, this letter is perhaps the most important piece in Kafka's repertoire, bridging his every concern and woe his previous novels possessed into this letter. I recommend this letter based on the condition that you're familiar with Kafka's work.

To tell the truth, I'm a very picky person when it comes to reading fantasy novels. Sometimes, I stopped halfway if the books weren't to my liking. Yes, I could do that. Why would I care what happens in the end if I didn't give a shit about the characters at all? So these books below, nothing to be said, I gave 10 out of 10. Worth reading.

1) The Painted Man - Book 1 of Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett


2) The Desert Spear - Book 2 of Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett


3) Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson


*All of the Study Series by Maria V. Snyder
4) Poison Study - Book 1 of Study

his dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman

well, thats a trilogy..

The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

Age of the Five trilogy by Trudi Canavan.

Love these books.