Here's where we can discuss, review, and recommend books to people.

Well let's see... what do you recommend, sir?

I guess my first recommendation is Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I'm not finished it yet but I'm about 120 (of almost 800) but it's really a great book so far. It's a fantasy novel, but it's not a LOTR rip off. So far it's based on a magician (Mr Norrell) living in an alternate history around the time Napoleon was doing his thing. Mr Norrell is trying to bring magic back.
It's very character driven, meaning it's kind of slow but it's interesting. The author uses footnotes to give the book a sense of reality, as well.

Depends what your into, I defineitly recommend The Shining (i know ive said it before, but heres a review). Its a Steven King novel about a family of three who have just moved (moving into at the beginning) a hotel, and the father of the family Jack is there as a groundskeeper (why they are living there). It is winter and noone is there. The boy meets a guy who tells him that he has a telepathic way to communicate with him and can predict things and such,this force was called by his grandma "The Shining". The hotel groundskeeper before them had gone insane and killed his whole family, im not going to say anymore or ill give stuff away, anyway it rules i recommend it to anyone

I would recommend a lot of Stephen King books. The Shining, The Dark Half, 'Salem's Lot, and Dreamcatcher are the only books I own, but Cujo and It are on my list of books to get, so I'll reccommend them now before I even get them.
The Shining, well, GA did a decent review, because we have gone over it already in other threads. The only part I disagree with GA about is what he just did to the English language in that post. The Dark Half is about an author who became a successful writer under a pseudonym, and recently went public (at the begining). The author, Thad Beaumont, was done writing as George Stark, his morbidly fascinated pseudonym. Soon after, people start to die who helped uncover Beaumont, and Thad's own fingerprints are found at the scenes of the crimes. As for 'Salem's Lot, I haven't finished it yet so I won't go into details. Dreamcatcher I got a good ways through, and it is very good. Four old friends go on an annual hunting trip, but this time a man comes to them who had gotten lost in the woods. Soon all four are struggling for their lives.
All very good. The only bad King book I've read is Carrie, his first novel. Not that it was that bad, but it is nothing in comparison to what he had the potential to write.

Who doesn't own a stephen king book?
i think i have read most of them, but still like it when the movie comes out!
yes the shining is a great read, i agree i also loved "pet cemetery
not sure i like what he doing now though!
start a book and then have to wait for the sequel book to come out!

I would also recommend The Abarat books by Clive Barker. They are fantasy but absolutely nothing like LoTR. Very imaginative and worth reading. A teenage girl from Minnesota is taken, seemingly by circumstance, to a strange land where she feels oddly more at home than she did in Minnesota, but is ruthlessly hunted down by someone who seems to know more about her than she does. Very good, very good. Only other Barker books I have are The Thief of Always (sort for a kid's book, in the sense that kids could read it and like it, but not limited to just children) and Weaveworld, which I haven't read yet.

well i will recommend the book "Flowers for Algernon". It is really one beautiful story of a boy who has an IQ way below than average. He became a subject of experiment of one scientist on how to develop the IQ of one person into the IQ of a genius. The story is really touching and sad.

Ah yeah, we read a section of that in school last year. I'd like to get the complete book. Who wrote it?

Let's see, any new recommendations? I just read It. Really good. More than just a killer clown and horror and everything. Just in case you've never read one of his books and think that it would be like that.

I recently got Forrest Gump. It apparently started out as a novel before becoming a great movie. I just caught that in the opening credits so I looked for it in a used book store and miraculously found it. It's very different from the movie, too. A lot of the same stuff happens, but in very different ways. For instance, he and Jenny were never like peas and carrots. They just knew each other and he had a crush on her and she was the only girl who didn't just run away from him as a child. Romance, eh? I don't know how I feel about it now, but I'll get back to you all.

Flowers for Algernon - that's a great story. I love that so much more.

yes that is really one good book. i have read that book only in one sitting. mostly when i read a novel it takes me more than one day. and usually i have no patience to read straight in a day. but that one is easy to read.