For our sibling exchange this year my older bro gave me a gift certificate to Borders. Could you guys recommend me some good books to check out? I'm pretty into contemporary stuff right now but am into pretty much everything.

Thanks in advance.Anything by Heinlien...
Chricton.
What? People actually still buy books and read?!


Just kidding. I actually read quite a bit. I'm a fan of the Warcraft novels. Just picked up the new one this evening, "Night of the Dragon" by Richard A. Knaak. It's actually a continuation of the first Warcraft novel ever written (there are 10 books now with 2 more being released in 2009), "Day of the Dragon", and Knaak's 5th Warcraft novel (not including the 3 manga comics in the Sunwell trilogy he did the writing for). He's by far the best AUTHOR in the Warcraft series, ALTHOUGH Christie Golden is also quite good. Knaak has also written quite a bit outside of the Warcraft universe, some of which is also quite good. You don't have to be a fan of the games (or even have ever played the games) to enjoy the books. Just good fantasy books overall. I've had several friends who aren't even gamers who have borrowed the books off me and quite enjoyed them.

If you're into sci-fi, Harlan Ellison has written many fantastic things ("I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" among others). There are some nice collections of Ellison's short stories available. Phillip K. d**k has also done quite a lot. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is quite good, even though it was written in 1968. It's the book the movie "Blade Runner" was based on. Many other movies were based on his books, like Total Recall, Minority Report, Impostor, Next, and Paycheck.

If you're a Star Trek or Star Wars fan, both franchises have very large series of novels available. I've not read any of them myself, but I've head good things about them.

Tom Clancy is another good author. I never watch any of the movies based off his books until I've read the book first. (I still haven't seen "The Hunt for Red October" because I haven't read the book. ) I would highly recommend anything by him.

Then again, you might consider getting a book about computers or anything else of interest to you. The "For Dummies" series has a book for just about anything you can think of, and most of them are pretty well written. I think I've got about 8 Dummies books on my shelves. I like them because of their simplicity and organization. The "CompTIA A+ Certification for Dummies" book was a fantastic help in preparing for my CompTIA A+ exam a few years back.

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haha Dang thing censored the name Phillip K. d**k. If you can't figure it out, just think of a vulgar word for male genitalia or a short name for 'Richard'.Quaxo you need to get busy and finish Hunt for Red Octoder.....
And i highly recommend the FILM as well...they did a nice job.I read quite a lot.
My interests tend towards horror, sci-fi, a bit of science, fantasy, etc.
In no particular order: Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter, Ursula LeGuin, Arthur C Clarke, Edgar Allan Poe.
That's in addition to most of patio and quaxo's recommendations, and there are more but it would take me a long time to go through my collection and list the authors I like."Two Kinds of Decay" by Sara Monguso (I think thats how you spell it)

Might not exactly be the style you would be looking for, the synopsis might be able to help you determine that.

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At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable DISEASE that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to EXPECT nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her nine-year struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness. A book of tremendous grace and self-awareness, The Two Kinds of Decay transcends the very notion of what an illness story can and should be.