the book recommendation thread

If you're a WarCraft 3 fanatic like me, get this book:

WarCraft: Lord of The Clan
By: Christie Golden
Genre: Video Game, Fantasy

Plot: This book entails the origin of Thrall, a hero character from the campaign missons in WarCraft 3. Warcraft 3 is a strategy based game by Blizzard. You build a town and create an army to kill the enemy, duh. Anyway, the story of this book tells of where Thrall comes from, how he grows up, and how he exacts his revenge for the loss of his parents by ironic means. I.E. a sort of twist as presented from the first Batman Movie: "You idiot! You made me! Remember?" -Joker.

And if you love science fiction:

Ender's Game
By Orson Scott Card
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Plot: This book is about Ender. I can't recall much of it since it has been so long I've read it, but it's about a brilliant (perhaps genius level) boy who grows up in some space academy. The setting is set sometime in the future when mankind can live on other planets and build colonies. As Ender grows up, he faces tons of obstacles in the academy. It's sort of a boys only academy where they train students to become the next bright minds for the military. Combat skills, thinking/strategy skills, team skills, etc, etc. At first, Ender is outcasted by the fact of the kind of kid he is. By the fact that he was born naturally brighter where as others work their butt off for the same goal. However, he slowly works his way up the ranks by forming ties and bonds with other students, slowly turning their hate and grudges into tools and teamwork for him to continue achieving his goals. One particular example is when Ender must part take in the mandatory battlefield excercise. 2 teams must battle each other and capture the opposing flag. Ender's team, despite how clever and skillful they are, faces a team of senior ranked students whom have more combat experience and strategy skills. It's like pitting a small white mouse versus an adult cat in a confined space. Ender's team being the mouse, the seniors being the cat. But with some brilliance and team work, Ender's team pulls off a stunning victory by using the rules applied by the battlefield:

1. When you are hit by a shot (from some space-like tech rifle) the body part shot will become frozen.

This rule is like gravity. When you jump, gravity must pull you down. Ender's team understand the rules, but only Ender was able to figure out a strategy to use them in other ways. Such as taking a team member, freezing his body in a certain position, and then putting a gunner on the frozen team member. This system acted as a armored vehicle. The battlefield has zero gravity and only the member's suits can keep them weighted down unless they are propelled somehow. Ender rides his frozen team mate using the already frozen body as a shield and guns down the entire senior team.

This is a great book for the witty mind. When all odds seem impossible, the desire to survive becomes so great that chances like this for Ender pop up like candy.

Jam it back in, in the dark.