Book recommendations

[killa]

After Jame's post this kinda inspired me to create this thread.
I hardly read a decent book anymore because whenever i go to choose anything im blown away by the selections. Far too many, i dont know if it'll be a waste of time or not.

The last book i really enjoyed was Incarnation part of it was set in my home town which was strange. Really deep story i thought.
I like action, doesn't have to be gory, just as long as it keeps moving.

Thanks
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[Itchy]

Henri Charrière. Papillion , its a big long thick book with small print but it sucks you in (prisoner escape type book in the 1940s), and keeps you wondering what happens next.
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[pwntifex]

Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
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[feef]

Robert M Pirsig : Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Neal Stephenson : Snow Crash (although i like ANY of his stuff, Cyberpunk style)

Spencer Wells : The Journey of Man - A Genetic Odyssey

James Ellroy : The Big Nowhere

Stel Pavlou : Decipher

William Gibson : Idoru (although i like ANY of his stuff, more Cyberpunk)

Aldous Huxley : Brave New World

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[Zen Dog]

Short and Sweet Books

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson (THE vampire/apocalypse novel)

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut (About 30 novels worth of goodness in 250 pages)

Different Seasons - Stephen King (The best thing he's done, 4 novellas, 3 of which have been movies)

Long and Oh So Strong Books

Dune - Frank Herbert (A meticulous universe with political intregue on a galactic scale)

1984 - George Orwell (THE dystopian surveillance society novel)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (The book, radio show, and the sequels are all equally good).

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[Lady P]

Any thing by Stephen King I like most of his

Ben Elton easy read

Keeley Armstring Bitten, Stolen

Jeremy Clarkson

[hellkat]

Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R Lansdale is pretty good.
Starts out with a woman killing her abusive husband, and taking over his job as sheriff in a small town, and improves from there.

Anything by Joe R Lansdale is usually pretty good, or James Lee Burke.

Amusing comedy action is well covered by Carl Hiaasen.

Most of all three authors set their novels in southern USA.
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[thegubner]

The eddie stobart story had me reading in amazement, absolutely top read.


The war of the flowers was an awesome book, even though it was thicker than the yellow pages and was in quite small print it only took me a week to read I could not put it down, proper fantasy land book.
When I started it I thought it was shit, but I did my usual and thought I would give it a couple of hundred pages first, I am glad I did.

The Dave Courtney series of books are a constant source of amusement, listening to tales of pissing prison officers off always makes me smile.

Just started (200 pages in) Tom Clancy Rainbow six, but to be honest it reeks of trying to hard, I prefer something like Andy Mcnab, its simple and its violent yet it could be realistic. But I will give Mr Clancy another 150 pages or so.

Thats all I can think of at the Moment, I used to have around 600 books or so, but when I went to live in spain I gave them all to charity shops.

[craigie b]

Malcom X. Its a really profound autobiography, it should be on everyone's reading list.

Trainspotting, if only for the nostalgia.

Anything by Hunter S Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a good start.

Feel the Fear and Do it anyway, excellent self help book.

Forward into Hell. A first person account of the Falklands war.

The Art of War - a very abstract book that is doctrine for war. Its lessons are applicable in all areas of life.

[ram_doom]

Weave world, by Clive Barker made my brain hurt in a good way. Utterly epic.
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[pa_broon74]

Stephen King gets the nod for sure. Rereading From a Buick 8. the prose in it is his best work ever. I quite like doom laden books, you know, where everyone dies? (Such a cheery soul...) So Cell is good (by SK) and The Taking by Dean Koontz is a cracker. (some of his books are a bit samey, a bit 2 dimensional, others are really good though...)

Another favourite book is Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz. Conspiracy over conspiracy with secret societies, a good read.

All time favourite is Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard, its seriously harrowing.

Weird read? David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas started out slow, but its really compelling, one of those books you don't really want to end.

Two more... Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz gave me nightmares as did Phantoms. Read them in the dark, (well... obviously with a torch or something... Ummm...)


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[Harold_Shand]

'The Illuminatus Trilogy' - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea

Makes you realise anything is possible, or maybe that everything is impossible, or maybe... delves deep and turns inside out, opens your mind up to some evil ( or maybe it's good? ), which may overtake your life.


'Celestine Prophecy' - James Redfield

How to transfer positive energy, and steal it from others when you need it.


Both pretty old, I don't read much these days.

Anything by Sven Hassel, for cracking war-time easy reading adventures.

My favouritist book of all-time (so far) is 'Jude the Obscure' - Thomas Hardy, which is very close to my heart.
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[hellkat]

Another book I really couldnt put down once I started it, which is sort of odd, but moves along swiftly is entitled The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

Oddly, set in some sort of Dickensian time, but supposedly not in London (although it sounded like somewhere VERY similar) it was a very compelling adventure read.

At first glance, because it opens from the POV of a young (Victorian-era) lady, you think it would appeal to girls more than blokes, but she gets herself into quite a tricky situation within the first five or six pages (i.e., a mysterious masked ball, the unexpected removal of most of her clothes, and the sudden belief one feels that she is in mortal peril) kept me turning page after page, right from the start ... eventually it jumps from her POV to that of a very dodgy sort of contract henchman, and from there to a debonair doctor/surgeon to a foreign prince - and eventually back to the adventurous young lady ... its a sort of gung-ho adventure story, which really was very good. it had that sort of "Saturday matinee" way about it.

I couldn't bear putting it down, and I dreaded getting to the end. I wanted to keep reading it forever

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[Mal]

Currently reading Steven Erikson's "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series (7 long at the moment and planned for 10 I believe). Not exactly easy going - plot lines are complex and you do need to work quite hard to remember everything that's happened and in what order as the books follow characters not timelines.

George R R Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series also has me hooked, though I'd be a little hesitant to suggest anyone start reading them yet as he's got another 4 or 5 books to go and has only released 1 book in the last 4 years!

Also love Stephen King's books, "IT" has to be one of my all time faves, James Herbert is also good (" '48 " is a little different and well worth a read). Nice to see some Dean Koontz fans on here, his earlier released stuff seems to be better (eg Watchers, Midnight and Lightning) and if you're after easy to read gore then Shaun Hutson is difficult to beat.

[killa]

Thanks for all of these guys, im getting some of these in my amazon basket for when im paid. Sorry i can't karma all of you.



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[Rowey]

[pyx_e]

Sci Fi ; Enders Game , Orson Scott Card. And Dune, Frank Herbert (first 3 in particular)

Historic Novel; Jack Aubrey Series (20 books), Patrick O'Brian

Crime; Spenser Series(30+), Robert B Parker.

Fantasy, Dragon Series(15+) , Anne McCafferty.

Stephen King gets a special mention for ; The Stand (best book ever) and The Dark Tower, (7 books) just plain awesome.

If you had to read three: Enders game, Dune and The Stand. All you need to know about Life, Death and Power.

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Watchmen

Amazon Link (Just read a few of the Reviews)

If you wanna go for an Orwell Classic I'd choose 'Down and out in Paris and London'


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[lofty]

Ken Follet - Pillars of the Earth

or anything by Ian Rankin!

[TheDonUK]

If you want a break from the fiction and have even a mild interest in history or politics

Paul Kennedy - Rise and fall of the great powers,

Its a big tome of a book that will tell you everything you could want to know about most things between 1500-2000, well-written and makes an interesting thesis on america stretching it'self too far and eventually falling as a power..

[pa_broon74]

[highland biker]

Dont tell mum i work on the rigs by Paul Carter.

Its a really funny book.