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PostPosted: 11:24 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Book tokens Reply with quote

Got around £35 to spend on book tokens and going on holiday next week and it's pretty much the only time I read. Any recommendations for good novels. Don't really have much of a clue on literature. I have always enjoyed John Steinbeck novels. Apart from that I have no idea

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PostPosted: 14:43 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have just read the Dales series by Gervase Phinn. A good fun read, there are 5 or six in the series. Basics of them are he is a school inspector in Yorkshire. Think of the James Herriot type tales and you wont go far wrong. Funny through out to the point of tears running down your face.
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PostPosted: 15:21 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you fancy a bit of fantasy books give Joe Abercrombie a go. His books are full of blood and violence with serious lashings of black humour. Read excerpts of his first book. The blade itself.

https://www.joeabercrombie.com/books/the-blade-itself/
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PostPosted: 17:24 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

This

Nothing to do with a book of a similar name.

Written by a bloke who went to 'nam.

I bloody love it!
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PostPosted: 17:28 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

pinkyfloyd wrote:
If you fancy a bit of fantasy books give Joe Abercrombie a go. His books are full of blood and violence with serious lashings of black humour. Read excerpts of his first book. The blade itself.

https://www.joeabercrombie.com/books/the-blade-itself/


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I read the trilogy very recently and have 2 others to read soon.
Very easy to get into and I found the characters likeable, even Sand.
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PostPosted: 17:33 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaNsA wrote:
This

Nothing to do with a book of a similar name.

Written by a bloke who went to 'nam.

I bloody love it!


If you like that you'll love this, probably one of my favourite books ever written, I must have re-read it about 20 times now!
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PostPosted: 18:03 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I enjoyed the following books:

Creepers by David Morrell (based around a group of Urban Explorers...)

The Soul Collector by Paul Johnson (crime thriller)

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Spiritual style story / a thinker)
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PostPosted: 19:29 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

been reading through the song of ice and fire (game of thrones) series. on last one now. loving it.
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PostPosted: 19:31 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

TomGT wrote:


If you like that you'll love this, probably one of my favourite books ever written, I must have re-read it about 20 times now!


Nice one, i've just bought a copy.
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

h00dwink wrote:
been reading through the song of ice and fire (game of thrones) series. on last one now. loving it.


I'm on the last one now too - For me the first 3 books were great, then it all got a bit dull.
Hvaing said that though book 5 part 2 seems to be picking up quite nicely.
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always loved anything by Jrr Tolkien, especially the hobbit. Definetely something everyone should read.

The Hunger Games is good as well. Much better than the film.

What i heared about the game of thrones is that the guy is never going to finish them in time. I wouldnt be supprised if the quality of them drops as the series goes on.
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PostPosted: 20:05 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ayrton wrote:
...the Hobbit. Definitely something everyone should read.


Nah, never gonna happen. Thumbs Down
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 11 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

beatnck2 wrote:
TomGT wrote:


If you like that you'll love this, probably one of my favourite books ever written, I must have re-read it about 20 times now!


Nice one, i've just bought a copy.
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PostPosted: 01:22 - 12 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

+1 for the hobbit. It's like LOTR only it doesn't go on forever. I listened to it on audiobook and it was probably the best audiobook i've ever heard.

Neil Gaiman is also good, American gods, anansi stories, graveyard book.
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PostPosted: 10:40 - 12 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

beatnck2 wrote:
h00dwink wrote:
been reading through the song of ice and fire (game of thrones) series. on last one now. loving it.


I'm on the last one now too - For me the first 3 books were great, then it all got a bit dull.
Hvaing said that though book 5 part 2 seems to be picking up quite nicely.
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I did love these books, but unfortunately I don't think he will ever finish them.

If you like them I can recommend the new Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive series and his Mistborn series is very good.

Also Robin Hobb's The Farseer Trilogy and The Tawny Man Trilogy are very good.
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PostPosted: 19:11 - 12 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Dice Man

by Luke Rhinehart

Excellent book.
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PostPosted: 17:35 - 15 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could you put it towards a kindle?


Failing that this is one of my favourite books.

https://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/endersgame/endersgame.jpg
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 15 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want something classic then The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Or Orwell's 1984 makes for interesting reading (just how much the guy got right).

If you want something more contemporary then Michael Marshall Smith writes some awesome pseudo-sci-fi (sci-fi in the "I can invent what I want" sense not the "Star Trek" sense). Only Forward is a brilliant novel.
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PostPosted: 17:53 - 15 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

chris-red wrote:
Could you put it towards a kindle?


Failing that this is one of my favourite books.

https://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/endersgame/endersgame.jpg


Have you read starship troopers by Robert Heinlein?

If you like Enders Game, you'll like that.

Can I recommend some Terry Pratchett?

While they are a series, they don't have to be read as a series. I particularly like "Thief of Time" and "Night Watch". I'm on my second copy of both of those because they'd been read so often the pages fell out.

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is also a cracking read if you haven't been there before.
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PostPosted: 18:58 - 15 Aug 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

chris-red wrote:
Could you put it towards a kindle?


unfortunately not, but apparently can be used for ebooks.
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