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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:47 pm
by MrGompers
Se7eN wrote:Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Actually, anything by Chuck Palahniuk is good. I just finished reading "Choke" and the story was wild.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:32 am
by Big B
high fidelity - nick hornby the book the movie was based on, much better though.
ghosts of the fireground - peter leschak autobiographical/historical. firefighter writes his memoirs and intertwines the story of the peshtigo fire of 1871
the devil in the white city - erik larson combines the story of chicago's world fair with a serial kiler
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:51 am
by Nibblet99
Dark Sci-fi / Fantasy novels
Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Lightning - Dean Koontz
Serious, Tense Thrillers
Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy (Stunning amount of tension in his writing)
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
Comedy Fantasy
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:54 am
by scan
So far I'm enjoying Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. About 1/3 of the way through.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote some great books - Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle are all ones I've read that I consider excellent reading.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:10 am
by TeamONEinc
The Coffin Dancer- Jeffrey Deaver.
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:00 am
by 9000white
A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
Swan Song--Robert McCammon
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:43 am
by Dima
GeoffEX650R wrote:Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
+1
Good Omens - Neil Gainman
Neverwhere - Neil Gainman
The Beach - Alex Garland
Those are my fav. reread them numerious times
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:01 am
by roscowgo
hrmmmm fantasy, Go with the sword of shannara(or however you spell it)
sci-fi, The mote in gods eye.
weirdo fiction, Anita blake vampire hunter *laurell k hamilton some of my favorite though.
pulp fict, The destroyer *aka remo williams
other weirdo fiction, Gary jennings: Aztec, Raptor, The journeyer
the discworld series
starship troopers: robert heinlien. its nothing like that crap movie. really anything by heinlien.
Wheel of time series was ok at first..lately been a serious hurry and wait fest though
Some good books
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:54 am
by billt39
Sacajawea by Anna Waldo
Investment Biker by Jim Rogers
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:15 pm
by NorthernPete
Starship troopers book was great, read it a while back, and although I enjoyed the movie, the book was sooo much better.
Neil Gaimen, I have read neverwhere and good omens, but my favorite by him has been American Gods.
and the non fiction suggestions, I'll have to have a peek, I have read a few non fiction, Band of Brothers was a really good book, read it before I bought the boxed set of the HBO series. and JarHead was pretty good as well, movie was so so, but the book was quite good (it was my deer hunting in the tree stand book)
thanks for the suggestions everyone!