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need a good book
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:17 pm
by NorthernPete
allrighty... give me some suggestions folks..I need something to read while Im laying on the couch, getting ready to go to bed or sitting on the can.
Books I have read lately that I thought were good.
Angels and Demons - DAN Brown
Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Halo Novels - two different writers, not bad, but not great...
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Steven King stuff....
suggest stuff, or tell me your favorite book.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:23 pm
by Jamers!
Just One Look-Harlan Coban
Innocent-Harlan Coban
The Summons- John Grisham
JWF
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:41 pm
by Shiv
If you like the Fantasy genre then try out 'A Game of Thrones' by George RR Martin.
I'm reading it right now and am only 100 pages into it (out of 800 or so) and loving it thus far.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:53 pm
by Gadjet
Ghost Rider - Neil Peart
Against the Wind - Ron Ayres
Against the Clock - Ron Ayres
Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman
Coyote/Coyote Rising - Allen Steele
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:05 pm
by Sev
Shiv wrote:If you like the Fantasy genre then try out 'A Game of Thrones' by George RR Martin.
I'm reading it right now and am only 100 pages into it (out of 800 or so) and loving it thus far.
it's a 4 book series right now, with the 5th one coming out shortly(hahahahaah). It just keeps getting better.
If you like that one pick up, "The Darkness that Comes Before," "Warrior-Prophet," and "The Thousandfold Thought" by Scott R Bakker. It puts George to shame in a big way.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:21 pm
by sharpmagna
Have you read the Jack Ryan series from Tom Clancy? They include Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Red Rabbit, Rainbow 6 etc. Some of them were great movies, but the book is always better.
Michael Crichton has some good older books. I recently read "State of Fear" and thought it was pretty good (Global warming story line)
If you like Demons, check out Jeff Long's "The Descent"
Kite Runner is a great book (historical fiction)
Da Vinci code if you haven't read it
Where the Red Fern Grows if you want to cry like a little baby...
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:32 pm
by Apitoxin
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:00 pm
by Myself002
heh i'm gonna write these down for the next time i head to the book store. I always wander around looking for something and then I pick out something crappy
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:55 pm
by TechTMW
An excellent book I just finished - See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism -- by Robert Baer
Why not try some Nonfiction for a change? For example, If you liked Dan Brown, (DaVinci, not Angels, though its all the same stuff) why not get a book on the Real knights templar, or the other subjects in the book ... Some of the best i've read are -
The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades by Piers Paul Read
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
Dungeon, Fire and Sword: The Knights Templar in the Crusades
by John J. Robinson
(Read books written BEFORE Dan Brown's nonsense, so it's not some fluff written by some dork trying to cash in on the craze)
Right now I'm reading A History of Venice -- by John Julius Norwich
If you like Politics, great book which goes through 1,200 years of Venice's existance as an Independant republic.
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:12 pm
by Ninja Geoff
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson