wez_sti

havent read a book since i was about 12 (apart from text books at school)

have a very short <<<er what was i saying>>> oh attention span!

but wanna give it a go!

what are the absolute MUST READS, baring in mind i get bored easily...

GCollier

There are loads of good books I could recommend, but try "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks as it's very short but highly entertaining and sick/funny.

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown is also a good page turner.

Lee247

You can't beat "Harry Potter". Honestly

Hanley

Anything by Tom Clancy

lightning101

Pirate memory games - ages 6 to 8.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

'Choose Your Own Adventure' books

richieh

id go for any of the discworld series by terry pratchett-it would depend on your tastes.
what kind of films interest you?
richie

speedking

'Jurassic Park' and 'Silence of the Lambs', both better books than films. And I don't think the films were bad.

minor_threat

Try "The Catcher In The Rye" by J. D. Salinger. An absolute modern classic, short, very easy to read because the narrator talks directly to you and good for those with short attention spans. I used to tutor children who for various reasons were getting bad grades at school and they all found this book easy to get into and finish. I probably read it once a year myself!

Or, the "Da Vinci Code" as already mentioned - small chapters, well-paced from the outset, each chapter has significance and events, also good for those with short attention spans.

Or how about reading short stories?

lightning101

Catcher in the Rye ayyy ?


Do you like John Lennon ?

Did you think JFK was a competent president ?


How many copies of the book do you own ?

minor_threat

PMSL! I don't think the FBI brainwashed Mark Chapman to kill John Lennon!

Regacy

Try 'The curious incident of the dog in the night' it was the best book I read last year, it's a very quick read (should be done in an evening) and it's very funny (IMHO)
Bought a couple of copies for friends as a re-introduction to reading book and the loved it.

Frosty The Snowman

I would also recomend something in the Diskworld series by Terry Pratchett. The humour is superb and they are relatively short so you won't get bored. If you're dead against fantasy one of his best other books is Good Omens and is set in the here and now.

SJ_Skyline

Good Omens is one of those that I can read and re-read "Holy Water - you *******!"

Richard_P

Try 48 by James Herbert or Filth by Irvine Welsh.

Frosty The Snowman

"Shadwell hated all southeners and, by inference, he was standing at the North pole" .

"The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week"

Sbradley

Chris Brookmyre - something like "One fine day in the middle of the night" or "A big boy did it and ran away" Great if you like violence, obscene language, very dark (but laugh out loud) humour and can understand a Scots accent written down. Yes, really.

Oh, and another thumbs up for Pratchett and Potter.

SB

Brendan Hughes

"Curious incident" - good call, seconded. Narrated by a 15-yr-old autistic kid, very much "Adrian Mole" laughing at/with his naievite. "Most people write chapter 1,2,3,4. But I like prime numbers so I'm going to write chapter 1,2,3,5,7,11..."

"Catcher" - I just read this a few weeks ago (son got it) after 20 years. Now I understand why I never remembered what it was about the first time. I found it utterly pointless TBH, can't see what all the "classic" fuss is about.

Robert Rosario

John King "Human Punk" is a good read.

mart360

Its a pity that none of you READ the post correctly!!!!!!

the guy has a very short attention span, things like the dv code or catcher in the rye will do nothing to help him.



start with some of the more adult comics, fantastic four judge dredd etc, there are loads of these comic novellas at your local library, once you get into these start with some of the youngsters library books, as theyt are relativly short and not to taxing on the brain.


then progress from there

Mart

astraboy

War of the Worlds is a good read, plus its an absoloute classic as well.
Plus a second vote for all of the Harry Potter books, very entertaining and not too much of a chore to read as well.
If you fancy an easily readable techno thriller with lots of guns and F14 tomcats, try Read Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.
astraboy.

wez_sti

cheers people,

have heard about the davinci code and would prob really interest me, is it really heavy going though??

would prob like the tom clancy's aswell i think

as a guide film wise i like, matrix, die hards, terminator's, kill bill's, the rock, dumb n' dumber, dodgeball, most sci fi

wez_sti

oh yeah, lied about not reading since 12, forgot, read that famous stephen hawking book on the way to malia, quite good but fairly complicated

something universe and everything....

there goes A.D.D again!

Bubba po

I should try Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu". It fairly rattles along.

Markus

I consider myself to have a long attention span, but I got about two thirds of the way through this and put it down, and have not picked it up since. I had been told by others that it was a "classic" and a "must read" and so thought I'd give it a go, but it bored the pants off me, and I'd not recommend it to someone who wants a good read. Maybe I should pick it up again, but I'm in the middle of "The Algebraist: by Iain M Banks

What would I suggest? hmm, well, depends what you are "in" to. Harry Potter is rather good, especially Order of the Pheonix. Terry Pratchett, very good (Good Omens, which is TP and, I think Neil Gaiman (sp?) is a very good book also).

Vurt by Jeff Noon is good, very easy to read.

Some of Ben Elton's stuff is good as well. I liked High Society, Inconievable, and Dead Famous, however I found Popcorn to be droll and boring.

Howard Marks' autobiography is rather entertaining too.

Pop along to a book shop or a library and have a glance through a few of the books, seem what takes your fancy.

astraboy

If you like Sci Fi and you like Red dwarf, try the novel adaptions. Very very funny and not a carbon copy of the TV series at all.
astraboy.

Chip

For easy entertaining reading try Bill Bryson's Notes from a small Island.

Or why not Orwells classic "Animal Farm".

Chip

GC8

I found 'The Catcher in the Rye' quite difficult to read, mostly due to my never becoming involved in it, and Ive read lots of books since I was 12..... For really challenging Id suggest 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott; that made 'Pride & Prejudice' seem like a piece of ****.

Youd be surprised how many political assasins have been found in possesion of 'Catcher'; I read somewhere that hte CIA used it as a trigger, but the same article mentioned the Kennedy conspiracy and there wasnt one so.....

Simon