Reading another thread has got me thinking....
What are your favourite books? I have been a spy/thriller reader all my life but have recently tried to expand my reading. I have recently discovered Paul Coelho and have read both The Alchemist and The Devil and Miss Prym, both excellent stories. So come on then, what are your favourite books and what would you recommend I try that is not just another Grisham / Ludlum etc.... Edited to keep the pedants happy :p [Edited by hail-hail - 11/26/2003 12:50:18 PM] [Edited by hail-hail - 11/26/2003 12:50:36 PM] |
The books written in English are my favourites.
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Back to the Hutch please :D
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Spend more time reading those books and less time using Internet Explorer. ;)
Nice edit! I think I can hear the Hutch 'phone ringing. Gotta go. ;) |
Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
Still Life with Woodpecker- Tom Robbins Great Gatsby- Fitszgerald On the Road- Jack Karawack Damien- H.Hesse and many many more............ |
I used to read on night shifts a few years back, but slipped out of it when I went 9-5. I always favoured techno-thrillers like Tom Clancy, Payne Harrison and Dale Brown. Hadn't read a full book in quite a few years 'til I read Lord of the Rings on holiday a couple of weeks back. Now I know I must read more.
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Personally I like classic American crime fiction, including:
Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler Ross MacDonald Chester Hines currently trying some James Ellroy (do not try to read White Jazz) which is mostly OK. I also used to do the Clancy thing, but his latest stuff is crap compared to the earlier ones. I got about halfway through the last-but-one one (the one about the Chinese) and gave up :( |
George Orwell - 1984
Super book. I re-read it every few years. |
Most clancy esp red storm rising
Patrick Robinson - Nimitz class, Kilo class, HMS Unseen etc... Michael DiMercurio Stephen Coonts |
Carl - I liked White Jazz, but then I love James Ellroy and haven't rated any of his books below "very good".
My favorite Ellroy books are Cold Six Thousand and American Tabloid Raymond Chandler is superb, but Ellroy brings the genre a bit more up to date. I like a lot of other stuff, but for escapism nothing beats the great american crime writers. |
How about Alasdair MacLean. I liked most of those ones, & the films as well :)
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Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky. He's the daddy :D
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I just couldn't get into White Jazz because of the writing style. Personally I'm more of a fan of Hammett's plots and Chandler's style (but I've read them all now :()
I've just read Ellroy's Lloyd Hopkins trilogy. Tried James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, The Getaway) but wasn't that keen. |
where to start......any book by any of the following but a few in particular i've mentioned.....
Thrillers : Colin Forbes - any Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October, Without Remorse & The Sum of All Fears (the film is sooooo cr4p!) Patrick Robinson - Nimitz Class & HMS Unseen Dale Brown - Flight of the Old Dog & Night of the Hawk and u just gotta read Matthew Reilly - Temple & Ice Station esp Michael Critchton - Timeline David Morrell - The Covenant of the Flame & The Fifth Profession James Cobb - Choosers of the Slain & Storm Dragon Stephen Hunter - Point of Impact & Black Light Or how about Sci-Fantasy : Daivd Eddings - start with The Belgariad... Katherine Kerr - Deverrey Series Raymond Feist - Empire Trilogy / Riftwar Saga Julian May - Saga of the Exiles Janny Wurts - Cycle of Fire Trilogy / Empire Trilogy (with Feist) should keep you going for Xmas and beyond ! |
here are 10 crackers i adore ... 1984 - george orwell birdsong - sebastian foulkes the stand - stephen king (unabridged version) shawshank redemption - stephen king ghost story - peter straub green river rising - tim willocks piece of cake - derek robinson the black dahlia - james ellroy jaws - peter benchley red dragon - thomas harris |
Lee Child - all his Jack Reacher series. British writer who moved to US to help his US crime thriller writing. His books get further up the top ten list each time a new one is released.
Think it's www.leechild.com for details. Kevin. |
Hitchikers guide to the universe, The restaraunt at the end of the universe.
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I Like the MR Men Books, easy to follow and pictures too :D
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I like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books.
And Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books too (only read 3 so far, got a whole stack left to go at. Andy McNab's and Chris Ryan's fiction is OK too if you like that sort of stuff. John. |
I enjoy thrillers and horror books so it's usually King, Herbert, Grisham etc. Also read a lot of the Clancy books.
I'll also hold my hand up to enjoying the Harry Potter series. :p :) Lee |
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (hard reading @ times!)
Iian Banks - The Wasp Factory, The Business William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced? Irvine Welsh - Filth |
I'm afraid I gave up with Catch-22. Another one I just couldn't get into. I think it was because the plot was so preposterous I couldn't suspend my disbelief.
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have gun will travel the spectacular rise and violent fall of death row records by roni ro. think that the title
mike |
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Espedair Street - Iain Banks Lord of the Rings |
Another vote for Lord of the Rings, and another for David Eddings.
I also loved "The Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and It, and The Stand by S K alone. For a VERY disturbing read, try "A Place of Execution", by Val McDermid............quite topical after the Soham trial business. It made me go and get out "Stranger than Fiction", (I think that's what it was called, it's the story of the Moors Murders.) Alcazar |
agree with brickboy about elmore leonard. read his latest one a few months ago tishomingo (?) blues. a really nice read - the style is quite laid back compared to ellroy.
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee PS: personally I can't stand LOTR |
My top 3...
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson Spike Milligan's war memoirs - I guess they all count as 1 :) |
Mario Puzo - The Godfather
Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy (fimed as Goodfellas) Any of the Ian Fleming Bond books (even if you've seen the Films all the above are great) Rat Pack Confidential - can't remember the author PG Wodehouse - All the Jeeves books Stephen King - The Stand |
Iain Banks - both the "normal" wierd stuff and the sci fi weird stuff he writes as Iain M Banks
The Rebus series of novels by Ian Rankin are good William Gibson - Neuromancer - fantastic book - what the scriptwriter of the Matrix must have turned to for inspiration |
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