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He was ran over a while ago ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King ). While he was in hospital, he got the inspiration for "Kingdom Hospital"

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Not so sure about inspiration (it was a re-write of someone else's work), though the opening sequence clearly is a re-enactment of the incident.

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good books some of you have mentioned :) any more titles....

thanks

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Left Behind by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B Jenkins. Ossum stuff :)

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Anything by Bill Bryson.
Any of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchet.
Billy Connely's autobiography.
Frank Skinner's autobiography.

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Some good titles already recommended, but to be honest you can't beat wandering into a small independent bookseller and just grabbing a few at random that don't look like the sort of books you'd usually want to read.

You're bound to get a couple of good ones that way that you'd never experience otherwise. E.g it's how I came across The Drink And Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill - about a year in the life of the residents of a small Chinese city - totally not what I'd usually pick up, but turned out to be superb.

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The war hound and the world's pain
Excellent fantasy novel :tu:

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Anything by Terry Pratchett if you like weird but funny.:angel:

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And also....

"Good Omens", by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. One of my favourite books of all time.


Oh, & some very good alternate history SF books - the "World War" series by Harry Turtledove, & it's follow up series "Colonisation".



Hmm.

And although they can be pretty "USA! USA!", I do like a lot of Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" novels ("Hunt for Red October", "Sum of All Fears", etc).


Recently read "Dante's Equation", by Jane Jensen. Very interesting thriller mixing science & religion.


Ah, & another couple of favourites - "Miracle Strain" & "Lucifer" by Michael Cordy. Very good.

Crime thrillers...

Anything by Michael Connelly (the "Harry Bosch" series & more).

Anything by John Connolly (the "Charlie Parker" books such as "Every Dead Thing").

Anything by John Sandford (the "Lucas Davenport" books - all with "Prey" in the title).

Also, the *early* "Kay Scarpetta" books by Patricia Cornwell are very good. I think the later ones went a bit crap though.

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hmmm Anything by Shaun Hutson.. but be warned graphic...

Richard Bransons Autobiography is worth a read, also Rhoald Darhls stuff kids and adults books are well worth a read.

Anything by George Orwell, and Aldus Huxley is a good author

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I enjoyed Steven Kings "The Tower Series" although the first novel is a bit slow.

Other favourite authors include : Jean Rhys, Tess Gerritsen, Robert Crais, James Patterson, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman, Karin Slaughter, Terry Brooks, Michael Connelly, john Connolly, Bill Bryson, some of Minette Walters work and Dean Koontz.

I loathe reading Danielle Steele. CAtherine Cookson is a good easy read for historical romance.

Classics: Emily Bronte, well in fact any of the Bronte sisters althouhg you will find some of their novels hard going. Charles Dickens, George Orwell, George Elliott, William Golding and Shakespeare of course !

I am an avid reader and will read ANYTHING as long as it holds my interest. Recently I purchased all of the Dan Brown books. They aren't well written but his views on things such as the Catholic church are entertaining.

Sian

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Nobody recommending gritty crime fiction yet then? ... well allow me. :D

I've become quite 'in' to Ian Rankin's INspector Rebus novels. Forget the rather disastrous series of TV adaptions that ITV did, starring John Hannah, and check out the original books:

http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/books...bus_novels.htm

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Read this . :tu:

Dean Koontz... Not usually my kind of book, but couldn't put in down. Read it in two days. There's a follow up to it that's not published yet...

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The Da Vinci Code is a good read if you don't mind fallacies and inaccuracies masquerading as 'fact'.

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You could go for some classics : 'Catcher in the Rye' - or 'To Kill a mocking bird'.

'The Straw men' by Michael Marshall Smith.
'The inhibitor' series by Alastair Reynolds (revelation space, redemption ark and absolution gap) - though the last book was a bit of a let down in my opinion.
'Chasm City' also by A Reynolds - set in the same universe as the above series - with tie-ins to the other books, but can be read alone.
'Nights Dawn Trilogy' by Peter F Hamilton.