What books would you recommend?

[Salu]

You could try the most popular book ever sold?









The Bible

[Mal]

You could try Tim Dorsey (Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Hotel & Florida Roadkill)...

or Carl Hiaasen. The book Strip Tease is a million miles better than the Demi Moore film.

They both do Florida Crime novels, with a funny twist.
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This one is good as well.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Mal

Carl Hiaasen. The book Strip Tease is a million miles better than the Demi Moore film.

Does it have pictures???

[Mal]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

Does it have pictures???

Get the movie for that

The book is miles better. No pics though.

The trouble is that not knowing your tastes it's very hard to make suggestions.Are you into heavy literature,light reading?What genre interests you?Or will you read anything including cereal packets?

Iain M Banks for SF or his alter ego Iain Banks for some of the weirdest modern fiction.His Sf 'Culture' books are how SF should be written.His 'everyday' fiction is excellent but is Literature with the capital letter.

My absolute favourite SF writer is CJ Cherryh.

I tend to leave what I call modern literature alone mainly because I hate reading about everyday lives.I'm already living one of those. I like stuff that takes me away to other places,cultures,times,worlds.SF and Fantasy do that for me.However it may not be to your liking..

However I do like the occasional crime novel(quite like Ian Rankin and Lee Childs)and I'm a secret Georgette Heyer lover..

I guess my favourite novel of all time though is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen followed by Little Dorrit by Dickens.

[heyyo]

cool i have read few of the books listed...anyone reccomend any others....good journalistic books perhaps???

[Angua]

Some of Clive James autobiographies are fun (if thats what you mean by journalistic). Or do you mean books speculating on the identity of jack the Ripper for instance?

[budwieser]

Originally Posted by greencreeper

Take on egg and a large pan of water... Mind you, some kids think chickens have nuggets

Where are the chickens Nuggets then? When we order a chinese takeaway we always ask for `Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls`!
Have i been lied to all these years!?

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by heyyo

cool i have read few of the books listed...anyone reccomend any others....good journalistic books perhaps???

"Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets", by David Simon.

An excellent book, which inspired the excellent US TV cop show "Homicide: Life on the Streets".


The author, David Simon, is a Baltimore journalist, & spent a whole year shadowing the Baltimore PD's Homicide Unit.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...508106-0873247

[greencreeper]

I'm currently embarking on "Of Mice and Men" - I'm planning on seeing a production at the theatre, so I thought I'd read it first. I thought The Grapes of Wrath was brilliant. Steinbeck is one of only a few writers who have managed to make me care about the characters.

[Millay]

Hiroshima by john Hersey..

Brilliant book... read it in one sitting.... written originally for the washington post, the first time the entire paper had been published with just one story..

IN view of the recent spate of suicide bombings I re-read The Parafaith War by L.E Modisitt jnr.

Some bad ideas go back a long way,and the reason for this war is no exception.Generations ago,the Revenant Theocracy's god told them that they were entitled to more territory,and now,generations later they're excercising their devine right to conquer.

Trystin Desoll has grown up up fighting religious fanatics from the Theocracy,facing ever-tougher challenges from the enemy forces on the ground and in space.But the conflict is weakening both societies.Trystin has a plan to stop the war,but it means overcoming the prejudices of his own culture and religion...and becoming the prophet of his own enemy.

There are some chilling comparisons with what we are facing at the moment.

Imagine that far in the future that there arises a religion that's a cross between Islamic and Mormon that brooks no opposition to it's goals but destruction of all 'golems and infidels'.Against them is an environmentally aware society that uses high technology to maintain balance in their society and to terraform new uninhabitable worlds.What to do especially if you are a citizen who looks so like the enemy and you are facing increasing racism because of this?Eventually because of those very looks you are trained as an intelligence agent with a mission to kill one vital man in the enemy's major Temple.

I love this book.It's a keeper but I never imagined that I would be reading it in the present circumstances.

[katrinaqq]

Originally Posted by andyl

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime by Mark Somebody(!). Bought this for the kids then read it myself. Brilliantly written.

Yes I read that, very good but it was hard to sympathise at times. Makes you understand a bit about aspergers. A bit lighter is life of pi which I liked.

[Nugget]

I've just finished the third Science of the Discworld book - very good, particularly the chapters discussing time travel.

Recommended

[katrinaqq]

Originally Posted by Salu

You could try the most popular book ever sold?









The Bible

Dont like Harry Potter myself