Book talk.

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:29 pm

If you have time sit and read some books, then post here. Tell us about a good book, a bad book, an author you like, ect.
And please do it soon, I need some new reading material.

AK_iceman · Post by **AK_iceman** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:30 pm

Read some Dan Brown books. Everything I have ever read of his has been awesome.

edmundomcpot · Post by **edmundomcpot** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:32 pm

Bartimaeus Trilogy
Wind on fire Trilogy

both amazing

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:38 pm

edmundomcpot wrote:Bartimaeus Trilogy
Wind on fire Trilogy

both amazing

I read the Bartimaeus Trilogy. It was pretty good.

Mjolnirs · Post by **Mjolnirs** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:39 pm

What genre are you looking for?

I'm currently reading my second Steve Berry book.

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:39 pm

Just finished reading "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger. Maybe some of you read it at school - but I just got round to it. I would highly recommend it. Can't praise it highly enough.

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:40 pm

Mjolnirs wrote:What genre are you looking for?

I'm currently reading my second Steve Berry book.

Genre doesn't matter, this is for everybody else as much as it is for me.

Newcastle · Post by **Newcastle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:48 pm

an old clasic never hurts. ( by old i mean older than me) IT by Stephen King

for dummies · Post by **for dummies** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:51 pm

i love IT. it is my favorite stephen king novel.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:52 pm

farenheit 451 is also good

Titanic · Post by **Titanic** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:53 pm

Bartimaeus trilogy
LotR
HP

I'm into fantasy, and a bit of espionage books.

Mjolnirs · Post by **Mjolnirs** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:56 pm

hecter wrote:Genre doesn't matter, this is for everybody else as much as it is for me.

OK

Someone has suggested Dan Brown which I've read all of his stuff. Steve Berry, who I'm currently reading is along the same style writing and is very good.

Ken Follett is another suggestion. He writes historical mysteries, usually WWI era forward. My favorite work by him is "The Pillars of the Earth" written around the construction of a a Medieval Cathedral.

Regarding Sci Fi/Fantasy you can't miss with the standards of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Assimov, JRR Tolkein, Frank Herbert and Edgar Rice Burroughs. I've also read Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks and others. Colleen McCullough's Rome series is good (a bit tedious) and Jean Auel's Earth's Children series is good.

How's that for a start?

P Gizzle · Post by **P Gizzle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 4:58 pm

i really liked Dr. Suess's masterpiece, hop on pop... :wink:

no, actually Dan Brown is very good. i will read Angels and demons sometime, i liked the Da Vinci Code, but i heard that it wasnt as good as Angels and Demons

Newcastle · Post by **Newcastle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:00 pm

the devil's armour (will post when i remember the auther's name) is a great book about iner darkness that is helped by a dark and evil spirit that posses its old suit of armour and the man inside it... but really, it's cool as f*ck! there are battles and a main character that longs to die but is made invincible by an amulet given to him by his now deceased true love. great book and worth a read.

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:01 pm

hecter wrote:And please do it soon, I need some new reading material.

Judging by your other thread of the drugs variety - you'd love "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson. It's top class!

P.S. There's also a pretty good film adaptation directed by your man Terry Gilliam.

P.P.S. If you want my advice, stay away from Dan Brown entirely.

edmundomcpot · Post by **edmundomcpot** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:02 pm

Mjolnirs wrote:Ken Follett is another suggestion. He writes historical mysteries, usually WWI era forward. My favorite work by him is "The Pillars of the Earth" written around the construction of a a Medieval Cathedral.

i started reading that book from the middle...still enjoyed it tho

Caleb the Cruel · Post by **Caleb the Cruel** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:04 pm

The Bible.

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:05 pm

Caleb the Cruel wrote:The Bible.

The mormon Bible is pretty funny.

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:05 pm

Caleb the Cruel wrote:The Bible.

Not heard of that one - would I find it in the "fiction" section?

hecter · Post by **hecter** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:05 pm

flashleg8 wrote:
Caleb the Cruel wrote:The Bible.

Not heard of that one - would I find it in the "fiction" section?

Nice

Newcastle · Post by **Newcastle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:06 pm

flashleg8 wrote:
Caleb the Cruel wrote:The Bible.

Not heard of that one - would I find it in the "fiction" section?

good one! never heard that one!

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:07 pm

chris ryan/ andy macnab books

Newcastle · Post by **Newcastle** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:08 pm

i'll second that

Machiavelli · Post by **Machiavelli** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:08 pm

flashleg8 wrote:Just finished reading "Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger. Maybe some of you read it at school - but I just got round to it. I would highly recommend it. Can't praise it highly enough.

I just read that book (for school). It was to goddam depressing and Holden was to goddam angsty. Goddam.

insertnamehere · Post by **insertnamehere** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:10 pm

The best fiction (non-humour) written ever is the mortal engines series , written by philip reeves

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