Anyone suggest a good book to read?

digme

Ush1 wrote: »

I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.

mr nice and midnight express

you'd love both of them

Sharkey 10

read the "cosa nostra" its about the siclian mafia , it really explains how much polical power they had.

DOC09UNAM

Anything by john grisham or kathy reich

Shenshen

Ush1 wrote: »

I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.

Sorry, I could recommend fiction and science books. I find crime stories indescribably boring.

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Ozzy Osbourne Autobiography. I just finished it, it's very funny. Only the last chapter is about "The Osbournes" etc. The rest is good rock 'n' roll madness!

More serious read: Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

Hells Belle

Billy Connolly's autobiography is a good one and a bit surprising. Another good one is David Attenbourgh's.
For crime The Ice Man is a gory mafia one, the guy is off his tits - its both biography and crime :cool:

Biggins

Shenshen wrote: »

Sorry, I could recommend fiction and science books. I find crime stories indescribably boring.

Trust me, you won't find "Cops" by Mark Baker very boring.
Its a collection of hundreds of stories (sometimes a few sentences, most times a few paragraphs) from cops from one side of America to the other.
You read about the terrible depressions some suffer like one who found a young dead baby up in a tree after it flew through a window in a car crash, to others who were coming to terms with getting shot and some how survived.

I've read both his books and I can honestly say that they are two books that once you start into them, its impossible to put them down.

http://www.amazon.com/Cops-Mark-Baker/dp/0671685511

http://www.amazon.com/Nam-Vietnam-Words-Abacus-Books/dp/0349102392/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287045878&sr=1-2

Shakeandbake!

The Outfit by Gus Russo - The story of the Chicago Mob

Five Families by Selwyn Raab - The NYC Mafia

Two excellent, well researched books.

orourkeda

Penthouse and Playboy.

All those lovely diddies.

MingulayJohnny

Hellraisers , The life and inebriated times of Richard Burton , Richard Harris , Peter O ' Toole & Oliver Reed. Insightful , tragic but mostly funny tales. By Robert Sellers.

--Kaiser--

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

thebigbiffo

'ceasar' by adrian goldsworthy. i gaurantee you will never read a better historical biography, it is a stunning book about one of history's greatest men

biko

Ush1 wrote: »

Thanks, might be too high brow in there for me though.:p

Give it a try.

danniemcq

Shantaram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel)

Based on true live story of Australian who broke out of prison and eventually ended up helping the afghans in their fight against the soviets, epic book

boobar

Ush1 wrote: »

I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.

I enjoyed the Dexter series of books - there are 4 if I remember correctly. Much darker than the TV series. I know that's not true crime but it is about a serial killer.

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint was quite a funny book but with some darker moments.

Boobar

bonzodog2

Maybe not the OP if they are not into fiction, but someone else may like it: anything by James Lee Burke, crime novels set in Louisiana. He has a very colourful and descriptive writing style, you can almost smell the swamp and hear the crickets.

allanb49

Terry Pratchett's Nightwatch.

MOSSAD

Ush1 wrote: »

I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.

A good pal of mine has just brought out her life story.
She's Chinese-American born and raised in New York,and her life story is quite something else. The book has just been released and here's a Youtube link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1fD_dcayY

mikemac

Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey

The title refers to coal, that was a name given to coal

How a billionaire family lost everything
Lawyers got rich though

If you ever watched Downton Abbey, that kind of scene

It's a true story though