Recommend me some books!

DapperGent

Try the Hoggis Figgis Cafe on Dawson St. good goffee and they let you sit down with books off the shelves (don't ask me what happens if you spill some on them) they wouldn't let you smoke though the Nazis. Also Cafe Mocha has comfy seats and good coffe if you can ever get anyone working there to pay attention.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

cafe mocha..
mmm , lovely place

stevoslice

Ten Men Dead - David Beresford

Amazing telling of the events leading up to the capture of each of the Ten Hunger Strikers of 1981, and then their struggle for Political Status within the H-blocks.

po0k

Ghost Soldiers - Hampton Sides

BJJ

If you liked Herbert's Dune, Well's Timemachine or Arthur C.Clarke's Space Odyssey then you'll LOVE these ones:Invaders On The Moon - Kris Neville .
Turn of the Screw -Henry James
The Lurker At The Threshold - H. P. Lovecraft with August Derleth .
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

MrPudding

Hi here are a few of my suggestions

For horror

Shaun Hutson & James Herbert are OK if you are 12. It's hard to get good horror when you pass puberty.

Clive Barker (not to a lot of peoples taste but I think his sfuff is excellent)

The books of blood
Imajica
Weaveworld- These would be good for starters.

General

-The Eight- Katherine Neville. One of my favorite books. Would be really good if you like chess but not essential.

-Micheal Conolly (might be spelt wrong) Very good crime/detective novels.

-Jeffery Deaver- He wrote The Bone Collector, I haven't read it but the rest of his stuff is excellent.

-David Baldacchi He wrote Absolute Power.

Comedy

This is very difficult

-Robert Rankin
-Terry Pratchett
There are definitly more but I can't think.

Sci Fi/Fantasy

-Jeffery Donaldson- The Cronicles of Thomas Covenant (six books) These are just amazing.
-Just about any Azimov
-Philip K Dick

I can't really think of anymore but it's a start

JarJar blinks

Clive Barker.
H.G Wells
Philip K Dick
Jack Higgins
Pj O' Rourke
James Herbert


A must for any reader.


I'm not sure about Terry Pratchett, some people love him others hate his style of writting

stevoslice

What Tom Clancy Novels are worth a read, I'm on the look out for the Sum of all fears , but can't find it anywhere. So whats the best of his books that weren't made into film?

DapperGent

IMO his best book is far and away Red Strom Rising. It's plot is a third world war between America and the USSR when both were at the height of their powers. Absolutely fascinating. I enjoyed Cardinal of the Kremlin as well though it wasn't as good. His only other book which I thought was brilliant was The Hunt for Red October. Patriot Games, The Sum of All Fears and Clear and Present Danger are absolute trash. And steer clear of the that Ops Centre rubbish as well. Oh I'd highly recommend Rogue Spear for the PC as well .

jahras

I recommend Len Deightons books. Bomber is a great one and so are the 3 Bernard Samson trilogies. Berlin Game, Spy Line etc. Frederick Forsyths books are also good especially his short story book No Comebacks.
If you like funny books I found some old Woody Allen books and found them hilarious in parts but I dont know if you would get them in a bookshop.

spaczed

jack kerouac -on the road
books by ursla k. le guin, especially the earthsea trilogy
Albert Camus
Hemmingway- the old man and the sea
john steinbeck-the pearl
The Famished Road by ben okri
(non fiction) fermats last theorem by simon singh

BJJ

Well it depends what you like, I love science fiction, horror, fantasy and mystical stuff.

I also like some Historical stuff and conspiracy theories like what happened in Burma Bermuda or Colombia during the 60s and 70s.


Here we go


CS Lewis: Out of this planet
Eric Lustblader: Sunset Warrior
Estleman Gorman Philbrick: Blackmoon
Iain Banks: Looking to Winward
Arthur C Clarke: The city and the stars
Bob Shaw: Love me tender
Gene Wolfe: Excellent , but....hmm??
Robert Cromie: ?? Irish author round the time of HG Wells....not sure of my favourite...?

Bard

Originally posted by DadaKopf
Why don;t you just go into a bookshop and look around until you find a book you like the look of and buy it - get the book that just jumps out at you most.

Yeah... those jumping books are f**kin' freaky... why I remember this one time that I... oh nevermind...

I'd recommend the books I've read recently, - which were Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" and Eric Idle's "The Road to Mars". I'm currently starting "Billy" by Pamela Stephenson - it's good so far.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Would recommend Billy, got it for €2 from the book club, would have been happy to have pais €20. Well written and gives a great insight into Billy and his comedy.

bernie_1974_10

Anything by James Patterson
Richard North Patterson
David Baldacchi
Stephen King
Dean R Koontz
Minnette Walters

Bloody Drunkard

Anything by Bill Bryson
Manslaughter United by Chris Hulme - bout a prision football team
A season with Verona - Tim Parks

and of course

Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas

stevoslice

Anyone know if james herbert's "Magic Cottage" is worth a read?

DapperGent

I don't think any of James Herberts books are worth a read. Might go and add him to my punch in the face list on after hours.

Elvish

If you like humor and have heard of big brother then read Ben Elton's Dead Famous. It's brilliant!

IF your into sci-fi read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson (I think thats his name), you may have heard of them: Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. They focus more on the human elements of the colonisation of mars rather than the technology.

-rob

DapperGent

Originally posted by Elvish
IF your into sci-fi read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson (I think thats his name), you may have heard of them: Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. They focus more on the human elements of the colonisation of mars rather than the technology.

Currently rereading them. Truly brilliant books if you have the patience for them.

SYL

Best Book I've read in ages is called 'Nobody's Son' by Sean Stewart. Got it shipped from Amazon.com after reading a review on a Sci-Fi books website. To say I wasn't disappointed would be the understatement of the year. Small book too, but so so good.

Kurdt

sorry to cut in...

can anyone recommend some really scary horror books? i've read a few horror books, mostly king and barker and was told they were really scary but, as enjoyable as they were, i was never really scared....

cheers,

kurdt.

Funky

Robin Hobbs - Farseer Trilogy(or assasin trilogy)
best books ive ever read...

Redemption of Althalus by Dave and Leigh Eddings is fairly good too

Waylander

Not scary books at all sorry, but I would recommend Enigma ( film with Kate Winslett now ) Fatherland and Archangel all by Richard Harris and very good.

cowlren

modern fiction - probably on waterstones best sellers

hanif kureishi - intimacy, love in a blue time.
ian mcewan - amsterdam, enduring love, atonement
vikram seth - equal music, suitable boy
coupland - microserfs
tom wolfe - man in full
andrew miller -ingenious pain
arundhati roy -god of small things
rushdie -midnights children
proulx -shipping news
coetzee -disgraced
zadie smith - white teeth
houllebeq - atomised.
self - grey area

if your in for some popular thrillers can't go wrong
with Tom Clancy or the old master Forsyth.

FredDaFish

Since no one else seems to have mentioned it, I would highly recommend any book by Tom Holt, especially Snow White and The Seven Saumuri.