Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Has anyone read any good ones lately? Do people still read? I'd really like to get into a different genre, I always tend to read similar themes or autobiographies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I plan to read Omega Man when I get a minute. I have some Robert Ludlum (Bourne series) that i can forward to you if you like. The Bourne series are totally different to the films and great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I'm reading one at the moment but I don't think you'd like it. It's all chefs and serial killers otherwise, do you like pop-up books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 do you like pop-up books? I'm only on level one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh. Very good read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I've recently read the books of an author friend of mine called John Rickards. They are pretty good spooky crime novels, if you're into that kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Lynz_ Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Have you read the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons? They're both really good, he's got another 2 books out too which I still need to read. On a very childish level the Harry Potter books are excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Prefer my true crime books. Currently on Hard B*stards by Kate Kray. Love reading about The Kray Twins, and post war gangs/crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 If you like Science Fiction I can recommend a few.. but somehow doubt thats your genre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Have you read the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons? They're both really good, he's got another 2 books out too which I still need to read. On a very childish level the Harry Potter books are excellent I've read all the Dan Brown books, and Angels and Demons is by far the best read, and would make an excellent film. The Da Vinci Code film was such a let down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Lynz_ Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I've read all the Dan Brown books, and Angels and Demons is by far the best read, and would make an excellent film. The Da Vinci Code film was such a let down. I agree, my dad watched the film first and absolutely raved about it, I watched it and was so disappointed. I think they are meant to be doing a film of Angels and Demons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 If you like Science Fiction I can recommend a few.. but somehow doubt thats your genre The Hitchhiker's trilogy of 4 books is very funny, and so cleverly written. I'd like to read some of Terry Pratchett's stuff too at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 If you like Science Fiction I can recommend a few.. but somehow doubt thats your genre I'm breaking free from my genres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 The Average American Male has been a good read. I'll also plug anything by Craig Clevenger until I die. Douglas Coupland's The Gun Thief is well worth a read as is anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, Will Christopher Baer (whose book Hell's Half Acre is to literature as Nirvana's In Utero is to music), Steve Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock and for sheer flamboyance there is Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 I keep meaning to read Coupland, and forgetting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I keep meaning to read Coupland, and forgetting. Start with his first book and follow his progress from trendy author taking the pulse of the Zeitgeist to maturity, self-doubt, his breakdown and recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Start with his first book and follow his progress from trendy author taking the pulse of the Zeitgeist to maturity, self-doubt, his breakdown and recovery. I like happy stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratm Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 All the Kathy Reichs books are excellent, finished the latest one last week. There must be about 10 or more now and I've read all of them. Have also read the Dan Brown stuff, thats how I got back into reading a couple of years ago. Now I read every lunch time at work! I like happy stories. Maybe you wouldn't like the Kathy Reichs ones then, she's a criminal anthropologist and naturally has a lot of death and murders involved in the plot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I like happy stories. There are many types of happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 There are many types of happy. What kind is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 What kind is it? Happy3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Happy3 Ahh Fairy stories happy. I know it well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Ahh Fairy stories happy. I know it well. No. This is the new, updated Happy scale. Happy3 is "well, I guess I could have some horrible disease to make things worse". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 No. This is the new, updated Happy scale. Happy3 is "well, I guess I could have some horrible disease to make things worse". I can relate to happy3. I need a copy of the latest scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs H Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I love historical fiction. Phillippa Gregory is my favorite, her Tudor Court novels are fantastic and the Wideacre Trilogy has it all sex, murder, incest Elizabeth Chadwick is another favorite! Vicki x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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