JustGav Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Contact - Carl Sagan (My personal fav) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh. Very good read I've been meaning to read a book on that for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Contact - Carl Sagan (My personal fav) Thats next on my list to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Thats next on my list to read You are welcome to borrow my well-travelled copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Just finished: David Eddings - The redemption of Althalus L. Ron Hubbart (yes i know ) - Battlefield Earth Now 4 main tomes of Dragonlance series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suprash Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 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. I just like reading your posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Just finished Cell by Stephen King, it's SK back at his best I think. Pretty much will read anything... Horror, SF, Comedy... errr and some other stuff. Love the Terry P stuff, King, Koonz... Another good read was All Adults Die, forget who that's by.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Charlotte, Have you read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? That's a good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaoriFan Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Currently i am reading - Tale of the Genji (Genji Monogatari) written by Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki), back in the first years of 1000AD (Heian Period Japan). Then going to choose one of these as next book: Natsuo Kirino - Out Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood The Last Samurai, The life and battles of Saigo Takamori - Not the book of the Tom Cruise movie, but the book of the samurai that Saigo Katsumoto was based upon in the movie, The Last Samurai. ja ne Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Just finished Cell by Stephen King, it's SK back at his best I think. I read that last year but thought it was "ok", the concept was good, parts of the book read well but the overall tale was a bit Hollywood. It started better than it finished. I don't read much non-fiction but my Dad keeps giving me stuff he's read, the few I read last were quite reasonable. "The Lords of the North" by Bernard Cornwell, a bit of Viking action, a good blend of history and fiction, bit of fighting, revenge, romance etc. "The Skin Gods" by Richard Montanari which is a plodding police vs serial killer tale and "Pig Island" by Mo Hayder which was a really good read - one of those that's hard to put down. I have a stack of books I'm trying to get through at the moment but really want to get back to one I keep starting and then putting down in favour of lighter subjects - "Burning Tigris, The: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response" by Peter Balakian - I've had it for ages but it's a bit deep for bedtime reading and I don't seem to get time to read much when I'm more awake. Anthony Bourdain's "A Cook's Tour" and "Kitchen Confidential" are great reads if you like food / cooking. Oh and EVO magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I have hundreds of books in the attic ...dont seem to have the time to read much these days though, except for various large volumes of rules / regulations to do with work. I dug out Melmoth The Wanderer (Charles Maturin) after a recent thread reminded me I had it. Also fancy reading the Tales Of The Mabinogion again (Gwynn Thomas I think) again...stories based on Welsh Legends and folk-lore. I have the entire series of the Thomas Covenant books by Steven R. Donaldson (very Lord of The Rings ish, but good) and the Golden Torc series (cant remember the author) which has a great premise based around time travellers going on vacation back in time to prehistoric times only to be enslaved by aliens who were already there. The Hanibal books by Richard Harris are great, as are the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander etc, set at sea in the Napoleonic wars era) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I tend to go for more mainstream / crime type books and would recommend: Joseph Finder - Great thrillers about industrial espionage (Paranoia and Company Man highly recommended) David Baldacci - Especially "The Camel Club" Dean Koontz - Thriller / crime Kathy Reichs James Patterson - Early ones are best OK, none of the above will win Pullitzer's but they will entertain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 ...and the Golden Torc series (cant remember the author) which has a great premise based around time travellers going on vacation back in time to prehistoric times only to be enslaved by aliens who were already there. Oh, I fancy that. I will have to have a look on Amazon and see if it is available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 'Kathy Reichs' Isn't she who the TV show Bones is based on...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaoriFan Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Kathy Reichs Isn't she who the TV show Bones is based on...? yes, looks like it. Here is more and a biography about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Reichs ja ne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaoriFan Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 as are the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander etc, set at sea in the Napoleonic wars era) wonder how Alexander Kent compares to Patrick O'Brian. I have Kent's, The Darkening Sea to read as well sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Oh, I fancy that. I will have to have a look on Amazon and see if it is available. I should have called it The Saga Of the Exiles, Author Julian May First book....The Many Coloured Land Second...The Golden Torc Third....The Non-Born King Fourth...The Adversary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I should have called it The Saga Of the Exiles, Author Julian May First book....The Many Coloured Land Second...The Golden Torc Third....The Non-Born King Fourth...The Adversary Thank you my friend. I will investigate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr keef Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 i read lots:) just read Panic by jeff abbott (loved it!) Bear Grylls : facing up (ok if your into that kind of thing) the hit list :Chris ryan (good book) in the past iv read most of stepen king but i dont think hes a patch on james herbert,i love his books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted January 26, 2008 Author Share Posted January 26, 2008 Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm going to attempt to read outside of my comfort zone. The last book I read was Belle De Jour - the secret diary of a London call girl. It was brilliantly witty and quite shocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 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. Angels and Demons is released this year I think.... I don't understand how they got permission to use the Vactican though (I am presuming they did) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 I should have called it The Saga Of the Exiles, Author Julian May First book....The Many Coloured Land Second...The Golden Torc Third....The Non-Born King Fourth...The Adversary They sound great. I may have to get those! Dinosaurs, time travel AND aliens. Perfect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Angels and Demons is released this year I think.... I don't understand how they got permission to use the Vactican though (I am presuming they did) A large financial donation perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 A large financial donation perhaps? One would think, but the whole book is very anti pope which isn't really what the Vactican would like to see on the big screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Just finished: David Eddings - The redemption of Althalus L. Ron Hubbart (yes i know ) - Battlefield Earth Now 4 main tomes of Dragonlance series Eddings has written some more then? The last stuff I read from him was getting a bit desperate to hit publishers demands for a book type of naff. I read all of his stuff years ago. I used to be a voracious reader. I consumed the malloreon in a week and the elenium in two weeks. Pratchett is my all time fave and I read those in an evening. Since forums and the net I haven't really bothered with books but am hankering after a new series of books now. To date I have read the hobbit (that got me started in to books again as a teenager) lord of the rings the silmarillion the chronicles of thomas covenant mordants need series the gap series The belgariad the malloreon the elenium the tamuli series the losers high hunt pretty much everything terry pratchett ever wrote riftwar saga empire trilogy krondors sons serpentwar saga dragonriders of pern (pretty much all of them) prelude to dune series shannara series I've obvioulsy also read alot of one off novels by clarkson and other people. I'm looking at getting back into reading again so maybes I should get off my ass and go to a book shop and buy something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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