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  • 21-02-2002 6:16pm
    #1
    Waylander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭


    Hi all

    I am currently nearly out of reading material. Would appreciate it if you could list your favourite authors, and the type of books they write to give me some new ideas. Two of my current favourites are David Gemmel - Fantasy, and Richard Harris - WWII related.

    Thanx


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  • #2
    Da Bounca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Da Bounca


    If you like war books etc you should give "Bravo two Zero" by Andy McNab (spelling?) a shot if you haven't already.

    As for fantasy books, I enjoyed Legend, but I forget the author, could well have been Gemmel.


  • #3
    Waylander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Waylander


    Yeah that was Gemmel. Thanx I will check that book out.


  • #4
    scipio_major
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭scipio_major


    As a fellow Gemmel fan. I can definatly recommend Robin Hobb as an excellent up and coming fantasy writer.

    Of the WWII inspired books that I've read, Alistair MacLean's stuff is quite interesting. Very cheap too if you get them 2nd hand. I don't think I've ever seen them cost more than three quid anywhere I say them, and every second hand bookshop has some lying around.

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    Scipio_major


  • #5
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Catch 22
    a great read and very funny! damned if I can remember the author right now, but I'm sure someone here will!


  • #6
    Lord Khan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭Lord Khan


    yes Catch 22 is a excellent read
    author is Joesph Heller if I remember correctly :).


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  • #7
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    try Tad williams , his "otherland" series starts off as sci-fi but alot of fantasy elements come into it later on,

    and his "Memory, sorrow, and thorn" is just pure 1st class fantasy, easily one of my favourite, if not the favourite, fantasy series.

    or Robert Jordan's "wheel of time", david eddings , Terry Goodkind.. there are a fair few good writers out there :)


  • #8
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,147 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Gerald Seymour is an amazing writer, id recommend him very highly, having read several of his books and am currently reading one at the moment, id rate him even higher than Clancy in that whole genre of writing. The "Journeyman Tailor" was a great novel of his about Northern Ireland. A good site with some overviews of his books can be found here http://www.tauntaun.freeserve.co.uk/seymour/


  • #9
    RandyMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭RandyMan


    A Song of Ice and Fire is a great series by George RR Martin

    The Malazan Book of the Fallen is another extremely good series by Stevev Erikson:)


  • #10
    koneko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath.
    The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (though admittedly some are better than others).

    Recent good books? Really enjoyed Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk.


  • #11
    Waylander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Waylander


    Thanks folks that should keep me occupied for a while


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  • #12
    buck65
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    Last years Booker prize winner - The Long Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan is an amazing book set in a Japanese pow camp.


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