Recommended reading?

arctic lemur

I'm an avid book worm and go go through books like people go through cups of tea and i need to broaded my horizons a bit. I like fiction in any shape or form except Sci-Fi.

I have read all the Irish bestsellers and all of the usual crime books like Michael Connolly (whichj i dislike) and i've nearly exhausted PD James. Please Help as i've a long boring weekend ahead!

John

WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn (no, it's not a sci fi book, despite the name and the cover image on amazon is wrong too)

Tree

man, i all i want to do is recommend you some sci fi now

haruki murakami is great. try hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, or the elephant vanishes (a colleciton of short stories)

The shadow fo the wind (by some spanish dude) is excellent too


in the vain attempt to get you to read sci-fi, Phillip K Dick's short stories rock. not particularly sciency, he tends to focus more on the people invovled, the collection including minority report and we can remember if for you wholesale is quite popular.

arctic lemur

Whats Stephen Hawkings 'A brief history of time' like?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

have you read any kurt vonnegutt? he's great

lost discoveries - the ancient roots of modern science - Dick Teresi
is pretty interesting, .. i'm reading john ralston saul - voltaires bastards : the dictatorship of reason in the west.. atm and it's very good. Can't say I agree with everything he's saying, but damned good read.

John

arctic lemur wrote:

Whats Stephen Hawkings 'A brief history of time' like?

It's good, well worth a read. Not heavy at all, very readable.

arctic lemur

John2 wrote:

It's good, well worth a read. Not heavy at all, very readable.

Thanks i'll give it a go. Picked up Jostein Gaarder's The Solitaire mystery today and in the middle of 'lucky' by Alice Seabold (pretty harrowing and depressing).

John

arctic lemur wrote:

'lucky' by Alice Seabold (pretty harrowing and depressing).

Sounds like my kind of book. What's it about?

Tree

John2 wrote:

It's good, well worth a read. Not heavy at all, very readable.

i'd recommend brian greene's elegant universe first. i much prefered it to hawkings.

John

I haven't read that one. I guess everyone goes for Hawking's because it's one of those "must reads".

r3nu4l

I would recommend "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman or even better "Jonathon Norrell and Mr. Strange" by Susanna Clarke.

Have you read any John Connolly? His stuff is very good.

Oobie

I read The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold and I thought it was really good. Have you tried Donna Tartt books?

6th

"Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have no doubt you'll love it.

Tree

thats his name, i can never eremember. the book rocks. esp if you visited barcelona


heehee, all i seem to have in my book collection are scifi and pop science. ooh and crime

id reccommend ian rankin and his inspector rebus novels!

arctic lemur

John2 wrote:

Sounds like my kind of book. What's it about?

Well its a biography about a girl of 18 who was raped after leaving a college party and of how she dealt with it and the search for her assailant. Was gripping if not depressing, finished it in a couple of hours.

arctic lemur

6th wrote:

"Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have no doubt you'll love it.

Yuo are right! I got it when it first came out, way better than Da Vinci Code, beautiful intriguing story had me hooked for hours. Any idea if the author has other books?

lordgoat

Murakami, Or Philip Dick,
You could also try 100years in solitude/love in the time of cholera (both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

helles belles

she's come undone by wally lamb

it might be more of a girly book though...
still, a fantastic read.

NADA

I recommend Lee Child's thriller Killing floor. It will hook on the series of ten or eleven so if your looking for something that will last you a while definately give it ago. See www.leechild.com

GoldieBear

Any books by PD James. The lighthouse is brilliant, i love det. Dalglish. Also for romance try Mary Bond.

Andy-Pandy

yea! I love these threads, i always find some good reads out of them.
Heres a few for ya,
Ive just started reading Steinbeck, Grapes of Rath and Of mice And Men, both amazing. Have you read any Philip Roth? he rocks. Michael Chanbon's Amazing adventures of Caviler and Clay is also very very good. Neil gaiman, George RR Martin, Donna Tartt , the list goes on but these threads usually help me find some jems

GoldieBear

Read Stein beck too, found him brilliant. Going to try Oliver Goldsmith after seeing 'she stoops to conquer' in Trinity last night. I'd recommend Sophies Choice and the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (i'm a realy girly girl!).