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Waylander

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

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.

Waylander

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

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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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!

Lord Khan

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

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

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/

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:)

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.

Waylander

Thanks folks that should keep me occupied for a while

buck65

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.