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Anyone suggest a good book to read?

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  • #62
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    The Unbearable Lightness of Being


  • #63
    thebigbiffo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭thebigbiffo


    'ceasar' by adrian goldsworthy. i gaurantee you will never read a better historical biography, it is a stunning book about one of history's greatest men


  • #64
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Thanks, might be too high brow in there for me though.:p
    Give it a try.


  • #65
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    Shantaram
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel)

    Based on true live story of Australian who broke out of prison and eventually ended up helping the afghans in their fight against the soviets, epic book


  • #66
    boobar
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    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.

    I enjoyed the Dexter series of books - there are 4 if I remember correctly. Much darker than the TV series. I know that's not true crime but it is about a serial killer.

    The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint was quite a funny book but with some darker moments.

    Boobar


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  • #67
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,341 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Maybe not the OP if they are not into fiction, but someone else may like it: anything by James Lee Burke, crime novels set in Louisiana. He has a very colourful and descriptive writing style, you can almost smell the swamp and hear the crickets.


  • #68
    allanb49
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭allanb49


    Terry Pratchett's Nightwatch.


  • #69
    MOSSAD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭MOSSAD


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I don't like fiction. I like comedy, autobiographies, some science but mainly true crime books. Anything with serial killers or the mafia and I'm hooked.
    A good pal of mine has just brought out her life story.
    She's Chinese-American born and raised in New York,and her life story is quite something else. The book has just been released and here's a Youtube link.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1fD_dcayY


  • #70
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey

    The title refers to coal, that was a name given to coal

    How a billionaire family lost everything
    Lawyers got rich though ;)

    If you ever watched Downton Abbey, that kind of scene

    It's a true story though


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