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Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

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Due to breaking my heel I am now stuck at home for the next month or so and I want something good to read, so any recommendations of good books I could buy or borrow, I like anything really, like humour, horror, war, crime, thriller or just something with a damn good story.
 
Not too keen on Tolkein, find it a bit heavy and I'm not keen on all that fantasy stuff, should have mentioned that :p

saw Da vinci code the film and nearly fell asleep so don't wanna read the book
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Due to breaking my heel I am now stuck at home for the next month or so and I want something good to read, so any recommendations of good books I could buy or borrow, I like anything really, like humour, horror, war, crime, thriller or just something with a damn good story.
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Dunno if you would consider them childrens books or not, but the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy of books are my favourites. They consist of 'Nothern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'. Look them up :) .

Not too keen on Adrian Mole mind...

Edit - And yeah, avoid Tolkien like the plague, ugh! :p
 
Try some of the books by Ben Elton; The First Casualty, Past Mortem, Dead Famous, Popcorn, Inconceivable, High Society and This Other Eden are all pretty good reads.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Da vinci code the film and nearly fell asleep so don't wanna read the book[/QUOI've heard a lotof bad stuff about the film but haven't seen it yet.

The book however is excellent and one of the best reads i've had for ages. The other Dan Brown books are also very good (imho), Angels and Demons being perticularly excellent and even better than the DaVinci Code.
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Expand your literary horizons and check out "100 years of solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. :)
 
Nitefly said:
Dunno if you would consider them childrens books or not, but the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy of books are my favourites. They consist of 'Nothern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'. Look them up :) .
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Agree totally. Really good trilogy. Kept me entertained for a long time and I never got tired of reading it/them.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Think I'll give try "His Dark Materials" as well, some good suggestions here, thanks guys
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Excellent, you won't regret it. I have a signed first edition of the amber spyglass in hardback, got it when I went to see him lecture about his books in a museum in Oxford :cool:
 
Nitefly said:
Dunno if you would consider them childrens books or not, but the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy of books are my favourites. They consist of 'Nothern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'. Look them up :) .
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Agreed, fantastic books.

I'd also highly recommend Iain M. Banks's sci-fi books, mainly the Culture seriesof books, and the Algebraist. They are very well thought out, have fantastic stories, incredible depth (the entire galaxy has a history spanning hundreds of billions of years), and are absolutely believable :)
 
The book however is excellent and one of the best reads i've had for ages. The other Dan Brown books are also very good (imho), Angels and Demons being perticularly excellent and even better than the DaVinci Code.
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Ill second that, read angels and demons twice. absolutely awesum. suspence, action, great.
 
For a totally different kind of book, "The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime" is another favourate. Wasn't "life-changing", but after reading that book I looked at life in a totally different way.
 
Currently re-reading for the umpteenth time:

Robert Asprin
The total Myth series and the Phule series.

Currently there's 5 Phule books *first two are best* and 16 Myth books.

They are vey silly. :D

You know when you've found the right ones because the titles are terrible puns in themselves... eg:

Hit or Myth
Sweet Myth-tery of Life
etc... ;)

They're damn good books - however they should be read in order *although the order for the Myth books is a little screwey - it's not the order they were written in*

Them and the obligatory Terry Pratchett's books reference.
"Music Wiv Rocks in!"

Simon/~Flibster
 
'You Got Nothing Coming' by Jimmy Lerner

The true account of an ordinary man imprisoned among some of the craziest convicts in the USA, all for an act of self defence. It was written while he was in prison, on short chunks of toilet paper sent in the mail to his family. An amazing read.

One of the best books i've ever read and everyone I've lent it to has returned it within a few days, not cos they didnt like it - but, cliche or not, they just could not put it down. Awesome :cool:
 
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