Recommend me a book(s) to read!!

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i know theres a lot of intellectual on the OCUK forum so i thoght i ask you guys :p

im getting back into reading cause most of the time i just sit on my PC staring at nothing when it could be put into good use like reading a book, so at them moment im in the middle of 1984 By Orwell if no one knows, is there any books out there thats interesting not nesseceraly like 1984, but something with twists in them or a "should" read book.

im a fan of Chuck Palahniuk, but im kinda lazy so i havent read all his books, cept Fight Club and half of Diary (which is terribly boring and bad)

books i dont wont be reading or pick up is soppy romance / da davinci code / horror.

recommend away!
 
ooh ooh...read ALL the Chuck books...he's probably my faaaavourite!!! i cant believe you didnt like Diary. Read Invisible Monsters and Lullaby, they're the best imho.

also, read:

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg. something about that book just makes me love it to death
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
 
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I like to read Andy McNabs books. Bloody good author I think, definitely worth reading some of his.

Remote Control is his first fictional book or if you want to read non-fiction then get Bravo Two Zero or Immediate Action.

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Franz Kafka - The Trial
Franz Kafka - Short Story Collection (there are many)
Franz Kafka - Amerika
Franz Kafka - The Castle

Charles Bukowski - Factotum
Charles Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Charles Bukowski - Post Office

Dan Fante - Chump Change
Dan Fante - Spitting Off Tall Buildings

Jack Kerouac - On The Road.

There you go - 4, 3, 2, 1.

Read them.

*n
 
Sic said:
ooh ooh...read ALL the Chuck books...he's probably my faaaavourite!!! i cant believe you didnt like Diary. Read Invisible Monsters and Lullaby, they're the best imho.

also, read:

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg. something about that book just makes me love it to death
Generation X - Douglas Coupland
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
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i just didnt find Diary that good, it had too many "flashbacks" of the beach and such and got a tad boring nearer the middle, i mean i might give it another go since i am reading 1984 again, but i doubt it be any time soon :p

whats Angels and Demons about? someone recommended me Dan Brown - Digital Fortress dont know if youve read that?

whats Bee Season, seeing as you like it so much? :)
 
Enfield said:
I like to read Andy McNabs books. Bloody good author I think, definitely worth reading some of his.

Remote Control is his first fictional book or if you want to read non-fiction then get Bravo Two Zero or Immediate Action.

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does he write stories like Tom Clancy, most things governmnet related?
 
tbs said:
read this in school 10 years ago, not reading it again :p :D
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pah. I thought i'd just wasted a few days of someones life :p

Seconded: Catcher in the Rye. Though be careful you don't start to hear the voices.

Animal Farm is very good too if you like Orwell. It's very clever. You'd probably get through it in a day or so.
 
I found Catcher in the Rye quite poor. Of Mice and Men I went through in a few hours a couple of weeks ago and then I did the same with Animal Farm. Worth a read but very short books.

I just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. One of the very best books I've read.
 
I came into this thread to recommend Jack Kerouac's On The Road, especially after seeing that you like Palahniuk. However, I see I've been beaten to it.

Andy McNab is mindless trash - you might be interested in it if you just want to switch off and not think for a while, but there are hundreds of better books to do that anyway. I'd steer well clear.
 
Gilly said:
Of Mice and Men I went through in a few hours a couple of weeks ago and then I did the same with Animal Farm.
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I did exactly the same in my first year of uni. Excellent books both of them. I'd also recommend:

John Steinbeck - East of Eden
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

George Orwell - 1984

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception (if you fancy something a bit different)
 
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does he write stories like Tom Clancy, most things governmnet related?
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In his fictional books he played the character Nick Stone, he's an ex-SAS operative and now he works for SIS (MI6).

It really is the mutts nuts mate!


"Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now workiong for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived - and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn't even know which of them is the target.

On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce - and the greed that binds the three together..."
 
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