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Minstadave said:
Really? The last 3 were such a let down to me.
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Yep fantastic books, although i did read them all in Iraq when i was in the Army so i guess i might of fell in love with them simply because they let me escape from reality for a couple hours each night i was allowed off.
I don't know what it is, i guess I'm just a Stephen King fan boi :), i love all his books and there movie screen adaptions.He is a genius in my eyes and the Dark tower series was his masterpiece.
 
Rereading Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck - first read this as a teenager when I hated reading anything considered a classic, always seemed too much work. But steinbeck engages the reader and makes you feel part of the story, and it made me start discovering other clssic books with an open mind.
 
Almost finished book three of the Dark Tower and still massively unconvinced. Three books and almost nothing has happened of note. Can't see at all why these are so highly rated.
 
Almost done with A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, then onto The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins which came in the post today! :D
 
Currently reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami .... last time I was in Japan there was a new volume in the series which had just been released so was being advertised in all the book shops so the title stuck in my head. Walked into Waterstones the other day and saw the first two books have been released in one volume in English so picked up a copy.

Only read the first 4 or so chapters so far but it seems quite good at the moment ...
 
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Tribune said:
Lots of good stuff
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I'd also recommend "Fuhrer" by Allan Prior. It is a novel based on Hitler's life and is remarkedly good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Personally, I'm reading "The Golden City" by John Twelve Hawks. It's the third in "The Traveller" trilogy and, to be blunt, I'm 90% through and just reading it now to finish it (and the series). I'm not really enjoying it greatly as it's all a bit bland and pointless. Who knows, maybe the last 10% will knock my socks off.

I'm also listening to the audiobook versions of Z.A. Recht's Morningstar saga ("Plague of the dead" & "Thunder and Ashes") both of whch are excellent. They're zombie novels but they have a nice way of tying up the sprinting-type zombie (e.g. recent Dawn of the dead remake) with the traditional shuffling type. Sadly, Recht died in Dec 2009, aged 26, without finishing his third book but this has been completed by another author and is slated for a 2012 release.
 
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The Night Watch.

I've bought everything Pratchett has ever written, yet when I was installing a few classics on my iPad I realised I'd somehow managed to miss this one.

T'is superb.

Oh, I'm missing The Last Hero too - I think maybe that one was graphic-novel style, hence it not being available as an ebook?
 
America Unchained by Dave Gorman, interesting read about trying to travel across America without using any chain stores, just independent, one-off shops.
 
lord of the rings.... again

recent titles include a mixture of fiction, scifi, fantasy, thriller, factual history(ww2), anthropology, classical greek:
mort (terry pratchet)
cyclops (clive cusslar)
east of the mountains (david gutterson)
the eagle has landed (jack higgins)
sniper one (dan mills)
the hogfather (terry pratchet)
elric of melnibone (michael moorcock)
ship of shadows (fritz leiber)
vixen 03 (clive cussler)
failsafe (eugine burdick & harvey wheeler)
armageddon (max hastings)
the naked island (Russell braddon)
the thin red line (james jones)
nightfall one (isac asimov)
revolt in 2100 (robert heinlein)
the worthing saga (orson scott card)
the ascent of man (jacob bronwnowski)
the oresteia (aeschylus)

acquisitions for the future:
cosmos (carl sagan)
alone in berlin (hans fadalla)
life and fate (vassily grossman)
the vanishing (also known as 'the golden egg') (tim krabbe)

when you don't watch tv you can read a lot of books :D
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you cannot beat those second hand gems tucked away on the dusty shelves, with the alluring cover art and enticing synopses.
 
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Just finishing off The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F Hamilton 2nd book in the series then onto Manhattan in Reverse also Hamilton then back to The Naked God (same author again) for finish the Night's Dawn Trilogy.
 
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