What books, based on my previous history of books that I have read, do you think I would like?

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I have read

1984, Animal Farm, and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. I think I've read other books but they don't come to mind.

Basically I'm after a gripping story but with not too much boring descriptive. I think half a page painting me a picture of an object is pompous jerk material and I'd rather read a story or a plot etc.

In Animal Farm it told me a story about evil pigs and sad brave horses, in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! it told me lots of stories and snippets, often comedic about Richard Feynman's life and I enjoyed it greatly. I didn't enjoy 1984 as much as these two books.

Oh, actually I've just remembered I've read Bravo Two Zero and I like this book too.

What are books you would recommend and I'll pick the book that gets recommended the most. I also think 300-400 pages is a pretty good max limit, any more and I just end up wondering more about when it will end rather than the book itself.

 

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Hmmm, on the cover of I am Messanger the authors name is larger than the title, is this arrogance reflected in his writing?

Also is the English version of Papilon good? I enjoyed the film with Steve McQueen.

 

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GoodReads - create an account, add a few of your current books and give a star rating to the ones you like and off you go

Thanks but

You need to rate at least 20 books to get Goodreads Recommendations.

I've not read 20 books.

It seems I need some basics under my belt. You know if you were to recomend films to someone whose basically only seen 3 there would be a list of films you would tell them to watch regardless of what they like, you'd tell them to watch the matrix and the starwars films, you'd tell them to watch toy story, oceans eleven at least one james bond film, home alone, rocky, rambo, fistful of dollars, dirty harry etc etc.

What are some of the basic books that everyone should read as a basic grounding.

 

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Pompous jerk material. Amazing. I'll send you some of my kids' books if you like.

Maybe it's just my personality but i prefer a book to just explain a situation rather than needlessly describe things that don't add to the plot.

In that 'I Am The Messenger' book somebody higher up recommended, in the first chapter somebodies face is on the carpet, however it uses 2 lines to explain what sort of carpet it is, even though I don't care what sort of carpet it is and it could indeed be described differently with no further impact.

 

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Fair enough, I'm probably getting the hump because you're basically calling me a pompous jerk because I've read books with a few descriptive passages.

I'd probably best bow out because I doubt I can add anything that'll be of help.

You've misunderstood me. I think large paragraphs devoted to descriptive nonsense is jerk-off material for a pompous man, and I'll instantly dislike the author as someone that thinks too much of themselves. I wasn't criticizing every reader.

 

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He's the man that formed my hatred

 

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I figured that, though interestingly you haven't read any of his books

What genres are you open to? Sci-fi? Fantasy? Crime? Thriller?

I've read LotR up to the end of the bit where they find the mushrooms and I've read half of the hobbit, this was years ago though and I never finished them so I didn't list them.

I'm open to those genres yes. I don't want anything to 'cult-admired' in case I'm turn out not to be a member of that cult. Just something that sucks me in and makes me forget I'm having to read to get the story. One thing I enjoy about films is that I can very easily enjoy a story, with the few books I've read the ones I've enjoyed most have been easiest to read because I forget I'm doing so.

Just remembered I've read 'Flatland a romance of many dimensions' and enjoyed that a great deal too.

 

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I got the sequel to Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman and I got Game of Thrones.

Literally just got GoT through the post. I've been enjoying it on the tellybox but everywhere I go there is always a significant amount of people telling me how much better the books are. Just read the prologue and I liked that. I'll see how it goes. It was £5 inc delivery which I think is VERY cheap.

Am I right in thinking I can read two books at the same time? Just as I can watch multiple TV series alongside each other or are books different and I should stick to one at a time?