The book recommendation thread

[Dr. Vollin]

For non-fiction, any of Stephen W. Sears' Civil War books (Landscape Turned Red, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg) - and Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star.

 

[me4o]

Each and every one of Lee Childs' series about Jack Reacher. Also, almost everything by Tony Parsons, Nick Hornby and Robert Crais. And a very lovely book by John Grisham- Playing for pizza 😉

 

[Knox The Hatter]

John Irving. A Prayer For Owen Meany.

 

[ali32]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

🙂

Ali32

 

[Capnmad]

Slowly, slowly working my way through Lovecraft's "Necronomicon".

 

[ticklemepls]

My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult
House Rules- Jodi Picoult
Texas series (Texas Heat, Fury, Rich, and Sunrise... not in order lol)- Fern Michaels


countless others but i wont sit here and name them all 😛

 

[emilyemilyemily]

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who writes 3 memoirs? someone awesome, that's who. also, i'm reading them in reverse order because i'm stupid.

 

[LD_Tickler]

Watership Down,and Tales From Watership Down,by Richard Adams.

Funny story about Watership Down... I started reading it as a kid but got upset and put it down when I realized that it was not, in fact, about naval warfare and the sinking of ships. 😀

 

[Taye]

Kurt Vonnegut's - Slaughterhouse 5 (antiwar/sci-fi - based on kurt vonneguts experience's)
Scott Lynch's - The Lies Of Locke Lamora (fantasy)
Warren Ellis's - Crooked Little Vein (Mystery)

The list just goes on..

 

[Bugman]

For non-fiction, any of Stephen W. Sears' Civil War books (Landscape Turned Red, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg) - and Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star.

I've read Son of the Morning Star, great book. If you have never read And Die in the West, by Paula Mitchell Marks, I highly recommend it. It's the story of what really happened at the O.K. Corral, but the book is broader in scope then that.

 

[Dr. Vollin]

I've read Son of the Morning Star, great book. If you have never read And Die in the West, by Paula Mitchell Marks, I highly recommend it. It's the story of what really happened at the O.K. Corral, but the book is broader in scope then that.

I've read And Die in the West; it's another great book.

Currently I'm reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

[Bugman]

I've read And Die in the West; it's another great book.

Currently I'm reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I suspected you might have, considering where you live. 😉

I never got around to reading Jekyll and Hyde. My reading list is so long, it's doubtful I ever will.

 

[The Fallen Angel]

"angels and demons", "the da vinici code" and "the lost symbol"- dan brown

 

[F_magician4f]

WORLD WAR Z, The oral history of the Zombie war.

By Max Brooks (Mel Brooks' son). Very good story.

 

[Snail Shell]

I recommend the following:

Preacher - Garth Ennis
Y: The Last Man - Brian K. Vaughn
Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis
100 Bullets - Brian Azzarello
Empowered - Adam Warren

Snail Shell

 

[Mephistopheles]

The book which gives you an answer to why we colonized the Americas and they didn't sail over here, why China was so incredibly backward a century ago and why the people in the mountains of Papua New Guinea (who speak some 7000 languages ) aren't Polynesian of descent unlike the ones in on the coast of the very same island.


seems to be a film made based on the book, but you can't translate several hundred pages of brilliance into 90 minutes of film.

You can ofcourse always scrutinize the details, but the guy isn't an expert on the fields he covers, it's a very good book in a broad perspective.

and it's a good read.

 

[Bugman]

The book which gives you an answer to why we colonized the Americas and they didn't sail over here, why China was so incredibly backward a century ago and why the people in the mountains of Papua New Guinea (who speak some 7000 languages ) aren't Polynesian of descent unlike the ones in on the coast of the very same island.


seems to be a film made based on the book, but you can't translate several hundred pages of brilliance into 90 minutes of film.

You can ofcourse always scrutinize the details, but the guy isn't an expert on the fields he covers, it's a very good book in a broad perspective.

and it's a good read.

 

[c7_assassin]

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Mind-expanding.

 

[Dr. Vollin]

Here's another one I just thought of.

 

[Bugman]

Mencken: The American Iconoclast, by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. A fine read it is. 😀

 

[Bugman]

3 of my favourites,
First one is "Max" based on the death of Robert Maxwell and the involvement of Mossad in his death.
Second one, a british SAS soldier Andy McNab, some people might of heard of him, written loads of good books, just finished "Deep Black" but any of his are worth a read if your into the military/army genre.
And my favourite book of all time "The Forth Estate" by Jeffrey Archer, brilliant book about two men who are born in different circumstances and then go head to head to see who is the biggest media mogul of there generation. Thought I should input a little more on the forum 🙂

Your contribution to this thread is appreciated. Sounds like some intresting reading there. 🙂

 

[Bows+Arrows]

I'm currently reading Nabokov's Lolita. He really is a brilliant brilliant English writer, and English isn't even his first language. Before that I read Catcher in the Rye mostly because I had just never read it before.

The book I recommend to almost everyone I meet though (since this is the "book recommendation thread"), is Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Everybody watches the movie, but no one's read the fantastically disturbing source material. Good shit.

That's a classic, and she is still with us. She worked on the research along with her friend Truman Capote which would result in the book In Cold Blood and later the film about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.

In Cold Blood is a great novel. Analyzed that for about 7 months senior year of High School. I had a damn cool teacher.

 

[Bugman]

I'm currently reading Nabokov's Lolita. He really is a brilliant brilliant English writer, and English isn't even his first language. Before that I read Catcher in the Rye mostly because I had just never read it before.

The book I recommend to almost everyone I meet though (since this is the "book recommendation thread"), is Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Everybody watches the movie, but no one's read the fantastically disturbing source material. Good shit.



In Cold Blood is a great novel. Analyzed that for about 7 months senior year of High School. I had a damn cool teacher.

More great suggestions! Thanks. 😀

I'll add The Executioner's Song, by Norman Mailer. When I first came across it, it was one of those books I could not put down.

 

[Deleted member 66627]

Candy Girl by Diablo Cody.

-- This broad is wicked. It's a memoir about her life as a stripper. Her personality is ace and it shows thoroughly in her work.

Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy Bundle: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

-- Kind of hard to explain these. They aren't the typical "Chick-lit" that I prefer to read. But I bought the set and am only still on the first book [[Dragon tattoo]].

 

[c7_assassin]

The book I recommend to almost everyone I meet though (since this is the "book recommendation thread"), is Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Everybody watches the movie, but no one's read the fantastically disturbing source material. Good shit.

American Psycho is awesome, but Bret Easton Ellis's writing style is kind of an acquired taste.

If you like him, I suggest you check out Glamorama and especially Lunar Park.

But don't wait too long; with every soul I consume my hunger only grows, and your distant fears call me from afar.

I exist in the empty spaces behind your consciousness. I am the sound of every nightlight going out.