Book suggestions

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Ric said:
Yeah, it's a brilliant novel. Not quite sure what's happening with the follow up, The Year of the Locust? Publication date seems to keep getting pushed back.
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Bugs the crap out of me when authors keep pushing dates back. I read a trilogy of fantasy books by a guy called Patrick Rothfuss. They were some of the best fantasy books ive ever read (i love fantasy), but when i read them he was in the porcess of writing the 3rd book. That was 6 years ago and still no signs of the third book. I think he takes some sick perverse sense of achievement at winding people up so much.
 
Seeing as the request doesn't narrow it down too much I'm just gonna post my top 3 authors and series and overall favourite book.

Authors: Glen Duncan, Chris Brookmyre & Ken Bruen
Series: Dresden Files (Jim Butcher), Vorkosigan (Lois McMaster Bujold) & Adamsberg (Fred Vargas)

Overall favourite: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
 
jimharri said:
Hope he's a better author than he is a bloke.

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The TV people decided he was more telegenic than the old and bold SF men of higher rank and more experience and gave him more status than he warranted if he continued serving.
Good soldiers do not get sent to prison for assaulting women especially female police officers.
But as always reality tv is far divorced from reality.
 
For some reason I cant explain I am going through the Game, Set and Match series of books by Len Deighton, low rent spy stuff and its excellent.

Philip Kerr is worth a shot with the Bernie Gunther series.

Nelson DeMille rarely writes a duff story so check his work out
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Is his book on Berlin genuinely as good as Stalingrad? Stalingrad reads like a thriller, but the thriller of an entire city. And the best thing about it is that it's true. It's seriously documented. Utterly gripping.
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Yes. It's the natural follow up and equally brilliant. Didn't enjoy his Ardennes one so much as those two.
 
Brightwells left peg said:
I guess it takes all sorts.

Both were given to me as presents by my father in law who was fairly high in the British military.
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He also gave me 'The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich'. Also an incredible book, but it's very thick with small writing so puts a lot of people off. Hard to read at the start, but once you get into it near impossible to put down. Took me about 6 weeks to read.
 
discopop said:
For some reason I cant explain I am going through the Game, Set and Match series of books by Len Deighton, low rent spy stuff and its excellent.

Philip Kerr is worth a shot with the Bernie Gunther series.

Nelson DeMille rarely writes a duff story so check his work out
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Those 9 Deighton novels are an absolute joy - great shout that.

I took up a recommendation from The Times a couple of weeks ago and downloaded the first Dave Robicheaux novel on the kindle. Enjoyed it, nothing too arduous, took me away to New Orleans for a few days - and there’s another 20+ books in the series - gonna cost me upwards of £100 to read em all though!
 
chesterbells said:
Those 9 Deighton novels are an absolute joy - great shout that.

I took up a recommendation from The Times a couple of weeks ago and downloaded the first Dave Robicheaux novel on the kindle. Enjoyed it, nothing too arduous, took me away to New Orleans for a few days - and there’s another 20+ books in the series - gonna cost me upwards of £100 to read em all though!
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I Have done the first 9 Robicheaux books and my maud has done the lot, very evocative writing. If you like New Orleans have you tried A Quiet Vendetta by R.J Ellory? highly recommend it
 
John Niven understands our generation better than almost anybody. Kill Your Friends and sequel Kill ‘Em All are excellent satirical thrillers.
 
Ric said:
In need of some inspiration for new reading material. Any recommendations?
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The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
Anything and everything by Clive James
The Unfortunates by BS Johnson
Tainted Life Marc Almond
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Midnight in the garden of good and evil John Berendt
In Plain Sight Dan Davies
10 Rillington Place Ludovic Kennedy
Wicked Beyond Belief Michael Bilton
I'm Jack Mark Blacklock
You Could do something amazing with your life (you are raoul moat) Andrew Hankinson
Raging Bull Jake La Motta
Dark Trade Donald Mcrae
Mcillveney on boxing
Mcillveney on football
Undisputed truth Mike Tyson
Any Joe Simpson book
Tilting at Windmills Andy Millar
French Revolutions and Gironimo both by Tim Moore
Pyjama Game Mark Law
The Climb Anatoli Boukreev
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer

Oh, and anything and everything by Clive James (start with the first 3 of his biographies)
 
'Shogun' and 'Tai Pan' are classics from 'Clavell' if you've never gotten around to them
' lonesome Dove' and all the off shoots by Mcmurtry are excellent
'The Girl with the dragon tattoo' trilogy
'Triggerfish Twist' and that whole series by Tim Dorsey are good for humour
'Dune'
Probably not the best time to get into Stephen King right now, especially 'The Stand'
 
Not particularly uplifting stuff in these (or any) times but A Life Too Short, about the German keeper Robert Enke who threw himself under a train 10 years ago.

Really thought provoking stuff despite the morbid topic.
 
Brightwells left peg said:
He also gave me 'The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich'. Also an incredible book, but it's very thick with small writing so puts a lot of people off. Hard to read at the start, but once you get into it near impossible to put down. Took me about 6 weeks to read.
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Yes, William Shirer. I first read that book, if you can believe this, when I was eleven or twelve. I had never seen a book that big, and I didn't even know that books could be that big (the only thing I'd ever seen of that length was the Bible) . I had to steel myself to it initially — as you say, the print is very dense, too — but once I got past the first couple of hundred pages, I couldn't leave it. I re-read it in my late twenties, I believe, and found it just as interesting. Another bloody great big wrist-breaking tome that I owned at the time (when I was twelve or so) was Russia at War, by Alexander Werth. Both books were published by Pan, as I remember it. That one went missing, and I never got round to reading it, which I regret. I see from Amazon that it's been reissued. Must get round to that, now I'm retired.
 
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