Book suggestions

[DazWA9]

Surely not as bad as the ending of the Dark Tower series. I saw the ending coming from about book 4.

It was good until the last two books. Then it just went completely stupid!!

 

[Mayor West]

Currently listening to the stand by Stephen king. For years I put it off because for some unknown reason I thought it was about vampires (BORING), but then I leaned it was about a global pandemic that wiped out 90% of the population. About quarter of the way in so far, it's a HUGE book.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

By the way, @Gelsons Dad, is The Count of Monte Cristo a really good read? I've circled round it for years, but never quite got round to it.

Gripping. Even third time round.

 

[JRockBlues]

By the way, @Gelsons Dad, is The Count of Monte Cristo a really good read? I've circled round it for years, but never quite got round to it.

Gripping. Even third time round.

Absolutely agree with this. Before I read it I'd watched a few of the different movies/TV adaptations and referred to the actual novel as the best book I'd never read. After I finally gave in and read it that term just went to the best book.

 

[salfordbluetrue]

Stephen R Donaldson`s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, it works if you want to delve in or skirt over extremely well written

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Oh, and a strong recommendation for anyone who doesn't know it. The Master and Margerita, Mikhail Bulgakov. I read it close on fifty years ago in my student days and was knocked out. I went back to it (and a fresh translation) last year slightly worried. Tastes change as you change. I needn't have been worried. A wonderfully inventive and playful piss take of Stalin's Russia. He died in 1940, and it circulated in samizdat form for decades. Was published in Russian in Paris in the 60s, and was immediately recognised as a masterpiece and translated into many languages.

 

[richardtheref]

Just started I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Have had the book for 2 years but being nearly 900 pages I have put it off but no better time than now.

 

[CockneyWanchor]

Very much NOT one of his kids' books. The man had a genius imagination - and a filthy mind!! (the Amazon preview starts at the beginning)

 

[axlgod]

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band - Mötley Crüe.

It’s shocking, filthy, funny, moving, shocking, dirty, shocking, filthy & filthy.

I loved it!

 

[discopop]

Just started I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Have had the book for 2 years but being nearly 900 pages I have put it off but no better time than now.

its a belter pity the follow up is about three years late