Gimme some good book recommendations!

[Horror whore]

I haven't been reading much lately, mostly due to the fact that I haven't found anything interesting. The last book I read was The Killing Game by Iris Johansen, I highly recommend it... But other than that I haven't had any luck with good books... So this is a thread where people can come in and talk about great books they've read lately...

[bmain77]

About the only reading I get to do anymore is for classes, but here are some highlights from the past semester.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: I have to admit I really loved it, though I had my doubts going in.

Going After Cacciato by Tom O'Brien: It's set in Viet Nam, but is not exactly a war novel.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon: You might want to check to spelling on the last name of the author. It's a very strange novel set in the late 60's or early 70's. A very strange book that probably needs to be read more than once, but if you allow yourself to be pulled along on that first time through is a fun read.

[Batgirl1979]

I'd have to say the best book I ever read was Stephen King's The Stand: the complete and uncut version. I have read it twice already! Other than that I also liked The girl who loved Tom Gordon(Stephen King), Phantoms and The vision(dean Koontz) and Seasons of passage(Christopher Pike).
The last book I read was White Shark by Peter Benchely which was pretty good.

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F.E.A.R~Fuck Everything And Run

[kiwihitman]

Along came a spider
kiss the girls
Jack and Jill
Roses are red
Violets are blue

Ya I'm a Patterson fan :cool:

[Cyclonus]

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

[Fettdog]

My recommendations would be....

The Straw Men by Michael Marshall - very classy dark thriller

Birdman and The Treatment by Mo Hayder

Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham

Messiah and Storm by Boris Starling

anything by Michael Connelly (particularly his Harry Bosch series)

anything by John Connelly (no relation!)

anything by Lee Childs (the excellent Jack Reacher series)

anything by James Patterson (particularly the Alex Cross books)


....that should keep ya busy for a while!

[A.J. Hakari]

BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN by Sharyn McCrumb - A great satire on the world of fanboys, conventions, and the like.

SUPERSTITIOUS by R.L. Stine - A very bizarre, adult supernatural thriller.

[James Logan]

Anything by Charles Dickens, the Sherlock Holmes books, and books by Alexandre Dumas, like THE THREE MUSKETEERS. They're classic, but they're the best. :cool:

[The Postmaster General]

American Hero by Leonard Bernhart

[moby is still alive]

Scavenger by Tom Savage

Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen

Give A Boy A Gun by Todd Strasser

[SAI]

The Screwtape Letters By CS Lewis
With Nails By Richard E Grant (These are film diaries by Grant, a British actor who played Withnail in Withnail and I, the most entertaining movie book I've read)
Popcorn
Blast From The Past By Ben Elton
Which Lie Did I Tell?
The Princess Bride By William Goldman

[dpf3737]

James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
George Orwell - 1984

[jackson13]

Any book by Tim Dorsey, my favorite author. His books are:
Florida Roadkill
Hammerhead Ranch Motel
Orange Crush
Triggerfish Twist

His character are classic, especially Serge A. Storms and his books are wild rides. I have all of his books and everytime I read them I can easily see myself watching it like a movie, or actually just being it. Excellent author. Also, check out any book by Fight Club author Chuck Pahlaniuk, he has great reads as well (Specially Invisible Monsters).

[xirtam]

The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
(all part of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman)

[bowieee]

Betting on the muse by bukowski
Beautiful Losers by leanord Cohen
Ask the dust- John Fante
Naked Lunch- Burroughs

[Lindsey]

Any Stephen King book.

[Benny]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

[Batgirl1979]

Other than The Stand I can't believe I forgot Desperation.(King)
I hope this gets made into a movie that does it justice.

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F.E.A.R~Fuck Everything And Run

[aixela]

I do like Iris Johansen but my favorite series right now is the Shadow trilogy by Kay Hooper
Out of the Shadows
Hiding in Shadows
Stealing Shadows

:D

[Romero&Juliet]

hrmm.. Cat an Mouse by Gunter Grass.

I guess you'd consider it a kind of "guy thing" (you'd have to read it).. but its one of the most imaginative books I've ever read..
a real head fuck.. actually gave me a few nightmares!!



A study of one Jaochim Malkhe; the narrator's boyhood friend. the Narrator tries to piece together the secret behind Malkhe's bizarre necklaces, almost a half a century after they knew each othet..
Massive tools, screwdrivers, Can Openers, a German War Medal that Malkhe salvaged form a sunken ship!! It becomes an obsession to him to try and figure out why Malkhe would want to cover up his enormous Adam's Apple.
Malkhe becomes so attached with the trinkets he wears and adopts personalities to match them.. so when the Second World War Comes along, its up to our hero to try and Stop Malkhe before he inlists!!! THEN it gets wierd...

Highly reccomended.

[Psychocandy]

If you really are a horror whore then you should have read I Am Legend by Richard Matheson by now. If not then shake your booty down to the nearest book shop and rectify the situation forthwith. It's the best Vampire novel ever.

Also...pick up just about anything by Simon Clark (especially Blood Crazy & King Blood), Dan Simmons (especially Summer of Night) and try and track down some of Robert R McCammon's excellent horror novels (especially Swan Song, Stinger & The Wolf's Hour). Actually McCammon's best book is This Boys Life which is nothing short of a modern masterpiece. Hope this helps. Trust me...all of the aforementioned are pure entertainment from cover to cover.

[spacemonkey]

YOu wanna read something that will blow your mind? Check these books out without hesitation:

Survivor

Invisible Monsters

Choke

Trust me you wont be dissapointed, that is unless your in a coma. These books are something new, something youve never experienced, youll have a new literary heroe once youve read em and his name will be Chuck Palahniuk.

Didnt wanna be obvious by suggesting Fight Club, but yeah check it out, its a modern day masterpiece. Chucks books are filled with satire and spark, if you enjoy that sort of thing, youll LOVE these books, theyre not the same run of the mill books this babies are special.

[Mr_Cheese]

It is not so much an entertainment book as a book that will open your eyes to some appalling things but check out Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. It was one of the most amazing reads ever. It talks about the rise of the fast food industry, labour practices, government inaction, the meat packing industry etc... I recommend that everyone read this book.

[Grebdron]

I'm very partial to Morrell's early work. I'm not usually a fan of espionage stories, but The Brotherhood of the Rose, Testament, The Fraternity of the Stone, The League of Night and Fog are all outstanding. Especially BOTR. Very in-depth and well written.

[RogueSpear]

If you're in to horror/action books then I recommend anything from Robert R. McCammon. Someone I feel ranks right up there with Stephen King and far exceeds Dean Koontz just because his books are so original.

My favorite of his books, The Wolf's Hour is a werewolf spy story set in France during World War II. I know it sounds far fetched (I thought it did at It's full of awesome action sequences.

Swan Song is another good Robert McCammon book which details the fight between good and evil after nuclear war has ravaged everything. They Thirst is a very good vampire story. It's unfortunate that McCammon has retired from writing. he was very good.

I would also recommend Blood Crazy by Simon Clark. Here's the plot: One day a guy wakes up to find that every adult in the world has gone crazy and all they want to do is kill children under the age of 19. It's bloody, gory and a hell of a good book. I highly recommend it.

[the p&j experiance]

Anything that Palahniuk has written

uh, The Nephillim by I don't know.

Stinger by Robert something

Swan Song by Robert something

All of the Hannibal Lecter books

Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

I'll think of some more later.

[RogueSpear]

Originally posted by the p&j experiance

Stinger by Robert something

Swan Song by Robert something



That would be Robert R. McCammon...

[scottish-movie-freak]

Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel

The Rules Of Attraction- Brett Easton Ellis

K-Pax Trilogy- Gene Brewer

The Mothman Prophecies- John A Keel

Dreamcatcher- Stephen King

The Hole- Guy Burt


I am thinking of buying Possession by A S Byatt or Bully: A Tale Of High School Revenge by Jim Schultze so I suppose, in a way, I could recommend these too. I'll add anything else I read in the future!