for the record i went to target to buy a new mouse for my comp and just browsed the book section; i woudln't go there strictly for a book
Here are some of the better books I have rad over the last few years. It would help if you indicated what your reading preferences are - fiction/nonfiction, spy, thriller, history etc... Non Fiction All the Shah's Men - Stephen Kinzer Short History of almost everything - Bill Bryson Ghost Wars - Steve Coll Arab and Jew -Wounded spirits in the promised land - David Shipler Guests of the Ayotollah - Mark Bowden Fiction Anything by Frederic Forsyth Anything by Nelson DeMille Also try Henry Porter, Le Carre, Vince Flynn Historical Fiction The Good German - Joseph Kanon Pompei - Robert Harris The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Gates of the Alamo - Steven Hartigan
Yet you do when you watch television? To me, reading is like watching TV and to be done at times when you would otherwise be watching television. I read a lot of fiction. Here are a few recommendations: A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole Choke (or Survivor) by Chuck Palahniuk (sp?) Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (though it is written phonetically in a scottish dialect) Brave New World by Huxley Everything is Illuminated by Foer I have a ton more, but any of those would work EDIT: Also, try Half-Price books. As someone posted before, it is a lot easier to recommend if I know what type of books you are interested in reading
I agree with all of those. Also, I have to recommend the book I'm reading right now--"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote.
Just a few in Escapist fiction for ya... All of Stephen King's stuff up until he started just churning it out...... Half of Grisham's books... Ken Follett - great writer with nice range (can stick the 3) Older Robert Ludlum Point of Impact - Stephen Hunter Nelson DeMille Bret Easton Ellis Older Clive Cussler some sweet biographies.... Brando - The author was Mancuso I believe Houdini - It's on the shelf now.....pretty new. and very good. Bogart - I don't remember the author but it has a grey jacket. One biography I want to lay my hands on is the best on Howard Hughes....just haven't researched it yet to find the right one. OMT......"NOONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE"...Jim's trip.
really i am all over the board with my preferences, i would say i'm more of a fiction fan though.. my favorite book is american psycho (i read it b4 the movie) if that tells you anything appreciate the suggestions
Try those Harry Potter books.. Or maybe even LOTR trilogy. They'll save you some time than watching the movie.
I am a big Stephen King fan and am currently reading The Dark Tower series (Im on book 2 of 7). Its freaking awesome and I highly recommend it. You can buy them individually on paperback for 10 bucks a pop, or you can go to amazon and buy a boxset with the first 4 for about $22. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman is pretty good as well. The movie of the first book (The Golden Compass) comes out in a couple of weeks...
Did you ever see the flick, L.A. Confidential? The novel, L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy, is excellent. Many of the lines in the film are literally straight out of the book, word for word. (the book came out before the film ) It's the 3rd in his L.A. Quartet series. Great reads. Pullman's His Dark Materials series, as mentioned above, is fantastic, if you like really good fantasy and alternative history. Speaking of alternative history, one of my favorite things (ever think about what the world could be like if Germany had won WWII, or the South had won the Civil War?), writer S.M. Sterling has some terrific reads with his alternative history series dealing with the sudden disappearance of electricity and things that are explosive. It's very sudden. Planes fall out of the sky, the water quits running from the tap because the water system breaks down, everything refrigerated goes bad... the world basically goes back to the Middle Ages overnight in a lot of ways. The first is Dies the Fire. Interested in how sudden climate change, a real possibility if the Gulf Stream were to stop running over a year or two, something that happened just before the last ice age, like, for real, were to really happen? Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a superb series, with excellent use of hard science and politics in Washington, about just that in the near future. Say a few years from now. The first is Forty Signs of Rain. Great read if you want to get educated as you're freakin' out! I'll post some more, later, if I wake up.
Seconded, that is a great book. A non-fiction book that's better than fiction that everyone should read before they watch the movie is Charlie Wilson's War.
I always buy books at half price books store.. never go to the B&N or Borders because they can be expensive sometimes (actually all the time), unless I really need it ASAP and couldn't find it anywhere else. However there's a good place on 59N and Shepherd. They have a pretty nice collection of comic books.
If you like American Psycho, then maybe check out Chuck Palahniuk. He wrote Fight Club which has some similarities with AP. Choke is probably my favorite Palahniuk book, but I also ready Diary, and Lullaby and enjoyed them.
Seconded. And if you don't mind reading books before the movie comes out, read McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. One of my favorite books of all-time, movie opens here on the 21st, I think. Stupid B-Bob can watch it this weekend if he wants.
Read that Yao book, Yao: A Life in Two Worlds. It's a very entertaining read. You get to read Yao's sense of humor in full effect and all his great stories about his first time over here and anything else he had to go through.
read that series. Book Three is the best. You'll love it. That is, until you read the final book. Not happy with it
