Going to the beach for 5 days and need some recommendations for a great book. Recently read and enjoyed: Aztec Cryptonomicon Devil In The White City Ghost Wars Thanks
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-5638060-5581460?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
I'd reccomend: Fight Club Invisible Monsters Lullaby Diary Choke If you didn't notice, I'm a bit of a Chuck Palahniuk fan.
I'm reading Friday Night Lights for the 2nd time at the moment. Amazing book. I'm trying to finish it before the book on Enron that I ordered from Amazon arrives, The Smartest Guys in the Room, or something like that. I've heard it's a good read. I'm not much of a fiction guy. I prefer non-fiction.
No, and I'm a little nervous too because a few friends have read it and were let down. I'll check it out eventually though. Invisible Monsters is probably my favorite Chuck book, just wait until you get towards the end! Have you read any of his other books? My last two were Diary and Lullaby, both of which were very good. I liked Lullaby a bit more though.
The last 6 books I have read are:- All the Shah's Men - Stephen Kinzer (non fiction) The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara (historical fiction) Angels & Demons - Dan Brown (fiction) Friday Night Lights - Bissenger (non fiction) Fast Food Nation - Schlosser (non fiction) Short History of almost everything - Bill Bryson (non fiction) The Good German - Joseph Kanon (historical fiction) I would recommend any of them
I highly recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. A very entertainingly written history of, well, nearly everthing from the history of the Earth to the Big Bang to how we got here. If you like science books that are very technical, you may not like it (it's designed to entertain more than anything) but I really enjoyed it. By the way, if you like technical books for the layman The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene is pretty good. I'm about half-way through that one.... A Short History of Nearly Everything
I just finished reading 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams. Man, that book was awesome. It's about rabbits. Rabbits are awesome.
Just recently finished The Godfather Returns by Mark Weingardner, which wasn't that bad, but wasn't great either. Also finished reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, which I thought was excellent.
Since you have already read Aztec by Gary Jennings I would suggest you read some of his other work. The followup to Aztec (Aztec Autumn) is a must, but admittedly not quite world class like Aztec is. You might instead find Journeyer (easily found on Amazon) or Raptor. Both are in the same style of Aztec and both excellent. I would also recommend 'Julian' and 'Creation' by Gore Vidal The River God by Wilbur Smith 'Texas' and 'Space' by James Mischner Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett And believe it or not, 'Red Dragon', Silence of the Lambs' and Hannibal by Thomas Harris are superbly written and completely gripping. I could go on, but wont.......
