What good books have you read lately?

[virometal]

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Originally Posted by Capital R "Fight Club", "Choke" and "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk.

Great books. I just read Suvivor and need to get around to Haunted. But have been in a Bret Easton Ellis faze lately - American Psycho, Less Than Zero, The Informers. and Rules of Attraction.

When the above get too post modern, it is time for trashy fun like Carl Hiaasen who writes wonderfully entertaining crime fiction.

 

[geek707]

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Originally Posted by ooheadsoo I just picked up Consider Phlebas and read a few pages of the prologue. I can live with the writing...I put most books down because the writing stinks (IMO) to high heaven. Not that I can write worth jack, of course.

This is my 4th Banks since I picked up the first one (Look to Windward) in London in April. Consider Phlebas is on my to read shelf.

 

[Welly Wu]

William Lashner, Falls The Shadow and Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men. Robert Harley, The Complete Guide to High-End Audio and Home Theater for Everyone.

 

[Jmmmmm]

Tuesdays with Morrie is a great book and a very easy read. I'm a very slow reader with no time and I read it in two days. One of those you don't put down until you finish it. Of course it doesn't hurt that it's about a professor at my former college.

Of course da vinci code. It was not what I was expecting, but it was very good. My favorite book is the count of monte cristo by dumas. (Don't ever see the movie, it was the most horrendous butchering of a good story that I've ever seen.)

 

[fewtch]

I'm re-reading John Norman's "Gor" series. Basically pulp junk, but lots of high adventure and female slavery.

I've got about 2/3 of the series, the remaining books I don't have are rare and very pricey on eBay (I can do without, one gets sick of the series after awhile).

http://www.worldofgor.com

 

[rsaavedra]

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Originally Posted by Jmmmmm My favorite book is the count of monte cristo by dumas. (Don't ever see the movie, it was the most horrendous butchering of a good story that I've ever seen.)

Good I haven't seen the movies

A friend of mine's favorite book is The Three Mosqueteers. I actually have both of these books by Dumas but haven't managed to read them, will put both in my read list.

 

[BillyC]

Wow, now some of my favourite novels are getting mentioned.

Survivor is my favourite novel. Choke is also a really good book.

The Count of Monte Cristo was my favourite novel until I discovered Palahniuk.

Another recent interesting read was 'A Prayer for the Dying' by Stewart O'Nan. Second person narrative coolness.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

 

[Spiritboxer]

Orson Scott Card's "Magic Street", a gracefully told fairy tale.

 

[mr.karmalicious]

Fabric of the Cosmos and The Elegant Universe, both by Brian Greene. Interesting stuff -- general/special relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, black holes, time travel, teleportation... yay physics!

 

[Rav]

Most recently Thud! by Terry Pratchett. Re-read Good Omens (Pratchett and Neil Gaiman) before that, and also Harry Potter 6.

 

[Snake]

Previously "A History of Twenthieth-Century Russia" by Service. Just started David McCullough's "The Johnstown Flood". Light reading - I love a good disaster book.

 

[mikeg]

Just started "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)" by Robert Spencer. This is really scary stuff.

 

[Kameleon]

Glad to see there are some other Orson Scott Card fans here

My favourite other than the Ender/Bean books (Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and Speaker for the Dead in particular are three of my favourite books of all time) is Lost Boys. Incredibly creepy and well told, focusing on relationships between people which is OSC's forte.

 

[aaroncort]

I just read Don Quixote and was very suprised what a great, charming and funny novel it is. Cervantes sets up the story on so many levels and then will playfully contradict himself, bringing it all down. Who knew people could write like that 400 years ago.

I also just found a first print of raymod carver's cathedral. I re-read it the other week and loved it all over again. It warmed my heart to realize that Carver will most likely endure for a very long time. For people that like Chekhovian short stories, Carver is about as good as it gets.

 

[canloader]

Tesla: Nikola The Modern Sorcerer

This guy was was going give the world free electricity! So "they" snuffed him out.