Book recommendations please!
Discussion
Loved Executive Orders. I picked it up from my mother at Christmas and read all 900 pages in something like a 48 hour marathon reading session.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425158632/qid=1140104377/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-0502225-8319203?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
One word of warning - don't buy the hardback (it weighs a tonne!). You should also have read the other Jack Ryan novels before you get to this. THe books were very different to the films. The films even changed the time lines so that Hunt for Red October came after The Sum of All Fears.
Anyway ... if you've read the others, you'll love this. If you haven't read the others - give em a go.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425158632/qid=1140104377/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-0502225-8319203?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
One word of warning - don't buy the hardback (it weighs a tonne!). You should also have read the other Jack Ryan novels before you get to this. THe books were very different to the films. The films even changed the time lines so that Hunt for Red October came after The Sum of All Fears.
Anyway ... if you've read the others, you'll love this. If you haven't read the others - give em a go.
RobM77 said:
Have you read Catch-22? That's very absorbing and will certainly make you think...
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Carter Beats The Devil, Glen David Gold - awesome but seemingly little-known book; I love it!
No, what's Catch 22 all about? I've never heard of it
Its about the insanity of war and will be one of the best books you'll ever read.
RobM77 said:
Oh, and I forgot to say - can you say something about the books as well. A title doesn't mean much to me I should say that I'm not into books about war - or epic extended soap operas
The Poet - Connelly - cop thriller set in America
Birdsong - Faulks - love story set in 1st world war trenches (never seen a bad review...)
Dice Man - Rhienhart - looney who lives life by throwing a dice (or di?)
American Psycho - Ellis - full on, forget the film, oh yes, what a book...
A year in the Merde - Clarke - englishman abroad, good satirical observation of the soap dodgers
seconded! Both very dark, very funny books. You all just HAVE to read Moondust by Andrew Smith.
It's about his (successful) search for the Astronauts from The Apollo Space Project. He interviews each of them bookended by an explanation of how he found and gained access to their time. What they have to say about what they did and what their lives have been like since is fascinating in the extreme. Alcoholism,Narcissim,Depression,Bankruptcy etc...it's all in there. Best book I've read in years
....and I go through 2 a week.
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It's about his (successful) search for the Astronauts from The Apollo Space Project. He interviews each of them bookended by an explanation of how he found and gained access to their time. What they have to say about what they did and what their lives have been like since is fascinating in the extreme. Alcoholism,Narcissim,Depression,Bankruptcy etc...it's all in there. Best book I've read in years
....and I go through 2 a week. >> Edited by aliged on Thursday 16th February 15:57
>> Edited by aliged on Thursday 16th February 15:58
Any Jasper Fforde. My mother got me his first book the Eyre Affair for Christmas a few years ago. Loved it. Got all of them now. Strangely enough he used to work with my father a number of years ago and I actually met him a few times when I was around 9. Also bizzarely another person who worked on the jobs with him and my father then helped me to find my TVR S3 and my Griff.
Either that or any books by Mike Gayle. Absolute genius understanding of the male psyche.
Either that or any books by Mike Gayle. Absolute genius understanding of the male psyche.
Iain BAnks (or Iain M Banks for the sci fi stuff).
Not written a bad book IMHO.
Or if you really want to think - anything by Huxley... (e.g. Brave New world, Chrome Yellow, Island, Eyeless in Gaza etc)
Woudl write descriptions - but you're better off chucking the titles into Amazon and reading the reviews there.....
Not written a bad book IMHO.
Or if you really want to think - anything by Huxley... (e.g. Brave New world, Chrome Yellow, Island, Eyeless in Gaza etc)
Woudl write descriptions - but you're better off chucking the titles into Amazon and reading the reviews there.....
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