Favourite book

jamazin

As the film thread turned into a debate about books.Mine is slightly kiddie aand embarassing but the last harry potter book is graeat :oops:

welshkev

the stars tennis balls by steven fry is an amzing book, just get through the first 2 or 3 slow chapters.

thekickingmule

The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Walking on Glass by Iain Banks are all good.
Also, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Much better than any film or musical, it's a great story!

supertwisted

Conrad's Heart of Darkness is my intellectual choice.

My geek favourite is the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb.

Love reading though, wish I could get more undisturbed time in which to do it.

nonnac85

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which I bought when I was visiting Auschwitz - the film is pretty good too.

Edit: I have just finished a book called Lone Traveller: One Woman Two Wheels and the World by Anne Mustoe about her bike journey round the world which was really interesting.

Northwind

Espedair Street by Iain Banks, I reckon. Or possibly Vurt by Jeff Noon, or the Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. All ace.

Chaz.Harding

I quite liked ''Intensity'' by Dean Koontz. Really good. The last 100ish pages, I just COULDN'T put it down... :oops:

But real-life books... not sure to be honest. I want the guy who circumnavigated the world, using ONLY human power (and took 5 years to do it!) to hurry up and write a book! Also, I'm soon to start reading Ted Simon's 'Jupiters Travels'. It was, by far and away, my Dad's favourite book, before he passed away. He read it over and over. So, I am going to have a read myself.

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Also, read Lance Armstrongs books too. Surprisingly good.... :oops:

**Wait for abuse...**

Whytepeak

Henry IV Parts 1 and 2....

I'm currently enjoying Stephen kings dreamcatcher :oops: , as embarrassed as I am to admit it.

In my defence I am also reading Robert Fagles version of Homer's Odyssey (lovely book) , and the Theban plays, by Sophocles

andy46

just read Ring of Fire by Rick Broadbent, it's a really good read if your into moto gp or if your a valentino rossi fan like me!

BlackSpur

Just read The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum which is very good.

Hercule Q

my fav book is fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thomson hence the sig

cat_with_no_tail

Last Light by Alex Scarrow

supersonic

The Hobbit

bobs bikes

gotta be long way round, ewan macgreggor and charlie boorman.
also simon westons autobiography...... a damn good read!

The Northern Monkey

I find park tools to be a good read... However I never purchased the book myself and can't find it in the library

luckily they have all the chapters online for me to read when I want

robertpb

Raymond Chandler 'The Big Sleep'

big-hitter

the "Lee Child" series with Jack Reacher in are very good.

xtreem

I like all the books of Jules Verne, 7 or 8 years ago I read a bunch from him.

But my favs are:
A Captain at Fifteen
Michel Strogoff

Computers messed up everything, don't read anymore.

lawman

lord of the rings any of them, they're all amazing. mind you +1 for long way round, great book and long way down was pretty good too

scar tissue, anthony kiedis autobiography is a gripping read, i thought i had problems, jeez this guy was addicted cociane by 14 :shock:

whalley665

Chris Ryan - The One That Got Away
Andy McNab - Bravo Two Zero

Both great books about the same thing, but told from two very different perspectives

llamafarmer

Hercule Q wrote:

my fav book is fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thomson hence the sig

Great book!

I also love The Dice Man by Luke Reinhardt

jacktheoc

Just Ordered Dreamseller by Brandon Novak. Some may have seen him in Jackass or Viva La Bam never knew much about him until i seen he was sponsored by some big skate teams aswell as tony hawk until he started using heroin and lost the lot, Got clean for a few years and then has relapsed not too long ago. Hopefully should be interesting, seen a few good reviews on it.

GHill

Not sure I can pick out a favourite (maybe Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card) but stand outs from the last few months are:

World War Z by Max Brooks (a history of the "zombie war" told from an interesting perspective)
Warlord trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (dark ages Arthurian historical fiction)

BlackSpur

whalley665 wrote:

Chris Ryan - The One That Got Away
Andy McNab - Bravo Two Zero

Both great books about the same thing, but told from two very different perspectives

Yes, very good books

supersonic

I like the Famous Five books.

Tally Ho!

Whytepeak

supersonic wrote:

I like the Famous Five books.

Tally Ho!

Porgy

i can't really choose one - but here's a list :P :P :P
Dice Man is ace!!
Most novels and short stories by Philip K Dick esp. Scanner Darkly, Radio Free Albemuth, Valis, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Ubik
The Dune series - Frank Herbert - Dune is the best - but some of Herbert's other books were pretty good too.
Anything by Charles Bukowski - well at least the ones I've read so far.
Ian M Bainks - Culture novels
On The Road - Kerouac
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs - and yes I have read it all the way through.
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Reginal Perrin books are pretty good. Funny.
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lord of the Rings get better as they go on...
The London Trilogy - absolute Beginners etc. - Colin MacInnes
1984 - orwell
Generation X - Coupland ~ I've just finished reading Hey Nostrodamus which ain't too bad either.
authors worth mentioning - michael moorcock/ Heinlein/ J.G. Ballard

and Charles Dickens - Hard times, Bleak House, Tale of Two cities etc - all great.

blister pus

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl)
Hobbit / LOTR (Tolkien)
Riding The Iron Rooster (Theroux)
The Stand (King)
Imajica (Barker)
Weaveworld (Barker)
The Beach (Garland)
The Songlines (Chatwin)
In Patagonia (Chatwin)
What Am I Doing Here (Chatwin)
Communion (Streiber)
Football Against The Enemy (Kuper)
Cosmicomics (Calvino)
Catch 22 (Heller)
1984 (Orwell)

are a few sat on the bookshelf to hand that I've been well into over the years.

TimesLikeThese

Porgy wrote:

Ian M Bainks - Culture novels

+1
Terry Goodkind - sword of truth series
Terry Pratchett - discworld series
Robert Jordan - wheel of time series

MarkEo

I read a nlot of books but my favourite has to be bringing down the house by Ben Merzich, i honestly couldnt stop reading it once i started and finished it in one sitting, they made it into a film called 21 but its sh*t compared to the book and its a true story which makes it even better.

Flenser

Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Excession - Iain M Banks
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Stranger in a Strange Land - RA Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge

Anything by HP Lovecraft, Peter F Hamilton, Issac Azimov, Arthur C Clarke, Larry Niven, RA Heinlein, Iain Banks (M and non-M) really.

Big time into my recent military history at the moment, devouring anything that's come out of TELIC or HERRICK.