Without Remorse, Tom Clancy
Jack Ryan series, Tom Clancy
Op-Center, Tom Clancy
John Smit series, Robert Ludlum
Jack Ryan series, Tom Clancy
Op-Center, Tom Clancy
John Smit series, Robert Ludlum
I have somewhere in the region of 200 - 250 books at home. My favorite authors are Patrick Robinson, Lee Child, Clive Cussler. Also like Dan Brown, Wilbur Smith, David Mason, Tom Clancey. I have various other novels by different authors but those are the one's that stand out.
I'd recommend anything by the following:
Patrick Robinson - http://www.patrickrobinson.com/
Lee Child - http://www.leechild.com/
Clive Cussler - http://www.cusslermen.com/
EDIT - Timothy Zahn for the Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes 7,8 and 9?). Jeff Abbot for Panic.
I'd recommend anything by the following:
Patrick Robinson - http://www.patrickrobinson.com/
Lee Child - http://www.leechild.com/
Clive Cussler - http://www.cusslermen.com/
EDIT - Timothy Zahn for the Star Wars Trilogy (Episodes 7,8 and 9?). Jeff Abbot for Panic.
Last edited by ShockTherapy (2006-09-11 04:37:35)
I hate to think how many books we have in our house. My wife is an English Literature graduate and now is a teacher so very probably somwhere in the region of 2000, maybe 10% of them mine.
Probably too young to have read any outstanding books, save one: Red Strorm Rising, by T. Clancy.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
that was a good book, it reminded me of at dawn we slept. Where only the Reader had the full picture.Spark wrote:
Probably too young to have read any outstanding books, save one: Red Strorm Rising, by T. Clancy.
Kinda cool, not "Popcorn" if you grew up in that era. The Sum of all Fears was a good book.
Anyone who says they read "The Bear and the Dragon" in a day is obviously desperate to impress.
Part of Marconius signature:Horseman 77 wrote:
some one came to impress
Marconius : yet to mature, lol
Horseman77: I stopped maturing at 9
Dude, horseman, I would love to have stopped maturing at 9. It would mean that, short of physical malady, I would be immortal. Not only that, but I could screw with peoples' heads for centuries.
Endurance - E. Shackleton (biography South Pole)
Into the Wild - J. Krakauer (biography 23 year old goes to Alaska, dies)
Into thin Air - J. Krakauer (true - climbing everest)
Winterdance - G. Paulsen (true - crazy guy runs the Iditarod)
Carnage and Culture - V. Hansen (history - rise of western power)
Celestial Railroad & other short stories - N. Hawthorne (American lit - stories Ethan Brand & Celestial Railroad)
Different Seasons - S. King (for Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption - better than the movie)
A Good Walk Spoiled - J. Feinstein (life on the PGA tour)
WWII books by S. Ambrose (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers)
These are all books I have passed to other people.
Into the Wild - J. Krakauer (biography 23 year old goes to Alaska, dies)
Into thin Air - J. Krakauer (true - climbing everest)
Winterdance - G. Paulsen (true - crazy guy runs the Iditarod)
Carnage and Culture - V. Hansen (history - rise of western power)
Celestial Railroad & other short stories - N. Hawthorne (American lit - stories Ethan Brand & Celestial Railroad)
Different Seasons - S. King (for Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption - better than the movie)
A Good Walk Spoiled - J. Feinstein (life on the PGA tour)
WWII books by S. Ambrose (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers)
These are all books I have passed to other people.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, excellent 7 books, even if he writes himself into them....
The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy
Eisenhorn, by Dan Abnett
Ravenor, by Dan Abnett
Haunted Mesa, by Louis L'Amour
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Unheralded Victory, by Mark W. Woodruff
Patton:A Genius for War, by Carlo D'este
Just about every post trilogy Star Wars ever written
And bar none, the finest novel ever written, Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
That ought to do it for now.......
The Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy
Eisenhorn, by Dan Abnett
Ravenor, by Dan Abnett
Haunted Mesa, by Louis L'Amour
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Unheralded Victory, by Mark W. Woodruff
Patton:A Genius for War, by Carlo D'este
Just about every post trilogy Star Wars ever written
And bar none, the finest novel ever written, Phantoms, by Dean Koontz
That ought to do it for now.......
Holy crap, I forgot about Eisenhorn and Ravenor.
Seriously can't wait for the next Ravenor book.
Seriously can't wait for the next Ravenor book.
My favourite books are mainly pornographic and come in sealed bags from the top shelf.
No, the third one. I've read Ravenor and Ravenor Returned. I can't wait to see what's gonna happen with Carl Thonius.
1984 - George Orwell
Other major books for me:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Jesus - A.N. Wilson
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin - Anthony Beevor
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Hegemony or Survival? - Noam Chomsky
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Bolivian Diary - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Caisleáin Óir - Séamus MacGrianna
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs - Ahron Bregman/Jihan El-Tahri
The Rise and Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
The Second World War - John Keegan
The First World War - John Keegan
Provos - Peter Taylor
I'll add more later. Currently reading 'Guerrilla Warfare' by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna. Partly because I'm off to Cuba a week on Thursday - no need for anyone to start reporting me to Interpol.
Other major books for me:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Jesus - A.N. Wilson
Stalingrad - Anthony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin - Anthony Beevor
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Hegemony or Survival? - Noam Chomsky
Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Bolivian Diary - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Caisleáin Óir - Séamus MacGrianna
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs - Ahron Bregman/Jihan El-Tahri
The Rise and Fall of the Knights Templar - Gordon Napier
The Second World War - John Keegan
The First World War - John Keegan
Provos - Peter Taylor
I'll add more later. Currently reading 'Guerrilla Warfare' by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna. Partly because I'm off to Cuba a week on Thursday - no need for anyone to start reporting me to Interpol.
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I'll just say what springs to mind....
L.Niven & J.Pournelle - The Mote in Gods Eye
Stephen Baxter - Raft
Stephen Baxter - Manifold series
Frank Herbert - Dune
Actually surpised I haven't seen Dune up there.. I thought it was a common favourite.
L.Niven & J.Pournelle - The Mote in Gods Eye
Stephen Baxter - Raft
Stephen Baxter - Manifold series
Frank Herbert - Dune
Actually surpised I haven't seen Dune up there.. I thought it was a common favourite.
I'm guessing you haven't read the rest of the thread thenMudguts wrote:
Actually surpised I haven't seen Dune up there.. I thought it was a common favourite.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Discworld series - Terry Pratchet
Hitchhiker series - Douglas Adams
Discworld series - Terry Pratchet
Hitchhiker series - Douglas Adams
I was just gonna edit and fix that, but you beat me to it
geez, its up there numerous times... I'm tired and going to bed...
geez, its up there numerous times... I'm tired and going to bed...
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Forgot to mention Jarhead by Antony Swofford. Read it in a day or two before the film came out over here, quite a eye-opening book, and in a way quite sad.
for American Literature it would have to be "Catch22" by Joseph Heller - I found this book incredibly difficult to get into (would struggle through the first couple of chapters then forget about it and start again) It took me several goes at reading it. I also find Joyce pretty impenetrable too (Finnegans Wake might not have been the best starting point lol) I guess I'm just not intellectual enough.
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http://www.amazon.com/Never-Quit-Fight- … mp;s=books
Is what I am reading now.
Is what I am reading now.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Its funny but if I did that to him he would ban me.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Part of Marconius signature:Horseman 77 wrote:
some one came to impress
Marconius : yet to mature, lol
Horseman77: I stopped maturing at 9
Dude, horseman, I would love to have stopped maturing at 9. It would mean that, short of physical malady, I would be immortal. Not only that, but I could screw with peoples' heads for centuries.
He had a post where he said
"at least in Italy Girls don't say EEeeew you creep ! when I say hi! " Talk about tipping your Hand !
I quoted him and he wanted me banned, lol
I never said I was a genius, we all know who is the worlds smartest boy, He tells us all the time !
He seems alone in his opinion.
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LIES: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
http://www.al-franken.com/lies.htm
- A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
http://www.al-franken.com/lies.htm
I haven't read it in years, but remember "god is my co-pilot" as being a great autobiographical account of a WWII pilot, I've got a signed copy, first run, signed in.............lemme see March 7, 1944, as I recall I loved the dogfight accounts, Col. Scott just died about 2 months ago, I never did have the chance to meet him though he lived here and made many public appearances. Flannery O'connor is another local author that I like, I prefer short stories over all, though I'm no stranger to longer pieces. Hell I'll even admit to reading L Ron Hubbard's stuff.
No particular order
The Stand - Stephen King
Any Wilbur Smith Book - cheesy action adventure stuff but always fun and set in africa (River god is his best book)
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (this book shits all over the da vinci code)
Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
All Terry Pratchet discworld novels
All The Asterix comics/books
Phillip Pullman's - Dark Materials Trilogy was very enjoyable
as were (dare I say it) The Harry Potter books (yes I know I'm an adult of 29 but we all still have an inner child and they were a fun read)
The Stand - Stephen King
Any Wilbur Smith Book - cheesy action adventure stuff but always fun and set in africa (River god is his best book)
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (this book shits all over the da vinci code)
Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
All Terry Pratchet discworld novels
All The Asterix comics/books
Phillip Pullman's - Dark Materials Trilogy was very enjoyable
as were (dare I say it) The Harry Potter books (yes I know I'm an adult of 29 but we all still have an inner child and they were a fun read)
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classics?
Dracula - Bram Stoker
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Macbeth - Shakespeare
those are the ones ive read. ha, not a long list.
Dracula - Bram Stoker
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Macbeth - Shakespeare
those are the ones ive read. ha, not a long list.
all of these authors
Isaac Assimov some great ideas in there pretty philosophical at times as well.
Terry Pratchett all books including the science of discworld
Lee Child i've got all of them exept die trying and the new one
Andy Macnab hell you've got to have some semi pointless kill fests in here
some tom clancy mainly the factual ones i was especially interested in airborne and battle ready
Robert Ludlum in general
Vernor vinge's A deepness in the sky long book but its a good read
Dickens though some can be boring for a while till you get into them
Douglass adams
Raymond E Fiest a good author
David and Leigh Eddingsn the redemption of Althaus i haven't read any of the others yet though.
Steven Donaldson the first chrronicles off thomas covnant the unbeliever
Band of Brothers i've forgotten the autor though
Platton very short but still a good book
The new scientist- does anything eat wasps?
H.G Wells
Bernard cornwell
Robert Greaves I Claudius and Claudius the God
hamburger hill
Focus magazine a good sciency magazine thats not overly complicated
Tad Walliams as well some strange but interesting books from him in my micro librarry.
and god knows how many more i either get then from the librarry 9 books at a time and finishe them all in 3 weeks or borrow them from relatives who live down the road and have thousands of books. or as it is with the books i've just listed i buy them specially.
for a 15 year old thats not a bad collecton of reading materials all i all.
Isaac Assimov some great ideas in there pretty philosophical at times as well.
Terry Pratchett all books including the science of discworld
Lee Child i've got all of them exept die trying and the new one
Andy Macnab hell you've got to have some semi pointless kill fests in here
some tom clancy mainly the factual ones i was especially interested in airborne and battle ready
Robert Ludlum in general
Vernor vinge's A deepness in the sky long book but its a good read
Dickens though some can be boring for a while till you get into them
Douglass adams
Raymond E Fiest a good author
David and Leigh Eddingsn the redemption of Althaus i haven't read any of the others yet though.
Steven Donaldson the first chrronicles off thomas covnant the unbeliever
Band of Brothers i've forgotten the autor though
Platton very short but still a good book
The new scientist- does anything eat wasps?
H.G Wells
Bernard cornwell
Robert Greaves I Claudius and Claudius the God
hamburger hill
Focus magazine a good sciency magazine thats not overly complicated
Tad Walliams as well some strange but interesting books from him in my micro librarry.
and god knows how many more i either get then from the librarry 9 books at a time and finishe them all in 3 weeks or borrow them from relatives who live down the road and have thousands of books. or as it is with the books i've just listed i buy them specially.
for a 15 year old thats not a bad collecton of reading materials all i all.
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