Books you must read

Recommendations for books to read.

Write a little bit about why you think people should read them.


I've got to start with all 7 Harry Potter books. A great fantasy tale packed with imagination, drama and fun. It's the kind of book where you really get sucked into the 'world' of the story. Addictive read and you'll never tire of reading them. Some fantastic characters too.

Dan Brown's 'Deception Point', 'Angels & Demons' and 'Digital Fortress'. Three fantastic fast paced thrillers from the writer of 'The Da Vinci Code'. In these books there's more twists and turns than Tommy Burns.

As for non-fiction, 'The Dangerous Book For Boys' is a must. Packed full of history, activities and need to know information. Can't recommend it highly enough.


What can you recommend?

 

Novel: Unnatural Selection - Adrian Weiss.

The 'author' is a cockroach. Funny and disturbing.

 

The Wave

a good read and makes you think

 

Ive read all jack higgins books also read billy connoly and paul ogrady

 

Hows down south today ? its a nice autumnal day here suns out with a light crisp glint a good day for me heading down to Bruggen for a beer

 

The Godfather by Mario Puzo is a must read, if you appreciate the film on any level, the book will blow you away! Deeper characters, more story and written beautifully!

seriously, read this at some point, even tho you know the story, your gripped from page 1!

 

Mr Nice :icon_mrgreen:

 

Bill Bryson:

The Lost continent.
Tells of his return to America after ytears in England. The guy is hilarious he really is.
He explores the US as if it were an alien nation for him and gets into all sorts of odd situations. His mother is ever present with her sandwiches and he says things like

'...this was the worst food I had ever tatsed in America. In fact in my life - and that's saying something. Remember I'd lived in Britain!'

His other masterpiece is

A Short History of Everything.

An explaianaation of all things scientific for the not well versed in it. Highly entertaining.

 

I mentioned this in twenty books to read before you die - 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley.

A truly wonderful book which was written when she was only eighteen, and still today there can barely be an * in the Western world who is not familiar with the tale.

For me there are two broad themes in the novel.

Firstly the repercussions that can ensue when man becomes too clever for his own good and tampers with things which he doesn't understand. Modern examples would be nuclear weapons, eugenics, chemical weapons, advances in medicine. There are some things in life humans aren't meant to understand.

The second broad theme for me is the metaphor (sorry to use that word on a football forum lads) of man being created by * and Victor Frankenstein's creation of the monster. There is an incredible passage in the middle of the book where the monster says to Victor (I'm paraphrasing here) - I didn't ask to be created, you chose to create me and now you want to turn your back on me and leave me to my own devices when I don't know what the purpose of my life is.

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."

An undoubted classic.

 

And of course that graphic novel - The Watchmen,. Like the avatar btw.

 

Always wanted to read that tbh, am I not right in thinking its written through a series of newspaper clippings and reports? Or is that Dracula?

Cheers Onion, Watchmen is a classic

 

Aye, and the bolts coming oot his neck are cool as * tae.

 

The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield

There are things in this book that make you really consider how * up the world as we know it is. If everyone had a copy of this book and could take ideas and apply them to their own lives, the world would be a far better place.

 

The novel is told through three characters.

It starts off being the letters of a ship's captain in the Arctic who saves Victor Frankenstein (who has pursued the monster there).

It is then told through Victor's telling of the story to the captain.

And then is told through the monster's recollection to Victor.

If you read it mate let me know your thoughts.

 

Just finished Tom Clancys Hunt for red october best book i have ever read keeps you reading. Just started his second book Red strom rising enjoying it so far.

 

the adventures of tom sawyer and the adventures of huckleberry finn two of my favourite books ever, lord of the flies as well reading that was about the only ting i enjoyed in my whole time at school

 

Some good philosophy is Seneca - On the Shortness of Life, Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

I'm reading George Orwell - Why I Write. It's basically just Orwell rambling about his influences, and some of his observations, but it's really interesting. I love the way he writes.

Another of my favourite authors is Tom Robbins. Really cool and off the wall American author. Quite debauched and funny.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is another great.

 

I don't get the chance to read,as much as i used to but, i love the Alex Cross trilogy by James Patterson. As far as crime fiction goes, there is no-one better IMO.

 

The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings!