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Snelly
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I am going on holiday next week and need some recommendations of good books to read. Anyone read anything good recently?
Thanks,
Snelly.
Thanks,
Snelly.
GB72
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I am in the same boat, off in a month's time. I normally read up to half a dozen books on holiday and there is nothing leaping really. I have the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy to start with but looking for something else a bit different to the usual crime/thriller.
I have heard that World War Z is a good horror type read with an interesting take on a Zombie apocalypse so may give that a try as an off the wall choice.
I have heard that World War Z is a good horror type read with an interesting take on a Zombie apocalypse so may give that a try as an off the wall choice.
HickoryShaft
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Devil may Care by Sebastian Faulkes.
Written in the Flemming style of bond books (gritty and not very glam at all) and picks up where he left off. I re-read the whole set recently and tagged this on the end - it was like reading the next in the series.
Written in the Flemming style of bond books (gritty and not very glam at all) and picks up where he left off. I re-read the whole set recently and tagged this on the end - it was like reading the next in the series.
GB72
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I read that one when it came out and enjoyed it. Think there has been another Bond book since but by another author employed by the Flemming estate. Anyone read it as may give it a go.
forefortheday
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Great book (but then again I am waiting for the Zombie apocalypse to happen!!) but I wouldn't call it "horror" in the traditional sense.
It's survivors accounts of the aftermath, film is out before Christmas next year can't wait.
His first book was The Zombie Survival Guide which is a straight up mick take of those SAS survival type books.
I would recommend Lee Child's Jack reacher series for a good no brainer read or Neil Gaimans American Gods for a more "horror" based reading.
Buy a kindle loads of good books for less than a quid on there.
Ken_A
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Read the following over the summer -
Millenium Trilogy - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl who Played with Fire and Girl who kicked the hornets nest
The Second Coming -John Niven - The funniest book I have ever read - its about religion and takes a comical laugh at God etc - not serious but very funny.
Mystery Man, Orpheus Rising and Murphys Revenge by Colin Bateman - all very funny, Northern Ireland Aurhor and Northern Ireland humour - very funny and easily read storys are deep enough to read but not hard to follow.
Finished Murphys Revenge and have a few others to start but want to read them in order as they are part of a series - would happliy recomend all of the above books.
Millenium Trilogy - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl who Played with Fire and Girl who kicked the hornets nest
The Second Coming -John Niven - The funniest book I have ever read - its about religion and takes a comical laugh at God etc - not serious but very funny.
Mystery Man, Orpheus Rising and Murphys Revenge by Colin Bateman - all very funny, Northern Ireland Aurhor and Northern Ireland humour - very funny and easily read storys are deep enough to read but not hard to follow.
Finished Murphys Revenge and have a few others to start but want to read them in order as they are part of a series - would happliy recomend all of the above books.
Sponge1980
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I've been reading some of Christopher Brookmyre's lately. Just read boiling a frog and a tale etched in blood and hard black pencil. They are sort of crime thrillers with some black comedy thrown in. I realise they wont be to everyones taste but maybe worth a shot for something a bit different.
gripitripit
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Stephen Leather "Spider Shepard" series..!
dannygee
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The new Bond one is "Carte Blanche" and is by Jeffrey Deaver who has written some cracking thrillers, I have just listened to this one and really enjoyed it so could be worth a go.
bluewolf
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just finished "the road" by cormac mccarthy. very bleak and probably not holiday reading, but excellent writing nonetheless. My all time favourite is "a confederacy of dunces" by john kennedy toole. a great, funny book with a very sad story about the guy who wrote it...
Paul_Stewart
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"A complete dummies guide to rioting"
"What to do in Atlanta on a weekend" by Tiger Woods
"Places to wear white trousers" by Smiffy
"What to do in Atlanta on a weekend" by Tiger Woods
"Places to wear white trousers" by Smiffy
forefortheday
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The Road has to be the bleakest book I've ever read.
Great story but it makes me shudder.
He wrote No Country For Old Men too another classic.
jammydodger
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Going through the George RR Martin fantasy series 'Fire and Ice' at the moment. Its the one that Sean Bean was in on the tele a few months back. If you like dragons and knights and mystical beings then this for you..
bluewolf
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Being as it is so bleak, it might suit Snelly, seeing as he was dragged up in darkest yorkshire carrying 100wt bags of coal on his back at the same time as carrying his clubs around a muddy course with nothing but sack cloth on his feet and a cowskin covering his modesty..
I did tell my missus (who's a proud yorkshire girl) that the descriptions of the landscapes in the book reminded me of my last trip through Sheffield..
granters
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Wild Swans by Jung Chang- I couldn't put it down. All about life in Mao's China. No other book has ever made me consider my own life and culture so much. I'd say it was a MUST read for anyone interested in books. Very powerful and humbling
mally
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Layer cake JJ Connelly, puts a whole new slant on a brilliant film. The first page alone puts the entire drugs trade into perspective.
forefortheday
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Being as it is so bleak, it might suit Snelly, seeing as he was dragged up in darkest yorkshire carrying 100wt bags of coal on his back at the same time as carrying his clubs around a muddy course with nothing but sack cloth on his feet and a cowskin covering his modesty..
I did tell my missus (who's a proud yorkshire girl) that the descriptions of the landscapes in the book reminded me of my last trip through Sheffield..
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Like a good Yorkshireman I have come to spread the light to you heathens on this side of the Pennines.
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Snelly
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Downloaded this series for the Kindle for hols!
Thanks for all the replies. Except for those saying I was dragged up.
Life wasn't a bed of roses but dragged up I wasn't.
