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d-rob
d-rob Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 61
Looking for recommendations on good books. Any genre
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  • Lasabar
    Lasabar Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,457
    I just listened to the Audio Book of Tina Fey's BOSSYPANTS... It is pretty damn funny.

    A nice light read and she is funny as two 'coons fighting over a water balloon covered in Peanut Butter! Hyuck Hyuck!
  • j0z3r
    j0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    I just started the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series. If you're a fantasy fan, I'd say it's well worth checking out.
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 14,471
    the Fountianhead
  • Ken Light
    Ken Light Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,524
    For almost two years now, I've been reading R.A. Salvatore's Legacy of Drizzt series. The legacy itself is 13 books long, starting with The Crystal Shard. Start there. I'm completely hooked I think I'm 20+ books in right now...
  • stephen_hannibal
    stephen_hannibal Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,317
    Heretics by G.K. Chesterton.

  • KingoftheCove
    KingoftheCove Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 908
    Currently reading "For My Country's Freedom" - by Alexander Kent - fiction.
    This is part of the Richard Bolitho series (late 1700s early 1800s British Navy stories)
    Good, easy action packed reading, solid character development, excellent/interesting details and perspectives on life aboard those "ship of the iine" vessels - those dudes were tough a$$ mothers in those days.

    Similar genre, but Army instead of Navy, the Richard Sharpe series (ie Sharpe's Rifles) by Bernard Cornwell. Also a fun, easy, action packed read, with historical perspectives of Europe in the early 1800s, the evil Frogs, and a few likable, and bad-guy characters etc.
    Sharpe is a beast.
    I never understood why back in those days, they would simply line up and shoot each other........now it makes sense.

  • xmacro
    xmacro Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,402
    Manga:

    Berserk
    Hellsing
    Bleach
    Full Metal Alchemist
    Soul Eater
    Vagabond
    Priest

    You can find it by googling "manga scanlations" or just "download manga"
  • docbp87
    docbp87 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,521
    H.P. Lovecraft short stories, Ashton Clark Smith stories, and Robert E. Howard.
  • roland_7707
    roland_7707 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,647
    Howard is awesome, I havn't read the "Wheel of Time" series, but his Conan is epic.
  • docbp87
    docbp87 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,521
    roland_7707:
    Howard is awesome, I havn't read the "Wheel of Time" series, but his Conan is epic.
    Wheel of time is Robert Jordan, not Robert E. Howard. Howard wrote Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, and some great horror stories.
  • roland_7707
    roland_7707 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,647
    My bad, I get the Roberts mixed up sometimes.
    Soloman Kane is on my list
    Right now I'm reading Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.
  • docbp87
    docbp87 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,521
    roland_7707:
    My bad, I get the Roberts mixed up sometimes.
    Soloman Kane is on my list
    Right now I'm reading Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.
    Nice. Ender's Game is fantastic.
  • roland_7707
    roland_7707 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,647
    I have a collection of Cards' short stories and some are good, but others are just off the wall crazy,
    In one elephants take over Great Britain.
  • gripnrip
    gripnrip Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 406
    Just finishing up The Poisonwood Bible-excellent writing. If you are looking for some good non-fiction read Endurance. Chronicles the failed Antarctic crossing expedition of Lord Shackleton and crew-those were some (real) manly men-unbelievable what they went through.
  • d-rob
    d-rob Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 61
    Just got caught upon the wheel of time and read the Odd Thomas series
  • Amos Umwhat
    Amos Umwhat Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,523
    Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford; Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol 1
  • stephen_hannibal
    stephen_hannibal Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,317
    Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

  • ltherron
    ltherron Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 60
    Ken Light:
    For almost two years now, I've been reading R.A. Salvatore's Legacy of Drizzt series. The legacy itself is 13 books long, starting with The Crystal Shard. Start there. I'm completely hooked I think I'm 20+ books in right now...

    Salvatore is the man if you into fantasy. Read all the Drizzt book twice and look forward to the new one this Oct I think.

    If you’re into war/military books I recommend Lone Survivor about a 4 man SEAL team being overrun from the perspective of the only surviving member or Fighter Pilot: memoirs of Robin Olds, very good book from his days in WW2 and Vietnam up until his death a few years ago
  • napalm
    napalm Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 50
    Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern... hilarious, wish it was a longer book, this was passed around the office for about 9 months
  • james40
    james40 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 3,450
    Just finished The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
  • Knoxca1
    Knoxca1 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 147
    j0z3r:
    I just started the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series. If you're a fantasy fan, I'd say it's well worth checking out.
    I just started the second book of that series. It's a good read.
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 14,471
    stephen_hannibal:
    Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

    oooh... gunna add that to my wish list. Thomas Sowell is brilliant.
  • stephen_hannibal
    stephen_hannibal Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,317
    kuzi16:
    stephen_hannibal:
    Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

    oooh... gunna add that to my wish list. Thomas Sowell is brilliant.
    OH man I agree I have to get some of his other works.

  • xIcedGuardianx
    xIcedGuardianx Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 873
    Game of Thrones,George R R Martin
  • robbyras
    robbyras Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,487
    Knoxca1:
    j0z3r:
    I just started the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series. If you're a fantasy fan, I'd say it's well worth checking out.
    I just started the second book of that series. It's a good read.
    +3 I read the first 4 books and waiting for book five in paperback... i hate hardcover books...

    in the meantime I'm reading The Walking Dead Vol. 14 (graphic novel series) and Star Wars X-Wing Series (on book 4 of 9)

    Ken Light:
    For almost two years now, I've been reading R.A. Salvatore's Legacy of Drizzt series. The legacy itself is 13 books long, starting with The Crystal Shard. Start there. I'm completely hooked I think I'm 20+ books in right now...
    I've almost started the Drizzit series like 4 times... I might have to read that this winter...

    I'm also reading/listening to: Mitch Rapp series (Vince Flynn), Black Hawk Down and Rainbow Six...

    a really cool book that I recently finished is World War Z.. the audiobook on that is great too, but it's abridged...
  • JimmyC
    JimmyC Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 38
    xIcedGuardianx:
    Game of Thrones,George R R Martin
    +1... Surpried at how accurate the HBO series was compared to the book.
  • Marker
    Marker Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,524
    d-rob:
    Just got caught upon the wheel of time and read the Odd Thomas series
    I am on Knife of Dreams. Reading it gets a little arduous at times.
  • Bombay
    Bombay Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,207
    The Outlaws- W.E.B. Griffin
  • ENFIDL
    ENFIDL Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,836
    Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy
  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,530
    I love Clancy. Though I haven't read anything in a while. If you like American history check out " When the river ran backwards " it's full of interesting bits of history info you probably never learned in school.