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The Angry Raisins
Richard Benson's The Farm is excellent non-fiction too.
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Depends what mood I'm in, but the Stieg Larsson trilogy is great
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Patrick o' Brien,Cormac Mc Carthy,Ian Rankin.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig - it's brilliant on so many levels
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - an excellent page-turner, very few of the film adaptations do it justice
1984 by George Orwell - do I have to say why?that'll do for starters!
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Cormac McCarthy The Crossing Russell Hoban Riddley Walker Henry Thoreau Walden Tolstoy Anna Karenina
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Jonathon Livingston Seagull
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The pillars of the earth
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Generation Kill - very disturbing and enlightening read.
Freeborn John - a biography of John Lilburne
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Happy like murderers, insight into Fred and Rose West by Gordon Burn. Jaw dropping read and only book thats ever made me cry.
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Thanks haakon - they're all great books. Zen was such a great book, made me wish I read it whilst still at school... These are exactly the sort of books I want to discover.
Noteeth - might try The Crossing, perhaps?
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And I'm thinking - less chilling, and more inspirational.
Any other ideas?
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Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
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Lord Iffy Boatrace by a certain Bruce Dickinson of that Iron Maiden
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Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
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Noteeth - might try The Crossing, perhaps?
It's the second part of the Border Trilogy (after All the Pretty Horses), but The Crossing is easily my favourite (Billy's encounter with a she-wolf haunted me for a long time... ) - along with Suttree and Blood Meridian.
Spare, sublime prose like no other.
less chilling, and more inspirational
I recently finished - and loved - this:
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"A short history of nearly everything" by Bill Bryson should be a mandatory read. Excellent.
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the ragged trousered philanthropists
the grapes of wrath , cannery row , of mice and men, the pearl ( in fact just about anything by john steinbeck)
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the grapes of wrath , cannery row , of mice and men, the pearl ( in fact just about anything by john steinbeck)
Amen to that. Though i like East of Eden best.
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If you like the sci-fi/fantasy genere, the Dark Tower series by Stephen King is really spellbinding. It is a series of 7 books that takes you into some pretty dark places in a chronology of a group traveling through a maze of time & parallel existences.
Also Lord of the Rings--even the great 3 part movie couldn't do justice to Tolkein's writing.
Agree with bigeyedbeans and finbar that John Steinbeck is great as well.
Desert Solitaire also great--living in that part of the SW US, I have had the good fortune to hike much of the land Abbey describes (which he does very well).Posted 2 years ago # -
Spike Milligan's War Memoirs. David Niven's 'The Moons a Balloon'.
And pretty much anything by Iain Banks (with or without the M).
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Cormac McCarthy : The Road
Paul Coelho : The Alchemist
David Mitchell : Number9Dream
Jon Krakauer : Into the WildPosted 2 years ago # -
love steinbeck....all of them!
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Irma Kurtz - "The great american bus ride". Diary of multi-day Greyhound bus rides in the US. Sounds dull but good read.
Still looking out for that Siberian cycling book that was out before xmas.
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+1 monkiman
Steinbeck is the greatest writer of all time. IMHO.
Cannery row I must have read ten times.
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feet in the clouds by richard askwith. makes me want to run and run and run. amazing book.
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Catch 22 - by Joseph Heller. Voted best book of the 20th century by Waterstones customers. They were right! sums up the madness of warfare in a bloody funny way (the films rubbish - don't go there)
And, as already mentioned - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It will genuinely change your life
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Don't know about must read but I recently read a book called agent zig zag that was very good.
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shantaram, someone randomly recomended this to me, amazing book, look it up
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dan simmonds Ilium ,hyperion
alistair reynolds revelation space
ian m bainks consider phlebas
cormack mcarthy the road, no country for old men
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+1 on Red Storm Rising, great stuff
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anything by Neil Gaiman, scary, funny, wonderful books
charles stross: atrocity archives and jennifer morguePosted 2 years ago # -
Bill bryson is also a great read. Laugh out loud funny.
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James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
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