Read everything again.
Slaughterhouse five was an excellent reccomendation, thanks whoever suggested that. Ditto Sputnik Sweetheart.
I've read a lot of cycling books recently so maybe should give those a miss for a bit. Out of the popular ones flying scotsman and the search for Robert millar were the best by far.
Off you go then. Anything interesting, funny or thought provoking is good, fact or fiction.
Baltimore, or the steadfast tin soldier - mike mignola and christopher golden was a very different and interesting read
[url] http://www.christophergolden.com/baltimore.html [/url]
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa, the day the world exploded.
History, seismology, sociology and all manner of other ologies in a really fascinating read.
Ye olde crime thriller Iain Pears "An instance at the fingerpost" brilliant book! Oh and just read "orpheaus rising"
Kill Your Friends by John Niven is utterly mental and really funny (in an utterly twisted way)
Stuart Marconis books are really funny and well-observed. Pies and Prejudice is the best. But Adventures on the High Teas and Cider with Roadies are also really good
I very much enjoyed
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and I've just started
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and it seems like an excellent read so far
On holiday I read one of the Rebus books. I don't usually read a lot of fiction but I really enjoyed it. When I got to within about 6 hours from the end (because I thought it would be spot on for the 9 hour flight back) I picked up "The Ascent of Money" which was really good.
I also liked Friends Like These by Danny Wallace. Really heartwarming.
currently reading 'Primal Fear' by William Diehl & I can recommend it as one of those books you can't put down
Reading the 2nd Tom Rob Smith one (or will be once I get home tonight). First one was decent if you like thrillers so am expecting the new one to be good.
Read Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday recently, very good if you like this sort of biog.
The James Bond novels. Seriously, that Flemming chap was a genius. The films really don't do his writing any form of justice.
You can pick up all of them for not much on amazon or ebay. Should keep you going for a while.
Read all the rebus books and all the james bond books. Agreed, they are both a great series. Keep 'em coming though, it's all appreciated.
I am currently reading Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov.
I read his finest work, The Master and Margherita about 15 years ago, and figured I'd give his first a try.
I rather like the fact that both books, though magic realist, are harsh satires of early Soviet Russia.
After that, I shall read Tomorrow, We Ride by Jean Bobet (but that's obviously about cycling).
Then, I'll read Blindness by Jose Saramago. I read the "sequel", Seeing, a few years ago, and loved it. Blindness has recently been made into a film, I believe.
I've also just bought Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.
I'm, er, not very up-to-date with my reading, am I...? 🙂
On holiday I read:
7/10 the latest Bank's - Matter (if you like the others, then you'll like this one, but I thought not as good as the Algebraist)
2/10 Dog in a Hat (it was this or search for millar - I wish I got the millar book because Dog in a Hat is pretty bad)
3/10 The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House (a true story and local to me but apart from that a bit repetative)
4/10 the last harry potter (ran out of anything else by then honest)
Black Swan Green is quite good, 6.5/10. I liked Cloud Atlas also by Mitchell. That will keep you busy for a while, 7/10 for that one.
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Anything by Christopher Brookmyre is a good read.
Currently finishing Pandaemonium.
Try finding local authors. Val McDermid, Chris Simms, Frank Lean and Cath Staincliffe are all based in south manchester, I've enjoyed all their books, they're all crime writers
If you like fantasy, Patrick Rothfuss "The name of the wind" is stupendous - I bought it in Atlanta airport when we had a stopover and was halfway through it before we landed in Manchester, cracking read. Other fantasy authors I like include JV Jones, Robin Hobb and Katherine Kerr
I've just found Peter Robinson, only read three or four so have many more to get through.
Susan Hill's novels are interesting, not your usual crime fodder.
ah,here's another one - The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jigsaw-Man-Paul-Britton/dp/0552144932
it moved me so much I'm scared to read it again. Horrifying subject, yet I found myself unable to stop reading.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
I've also been looking for some new reading material. Lurked on the thread about Mountaineering books a while back and am just working my way through them, and will try some of these as well.
My suggestions: The Schroedinger's Cat trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson will be genuinely unlike anything else you have read: funny, scientific, pornographic, literate and thought provoking. You have to get a bit of a way into the first book before it starts revving up.
The Clans of Alphane Moon: my favourite Philip K Dick book, though Ubik and the Martian Timeslip are probably better novels
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck is another favourite
Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugarman - a story of somebody who pulled themselves back from the brink