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12-12-2008, 11:36 PM
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Hi,
I don't read all that much and I kinda miss it. I have lots of time at work (  ) and I'd like a good read.
Genre's I like:
-Horror (zombie, murder ect.)
-Mystery
-Stuff set in the 20's 30's 40's 50's
-Psychedelic 60's stuff
Hope this helps, just throw stuff out there and I'll do some research
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12-13-2008, 12:00 AM
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12-13-2008, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Bad Brains  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Excellent book with very uniqe writing. | Other than the time period, that would cover all the OP's guidelines, I think. 
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12-13-2008, 12:15 AM
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12-13-2008, 12:53 AM
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12-13-2008, 12:55 AM
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12-13-2008, 01:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Riverside, Ca. | | | World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins |
12-13-2008, 01:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | If you don't read much I would read books that are written to be read rather than thought about. Kinda like the "action blockbuster" movie of books. Here are some of the better ones:
Anything by Tom Clancy (as long as he wrote it - not the Netforce series), but I would personally start with Red Storm Rising or Hunt for Red October
Anything by Frederick Forsyth, but again, I would start with The Day of the Jackal (its a superb book)
The Da Vinci Code (I haven't read it but I assume its readable as most of the world has)
Stephen King - his earlier stuff is more readable - Cujo, It, Carrie, personally I love "the Bachman Books" which he wrote under the name Richard Bachman
Clive Barker - earlier stuff is great (Hellbound Heart, Books of Blood)
James Herbert - Creed (a great horror novel).
Give any of them a go.
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12-13-2008, 02:44 AM
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but The Island by Aldous Huxley is an amazing read.
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12-13-2008, 02:59 AM
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Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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12-13-2008, 03:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | If you haven't read James M. Cain yet, I'd suggest you might enjoy some of his novels:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Serenade
Mildred Pierce
The Butterfly
Double Indemnity
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12-13-2008, 03:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Finland | | I don't read much, but check out the Swedish writer Henning Mankell's novels. Most of his books are in the crime fiction genre and I've enjoyed all I've read. He's gotten quite a few rewards as well. Great reading there.
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12-13-2008, 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted by guamaniantree World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins | The Zombie Survival Guide is definitely a good one. That guy almost had me boarding up my home.... 
On the other hand...Ken Follet writes a lot of WWII historical fiction novels that are awesome! My wife and I are avid readers, and we own all all of his novels.
You might also like The Electric Church and its sequel The Digital Plague by author Jeff Sommers. |
12-13-2008, 05:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Swede lost in the 5th republic | | Some James Elroy would probably interest you, he often moves between fact and fiction in a quite raw and with stories written in a spellbinding (can one say like that?) dramatic way.
One of the few fiction writers I occasionally read. 
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12-13-2008, 06:07 AM
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Originally Posted by guamaniantree World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks | +1
GoGo Girls of the Apocalypse
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12-13-2008, 09:49 AM
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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Flowers for Algernon has a retro feel to it
A Clockwork Orange
There's more but it is morning and I can't think of anything else. . . 
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12-13-2008, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by guamaniantree World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins | +2
I almost bought a machete after reading The Zombie Survival Guide.
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12-13-2008, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | | Dan Brown is the Michael Bay of literature.
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12-13-2008, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Lubbock, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlet Fire Dan Brown is the Michael Bay of literature. |
Yeah, but it's an entertaining read.
Michael Bay - Popcorn movies
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12-13-2008, 10:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacific Northwet, USA | | | some fun reading
a few off the top of my head...
Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan (or anything by Vonnegut)
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinleind
Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest & Sometime a Great Notion.
can of worms here..ya got me thinking!
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