Recommend a book?

[oldskooladdict]

My last read was a suggestion from here - The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo (before it was in every bookshop and talked about all over the shop!), which was swiftly followed by the other two novels in the Millennium Trilogy, sadly I finished this last week and I've been at a loss of what to read next!

So, suggest away! - I rellly enjoyed those three books, other's I've read recently include some Hunter S Thompson, Ian Rankin (but I'm getting a little bored of him now), then some lighter stuff like Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace, Ben Elton etc.

I don't get on with anything too far fetched in the fiction world - so I wouldn't touch fantasy stuff like LOTR or Harry Potter, and I'm not overly keen on sci-fi either - I got Neuromancer thinking it would be right up my street but it was a bit too far fetched imo... yeah I'm a bit fussy lol...

[Kumagoro]

I don't read but the wife does and liked 'the curious incident of the dog in the night time' by Mark haddon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curious-Inci...3610771&sr=8-1

can probably pick it up in Tesco on the cheap.

[oldskooladdict]

I'm a bit of a dog lover so now sure about the starting plot of the book!

When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork...

[Stephen C]

Possibly not up your street but I've been enjoying Physics of the Impossible and Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.

[Salazaar]

I'm about a third of the way through American Tabloid by James Ellroy, excellent stuff. It's sort of the (fictional) secret history behind the mob involvement with J Edgar Hoover, Howard Huges and the Kennedy Brothers.

[oldskooladdict]

I should point out that non fiction is also on the cards too - I've read some of the 'popular economics' books, but once you've read a couple the others tend to apply the same theory to a different and more 'shocking' example. It has reminded me that I've got a book 'The Music of The Primes' somewhere that I meant to read!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Starship Troopers or The Forever War are worth a read.

[peterb]

"The Analyst" by John Katzenbach

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Analyst-John...3650428&sr=1-1

[Phage]

Guns, Germs and Steel.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393317552

Gah - apologies for Us link. Posting on work ISP !

[kalniel]

I'm a bit of a dog lover so now sure about the starting plot of the book!

It's fine! It's a very interesting book, not about the dog at all, but the boy at the centre of the story who's autistic and seeing the world through his eyes.

It's a bit light however - but usually dirt cheap.

[Salazaar]

It's fine! It's a very interesting book, not about the dog at all, but the boy at the centre of the story who's autistic and seeing the world through his eyes.

It's a bit light however - but usually dirt cheap.

Just to be picky, it's asperger syndrome isn't it? But it is a very good book!

[kalniel]

Just to be picky, it's asperger syndrome isn't it? But it is a very good book!

True! Though aspergers is a form of autism

[Grey M@a]

The one book everyone should read is:

Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky

Can be found here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roadside-Pic...3653065&sr=1-1

Basically a story about the zone in Chernobyl, this is what the first Stalker game got a lot of its idea's from. Very good read to Although instead of the reactor being the cause of the zone, this is a zone which artefacts are scattered left by alien visitors as this book pr-dates the Chernobyl disaster

[chadders]

Simon Kernick - I've found them all excellent "must just read this next page... then another and another".

[Lord Midas]

American Pyscho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Fermata - Nicholson Baker

My missus has gone old skool () since reading every Terry Pratchett Discworld novel. She's now on John Grisham (very good and easy to read) and Tom Clancy.

An alternative to Dan Browns yarns are Michael Cordy. Thrillers with kicking religion in the ass. Sometimes.

[fuddam]

MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW by Ranulph Fiennes. Epic, epic read. 5 quid on amazon.