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    Re: Recommend a book.

    The last good book I read was Passport to Hell by Terry Daniels. It's the story of an English holidaymaker who is wrongly accused of smuggling a million dollars worth of cocaine from Brazil to Spain after her travel partner gets caught with it in his suitcase. She eventually clears her name after spending time in a few hellish maximum security spanish prisons but the detail i found interesting was the fact that while she was on bail, she was also wrongly accused of terrorism whilst in northern ireland after giving someone a spare key to her house who used it to store a bomb! It's the most unexpected twist ive ever heard in a true story!! the part of the book in northern ireland is fascinating for someone whose never been there as it is. towns and cities literally in a state of apartheid along religious grounds. a lot of other good twists too such as a judge and a policeman being implicated in smuggling a drugs and a suspected cover up to protect them, etc.

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
    Jonas Jonasson

    Currently 20p for kindle

    It's about an old man that climbed out of a window and disappeard....
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    Re: Recommend a book.

    Not exactly a book per se but an online book, free as well, for mil fic fans...

    The Salvation War

    What happens when earth declares war on Hell

    The first book - Armageddon

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    "If you never read anything else, read this" is a tall order. But a book that very few people have read and which I go back to ever few years is Tony Parker's 'Life after Life'. It's interview with 12 murderers on life sentences and it's fascinating without being prurient, judgmental or soft-peddling on horrible crimes.

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    Recently finished the Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. Loved it.

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    Arnold Schwarznegger (not sure i spelt that right!) Total Recall autobiography. Cant believe how clumsy he is, and very funny at times.

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    Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

    Please ignore the movie, it was terrible.

    This is one of the few books I've read that had me laughing out loud. It's brilliantly funny, uplifting and motivating. I recommend it to everyone (who end up loving it) and its the book I take with me when travelling as my fall back book when I have nothing else better to do

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    One of my favourites is Diaspora by Greg Egan, although it may be a niche taste.
    It's fairly hard sci-fi exploring a wide variety of forms which life can take. Even as a fan of Egan's work I found the first couple of chapters hard going, but it's well worth persevering.

    I'd strongly recommend Egan's work to anyone interested in that type of thing, his current Orthogonal series is also pretty good (only 2 of 3 books available so far though)

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    Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the rainbow

    just started, very well written and interesting read.

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    Reading world war Z at the moment. Absolutely hooked. I bet they ruin it in the film though. (They always do)

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    I'd have to say any books from the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. I read several of them when I was younger and they're all fantastic.

    If I had to pick one out of them, I'd say - Skeleton Key.

    http://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/alexrider/books/

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    cherub and the Henderson boys for younger readers by robert muchamore.
    Just read Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, better than life and backwards, just making my way through the last human great books from the great comedy series

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    I've slowed down on the final two books on Game of Thrones so I don't finish them so quickly, I seem to power through most books.
    But to get my fantasy fix I've started on the Malazan series, there are around 20+ books and more incoming. I like the Game of Thrones series but Martin is too slow in his output, 5 years per book... seriously...

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    Re: Recommend a book.

    i read a few of the malazan books... disjointed, unclear, uninteresting characters, no background explanations.

    Halfway through the first book there is a short interlude where this thief type has a couple of chapters worth of story. Its probably the only thing that is coherent in the entire series. Worse still is that when you pick up a book later in the series there is absolutely nothing in that book that relates to the earlier ones. It basically comes across as an author (or authors in this case) taking several different concepts of fantasy and bundling them together in a book with no apparent plot or relation to a tangible story.
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    Re: Recommend a book.

    FROM THE FATHERLAND, WITH LOVE by Ryu Murakami - pretty excellent book about North Korean mission to seize part of Japan by military means. Same writer as Audition (which I haven't seen/read) in case you know that one. 580 pages.

    Amazing level of detail, which sometimes can be exhausting, but could not put it down. Only £2.49 on kindle. I'm going to copy and paste Amazon's description since I'm dead tired, but why reinvent the wheel, eh? I've already said you should read it

    "From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan’s economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of ‘rebels’ in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can’t cope with the surprise onslaught of ‘Operation From the Fatherland, with Love’. But the terrorist Ishihara and his band of renegade youths – once dedicated to upsetting the Japanese government – turn their deadly attention to the North Korean threat. They will not allow Fukuoka to fall without a fight. Epic in scale, From the Fatherland, with Love is laced throughout with Murakami’s characteristically savage violence. It’s both a satisfying thriller and a completely mad, over-the-top novel like few others."
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    Re: Recommend a book.

    just knocked off the Ben Aaronovitch series - good read, found them quite entertaining. Now just waiting for the new one to arrive...

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