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I'm reading "The Gun Seller" at the moment, can you suggest a similar? Or better?
Steven Hall, "The raw shark test"
Memes, conceptual sharks and a cat called Ian. What more do you need? I've read it over and over again and get something different out of it every time.
text, not test....sorry.
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Bernard Cornwell's 'The Saxon Stories'
Excellent
I love the ones by Nelson DeMille with Detective John Corey in them. Plum Island, The Lion's game, Night Fall, Wild Fire. Found them unputdownable.
New Yoik cop black humour.
Stephen Leather books (Dan Shepherd Mysteries)
He does a whole series of ones about this ex SAS bloke who's now in the police undercover sort of unit but keeps drifting back to his old SAS mates for help now and then.
to name a few
Hard landing
Soft target
Hot Blood
Dead Men
although they are a sort of series you don't really need to start at the first and go through.
All of them are excellent reads having read most.
Vulcan 607
Robert Harris books
Anything by Duncan Falconer
Bit away from what your reading but the 'Troy' trilogy by the late David Gemmell is one of the best set of books I have ever feasted my eyes upon....... truly amazing stuff 🙂
What sort of thing are you after?
You could go classic and read Heart of Darkness (busy with that right now and it is very good), maybe Brave New World or 1984 (if you haven't read them before, maybe even if you have) or, if you want to go modern, read the book that Flash Forward is based on; strangely called FlashForward. It's by Robert J. Sawyer.
Try "The End of MR Y" brilliant page turner and mind melter at the same time
"Sniper One" and "The Circuit" offer engaging insights into the recent / current situations in Iraq and Afghanistan (amongst others).
Both well worth reading - offering a straight talking inside view of a deeply cocked up situation.
Dawkins "The God Delusion", if you haven't already - should be on all school curricula....
I'm reading "The Gun Seller" at the moment
Any of the Jeeves & Wooster novels. Why? Well, Hugh Laurie played Bertie Wooster in the TV adaptations....
can you suggest a similar?
No. I have read the Gun Seller, but only because that was the most appealing of the limited choice in a regional train station while waiting to depart on the six hour journey back to university....
Or better?
Several, but not in the action man genre. I have yet to find anything in the genre which does not rely too heavily on plot.
I am currently reading Love and Summer by William Trevor. Unsurprisingly, it is a story about love and summer, set in rural Ireland. The writing is extraordinary.
I tend to recommend both Blindness and Seeing by Jose Saramago. I think the former has now been made into a film. Both are superb, and the translations into English are excellent (I can't read Portugese...).
Other recently enjoyed books include: Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov - a satire on the Soviet Revolution (again, in translation); and The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth - a perfectly formed novelette capturing ecstasy, sorrow, guilt and self destruction (in translation).
Try some of Nick Hornby's novels; Slam, How to be Good, 31 songs, all very funny and very well written.
I'm not a big fan of Hornby's and Welsh's. Thanks for other ideas.
Shantaram... Cloud Atlas... Lord of the Rings
My three favourite books anyway 🙂
"an Instance at the Fingerpost" brilliang book.
"kitchen confidential" Anthony Bourdain.
Dawkins "The God Delusion", if you haven't already - should be on all school curricula....
It'll make kids never want to read a book again
Completely different from the above: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Or maybe Slaughterhouse 5.
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Kurt Vonnegut, I completely forgot the guy. BTW My ex-flame's bestest friend knows him. Apparently. Probably true.
Anything by Haruki Murakami; Personally, Hard Boiled Wonderland and End of the World or The Wind Up Bird Chronicle but probably one of his shorter novels (A Wild Sheep Chase or South of the Border, West of the Sun) or one of the collections of short stories will give you a taste to work out how you feel about his style - it's worth perservering though as it takes a little to get into.
The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie's new one is pretty good too, as is his Midnights Children.
Anything by Bernard Cornwell.
Because he has a long back-catalogue, if you find his work worthy of further reading, you're in for some real treats.
BTW My ex-flame's bestest friend knows him. Apparently. Probably true.
He's dead. (Kurt Vonnegut, not your ex-bestest flame friend). Died in April 2007. Shame he was a great writer. 🙁
Anything by Bernard Cornwell.
Can't you just watch the continual Sharpe re-runs on Yesterday? 🙂
He's dead.
I wouldn't know, I honestly forgot about the guy some 10 years ago.
You could, but what out his various historical trilogies, in the written word that are not made-for-TV?
That better answers the original post.
Besides, you'd miss out on some worderfully descriptive writing: re-read the pages preceeding the Battle of Waterloo for example, and tell me you can't feel the heat of the sun, the buzz of the insects, the real sense of the fear amongst the soldiers before joining battle with Napleon.
Waterloo? Yeah that was on the other day. I believe Sharpe shot King Billy in the gut. 😉
easily the best book EVER
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Olly, that's way too demanding!
The Dying Light, by Henry Porter was recommended by someone on here, and having read it I'll second the recommendation.
Dawkins "The God Delusion", if you haven't already - should be on all school curricula....
It'll make kids never want to read a book again
OK - maybe A Level students... stimulate the appetite for intellect
Not familar with your reading criteria, so can you expand upon what you like?
The brief, as can be seen from the above cacophany is less than helpful. Please can you give more preferences as to what you are looking for, as you are not the only one looking for new reading material?
As an aside, having rented out rooms in my homes for many years, it never ceases to surprise me how few people seem to read for pleasure. I usually have 2-3 books on the "go". But then, if you are reading this thread, you are the "converted" - so to speak.
someone here recommended alistair reynolds' 'the prefect', which i'me reading now, and it seems to be very good - to the point that i don't know if it's going to last this two day trip....
fear and loathing in las vegas is very, very good.
I read almost everything, apart from Harry Potter, cyber punk (I did try and failed to enjoy) and Daily Mail.
A good book is a good book, I'll probably try Oscar Wilde whose works I already have. The suggestions above are for books to read in the loo rather than for intellectual development. Fine, I like those too. More please 🙂
I've just broken off from reading No Expenses Spared. It's the story behind the Telegraph's Parliamentary investigation. Not really about the MPs themselves, but it's the story of how the story was reported. It's a real page turner. I've read 280 pages this afternoon!!!