Just finished "PREY". Wasn;t bad and a quick read. Just picked up " On Killing" and Behind Emeny Lines ( Stories of WWII soldiers ).
"In Harm's way" isn;t bad either and I thought "Timeline" was awesome.
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Just finished "PREY". Wasn;t bad and a quick read. Just picked up " On Killing" and Behind Emeny Lines ( Stories of WWII soldiers ).
"In Harm's way" isn;t bad either and I thought "Timeline" was awesome.
Wow, what a list! I keep a list of titles I want to check out in my Palm, which is almost always with me, especially when I go to the library. Right now I'm finishing Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Dark Tower 5 comes out this year!), then I've got a series of Jeffery Deaver books to get through (one of his books became the so-so movie The Bone Collector with Denzel). I'm almost as big a fan of mystery-thriller as I am of fantasy/sci fi. I definitely want to get those war books in there--all the Battlefield stuff has me in that kind of phase.
if your big on counterterrorism, and military stuff I shouldnt have to mention Tom Clancy.
Its rare when I put one of his books down.
for the list that ive read:
The hunt for red october
clear and present danger
the bear and the dragon
exectuive order
debt of honor
The Sum Of All fears (better than the movie by a landslide)
bah, I cant remember em all, I'm missing a few. I havent read his non fiction stuff. so I cant comment on those. but i plan to.
Two of my farvorites by Clancy were; "Without Remorse" and "Rainbow Six".
I used to read Tom Clancy until he starting selling his name out to other people's books (Ops Center).
I agree with Abaddon, the Giants Novels are excellent books.
Some others:
I, Claudius
The following by Guy Gavriel Kay:
Lions of Al-rasan
Tigana
Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emperors
Hopefully I, Claudius is a better book then bbc mini series. I was bored outta my mind with it.
My all-time favorite novel is probably still Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (the book on which Apocalypse Now is based). His brilliant mastery of the English language exceeds that of just about anyone in history, yet it was not his native language; in fact, it was his third! I have always found that astonishing.
If I could only have one book on my desert island, however, the no-brainer choice is the Norton Shakespeare.
Bumping this old thread to add a good one I'm currently reading to the recommended list: Simulacron Three by Daniel Galouye. The movie The Thirteenth Floor (with Vincent D'Onofrio, I recommend it as well) was loosely based on this book, and I do mean loosely--only the bare plot points. Published in 1964, this book is really an indictment of telemarketers, pollsters, and market researchers--themes which the movie didn't bother with. Especially relevant in light of the forthcoming national do-not-call registry.
I picked up Stephen King's The Gunslinger (part one of the Dark Tower series) at the airport and have finished half of the book on the flight out to Vegas. Very good stuff. Saving the second half for the return flight on Friday.
I <3 the Dark Tower series. Book 5 is due out in November--I can't wait.
Let us all hope that the 5'th Gunslinger book is better than the 4'th. I thought Wizard in Glass was a big stinking pile of pooh.
I started reading Gunslinger when it first came out. In fact a buddy from highschool just called me last night to tell me the 5'th book was comming out. He was laughing when we thought about how long we have been reading the series. 21 years we think. Yeowch.
Oh, my addition to this book list is every Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. If you have not read any give one a try, any one, there realy isn't a folowable continuity. I would suggest Guards! Guards! for starters since the ones with the Ankh Morpork city watchmen are some of my favorites.
Never forget The Lord Of The Rings. The books are still an amazing piece of work.
The Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've read em all a few times. Of course the same could be said about the Doc Savage books, though I would not consider those classics.
The Gunslinger was the first Stephen King book I ever read. I didn't much care for the flashback stuff in Wizard and Glass either, but I thought it did help to flesh out some parts of Roland's character.
If you like the Discworld novels, I recommend "Good Omens", which Pratchett co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Think Dogma meets End of Days as told by Monty Python and you'll have an idea of what the book is like.
I re-read LOTR right before the Two Towers movie came out, and I'll probably at least go back over Return of the King again this fall. Here's a place to download all the Sherlock Holmes books (among others) in several formats (for free and legally), including some you can take in your PalmOS handheld, my preferred reading format: E-Book Library at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
I've finished Galouye and have moved on to Oliver North's "Mission Compromised". Yes, it's that Oliver North. I'm about halfway into it so far, and he's got a pretty good ghostwriter, though you can tell which parts he wrote himself--they read like a Marine report. It's interesting to note that this book is set in the mid-90's (right around the time the Republicans gained control of Congress while Clinton was still in the White House) and was written, for the most part, before 9/11/01, but the plot centers around Osama, Uday and Qusay, and Iraq's WMDs.
Good Omens is an AWSOME book. I've read it, I think, 3 times.
Lord of the Rings I have read more times than I can think of. I first read it in Jr. High back in the late seventies. I also have the BBC radio production of Lord of the Rings, as well as The Hobbit, and all three Rings in audio book format read by a guy named Robert Englund who does an amazing job of narating it. The audio books are unabridged and very long, each book is over 14 hours long (except The Hobbit which is only about 12 hours long). I have listened to that both in the car and just sitting around at home relaxing a few times.
You might say I am a fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I would suggest Good Omens to ANYONE. It is a fantastic read.
The same Robert Englund who played Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies?Quote:
Originally posted by [AK]Widowmaker
I also have ... all three Rings in audio book format read by a guy named Robert Englund who does an amazing job of narating it.
http://www.michalak.org/fh/robertenglund.jpg
This guy?
http://www.dadoomp.com/englund.jpg
With makeup
Oops, did I say Rober Englund?
It must be because I picked up the 'V' miniseries the other day on DVD. Englund played Willie, the friendly alien which is why I could only laugh at Freddy Kruger, he never could be scary to me, only silly. Not that I minded, I liked the first and third nightmare movies.
No, the name of the narator in the Lord of the Rings audio books was Robert (Rob) Inglis, not Englund. What a fool I am. Inglis is a very accomplished traditional Shakespearian actor who also puts on one-man Hobbit and Lord of the Rings stories since he is also a professional story teller.
Very good performance on the books, he even wrote tunes for all the songs and sings them. He has a different voice for every character and gives them proper intonations so you can tell who is talking all the time. Very well done.