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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:37 pm
by jssizzle
I love all those Lee Child books. (Gotta love them mindless thrillers)

I'm just reading Cold Mountain now, just finished The Killer Angels, both very good civil war books.

Just finished reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass for probably the tenth time (this time for school). Great book.

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:03 pm
by BC Pneumatics
Oh, 'steal this book' is fun to look through too.

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:26 pm
by pyromanic13
hi wrote:read INTO THIN AIR its about some guys that climb MT everest and just about everything goes wrong. Its a really good book.
I'm pretty sure I read this... tell me if I'm wrong but the most memorable part for me was when the guy got back from the mountain, went to his room a smoke weed. also on the mountain the people filming for imax gave out extra cylinders of oxygen....I didn't like this book

please tell me WHY you liked the books you liked, noones going to pick up a book simply because you tell them to.

I hope they serve beer in hell is def my favorite book, it's a bunch of true stories this one man experiences, mostly sex/alcohol/shit humor. I constantly laughed throughout the read.

some of his stories are on www.tuckermax.com

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:10 pm
by BC Pneumatics
Pyro, get off your lazy ass and look up the synopsis's on the books that may interest you. I cannot be expected to type up 35 pages on my recommendations, when I don't even know what types of books you enjoy.

Cheers :)

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:21 pm
by pyromanic13
BC Pneumatics wrote:Pyro, get off your lazy ass and look up the synopsis's on the books that may interest you. I cannot be expected to type up 35 pages on my recommendations, when I don't even know what types of books you enjoy.

Cheers :)
theres no reason for you to recommend a book, but if you do why not pick your ONE favorite and write a quick review? just to make this clear anyways this thread isn't just about me, mine as well make this a discussion about all good books so that everyone can get input/recommendations.

not sure what the equivalent of a cheers is but .... see ya later?

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:54 pm
by frankrede
The girl who owned a city-?
Cell-steven king
next-Michael Crichton
Gulliver's travels-?

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:15 am
by pyromanic13
frankrede wrote:The girl who owned a city-?
Cell-steven king
next-Michael Crichton
Gulliver's travels-?
I read Cell, I liked it too..

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:49 am
by frankrede
pyromanic13 wrote:
frankrede wrote:The girl who owned a city-?
Cell-steven king
next-Michael Crichton
Gulliver's travels-?
I read Cell, I liked it too..
It was sick!
House of the scorpion was a good book the authors name is....uhh

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:18 am
by Flying_Salt
I read this book called House, it was pretty good. We all need some short little book about a psycopath every now and then.
I read a bunch of Asimov books, they're good, and a lot of his short stories really make you think. (What if robots gained a sense of humor? What if robots could think? so on and so forth)
I read the Redwall series when I was younger, I liked those.

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:49 am
by mega_swordman
I enjoy the classics. 20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne is a pretty good read. Although, I don't know how many other people will like it due to its (for lack of a better term) lack of plot. However, I feel that Jules Verne is a good writer and an interesting view of the future (mind you he wrote his books in 1870).
Treasure Island was good, so was the three musketeers. I would recommend them.

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:59 am
by Benster
hmmm

pretty much anything by
Louis L'amour (westerns)
Micheal crichton. (sci-fi)
Clive cussler (action adv)
W.E.B. Griffin (awesome author, mostly war & military novels)
Stephen hunter (wrote the book that new movie "shooter" is based on)
james w Huston (this guy makes you THINK!)


I also like to pick up the novelization of the comic book movies that come out (i.e. spider man 1-3, fantastic four, the hulk etc ) I know whats gonna happen in the third spidey movie even though it ain't come out yet! LOL

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:41 am
by mopherman
frankrede wrote:
pyromanic13 wrote:
frankrede wrote:The girl who owned a city-?
Cell-steven king
next-Michael Crichton
Gulliver's travels-?
I read Cell, I liked it too..
It was sick!
House of the scorpion was a good book the authors name is....uhh
Cell was awsome. i love King

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:57 am
by lukemc
im not sure who its by but 'rifles for watie ' is a great civil war story

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:17 pm
by meatballs
I just finished reading an awesome book, A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson. Its a hilarious tale of two guys who try to hike the appalachian trail.