philbey Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Not huge on Wilbur smith, I've read a couple and they were good enough. Jack Higgins has some great ones, and I enjoyed the couple of Matthew Reilly ones I read also. Ice station was a good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamboo Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Zen and the art of motorcycle maintanence.....changed my life. Early Phillip k. Dick. Do androids dream of electric sheep? (Blade runner) Oscar Wilde "The picture of dorian gray". Tricky read, but very rewarding. Bamboo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwarf Posted July 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 I'd forgotten about this topic. Zen I found a hard read. Don't mind Phillip K Dick either. Currently in a Steampunk phase. Have just finished an urban fantasy/ undead stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ke70dave Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 I've been reading Shantaram - by Gregory David Roberts. I don't read books much, but this one has got me hooked at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.L.Z.BUB Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Just finished Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton. Love that guys space operas, I'm a scifi junkie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.L.Z.BUB Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Rob if you're having a steampunk phase try Perdio Street Station by China Miéville. Amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwarf Posted July 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Rob if you're having a steampunk phase try Perdio Street Station by China Miéville. Amazing. Ta. I'll add it to the list. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parrot Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 I forgot this too. David Copperfield is easily the best Dicken's. A number of his others are a little predictable, preaching and melodramatic. Considering the time they were written, and how they were originally published (in instalments) this isn't necessarily surprising. David Copperfield has a degree of autobiographical content which is fascinating in itself. In the midst of "A very long engagement" by Sebastien Japrisot at the moment. Story essentially is five first world war french soldiers court martialled for self inflicted wounds in order to get away from the front. They are then marched to the front and bundled out of the trench toward the german lines with hands bound behind their backs. Fiancee of one learns of this after the war and seeks to find out what happened. Loving it. Picked up a couple of Tom Clancy books the other week for a rainy week at the beach. Films are good, so they can't be too bad? And re read the Odessa file in one day over the school holidays. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro Protagonist Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Picked up a couple of Tom Clancy books the other week for a rainy week at the beach. Films are good, so they can't be too bad? The books tend to be a lot more technical than the movies, plus some have some pretty big plot changes (Sum of All Fears is a good example) which makes them harder to compare. I'm re-reading Without Remorse at the moment which is by far my favourite (I'm a Kelly/Clark person, not Ryan), really wish it was made into a good movie but it never got off the ground. The later Ryan books get more and more political and his right-wing-conservatism-with-more-than-a-bit-of-paranoid-conspiracy-theory starts to shine through, which is why I tend to prefer the earlier works like HFRO and Cardinal of the Kremlin. His non-fiction books are quite good though, I go back and re-read Armoured Cav every now and then and learn something new every time. That way you get the tecnical stuff without the political. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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