book recommendations please

[bonj2]

Just finished Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler. Set in the present and just at the start of WW2. Not bad at all.

Or if you want a totally bizarre reading experience I can recommend The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. You've got the devil and his followers, a poet in a mental hospital for telling the truth, a reconstruction of the story of Pontius Pilate, all set in early Soviet Russia. No wonder Stalin surpressed it!

that sounds good, might give that a go!

 

[Lardyboy]

Funny! I've just started to try reading this again (for the umpteenth time), but this time I'll finish it!

Dayvo you either love it and sail through it, or it becomes a bit "War and Peace" like and you feel obliged to finish it come hell or high water. Not the best way to read a book IMO. But it might "click" this reading for you though?

 

[Night Train]

Another to look at is Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. Although it is sci-fi again, like Clarke's Rama series it is a lot more to do with social engineering then out and out fantasy tech stuff.

 

[Noodley]

Okay, 3 books not one but you'll zip through them:

Peter Pan by JM Barrie
Treasure Island and The Master of Ballantrae by RL Stevenson

 

[domtyler]

Have you read much in the way of Charles Dickens? If not I would thoroughly recommend it. Takes a little while to get used to the language, but once you've cracked it they are cracking yarns.

 

[Cathryn]

Or if you want a totally bizarre reading experience I can recommend The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. You've got the devil and his followers, a poet in a mental hospital for telling the truth, a reconstruction of the story of Pontius Pilate, all set in early Soviet Russia. No wonder Stalin surpressed it!

I LOVE this book, it's my all time favourite novel! Totally barking but utterly brilliant. When I was in Moscow a couple of years ago, I went to the square where it all begins and someone had done a fantastic mural of the novel.

Read it...this is brilliant!!

 

[Kestevan]

Try "The Book Thief" by Markus Zuzak

Cracking story narrated by Death himself.

 

[peloquin]

Another to look at is Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars. Although it is sci-fi again, like Clarke's Rama series it is a lot more to do with social engineering then out and out fantasy tech stuff.

I love 'Hard Sci-Fi'! the physics involved really get the imagination goin
My favorite EPIC read:

'Destinys Children' books 1 to 4 by Stephen Baxter :
Coalescent
Exultant
Transcedent
Resplendent

(also try the "Time Eye" books by Arthur C.Clarke and Stephen Baxter)

 

[Night Train]

I love 'Hard Sci-Fi'! the physics involved really get the imagination goin
My favorite EPIC read:

'Destinys Children' books 1 to 4 by Stephen Baxter :
Coalescent
Exultant
Transcedent
Resplendent

(also try the "Time Eye" books by Arthur C.Clarke and Stephen Baxter)

The Clarke/Baxter 'Light Of Other Days' is also very good as is Baxter's Quadrilogy: Origin, Space, Time and Phase Space, though they can be very confusing.

 

[marinyork]

Intrigue, drama, mystery - The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

 

[Andy in Sig]

For good, intelligent murder stories try the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell. "One Step Behind" is a nicely gruesome one.

For a convoluted but gripping spy thriller, Berlin Game (followed by Mexico Set and London Match) by Len Deighton is difficult to beat.