rather an open question, SW. what do you like? if it's more of those political-military action thrillers you like, well there's an awful lot at most train stations and airports! however, if you'd like to depart from that path, I can highly recommend Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and Perfume by Patrick Suskind, but with these caveats - the former will reduce you to tears and the latter might turn your stomach, but they are the best two novels that I've read this year.

why don't you try The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks? I'm sure you'd get a lot out of that. Or The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, that's a dazzling novel and hugely entertaining. Or a classic of hard sci-fi such as Slaughterhouse V by Kurt Vonnegut?

Have I ever let you down with any recommendation?

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11/12/2005 4:29:35 AM

I'll stay at what I don't like and then check out suggestions.
AS already stated, I don't like Fantasy or Romance(in the sense that it is a romance novel) then I'm not very fond of sad stories and uhm I'll read sci fie, but I'm not too fond of that either.

Not a real fan of Sci-Fi... You should check out Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Then you'll read the other two books in that series, they are quite good.

Check out clive cussler's books, they do the job.

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Got all CLive Cusslers books, got his newest one yesterday, starting on it as soon as I'm finished with my new Robert Ludlum

well there is Tom Clancy for some lite reading.

And the ALWAYS popular Steven King.

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Any of Franceine rivers books, Dee Hendersons books, Brock and Bodie Thoene's books, Between them, is close to 30 books.

Edited by - Finalday on 11/11/2005 4:10:25 PM

You could try Dan Brown.. since no-one mentions his books, I guess he's not held in high regard... but I enjoyed them

How can I not recommend the best book ever written?

Stephen King: The Stand

It's what I'm reading now, and I'm on page 785 of 1153, so I still have a little while to go. If you read this and really want it to be the best book you'll ever read, get the cut edition. The uncut edition is what I'm reading now and it has some boring parts in it.

Here is a quick summary of the book.

The year is 1990 (The book was written in '78) and everything is going fine. Then, in a secret government biological weapons testing facility out in the Mojave Desert, something happens. A man named Campton runs from the facility, now a vessil for the deadly superflu known as Captain Trips. As the days and weeks go by, the superflu destroys about 99 percent of humanity. Those left are struggeling to survive, when they all begin having dreams. Some dream of a dark man who some belive to be Satan in human form, going by the name of Randall Flagg. Many follow the dreams to Las Vegas, while the others dream of a 104 year old black woman known as Mother Abbigale. As the two socities spring up in Las Vegas, Nevada and Boulder, Colorado, everyone knows that a final confrentation between Good and Evil is coming. The ones in Boulder know that soon, they'll have to fight their enemy East of the Rockie Mountains.

Read most of Tom Clancy, Francine Rivers and Dee Henderson, dont like the Thoenies, can't remember if I've ever read any Stephen King. Have to look into that. Not interested in Dan Brown atm

Agatha Christie writes some good novels as well. You might try her. Many people (i.e. me trying to sound like a majority ) consider her to be the ultimate writer of whodunnits. Failing that, Colin Dexter novels are also very good.

It's not fiction, but I can thoroughly recommend Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything". Basically about how we came about, origins of the universe, that sort of interesting stuff. Bryson has an excellent sense of humour (think Adams-esque) and tells it all in a very light-hearted way.

Michael Chrichton's Timeline . Don't believe anything you see in the movie, just read the book.

bill bryson is one of my favourites