"Dont tell mum I work on the rigs- she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse"
and
"This is not a drill"
both by Paul Carter, West Aussie bloke in the oil industry.
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"I'll go home then; its warm and has chairs"
"The internet is a playground"
both by David Thorne.
Halfway through the first book of A Game of Thrones, brilliant.
I've watched the first and second seasons and so far have to say that the series is by far the closest adaptation of any books I've ever read. Pretty well word perfect, and geez it was cast well too, apart from Joffrey who is an ugly little twat in the series and a handsome little twat in the book.
The book has perhaps a shade more detail in the back story, but there's not much in it.
Check out mathew Reilly if you want action adventure. The scarecrow novels are great as are the seven ancient wonders, the six sacred stones and the five greatest warriors trilogy.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Sort of the same theme as Lord of the Rings. Read it back in the 80's. (6 books in set)
Mr Nice
Marching powder
Killing Pablo
The damage done
All true stories and all worth reading
Puffy, second all those. Sn, Paul Carter drill rig books good too, quick read tho, not much in 'em.
Pitbull, read those Thomas Covenant books when I was a teen in the 80's too, loved em - well the first 3 anyway, thought the 2nd 3 were not as good but still good. Re-read them as an adult, found them dreadful. I suggest you don't do it, just keep your happy memories.
Tom Robbins is a good author, try "Fierce invalids home from hot climates".
A good thread, so I should add a post that is on topic....
"The power of one"
"The persimmon tree"
(plus most other books by Bryce Courtney)
"A fraction of the whole" debut novel by aussie Steve Toltz; if he publishes another book I will buy it without even opening it.
"Water for elephants" I listened to this as an audio book, the reader for the character of Jacob at age 90 (or 93) has such a great voice for the role.
"The road" another good audio book, great sense of place
Seized by Max Hardberger. Auto biography.
This guy travels the world "reposesssing" ships that have been impounded illeagily in country's like Panama and Dominican republic. Modest guy for a yank but pretty ballsy.
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if you like your heroic fanatsy cant go passed David Gemmell.Start with Druss the Legend.
There are some good novels from many authors, as a filler and never having read a Dickens novel before, I pulled 'Great Expectations' out of our bookshelf thinking it was going to be a laborious exercise but from page one I couldn't put the thing down.
Read a good one the other day.
Softcover, but a lot of "name and address withheld" in it...
I've heard Playboy is a good read but every time a pick up a copy I only seem to get the editions with pictures only.
Haven't read through all the suggestions. My favorite lately is Scar Tissue, but you probably needed to have followed the red hot chilli peppers for the last 20 years to relate.
The other good one I recommend is the Sunday Smuggler, probably best not to read as you travel around Indo like I did, bit disturbing lol.
Anything by Ken Follett (prefer the historical books over the thrillers)
Game of Thrones -George R. R. Martin
The Hunger Games -Suzanne Collins
The Kite Runner -Khaled Hosseini
A thousand splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Anything by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
I would recommend 50 Shades to all my girl friends
Robert g Barrets trilogy ,mud crab boogie ,wind and the monkey .Set on the east coast of aussie fictional character Les norton all time boof head gets up to all sorts .Any of the books about 20 of em www.robertgbarrett.com.au/
I find it hard to ignore any books by Tom Clancy in the Jack Ryan series and will usually read them in a couple of days.
For something different I just finished Animal Farm by George Orwell, next I might tackle 1984...
Also halfway through Catch-22 by Joseph Hellier, if not for it being quite a heavy read I'd have finished it 12 months ago, but I'll persist and get there in the end, fascinating use of language and characters.
On the bookshelf ready to go is QF32 by the captain on the QANTAS A380 that nearly fell out of the sky, looks like a ripper, next to that waiting to be read are Mawson by Peter Fitzsimons, Helmet For My Pillow by Bob Leckie, With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge and Ghost Wave by Chris Dixon.
