Anyone read a good book lately and would recommend reading it? I know choice of reading material is pretty subjective, but for me finding a good book is like scoring 3-4 consecutive days of offshores and 4-6ft of swell.
I only read books when im on the toilet, Usually telephone books
Usually left there by someone who has ran out of toilet paper rofl.
"The Well at the Worlds End" and "The Unlikely Voyage of Jack De Crow" by A J MacKinnon. A real storyteller that you can relate to if you backpacked the world in the 70's and 80's.
David Hicks - Guantanamo My journey, was a real eye opener to the spineless Australian government we think protects us and the piece of poo media which is nothing more than a lapdog circus.
Ahn Do - The Happiest Refugee was a cool inspiring story about making the most of the opportunities life presents and how hard work and belief in yourself can take you where ever you want to go.
Stephen King - Under the Dome, typical Stephen King, awesome suspense filled narration and well drawn sub plots of a town and its people where something mysterious is happening, yet ultimately... nothing is happening
Roxana Shirayi - Last Living Slut, Real life story about some chick who sounds like she is trying to convince herself as much as the reader that her sexual promiscurity and obsession with sleeping with dudes from bands and being treated like poo was an empowerment to her female sexuality... but she just comes off sounding like a total slut
Totaly agree Doggie. Heard he's writing a second book.
Read it before we went to Mumbai last Jan. Went to a few of the places out of the book. Had a few beers and a chicken burger at Leopolds Cafe.
Betrayed by Stan Telchin, an account of a Jewish family who converted to Christianity. Very interesting insight into the jewish mind and their attitude toward non jewish people.
Been getting into some classics
- The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
- The Strange Case of Dr Hekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Invisible Man, HG Wells
- The Time Machine, HG Wells
I recommend all these, they are definately classics.
Been working my way through all Neil Gaimen's books.
They make for a great read
American God's is probably my favourite so far.
"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen (author of "The Corrections")
"Timequake" and "Slaughter House 5" by Kurt Vonnegut
Currently reading The Hobbit at night to the kids and don't quite know who is enjoying it more.
This book is a MUST read...
Dont tell mum I work on the rigs, she thinks Im a piano player in a whorehouse.
Its is absolutly f@$king hilarious
He does stretch the truth in Shantaram. Thats for sure.
Leopolds is everything like the book Doggie, except for they now have an armed guard at both doors after the place was shot down in 08 atacks.
Bullet hole under A in Australia
Big beer
audio books from torrents
god is not great- hitchens
art of war- sun tzu
greatest show on earth- dawkins
I can recommend a good author; if you like sci-fi, Peter F Hamilton writes some cracking good books.
His books are really immersive, a bit of a hefty read but the worlds & technologies are fleshed out really well.
If you like your SF by the kilo then Peter Hamilton is your man. Easy to read. Not too dumb. Plenty of techie stuff and a bit of rooting for good measure.
He's one of the few writers who takes a few simple premises and expands them to a fully consistent logical world view. It's proper SF.
The only reservation is he has a few quasi-religious threads running through his books. [}:)]
Shantaram was my last but while we are talkin books ya cant go past Peter Fitzsimons stuff. Not bad effort from a rugby bloke.
Best book that i have read in a long time ia Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, I usually read fiction but this was way better because it is true
shantaram is nowhere near a true story. he has bits of his own life in and made a work of fiction. there are some good parts but it turns to ****e in the end in my opinion and looking back I dont think it was that great.
memorable books for me
the road - cormac mcarthy
catch 22
a farewell to arms
ship of gold in the deep blue sea (best book ever)
but books are like movies - depends on your taste if you like em
