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Anybody read good NON-fantasy books?

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Tiamat, Feb 8, 2003.

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    Remove all ads!
    Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen
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    Choke, by the same guy who wrote fight club.
     
    Erebus, Mar 7, 2003
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    I read a great story by Conrad called "Youth". It was in a volume that contained "Heart of Darkness" and other stories.
    All of the stories were outstanding, and "Heart of Darkness" is well known, but I think that "Youth" is an overlooked classic.
     
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    I was reading some Harlan Ellison. He wrote some great short stories, especially Paingod, Bright Eyes, and I Must Scream and I Have No Mouth. (Or maybe it's the other way around, I can never remember ;) .) Either way, I'd highly recommend them to any one. :)
     
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    Don't blame me for being an English teacher for grades 5 and 6, but anything by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith is good fun, especially the "Stinky Cheese Man" or "Squids will be Squids"...

    Andy Griffiths "Just" series is also very 12 years old "esqu"...

    Sorry... :rolleyes:
     
    Khazraj, Mar 9, 2003
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    I love almost anything by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as kooky as he ended up becoming in his later years, though his historical non-fiction is only interesting if you like, well, historical non-fiction. About the Boer War. Really enthralling stuff :rolleyes: . However, I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan.
     
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    I also like to read history books, especially on the U.S. Civil War.
     
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    Heller has many other excellent works like Good as Gold (1979) and God Knows (1984)... I am currently reading Picture this (1990), which is also one excellent book!
     
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    Hi ya Pac Man. Those sound like pretty good books. But tell the truth now: your favorite books are pop-up books. :D j/k

    Ever read any of Winston Churchill's books? Either WWI or WWII series. Not bad once you get past his praise of self parts.
     
    Keraptisdm, Mar 14, 2003
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    Tom Clancy's...
     
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    I almost never read fantasy, which is how I hardly ever have anything to say in this forum. I love hard SF and space opera - anything with a spaceship on the cover or the word "galactic" in the title is fine by me :p - as well as mystery novels and well-researched historical fiction such as the "biographies" by Margaret George. Recently I've been reading Stephen Fry and Nelson de Mille novels. One thing I don't read is "real" literature such as the kind that wins national prizes. I know I'm a philistine but I just don't like it. My husband loves it and can't believe I'd rather read Stephen King than Michael Ondaatje.
     
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    If I might suggest Robert Ludlum, the man bbehind Bourne Identity and simply the best thriller writer there is. The best. His books can make you EXTRENELY scared of what may be happening behind the scenes (The Prometheus deception... I can FEEL it happening...) or make you laugh your butt off (The Road to Gandolfo and the Road to Omaha... I don't think anything has ever made me laugh so much in my life) or be just "plain" good thrillers (Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum... the ever-great trilogy....)

    (Who, me, advertising?)
     
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    Well, I read alot of political analysis journals, world conflict/current event books. I'm almost done The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (which is crazy long. 1600 pages of small print and pure, unadulterated information). I also read a book called 'Taken By Storm' by a couple of professors. It's about the Kyoto Protocol. I'm currently ensconced in 'The Bible Code II' which is almost the conspirators handbook :p
     
    Mystra's Chosen, Mar 25, 2003
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