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Talion:Revenant by michael Stackpoole

I'd recommend Brave New World or 1984. Both are pretty well known novels, and I've read them at least twice each.

Yes, those are very good books, I've read them both. If it's sci-fi, and not terribly new, chances are I've read it. There was a time, before having children, that I read alot haha.

Nexa

Dan Browns Angels and Demons is a good read, far superior to the swiss cheese plot that is The Da Vinci Code.

If you give us a broad genre that you like Nexa, it would help.

Broadly speaking however i always recommend Orsen Scott Card and Wilbur Smith for those who haven't read them yet.

If you don't want a series i would go with

Sungod

Hungry as the sea

Both very different books.

or if you want a series that is fairly short try Men of men the first of the ballantyne series, it is 4 books but Smith is an easy read, and the first book started life as a stand-alone so it can be read as such.

It's not at all new, and no idea if you would appreciate a technological thriller, but I highly recommend Timeline by Michael Crichton to most anybody. I have yet to meet someone who was not enthralled by this book if they tried it.

I threw it into a subway garbage can after about 200 pages. It was that or vomit on the other passengers after reading another banal, patronizing, over-explained deus ex machina page.

Crichton is just a horrible, horrible writer. Predictable and uncomplicated though, and people really like that, so I imagine he, Tom Clance, Scott Turrow, Ken Folett etc etc will keep writing the same book 100 times and keep making millions.

The thing I really can't stand about Crichton, and as an aside much more so Piers Anathony, is the mind numbing impression that there is about 300 pages of exposition in each book written seemingly only to ensure that if a 8 year old labotomy patient is read the book aloud that they'll be able to understand every characters express motivation for every action.

Dan Brown sucks too.

:)

Ross Thomas has some seriously great books...Chinaman's Chance, Voodoo Limited, etc....I especially like the three with Artie Wu/Quincy Durant characters in them. They are stand alone and are kinda Mysteries.

The alphabet mysteries by Sue Grafton is a series, but each book can be read seperate of the others as there is a lot of plot and little personal info to make reading the entire series essential. plus the main character is a female if you don't like to read male dominated books.

The Firm and The Runaway Jury by Grisham are fantastic stand alones as well. The movies sucked...but the books are great reads.

Also if you have never read Starship Troopers...it may not be a great "chick" book per se, but it is a quick read.

Tacosid





Edited, Sun Dec 4 22:09:12 2005 by Tacosid

Also if you have never read Starship Troopers...it may not be a great "chick" book per se, but it is a quick read.

It's a good introduction to the rest of Heinlien which for some reason seems to focue around fifty year old men having hot sex with young women. He wasn't fifty when he wrote ST, though. He also wrote it as a joke.

Only Heinlien I have read is Stranger in a Strange Land. I'm not much of a Sci Fi person though, although I went through a phase a while back which I read a fair amount. I had a thing for Orson Scott Card, and a few others. I seem to remember David Brin's Glory Season being a good read.

I think I read a Danielle Steele book once. For a while I had no car and was in the military stuck on post, and the PX has a really really horrid selection of novels. Then I went to Fort Polk, LA on a training excercize and was quite bored, and still had no reading selection. I read way too many thrillers and trashy romance novels for lack of anything else.

I just kinda think of Starship troopers as a guy book. All of its main characters are guys, the book is about war and fighting etc...

I used to read W. Smith when I was a kid. He is very easy reading, not exactly the most sophisticated of writers, but he does spin a good yarn. Of his books I would recommend, the 3 Sean Courtney books: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder, and A Sparrow Falls.

I recommend "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" by John LeCarre. A totaly engrossing well written espionage tale from the 60's that out does anything written since, including Tom Clancy's work.

Also coming out in a movie soon (I'm not sure if this trumps it or not), but you may want to try Memoirs of a Geisha.