FabSwingers.com forum: Book suggestions

By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

I've got books enough in line for the next decade but what am I going to do after that?

What books are you reading? What books have you read recently that you liked? Or hated? Basically let's talk books!this is about books in case I hadn't mentioned it enough

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

Never got time to read but when i did ...tom clancy or james herbert were my faves

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cam currently reading joe nesbo's books i read the snowman and now reading the son recommend these as thrillers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Work your way through the late Ian M Banks culture novels.

I could create you a hell of a list but give me some idea of genre

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You've seen my book collection so that's my suggestions x

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Never got time to read but when i did ...tom clancy or james herbert were my faves

Tom Clancy seems to be writing more now he's dead!

Loved James Herbert. Lots of scares and at least one good sex scene in every book

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"I cam currently reading joe nesbo's books i read the snowman and now reading the son recommend these as thrillers "

Jo Nesbo is great! and they are well worth reading in order

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Work your way through the late Ian M Banks culture novels.

I could create you a hell of a list but give me some idea of genre"

Love the Culture! If that's a utopia I'm happy being imperfect

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"You've seen my book collection so that's my suggestions x"

I wasn't paying attention to the books

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Just finished Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong (hilarious) and about to read Joe Hill's The Fireman (which was signed when he visited Glasgow

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By *oody2shoesWoman
over a year ago

dunbartonshire

Anything by james patterson. Got 4 short stories of his the now im reading

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jo Nesbo, Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Craig Johnson, Michael Connelly, CJ Box, Robert Crais, Paul Doiron John Grisham are all good reads.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

David Baldacci

And old favourite of mine from years ago in non-fiction is Dervla Murphy. Travel writer through the 60s/70s and cycled/travelled by mule all over place and covers the social, political and economic history of the country too

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any by James Oswald or Stuart Macbride for Scottish crime books. Or Willy Vlauntin or Donald Ray Pollock for gritty American books.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

I'm also a big fan of Terry Pratchett, love the Discworld series. And the Ack Ack Macaque books by Gareth Powell are excellent

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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago

Dundee/Angus/Blackpool

Depending on the type of book you would enjoy I would recommend Sherrilyn Kenyon

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

"I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge "

Joe Hill's N0S4R2 ties in with Doctor Sleep a little. Do you recall them mentioning Charlie Manx? He's from Joe's book, definitely recommend if you haven't read.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge

Joe Hill's N0S4R2 ties in with Doctor Sleep a little. Do you recall them mentioning Charlie Manx? He's from Joe's book, definitely recommend if you haven't read."

I have N0S4R2 to read as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Never got time to read but when i did ...tom clancy or james herbert were my faves

James Herbert-rats and also another about ghosts, used to freak me out but good reads

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Just finished Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong (hilarious) and about to read Joe Hill's The Fireman (which was signed when he visited Glasgow

Love Joe Hill... Almost as much as his dad! I had no idea he visited Glasgow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never read a book, no, wait , I read 50 shades on a holiday.

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge "

I loved doctor Sleep but kept comparing it to the shining!!!

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Just finished Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong (hilarious) and about to read Joe Hill's The Fireman (which was signed when he visited Glasgow

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Love Joe Hill... Almost as much as his dad! I had no idea he visited Glasgow

He did a signing in June, he was really nice and even geeked out over a nerdy tattoo I have.

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge

Joe Hill's N0S4R2 ties in with Doctor Sleep a little. Do you recall them mentioning Charlie Manx? He's from Joe's book, definitely recommend if you haven't read."

There's also a tie in to IT if I recall?

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

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By *ornographic ArtsCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

"I've just finished the follow up to The Shining - Doctor Sleep. It's a fantastically atmospheric book.

Now reading my friend Emma Newman's latest instalment of the Split Worlds series, A Little Knowledge

Joe Hill's N0S4R2 ties in with Doctor Sleep a little. Do you recall them mentioning Charlie Manx? He's from Joe's book, definitely recommend if you haven't read.

There's also a tie in to IT if I recall?"

Yeah, the Pennywise circus is mentioned and the Treehouse from Horns.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would also recommend jo nesbo. I have eleventy million books, might get round to reading some time....

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By *atmanhMan
over a year ago

bellshill

Dean Koontz

Good story teller

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts if you have time for the 600 odd pages that it lasts for great book imo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been reading Tom wood, Victor the assassin series, I'd recommend him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Beyond Chutzpah by Norman Finklestein, a sensational read and very thought provoking

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts if you have time for the 600 odd pages that it lasts for great book imo "

I've read Shantaram and really enjoyed it. Could have halted it and told the same story just by removing all the instances of "I think it was then that I realised I truly loved... (Insert character name here)" or "what I didn't know then was..."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Joe nesbo is good currently reading him just now but a master storyteller is stephen king i read his novellas years ago and the all turned into fantastic films greenmile shawshank stand by me dolores clayborne list goes on

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Joe nesbo is good currently reading him just now but a master storyteller is stephen king i read his novellas years ago and the all turned into fantastic films greenmile shawshank stand by me dolores clayborne list goes on "

I'm the worlds biggest Stephen King fan! I'm one hundred percent with you on this one

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

Also love Jo Nesbo! Great books

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wilbur Smith. I love his books, all about south Africa. cant get enough of them.

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By *anny77 OP Man
over a year ago

glasgow

"Wilbur Smith. I love his books, all about south Africa. cant get enough of them.

Always surprised they haven't been turned into a massive television series!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Working my way through a handful of Kurt Vonnegut books just now, then got a couple of Chuck Palahniuk ones lined up after that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wilbur Smith. I love his books, all about south Africa. cant get enough of them.

Always surprised they haven't been turned into a massive television series!"

Yea your right there, they would make great viewing.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

James Patterson, Kathy Reichs, Linda Fairstein, Harlan Coben, Adam Croft, Mark Edwards, Lisa Gardener.

Would recommend "Devil in the White City" by Lark Erikson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All depends on your taste in books really.

Plenty of good recommendations so far, I would Stuart Neville and Elmore Leonard.

Also recent reads:

The serial killers club by Jeff Povey,

3 by Grant King,

The interns handbook by Shane Kuhn,

Imperial life in the emerald city by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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By *hat_not_whatMan
over a year ago

Glasgow West

Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en is a classic and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole deserves to have a movie adaptation made.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you like fantasy stuff, the the Raymond E Feist Riftwar cycle is pretty epic.. And it's finished now, so you can binge read the whole thing. About 20 books or so if you count the side stories

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