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    Quote Originally Posted by razaar View Post
    Enjoyed the first book of the series, but prefer David Gemmell; his Drenai and The Reganti Series are outstanding.
    I haven't read any of Gemmell's, but Goodkind is very good. I'm still slowly working my way through Jordan's stuff too, although there's no rush since he's died and needs someone else to finish the last book (which I think is being split into more )

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    HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean awesome book. Read it.

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    Yossarian, I assume that you're a Joseph Heller fan. Catch-22 is an absolute classic.

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    It is. Nothing else Heller did comes close IMO. Didn't mind Closing Time? the sequel but nothing could outstrip Catch 22.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AndyP View Post
    It follows on from the series before which follows on from the series before, etc, so you might have to read a few books depending on where you were up to.

    Have read up to the one with the Duke who is a bastard and then comes good. The one with the Tolnoys.... Rage of a Mad God I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dc68 View Post
    Have read up to the one with the Duke who is a bastard and then comes good. The one with the Tolnoys.... Rage of a Mad God I think.
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    I enjoy reading Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Harlen Coben, James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, Tom Clancy.... pretty boring.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gazgolf1 View Post
    I enjoy reading Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Harlen Coben, James Lee Burke, Greg Iles, Tom Clancy.... pretty boring.
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    Always enjoyed Tom Clancy's stuff, although some of that op centre stuff was pretty awful.
    Granted Clancy didn't write it... I think.

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    I'm reading "Firepower - The Most Spectacular Fraud in Australian History" by Gerard Ryle about Tim Johnston and how he managed to rip off just about everyone gullible in Australia and New Zealand. Well written book.
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    Eclectic tastes for me, Lately Ive read Star War novels, Agatha Christie, the entire Tomorrow series by John Marsden. (my daughters books), a biography on Ben Hogan, a Bmw repair manual, a Thai history/cook book and the entire Barry Maitland "Brock and Kolla" mysteries. And also the first 12 of the Janet Evanovich "One for the Money" series. Oh and another one of my daughters called "The Hunger Games".
    The Tomorrow series was gripping, bloody good for teenage fiction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markTHEblake View Post
    .... Left Behind, ....
    That partly explains the fixation on gold. Are you planning for The Rapture? or just a general collapse of society?
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    I totally agree with the Michael Connelly comments. For some reason I had not read one of his books until 3 or 4 months ago, but have read 5 since then and they have all been enjoyable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dc68 View Post
    Have read up to the one with the Duke who is a bastard and then comes good. The one with the Tolnoys.... Rage of a Mad God I think.
    If you have read Wrath of a Mad God, then you are up to date except for the book I'm reading, even though the Duke came good a few books before then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
    That partly explains the fixation on gold. Are you planning for The Rapture?
    If I am planning for the Rapture then you need the Gold not me.


    or just a general collapse of society?
    for that i would need guns.
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    Anything by Dan Brown, Jeffery Archer, and John Grisham currenty reading a book on how to take care of Jumped up little ****s with little man syndrome, It's called shhhhh little man it's ok, bloody hilarious

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Canuck View Post
    The Green Mile - Stephen King - movie is terrible compared to the book
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    I have got Harvey Penick's Little Red book on the bedside table on top of a couple of golf mags and latest RD's Handyman issue. I don't read many novels these days even though as a whippersnapper I read books constantly.

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    another vote for Papillion...must have read it 20 plus times

    The Rome series by Colleen Mccullough is another favourite....bit heavy going if your not into ancient Rome though
    In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.............

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Dickinson View Post
    The Rome series by Colleen Mccullough is another favourite....bit heavy going if your not into ancient Rome though
    I just finished Antony and Cleopatra. Her research is awesome and she turns household names from the past into living breathing characters. Unreservedly recommended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
    I just finished Antony and Cleopatra. Her research is awesome and she turns household names from the past into living breathing characters. Unreservedly recommended.
    Bruce
    I finished it about two weeks ago, agreed that its very good. Her description of Cleopatra is a long way from the Hollywood version.

    I'm now going back to start the series again with The First Man in Rome
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    I used to read the John Sandford "Prey" series 12 years ago. Just recently i bought about 11 that i was now behind on and have already finished 4. Fantastic read.
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    I just finished reading Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds. One of his better efforts... he's been a bit hit & miss with some of his past novels. Next in line is Zima Blue (also by Reynolds), a series of 3 or 4 shorter stories based in the same universe as some of his previous stuff.

    I also discovered another good author recently called Gary Gibson. His 3 books to date: Angel Stations, Against Gravity & Stealing Light have all been very entertaining with original plots (within the genre).
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    I don't seem to get into the fiction books. I am more a bio/other non fiction type book reader. If I get one I like I read it front to back in quick time and then try and find another.

    Some Titles read are:
    On film in Print - Warren Miller
    Fatal Storm - Rob Mundle
    This is my Surfboard - The Sandman
    Don't tell me I can't do that - Dick Johnson
    Seinlanguage - Jerry Seinfield
    Remembering Hooksey
    The way of the Shark

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