Can anyone recommend a good book

[scotus]

Mark Booth's 'The Secret History of the World tmysetl', can't decribe it myself so Ill let Amazon do the talking t''hIn this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling intellectual tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous premise?that everything we've been taught about our world's past is corrupted, and that the stories put forward by the various cults and mystery schools throughout history are true?Booth produces nothing short of an alternate history of the past 3,000 years.

Thanks for that one Anita. That's one I am definitely going to check out

[ciara]

such a fully story including books , yellow pages to be precise!!
when i was getting my photos done in one of the pics the photographer made me stand on the yellow pages .... thought it was very funny , hummm so when do u stop growing is there any hope left for me or should i go buy a pair of stilts lol

[anitasizzle]

Thanks for that one Anita. That's one I am definitely going to check out

It is good, if you know some of the people, events, topics and the like being discussed you won't be disappointed-my copy is in tatters, actually it's my second one-don't letl people borrow-tell them to buy theiry own!

[Derry lad]

Have read all the Ian Rankin books which included the Inspector Rebus series. Very addictive!
Wish I had read them in order though!

[Apollo1]

A lot of Asimovs works(the foundation series especially) a genius who invented the three laws of robotics(check out I Robot)....but i think im the only one on here that finds this impressive...or another one i would recommend would be "The Mothman Prophecies" by John Keel, dont know if anything that occurred in it is true but its still an interesting read..

[Sam Spade]

I was looking forward to having a good read ( yes read, not ride ) over the next few days and got Derren Browns 'confessions of a conjuror'.

I like Derren Brown and thought his views might be interesting, but fuck me, he is seriously up his own arse and the book is crap.

Might nip out later and buy another.

Anyone get any good books they'd recommend?

Try:-
King Rat - James Clavell (normal read);
Tai Pan - James Clavell (long read);
Shogun - James Clavell (long read);
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (short read);
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (long read-3 books).

[BootSlick55]

Lysistrata by Aristophanes is a good lewd read.

Aristophanes, Lysistrata: e-text

or

Tartuffe by Moliere

Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere - Full Text Free Book

or one of my favs the last couple of years

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

Amazon.com: Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The: A Novel (P.S.) (9780061120190): Ron Hansen: Books

[littlewilly]

try "run rabbit run" by john updyke

after reading it you realise that American authors post 1950 are so much better than people like martin amiss who are up their own arses with their own self importance.

[ezazel]

Assuming you enjoyed Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor you should try Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montifiore,.
Also Mr. Nice by Howard Marks is a great read.

[jessie]

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Spanish autor)
-The Shadow of the Wind
-The Angel's Game

Literature Classics:

W.F. Hermans (Dutch autor)
-The Darkroom of Damocles

Frank Martinus Arion (Dutch Caribbean autor)
-Double Play

I know some people will find it boring but I really like to read some Literature Classics.

Jessie