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Im looking for some good reads for the holidays .. anyone got any tips?

It was the Da Vinci Code for me last year

What sort of books do you like?

Harry potter. I'm being serious. The books are really really good. I got really into one when I went away last year.

Another Dan Brown one, Angels and Demons, similar to Da Vinci, but better.

Ben Elton one, Past Mortem, awesome book.

Fear Nothing and Seize The Night (the sequel to Fear Nothing) by Dean Koontz are good if you like a thriller with something a bit different.

I really enjoyed Decipher by Stel Pavlou a few years back as well, but it's an epic read due to the length of the book.

I've hardly done any reading recently but the last books I read were by James Patterson and Harlan Coben.

I read Jordon's autobiography on my last holiday. Star of The sea is good too by Joseph o Connor

I recently read Arthur and George by Julian Barnes,about Arthur Conan Doyle righting a miscarriage of justice,very good it was too.Not sure you'd like it though.
What about a cricket book?one of my favourites is Rain men by Marcus Berkmann,its very funny.

Just finshed Brown's "Deception Point" - fucking brill.

I haven't read any books by Dan Brown. All of the hype and media attention puts me off a bit. I think I will read them when everyone has forgotten about them.

Read that one too. Good book. I have one more by him in the book shelf, Digital Fortress, but heard its tripe, so haven't started yet.

thank u all

I agree,although it sounds a bit snobby,i can't possible read that its too popular :)
At the moment i'm reading The six wifes of Henry VIII by David Starkey,a huge history book,yum :D

try The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz.  Its anthropology, but has a great account of Balinese cockfighting thats a great laugh.

the motley crue biography funny as fuck

Doesn't sound that funny to me  :|

i read Jordan and Jodie Marsh's autobiography last year  :oops:  :oops:

I thought Digital Fortress was great!  Da Vinci Code better though.

If you like reading, get into "The wheel of time" by Robert Jordan

Up tp book 11 now, each one fucking long - but they are good.

Think of Lord of the rings, but much better

Agreed i thought Angels and Demons pretty much was the Da Vinci code with a few names and places changed, Digital Fortress is class finished it in a few days proper page turner.

Also the Broker by John Grisham was a quality book imo

I can't read  :shock:

I've heard that too!  :mrgreen:

I thought Stephen Fry summed up The Da Vinci Code perfectly when he refered to it as 'arse dribble'.  Sorry to be a literary snob like, I just can't help it.

I'd recommend The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth, a fictional account of his childhood in an America that stays out of the Second World War and moves towards Fascism.  So well written you could be forgiven for believing it had actually happened, and with a conclusion that you would never see coming.

yeah heard that to mate

I'm reading a great book at the moment called 'Congratulations, you've just met the ICF'.

Perhaps we should have a book swap.

Pull names out of a hat and send them a book to read.

Im a massive massive nerd arent I :D

Agreed, great book!

Sussex, have you read any of Cass Pennant's other books?

 8) My driving's ace.

Not yet, but I'd recommend 'Soul Crew' by David Jones and Tony Rivers.

(We need that boxing emoticon on here!)

I'll do that, I'm always trying to fob books I love onto people who aren't really interested.

BTW I think I'm probably more of a nerd considering how excited I got when I saw there was a book thread that I hadn't started :D

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 8) start a thread then you can be king nerd :wink:

I have to confess, i like Adrian Mole books.  :D

I've just finished We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Scary.

I've done about 4 on here already, plus I made J1mmy lose it on thisis back in the day after ruining his big brother thread by talking about Orwell, which started everyone discussing their favourite books.

I'll just send you The Plot Against America if you want it.

yes go on then ill pm you my address 8)

I am about to start the Jimmy Glass Story for my holiday in 2 weeks time.

My old dear bought me that for my birthday but I haven't got around to reading it yet.  I got the impression from the back she was making a statement about how difficult it was to raise me :D

Haha, depends if you've just got out the nick...

No, although she did have to cancel an evening out once to sit in on a police interview.  Snidey bint, I'll have to find a book about disappearing mothers, or the effect of smacking kids around the head :D

Yeah, a bit like WNTTAK  :shock:

i'm just finishing it. Must do soon though as going to see the film when it comes out. Hope it's better than the reviews it's getting.

 :soapy tit wank:  
Eric Blair :) ,he's buried in Sutton Courtenay,i've been to his grave :(
Of course 1984 is his best work, but i do think Homage to Catalonia is also brilliant,his Essays collection from Penguin is great too .

Cas Pennant - Legend

Quality read Ralphus !

ben mezrich has done some good books, stories based on real life. The first one's about some MIT kids who shit on vegas - they're really good 'can't put down' books

I read Ugly Americans about US traders in the Far East in the early 90's.  Was quite interesting although it left me with alot of unanswered questions, I'm sure alot of which werew to protect the source.  Someone told me the Vegas one was a much better book.

I'm right at the end of the book; so will finish it today or tomorrow. Has got much better at the end. Going to see the film on Thursday.

Homage to Catalonia is his best non-fiction book by far I think.  I loved the way the Anarchists basically just took orders(although they never actually had to), because they knew they had to have some sort of structure to survive.

1984 for me is too depressing, I prefer Animal Farm for it's simplicity yet brilliance.  Also well ahead of his time in being a socialist who could see the dangers in communism(something else he learnt while fighting in Spain).