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« Reply #15 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:42:34 » |
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Dean Koontz books are usually good - some of them aren't too horror/supernatural, ones like Night Chills for instance or Dark Rivers of The Heart, tend to be good thrillers and interesting.
If you want something a bit different I always like to recommend Stel Pavlou's Decipher - interesting take on technology, religion, history and a great apocalyptic thriller set in the present day. Better than the Dan Brown stuff I'm told (although I haven't read any of his so can't comment). It's a big book though, but worth the time.
If you like crime thrillers then Harlan Coben or Lee Childs books are easy to pick up.
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:42:44 » |
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i could lend you my copy.
i'd also recommend octave mirbeau's torture garden...the most graphic book i've ever read.
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« Reply #17 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:45:26 » |
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that looks good si, thats 3 on the list.
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« Reply #18 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:46:51 » |
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no reviews on the torture garden on play.com sonic, might try amazon tomorrow.
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« Reply #19 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:48:44 » |
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« Reply #20 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:50:22 » |
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not sure i could cope with that when hungover on the train on a saturday morning! its more of an involved 'at home' sunday afternoon book.
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« Reply #21 on: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 23:53:46 » |
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This is standard fare on the subject of moral perversion. It has been a favourite topic of pretentious or over-privileged writers for a very long time, discussed by writers as far-ranging as Nietzsche, J.G. Ballard, Allen Ginsberg or Albert Camus.
But THIS has to rank as one of the most openly vile, rancorous books ever written. It is typical of people such as Mirbeau, who, according to the introduction, "inherited the conservative bourgeois values of the rural middle-class", which is basically his entire problem. He has never had to struggle so instead has opted to dream up ways of livening up his life - thus 'The Torture Garden' is a morally-perverted haven for sado-masochists and general perverts alike.
judging by the last line in this review maybe i would like it.
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« Reply #22 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 00:03:45 » |
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albert camus' the plague Superb book, 'The Outsider' is also superb and is one of my favourites. that looks good si, thats 3 on the list. If you enjoy thrillers and the like i recommend this book. If you regret it, i'll fucking buy it off you because i lost my copy! It's probably my favouritist ever book. Very Martin Cruz Smith, although doesn't have the same flow, but the story is absolutely fucking epic. Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heights |
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« Reply #23 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 00:15:22 » |
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sounds good, but you can't buy it new on amazon or play. weirdness.
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 00:31:53 » |
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albert camus' the plague Superb book, 'The Outsider' is also superb and is one of my favourites. that looks good si, thats 3 on the list. If you enjoy thrillers and the like i recommend this book. If you regret it, i'll fucking buy it off you because i lost my copy! It's probably my favouritist ever book. Very Martin Cruz Smith, although doesn't have the same flow, but the story is absolutely fucking epic. Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heightsjust bought it on ebay for £1, that'll do the job. |
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 08:13:43 » |
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For some real life amazing stories read Papillion by Henri Charriere, the sotry of his time in the French colonial prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
For a giggle Ben Elton, and for some good modern day gritty books look no further than Irvine Welsh and the non-football factory output by John King.
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« Reply #26 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 08:38:56 » |
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 09:11:56 » |
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you read anything by carl hiaasen? good comedy thriller suspense type stuff. Reasding Moneyball at the mo, about how a poor babseball side took on the big boys...
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« Reply #28 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 10:21:12 » |
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Anything by Cass Pennant if you're interested in the terrace culture and hooliganism.
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« Reply #29 on: Friday, June 1, 2007, 10:23:37 » |
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For some real life amazing stories read Papillion by Henri Charriere, the sotry of his time in the French colonial prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
For a giggle Ben Elton, and for some good modern day gritty books look no further than Irvine Welsh and the non-football factory output by John King. think i've read all the elton and welsh books already. |
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