Recommend Me Some Good Books

[molly bloom]

Walter Mosley's 'Easy Rawlins' novels- 'Devil In A Blue Dress', 'White Butterfly', and so on.

C. V. Wedgwood's trilogy on the Parliament-v-King conflicts- 'The King's Peace', 'The King's War' and 'The Trial Of Charles I' :

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3203/Wedgwood.html

[Imran Siddiqui]

Read Harry Potter

Though I guess it all depends on what type of books you want to read. For a more gritty sci-fi/fantasy (not sure what to call them), you can read China Mieville's books. "Perdido Street Station" and "The Scar" (which I'm reading now) are very well done... and Mieville's world is so rich and vast and detailed. It's amazing how he's managed to create such an intricate world; just as in depth and complicated as Tolkein's Middle Earth and George R.R. Martin's world.

[molly bloom]

Oh, and Barbara Tuchman's great 'A Distant Mirror'.

Which proves that the more things have changed, the more they've stayed the same.


I second Imran's recommendation of Melville too.


Tuchman:

http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century/dp/0345349571

[Imran Siddiqui]

A Distant Mirror has been on my Amazon Wish List for like a year now. I probably should get it at some point. Package it with a couple other books for free shipping, now that World War Z is out on paperback (and I really want to read that ) .

[chequita guevara]

Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver series were surprisingly wonderful to read. Stephenson's always a great writer, but he's generally a science fiction writer, so when he took on the late 17th-early 18th Century for his new project, I was skeptical, and held out for years. Then I found two of the books cheap, so I nabbed them, found the first one cheap someplace else, and dove in. They ROCK! They were originally three large books (think Cryptonomicon size), but it's being split up into seven to nine books and re-released. I'm reading them to Bunnygrrl.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver series were surprisingly wonderful to read. Stephenson's always a great writer, but he's generally a science fiction writer, so when he took on the late 17th-early 18th Century for his new project, I was skeptical, and held out for years. Then I found two of the books cheap, so I nabbed them, found the first one cheap someplace else, and dove in. They ROCK! They were originally three large books (think Cryptonomicon size), but it's being split up into seven to nine books and re-released. I'm reading them to Bunnygrrl.

QFT

[embalmer42]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Oh, and Barbara Tuchman's great 'A Distant Mirror'.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Walter Mosley's 'Easy Rawlins' novels- 'Devil In A Blue Dress', 'White Butterfly', and so on.

QFT

[Lord Avalon]

I second Steven Erikson! I finished Malazan book 5 not so long ago. Great stuff!

[Ramo]

Tuchman's fantastic. Read everything she writes.

[b etor]

Re: Recommend Me Some Good Books

Originally posted by Sprayber
I've read the Dune books and really loved most of them.

I'm in the process of reading the Earth Chirldren's series which started with Clan of the Cave Bear and I'm really loving them so far.

dune books

i didn't read the book, but i saw the movie and it was pretty good.

[Zkribbler]

[Riesstiu IV]

You mean that 1984 movie with Sting? That was awful and significantly different from the book.

[Addled Platypus]

6 Frigates-US Navy history

[Alinestra Covelia]

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks

"Small World" by David Lodge