Book Thread

Guys. I love books. And I'm sure some of you do too.

So please do recommend books that you think is a good book and do tell a short story about the story is about.

Or oyu can just post the books that you just read and PUT RATINGS. ;)

The last book that I read is

The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks.

Ratings : A-

This book is awesome :worship: Sparks is usually famous with his love story. This time, he add the thriller part in the story. A well crafted love story and suprising thriller :worship:

Julie just lost her husband and world seemed to be not as it used to be. Her husband left her two unexpected gifts, a puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her.
After 4 years, she is ready to make a commitment to someone again. Should it be Richard, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike, the down-to-earh nice guy who is her husband's best friend. However, other than that, Julie is soon fighting for her life in a nightmare spawned by deception and jealousy that it has become a murserous desire..

"The Little Engine That Could"
by Watty Piper

Summary

Inspiring tale of self-belief and perseverance through trying times. It brilliantly captures the triumph of the human spirit - from the painstaking walk through the shadows of doubt to the joyous discovery of personal achievement by way of determination.

A must-have for all who face difficult situations in life.

My top 5

5 - "The Predator" by Michael Ridpath (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140295909/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3892509-7997438)
Ruthless, selfish, dangerous. In fact, just right for the job. At top investment bank Bloomfield Weiss, they taught them to be predators, killer deal-makers. While on the bank's training programme in New York, Chris and Lenka had become part of a close-knit gang of trainees. But when a drunken boat trip ends in tragedy, the gang decide to cover up the truth. Ten years later Lenka is murdered in Prague. Chris, now her business partner, must fight to keep their company afloat - and discover who was behind Lenka's death. For it seems the clues to the murder are rooted in that fatal boat-trip so many years ago.

Griping story but the book is a bit short. My rating: 7/10

4 - "Chasing the Dime" by Michael Connelly (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752849808/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3892509-7997438)
Harry Pierce has a whole new life new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time he checks his messages, he discovers that someone had the number before him. The messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night time world of escort services, websites, sex, and secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy and a decision that could cost him everything he owns and holds dear ...

It may sound sleexy but suprisingly this book doesn't really have a proper sex scene. Good story. My rating: 7/10

3 - "Gone for Good" by Harlan Coben (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752849123/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3892509-7997438)
On October 17, eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled in the basement of her house in the township of Livingston, New Jersey. On that day, Will's brother, Ken Klein, became the subject of an international manhunt accused of the crime. He has not been seen since. Will has tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. He has a beautiful new girlfriend, Sheila, and a job working with the homeless. But when his mother reveals, on her deathbed, that Ken is still alive, and shortly afterwards Sheila disappears, the cracks start to show in his landscape again. But it is only when he finds that Sheila herself is wanted for a savage double murder that his life actually starts to fall apart...

The first few chapters are hard going but once you get into this story you'll find it hard to put the book down. I was up till 1.30am finishing this book. A new twist every few pages- a brilliant read. My rating 8/10

2 - "The Partner" by John Grisham (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0099410311/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3892509-7997438)
Patrick Lanigan had been a young partner in a prominent Southern law firm. He had a beautiful wife, a new baby girl, and a bright future. Then one winter night Patrick was trapped in a burning car; the casket they buried held nothing but ashes.
A short distance away, Patrick watched his own burial then fled. A fortune was stolen from his ex-firm's offshore account. And Patrick ran, covering his tracks the whole way.

But, now, they've found him.

For me this is a wondeful book. I am close to wearing out my second copy. A book that will leave you thinking "wow". My rating 9/10

1 - "The Sigma Protocol" by Robert Ludlum (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752848135/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-3892509-7997438)
American investment banker Ben Hartman, son of legendary Max Hartman, who built a financial empire up from next to nothing, is on holiday in Switzerland when he meets a childhood friend who promptly tries to kill him. Ben narrowly survives the attempt, and when he wakes up he discovers that the body and all evidence of the confrontation has disappeared. But this is only the beginning... Anna Navarro, a US government agent, is sent to look into a string of deaths of old men around the world. The only thing the victims have in common is an old OSS file, codenamed SIGMA. But as soon as she starts to get somewhere, she is dragged off the case and declared rogue. Someone wants this secret kept and not only the future of Hartman and Navarro is at stake, but that of the world...

SENSATIONAL! One of the best books you could ever read with a great ending. Being 600+ pages long it does take some concentration but that is the only downside. My rating: 11/10 - It really is that good

thanks :worship:

BUMP

I prefer reading autobiographies to stories.

I just finished reading John McEnroe's book and that was great. :)

I really like the books of Zadie Smith ATM, they are very easy to read, but with a lot of meanings to them, which is something I find a hard quality in a lot of books. You can read it on mnay levels you know.

i completely agree. autobiographies are interesting to me only if i find the subjects themselves to be interesting people who have made their mark on the world. but fiction? i'm not a fan...i find that fiction tends to do more for the dumbing down effect we see everywhere. i'd rather deal in realities.
I read a few autobiographies but I tend to prefer fiction. It tests your imagination more

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is awesome!:clap2: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is also a good book.:D

I liked Girl, Interupted, thats kinda like an autobiography.

I'm currently reading Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood. For a long time I disliked her and never wanted to read her books (I had three works of her's just sitting there), but this seems to be going well. We'll see what happens.

Lord Chips - the partner is my fave grisham book!!! excellent choice :)

if you're into science fiction, i'd recommend the Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert. they're six books in all, and you probably heard of the most famous one, Dune.

it's about politics, religion, family, love....just a little bit for everyone. dune and children of dune were my two favorities...the series starts getting very abstract with god empreror of dune...but it's still a marvelous read.

i prefer books on history/gov't/politics over fiction.

i have enough of an imagination... i dont need to read anothers. trust :)

i've never read an autobiography...not because i've been dumbed down by fiction, but because i'm too narcissistic to care about someone else's life. ;) the bible is a good example.

omg you just HAD to go there, didn't you? lmao! ok fine! i loved dune!!!!!! :kiss: :wavey:

:kiss: :wavey:

muad'dib is the man :cool: but leto II was a bad motherfucker, lmao.

my co-workers have been raving about The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks and since he's a NC resident we'll give him a big :yeah:

I love fiction but I can't stand historical fiction. :sad:

I'm trying to read "In the Fall" by Jeffrey Lent but it's slow going. For one his paragraph's and chapters are tooo DAMN long. I lose my place a lot. :mad:

My two favorite books are

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

Summary by Amazon.com

My Soul to Keep is about what happens when the domestic joy of a middle-class African American family (in this story, he's a jazz scholar, she's a reporter, and they have a 5-year-old daughter) is shattered by supernatural forces and memories of events long past. The story is deeply involving because of the characters' appeal, and suspenseful because the loving husband (who turns out to be a 500-year-old immortal) is so alien, he's utterly unpredictable. The passages recalling the husband's experiences as a slave in the American South in the 1800s are especially gripping. It's a melodramatic approach to dark fantasy, but it works well.

The follow-up was very good too!

The Living Blood

I also really liked

The Dreyfus Affair by Peter Lefcourt

ok, here's the first couple and last couple of paragraphs of the first chapter of this book.

"It was bad enough going 0-for-5 and committing a dumb-ass error that led to two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth that beat you. Not to mention the postgame buffet of overspiced anchovy pizza and lukewarm lite beer. In Cleveland, no less, on a sticky night with a room in the Embassy Suites that had the loudest air-conditioning unit this side of a 747. This was just your average, everyday run-of-the-mill shit.

What was really upsetting was what just almost happend in the shower. Jesus. He didn't even want to think about that. That fell into the category of unthinkable things. That was banished to the Siberia of his conscious thoughts, where, he hoped it would freeze to death and never be heard from again."


Ok, I was like what happend in the shower?? What is going on with him?? I was saying all this to myself even though I knew but I liked it anyway. In the last two paragraphs he confirms everything.

"Randy finally felt the Nuprin kick in, and the first wave of relaxation spread from his center into his extremities. He watched Tina or Whoopi get up and Kiss Arsenio. He started to feel a little better. Maybe it wasn't that important. Maybe he could work around it. Maybe it was just a deep-seated admiration. He was one hell of a ballplayer. Did all the little things right. Nobody in baseball made the pivot better on a double play.

Whatever the case, there seemed to be only one explanation for what was going on. Randy was fallin in love. And it wasn't with his wife or with some bimbo he'd picked up on the road. It was with his second baseman."

Guys. I love books. And I'm sure some of you do too.

So please do recommend books that you think is a good book and do tell a short story about the story is about.

Or oyu can just post the books that you just read and PUT RATINGS. ;)
Cold Mountain (by Charles Frazier) - A+

If I can recommend you only one book. This'll be it. A must read. It's a slow, descriptive, thought-provoking novel that really transports you to another time. Novels are no longer written this way. It is also about man's struggle in life and holding onto hope in times of despair. There is also a great exploration about man's relationship with the land and a longing, a yearning for the past. You must read this.

Angela's Ashes-By Frank McCourt
it's more of a memoir than an autobiography..but it's still really interesting. It's about this guys memories of his childhood in Ireland.

'Tis-By Frank McCourt
follows on from Angela's Ashes. I don't think there are anymore in the series.

An Evening With The Messiah-By Catherine Jinks
About what this 'normal' guy that goes to extreme lengths when he wants something really badly.

Looking For Alibrandi-by Melina Marchetta
Teenage girl goes through adolescence.

Artemis Fowl-by Eion Colfer
About this rich kid that is heir to a huge fortune and is a criminal matermind. He kidnaps this fairy to help him de-code the fairy rule book...really funny but you gotta use your imagination :)

Lord Chips - the partner is my fave grisham book!!! excellent choice :)He never wrote better book. I tried reading the Firm but I got so bored I gave up after a few chapters

this is true, david. and i found them quite wonderful as a child because at that time, i guess one feels that there are no bounds to the things that one can imagine in a world of make-believe. perhaps life has jaded me a bit my friend, huh? ;)
A lot of the autobiographies I read were about Rugby players and Cricket players so they were about world's I knew. Fiction takes me away from that world and provides me with a dream world so I don't have to make one up.

Confused? So am I after reading that back :confused:

bumps up.

Recommend me some books. Book is the only thing that can take my mind away from her :(

"We the Living" by Ayn Rand was simply amazing! I love the social commentary against the communist Soviet Union, and just communism as a whole and the exploitation of political theories. The love triangle back drop for Rand's philosophy is also very enticing and exciting! I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!

"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. This book is perfect in a sense that it really gives you a very discriptive tale of what it is like to be a Geisha in Japan. It is simply brilliant.

These are my two favorite books of all time! I have yet to read anything that has kept me pinned down for hours like these two books have.

I will add more later so I can bump this thread up!!!

I LOVE READING!!!!

Must add the Tristan Betrayal by Robert Ludlum (no I'm not being paid to recomend him before you ask :p)

bumps***

I've read few books by Mike Gayle :worship: :hearts:

My Legendary Girlfriend
Dinner For Two
Mr Commitment

:worship: OMG Top rated books :hearts:

:wavey: Filex :D
This last year I've been reading as much Anne Rice books as I can, I love the Interview with the vampire trilogy and those books about the other vampires :)
Then a bit of Spanish literature, but I don't know if you can get it in your country :confused:

Decpetion Point by Dan Brown is good, as is The Da Vinci Code

Decpetion Point by Dan Brown is good, as is The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code was a real page turner. Was done with it in less than a day. Great book... I like how Dan Brown has his facts straight in the book. You actually do learn somethings from this book. Hahaha

I know what you mean. I often go past the Temple tube station on my way home from work and am always tempted to get off and look at that church it mentions, despite a) not being christian and b) not too keen on religion. Then I hear the next statiojn is Blackfriars, where I change to get my train home and I lose the earge to go there. One of these days...

Well I really like non-fiction books, most of which a war based, and are about missions or battles done by the British in recent times. Also like sport books to. Reading a few books at the moment.

BRAVO TWO ZERO - ANDY MCNAB

This is the true story on a British SAS patrol during the 91 Gulf war, they sent to destory scuds in Iraq during the air war, but they were sighted and had to move, while moving, they got seperated and then the two groups got seperated, some got captured. This is all about one soldier (McNab) and what happened to him when he was caught. Some of you might have seen the BBC movie of this (with Sean Bean in it), or might have come across another book on the mission called "The One That Got Away" by Chris Ryan, who was part of the patrol. For those PS2 fans who have the game Conflict Desert Storm, there is a mission like this on the game.

WISDEN CRICKET ALMANAC 2003

This is just about cricket from the end of 2001 to the start of 2003, listing every international score, English domestic scores, facts about players and all kind of stats

BOTHAM'S CENTURY - IAN BOTHAM

One of the greatest cricketers of all time names his top 100 people tied up with cricket, a must for all cricket fans.

Trying to read more contemporary stuff these days.

In the Drink - Kate Christensen

Combining sly humor with an urban edge, Kate Christensen's In the Drink tells the story of a resolutely clear-eyed young woman who makes a complete mess of her life, and lives to tell the tale.

I found the style much too convoluted at times, but it was her first novel. I loved the humor and general disaster that was the life of the protagonist.

Old School - Tobias Wolff

From a review by Melissa Roy:

Old School is the fictional story of a young boy attending a prestigious New England prep school and, more importantly, his struggle for identity within the world around him. Skilled as a writer and popular with his schoolmates, the narrator struggles with himself for many reasons: he compulsively hides his Jewish heritage from his friends (even his roommate, who is also Jewish; even from his headmaster, when it would have benefited him to reveal it); he feels that he has not lived up to his creative potential as a writer, which he later realizes is because he hasn’t found the “truth” of his own life; he can’t quite fit in with his wealthy schoolmates and take pains to conceal the fact that he is on scholarship to the school; he wrestles with belief in the ideas and truths imparted to him by the writers whom he admires and how he might apply those to his own writing, to his own life.

I liked it I guess, but was a little thrown off at the end.

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown...i'd give it a B+ so far

1)A Prayer For Owen Meany. LONG, LONG, LONG.....but so worth it. Great book. John Irving is a fantastic author.

2)Little Altars Everywhere is my fave. Written by Rebecca Wells, it tells the story of a Southern Family just living their lives. Each person in the family has stories to tell, and the mother is crazy, which makes the book interesting.
3)The sequel is The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I didn't enjoy this as much as LAE, I thought it was kind of pointless to make another book when LAE was just fine by itself. BUT, it explains why the mother of the family is so crazy and that mothers and daughters have a bond....i guess. The movie was better, IMO. but i'm probably saying that b/c i'm a big Sandra Bullock fan. :)

4)The Bell Jar. Another fave. kind of a page-turner. only bad thing is i would get depressed after reading some of it, b/c the character is depressed. so everyday in the morning i'd be like a depressed zombie walking around school, since i'd read it during 1st period. *sigh*

5)I'm in the middle of Great Expectations, i'm reading it for Honors English next year. Some parts are boring, i'm basically forcing myself to read 5 chapters a day, but i end up getting really into it. It seems like Dickens is setting something big up for the end or w/e, because its very detailed. Dickens is hard to read though, maybe thats why i can never bring myself to read it until the last minute LOL.


1) = A
2) = A
3) = B
4) = A-
5 = ???

More books please :angel:

:haha: I'm such a slut.

Anyway I'm reading the "A Traveller Time's Wife" Looking great so far.

i just finished reading "Candide" by Voltaire. I'm going to try reading the French version, but it'll probably be too challenging for me.

Bump.

Lately I've read books by "Russell Andrews" (Two guys writing under the one name). "His" books are crime thrillers, all but one with a political edge to them. They all keep you guessing until the very end and have been really entertaining. The titles are: "Gideon", "Icarus", "Aphrodite" and Midas".

I've also read "The Suspect" by Mich Robotham, "The Pinocchio Syndrome" by David Zeman and "Remembrance Day" by Henry Porter

Last book I read was called "The Last Detective" by Robert Crais. He's one of my fav authors and I love his main character Elvis Cole.

Bump.

Lately I've read books by "Russell Andrews" (Two guys writing under the one name). "His" books are crime thrillers, all but one with a political edge to them. They all keep you guessing until the very end and have been really entertaining. The titles are: "Gideon", "Icarus", "Aphrodite" and Midas".

I've also read "The Suspect" by Mich Robotham, "The Pinocchio Syndrome" by David Zeman and "Remembrance Day" by Henry Porter

OMG!I just finished Icarus and Aphrodite. aph was a little dissapointing, the ending anyway, not enough details, though the rest was ok. i loved icarus. and i just started gideon. just finished the prologue actually. it's a little difficult to get into though.

my fave books are mostly based on fiction. in no particular order:

1) master of the game - sidney sheldon
2) the sands of time - sidney sheldon
3) nothing lasts forever - sidney sheldon
4) are you afraid of the dark - sidney sheldob (what can i say?i'm a fan)
5) the da vinci code - dan brown
6) the class - erich segal
7) mirage - soheir khashoggi
8) princess - jean sasson (true story)
9) kane and abel - jeffery archer
10) the deep end of the ocean - jacquelyn mitchard
11) love story - erich segal
12) debutantes - june flaum singer (i doubt u'd read this. its non-masculine)

tainted lives - mandasue heller

my fave books are mostly based on fiction. in no particular order:

1) master of the game - sidney sheldon
2) the sands of time - sidney sheldon
3) nothing lasts forever - sidney sheldon
4) are you afraid of the dark - sidney sheldob (what can i say?i'm a fan)
5) the da vinci code - dan brown
6) the class - erich segal
7) mirage - soheir khashoggi
8) princess - jean sasson (true story)
9) kane and abel - jeffery archer
10) the deep end of the ocean - jacquelyn mitchard
11) love story - erich segal
12) debutantes - june flaum singer (i doubt u'd read this. its non-masculine)

I just listened to this book on Audio and I didn't get the hype. :confused:

some book news...I was going to start another book thread but since this one has been bumped I'll just add it here.

Rediscovered Dumas Novel Published
By SOPHIE NICHOLSON, Associated Press WriterFri Jun 3, 9:37 PM ET



An unfinished novel of "The Three Musketeers" author Alexandre Dumas, an adventure story during revolutionary France, was published for the first time as a book on Friday, following its rediscovery by a French scholar.

"Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine," or "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine," was part of Dumas' efforts to use literature to document French history, said Claude Schopp.

The book, set at the start of the Napoleonic era, fits into a series of novels by the French writer that included his famed "The Count of Monte Christo."

Schopp said the novel tells the story of an aristocrat divided between his royalist ambitions and his fascination for Napoleon.

The Parisian scholar said he rediscovered the novel after he came across a letter 10 years ago in which Dumas mentioned "Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine."

"It's amazing. What thrilled me was that the novel corresponded to the missing work in Dumas' history," he said in a telephone interview.

Schopp found that Dumas' text had been published in installements over nine months in a newspaper in 1869, the year before Dumas' death.

Schopp put the installments together and corrected grammatical and spelling mistakes. He also added two and a half chapters to finish the last episode in the book, published Friday by Phebus.

However, the novel is still incomplete, according to an overall plan that Schopp also found 10 years ago.

"I'm going to propose to write the whole novel," said Schopp, 61, who has already written four novels.

"I'm not Dumas but, if I'm still alive, I plan to write it next year."

OMG!I just finished Icarus and Aphrodite. aph was a little dissapointing, the ending anyway, not enough details, though the rest was ok. i loved icarus. and i just started gideon. just finished the prologue actually. it's a little difficult to get into though.You do have to stick with his books. Agree with the ending of Aphrodite. Midas involves the same caracters but takes it to a new level.

Gideon is well worth the effort

I really liked The Da Vinci Code. I know a lot of people agree with you Rocketta and maybe think it is overhyped but for me anyway I couldn't put it down. Should be interesting to see how the movie turns out. I think I will get Angels and Demons next.

I also loved Cold Mountain. If you have not seen the movie yet, try the book first.

Other good books I read recently -

The Thorn Birds
The Rachel Papers
The Pelican Brief
The Catcher In The Rye
The Jigsaw Man (this book was non-fiction, written by a criminal psychologist who inspired the TV show Cracker. It was my brother's book and not usually my kind of thing but I couldn't put it down. It talked about a lot of famous murderers. I had to sleep with the light on one night :o :lol: )

I prefer reading autobiographies to stories.

I just finished reading John McEnroe's book and that was great.

I read John's autobiography too. It was an interesting read but to be honest I was getting a bit tired of reading the endless excuses for matches he lost. He'd always give a reason why he lost then add something like "it would be easy for me to say I was tired but I genuinely was" just to make sure we knew he wasn't lying. If he wasn't tired he was cranky at being in Europe, or Tatum didn't answer the phone the night before or he was traumatised by the dangerous car ride about 4 days earlier or the match before ran too long or he was thinking about Bjorn never returning or the linespeople and crowd were annoying him, yadda yadda yadda..... It was endless!

He did give a lot of credit to Bjorn and to Lendl though even though he admitted not liking the guy at all. But as much as I enjoy his commentaries, I can see how he annoyed people and again, he admitted it - he acted like a spoilt brat at times.

Raquel, yeah I got tired of hearing the words cryptology, cryptologist, symbology, symbologist...:tape:

just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ....really good so far

i cant wait for the new Harry Potter Book though.....all you guys are too smart for me lol....anyone have any good light-hearted reads???

just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ....really good so far

i cant wait for the new Harry Potter Book though.....all you guys are too smart for me lol....anyone have any good light-hearted reads???

I put up a light hearted read....Get anything by Robert Crais. :wavey:

I put up a light hearted read....Get anything by Robert Crais. :wavey:

thanks...i'll have to check him out :D

I put up a light hearted read....Get anything by Robert Crais. :wavey:

whats the first book in the series.....should i go in order???

whats the first book in the series.....should i go in order???

hmm, you don't have to go in order....besides his first books were mass market as is the case for most new mystery writers.

Get L.A. Requiem that's the first one I read and it was really good. :D

I'm reading a biography about Ian Curtis

I'm currently reading 'Notes From Underground' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky :D

The Da Vinci Code

To Kill A Mocking Bird

just started reading the international jew by henry ford.

"O Zahir" - Paulo Coelho"

I'm reading Angles and Demons now, having just finished the DaVinci Code...both are AMAZING! They keep your attention so well, everything is so fast-paced, talk about something that you just can't put down!

i just bought a book today.. Confessions of a Groupie

I love Agatha Christie novels! :D

Here are the best ones ( in my opinion) : :kiss:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret of Chimneys
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
Partners in Crime
The Sittaford Mystery
Peril at End House
Murder on the Orient Express
Death in Three Acts (alternate title: Three-Act Tragedy)
The ABC Murders
The Tuesday Club Murders
Cards on the table
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Dumb Witness
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
The Labors of Hercules
And then there were none (Ten Little ******s)
Sad Cypress
The Blue Train
Evil under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
Hickory Dickory Dock
The Mirror crack'd from side to side
Halloween Party
Nemesis

And here are some SUCKY Agatha Christie novels (in my opinion) :(

Lord Edgware dies
A body in the Library
Elephants can remember (the crappiest Hercule Poirot novel, in my opinion)
By the pricking of my thumbs
Mrs MacGinty's dead
Third Girl
Dead Man's folly
Appointment with death

I'm currently reading 'Notes From Underground' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky :D

When I was 16, I was forced to read his "Crime And Punishment". I hated it, but mostly because I was too young to understand everything about it, I think. Now I wish they hadn't made me read it, then I'd maybe have the courage to pick it up out of "free will" ;) (it's still on my bookshelf though, so who knows, maybe I'll give it another try someday :p)

Right now im going back to my great Harry Potter 5 ;) Have to remind myself of the story before the 6th comes out...

The Da Vinci Code was jsut great..Read it in one day. I ahve a feeeling hearing it on audio might not be as good rocketta. I agree at times it was just descrptive with symbols and all, it still was incredible for me. Angels and Demons is definitely the next on my list!!! Looking forward to it!

1)A Prayer For Owen Meany. LONG, LONG, LONG.....but so worth it. Great book. John Irving is a fantastic author.


i love Owen Meany, such a great book.

My favorite book must be "Catcher in the Rye", love it.

Currently, Im reading David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" and its funny and great.

"Cats Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut is a very good and surreal book as well, and of course, you can never go wrong with a classic like "The Great Gatsby"

:wavey: Hey Agatha Christie!! Good to meet another classic detective story

lover! In addition to the books you listed, I really recommend "The Hollow"
and "An Autobiography". :worship:

Liar's Poker by michael lewis. it's about the (horrible) corporate culture associated with investment banking in the 1980s (specifically the Salomon Brothers firm, the pioneers of mortgage trading). great read. don't have to be a financial expert to enjoy/understand it.

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rize and Scandalous Fall of Enron by bethany mclean and peter elkind. both entertaining and nauseating. the middle part of the book is especially technical, but the authors attempt to make the explanations of the SPEs a little more user-friendly. i like this book because it doesn't just deal with the aftermath of the bankruptcy, but with EVERYTHING that led up to it...dabhol, california energy, fastow's LJMs...really fantastic reference.

Just hearing the name John Grisham gives me an orgasm :worship:. I have never been as addicted to books as I am addicted to his books. My favourite to this day remains The Runaway Jury :hearts:. Brilliant! I also love almost of Ludlum books. Another brilliant mind :kiss:.

The two most recent books I have read were great, and I would highly recommend them.

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary.

Waiting: True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg

oh, i'm reading The Broker right now. haven't read any of his titles since The Street Lawyer. i love grisham :D

i might check out that waitress book. every time i think of waiters, i think about my dad...he's HORRIBLE to the wait staff. did the book make you cringe a lot, sumeeta?

WHITE OLEANDER

A+++

One of the best books I've ever read.

Have any of you ever read "Zero" by Eric Van Lustbader? That book is just brilliant and got me really riled up to learn more about the Japanese culture :worship:.

I love Agatha Christie novels! :D

Here are the best ones ( in my opinion) : :kiss:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret of Chimneys
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
Partners in Crime
The Sittaford Mystery
Peril at End House
Murder on the Orient Express
Death in Three Acts (alternate title: Three-Act Tragedy)
The ABC Murders
The Tuesday Club Murders
Cards on the table
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Dumb Witness
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
The Labors of Hercules
And then there were none (Ten Little ******s)
Sad Cypress
The Blue Train
Evil under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
Hickory Dickory Dock
The Mirror crack'd from side to side
Halloween Party
Nemesis

And here are some SUCKY Agatha Christie novels (in my opinion) :(

Lord Edgware dies
A body in the Library
Elephants can remember (the crappiest Hercule Poirot novel, in my opinion)
By the pricking of my thumbs
Mrs MacGinty's dead
Third Girl
Dead Man's folly
Appointment with death

ouch my secret pleasure, Agatha Christie novels:tape: :lol: what about "three blind mice" and "dead man's folly"? I have the whole collection. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the best in my opinion.

About favourite books: 1984 by George Orwell, The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende, One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García márquez. Now Im reading "A brave new world" by Aldous Huxley, Im enjoying it very much.

I love Agatha Christie novels! :D

Here are the best ones ( in my opinion) : :kiss:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret of Chimneys
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
Partners in Crime
The Sittaford Mystery
Peril at End House
Murder on the Orient Express
Death in Three Acts (alternate title: Three-Act Tragedy)
The ABC Murders
The Tuesday Club Murders
Cards on the table
Murder in Mesopotamia
Death on the Nile
Dumb Witness
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
The Labors of Hercules
And then there were none (Ten Little ******s)
Sad Cypress
The Blue Train
Evil under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
Hickory Dickory Dock
The Mirror crack'd from side to side
Halloween Party
Nemesis

And here are some SUCKY Agatha Christie novels (in my opinion) :(

Lord Edgware dies
A body in the Library
Elephants can remember (the crappiest Hercule Poirot novel, in my opinion)
By the pricking of my thumbs
Mrs MacGinty's dead
Third Girl
Dead Man's folly
Appointment with death


I've read 5 Agatha Christie books - Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, And Then There Were None, all which you've mentioned here.

Also 'A Pocketful of Rye' and 'A Murder Is Announced' - you should read them if you haven't already as they were good.