Off Topic What Is Your Favourite Book And Who Is Your Favourite Author?

I probably average a book a week so I'll let you do the maths Bro Spurlock.

Being an insomniac helps!

 

I don't like books.

 

I've read (and still have) Interview With The Vampire.

Fantastic novel.

****e movie. I remember it being a massive disappointment.

 

I find reading much akin to listening to music and depends on my mood. Loved the Tom Sharpe novels and spent many a day laughing on the Costas with his books. Love spy novels and crime and currently reading Patricia Cornwall & Leon Uris. Also looking forward to reading a London crime novel called Remorseless by Will Patching.

 

No I'll take a look.

 

Not sure it's my thing but will keep it in mind.

 

For me, in my youth, I wasn't much into the classic literature.
My favourite books as a youngster were Watership Down by Richard Adams, Jaws by Peter Benchley (Soooo different from the movie, you should give it a look), Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

As an adult I stopped reading much, until Game Of Thrones came out and I watched the first season and was too impatient to wait a year for season 2 so binge read ALL the books in about 2 months.

 

Read all the Sherlock Holmes books too..wish I could forget the contents and read them again. Love that detective stuff, engrossing reads.

 

Haven't read them all, but have read a few.

Have some on my bookshelves that have been there for years, unread. Need to dip into them, soon.

 

Agree with you about Jaws - very different including the fate of main characters!! ...

On same theme - Thomas Harris books ... Red Dragon is better than Silence Of The Lambs (which is also very good) .... and both are way better than the films (but later Hannibal stuff is not in same league IMHO either books or films) ...

 

Have read Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal....all very good books, except the ending to Hannibal is ****ing bullshit.
The movies ending was far better.

 

That's why you are such a miserable so and so!

 

Michael Crichton is the same.

Jurassic Park and The Lost World are both better than the movies (which were great).

 

Loved postmodernism as student Pynchon, Vonnegut, Rushdie.

Then drifted towards crime Ellroy etc..

Most recently liked Don Winslow. Power of the Dog amazing. His follow up The Cartel very good.

And all his surfer crime fiction good fun too

 

All the Cormac books are incredible. Visceral to the max. The Road hard going if you have children

 

Haven't read that, but loved Slaughterhouse 5 and Breakfast of Champions

 

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ This.

I'd say The Cartel is equally is brilliant though.

Both books excellent, I'm eagerly waiting for his next, 'The Force', to be released later this month. It's a change in direction away from the Mexican drug cartel wars.

I need to read some of his older stuff too.

Currently reading Set The Boy Free, which is Johnny Marr's biography.

 

Never been much into graphic novels (although I was an avid reader of the Marvel comics, as a kid), but I do have to confess to owning the first two compendiums of The Walking Dead, and several of the booklets for what forms part of the third compendium. I am a massive fan of the Fox TV series, too, and own all the DVDs.

 

Walter M Millers 'A canticle for Lebowitz' is a good read if you like post apocalyptic science fiction.

 

Not yet, but I'm slowly - very slowly - working my way through John Milton's Paradise Lost. It's ****ing boss actually. Try these for a couple of lines...

"Would thou hadst harkened to my words, and stayed with me, as I besought thee, when that strange
Desire of wandering this unhappy morn,
I know not whence possessed thee; we had then
Remained still happy, not as now, despoiled
Of all our good, shamed, naked, miserable."

- Adam talking to Eve after the fall