recomend me a book

[kiter_ryan]

Tried Harry Potter?

Also the alex rider series, by Anthony Horowitz starting with Stormbreaker, which has currently been made into a film..i enjoyed that book quite a lot.

[rich-ard]

How To Kitesurf That Will Help U

[kevob]

yeah and you need to learn to read before you get a book you chav

[Skullfish]

Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein. I think one of the best books ever written... give Starship Troopers a go as well, its very subtle and completely different to the film. Read them and remember that they were written in '61 and '59 respectively. Heinleins one of history's forgotten masters IMHO.

 

Along with Heart of Darkness - Conrad. Not a funny book and should be read alongside King Leopolds ghost by Adam Hochschild to get the full impact, but it one of the mostintense, deeply layered and well written books I've ever come across.

 

American Gods by Neil Gaiman is absolutely stunning, same guy who did Sandman. Bit lighter than HoD... It also lets you into his 'world' so to speak, and most of hi other works are very very readable as well.

 

The Algebraist (banks) ROCKS. Its up there with Against a Dark Background and the Wasp Factory. I reckon those three are his best.

 

Somthing by John Courtney Grimwood? 9 Tail Fox is good

 

Richard Morgan? Stick to his Takeshi Kovacs books: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies, read them at least 4 times each now.

 

Any of Joe Haldeman's stuff as long as it was published before 2000. his latest stuff is 'interesting.'

 

These are all more adult reads, some of them are difficult or disturbing, but all are excellent.

 

That ought to hold 'ya for a bit.

[bad_alltitude]

Douglas Adams 'so long and thanks for all the fish'

"part 4 in the Hitch hikers trilogy"

 

cant remember author "The Alcamist" - not funny but lovely story

[Steve1599968621]

The Algebraist (banks) ROCKS. Its up there with Against a Dark Background and the Wasp Factory. I reckon those three are his best.

 

 

I'm just about to finish The Algebraist tonight - got about 50 pages to go. I'm expecting big shocks and a twisty ending twistier than a twisty thing.

I have my theories, but I'm hoping they're all wrong and he surprises me - he usually does

 

 

 

 

 

[bathy1]

secret diary of adrian mole :D

[Skullfish]

The Algebraist (banks) ROCKS. Its up there with Against a Dark Background and the Wasp Factory. I reckon those three are his best.

 

 

I'm just about to finish The Algebraist tonight - got about 50 pages to go. I'm expecting big shocks and a twisty ending twistier than a twisty thing.

I have my theories, but I'm hoping they're all wrong and he surprises me - he usually does

 

Yup.

[bigb]

NIce one for you to have a look at is - The Journey of Jeremiah Smith And Other Pointless Stories: Volume One Curses & Quests.

I work with the guy and you can't help but laugh at the stuff he come out with.

 

Just read this synopsis of the book and you'll see why.

 

 

Once upon a time That is how most fairy tales begin, isn't it? Welcome to The Realm of Utopia. A place where you will find an Ugly Duckling addicted to cosmetic surgery, an incompetent criminal defence lawyer by the name of Pinocchio and an intoxicated Genie of the Lamp, whose alcohol problem has unfortunate repercussions for those he grants wishes. More importantly, it is also the place where you will find Jeremiah Smith, a young man who is burdened with a most unusual curse. Told the way only a socially inept dwarf on community service could half-heartedly tell a story; The Journey of Jeremiah Smith...and other Pointless Stories is unlike any pointless fairytale you have ever read before.

[terra]

I could be showing my age here but "Adolf Hitler My Part In His Downfall" by Spike Milligan is hilarious and quite a truthful account of war and conscription. Spike Milligan's "Puckoon" is just crazy funny.

[Rogue]

Really liked The Time Traveller's Wife, interesting book.

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson is fantastic - read it twice and I never re-read books

 

Currently reading The Bandini Quartet by John Fante (xmas pressie from my bro last year ), really liked the first book but struggling a little with the second but I'd definitely say they're worth a look

[zimmer]

I could be showing my age here but "Adolf Hitler My Part In His Downfall" by Spike Milligan is hilarious and quite a truthful account of war and conscription. Spike Milligan's "Puckoon" is just crazy funny.

 

Puckoon is a fantastic book. A very laugh out loud book.

[QUOTH]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series... Starts at "Colour of Magic" but any can be picked up and read.

Cant agree more.

 

 

Dammit, just wrote a huge message on the books and deleted it

[Spiritflier]

Jeremy Clarkson's 'World according to Clarkson' is worth a read as is another of his books called 'I know you got soul'.

 

The first is a collection of observations and the second will be of interest if you have a liking for machines of all kinds.

 

Another enjoyable and hilarious one that was recommended to me by one of my bosses is 'The Liverpool Lecky Man' by Dave Cowhig.

 

Tom Clancy's earlier stuff is always worth a read if you want a techno-thriller (especially 'Executive Orders') and if you want to read a really good - but harrowing - true account of a bunch of French concentration camp prisoners, go and get a copy of 'The Tunnel' by Andre Lacaze.

[kraftyone]

The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart, about a guy who decides everything he will do on the roll of a dice.

 

couldn't put this down, finished it in a day.

 

or if you're after something to get completely engrossed in

 

 

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - from the moment you pick this book up you get sucked in, wacky fonts, footnotes to completely fictitious academic papers, and "experimental" typesetting. The story is amazing too!

[kraftyone]

i can recommend the discworld books too. But beware, once you've started you'll be waiting for the next one to come out from the moment you finished the last!

 

John Peels autobiography is good too, finished by his wife and kids after he died.

[kraftyone]

 

And the funniest/saddest/most poignant/coolest book: Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 

Woah, so true, this book is truely amazing, beautifully written, i can't believe i'd almost forgotten i'd read it... i'm off to dig this one out for re-read right now.

[mkratty]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0552997048/sr=8-2/qid=1164831260/ref=pd_ka_2/203-7244115-3224769?ie=UTF8&s=books

 

not funny or a story but a dam good read .

bill bryson -a short history of nearly everything .

[Little an Large]

noam chomsky - imperial ambitions

[Steve1599968621]

 

I'm just about to finish The Algebraist tonight - got about 50 pages to go. I'm expecting big shocks and a twisty ending twistier than a twisty thing.

I have my theories, but I'm hoping they're all wrong and he surprises me - he usually does

 

Yup.

 

Wasn't quite the big shocker I was execting though. Think I'd got carried away with theories of time/space anomalies and was expecting someone to be the big bad guy after all, or an AI. Still a top read though.

 

 

 

 

 

[loz]

ooooo, terry pratchet all day long:D , got my dads got all but 1 (the new one) And im slowly reading them all, ace books:p

[jack blood]

Are you dave gorman - Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace

A googlewhack adventure- Dave Gorman

Join Me - Danny wallace

Yes Man - Danny Wallace

 

All of a similar genre all really funny true stories involving some crazy adventures

 

Yes man is my personal favourite

[mick knox]

Bill Bryson - A walk in the woods

[louisemarson]

The Yes Man by Danny Wallace. A good read and the stuff he gets up to is very strange! He set up the goodwill friday club where you do something nice on a Friday and therefore set up his own cult.

 

Synopsis from Amazon:

 

Synopsis

'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for my life. I swear I will be more open to opportunity. I swear I will live my life taking every available chance. I will say Yes to every favour, request, suggestion and invitation. I Will Swear To Say Yes Where Once I Would Say No.' Danny Wallace had been staying in. Far too much. Having been dumped by his girlfriend, he really wasn't doing the young, free and single thing very well. Instead he was avoiding people. Texting them Instead of calling them. Calling them Instead of meeting them. That is until that one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'Say Yes more'. These three simple words changed Danny's life forever. Yes Man is the story of what happened when Danny decided to say Yes to everything, in order to make his life more interesting. And boy, did it get more interesting.

[king_of_the_sky]

1984 is a really good book as is animal farm by george orwell, only book i ever read at school and enjoyed!!