In preparation for Harry Potter 7.2, I've just started listening to the audio books, read by the delightful Stephen Fry, of 1-6. :D

That sounds awesome scouse!

I'm planning to head to Borders in the next couple of days to pick up some books on the cheap, considering that they are all closing down. Does anyone have any must reads that they can recommend?

Edited by chelseafanatic123: 13/6/2011 06:10:03 PM

Any particular genre you're interested in?

I'm mainly interested in the crime thrillers, science fiction and adventure type of books. I know I will definitely buy "The Six Sacred Stones" by Matt Reilly though.



Edited by chelseafanatic123: 13/6/2011 06:44:11 PM

Awesome.

Don Winslow is an excellent author... 'Power of the Dog' or 'The Winter of Frankie Machine' are both quality.

Some other authors I'd recommend are Michael Crichton for science fictiony stuff, Clive Cussler for Adventure and Dean Koontz for generally awesome thrillers, page turners.

Just started reading "Tree Of Rivers: The Story Of The Amazon" by John Hemming. Cracking read so far.

Cool, thanks for info imnofreak, I really appreciated it.

I remember those. Listened to them on the way back form family camping trip. highlight of my holiday.

The Road Less Travelled - the greatest and most personally challenging book ever written.

Keepin' the thread alive!

I'm currently reading two books now, (can't help myself if one isn't near me when the erge hits i have to start a new book)Just started the Drawing of the Three part two of the Dark Tower Series.

Anyone seen or read the Stand Comic series???

I'm reading My Sister's Keeper. Dunno if anyone else would've read it but fuck, it really makes me think.

The Bible is the most depressing text ever wrote :( .

Not all of it's depressing though.

I think it's the way you interpret it.

Are those things called Psalms? The only thing that ever made me think was the psalms read at my friends funeral..the rest i have no idea about.

Maybe, I've never read the whole Bible though, only heard bits of it at church and those are usually the non-depressing bits.



The Psalms are just a small part of the Bible, there are heaps of different books in it written by all different people.

Why would you bother reading it? Hypocritical wank.

I peaked at the end [spoiler]the devil did it[/spoiler]

I just ment the Bible in general. It's just so daunting.

Hypocritical? When have i been Hypocritical?

Ah I see. Like Dean Koontz and Stephen King? :p Nah, I know theres a heaps of generic names like Paul, Mark, David etc...but never got into the Bible.

It's not exactly an easy reading book, and of course it's pretty open to interpretation as nhub said. I guess unless you were religious or particularly interested in theology it's not the type of thing most people would read.

I think he was meaning that the Bible's hypocritical, not you.

Yeah, I was, but clearly someone who says

and

Doesn't have english as their forte.

Thanks to you, i have started using apostraphe's.

No, what you should have said is "ever written" and "just meant", don't blame me for your inability to comprehend basic english. Especially in A THREAD ABOUT READING.

Cloudstreet isn't half bad. About halfway through. need it finished by Monday.

Anyone read "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo? If you have let me know what you think of it.

I read that in Year 6. My teacher was amazed; Must admit it's a mindfuck of a book.

Yes.

Read it. Its as awesome as the movie, but fleshes out more of the lesser characters (and has various subplots), mentions stuff that is used in Godfather II etc and makes certain parts of the movie make a bit more sense.