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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜"
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads. |
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Uhmmmmmm I don't tend to read fiction
If I had to pic a Trilogy it'd be
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens - Homo Deus and 21 lessons for the 21st century
I've just finished Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli ( 10 years old almost but still applicable.)
I've just back ordered two others of his
The Art of the Good Life and The Art of Thinking Clearly. |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"I'm not into young adults books. What do you find appealing about the Demonata books ?"
I've always been a big fan of demons and monsters, and the first encounter with lord loss was creepy and terrifying.
I've always liked my dark and grim story's especially with demons and monsters!
Still need to read his other book
I'm glad you got the spelling right I forgot. |
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"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads."
Perdido is New Weird, somewhere between the sci-fi and fantasy line with a lot of socialist attitude.
Sloss is just kind of the ramblings of a comedian during lockdown. |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads.
Perdido is New Weird, somewhere between the sci-fi and fantasy line with a lot of socialist attitude.
Sloss is just kind of the ramblings of a comedian during lockdown."
Maybe I'll take a look into it,
I've still got my skull duggery set to read first.
And the cthullu big boi book
... so many pages |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"Uhmmmmmm I don't tend to read fiction
If I had to pic a Trilogy it'd be
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens - Homo Deus and 21 lessons for the 21st century
I've just finished Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli ( 10 years old almost but still applicable.)
I've just back ordered two others of his
The Art of the Good Life and The Art of Thinking Clearly."
I love to know what other peopl like and dislike, I think I might need to read the art of a good life |
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By *WANDTGCouple 24 weeks ago
Borough of Greenwich |
The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
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By *aizyWoman 24 weeks ago
west midlands |
The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, and the The Niceville Trilogy by Carsten Stroud, they are paranormal type thrillers, and The Danilov Quintet Series by Jasper Kent, they are about vampires but set in a real historic period of time, I love them all!! |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
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Oh I used to love reading the sas guys books can't remember his name? |
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For favourites I keep returning to the science fiction of my youth. Things like Asimov's foundation series. They're far from perfect in many ways, but some of the modern series seem more like the current fad from Holywood of multiple re-boots of the same super hero movie. It gets a bit tired after a while. |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, and the The Niceville Trilogy by Carsten Stroud, they are paranormal type thrillers, and The Danilov Quintet Series by Jasper Kent, they are about vampires but set in a real historic period of time, I love them all!! "
Ooh vampires and ghostys let's goo! |
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By *aizyWoman 24 weeks ago
west midlands |
"The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, and the The Niceville Trilogy by Carsten Stroud, they are paranormal type thrillers, and The Danilov Quintet Series by Jasper Kent, they are about vampires but set in a real historic period of time, I love them all!!
Ooh vampires and ghostys let's goo!"
Vampires, ghosts, demons and serial killers, they have it all!  |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, and the The Niceville Trilogy by Carsten Stroud, they are paranormal type thrillers, and The Danilov Quintet Series by Jasper Kent, they are about vampires but set in a real historic period of time, I love them all!!
Ooh vampires and ghostys let's goo!
Vampires, ghosts, demons and serial killers, they have it all! "
Used to have a big ghost book when I was a kid and poltergeists made me scared of being emotional because apparently that how they manifested. |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"For favourites I keep returning to the science fiction of my youth. Things like Asimov's foundation series. They're far from perfect in many ways, but some of the modern series seem more like the current fad from Holywood of multiple re-boots of the same super hero movie. It gets a bit tired after a while."
Current Hollywood is err yeah not great |
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"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads.
Perdido is New Weird, somewhere between the sci-fi and fantasy line with a lot of socialist attitude.
Sloss is just kind of the ramblings of a comedian during lockdown."
I just bought the Sloss book ...... on your head be it  |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"I really like Terry Pratchett's discworld series. Lots of mini series inside a larger series. My favourites are Vimes and the Guards mini series."
Holy shit i forgot about these books!
I love the artwork too. |
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"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads.
Perdido is New Weird, somewhere between the sci-fi and fantasy line with a lot of socialist attitude.
Sloss is just kind of the ramblings of a comedian during lockdown.
I just bought the Sloss book ...... on your head be it "
If you don't love it then you're clearly faulty 💜 |
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"I really like Terry Pratchett's discworld series. Lots of mini series inside a larger series. My favourites are Vimes and the Guards mini series."
I tried to get my daughter in to these, but she didn't like them. I'll have to re-read them myself |
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"Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
Though I reread Daniel Sloss' Everyone You Hate is Going to Die again recently and I also fucking love that 💜
Can i ask what type of genre it is? always looking for new reads.
Perdido is New Weird, somewhere between the sci-fi and fantasy line with a lot of socialist attitude.
Sloss is just kind of the ramblings of a comedian during lockdown.
I just bought the Sloss book ...... on your head be it
If you don't love it then you're clearly faulty 💜"
I looked him up first - realised i'd seen him before - listened to a few very short clips n decided to give him a go.
Got the book V.Cheap on a second hand book site. |
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"The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ♥️
Oh I haven't read that beautiful book in years! 😍 if you liked that try The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova if you haven't read it."
I have read that one too darling. It’s beautiful ♥️ |
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"I looked him up first - realised i'd seen him before - listened to a few very short clips n decided to give him a go.
Got the book V.Cheap on a second hand book site."
Oh I should get on finding a decent second hand book site. I make do with charity shops and preordering things I'm excited for from amazon. |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"I looked him up first - realised i'd seen him before - listened to a few very short clips n decided to give him a go.
Got the book V.Cheap on a second hand book site.
Oh I should get on finding a decent second hand book site. I make do with charity shops and preordering things I'm excited for from amazon."
Charity shops have some hidden treasures sometimes, amazing what people give away |
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By *WANDTGCouple 24 weeks ago
Borough of Greenwich |
"The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
Oh I used to love reading the sas guys books can't remember his name?"
Yes his first book was whisper who dares, but the characters from 22 SAS would come and go in various books. |
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I'm slightly obsessed with the Fourth wing - Rebecca Yarros can't wait for the 3rd to come out.
I'm a recently fantasy lover When the moon hatched - Sarah J Parker is another I love.
For a bit of smut - Lady Venom takes a mistress - kat blackthorne is a favourite.
Mrs |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
Oh I used to love reading the sas guys books can't remember his name?
Yes his first book was whisper who dares, but the characters from 22 SAS would come and go in various books. "
Ahh what the name again?
Wasn't Chris Ryan was it? |
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I haven't got a favourite book. There are a couple I reread now and again just for the pleasure of it. At the moment I'm listening to Prunella Scales reading 'Wives and Daughters' by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's such a pleasure |
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By *WANDTGCouple 24 weeks ago
Borough of Greenwich |
"The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
Oh I used to love reading the sas guys books can't remember his name?
Yes his first book was whisper who dares, but the characters from 22 SAS would come and go in various books.
Ahh what the name again?
Wasn't Chris Ryan was it?"
You're actually thinking of Andy McNab, bravo two zero.
Chris Ryan wrote the one that got away , part of the same group. Their books were factual. Terence Strongs are fiction. |
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By (user no longer on site) 24 weeks ago
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All of John Steinbeck's books.
The photo of 'Migrant Mother' hit me like a freight train when in my teens, and I've been influenced and spellbound ever since with Steinbecks writings, those times (both here in the UK and Stateside) times and the struggles, cries, stoicism, beauty, bravery, resilience, perseverance and struggles of the labouring classes.
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The book thief.
A little dated now, but Gerald Seymour books or espionage thrillers.
Terence Strong for military Daring do.
David Gemmel for fantasy.
Peter James or Stuart McBride for detective series.
Oh I used to love reading the sas guys books can't remember his name?
Yes his first book was whisper who dares, but the characters from 22 SAS would come and go in various books.
Ahh what the name again?
Wasn't Chris Ryan was it?
You're actually thinking of Andy McNab, bravo two zero.
Chris Ryan wrote the one that got away , part of the same group. Their books were factual. Terence Strongs are fiction. "
Ahh that was it yeah thanks for the correction, it's been ages since I've read them. |
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"I really like Terry Pratchett's discworld series. Lots of mini series inside a larger series. My favourites are Vimes and the Guards mini series."
I LOVE the discworld books, they are so funny and clever x  |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"Halo The Fall of Reach. It was a perfect start to the Halo series and it was what started my transhumanist superhuman power fantasy."
Good choice except all I remember from that Catherine getting domed by an elite. |
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By *hilloutMan 24 weeks ago
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"Halo The Fall of Reach. It was a perfect start to the Halo series and it was what started my transhumanist superhuman power fantasy."
I've been meaning to read that for ages! Massive Halo fan  |
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By *ooBulMan 24 weeks ago
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Harry Dresden Files series - By Jim Butcher.
The 1st book probably...
Cos it gets you hooked. The amusing bit being he's not a children's entertainer he deals in unexplained supernatural phenomenon. He's also a wizard. He just doesn't get how powerful he is...
You could just pick up any book in that series & be entertained. You don't need to read previous books to understand the background story.
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 24 weeks ago
Transsexual Transylvania |
"The Lord of the Rings. (My mum used to call it my Bible )
Followed by The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
Good choice never read but the movies are awesome!
Read.the.books.
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If you think the movies are awesome...  |
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By *ildbillkidMan 24 weeks ago
where the road goes on forever |
"Harry Dresden Files series - By Jim Butcher.
The 1st book probably...
Cos it gets you hooked. The amusing bit being he's not a children's entertainer he deals in unexplained supernatural phenomenon. He's also a wizard. He just doesn't get how powerful he is...
You could just pick up any book in that series & be entertained. You don't need to read previous books to understand the background story.
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re- reading them , enjoying them like the first time |
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Anything by Torey Hayden. She is a special educational needs teacher specialising in trauma and her books are the stories about some of the children she has cared for
I don't care much for fiction |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"The Lord of the Rings. (My mum used to call it my Bible )
Followed by The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
Good choice never read but the movies are awesome!
Read.the.books.
If you think the movies are awesome... "
Might do just that, still get read my skullduggery set I got
He's a funny undead wizard in yhe modern world, gotta love it. |
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I don't read much fiction anymore. I like Ben MacIntyre's books. I like a lot of factual history stuff, about many eras and events. I also read a lot of science-y stuff because I'm a massive geek.
I'm currently finishing a book about the evolution of the female body. It's called Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon. Appeals greatly to the biologist in me. |
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Three:
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Line of Beauty
The Secret History.
I only like books beginning with "The".
My favourite authors are probably Jonathan Coe and William Boyd; I've read pretty much everything of theirs and never disappointed. "Any Human Heart" might make the list above, now I think of it. |
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"Gormenghast trilogy, catch 22, days by James Love
I love Catch 22, I have tried to read the follow up to it Closing Time so many times, I just can't get into it."
Oh I've not heard of closing time, I'll look out for it x |
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By *ir toot OP Man 24 weeks ago
Burton-on-Trent |
"That one about a ring and some dark Lord.
Harry Potter and the Ring of Fire? "
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I dunno but I saw the meme of frodo putting the ring on his cock while sauron watches in disgust.
Lord of the cocknring much
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By *irexMan 24 weeks ago
Hertford |
He’s one of my favourites, I went to watch the grapes of wrath at the national theatre a few weeks ago - very distressing!
"All of John Steinbeck's books.
The photo of 'Migrant Mother' hit me like a freight train when in my teens, and I've been influenced and spellbound ever since with Steinbecks writings, those times (both here in the UK and Stateside) times and the struggles, cries, stoicism, beauty, bravery, resilience, perseverance and struggles of the labouring classes.
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"That one about a ring and some dark Lord.
Harry Potter and the Ring of Fire? l
I dunno but I saw the meme of frodo putting the ring on his cock while sauron watches in disgust.
Lord of the cocknring much
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😅 Just when I thought I’d seen most things LOTR related. |
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I read a book when I was in senior school, called Moses Beech and it's probably the only one that has ever stayed in my head, I bought it a few years back and loved reading it.
There is also another I loved called "my best friends girl" my Dorothy Koomson and that's another that has stayed in my head.
I have lots of books, I just really need to be in the mood, once I found it, I can crack it out in a couple of days, I've started so many in the last few months but my brain won't switch into gear, so I have at least 3 stories in my head lol. |
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Another vote here for Sir Terry Pratchett and his discworld series, Night Watch being one of my favourites in there, though honestly have enjoyed them all.
Jasper Fforde and his Thursday Next series are also good.
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This changes dependent on what phase of mood I am in life. If I am feeling more introspective there are other's I would choose. I'm voting American Gods by Neil Gaiman. If you could choose comic series, it would be the Sandman which was mind shattering when I first read it in the 90s.
I also really like Howl's Moving Castle in book form |
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Over the last couple of years I've been devouring the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch.
Other favourites are Louis de Bernières Latin American trilogy, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford series, anything by Tolkien, and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. |
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Sherlock Holmes is among my faves Nell 😍
Like several others above I adore Tolkien. Recently series I've loved include Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson books, Deborah Harkness' All Souls series and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. Everything ever written by Ilona Andrews. |
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