What authors do you recommend?

jk rowling or j.r tokin

Originally posted by mike currill
May you live in interesting pants

Ha – probably Annas now!;) – Nermal

P J O’Rourke

Originally posted by Flood
‘Spect the summers are a bit easier for you then!

Sorry peeps – For me it is Terry Pratchett. Not bothered what you think about him: he doesn’t fit into your criteria but he makes me laugh, makes me think, keeps me entertained.

Flood.

May you live in interesting pants

Sven Hassell?

Originally posted by Warhawk
As for Terry Pratchett keeping you entertained. If he did’nt there would’nt be much point in reading his books, would there.:D 😉

You would be surprised… I used to read nearly everything and the amount of boring rubbish that is available in my local public library was astounding!
Try, for example Jack Higgins or Harry Patterson – many of their novels having the same characters, more or less the same storyline, and the lead character would nearly always be a reformed anti-hero – usually an Irishman – who drank Bushmills whiskey; hardly surprising since the Higgins and Patterson were the same writer. At one point I got 4 books out and read them in the space of a week – it was just so lazy since I knew what was going to happen because it had all taken place in the previous book too. Stupid.

Flood.

Originally posted by Flood
‘Spect the summers are a bit easier for you then!

Sorry peeps – For me it is Terry Pratchett. Not bothered what you think about him: he doesn’t fit into your criteria but he makes me laugh, makes me think, keeps me entertained.

Flood.

Summers are much easier. Call outs are infrequent and overtime does not stretch on for days at a time (like this past week has been). During the winter I have no life at all as the changing weather makes it impossible to make any sort of plans in advance.

As for Terry Pratchett keeping you entertained. If he did’nt there would’nt be much point in reading his books, would there.:D 😉

Here’s to warmer days:
😎

Originally posted by Warhawk
Tough to get any reading done right now because the weather has been so lousy. I plow snow for the state of Vermont and we’ve been real busy lately 🙁 Oh well, warmer days are coming.:)

‘Spect the summers are a bit easier for you then!

Sorry peeps – For me it is Terry Pratchett. Not bothered what you think about him: he doesn’t fit into your criteria but he makes me laugh, makes me think, keeps me entertained.

Flood.

Right you asked for authors so I will try to provide some:

Tales of Nelson’s Navy:
Richard Woodman
Alexander Kent
Dudley Pope

not a great DP fan myself but I still consider him better than C S Forrester and Parick O’Brien.

Tales of the army in the peninsular(1809 -1815):
Bernard Cornwell

Sci Fi
has to be David Weber

General fiction:
Christopher Brookmyre ( I think that’s how it’s spelt)

Forensic pathology stories:
Patricia Cornwell

For something out of the ordinary you could try:

The Source by James A Michener
Shogun by james Clavell

hope that gives you some food for thought
regards
Mike

Originally posted by SOC
Did you know they’re making Cussler’s Sahara into a movie?

No I did’nt. I find it surprising that they are considering his view on “Hollywood”. Raise the Titanic was so awful that it really soured him on movie deals.

I just picked up a copy of his latest novel, Trojan Odyssey. I’m looking forward to reading it but I’m currently reading Chindi by Jack McDevitt. Clive is next on my list though. Tough to get any reading done right now because the weather has been so lousy. I plow snow for the state of Vermont and we’ve been real busy lately 🙁 Oh well, warmer days are coming.:)

All novels written after Don Quichote are just crap :).

I also highly recommand “The Fist of God” by Frederick Forsyth, an absolutely terrific book. “Icon” by the same author is also fairly good.

You might also want to check out the novels written by John Nichol, the first three of which I found quite enjoyable (I haven’t got round to reading the other two).

There’s also Andy Mcnab’s novels, which, though not as wide in scope as some of the other autors you mentioned are definitely worth a good look.

Whilst on the subject, I recently finished “C.Q.B.” by Mike Curtis (autobiography of a former elite solider) and I found it a very absorbing read.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.:)

-Dazza

Originally posted by Warhawk
Damn, you beat me to it. 🙂 If you like science fiction I would highly recommend Jack McDevitt. (no it’s not star wars/star trek space soap opera drivel) Moonfall is particularly good as is Deep six. However I like all his books. Cussler is still my favorite though.;)

Did you know they’re making Cussler’s Sahara into a movie?

Never, never read a book by Ian Mc ewan, it may put you off reading all together, especially ‘Enduring Love.’

not a book, but i reccomend this

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series is 20 books worth of great reads. The Russel Crowe movie gets the details right, but misses on the plot.

Scott

Originally posted by SOC
Clive Cussler is first rate

Damn, you beat me to it. 🙂 If you like science fiction I would highly recommend Jack McDevitt. (no it’s not star wars/star trek space soap opera drivel) Moonfall is particularly good as is Deep six. However I like all his books. Cussler is still my favorite though.;)

i love all the books from Chris Ryan

Clive Cussler is first rate
Dale Brown is good

And there’s always Robert Ludlum 😎

If you can find any of his books somewhere, also look at Craig Thomas. His books Firefox and Firefox Down are outstanding works.