Is it super enlightening or like straight up entertaining? Compare it to Lone Survivor on a "can't put down" slash entertainment scale.
Got Threat Vector for the old man for Xmas, he's making progress. I've read all of Clancy's books (except the power plays/net force/politika garbage) multiple times, for me they rank like this (as far as the "first" Jack Ryan book, it's actually Patriot Games, even though it came out after Red October). The first 10 may as well be interchangeable, they are all so good. My dad got me hooked when I was like 9 years old, haven't stopped reading them since: 1. Debt of Honor 2. Executive Orders 3. Red Storm Rising (not in the ryan-verse but still so good) 4. Patriot Games 5. Red October 6. Without Remorse (also not in the ryan-verse) 7. Sum of All Fears 8. Clear and Present Danger 9. Rainbow Six 10. Cardinal of the Kremlin 11. Red Rabbit 12. Teeth of the Tiger 13. Locked On 14. Dead or Alive 15. The Bear and the Dragon
Ted Bell is really good, I read Tsar a few months ago and I'm working on Phantom right now. Alex Hawke character is awesome.
yeah i'm finishing up Phantom right now as well. you should check out his other ones, they're all really good
Sorry for the thread-jack, to get back to the subject of the thread, World War Z was impossible for me to put down. Actually the first Hunger Games book too, I read that shit at stop lights and in traffic jams.
Yes, I am not that into science. I typically read stuff like Stephen King. So reading this was a complete departure for me. That being said I was intrigued throughout the whole book. There are parts, for me at least that bog down a bit. Overall I loved it.
ASOIAF series was impossible to put down. So much so that I'm having a hard time deciding what to read next.
Anyone read the Bob Lee Swagger books? They look sort of intriguing, especially the upcoming one about the Kennedy assassination.
Gonna start In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. (Finished second in the January vote) IF its anything like his others, it will be tough to put down.
Ready Player One Game of Thrones In the Shadow of the Wind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time The Hobbit (this was circa 1984) The Godwulf Manuscript And Then There Were None
Compared to ASOIAF which I just got done with, Shantaram is like Dr. Seuss. I am going to read Ready Player One next, I thank ye TMB book club overlords.
Just finished Ready Player One. Just fucking awesome, loved it. Going to start on Wool next and then re-read World War Z
Agree. I didn't even finish it. News flash: It's unoriginal. A virus turns people into 'zombies' and the un-zombies try to fight them on a global scale. Meh.
I have to disagree, if for nothing else than the large scale battles that take place, i loved those. I thought it was really well done, not the greatest writing or character development, and I may feel different when I re-read it after so many other zombie books recently, but I loved WWZ.
The Big Rich - just a monster of holy shitness and all true Gone Girl Ready Player One No Easy Day Of recent ones I've read
Just finished Mystic River, once it got going it was very hard to put down. I really enjoyed it. Will add to what others have said with Rainbow 6, I read that one back in high-school when I hardly ever read anything, and I couldn't put it down. Great book. I'd like to read it again soon. I may just start at the beginning of the Jack Ryan series.
Ok... I'll add any Dresden Files book to this list... I mentioned this in another thread, but cruised through the first 2 books extremely fast. Started Charm School by Nelson DeMille recently, and once I got through about 6% it's been hard to stop.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. I finished this a week or two ago. I loved it. Best book I have read in a while.
Went to Colombia recently and bought both Gone Girl and The Godfather at the airport, read Gone girl first and couldn't put it down. In fact I was a little reluctant to even read the Godfather after just finishing Gone girl, but I ended up loving The Godfather too (for the record I have not seen either movie). Just read this thread for the first time and decided to give The Pillars of the Earth a try as well as Shantaram.
Take Charm School out... Entertaining, but they could cut out about 2/3rds of the book and still have a solid, yet less developed book.
I listen. Therefore that means I'm "reading" while getting ready for work, cooking dinner, cleaning my apt, working out, running, and/or driving anywhere. Pretty efficient way to multi-task if you don't have much time to read.... I never listen idly, I am always doing something else that doesn't require much thought as well. When I actually read it's usually on a plane or before bed.
Currently reading Master Of The Game by Sidney Sheldon. It has been the book that I have gotten into the most this year along with The Son by Jo Nesbo.
Extremely late here, but if you're asking if Palahniuk is wordy you probably aren't going to want to pick this up. Dostoevsky can go multiple pages in a single paragraph