Books impossible to put down thread

Discussion in 'TMB Book Club' started by Gin Buckets, Aug 16, 2012.

  1. skiedfrillet

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    i think i started with Rainbow Six, and I guarantee you'll like that book. all time favorite for me
     
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  2. Gin Buckets

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    Easy to put down for me. Read both of them.
     
  3. Cellphi

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    No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy Seal

    Everyone should read this book.
     
  4. Gin Buckets

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    Is it super enlightening or like straight up entertaining? Compare it to Lone Survivor on a "can't put down" slash entertainment scale.
     
  5. Cellphi

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    Both actually, it give's you a look into the tactics and the mindset of an elite Navy Seal.
     
  6. The Blackfish

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    Rainbow Six is the only book by him I've read but it was very good.
     
  7. One Knight

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    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
     
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  8. One Knight

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    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.
     
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  9. skiedfrillet

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    yeah i'm finishing up Phantom right now as well. you should check out his other ones, they're all really good
     
  10. One Knight

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    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.
     
  11. A Black person

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    A short history of nearly everything.
     
  12. Gin Buckets

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    Have that on my list, and am intrigued, but also skeptical... Was it really that hard to put down?
     
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  13. A Black person

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    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.
     
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  14. Gin Buckets

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    Will definitely check it out.
     
  15. RJF-GUMP

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    ASOIAF series was impossible to put down. So much so that I'm having a hard time deciding what to read next.
     
  16. One Knight

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    Anyone read the Bob Lee Swagger books? They look sort of intriguing, especially the upcoming one about the Kennedy assassination.
     
  17. Gin Buckets

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    No, but I just finished 11/22/63 today.
     
  18. One Knight

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    How did you like it? That one looks intriguing as well.
     
  19. RJF-GUMP

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    Heard In Cold Blood by Capote is a page turner
     
  20. Gin Buckets

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    Gave it 4* on goodreads due to the idea/story... Had some issues with it, but overall was a big fan.
     
  21. Truman

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    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.
     
  22. Lorne Malvo

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    Gone Girl was definitely in this category.
     
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  23. Arkie Proud

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    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
     
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  24. gordon bombay

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    I'm about 200 pages through Shantaram now, it is pretty good.
     
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  25. Truman

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    You only have about 340000000 left.
     
  26. gordon bombay

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    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.
     
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  27. Gin Buckets

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    I'm envious. I'd love to read that book for the first time again.
     
  28. One Knight

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    I'm reading Ready Player One now, definitely goes in my list for hard to put down.
     
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  29. Arkie Proud

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  30. One Knight

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    Just finished Ready Player One. Just fucking awesome, loved it.
    Going to start on Wool next and then re-read World War Z
     
  31. Lorne Malvo

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    I really need to read World War Z.
     
  32. One Knight

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    Yes you do. It's in the ebook library, if you don't have that then PM me and I'll email WWZ to you.
     
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  33. Lorne Malvo

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    I have it on my Kindle, thanks though :respek:
     
  34. Gin Buckets

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    I've read it, and don't think it belongs itt. :twocents:
     
  35. Arkie Proud

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    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.
     
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  37. Gin Buckets

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  38. One Knight

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    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.
     
  39. texasraider

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    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
     
  40. Doug

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    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.
     
  41. Gin Buckets

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    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.
     
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  42. Blackterno

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    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.
     
  43. Arliden

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    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.
     
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  44. Arkie Proud

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    The Godfather is one of very few works where the movie surpasses the book, IMHO.
     
  45. Tricky Gator

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  46. Gin Buckets

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    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.
     
  47. DollarBillHokie

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    How do you all read so much? Is that your hobby once you get home from work?
     
  48. Gin Buckets

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    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.
     
  49. triceratops

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    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.
     
  50. soulfly

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