In need of a good read.

[The_Dover]

Right you boring feckers, this place is as dead as a Hezbollah peace protest so give me your recommendations for a good book to read.

I'm not interested in any cult genres like sci fi, dwarf fantasy shit, vampires etc. Just normal stories that you can actually get into without having to believe that bionic midgets with 8 testicles that drink human blood and fly around in space ships rule the galaxy.

And none of you Mills and Boon crap either Finn, I gotta read this shit in public (on the train).

So, suggestions?

[Squeak the Rat]

Standard run of the mill "popular" fiction, or something a bit more literary?

If the latter, then my favourites are:

Haruki Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Victor Pelevin - The Clay Machine Gun
Robert Mitchell - Ghostwritten


If the former then go and read Tom Clancy or somethin...

[Postie]

FHM, Ralph, Two Wheels........... what else do you need?

[SimJen]

If your into war stuff, try some of Antony Beevor's bestsellers.
All true, historical accounts of various major battles.
Stalingrad is awesome.
Generally though I just read bike mags

[Cookie]

I recently enjoyed reading "The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips"

http://tinyurl.com/qldmy

Very educational.

[Big Dave]

without having to believe that bionic midgets with 8 testicles that drink human blood and fly around in space ships rule the galaxy.

Hey - don't you knock Scientology pal. it's a bona fide religion.

[Hitcher]

Snow falling on cedars, by David Guterson
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Berniere
John Britten, by Tim Hanna
Budding Prospects, by T C Boyle

[Finn]

Just for you...

Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People.

[McJim]

Try something by Irvine Welsh like Filth, Trainspotting etc.

It'll make you feel homesick - certainly does me.

Or Iain Banks is another good author.

[Fishy]

Fox magazine is worth the read.

[SimJen]

I recently enjoyed reading "The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips"

http://tinyurl.com/qldmy

Very educational.

Yeah but did it help you find it?

[McJim]

Yeah but did it help you find it?

The irony is that we need a link to find a book, we need the book to find the clit.

I think if women want us blokes to find it they should just put it on our face.

[Cookie]

Yeah but did it help you find it?

Yeah. Its got diagrams and everything.

[judecatmad]

A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, hard work but well worth the read

Or there's a 'True Crimes' book that i've got all about serial killers.....should mean you have a seat all to yourself!!!

So no sci-fi eh? You're probably not into the Classics, so there's little point recommending Wuthering Heights or the Iliad and the Odyssey...!

Islands of Angry Ghosts by Hugh Edwards was a good read - it's the story of the Batavia, a trading ship wrecked off the coast of Australia in 1629. It flicks between the past and the present. Not too girlie, no sci-fi, a true story (embellished of course) and no dwarves.....there you go!

[The_Dover]

I've read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks but don't really like Irvine Welsh's writing style.

I'll look up some of Ratsqueakers recommendations. I'm not a literary snob so I'll give anything a bash but too trashy or too wanky and it'll end up as a precursor to the kindling.

I've just finished Not the End of the World by Christopher Brookmyre and quite enjoyed it, even if he did get a bit carried away with the hidden meaning and theoretical shite sometimes.

EDIT: As for the classics, I thoroughly enjoyed Wuthering Heights.