Read a good book lately?

**Skyryder** · 26th June 2009, 11:51

THE MACHIAVELLI COVENANT by Allan Folsom

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/...i-covenant.htm

Skyryder

**gijoe1313** · 26th June 2009, 14:45

Space Marine by Ian Watson ... ahh love my grimdark warhammer 40K novels ...

**Kickaha** · 26th June 2009, 17:44

Originally Posted by Winston001

If you want to try an ideas man, look around for non-fiction books by Jerry Pournelle.

Well it isn't non-fiction but his collaboration with Larry Niven in "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of my favourite books of all time

**Ocean1** · 26th June 2009, 18:23

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Well it isn't non-fiction but his collaboration with Larry Niven in "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of my favourite books of all time

Was good, and for once I enjoyed the sequel more than the first...

**Winston001** · 26th June 2009, 18:34

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Well it isn't non-fiction but his collaboration with Larry Niven in "The Mote in God's Eye" is one of my favourite books of all time

Here are my favourite Niven/Pournelle collaborations:

The Mote in God's Eye (1974)

Inferno (1976) Excellent book.

Lucifer's Hammer (1977)

Oath of Fealty (1982)

Footfall (1985)

The Legacy of Heorot (1987), with Steven Barnes - Probably my favourite.

Fallen Angels (1991) with 2003 Heinlein Award winner Michael Flynn - Rough rushed writing but good science

The Dragons of Heorot AKA Beowulf's Children (1995), with Steven Barnes - A great sequel.

Larry Niven is THE MAN!!

**Gibbo13p** · 27th June 2009, 22:11

off getfrank.co.nz

THE SIGN by Raymond Khoury

and

The Bourne Deception by Eric Van Lustbader

Haven't read anything apart from Readers Digest lately so looking forward to a good read.

**Skyryder** · 28th June 2009, 10:56

Just finished THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII by Eward Bulwer Lord Lytton. This book was written in 1834 so might explain the flowery prose. Still if you like the classics and can wade through the archaic text it's not a bad sorta story. Like most well heeled aristrocarats where the 'grand tour' was a required education Lytton wrote the book in Naples so had access to Pompeii and it's historical record for what was known at the time.

The story revolves around three main characters, Glaucus the Athenian and bit of a playboy of the times and the evil Egyptian Arbaces. Both fancy Ione the femme fatale of Pompeii.

For those that have an interest in Roman history you might be interested too see if your local library has this book in stock. There's an interesting chapter on the entertainment of the day in the arena and that's apart from the general life of a small roman city.

Skyryder

**Hispid** · 28th June 2009, 14:48

Dan Brown
Clive Cussler
Wilbur Smith
Lee Child
John Grisham
Arthur Hailey
Ken Follet

to name a few.......

**gijoe1313** · 28th June 2009, 15:39

Book I am currently also perusing is Dante's Divine Comedy ...

**Blue Babe** · 9th October 2009, 09:09

Has anyone read the New "Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol"? If so what did you think about it? My daughter bought it yesterday & is reading it first. At the moment I'm busy reading The Series "Terry Goodkind" Has written, which the series "The Seeker" was taken from. The books are much better than the series. I'm on the third "Blood of The Fold".

**george formby** · 9th October 2009, 09:57

Anything by Iain M Banks, his startling contemporary fiction or mind bending sci fi.
Chewing through The war for civilisation by Robert Fisk. It's drastically changing my opinion of world politics & terrorism.
James A Michener, Alaska or South Africa, the history from before men to modern times through the eyes of settlers, conquerors, traders etc.
Enjoyed The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins.
Sniper One by Dan Mills a rollicking, bullet ridden account of being under siege in Iraq, a book they tried to ban.
Future. Tense, Gwynn Dyer questioning why America invaded Iraq in the first place. Scary & very thought provoking.
The life of Pi a stunning, pungent & fantastic novel.
Yamaha TDM 850 workshop manual, downloade for free from JBX tech pages.
John Irving, The world according to Garp, genius, Hotel New Hampshire, maddness, a bear riding a sidecar outfit into a lake!
That will do I think. Great day for a thread like this.

**george formby** · 9th October 2009, 09:59

bill bryson

**Elysium** · 9th October 2009, 10:00

The only good books I read are Sci Fi. Lately I'm engrossed in the Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy novels. I'm waiting for the next Honor Harrington book from David Weber.

**SPORK** · 9th October 2009, 10:15

Just finished a collection of Kafka's works, now I'm working through Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard.

Always keen for a good reccomendation for after I'm finished with that...