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Last year I asked you folks for book suggestions and I read some great stuff... and that really horrible Wasp Factory! :)

So, what do you got for me this year?

Been thinking about CS Lewis becuase it seems like I should know these books. The KGB book looks good and I Will Fight No More Forever... then too I have been wanting to read The Afghan Campaign because I liked Gates Of Fire so much... but I had just read The Kite Runner and The Places In Between and I was kind of Afgahnistaned out.

I think I maybe don't read that much fanasy scifi, but I really liked the Illuminatus Trio thingy and I thought Cryptonomicon was really good... Ender's Game and all the ones that went with it... I really liked the books on the 20s - oh and that Strange & Norell thing was fun... If you can jam a Templar or a Mason in the book I'm in...

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  • I'm so glad you liked "New World Coming."

    I think this is fun, and I like that you ask. As for C.S. Lewis, I would like to recommend: The Essential C.S. Lewis [amazon.com], though it appears that cover of the book is out of print, but this [amazon.com] appears to be the same book.

    Then there is The Screwtape Letters [amazon.com]. The Screwtape Letters might be kind of a short read, but it's excellent. As for The Essential C.S. Lewis that has a lot to it. There are a two complete texts of his contained in the book, The Lion, the witch, and the

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      by ellem ( 147712 ) *
      I also found The Great Divorce to look interesting.... thanks

      BTW I liked New World Coming so much I bought 5 of them and gave them to people I know and said, "You have to read this book. Now."
  • Get ahold of the European equivalent of Ann Coulter - "The Rage and the Pride" and "The Force of Reason" by Oriana Fallaci.

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      by ellem ( 147712 ) *
      been meaning to read her....
      • I just read "The Rage and the Pride" last weekend. It's actually a very quick read, just a couple of hours. "The Force of Reason" is a little longer, but still should be able to get through it all in one session.

        Some of the stuff is quite disturbing, like the way the muslims are silencing opposition in Switzerland(!) by way of that country's Article 261b. Even the usual left-wing suspects are getting arrested and jailed, like animal rights activists who are upset about the way muslims slaughter lambs (by
  • by John Twelve Hawks. Sequel due out in July.

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      by rk ( 6314 ) *

      I'm reading that now and it's freakin' amazing. I also have the audio book.

      Lou sez he's not much into fantasy/SF stuff, but I would like to plug the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I'm not a big fan of modern fantasy/magic stuff but this series has been a very entertaining read.

      If you like biographies, I'd also recommend "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris and (from my '05 recommendations, I haven't read much this last year) "Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" by Rich

  • fantasybookspot.com

    Sorry can't link or even provide a direct google link from work - "fantasy" & "book" must trip the filter.

    A quick search will bring lists of fantasy sci-fi or mystery books. And there is at least one thred of top 10/100 books.

  • band of brothers [amazon.com]

    of paradise and power [amazon.com]

    the pirate hunter [amazon.com]

    mayflower [amazon.com]

    flags of our fathers [amazon.com]

    marine sniper [amazon.com]

    1776 and the glorious cause are really good too

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  • I've read another of his books, War at Sea. [amazon.com] It's a pretty engaging and concise history of WW2 at sea, and has several highly amusing footnotes.

    Tried any Lois McMaster Bujold [powells.com] or Connie Willis? [powells.com]
  • It won't come out until March, but you might want to look into "Ascent" by Jed Mercurio. Think The Right Stuff meets Apollo 13 behind the Iron Curtain. I recently read an advance copy was pleasantly surprised...
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal [amazon.com].

    Basically it fills in the missing period of Jesus' life in the Bible, with Biff tagging along and being everything that the Son of Man isn't. Funny and insightful.

    • That would be Christopher Moore, actually. And he is very good. I'd also recommend Bloodsucking Fiends, and most of his other work. For humorous fiction, anything by Jasper Fforde is good.
      • You are correct and, I'm actually rather impressed with myself that I typed Charles whilst thinking Christopher. You just can't buy that kind of pre-coffee ADD.
  • If so, have you read the classics? Starship Troopers? Dune? I'm in the middle of "Stranger in a Strange Land" which is gripping...
    Also, I'm into gangster books so I'd say "The Godfather" and "Wiseguys" (the story of Henry Hill... the movie "GoodFellas").
  • I have to recommend the The Time Traveler's Wife [amazon.com], quite a fun book, though I am disappointed to learn (from the Wikipedia entry [wikipedia.org] that they are also making it into a movie. Definitely read it before the movie spoils/corrupts everything.
  • If you like worldwide conspiracy stories (and/or pardodies thereof -- it's hard to tell sometimes :-), try Robert Rankin: "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" and "The Curse of the Voodoo Handbag" (the latter is a little more grounded in reality.

    On another track altogether, try some Connie Willis:
    -Doomsday Book
    -Bellwether
    -To Say Nothing Of The Dog
  • Setting the Table, by Danny Meyer [amazon.com]. Meyer runs Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park, Tabla, Blue Smoke, and other top restaurants in NYC. Very interesting book, both for the stories he tells and his exposition of his management principles.
  • I suggest going through the Unshelved Book Club [overduemedia.com] list. The strip is written by a librarian and a geek, and every week they do a 'sunday color' comic strip reviewing their favorite books. They have listed some GREAT books there. Plus the strips describing the books are funny!

    Cheers,

    Pix

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