recommended Holiday reading

[michael_jcws]

Hi All,

Off on Holiday at the weekend and I need to take a few good books to read. Just looking for a few recommendations.

1) Like Tom Clancy style book, Loved With Out Remorse and Rainbow Six. Any recommendations for anything similar ? I hear the Chris Ryan (ex SAS bloke) fictional books are quite good?

2) Also like SciFi. Currently reading Richard Morgans Broken Angels

3) Also like fantasy. Loved all the George RR Martin and Robin Hobb books

Cheers for any suggestions

[Hughesie2]

All of the Dan Brown Books:

Deception Point
Digital Fortress
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code...

Just finished reading them but wished i'd read them in that order rather than the other way round !!

[MKGriff]

Completely agree with Hughsie, even the order!

A very similar post was started recently, maybe perform a quick search.

[AlexH]

Hughesie2 said:

All of the Dan Brown Books: Deception Point Digital Fortress Angels and Demons The Da Vinci Code... Just finished reading them but wished i'd read them in that order rather than the other way round !!

Apart from maybe reading Angels and Demons before the Da Vinci Code (because it does happen chronologically beforehand, but there are very few references to it in DVC, and none that make any difference), the order doesn't really matter...

I've always found the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell very good holiday reading.

[pmanson]

Lee Childs - Does a series of books based around a retired Military Policeman called Jack Reacher. Good easy read and a real page turner.

James Patterson - Try some of the earlier ones - Roses Are Red or Pop Goes The Weasel.

Jack Higgins is another good holiday read.

[cotty]

michael_jcws said:

Hi All, Off on Holiday at the weekend and I need to take a few good books to read. Just looking for a few recommendations. Cheers for any suggestions

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[JagLover]

As regards Sci-Fi, probably the best I have read recently is the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (though the first 2 are a lot better than the last 1)

Also Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is very good.

I see by your favourites in fantasy that you favour the more serious authors in that genre. Robert Jordan was good for the first six books of his Wheel of Time series an old one that is very good is the Chronicles of Thomas Convenant by Stephen Donaldson.

[titiany]

I was glued to Angels and Demons.

Good read, and it makes you think you are learning stuff too!

Definitely read it before the Da Vinci Code - my dad did it the wrong way round and was disappointed.

[cotty]

michael_jcws said:

1) Like Tom Clancy style book, Loved With Out Remorse and Rainbow Six. Any recommendations for anything similar ? I hear the Chris Ryan (ex SAS bloke) fictional books are quite good?

Also Andy McNab (Bravo Two Zero) has written a few books that are quite good see www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Andy_McNab.htm

I think I still have Remote Control which I have read, I could send it to you if you like. This is from the back of the book

"Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived - and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn't even know which of them is the target.
On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce - and the greed that binds the three together...

Remote Control is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has walked the walk. "

[skid]

cotty said:

McNab

Absolutely. Chris Ryan isn't bad, just McNab is better.

I must admit the bastard has cost me a fortune though, as each time he brings out a new book I have to go on another holiday so that I can get the peaceful hours to really immerse myself in it. Honest.

I've got Deep Black sat on the shelf and Lastminute.com open on another window.

M

[whoozit]

Have a look at the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. It's Mossad spy-thriller/assassin stuff, but with a conscience and a surprisingly balanced view of modern Middle Eastern history.

[rdhawkins]

My dad lent me a book a while ago from a Swedish author called Henning Mankel. He his written about 6-7 books and they all follow the same detective (Kurt Wallendar) working through various cases.

I don't know exactly what it is that makes them fantastic books but you just believe what you are reading, he really makes you feel like you are this detective.

Also read Archangel by Robert Harris the other week, think they made a TV drama from it but it was also very good. Will be looking at the 3-4 other books he has written once I've finished the 2 Henning Mankell books I have to read.

[tonyvid]

I'm crap at book names etc but "Want to play" by P Tracy(?) was a really good thriller/cop story with good twists.

[michael_jcws]

Think I might try a couple of the McNab books.

Cheers

Michael

see you in three weeks

[cotty]

michael_jcws said:

Think I might try a couple of the McNab books. Cheers Michael see you in three weeks

cotty said:

I think I still have Andy McNab Remote Control which I have read, I could send it to you if you like.

Want me to send you Remote Control if I can find it or are you off soon

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[theexcession]

Dan Brown :yawn:

Algebraist by Ian M Banks is a cracking story, superbly written and lots of twists and weird cultural standpoints - I especaiily liked the attitude of the Dwellers to their offspring, basically they view their children as Chavs and hunt them for the first few decades of their life. If the children manage to escape and survive then good luck to them and they earn enough respect to be left alone, otherwise, well, think I just said, they don't make it too far.

Also doesn't require knowledge of the rest of his Culture Series.

Highly recommended - made me smile on many occaisions

Also, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is a stunningly beautiful book, a fairy tale of epic proportions, I found it very difficult to put down and it often had me laughing out loud.

Edited to Add: I once started readng the first few pages of this out loud to all the passengers on a Central Line tube going home late one Friday night.

Got a round of applause when I got off in Woodford Green and a few people said they were going to go and buy it the next day

best
Ex


>> Edited by theexcession on Wednesday 17th August 16:14

[GingerNinja]

JagLover said:

As regards Sci-Fi, probably the best I have read recently is the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (though the first 2 are a lot better than the last 1) Also Enders Game by Orson Scott Card is very good. I see by your favourites in fantasy that you favour the more serious authors in that genre. Robert Jordan was good for the first six books of his Wheel of Time series an old one that is very good is the Chronicles of Thomas Convenant by Stephen Donaldson.

Almost agree with all of the above, except that my favourite science-fiction come from Iain M Banks (Use Of Weapons being my favourite book ever), and I prefer Stephen Donaldson's Gap Series to the Thomas Convenant stuff.

Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is an awesome read if you're any kind of science/computer person.

[GingerNinja]

theexcession said:

Algebraist by Ian M Banks is a cracking story, superbly written and lots of twists and weird cultural standpoints - I especaiily liked the attitude of the Dwellers to their offspring, basically they view their children as Chavs and hunt them for the first few decades of their life. If the children manage to escape and survive then good luck to them and they earn enough respect to be left alone, otherwise, well, think I just said, they don't make it too far. Also doesn't require knowledge of the rest of his Culture Series. Highly recommended - made me smile on many occaisions Also, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is a stunningly beautiful book, a fairy tale of epic proportions, I found it very difficult to put down and it often had me laughing out loud. Edited to Add: I once started readng the first few pages of this out loud to all the passengers on a Central Line tube going home late one Friday night. Got a round of applause when I got off in Woodford Green and a few people said they were going to go and buy it the next day best Ex >> Edited by theexcession on Wednesday 17th August 16:14

I'd have never have guessed you're an Iain M Banks fan, Excession!

[JagLover]

GingerNinja said:

Almost agree with all of the above, except that my favourite science-fiction come from Iain M Banks (Use Of Weapons being my favourite book ever), and I prefer Stephen Donaldson's Gap Series to the Thomas Convenant stuff. .

I've read the gap series but I prefer his fantasy (including the Mordant's need books). But then I do prefer fantasy to Sci-Fi.

[lord summerisle]

Micheal Moorcock - Nomad of the Timestreams.

lot of books to get into from Moorcock, theres a fair few in the eternal champion series

or else Mother London.