Buying books!!! (Suggestions Please!!)

[onebigbadwulf]

I just finished all the Dan Brown books (including the Da Vinci code)

and all of Chuck Palahniuk's books (including Diary).



Do you guys have any books / authors to suggest that are like the ones above?


Thanks!

[Rowdyboy]

1. Lee Child

The Jack Reacher books are decent thrillers

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane is good though very confusing.

Doug Preston and Lincoln Child have a series on an FBI agent Pendergrast that are okay too.

[Uroboros]

2. "Foucault's Pendulum"

I haven't read either book; but knowing the subject matter of Da Vinci code; the book that came to mind was Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" (which I have read)

Went looking for The Da Vinci Code on Amazon; I noticed some readers have read it; make the same recommendation. So you might want to give it a try.

I thought of Eco's book because it was what got me interested on the subjects covered by The Da Vinci Code. I wouldn't be surprised if Dan Brown didn't actually read the book himself somewhere along the way.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. Try

Philip Pullam's "His Dark Materials" for the first 1/4 of the first book I was a little wary of the series. The all of a sudden all of the frame work that he had put in place came together and I couldn't stop reading till I finished the trilogy.

[non sociopath skin]

7. I really rate Pullman ...

.. though I know that he's not to everyone's taste. Well worth dipping into, though.

As for detective/thrillers, I really rate James Lee Burke myself. His politics are pretty sound, too.

The Skin

[onebigbadwulf]

4. Thanks for all the great suggestions

I just ordered them all!

[RainDog]

5. Dave Eggers, Irving Welsh,

Charles Bukowski's Ham on Rye,

Wild Sheep Chase, or Hardboiled Wonderland at the End of the World...a Japanese writer whose name I cannot remember...it's late...

how about Perfume by Patrick Susskind?

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is very good.

can't remember the guy's name...Matthew Pearl? Dante Club..is another history/mystery, but I haven't read it. came out before DaVinci Code.

I really really recommend Donna Tartt's Secret History and The Little Friend (just out in paperback).

Jennifer Government by Maxx Barry.

Baudolino by Umberto Eco

...surely you can find something among those...

[CShine]

6. There's always Ann Coulter.

;-)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

8. " Angela's Ashes " Frank McCourt

[trof]

14. And "'Tis".

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. I have a list of dozens of books, authors and comment -

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A small sample:

MAR 22 99
MAXIMUM BOB ELMORE LEONARD SEEN ON TV SAME DAY AS READING

LOS ALAMOS JOSEPH KANON BUILDING OF ATOMIC BOMB

AMERICAN BLOOD JASON MANNING WESTERN EARLY 1800'S

INVASION OF PRIVACY PERRI O'SHAUGHNESSY PENNAME SISTERS PAMELA AND MARY
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE SAME STORIES MOVE WELL/LEGAL

SANCTUARY FAYE KELLERMAN MANY NAMES/WORDS MISUNDERSTOOD

MAR 31 99
CUBA LIBRE ELMORE LEONARD SLOW STORY LINE / LATE 1800'S

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN MAX ALLAN COLLINS MOSTLY WAR ACTION/GOOD READING

THE FOURTH ESTATE JEFFERY ARCHER NEWSPAPER MOGULS - FASCINATING

THE PLAN STEPHEN J. CANNEL GOOD/FLASHBACKING/PRESIDENTIAL

ALMOST ADAM PETRU POPESCU XLNT/MAN MEETS ANCESTORS/KENYA
APRIL 5 99

TWELVE RED HERRINGS JEFFERY ARCHER DIDN'T READ TOO BRITISH FOR ME

IMPLANT F. PAUL WILSON XLNT/BELIEVABLE MEDICAL MEDDLING

MORTAL PURSUIT BRIAN HARPER GOOD COP MYSTERY

TOTAL CONTROL DAVID BALDACC XLNT/BELIEVABLE WORLD COMPUTERS

THE CLIENT JOHN GRISHAM GOOD/SOME SPOTS FAR FETCHED

DETECTIVE ARTHYR HAILEY GOOD/FLASHBACKING

APRIL 16 99

FINAL THUNDER TOM WILSON GOOD EASY TO READ/TERRORISTS

THE SWISS ACCOUNT PAUL ERDMAN DIDN'T READ TOO MUCH DETAIL/NAMES

THE BEST DEFENSE KATE WILHELM GOOD/

DEEP AS THE MARROW F. PAUL WILSON GOOD/PRESIDENT/LEGAL/POT

RENDER UP THE BODY MARIANNE WESSON GOOD/DEATH ROW

You can find these and alot more in a file called READING.XLS

Just scroll down and clik on READING.XLS

Don't get distracted on the joke files !!

[ComerPerro]

10. Read Kurt Vonnegut

Great stuff.

And, really, pick any of his titles.

I personally like Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr Rosewater, and Breakfast of Champions the best.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. Good choices CP !! - I liked his stuff

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One phrase I can't get out of my head: (well, this is the gist of it.

"we are taught that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and discoverd America. Then we are taught that our ancestors came over and civilized the new world, when actually all we did was occupy their land and destroy civilzations that were already here"

Hey Kurt baby,

right on

WE HAVEN'T CHANGED A BIT !!

[Kazak]

15. V-O-N-N-E-G-U-T

I was going to say the same...ya beat me to it. Just pick on and dive in!

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. Neal Stephenson.

Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver, along with his two forthcoming novels The Confusion and The System of the World (the first due in April, the second by the end of the year).

If you like Umberto Eco or Thomas Pynchon, you'll probably like Stephenson.

Excerpts from Cryptonomicon and Quicksilver may be read online, at http://www.sffworld.com/authors/s/stephenson_neal/excerpts/cryptonomicon1.html

and

http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts/quicksilver.htm

[BigDaddyLove]

13. "The Name of the Rose"..........

Umberto Eco. Great Book.