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Book recommendations ....
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:38 pm
I searched because I know it has been asked before but it was just full of Game of Thrones threads.
So, question is what is a good book recommendation?
criteria... I enjoy fiction.
Fiction mixed with historic elements would be ideal.
I guess like a fictional story of the roman legions with great character and battle details.
Or maybe something fantasy , game of thrones -ish but I'm just going to follow the series for that one.
Any ideas?
TIA
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Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:40 pm to vilma4prez
James Rollins - Sigma series
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:44 pm to Posifan
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James Rollins - Sigma series
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Oh hi Mr. Rollins
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:46 pm to Posifan
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James Rollins - Sigma series
Is that like the divinci code... with guns? cuz if so, I may look into it...
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:46 pm to vilma4prez
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Fiction mixed with historic elements would be ideal.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:48 pm to vilma4prez
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. My only reservation is it is the first in a planned trilogy and the others aren't out yet. If that shies you off, Pillars of the Earth by Follett is the tits too. Both books are 1000+ pages, so they should tide you over for a while.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:49 pm to vilma4prez
As I always post in book recommendation threads:
The books are like James Bond set in the 19th century -- and hilarious to boot. Flashy (as his friends and we fans call him) interacts with historical figures like Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria, Wellington, General "Chinese" Gordon, Custer et al and is present at Harper's Ferry, Little Big Horn, The Charge of The Light Brigade, The Sepoy Mutiny, and many other legendary events. So the books are not only wonderfully entertaining, but also, in a way, sort of (don't tell anyone I called them this) educational (shhhh!).
My favorite in the series is Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi) but I'd start out with the first book, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 13 books in the series; I reread them every 4 or 5 years.
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Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays, a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes.
In Hughes' book, Flashman is the notorious bully of Rugby School who persecutes Tom Brown, and who is finally expelled for drunkenness. Twentieth century author George MacDonald Fraser had the idea of writing Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an "illustrious Victorian soldier": experiencing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in British army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description "a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward—and oh yes, a toady." Fraser's Flashman is an antihero who runs from danger or hides cowering in fear, betrays or abandons acquaintances at at the slightest incentive, bullies and beats servants with gusto, beds every available woman, carries off any loot he can grab, gambles and boozes enthusiastically, and yet, through a combination of luck and cunning, ends each volume acclaimed as a hero.
The books are like James Bond set in the 19th century -- and hilarious to boot. Flashy (as his friends and we fans call him) interacts with historical figures like Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria, Wellington, General "Chinese" Gordon, Custer et al and is present at Harper's Ferry, Little Big Horn, The Charge of The Light Brigade, The Sepoy Mutiny, and many other legendary events. So the books are not only wonderfully entertaining, but also, in a way, sort of (don't tell anyone I called them this) educational (shhhh!).
My favorite in the series is Flash For Freedom (which takes place in pre-Civil War NO and Mississippi) but I'd start out with the first book, Flashman. After that you can really read them in any order. There are 13 books in the series; I reread them every 4 or 5 years.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:51 pm to NewGuy01
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Pillars of the Earth by Follett
Amazing book.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:52 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Green Chili Tiger
Read AL:VH and I loved it , thanks though
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:54 pm to vilma4prez
One book I can recommend that is not very much fiction is "Devil in the White City". From what I understand this book is mainly nonfiction, but some of the stuff that happens will make you think you are reading fiction. Another book by the same author, Erik Larson, that I haven't read yet but heard good things about is "In the Garden of Beasts:Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin". It's about the American ambassador and his family in mid-30's Germany.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:55 pm to vilma4prez
Unbroken - one of the best books I've read in years.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 2:58 pm to vilma4prez
The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling is an awesome exploration of alternate history... If you are at all interested in Steampunk, it's a must-read.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 3:20 pm to Muppet
Posted on 6/20/11 at 4:29 pm to vilma4prez
I would second the recommendation of the Flashman series by George MacDonald Frasier and also recommend the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian and the Sharpe's series by Bernard Cornwell. Good luck.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 5:16 pm to vilma4prez
For historical fiction I recently read and enjoyed Conn Iggulden's Julius Caesar (Emperor) series and his Attila the Hun (Conqueror) series LINK
Posted on 6/20/11 at 7:28 pm to vilma4prez
Did you like the movie 300?
Gates of Fire is amazing. I would finish chapters in goosebumps. Great book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Pretty accurate as well.
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Gates of Fire is amazing. I would finish chapters in goosebumps. Great book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Pretty accurate as well.
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Gates of Fire is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a Spartan Helot and the sole Greek survivor of the battle.
Gates of Fire is on the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Reading list. It is taught at West Point and Annapolis and at the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico at Virginia Military Institute and at Brophy College Preparatory
Posted on 6/20/11 at 7:30 pm to BBMcGee
The answer is always Charles Bukowski. It doesn't matter what you're looking for or what you think you want to read, the answer is Charles Bukowski.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 7:34 pm to uglycasanova7
drink and frick your problems away.
there, you have read everything by bukowski.
there, you have read everything by bukowski.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 7:37 pm to Leauxgan
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drink and frick your problems away.
there, you have read everything by bukowski.
While I don't agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Posted on 6/20/11 at 7:41 pm to vilma4prez
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James Rollins - Sigma series
Is that like the divinci code... with guns? cuz if so, I may look into it...
Was kinda disappointed personally. If you liked Da Vinci code, read The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry. I promise you'll enjoy this book. I've recommended it to probably 15+ people and never had anyone not enjoy it.
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