Thread: What's Your Favourite Book ?

Shantaram

Used to enjoy a monthly butchers at Razzle!

Interesting mag.

^Razzle was the bollocks

The Qur'an.

Diceman - luke rhinehart.

For non-fiction

A proud contributor

Thomas the tank engine.

Originally Posted by Norton

For non-fiction

Great book. Vann, despite his personal flaws, was one of he few who saw early and accurately where the war was headng.

You Can't Win by Jack Black

Jack Kerouac's favorite book.

Originally Posted by Humbert

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Very hard to choose. I think Deliverance by James Dickey and The Magus by John Fowles are right up there too.

Some good ones here...I'd like to read The Magus again...

One I keep reading over again due to the hilarious nasty humour is "Kill Your Friends" by John Niven.
It's basically a year (1997) in the life of a young psychopath A&R record company exec during the "Britpop" phenom of the time. A little like "American Psycho" only with real humour and startling insights into the recording industry. (Niven actually worked in the industry before starting as an author).

His other stuff, especially "The Amateurs" (about golf) is also brilliantly funny.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez is my all time favorite. It is enchanting and beautifully written.

I have to admit that I am not into anything too serious - be it novels or non-fiction.

For me it's usually just thrillers, whether legal, police, spy - I don't care. In particular:

John Sandford - Lucas Davenport series
Barry Eisler - John Rain series
Robert Crais - Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series
Paul Levine - Jake Lassiter series

and so on..

Occasionally a humerous one like Jeremy Clarkson's 'For Crying Out Loud'.

Just easy reading.