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| D-res |
a few months ago, with the ongoing Da Vinci Code controversy, I went out a purchased all 4 of Dan Brown's books. Now that I've finished them all, and may I add I loved all of them, I want to find another book to read. I love anything with a twist, anything based in a fantasy world, anything with lots of death and deception, anything just damn good. Please don't recommend "The Notebook" or anything lovey ing dovey or i'll e-slap you.
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| ZeJayMan |
Right, when i say this is the best Scottish/British Book ever, i'm not lying. It's absolutely amazing.
Please read "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks.
Really Really... |
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| nfekted |
| well i've just finished reading the Da Vinci Code a few days ago and let me tell you, that was a great book! I've gotten so into anthing dealing with the Mona LIsa, Last Supper, that I bought another book on it called "Exploring The Da Vinci Code". I'm also going to buy "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" which the name gives it all away. |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by ZeJayMan
Right, when i say this is the best Scottish/British Book ever, i'm not lying. It's absolutely amazing.
Please read "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks.
Really Really... |
'offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person'
sounds disgusting. i will definitely get my hands on it
| quote: | Originally posted by nfekted
well i've just finished reading the Da Vinci Code a few days ago and let me tell you, that was a great book! I've gotten so into anthing dealing with the Mona LIsa, Last Supper, that I bought another book on it called "Exploring The Da Vinci Code". I'm also going to buy "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" which the name gives it all away. |
i was reading a review on that book literally 10 minutes ago. that book as well as "the templar legacy" are two books on my 'to buy' list. if you havent read any of dan brown's other books i highly recommend them. angels and demons is basically the prequel to da vinci code and is full of plot twists and really makes you think. its a definite page turner and i think i may have enjoyed it more than da vinci code, but i also may be alone on that.
his other two books, 'digital fortress' and 'deception point' arent similar than those two in that they arent about religious history but both are great reads. deception point reminds me of a tom clancy style book but its much better written and much more exciting. in fact deception point might be my favorite of his 4 |
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| kadomony |
"Snow Crash"
by Neil Stephenson |
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| tribu |
| Steven King's, Dark Tower series |
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| ZeJayMan |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
'offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person'
sounds disgusting. i will definitely get my hands on it
i was reading a review on that book literally 10 minutes ago. that book as well as "the templar legacy" are two books on my 'to buy' list. if you havent read any of dan brown's other books i highly recommend them. angels and demons is basically the prequel to da vinci code and is full of plot twists and really makes you think. its a definite page turner and i think i may have enjoyed it more than da vinci code, but i also may be alone on that.
his other two books, 'digital fortress' and 'deception point' arent similar than those two in that they arent about religious history but both are great reads. deception point reminds me of a tom clancy style book but its much better written and much more exciting. in fact deception point might be my favorite of his 4 |
I've read the Dan Brown books, they're interestin enough and good reads but they're all just too samey in my opinion. And I can't give enough love to The Wasp Factory, really, probably the most amazing book ever. |
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| basd |
Monaldi & Sorti - Secretum
Monaldi & Sorti - Imprimatur
Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomasson - The rule of four
Kate Mosse - Labyrinth (though not as good as the above three, it's still entertaining enough) |
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| Trance Nutter |
Anything by Robert Ludlum. Great story teller.
Alistair McLean as well.
Both of them were seriously good writers, don't think I've been disappointed by any of either of those two's books. |
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| trunks1022 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Anything by Robert Ludlum. Great story teller.
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definitely, bourne books were more thrilling than the movies...
the three musketeers. a bit tedious but a good read
dracula. |
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| Demoted |
| The Templar Legacy pwns. I finished reading that a few months ago after I was done reading both Angel's & Demons and The DaVinci Code. It draws a huge amount of similarities between Christianity and older, more primitive religions as proof that Christianity is not really based on anything original, but really just a mixture of other religions. It's a good read, albeit nonfiction so not technically what you wanted in the thread to begin with. |
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| Slylee |
i'm not really a reader...my mom is though, she literally has a book picked out to read before she's finished with the one she's reading. she swears that when i'm older, i'll be a reader too, because she wasn't into reading when she was my age.
ANYWAY...i've only read a few. Catcher in the Rye was required reading for me in high school, but i ended up reading it again a few years later and i love that book.
also, Dean Koontz "Intensity" is a great book. i remember i was in 9th grade and i went to the bahamas for the weekend to visit my uncle (he used to live there) and i read that whole book in 2 days. it's a fat book too.
yea, that's all i got. heh... |
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