Anything by Stephen Fry is a pretty good read! So far I've read "The Liar", "Making History", "The Hippopotamus" and his first autobiography "Moab Is My Washpot" - all very good!
Another vote for the Lee Child, Jack Reacher series books, the latest one I read in just three sittings, just couldnt stop reading! Good thing about them is they get to the action pretty quick usually and keep you interested through out! Definitely Recommended
Ive also just started reading Robert Crais, Cole & Pike novels, there also worth a look.
two i've read recently are "mr nice" and the "bourne identity", both are very good.
If you fancy a bit of an easy read adventure story then the "life of pi" is a fantastic one for lazy sunday afternoons.
Oh Alex Roy's book 'The Driver'
http://teampolizeihq.com/the-driver/
Alex Roy, the bald guy from Team Polizei, wrote a book about why he started to do stuff like gumball rally. He also illegally crossed America in 32 hours and 7 Minuets
I would highly recommend it!
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is an awesome read.
Just got a new Steven Hawking for x-mas off my sister which I'm looking forward to.
I recently read Hugo by Bart Jones. Its a biography of Hugo Chavez. Its very well written and I'd recommend it to anyone that wants to know more about South America.
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I am with XR33 on this, these are great. All the cheesey airport thriller type books are easy to get in to, and good escapism.
Andy McNab, Chris Ryan, Robert Ludlum, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, John Grisham, James Patterson, Tom Clancy to name but a few...
For laughs, I cant it's not really possible to go wrong with Terry Pratchett, he's written loads of books, they're all good, and funny, this is backed up by:
from his biogTerry has now written forty-eight books (of which thirty-six are Discworld novels) and co-authored2 a further fifty. Between them they have sold over 60 million copies in thirty-seven languages, which I calculate would be a pile of books over 1,000 miles high, stretching further than Land's End in Cornwall to the furthest tip of the Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland - or from New Orleans to Chicago, and then some.
Finally, once you're really back into the swing of things... Bernard Cornwell is an excellent read, but heavy going if you're not into reading
For factual comedy writing i always find John O Farrell books worth a read.
ive just got lenny mcleans book for christmas and im enjoying that. only other book ive ever read is gordon ramsays humble pie, that was very good aswell!
just got Keith Richards book for xmas and so far so good
I also can;t praise Nelson De Mille book s enough they are crime thrillers and very clever and interesting to read
Sniper One - by SGT Dan Mills. An amazing book that i took on holiday with me this year. Its a first hand account of a sniper platoon deployed on a peace keeping tour in Iraq.
Highky reccomend it.
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The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child are brilliant books, I wasn't massively into fiction, but some of these are superb. "Gone Tomorrow" and "61 Hours", two of the latest ones are great, and the first one, I think "Killing Floor" is great. Even the worst one was good.
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if you like factual stuff I quite like the odd war book
its a bit "full on" at times but i could not put it down
"Forgottern voices of the great war"
its interviews with all sides and ranks of the first world war and gets you thinking about what those guys went through. At home and when in the trenches.
i found it so interesting i'm on the second world war one now.