Books/Authors

[Jamo Martinez]

Sure it's been done before, but I'm still new so...
Tell us your fave book(s) and author(s)

I'm keen on crime fiction myself. Anything by Elmore Leonard. also fond of Ed McBain's 87th precinct stuff. The tv series wasn't up to much but the 'Spenser' books by Robert B Parker are a good read. Loren D Estelman is well cool as well (every brilliant eye). If you like this kind of stuff, 'Serious Crimes' by Lawrence Gough is sufficiently 'hardboiled', and Joseph Wambaugh (Fugitive nights, the onion field, The Blooding) is brilliant.

What about you?

 

[Dynamite.]

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burrough is fantastic. Don't judge it by the movie.
And Wuthering Heighs is a classic.

 

[SuitsBlue]

Sure it's been done before, but I'm still new so...
Tell us your fave book(s) and author(s)

I'm keen on crime fiction myself. Anything by Elmore Leonard. also fond of Ed McBain's 87th precinct stuff. The tv series wasn't up to much but the 'Spenser' books by Robert B Parker are a good read. Loren D Estelman is well cool as well (every brilliant eye). If you like this kind of stuff, 'Serious Crimes' by Lawrence Gough is sufficiently 'hardboiled', and Joseph Wambaugh (Fugitive nights, the onion field, The Blooding) is brilliant.

What about you?

heard the 'touch of frost' books are worth a look.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Rather fond of Salman Rushdie.

 

[Vim Fuego]

Anything by James Herbert or Shaun Hutson for me, i likes a bit of well written horror.

 

[evertonianstu]

PD James! cracking stuff. Also like reading James Herbert

 

[Welton Toffee]

Ian Fleming's James Bond

 

[ricardobee]

"the dice man"

nuff said

 

[heatmeiser]

"the dice man"

nuff said

Reading that at the moment!

My fave is Will Self, particularly Great Apes. Also Patrick Suskind.

 

[ricardobee]

Reading that at the moment!

My fave is Will Self, particularly Great Apes. Also Patrick Suskind.

Good man, its a great read. Tried dice living for a while, it's messy.

The 2nd Dice man book's a bit of a let down though.

 

[The Dude]

My favourite Author in terms of "books read" are Ben Elton and James Herbert. Though I read most of the James Herbert stuff as a teenager and I bought all the Ben Elton books for £1 or so at charity shops. I'm currently nearing the end of "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, then I've got "Past Mortem" by Ben Elton and "The Alan Clark Diaries" lined up as my next two bookes.


Probably the fiction book that kept me most entertained whilst reading was "American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis.

 

[Nebbiolo]

My fave is Will Self, particularly Great Apes. Also Patrick Suskind.

Not keen on Will Self but loved Perfume by Patrick Suskind. In fact, I would suggest that anyone interested in a good gothic horror, who has not read this book, should do so very soon.

 

[Nebbiolo]

Probably the fiction book that kept me most entertained whilst reading was "American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis.

If you liked American Psycho you will really like Jim Thompson's books.

Try: The Killer Inside Me and Pop 1280 to begin with.

You'll probably get them on ebay for a couple of quid. There is a collection of his books in one edition, which is excellent value for money.

Thompson pretty much nailed the character of the sociopath before anyone else had even attempted it. Pretty dark stuff but not without humour.

 

[The Dude]

Cool, i'll look into that. I keep meaning to read the Dexter series as well, especially after the frankly ACE programme

 

[Nebbiolo]

You'll love Thompson, especially The Killer Inside Me

I lifted the plot summary below from Wikipedia


The story is told through the eyes of its protagonist, Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. Ford seems to be a regular, slightly boring, normal, and at times dumb and lazy small town cop with few obsessions. However, he is slowly revealed to be a deeply disturbed murderer—one who is paranoid-schizophrenic, sociopathic, cunning, and ruthless.

Explaining his behavior with reference to a number of obsessive and neurotic motives, Ford murders a prostitute and her lover, the latter a son of a local millionaire and the real power in town. Ford then proceeds to build himself a solid alibi and frame other people for the double homicide. However, to successfully frame others when the evidence starts to go against him, he has to commit additional murders or induce further deaths. But these only increase suspicion until the local authorities begin stripping away his "normal" mask. Then he reveals to the reader the full nature of the inner demons that drive his criminal behavior.