New kindle , can you recommend a book

[poptop2]

Posted this in the other house yesterday , had some good replie's , but need more please

As some of you will know i got a kindle for my birthday yesterday ,opened a amazon account ,bought a couple of classics then a strange thing happened , i blanked , had a age related moment and could'nt think of a single book i would like to read .

i am interested in quite a wide variety of books , history , war 1st and second , travel , humour and general interest,and observation i find very thought provoking , i just don't know whats about anymore -- help

i have just finished tail end charlies and i absolutely love Dickens ( if that come's across wrong your not thinking straight ) , a year in provence is probably my all time favourite -- any suggestions , have you read anything decent recently ??


look forward to your replie's

poptop2 , Malc

 

[easy]

Im addicted to Jack Reacher books by Lee Childs im afraid

 

[Justin & Muttley]

All time favourite is 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas.
Best read lately is the 'Millennium Trilogy' by Steig Larsson.
Also enjoy the 'Wallander' detective books by Henning Mankel.

If you're after something thought-provoking then you can't go wrong with anything by Christopher Hitchens - 'God is not Great' is particularly enjoyable!

Wanted a Kindle for a while - let us know how you get on...

 

[poptop2]

All time favourite is 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas.
Best read lately is the 'Millennium Trilogy' by Steig Larsson.
Also enjoy the 'Wallander' detective books by Henning Mankel.

If you're after something thought-provoking then you can't go wrong with anything by Christopher Hitchens - 'God is not Great' is particularly enjoyable!

Wanted a Kindle for a while - let us know how you get on...

i have read the count , excellent good suggestion

As for the kindle , although its new to me it seems easy to use, holds 3500 book and its 3g too so always have the abiity to download books , newspapers etc , can go on here with it too , my 16 year old wants it ( no way Jose ) .

good choices thanks.

 

[poptop2]

Im addicted to Jack Reacher books by Lee Childs im afraid

Don't know this author but will have a look at the previews on amazon , thanks

 

[MikeyC]

i'm kind of obsessed with mountaineering books! :? :lol:

i'd recommend....

learning to breathe
touching the void
white spider


currently reading No Way Down

 

[flynster]

love Iain Banks novels....weird as....
driving over lemons by Chris Stewart , his books are good as are Lawrence and Gerald Durrell books too
Lord of the Flies etc etc
Don Quixote, Cervantes.
loads more too

 

[dubberdaz]

I got one of these for the misses for Christmas, it is costing a fortune as she finds it so easy to read books quickly. As soon as one is finished she downloads another, within a couple of mins she's started on the next!! All crappy Jacky Collins type stuff too...

 

[poptop2]

i'm kind of obsessed with mountaineering books! :? :lol:

i'd recommend....

learning to breathe
touching the void
white spider


currently reading No Way Down

read touching the void - awesome .
thanks

 

[lordlucan]

Im addicted to Jack Reacher books by Lee Childs im afraid

Don't know this author but will have a look at the previews on amazon , thanks

what about a haynes

 

[MikeyC]

i'm kind of obsessed with mountaineering books! :? :lol:

i'd recommend....

learning to breathe
touching the void
white spider


currently reading No Way Down

read touching the void - awesome .
thanks

agreed

have you seen the film / documentary they made? think Channel 4 made it?

 

[user 11815]

Search for;

Chilly Chilly Bang

It's the true story of a guy who freelanced around europe one winter in the sixties. He lived and worked out of his bus with his wife and baby daughter.

Fascinating read, and VW related to boot

 

[poptop2]

i'm kind of obsessed with mountaineering books! :? :lol:

i'd recommend....

learning to breathe
touching the void
white spider


currently reading No Way Down

read touching the void - awesome .
thanks

agreed

have you seen the film / documentary they made? think Channel 4 made it?

yeah good , also think i briefly have met the guy himself at a group book signing with my mate is chris j a smith , author of why don't you fly ,a book about his cycle ride from my home in Bewdley to bei jing .thats a pretty good read too .

 

[poptop2]

Im addicted to Jack Reacher books by Lee Childs im afraid

Don't know this author but will have a look at the previews on amazon , thanks

what about a haynes

got one of them -- very interesting but a slow page turner .

 

[Mac]

I don't read much at all but got recommended Jasper Fforde. Different but very gripping.

'Lost in a good book'.
'The Eyre affair'.
'The well of lost plots'

 

[K@rlos]

I asked my girlfriend if she wanted 1 of these for her birthday and she said no because you can't beat the smell of a book? I was all was under the impression you read books, not sniff them :|

:lol:

 

[geenjay]

two books i read recently both true stories ..dead ground. its the true storie of an i.r.a. informer to the british. the other is sniper one the true storie of a sniper platoon in iraq ..im halfway through richard hammonds book on his jet car accident and his long road to recovery ..so far ..so good :mrgreen:

 

[ed.]

If you've got a kinndle you don't need books anymore

 

[poptop2]

I asked my girlfriend if she wanted 1 of these for her birthday and she said no because you can't beat the smell of a book? I was all was under the impression you read books, not sniff them :|

:lol:

Sniifing books eh ,
know what she means though .

 

[poptop2]

If you've got a kinndle you don't need books anymore

Err , true have to think of new name for em then ( might make a few quid )