Good Read

[stender]

I'm looking to pad my kindle out a bit and wondered what books people recommend?

 

[JDubya]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

Always get good responses after lending it out.

 

[binny]

Domain Names For Dummies

 

[davedevelopment]

I'm reading the Song of ice and fire books, the TV series Game of Thrones was based on the first one. I'm enjoying them, they're not amazing and the story is almost frustrating in places, but I can't put the buggers down

After that I'm going to work my way through the Bond books, read the first two in dead tree format, but the kindle versions where released not so long ago.

 

[expertc]

I might sound old-fashioned, but what I keep in my reader (not Kindle though) and re-read from time to time is The Complete Sherlock Holmes (not an aff link!). At £0.71 it worth it's download in gold.

 

[philipp]

Try Treasure Island, a fantastic read and free too

Just started on Vanity Fair, also free and good fun so far!

P.

 

[Alien]

I bought the better half a Kindle for last Christmas, it's gathering dust now and not even charged, lol.

Apparentely, the 'new smell' and feel of a book can't compare to the cold hearted kindle?! LOL.

 

[philipp]

Let me know if it's in good condition and you want to sell it

P.

 

[stender]

I usually choose an author and then read everything they've done but not sure who to try next.
Done all the following
Jeffrey archer
Wilbur smith
Chris Ryan
Andy mcnab
Dan brown
John Grisham
Robert ludlum
Christopher paolini
Pqhilip oilman
Tolkien

 

[theonemanyuri]

Mr Nice by Howard Marks and Loosing My Virginity by Richard Branson I thought were both interesting reads. Duncan Bannatyne's Anyone Can Do It was good too.

 

[Alien]

Let me know if it's in good condition and you want to sell it

P.

Will do, what's the going price thesedays then? It's in perfect nic, never been used, just dusty, lol!

 

[Alicia Allen]

Wuthering Heights by Bronte Emily its very interesting book.

 

[Edwin]

Some of the below are "old" books now (anything from 10-50 years old probably) and I'm not sure how many are on Kindle, but I'd recommend the following:

1) SCIENCE FICTION
ARTHUR C CLARKE
- Childhood's End
- The City and the Stars
- Rendezvous with Rama (but not the "sequels")
ROBERT A HEINLEIN
- Starship Troopers
NEAL STEPHENSON
- Snow Crash
- The Diamond Age
LARRY NIVEN AND JERRY POURNELLE
- Footfall
- The Mote in Gods Eye
- Lucifer's Hammer
DAN SIMMONS
- Hyperion, Rise of Hyperion, Endymion, Rise of Endymion
E.E.DOC SMITH
- The Lensman series (except for Book 7, Master of the Vortex, which is junk and a tangent to the series)
GREG BEAR
- Eon

2) FANTASY
RAYMOND E FEIST
- Magician trilogy (Magician, Silverthorn, Darkness at Sethanon) - his stuff got worse and worse, but the first 3 books were excellent
JULIAN MAY
- Exiles Quadrilogy (The Many Coloured Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King and The Adversary)
MARGARET WEIS AND TRACY HICKMAN
- Dragonlance Chronicles (Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning) - again, their stuff got bad quick but their first collaboration was fun.

3) BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
STEVEN D. LEVITT
- Freakonomics
- Superfreakonomics
DAN ARIELY
- Predictably Irrational
- The Upside of Irrationality
CHRIS ANDERSON
- Free
- The Long Tail
TIM FERRISS
- 4 hour work week
JASON YELOWITZ
- The Bathrobe Millionnaire
NOAH J. GOLDSTEIN
- Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion

4) OTHER FICTION/NON-FICTION
BILL BRYSON
- Neither Here nor There
- Notes from a Small Island
- The Lost Continent
STEVEN KING
- The Bachman Books
AYN RAND
- Atlas Shrugged

 

[BREWSTERS]

Mr Nice by Howard Marks and Loosing My Virginity by Richard Branson I thought were both interesting reads. Duncan Bannatyne's Anyone Can Do It was good too.

Mr Nice is a good read - the film only contained a fraction of material from the book. Another Howard Marks based book well worth reading is Hunting Marco Polo.