"Off Piste" with your books...

[Foxyboy43]

I'm only just sub 40 but love my Kindle. It takes up less space than an entire bookcase and is easier to read one handed but doesn't smell as good as an old book.

Good man NH! Your last half of your last sentence also applies to women - apparently!

 

[Mungo]

These are great. Also anything by Alastair Reynolds, especially Diamond Dogs, the Revelation Space series, or for @Stalker1962 maybe The Prefect.

For some off-piste stuff around booze and fermented food try Sandor Ellix Katz: The Art of Fermentation and Michael Tonsmeire: American Sour Beers

I struggled a bit with Alastair Reynolds. I kept feeling that the books started really well, then got lost about half way through. But I haven’t tried the prefect.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I try to re-read 1984 once a year. As a warning to humanity.

Am going to start ‘Do Androids dream of electric sheep?’ shortly...

Save your eyes:

K

 

[Rory]

That was a good recommendation; interesting book by an interesting person. Do you have any other recommendations along the same lines?

Glad you enjoyed it, it's definitely one I will read again and again.
I will have a look on my shelves for something similar, do you prefer same timeframe/conflict or are you open to broader time frame but similar 'different'?

 

[Mungo]

Well I have two of them here. I forgot to mention The Little Train which is a favourite with Pine Martine (3) and obviously YPM has fallen into Harry Potter. They have IKEA book cases.

I can’t bear Harry Potter. So badly written and so many plot holes and inconsistencies.

Obviously fine for kids, and my son loves it, but I hate reading it to him.

 

[Feugh]

Glad you enjoyed it, it's definitely one I will read again and again.
I will have a look on my shelves for something similar, do you prefer same timeframe/conflict or are you open to broader time frame but similar 'different'?

I read Kugler's book really quickly - and then read it again! I got the kindle version, which is pretty cheap and it has been worth buying.

I'm open to a broader time frame if suitable.

 

[angusb1]

I struggled a bit with Alastair Reynolds. I kept feeling that the books started really well, then got lost about half way through. But I haven’t tried the prefect.

Fair play. Not everyone's cup of tea but I liked them. The Prefect is less convoluted than others in the Revelation Space series and Diamond Dogs is a short story so very to the point.

 

[sh1kar]

Kim
The high tops of Breadlebain
Castle Gay
Hunting Winds

 

[Mungo]

Kim
The high tops of Breadlebain
Castle Gay
Hunting Winds

I wouldn’t say those were off piste though…

 

[sh1kar]

I wouldn’t say those were off piste though…

Johnathan livingstone seagull?

 

[Mungo]

Johnathan livingstone seagull?

You’ve managed to read it?

I couldn’t get past the first few pages.

I remember growing up it seemed to be on every spare room book shelf.

 

[sh1kar]

You’ve managed to read it?

I couldn’t get past the first few pages.

I remember growing up it seemed to be on every spare room book shelf.

Yep I quite enjoyed it. The one after, Messiah is better
S

 

[sh1kar]

You’ve managed to read it?

I couldn’t get past the first few pages.

I remember growing up it seemed to be on every spare room book shelf.

Mis remembered title

Illusions (Bach novel) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[User00036]

Save your eyes:

K

If you like wacky sci fi, try William Gibsons The Neuromancer, the book that inspired the Matrix, but much more dizzy.

 

[User00036]

Dennis Watkins Pitchford, Alias "BB" A Dark Estuary,

 

[Loki]

Hi All

No partic order, I would suggest:

1. The Cruel Hunters - Maclean
2. The End of the Game - Peter beard
3. Hunter - J A Hunter
4. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
5. The Power of Geography - Tim Marshall
6. Elephant Hunters - Sancho-Arino
7. Round the Campfire - Tony Henley
8. Women - Naim Attalah
9. Tigerfibel - Wehrmacht Chief of Tank Korps

L

 

[Frank Homes]

Kim
The high tops of Breadlebain
Castle Gay
Hunting Winds

High Tops of Black Mount by Marchioness of Breadalbane.

 

[Dunwaters]

No sign of Patrick O Brian Jack Aubrey series?

 

[Rory]

I read Kugler's book really quickly - and then read it again! I got the kindle version, which is pretty cheap and it has been worth buying.

I'm open to a broader time frame if suitable.

Took me a while to find it...
'Storm of Steel' by Ernst Jünger, WW1 German infantry experience in the trenches.

 

[bogtrotter]

So, I used to have a great collection of books. Many with that penguin on the spine. A collection that started in my youth and included such classics as cowboy books by Louis L'Amour and that well known Melton Mowbray cowboy, J. T. Edson. But house moves and for reasons of space, I'm at present restricted to a couple of shelves which I use to store reference books, mostly on (predictably) shooting, reloading, D?IY vehicle maintenance (something I do less and less as I age). Highlights include:

The Small Shoot by David Hudson
The River Cottage Meat book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
A couple of Hairy Bikers' cook books (the more used cook books live on a shelf in the kitchen)
Collins Gem Guide on Birds (and another on dogs)
The British Cavalry Sword by Charles Martyn
Modern Reloading Second Edition by Richard Lee
A couple of Lee Enfield books
Honda CBF1000 '06-'10 by Haynes
And so on.

I pretty much have a book on the go all the time, the great majority are fiction of one sort or another and, again fighting the good fight on space, they are usually on my Kindle (off to wash my mouth out now).

Anyway, favourite authors include Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben, Bernard Cornwell, John Grisham, Peter May, Nevil Shute, Robert Goddard, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence and many more. As you can see, my tastes vary between mass market easy reading thrillers through historical novels and 19th and early 20th century classics. As the original quote from the 16th century says "there is no disputing about tastes", which later morphed into "there's no accounting for taste" a few hundred years later.

Anyway, my bath is drawn now, so I shall repair to that.

Pretty much the same.