Simple question, I'm looking for a good book, help anyone?

Question

II'm open on any genre. I like modern literature, historical fiction, thrillers, I never really tried horror, and is not fond of sci - fi

Answer 1

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront.It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters - a slave whovampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Dragon jouster triology by Mercedes Lackey is terrific.The story takes place in Ancient Egypt.With dragons.With the back-drop of war between two fictional countries Tia and Alta the books are about Vetch rendered a brutally mistreated and overworked serf by the Tian conquest of his homeland. But everything improves when a Tian jouster requisitions Vetch to become the first serf ever to be a dragon boy.Vetch's subsequent escape to his native country Alta,how the war ends forms the rest of the story,The author proves such extensive details about dragons-their mating,rearing the young ones,feeding,training,riding etc.It is impossible to believe that it is a fictional animal.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

The door to december by Dean Koontz.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

The Vivero letter by Desmond Bagley.Jeremy Wheale's well-ordered life is torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom - a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan. In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold - treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother's enemies are on Wheale's trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a bad history.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.Forget the movie.The book is the real article."The Bourne identity" is the story of a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. The man is taken by the fishermen to a doctor in a nearby island, who helps him to recover physically and mentally. Our protagonist doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows for certain some things, for instance that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, that he knows a lot about firearms and that he carried on him a microfilm that contains the code to an account of four million dollars.

In the Swiss bank where the account is he also finds a name: Jason Bourne. But... is he Jason Bourne?. He cannot remember, and if it were for quite a few people, he won't. From the moment he leaves the island onwards, our man without a past will be followed, and attacked. He doesn't understand why, but he reacts in order to stay alive. Add to this already interesting mixture a woman he takes as a hostage, Marie, a number of assasins (including the most famous assassin in the world, Carlos), and the possibility that he is, as a matter of fact, also an assassin, and you will understand why this book is so good. The main character will be hunted all throughout the book not only by the "bad guys", but also by the "good" ones (mainly agents from the USA Government). You won't be able to stop reading this book, and you will find yourself asking aloud to nobody in particular "who on earth is this man?" and "what started this whole mess"?.
Warning:A character gets raped.

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Mars novels and the tarzan novels.There are 11 novels in the mars series beginning with 'a princess of mars'.Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army is whisked to Mars and discovers a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, a world of strange beasts and savage combat, a world where love, honor and loyalty become the stuff of adventure. The later books are about his son Carthoris,daughter Tara etc.John carter is a recurring character in all these books as martians live for 1000 years.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.The hero is Edmond Dantés, a young French sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Château d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantés, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.For God's sake don't see any of the movies based on the book.They don't do justice to the book.

Answer 2

Chang Rae Lee's "Native Speaker,"
Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory"
Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea"
Phillip Roth's "The Human Stain"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Answer 3

I'm reading Life of Pi right now and I'm hooked--just go to the bookstore or library and look at books. Read the first page and see if it catches you interest. If you find an author you like, read all their work.
My favorite authors are Tom Robbins, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
Also--the Harry Potter books are really great.

Answer 4

Read Stephen King, specifically any of the following:

The Dark Tower series
The Eyes of The Dragon
The Stand
It
Insomnia
Dreamcatcher

or you could try the Inheritance trilogy by Christopher Paolini
or one of my old favorites is Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins - it's weird but I love it.

Answer 5

Try some classics: "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Catcher in the Rye", anything by Salinger, Hemingway, etc.
Also, "The Time-Traveler's Wife"-- it is excellent
"Woman with the Alabastar Jar"-- very interesting
Start with these, and you can also go on amazon.com and put in some books you know you like and they can suggest some that are similar

Answer 6

I 2d Claire Robinson. Her recipes are sound and easy and made with genuine foodstuff. She is my fav FN personality at present. you could also attempt Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa). i ask your self if human beings imagine she is a snoot yet her foodstuff is uncomplicated and uncomplicated, and he or she does a range of of vegetable and fruit products. you could also like Jamie Oliver. he's "the bare Chef"...his foodstuff is uncomplicated and stripped down, robust flavors. those are solid mentors in case you want thoughts. yet do not use purely their recipes. Watch their strategies, pay interest to what they propose. Then hit the farmer's marketplace or detect a good sale, and use the recipe you heard with the foodstuff you've. in case you do not understand already, foodstuff is provided in households...and meaning that is uncomplicated to study about them and use that data to modify and regulate in recipes, or to boost your own expertise about aspects and thoughts. it isn't thoroughly interchangeable yet substances a head commence. in case you study about lemons, you recognize somewhat something about each and every of the citrus. in case you study about roasting, you could roast better than one ingredient. once you study one recipe, there are about 100 strategies to regulate it. In that way you could make up your own recipes.

Answer 7

You could try out the Boudica Series by Manda Scott, really good book

Answer 8

Try Steven Presfield and his historical books about ancient Greece (Fire Gate - Thermopili), than try to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez - all of his books, than try Meister and Margharita, really great one, than...It depends on how kind of person you are really. These are mine suggestions.

Answer 9

"American Gods" by Neil Giaman

"Bear VS Shark" by Chris Bachelder

"Choke" by Chuck paulinuk

the first is just a really good fiction

the second is an awesome social comentary, and the third is written by the guy who wrote fight club.

Answer 10

the practice of the presence of God

it is a compilation of thoughts and notes of a monk who lived like 400 to 600 years ago. anyway, it is about his extraordinary closeness to God. my fave book.

Answer 11

salman Rushdie's the shame, the name of the rose by Umberto Eco, michel tournier's the meteors