I'm looking for a really great book. I haven't read a really great one in a long time. My interests revolve around crime, suspense, pychological thrillers, futuristic stuff, and I don't know, bascially anything except sci-fi stuff. Please nothing too childish, but I must admit I do love the classics!!
2007-12-17 09:57:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I loved these two books
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
I, Robot
2007-12-17 10:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by The WingHunter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you like techno-thrillers, not science fiction but deal with suspence and scientific problems, anything by Clive Cussler and his NUMA series, an agency that deals with problems on and under the ocean.
Tom Clancy without a doubt is the best, there are also a series of books written under his name but are different series and written by different people under his direction, so if you go to the "C" section you'll find a cornacopia of technothrillers.
Patrick Robinson if you like submarines.
Neal Stephenson is in a class by himself, his book are highly psychological and thrillers at the same time.
"The Runaway Jury" by John Grisham is the best thriller I've ever read, but it was made into a lousy movie so if you seen it it might spoil it. All Grishams "lawyer" books are really good, but once he gets out of the lawyer genre, he is good but not great.
Then there is the Granddaddy of the all who is still going strong although you wish he would write more books, Michael Chrichton, forget his Jurassic Park series, a lot of his books are psychological thrillers with a techno twist, Prey, Congo and Timeline (again made into a lousy movie that didn't do Timeline justice) Prey keeps you guessing until the end.
2007-12-17 18:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax by Gilman
The Great Divide by Bunn
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
Acts of Violets by Kate Collins
A Long and Fatal Love Chase by Alcott
2007-12-17 18:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Da vinci Code by Dan brown
SwanSong by Robert McCammon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee
Great Gatsby by j. Fitzgerald
1984 and Animal Farm by george orwell
of mice and men and grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
Tale of two Cities and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Jester by James Patterson
2007-12-17 19:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by Larry S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Crichton has a new book out (called "Next"). I read some of his later books like "Prey", also good.
I read Whiteout by Ken Follett -- excellent!
2007-12-17 18:00:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anna P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try the In death series by J.D robb--they're really good
2007-12-17 18:33:18 · answer #6 · answered by book_a_holic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋