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Buba

Buba

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Hey everybody!

I was jut browsing my amazon recommendations for an hour and kept on fine tuning them... But so far nothing exiting has come up...

Soo, I hope some of you guys can help me out, I got 1,5 months to kill and the weather is really shitty atm at my place...

So far I've read:
The whole Tolkien stuff, so no more of that please. And the same goes for Douglas Adams...
A lot of Grisham, but not all... The Summons, The Partner and the Brethren (I think it was called...) and A Painted House.
The complete Dan Brown, and some Micheal Cordy, Jack Keruac and Hi-fidelety by Hornby...

So I guess you can see where it goes... Looking forward to your recommendations!

Buba
 
Well. no good books come to mind at the moment, but...

I would like to ask what you thought of the other Dan brown books?

I just read angels and demons and while I enjoyd it I though that it was exactly the same book as Davinci code (if you know what I mean) VERY similar storylines and tvists (much like lock stock and Snacth are said to be the same movie)

Are the others different, sould I bother buying them as well??
 
Assuming you read Da Vinci Code...

Umm.

Anything by Aldous Huxley is brilliant.

Orwell, of course. Everything he wrote was great.

I'll try to think of a few more, but those two are my favorites.
 
Oooh, lots of books.

Here are a few.

Let's start with simple to read thriller stuff.

I've recently read all the Coq Rouge books by Jan Guillou. Kind of a Swedish James Bond. I know it sounds weird but all of them are a good read.

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3492233708/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_f/028-3059167-7623715

Mitternachtsfalken by Ken Follet is quite Entertaining to. Placed in 1941, the story describes the strugle of a young boy living in occupied Denmark who accidently finds out about a secret German radar station.

Then we have Feuer in Berlin by Phillip Kerr. The story of a private investigator who left the police after the Nazis rose to power and his struggle to solve the murder of a rich industrial.

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/AS...12166/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/028-3059167-7623715

Or Die kalte Stadt by Paul Johnston.

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/AS...12504/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_2_3/028-3059167-7623715

I could go on forever but that's got be be enough for now.
 
Try Boris Akunin. He's a Russian author and writes interesting books.

His books tell about Erast Fandorin, a young detective. Everything takes place in the 19th century Russia. Those books are very nice, so different. They are also very exciting.

His main idea is to write novels in different styles, so that every area of detective-genre is used.

bookbrowse.com said:
Biography

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956; he is a philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese. He published his first detective stories in 1998 and in a very short time has become one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written nine Erast Fandorin novels to date, and is working on two other series as well. Akunin enjoys almost legendary popularity in Russia. He lives in Moscow.
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He has written nine Fandorin novels, only five of them are translated in Finnish. I'm eagerly waiting for next books. :D

Try it. I think that you won't regret. The first of the series is called "Winter Queen" in English, in German it's "Fandorin".


EDIT: I checked amazon.de, they have five Fandorin novels in German. The same five as in Finnish. They really are great books.
 
Somehow I knew, Swek would enlight me ;-)

Nice, I'm gonna check then out...

@mmap: I found them quite entertaining... Digital Fortress was more of a 3,5/5 but I would say Deception Point goes for 4,5/5 on my scale...

Buba

//edit: So I ordered the Coq Rouge book, it seemed really interesting, and "die kalte Stadt" as it was only 0,30 Euro for a second hand one...

A friend of mine has the Ken Follet one, so I'm gonna lend his copy, we have actually done this a lot...

Anyway, if anybody has a good one, please add it once I start to read its up to 1200 pages a week...
@Lederlieber: That guy wrote tons of books... Gotta check it out later ;-)
 
If you're interested we can arrange a little book trade. I have tons of books lounge around which I'll never read again.

Buba said:
@mmap: I found them quite entertaining... Digital Fortress was more of a 3,5/5 but I would say Deception Point goes for 4,5/5 on my scale...
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Digital Fortress was for the bin. I had to restrain myself so many times from laughing. The moment when the 170 points IQ girl needs an explanation for "Who guards the guards ?" cracked me up.
 
I will write a little list of what I got in stock, though I gave away some of them, and some are in Regensburg where I study...
Good thing sending books is soo cheap in Germany...

Buba
 
Buba said:
@Lederlieber: That guy wrote tons of books... Gotta check it out later ;-)
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I checked out amazon.de.

The names of the Fandorin novels are:
- Fandorin
- T?rkisches Gambit
- Mord auf der Leviathan
- Der Tod des Achilles
- Russisches Poker
That's the right order for reading them.

This helps, now you can find them easily.

I haven't read any other books from Akunin, so I can't comment on them. But, as I said, Fandorin books are lovely. :D
 
I doubt this is what you are looking for, but anyway.

The book im reading now (since about a 1/2 a year already, no bloody time for it :? ) is Vehicle and Engine Technology - by Heinz Heisler.

Building upon the excellent first edition, ' Vehicle and Engine Technology, 2ed' covers all the technology requirements of motor vehicle engineering and has been rigorously updated to include additional material on subjects such as pollution control, automatic transmission, steering systems, braking systems and electrics. An ideal companion for anyone studying motor vehicle repair and servicine, 'Vehicle and Engine Technology, 2ed' provides the in-depth treatment required for technician-level students, but is presented in a way which will be accessible to craft students wanting more than the bare essentials of the subject matter. Several examples of each topic application are included, describing the variations encountered in practice, making the book a useful reference for students of motor vehicle engineering.
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Available for about 25 pounds on amazon. Read that, and cars wont hide any more secrets for you ;) It's about 800pages with a lot of graphs and formulas, quite mechanical. Not an easy reader though. :)
 
^^ Ohh! I'm gonna have a look at this... How I love the luxury of too much time ;-)

@pdanev: A bit technical maybe... I got some friends who study stuff like that... One of them explains to me what the settings in LFS would do, if I would care and not only dl a setup ;-)

Buba
 
Nice advice pdanev. :lol:
Hey Buba maybe you're interested in my collection of 22 novels about quantum physics. :p
 
^^ Now we are talking!
:lol:
Buba
 
:mrgreen:
he said he's got 1.5months to kill, so i made a recommendation :lol:
 
Lederlieber said:
Try Boris Akunin. He's a Russian author and writes interesting books.

His books tell about Erast Fandorin, a young detective. Everything takes place in the 19th century Russia. Those books are very nice, so different. They are also very exciting.
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I just looked at the Amazon page and realized that I've read the first Fandorin book. :lol:

I have to agree with Lederlieber. The general atmosphere of Russia in the 19th century is well captured and the Fandurin character is interesting. A good introduction into Fandurins world but the plot could have been better.

Are the stories getting better as the books continue ?
 
If you want a good novel, I recommend the books by Bernard Cornwell. I just read one of his trylogies (The Grail Quest). Very good writing. Awesome characters and descriptions of battles.
I just started reading his other trilogy about Arthur (The warlord Trilogy), and is just as good.
Anyone read those?
 
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