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[locked&loaded]

i dont know how many of the users here are readers but i figure theres quite a bit. Im 16 and i enjoy reading alot, but lately i havent found to many books. I was on a fantasy book reading spree. And now im getting a little sick of them and i think i want to start reading more mystery. Dont get me wrong you can suggest any book you think is good.Just i was leaning towards mystery. thanks ahead of time.

 

[Mavs Man]

The Dirk Pitt series of novels by Clive Cussler is great if you enjoy action/adventure. He's basically Indiana Jones on water (he's a marine engineer/treasure hunter) with a slice of James Bond.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is pretty cool. It's a Lord of the Rings type fantasy tale substituting Old West gun fighters ("gunslingers"), horses and saloons for Elves and Wizards.

 

[locked&loaded]

The Dirk Pitt series of novels by Clive Cussler is great if you enjoy action/adventure. He's basically Indiana Jones on water (he's a marine engineer/treasure hunter) with a slice of James Bond.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is pretty cool. It's a Lord of the Rings type fantasy tale substituting Old West gun fighters ("gunslingers"), horses and saloons for Elves and Wizards.

thanks ill look at the dirk pitt series. ive read dark tower, pretty good books bit overated dont you think?

 

[Mavs Man]

thanks ill look at the dirk pitt series. ive read dark tower, pretty good books bit overated dont you think?

The first four were excellent. He waited too long to finish it, and then the car accident happened and changed him. There is a noticeable difference in the last three compared to the first four pre-accident books.

The ending was anticlimactic, and the writer's note just before the last chapter was a bit insulting, but overall I enjoyed reading it and plan to do so again someday.

If you know of any good fantasy series, feel free to toss some suggestions my way. I'm not really into the dungeons and dragons stuff, but I liked LotR and Dark Tower - long, sprawling stories with good characters.

 

[Yeagermeister]

 

[Mavs Man]

I wouldn't consider that one a mystery. The ending's pretty clear.

 

[silverbear]

i dont know how many of the users here are readers but i figure theres quite a bit. Im 16 and i enjoy reading alot, but lately i havent found to many books. I was on a fantasy book reading spree. And now im getting a little sick of them and i think i want to start reading more mystery. Dont get me wrong you can suggest any book you think is good.Just i was leaning towards mystery. thanks ahead of time.

Check out the late John McDonald's Travis McGee series... there's like 20 of them in the series, all of them have some color or another incorporated into the title... they tend to be short novels, with interesting characters (many of whom appear in most if not all of the books), and good plots...

Ol' John Mac could really write, and mysteries were what he did best...

Now, if you want to laugh, read anything by Dan Jenkins... books like "Semi-Tough", "Dead Solid Perfect", "Baja Oklahoma", "Life Its Own Self", "Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate"...

Jenkins is (or was) a sportswriter, and two of those books are about pro football, two of them about pro golf... "Baja Oklahoma" is mostly about the country music industry... his books are vulgar, and very, very funny... I got my nephew into reading by turning him on Dan's books (he actually found "Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate", I had never even heard of that one, let alone read it)...

 

[calico]

check out THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy...it just won the pulitzer a few weeks ago and it is excellent. It is about a father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

If you like horror or zombie movies, you will love this book.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Elmore Leonard books are usually interesting with good twists.

James Patterson writes some good books, the Alex Cross novels are usually well done.

Patricia Cornwell the Kay Scarpetta novels are well done, I don't care for most of her other stuff but the Scarpetta ones are a good read. If you like CSI type of things you will enjoy those because the main character is a forensic pathologist.

John Sanford writes some good ones with the Lucas Davenport novels. Titles usually involve the word prey.

Although it is not a mystery or supernatural type of book I highly suggest Shogun by James Clavell. Probably my favorite book. I have read it numerous times and usually read it at least once a year.

 

[Hostile]

i dont know how many of the users here are readers but i figure theres quite a bit. Im 16 and i enjoy reading alot, but lately i havent found to many books. I was on a fantasy book reading spree. And now im getting a little sick of them and i think i want to start reading more mystery. Dont get me wrong you can suggest any book you think is good.Just i was leaning towards mystery. thanks ahead of time.

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Firm by John Grisham

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Anything by Mark Twain

If you want a good Cowboys related book try Once a Cowboy by Walt Garrison.

 

[carphalen5150]

The Long Halloween followed by Dark Victory.

 

[silverbear]

Elmore Leonard books are usually interesting with good twists.

He does come up with some bizarre characters, doesn't he??

Although it is not a mystery or supernatural type of book I highly suggest Shogun by James Clavell. Probably my favorite book. I have read it numerous times and usually read it at least once a year.

A long read, but a good one... have you read any of his other books?? I kinda liked "King Rat", which was set in a Japanese POW camp...

Another favorite author of mine is James Michener... for a while, I thought he was trying to write about every place I love, one very long book at a time... there was "Texas", and "Alaska"... I was born in Alaska, and still call myself a west Texas boy, a nod to my years growing up in El Paso... he even wrote "Chesapeake" (my paternal grandfather was a charter boat captain on the Bay), but as far as I know, never wrote a "Shenandoah Valley"... LOL...

 

[Mavs Man]

check out THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy...it just won the pulitzer a few weeks ago and it is excellent. It is about a father and son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

If you like horror or zombie movies, you will love this book.

On that note, I'd recommend Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide. It's pretty humorous, but would make sense to use it if they existed. Supposedly he has or already released a zombie-apocalypse novel that a Hollywood studio paid a huge advance to release it as a movie.

 

[Mavs Man]

Anything by Mark Twain

Very true. I've read through my share of Samuel Clements' books a couple of times:

The Prince and the Pauper
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn

Twain and Jules Verne are my favorite "classics" authors, hands down.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

He does come up with some bizarre characters, doesn't he??



A long read, but a good one... have you read any of his other books?? I kinda liked "King Rat", which was set in a Japanese POW camp...

Another favorite author of mine is James Michener... for a while, I thought he was trying to write about every place I love, one very long book at a time... there was "Texas", and "Alaska"... I was born in Alaska, and still call myself a west Texas boy, a nod to my years growing up in El Paso... he even wrote "Chesapeake" (my paternal grandfather was a charter boat captain on the Bay), but as far as I know, never wrote a "Shenandoah Valley"... LOL...

I have not read King Rat but I may. I started reading Tai-Pan and just could not get into it so I just figured Shogun was his good one and did not try the others.

As far as Michener, I can not say I have read his books but I did listen to an audio book of his once. It was Caribbean and I just did not care for it too much so I did not bother reading any of his others.

I will have to check out King Rat sometime soon though. I have not gotten a book in some time and really have been in the mood to read a NEW book. I get tired of reading the same ones over and over.:laugh2:

 

[adamknite]

i dont know how many of the users here are readers but i figure theres quite a bit. Im 16 and i enjoy reading alot, but lately i havent found to many books. I was on a fantasy book reading spree. And now im getting a little sick of them and i think i want to start reading more mystery. Dont get me wrong you can suggest any book you think is good.Just i was leaning towards mystery. thanks ahead of time.

First i'll tell you a book not to read, Joarney to the Center of the Earth.... it's terrible.

Most of the books by Michael Crichton (wrote Jurassic Park) are good reads for me. Most have been made into movies but the books are really good too.
Maybe if you want to read some mystery books you should read some Sherlock Holmes books, they're classic.

 

[calico]

On that note, I'd recommend Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide. It's pretty humorous, but would make sense to use it if they existed. Supposedly he has or already released a zombie-apocalypse novel that a Hollywood studio paid a huge advance to release it as a movie.

Have you checked out Brooks' WORLD WAR Z yet? It is great.

 

[Mavs Man]

First i'll tell you a book not to read, Joarney to the Center of the Earth.... it's terrible.

Most of the books by Michael Crichton (wrote Jurassic Park) are good reads for me. Most have been made into movies but the books are really good too.
Maybe if you want to read some mystery books you should read some Sherlock Holmes books, they're classic.

Heh, I actually like JttCotE. Around the World in 80 Days has been one of my favorites since I was a kid.

Crichton is pretty awesome, too. I read Andromeda Strain and JP when I was 11 or 12, and was hooked. His last book was interesting, but not a very good novel. It was more of a verbal venting about how environmentalists have corrupted pure science. I won't argue against that, but it might have been better served in a non-fiction format.

 

[Mavs Man]

Have you checked out Brooks' WORLD WAR Z yet? It is great.

I've been meaning to check into that. Will do.

 

[Dallas]

The Kay Scarpetta Novels

Kay Scarpetta novels in order of publication:


1. Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell,
2. Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell,
3. All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell (August 1992),
4. Cruel & Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (December 1993),
5. The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell,
6. From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell),
7. Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell,
8. Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell),
9. Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell,
10. Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell,
11. The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell (October 2000),
12. Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell (October 2003),
13. Trace by Patricia Cornwell (September 2004).
14. Predator, was released on October 25, 2005.