Have Kindle...Need Book Suggestions

[HaleStorm]

As the title suggests i have bought myself a kindle 3...but i am lacking in the books department, ive bought a few which i have been wanting to read, but i am looking for suggestions on good reads to keep me going.

 

All input is appreciated

[jamesb]

There's a few good free ones, the Sherlock Holmes collection, HP Lovecraft, Jules Verne.

 

I'd suggest others but it depends what type of books you normally read and enjoy?

Edited August 5, 2011 by jamesb

[HaleStorm]

i like most things, excluding mushy romance stuff

[ZeroHour]

As a read I quite enjoyed Digital Fortress

[creese]

There's a few good free ones, the Sherlock Holmes collection, HP Lovecraft, Jules Verne.

 

I'd suggest others but it depends what type of books you normally read and enjoy?

 

Bought? What does that mean??

 

http://www.ereaderiq.co.uk/

http://www.manybooks.net/categories/

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

http://www.baen.com/library/books.asp

[jamesb]

Neal Asher's Polity series are probably one of the best Space Opera sets of recent time.

 

Max Frei's The Stranger and The Ship of Woes (I think) are very good semi-surrealistic adult-Harry Potter-esqeish fantasy/weirdness stuff.

 

Infernal Devices is good if you like Steampunk at all, along with George Mann's works.

 

Rule 32 and Halting State by Charles Stross are good modern-science fiction-cyberpunk fare, with a lot of interesting ideas.

 

The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss make for some very good fantasy stuff - though frustrating as he seems to take a long time between books.

 

The Lies of Locke Lamora is more fantasy fare, also quite good.

 

The Diamond Age is one of my favourites, by Neal Stephenson and up there with Dune in my estimation. Also Snow Crash by the same.

 

More fantasy stuff - Blood of Elves and The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (where the Witcher games came from).

 

Hopefully that'll be enough to be getting on with.

[Rodan]

Douglas Coupland : Microserfs (tho a little dated now) or Miss Wyoming

Phillip Reeve Mortal Engines series (Young adult but a brilliant series)

 

+1 for Lovecraft if you can take the overwrought language.

[creese]

calibre - E-book management to convert ebook formats

[jamesb]

+1 for Lovecraft if you can take the overwrought language.

 

Not to mention the crawling, creeping horror, fear to ever go diving, and phobia of non-Euclidian geometry which it causes.

[HaleStorm]

I have a collection of Lovecraft works already i tried to read "trainspotting" once and i couldnt make head nor tail of the scottish written dialect....it was harder to get through than reading "a clockwork orange"!

[ChrisH]

Pfft call yourself geeks? I have been off for 2 weeks and I have read:

Another book on Windows 7 deployment

V-App book

.. and I'm halfway through a Powershell book.

 

I wish I could read something a little more fictional but my brain craves knowledge. Seriously though having instant delivery is not good as I see a book, 1 click delivery and I have it

[tom_newton]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00480O9KK <-- enjoyed the first 3

 

Also the complete sherlock holmes, I can second that. Free, and quite enjoyable.

 

Get the O'Reilly ebook "deal of the day" as well, you never know what gems come up half price.

[ZeroHour]

I have a collection of Lovecraft works already i tried to read "trainspotting" once and i couldnt make head nor tail of the scottish written dialect....it was harder to get through than reading "a clockwork orange"!

 

LMAO @ trainspotting, obviously its no problem for me to understand I think they put a dictionary in the back of some of the editions to help.

[jamesb]

Pfft call yourself geeks? I have been off for 2 weeks and I have read:

Another book on Windows 7 deployment

V-App book

.. and I'm halfway through a Powershell book.

 

I wish I could read something a little more fictional but my brain craves knowledge. Seriously though having instant delivery is not good as I see a book, 1 click delivery and I have it

 

Sooo...you're suggesting we're not geeks because we don't read the manual?

 

With you on the instant delivery though - I've taken my card details off Amazon and started just buying an amount in gift vouchers each month, saves me from losing everything to books.

[K.C.Leblanc]

LMAO @ trainspotting, obviously its no problem for me to understand I think they put a dictionary in the back of some of the editions to help.

 

It also didn't help that the stories didn't connect very well either. I love the film, but the book I can do without. I do however like The Acid House tales.

 

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is well worth a read.

[ZeroHour]

Wow hitchikers is a steal @ £3 odd The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhikers Guide 1) eBook: Douglas Adams: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

[36Degrees]

My two favourite books ever (read multiple times!) are The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Shogun by James Clavell althoug at £4.59 Shogun is maybe a bit expensive.

[Mr.Ben]

The Millenium Trilogy (by Stiegg Larsson), just finished the second book, The girl who played with fire, and they are great thrillers. Apart from the second book ther are under £3 on the Kindle Store

[Soulfish]

I'd second a number of them. Having just read The Name of the Wind series of books I'm eagerly waiting the next book - although who knows when it'll be released!

[Haptic]

I finished reading World War Z - Max Brooks earlier this week.

 

Absolute barnstormer - riveting from beginning to end, an unflinching depiction of the Globe brought to its knees.

 

I can't wait for Plan B entertainment to release the film -currently shooting (pun!) in the UK

 

Wolfman

[Arthur]

A few more you may like...

 

Fiction

Daemon by Daniel Suarez

Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez - The sequel to Daemon

 

Non-Fiction

Malware Analyst's Cookbook: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code by Michael Ligh et al

Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference by Mark Russinovich & Aaron Margosis

Mastering Windows 7 Deployment by Aidan Finn

In The Plex by Steven Levy - The story of Google from 1996 to 2010

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick - Not yet available in the UK on Kindle, but meant to be very good.

[Haptic]

LMAO @ trainspotting, obviously its no problem for me to understand I think they put a dictionary in the back of some of the editions to help.

 

A friend of mine (English) had bought this tome in German whilst studying over in Weisbaden. He said the 'Weegie' dialect was nigh on impossible to translate out of German.

 

Hat's off though, great book...the sequel was ace too.

 

Wolfman

[ChrisH]

I finished reading World War Z - Max Brooks earlier this week.

 

Absolute barnstormer - riveting from beginning to end, an unflinching depiction of the Globe brought to its knees.

 

I can't wait for Plan B entertainment to release the film -currently shooting (pun!) in the UK

 

Wolfman

 

Wold War Z is one I may have to read though I read his excellent Zombie Survival Guide it was quite good.

[sted]

i know ive found my reading habits changing i now read a lot more non fiction than i used to

 

couple of books i enjoyed recently

 

1000 Years of Annoying the French eBook: Stephen Clarke: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

 

So That's Why They Call it Great Britain: How One Tiny Country Gave So Much to the World eBook: Steve Pope : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

 

The Cornerstone eBook: Nick Spalding: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004AE3O1O/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

 

 

 

currently working through Moonshot: The Inside Story of Mankind's Greatest Adventure eBook: Dan Parry: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

[ZeroHour]

This (The Fat Years eBook: Chan Koonchung: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store) sounds interesting which I may pick up for a read.