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aye think its 1100 pages long.

feel like Ive read 2 books but saying that Im nearing the end and it feels like it is nowhere near finished. Think Im gonna be upset when finished. Which is always a sign of a good book.

1984 - great book and pretty scary how close some of it is to real life

The Dresden Files: Storm Front - Jim Butcher

I love the way the book is written. Its how I wrote several things from my Play-by-Email days, and from Secondary school. Its the main character narrating his own life, including his thoughts and opinions - including a few comedy segments to lighten what would otherwise be a fairly dark book. In terms of plot, its quite interesting, a few people are gruesomely murdered, and Dresden is called in to find out who did it and how. Its also a nice way to introduce the characters involved and their mannerisms. Very different to the televised version, particularly Bob (A talking Skull in the book, a Ghost entrapped in a Skull in the TV program). Still, a really good read.

8/10

Gears of War -Jacinto's Remnant 8/10

Really liked this. Set after Gears of War 2, sets up a bit of what to expect in Gears 3. The Locust are on the run, Jacinto is destroyed, and the CoG have to find somewhere to rebuild civilisation... Its pretty good and written in the same style as the first one, with Flashbacks to when they originally deployed the Hammer of Dawn to try and kill the Locusts... Worth a read if you're a Gears fan, and still a good book if you aren't - although to be honest if you've never played the games before you'll probably have no idea what going on...

I read the Curious Case of Benjamin Button the other day. Very short story and ended quite abruptly. Was more of an anecdote really. Not seen the film. It's worth a read anyway, just 'cause it's so short.

andy mcdermott is well worth a look at

the hunt for atlantis

the tomb of hercules

the secret of excailibur

all great action titles

my best all time read is the lost regiment books by william r forstchen

the basic plot is a regiment of union soldiers get transported to another world by gateways during a storm at sea they find lots of human settelments representing earths past all over the world all is well until the turgar turn up ten foot tall monsters that travel the world on horseback and treat the humans as cattle one in ten must be given to the turgar as food or all die.

the horde of turgar are numberless the tribute must be given or all die under a hail of arrows and spears one turgar can kill ten humans
the union men are told that they to must be slaves and give one in ten as the horde passes through but the union men have a secret weapon gunpowder!

if you like true stories take a look at Devils Guard, if you can find it. It is the story of a Waffen SS officer at the end of WW II who finds his way into the french foreign legion. He then ends up fighting for the french in indochina (Vietnam). Fantastic story and prob best book i've read, but quite rare now as no longer in print. If you find it ,read it, then sell it to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Failing that Scar Tissue, Anthony keidis's (frontman, red hot chilli peppers) bio is excellent.

I would suggest some of the halo books as they are a good read, they also helped me to appreciate the game because I'm not its biggest fan. I like ODST and halo wars but halo 3 just doesn't do it for me.

If anyone wants them I have the first 3 halo books as .pdf files on my computer, give the world and I will gladly host them so anyone can download them and have a read.

They are well written and very interesting.

For non fiction I would recommend the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, I am reading it at the moment and it is fantastic

Pride and Predjudice and Zombies. Great re-write of one of the most boring books in the world

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

ICHI wrote:Pride and Predjudice and Zombies. Great re-write of one of the most boring books in the world

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

I was thinking of getting this for The Hubb as a stocking stuffer - it's only £3.60 an amazon.co.uk

Yeah I got it for my mum as a stocking filler and I couldn't resist so it's mine now Worth it though very good spin on the old story.