Books'n stuff.

by Rayzed • 16 Dec 2010, 16:45 • Journals
Hey guys,
afaik some ppl here are able to read (anything else than crossfire).
Since I'm searching for some books I need your advice.
I just finished with Frederick Forsyth - The Cobra, which is a politic/secrent agency thriller.
Now I'm about to order Le Carrè - Our kind of Traitor, which is about the same genre.

So now I'm searching for other action/agency/spy-thrillers, just gimme names.

As usual: The people with usefull advices will get pics (either chick, cat or funny)

Thanks in advance
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Matan 16 Dec 2010, 16:48
harry potter
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 16:53
had the same thought :D
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potty 16 Dec 2010, 16:48
Need a motivational pic :D
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Kevin 16 Dec 2010, 16:49
just started reading " I Know What You Think", so far it's a really good book

( Plot summary : A guy receives two letters, he opens the first one and it includes a poem, and the command to think about a number, after that he opens the second letter and it just has the number he thought about, 10 days later the receivers of these letters die )
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Thunderrr 16 Dec 2010, 16:51
lol nerd with glasses reading book
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Kevin 16 Dec 2010, 17:08
LOL HOW DO YOU KNOW?

FUCKING PSYCHIC
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StoomSchipDeRotterdam 16 Dec 2010, 17:27
lol nerd with glasses falling asleep in the chair
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 16:49
Discworld series. read it bro

also any book by Tom Clancy should be nice for you
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 16:53
action/agency/spy-thrillers

Discworld series


orly?
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 16:53
Discworld matches ANYTHING ":D"
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 16:54
"NOTHING" is more exact,as its pretty uneasy to describe it :P
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 16:55
Discworld > all

period
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 16:59
ye,discoworld is pretty epic, most I love moving pictures
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 17:02
Nightwatch rapes all
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 16:55
I already checked the Tom Clancy books but which one to start with?
The Jack Ryan series? But thats kinda old and I really liked the "new technology" in "The Cobra" so I dont think I can consider "A missile which can be led by laser with an acc. of +-50meters" as cool/new.

What is this Discworld about? To lazy to google the plot, if you dont mind you could give me one or two sentences about the plot.
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 16:57
Discworld is about a world that is discshaped. ":D"
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 16:58
and lies on four elephants who stand on turtle :D
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 16:59
Ah okay, a guy in my class always reads that (the biggest nerd around).
He once told me about that world on four elephants standing on a turtle and I thought he must be stoned or smth...
The Discworld-series has a lot of books, doesnt it?
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:04
yes,it has pretty much books, but most of them rock pretty hard
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 17:06
Well, I really like phantasy but atm I want to read more of those spystories/politics-action-books.
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:13
politics-action books - what should I imagine under that term anyway?
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 17:28
Check the plot of "the Cobra".
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 17:00
and that turtle is 10000 miles long and is "swimming" through universe
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:11
did you know that she travels to place where she can reproduce?
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 17:14
or then again it's a he and btw he did it in 2nd book so yeah I know it :D
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:18
well "she" was meant to turtle - "ta zelva" :D
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 17:23
it's a he - "ten zolw"
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:25
when talking about turtle in general, its "ta zelva" moreover "ten zelvak" is pretty.. odd :D in czech we use "ta zelva" even for male turtles :P ;)
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Temari 16 Dec 2010, 16:50
Michael Crichton - Next
kinda liked it
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Lover 16 Dec 2010, 16:51
cant help,just wanted to say hi :D
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 16:56
Hi²u
How are you doing old gippsy?
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Lover 16 Dec 2010, 17:00
good good
tho im bored and im thinking to start playing et again :D
what about u?
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 17:04
just playing with some rl friends on low-level.
A lot of school/football these days and I dont see an end with that.
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schNee 16 Dec 2010, 16:51
anais nin :o
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paRa 16 Dec 2010, 16:55
if u havent read the stieg larsson books yet, I suggest em
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 16:56
Dont like his style.
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defOK 16 Dec 2010, 16:57
there is a new tom clancy book out
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Panda 16 Dec 2010, 16:58
Don't really read those kind of books :(
But there is plenty of action in some of my fav novels here:- http://www.timseverin.net/viking.html

:>
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 17:04
You read phantasy/historic action?
I really like phantasy but most englishmen just write crap/books I dont like.
If you are into phantasy get one of the Sergej Lukianenko books (DayWatch, NightWatch, DuskWatch, The last Watch).
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:14
polish phantasy is one of best : sapkowski - the witcher, zemianski - achaja
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Robert 16 Dec 2010, 17:24
sapkowski! <3 achaja series ain't that good btw
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GreenClon 16 Dec 2010, 17:27
well,sapkowski is perfect, achaja has some weak points, but in some I liked it more than sapkowski - suffering which had achaja go through etc. but ye,sapkowski > zemiansky, but not about that much :)
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maTze 16 Dec 2010, 17:13
jonathan franzen - freedom
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hattivatti 16 Dec 2010, 17:55
Been meaning to read that due to the latest hype around it. Is it really that good/interesting?
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maTze 17 Dec 2010, 18:42
its good... maybe not as good as the hype suggests but its still good
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stownage 16 Dec 2010, 17:33
richard montanari - crucifix
and ofc all Dan Brown books ;)
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hattivatti 16 Dec 2010, 17:54
Dan Brown, seriously?
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stownage 16 Dec 2010, 18:30
w00t? you don't like him/his books?
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hattivatti 16 Dec 2010, 18:37
I've read them all except for the last one and I remember enjoying it, too. But looking back they were all pretty dull and foreseeable.
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stownage 16 Dec 2010, 18:53
no it's not, but these are books which you can read only once, when i watched the movie i was really bored but it's because you know everything and the whole content
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Rhand 16 Dec 2010, 17:37
The only novel I have ever read that classifies as action-spy is Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and it's fucking brilliant.
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Rayzed 16 Dec 2010, 17:40
cant read Rainbow Six without the knowledge from the former Jack Ryan books...
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Rhand 16 Dec 2010, 18:11
You can most definitely. Previous books have little or no influence.
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Gungy 16 Dec 2010, 18:19
rainbow six is totally different from the ryan series, and also netforce from tom clancy is rly good and modern
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LeFrancis 16 Dec 2010, 17:45
Le carré
I approve.
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hattivatti 16 Dec 2010, 17:53
J.M. Coetzee - Diary Of A Bad Year

Not really a thriller, more a political essay, but fun and interesting to read nonetheless.
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ansikte 16 Dec 2010, 18:20
catch 22 by heller
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dnl 16 Dec 2010, 18:26
these are not spy books, but I can recommend u Kurt Vonnegut books.
if u like to read and have some taste, u wont be disappointed ;)
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vaGgi 16 Dec 2010, 18:57
Illuminati.

the movie was a shame tho.
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flR 17 Dec 2010, 21:41
steffen detterbeck - allgemeines verwaltungsrecht :D
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