You should check them out then, I always ask as some people hate reading.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:04, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Yeah', most of my mates I grew up with don't like to read for pleasure, I actually got into it from taking the piss.
I was on a lads holiday, 15 of us in 'raki, at 17 years old. Had never picked up a book in my life, except for Goosebumps, and that was only to look cool, only read 3 of them all the way through. He was reading some army book, it was a real story, about the guy in "Alpha Two Zero" who saved McNab from "Bravo Two Zero". I knicked the book from him to get to do something instead of reading, and then I started reading it and I was hooked.

From then, I went through ever Andy McNab and Chris Ryan book of the time, with a handful of one-off-writters, by the time I was 20 I had read a few dozen army books, then moved onto other authors like Dean Kontz and Martina Cole and Michael Chricton.

There are only a few books I've read more than once, but these books I've read 4 or 5 times. They're "The Magicians" and "The Magician King" by Lev Grossman, Jurrasic Park + sequal and finally the K-Pax books.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:12, Reply)

I never got into non-fiction but will read a good bio if it's someone I'm interested in. If you like fantasy writing with a more realistic edge try David Gemmell, bit less serious than GOT but really good. His Greek stuff was great. Troy, and Lion of Macedon series.
(ThunderCuntThePendejo officially less shit than NakedApe, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:14, Reply)

I love a good bit of mythology, but I like a modern setting, can't handle anything before WW2 at the earliest, unless timetravel is involved.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:24, Reply)

You might also like "Dies The Fire" by SM Stirling
Modern world where electricity and internal combustion stop working. Massive die-off, survivors are Wiccans and LARPers and others with useful skills. Bit of magic hinted at, too.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:19, Reply)

Oh cool, I'll check it out =)

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 19:38, Reply)