#8

Some Vonnegut is always good

#10

something by roddy doyle
or christopher brookmyre

#11

Your Brookmyre recommendation has prompted me to also suggest carl hiaasen.

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#12

Dune isn’t that bad, its the sequels that are truly fucking bizarre.

#13

oh yeah, never actually read his adult stuff but he was one of my favourite kids’ writers

#14

Some Lee Child recommendations:

Killing Floor
Die Trying
Tripwire

(Yeah, he’s shit at book titles, but these ones are all great.)

#15

This book is a must.

#16

If you like Brookmyre, you’ll almost certainly like Hiaasen’s adult stuff.

#17

Fiction or nonfiction?
Broadly what kind of genre are you after?

#18

Was thinking crime / thriller stuff mainly… I’ve never read most of the big names, your James Pattersons, John Grishams, Lee Childs etc. Did the Steig Larrsons years ago which were quite fun though. Maybe I should catch up on the Dan Brown books I missed.

#19

How about the Boris Akunin - Erast Fandorin books? They are quite fun.

#20

Nick Harkaway- not trashy as such, but easy to read and a lot of fun. The Gone Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman are all great (Angelmaker being the one I’d recommend most).

#21

I’m going to stop suggesting stuff now you ungrateful fuck!

#22

maybe the non racist agatha christies

#23

I am making note of all of these suggestions and am very grateful for all of them, Lonzo.

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#25

you’re really going to attempt to read James Patterson (and co.)?

#26

If you want an easy read of substance that you can just dip in and out of, why not go for shorter fiction?

Because they’re largely in the public domain, you can pick up the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe for very little. I’m recommending him not just because he’s amazing (and he is), but also because you mentioned upthread that you like crime/thriller. With The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Poe basically invented the detective story. So if nothing else, this you can see where your favourite genre began.

But beyond that, he has adventure stories, poetic meditations on life and death (mainly death), some of the most suspenseful fiction ever written, and in The Fall of the House of Usher, my pick for the single greatest short story of all time.

Already read Poe? Never mind. Never more.

#28

Yeah, Hiaasen’s adult stuff is a joy to read.

#29

Ha, I have already read a lot of Poe, I’m thinking I want way dumber than that. Crime thrillers aren’t my favourite books by any stretch, I’ve barely read any, which is why I’m keen to get stuck in based on occasional holiday reading in the past.

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