Hey - I own about 60 books by those guys. Love 'em.

I have read Koontz damn if I recall the name of the book

A Puritain bitch gets banged by a minister and has a kid and meets her previous husband whom everyone else thought had vanished. He knows the secret between the minister and the bitch, and uses that to take advantage of them. Some other shit happens, the kid grows up, the minister gains respect, admits in public to adultery with the bitch, and dies.

There you go.

If you're a fan of King you like some of the freaky stuff. Try The Exorcist (by William Peter Blatty)-- best horror book I've ever read. As well, Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal series is stellar. Both of those books are MUCH better than the films.

Someone else mentioned The Godfather Returns... haven't read it, but start with Puzo's original, The Godfather. Also an amazing book.

Those five books are the only five books I've ever read more than once. Simply outstanding.

The Great Gatsby
Catch-22
A Confederacy of Dunces
Autobiography of Fredrick Douglas
Wolf by the Ears

All very good books.

Try Richard Marcinko's books, funny, interesting and very easy.
Also Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

If you want a real non-BS good book, I suggest you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

I have not read Rainbow Six but enjoy the Clancy I have read.

Don't read anything from Clancy in the past 5 years. I used to buy his books the moment they came out. Now I can't read them. I don't know if it's him or me. I'm pretty sure it's him because I'm not a real picky reader.

I loved RS, but I'm into that kind of thing. Damn fine book if I say so myself.

Incidents in the life of a slave girl - Harriet Jacobs

As We Lay Dying - Faulkner (difficult, but great)

Woman on the Edge of Time - Margeret Piercy

Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Die For - Joyce Maynord

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those are good "academic" type novels, all fiction except for Incidents in the life.

for easy reading I recomend several authors mostly in the realm of fantasy, because that's my highest interest.

A must read is Stephen King's Dark Tower series, frikken awesome.

A series of I think 8 books called "The Death Gate Cycle" by Margeret weiss (first book is called Dragon Wing) I devoured these books, probably 6,000 pages in all and I read them in 6 days. I thought they were incredible. Anything by Margeret Weiss that I have touched has been gold, She was THE best dragonlance writer, especially when she co-authored with Tracy Hickman. My all time favorite character was created by those two authors - Tasslehoff Burrfoot -

Terry Goodkind's series - I can't think of the name of the series, but the first book is "Wizards First Rule" also devoured these as they came out... stop after the first 6. 7-8 are a waste of time he gets too preachy.

OH! and I haven't had time to actually read it yet, but it has come so highly recomended to me by trusted sources, I feel compelled to recomend it to you. Norman Swarzkopf's Autobiography, can be found here http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Ba...hwarzkopf.html

A book of essays that you might find intrigueing - David Foster Wallace's "Oblivion" they are kind of out there, it's experimental fiction in the fullest... so it can be quite difficult, but great reads.


Hopefully that's over a broad enough spectrum of genre's that you can find something you may like.

now you're talking....love everything he writes, I've just read the first couple of stories...the one with the marketing analysts is great...I love the way he digs into the science and technical jargon of it while drawing out these pathetic (as in " inspiring mixed contempt and pity") characters...

I have read everything by Clancy (don't get taken by the other authors that publish under his name with his permission) and every single book is fantastic.

Other authors that are good reads are Web Griffin, Stephen Coonts, John Grisham, and Dale Brown. I endorse them all.

I'm not familiar with Dale Brown, Jim. What genre?

Since you and I like the same things, I may need to check him out.

I am guessing you are reading books published under his name. He has written only two books since Rainbow Six. Rabbit Run which is a Prequel that is the start of the entire Jack Ryan series and his current book The Teeth of the Tiger which is a new series start.

Edit: Ooops forgot about The Bear and the Dragon which I can see you finding lacking because he tried to pack too much into one book to try to wrap up the series.

Military fiction heavy on the fiction. He has a fascination with bombers and bomber pilots.