Really good books that you can't put down

[lanesra 3,994]

"Gentleman Thief" by a bloke called Peter Scott, its about his life as a cat burgular over the roofs off mayfair where all the fur shops where and turning over the rich and famous , riverting read.

[foxfan 479]

"The Dice Man", by luke Rheinhart. will freak you right out, best novel i have ever read by a million miles. You cannot put it down.

[olim 28]

The dick Francis books, my favourite is even money which he started but was finished by his son, I dont read a lot but it was one of those books that I couldnt put down you just want to read on to find out what happens, He has quite a few books for kicks, hot money he also did smoke screen. well recomended

[arcticgun 4,548]

some real good reads been mentioned on this thread just finished American Pyscho by Brett Easton Ellis, good read

[jf1970 328]

MR NICE by howard marks, now that guy smuggled some amount of hash, and done a fair bit of time aswell.

[Stabs 3]

Great books that I have read many, many times:

 

Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer. A tale of an Alsatian (a man from Alsace - not the dog) who joins the SS and fights on the Russian Front. Quite simply brilliant.

 

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy. Hardy's last novel as the criticism that he received from the moral majority was such that he swore to never write another.

 

Long Walk - Slavomir Rawicz. A Polish officers tale of escape from a Siberian prison camp and his subsequent walk to India.

 

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - Siegfried Sassoon. I could pick any of the Sherston Trilogy, but this was the first I read as a young bloke looking to become a soldier myself. Not bad for a homosexual Iraqi jew

 

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tresall. Niave in the extreme but I love it.

 

The Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. One man's struggle against the Norwegian wilderness in his attempt to forge a life.

[boyo 1,398]

i have a huge collection of books mostly dog and poaching hunting books but a very good read is sold a true story about to sisters sold to the yemen by their uncle another is the killing zone about a guy raised in the gorbals in scotland who had a bad start in life but joined the forces and went on a killing spree with the army all over the world and ended up a barrister true story that you will not be able to put down. another book is rich without money all aboutflapping greyhounds in the 60s a brilliant book and all proceeds go too a good cause very close to the authors heart the author is trevor liddle.one of my favourite lurcher books to read is king of the poachers cracking read .

[rascal_2005 79]

NATHAN.

 

100%

[fireman 10,869]

50 dead men walking and stop the ride,first book a cracking read the second a very funny book indeed.

[shamus 36]

A chidhood,the autobiography of a place by harry crews,about growing up as sharecroppers in the 30/40s.

Pimp by Iceberg slim, title self explanatory.

No beast so fierce by edward bunker,crime autobiography head and shoulders above the usual drivel,he also played mr pink,or one of them anyway,in Resevoir Dogs.

[mushroom 12,883]

Fiction

The James Clavells asian saga; Shogun, Tai-pan, King-Rat and the Noble house Amazing books especially Shogun

 

Fact

The velvet Claw, Darwin Awards series

 

Biography

James Hammond (can't remember the title )

 

or Failing all these Viz or if I'm feeling adventurous Escort

[Stanleigh 135]

Anything by Annie proulx ,Thomas Hardy ,Henry Williamson ,you can,t go wrong , Death in the afternoon or The old man and the sea , by Hemmingway .Homers Illiad and The Odyssy and I,v got big tits by Katie Price