Just Trotsky...

I'm sure a lot of them would have had worse actually. Lavrenti Beria (one of Zurab's... kind), head of the forerunner to the KGB, was a complete bastard. I've read a similar book before and he was quite adept at having people beaten around the head until their eyes fell out. He was a serial rapist too.

T2: Infiltrator

Catch 22 is very good yes.

Beria was indeed a cunt, sounds like the sort of thing i would like to read so i might track it down after i've finished to kill a mockingbird.

Dian Wei wrote:Catch 22 is very good yes.

Beria was indeed a cunt, sounds like the sort of thing i would like to read so i might track it down after i've finished to kill a mockingbird.

I'd go for The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag-Montefiore instead. It covers Stalin's entourage quite well and even has amusing stories, e.g. Molotov passing out on a couch at one of Stalin's dachas and being sick down himself. The Whisperers has thus far been a bit hard to read. Now I'm into it I'm covering it quite quickly but it's the better part of 700 pages...

Bloody read 1984 and Brave New World immediately, they're the best books anyone can ever read. And I've read every book ever written. Test me.

Have you read the new Harry Potter - if so: who dies and on which pages.

Currently on The Children of Hurin......again.

jonny_boy34 wrote:Bloody read 1984 and Brave New World immediately, they're the best books anyone can ever read. And I've read every book ever written. Test me.

You are correct. If you haven't read these books then you can't comment on anything, well you can but you're ignorant so there.

I am a big fan of Banks. If you are in to space, science, chicks with guns and AI then his culture series of books is amazing (all the books in the link with "The Culture" in the fake amazon title. It's probably best to read them in order but "Player of Games" is the best and Excession is the easiest to understand.

I'm reading the Jeeves books at the moment, not sci fi but they are fucking hilarious.

i read some arthur c clark books, thes a fucking awesome author

Not particularly into sci-fi, but I do have quite a few John Grisham books, as well as Sam Bourne and Dan Brown (though I read those a few years ago). I mainly enjoy the suspense/crime thriller type of stuff

But you're good with computers. That automatically means you like Sci-Fi.

I like a wide range of books, including some fantasy / sci-fi. Try anything by David Eddings (but read the series in order - its much better that way)

Also my fave authour is Dennis Wheatley, both his ploitical fact based stuff and his black magic books are also amazing. He was a mate of aleister crowley dont you know!!!

If it's sci-fi you're after you should read Old Man's War by John Scalzi I thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm generally not too keen on sci-fi.

My dad's a big SF and fantasy fan - one he has really recommended is Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh. I have it on the shelf but I haven't tackled it yet, too busy making my way through The Silmarillion.

Books are gay!