Need book/author suggestions for DH

[Jenn Lynn]

I have been trying to get DH back into reading. I would like to have a few books around that he would like to read, but the problem is that he likes different things than I do (he's not really into romance ).

I could really use some book and/or author suggestions. Some of the books authors that he has read in the past are:
Stephan King (probably his favorite)
LOTR series
Jurassic Park (he is reading the second book now)
Harry Potter (he has read these several times)

Any suggestions would be really appreciated! Thanks!

 

[jrydberg]

Perhaps the Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time" series. That ought to keep him busy for awhile!

 

[monkeyboy]

Anything by Steven Ambrose

 

[wvrevy]

Try Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" series....Or, if he really liked LOTR and HP, I'd strongly suggest Mercedes Lackey.

 

[wvrevy]

Originally posted by jrydberg
Perhaps the Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time" series. That ought to keep him busy for awhile!

Like the next 10 years or so (assuming he ever finishes the #@%@#%#% thing )

 

[mickeyboat]

Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress

If you think he might be turned off by the religious setting of DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, start him off on the other two. Dan Brown's writing style is captivating.

Denae

 

[ahutton]

My DH has really enjoyed Michael Cricton's other books, Timeline and Prey. He also likes the Tom Clancy "Net" books, they are much shorter and faster paced than Clancy's other works. He's also enjoyed reading some of the Star Wars series, there are a couple trilogies that are set after Return of the Jedi - one of them involved a character named Thrawn (or something similar) and those were very entertaining.

I almost forgot, if he likes the Stephen King type writing you might check into any Dean Koontz you can find, also very suspenseful and borderline horror type writing.

 

[snoopy]

DH likes different books than I do too, although I recently read a book I picked up at a yard sale and thought he would like it too. He finished it in 2 days! Rarely do I hit the jackpot when I pick out a book for him. This book is called Lost Moon, its written by Jim Lowell, one of the astronauts from the failed Apollo 13 mission. Its a fascinating account of life for those first astronauts, and the actual space mission is riveting (and easy to understand, even if you aren't scientifically wired). I know he would highly recommend it to other men.

 

[Lynn CC]

My DH is reading Johnny Miller, I Call The SHots...
Straight talk about the Game of Golf Today
He's enjoying it!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

"Eragon" , I am almost done. Not bad for a new writer of Fantasy.

"Dragon Lance" series. I haven't read them but my BIL & brother & nephew read them.

 

[Phrebert]

Have him try Dale Brown or Stephen Coonts. I have all of their books.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Originally posted by mickeyboat
Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, Digital Fortress

If you think he might be turned off by the religious setting of DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, start him off on the other two. Dan Brown's writing style is captivating.

Denae

I (finally) read the DaVinci code while on vacation over July 4th. DH usually reads Louis Lamor books, but when I suggested he read DC, he did. I guess he saw how captivated I was with it. He really enjoyed it. DH is a liberal Catholic, and the "radical" religious theories didn't bother him.

I was pleasantly surprised that he read/enjoyed it, because he never follows my suggestions for reading..

 

[RitaZ.]

Anything by Michael Crichton. He wrote Jurassic Park. Have him try Timeline, it's an excellent book.

 

[Nebsky]

Does he like Military Fiction?

Anything by Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, Richard Herman, Eric L Harry are great!! Really fantastic writing of human characters/traits. Some of Tom Clancy's books are tough to start, but when the action starts up, he wont want to put it down.

Brown / Herman are both Ex Airforce so they tell the story from the USAF point of view....Both have series that grow.
If Brown, start off with Flight of the Old Dog.
If Herman, start off with Warbirds

Harry is I think a lawyer. His books are very good. Big Battle senarios. Arc Light starts off with a Nuclear war between Russia/China, then Russia launches limited at us. We launch back
in kind, then the ground war starts. WOW!!!

Clancy, well everyone knows about his traits. His titles (IMHO) have slacked off a bit since he has started getting help doing the books. Red Storm Rising is an incredible read!!

Coonts is a great story teller and the characters come to life. Start off with Flight of the Intruder.

 

[spagheddie]

American Tabloid by James Ellroy
I bought it by chance one summer and couldn't put it down.
It was so vivid and seemed so real I had to keep telling myself that it was fiction and that what I was reading couldn't possibly have happened. And the lucky thing for your husband is when he's done foaming at the mouth after finishing this book he can run right out and get the follow-up "Cold Six-Thousand". He won't have to wait like I did.

From Barnes and Noble

"We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's Presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C.... Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy... Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty... Where money, power, influence and even the Presidency of the United States are up for grabs... Where three renegade law enforcement officers - a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents - are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history... The same blistering language, relentless narrative pace and nothing-spared rendering of reality that have marked James Ellroy's other best-selling novels are here once again, and in electrifying abundance. And now he puts them to work in a novel more shocking and daring than anything he's written before: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. "

 

[wvrevy]

Originally posted by ahutton
He's also enjoyed reading some of the Star Wars series, there are a couple trilogies that are set after Return of the Jedi - one of them involved a character named Thrawn (or something similar) and those were very entertaining.

These were written by Timothy Zahn, who also writes other Sci-Fi and Fantasy....I REALLY wish that Lucas had made THIS trilogy into a series of movies rather than trying to do a prequel....These were REALLY good, and the story (and writing) are both fantastic.

(The story centers on an imperial general (the same rank as Darth Vader) that, because of his race, was stuck out in the middle of nowhere by the Emperor (and, therefore, missed the climactic battle). The guy (Admiral Thrawn I think was his name) is a tactical genius, and he leads one last resurgance of the empire against the seemingly victorious rebel army....Just a REALLY well thought out plot and excellent writing...and I HATED every other Star Wars book I've read)

 

[EsmeraldaX]

If he likes Fantasy, the Forgotten Realms series are really good (written by various authors, although I really like Elaine Cunningham's ones in the Songs and Swords series).

I also agree the Wheel of Time series is great.

Other books with unique themes that I really like are Carter Beats the Devil, which is about a magician in the 20's and really interesting (it is based on real people but is a fiction book).

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is about a family of circus freaks and the things that go on in their lives. It's very odd and captivating.

Goats by Mark Jude Potrier (sp?) is quite good. It's a coming of age story about a boy who goes on a trip with his hippie mother's live in landscaper (himself a hippie too) and his pet goats. Wierd, but good.

Anything by Christopher Moore. He has about 6 novels and they are all laugh out loud funny if you like dark comedy. Not for the easily offended though. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is my personal favorite.

Anything by Neil Gaiman (my favorite is Neverwhere, about a magical world hidden under the London railway system) is great. Anything by Terry Pratchett is great.

Put Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett together and you get Good Omens. Good Omens is again, not for the easily offended. It is the most hilarious book I have ever read. It is about, basically, what happens when the anti-christ comes back to earth in the form of a little boy who does not want to be the anti-christ. Hilarity ensues.

 

[jrydberg]

Ona medieval but not fantasy note, I really enjoyed Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth"

 

[LovesDoomBuggies]

I wonder if he would like the Lemony Snicket books! I think if he likes Harry Potter, he would like those. They're a quick read and entertaining.

 

[hoosll]

Sock by Penn Jillette
Book is narrated by a sock monkey who lives with a police scuba diver - very strange world view but you cannot help laughing.

Anything by Carl Hiassen

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