Quite like books by the likes of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow. I do like to read a variety though so I'll give most things a try. Other ones worth a look are The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz - WWII escape from a work camp story, supposedly all true, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics by Jonathan Wilson, and A Season With Verona by Tim Parks is another good football one.
Read that. Funny in many parts...I enjoyed all of the Tony Hawks books. "Around Ireland with a Fridge", not "How to grease your skateboard wheels"!
I love a lot of Michael Moorcock's work. And Simon Scarrow. For sci-fi though, Larry Niven is hard to beat. Particularly relevant at the moment is Lucifer's Hammer.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is a great read too. Some of his Culture novels (as Iain M. Banks) are also good if you like a bit of sci-fi, although I've only read a few of them. Consider Phlebas is my favourite of those I have read.
Reread the Foundation triology a year or so ago, seemed strangely lightweight somehow. But not as dated as the John Wyndham stuff I followed them with, great plots with obvious cold war references, but with characters attitudes so out of date I found it hard going.
Interesting. I probably haven't read the Foundation Trilogy in 30 years. May give it another go to see what I think now.
I think with stuff that has dated badly, you have to go with the flow and accept it is "of its time". I read a book by Saki not long ago - very culturally interesting because it reflected early 20th century attitudes that would definitely be regarded as "unusual" these days.
That sounds frustrating! I haven't read that one, but I did recently finish a book that used that sort of style in dialogue with lots of characters from different places (phonetically-spelt Scots dialect, eastern European, etc) and it was frankly irritating. The Culture novels I have read are Consider Phlebas, Excession, Look to Windward, and The Algebraist.Yes, I read quite a few of the culture novels, until I got to Feersum Enjin (I think it was called) parts of which were written in some weird phonetic argot (see the title, for example) that I didn't enjoy or get at all. So I gave up on the series at that point.
Has anyone into their sci-fi read Appleseed by John Clute? A friend bought me it, and it's one of the oddest books I've ever read. I had to read it twice to properly understand it (although that might be a reflection of me and not the book).
Having just looked those up, it would appear completely unrelated.Is that what the Japanese Manga films Appleseed and Appleseed Alpha are based on?