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James Patterson has some really awesome books too...Cross, Double Cross.

They're about a dude in FBI and his missions, awesome Dialect and Imagery.
 
Easily one of the best novels about the end of the world I've ever read:
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Swan Song is rich with such characters as an ex-wrestler named Black Frankenstein, a New York City bag lady who feels power coursing from a weird glass ring, a boy who claws his way out of a destroyed survivalist compound. They gather their followers and travel toward each other, all bent on saving a blonde girl named Swan from the Man of Many Faces. Swan Song is often compared to Stephen King's The Stand, and for the most part, readers who enjoy one of the two novels, will enjoy the other. Like The Stand, it's an end-of-the-world novel, with epic sweep, apocalyptic drama, and a cast of vividly realized characters. But the tone is somewhat different: The good is sweeter, the evil is more sadistic, and the setting is harsher, because it's the world after a nuclear holocaust. Swan Song won a 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. It's a monster of a horror book, brimming over with stories and violence and terrific imagery--God and the Devil, the whole works.
 
Lately I've been keen on graphic anthologies. Like sets of short stories, but conveyed both visually and textually. The Flight series (many artists, edited by Kazu Kibiushi) generally delivers, with Vols 2-4 being the best so far. American Elf (James Kochalka) is always a good bet too, but you really need to read it all to get the whole feel, and that takes a while. I've just burned through the first Maus book (Art Spiegelman), and I really get what the hype is about. The art is fairly simple, almost sketch-like, but the storytelling is first rate. I can't wait to read the next in the series.

As far as book books go, The Raw Shark Texts (Steven Hall) is good for out-there 'is he crazy or is the world really magical' modern fantasy. Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts) has some of the best characters that I've ever read in a book-- probably since it's derived from the author's life story. And for some light pop-sci, Atom (Lawrence M Krauss) is a pretty cool tale of the universe as we think it may have evolved from the point of view of what eventually becomes a particular oxygen atom. Easy to read, but fun too.
 
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Funny, intelligent and silly stuff!

Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, some of the best prose I've read in ages!

The English Patient by Michel Ondjaate (spelling?)> breathtaking prose.

If you're leaning towards challenging, give Michel Houellebecq a crack. I'd recommend Atomised or The Possibility of an Island.
 
For crying out loud by Jeremy Clarkson.
Just hilarious, can't wait for another season of Top Gear :D
 
We should all have a book club where we read the same book, then make a thread in order to discuss it. That would be awesome. Would that be a viable option? Would it go in the "Words" forum?
 
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This is more than just another layman's guide regarding the scientific discoveries so far. It goes into great detail about the historical arguments and the development of the concept of the void, of nothingness. It provides a historical background, complete with quoted arguments from the Einsteins of their time, as well as the religious and political atmospheres that shaped the development of the concept of nothingness throughout history.

Also, my favorite book at the moment is "The Elegant Universe," a book that manages to be a huge page turner despite its focus on abstract cosmological science. Very well written, and extremely informative.
 
psycosynthesis said:
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Funny, intelligent and silly stuff!
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Tom Robbins is the best. I like all the other books of his I have read better than Still Life, even though it was still fantastic. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is probably my favorite.

I just read a book called House of Leaves. I can't recommend it enough.
 
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