Novels - recommends?

[wolverine]

Ah Isabelle, you're a girl after my own heart. Next time I'm in Vancouver, I'll have to partake of your pleasures!

 

[sureshot]

Don't mean to get all high-brow, but I do like "Asterix and the Goths" by Goscinny and Uderzo.

Culture, history, comedy........it really does have it all.

 

[hmm3030]

I recommend "The Tourist" by Olen Steinhauer.
I have also read The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. Fantastic summer reading. Does anyone know if the movie version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is available on DVD?

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Where to start...A few favorites:

Generica by Will Ferguson.

Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel by Craig Ferguson

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

Generation Kill by Evan Wright

 

[Man Mountain]

Does anyone know if the movie version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is available on DVD?

The movie was just released in theaters here in North America a few weeks ago. Not sure if there's a European DVD release yet.

 

[cancowboy2001]

Does anyone know if the movie version of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" is available on DVD?

Amazon.com has it as being released in the US on DVD/Blu-ray on July 6. Canada is probably the same date.
http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Dragon-T...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1273027633&sr=1-1

 

[Gwynn]

I need a good novel to read. The type of books I lean towards most are funny and edgy (the darker the humour the better) and inventive. I also dig the typical 'guy' books - the action/adventure stuff - but nothing cookie-cutter.

I just finished Lamb by Christopher Moore, a humorous take on Jesus' life that was skipped in the Bible. I hope his other books are just as good. Other authors whose works I've enjoyed in the past are Chuck Palahniuk, Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman. Dan Brown is a guilty pleasure, and I caught onto Brad Meltzer since reading his Identity Crisis graphic novel.

A couple novels in the same vein that Lamb sounds to be (I haven't read that myself yet) and are worth reading would be God Knows by Joseph Heller and Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal.

 

[cancowboy2001]

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
"Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios for fun, so doesn't think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost."
Joe Hill is the pseudonym for Joseph Hillstrom King who is the son of Stephen King.
(To me) His style is very similar to his father's.