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Seconded on The Godfather. Apart from an entire storyline dedicated to a woman's struggles with her oversized lady parts, it's even better than the film.
Starship Troopers by Heinlein is a classic, always worth digging into. If you've only seen the tripe film version, definitely pick up a copy.
If you're into the sci-fi thing, John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series is probably my favorite new series of any genre to come out in years.
The Running Man by Stephen King/Richard Bachman was pretty good..though, if it includes a foreward by King, skip it. The man spoils the ending of his own book in a foreward, who does that?
The Dresden Files books are pretty awesome. Weird combo of noir private detective story paired with magic, monsters, and wizardry. Yeah, I know how it sounds. It sat on my "recommended" list for a long time for just that reason. Once I finally dug in, I was permanently hooked on the series. I'm champing at the bit for book 16 to come out. One little warning, you'll occasionally want to throttle the protagonist, particularly in the first couple of books.
There's always Thomas Harris, with the Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal set. Stupid "Red Dragon" still has me wanting to pick up a Charter Bulldog. You might skip "Hannibal Rising," since he essentially wrote it under duress. It wasn't nearly as good as the previous entries to the series. Harris only wrote the thing because they threatened to make a prequel with someone else if he didn't step up and do it himself.
If you're looking for non-fiction, "With The Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge was my all time favorite war memoir. Sledge really conveys the horror of the Pacific Theater, if you've seen "The Pacific," part of that show was based off his novel. It's an old marine's memories that aren't colored in the slightest by rose tinted glasses.
Sammy Gravano's "Underboss" was great in the true crime genre. I've always had an interest in subsets of society, and the mafia is a massive one. The world within a world thing is just fascinating. Gravano was involved from before Joe Colombo was shot until his bust with John Gotti in 1990. This feels like the most honest of the mafia memoirs. I've read a couple of Philip Carlo's books, and while they're entertaining, he always describes the people he's writing about with "almost superhuman" traits. That was repeated in both his book on Gaspipe Casso, and Richard Kuklinski. Things that like that stretch credibility a bit for me.
This list could go on and on. Honestly, I'll probably end up doubling back and adding to it. I figure I've rambled enough for now.
Starship Troopers by Heinlein is a classic, always worth digging into. If you've only seen the tripe film version, definitely pick up a copy.
If you're into the sci-fi thing, John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series is probably my favorite new series of any genre to come out in years.
The Running Man by Stephen King/Richard Bachman was pretty good..though, if it includes a foreward by King, skip it. The man spoils the ending of his own book in a foreward, who does that?
The Dresden Files books are pretty awesome. Weird combo of noir private detective story paired with magic, monsters, and wizardry. Yeah, I know how it sounds. It sat on my "recommended" list for a long time for just that reason. Once I finally dug in, I was permanently hooked on the series. I'm champing at the bit for book 16 to come out. One little warning, you'll occasionally want to throttle the protagonist, particularly in the first couple of books.
There's always Thomas Harris, with the Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal set. Stupid "Red Dragon" still has me wanting to pick up a Charter Bulldog. You might skip "Hannibal Rising," since he essentially wrote it under duress. It wasn't nearly as good as the previous entries to the series. Harris only wrote the thing because they threatened to make a prequel with someone else if he didn't step up and do it himself.
If you're looking for non-fiction, "With The Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge was my all time favorite war memoir. Sledge really conveys the horror of the Pacific Theater, if you've seen "The Pacific," part of that show was based off his novel. It's an old marine's memories that aren't colored in the slightest by rose tinted glasses.
Sammy Gravano's "Underboss" was great in the true crime genre. I've always had an interest in subsets of society, and the mafia is a massive one. The world within a world thing is just fascinating. Gravano was involved from before Joe Colombo was shot until his bust with John Gotti in 1990. This feels like the most honest of the mafia memoirs. I've read a couple of Philip Carlo's books, and while they're entertaining, he always describes the people he's writing about with "almost superhuman" traits. That was repeated in both his book on Gaspipe Casso, and Richard Kuklinski. Things that like that stretch credibility a bit for me.
This list could go on and on. Honestly, I'll probably end up doubling back and adding to it. I figure I've rambled enough for now.
