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Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:18:27 2012 No.2815389 [DELETED]

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Hey /lit/ can you help me find a book for my father to read?

He reads page-turner-ish books. I suggested Dan Brown but he's read everything by him, same with Tom Clancy and Michael Chrichton.

Among other things, he has an interest in science if that's of any help.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:21:32 2012 No.2815401 robin cook mabes?

>>	Prometheus !okYtVqtXVE Mon Jul 16 22:23:32 2012 No.2815405 There's a lot of Michael Chrichton, try Micro, or Swarm.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:24:31 2012 No.2815409 Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child my favorite "page turner." I'd recommend it to anybody.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:30:31 2012 No.2815426 Neal Stephenson. Just give him Cryptonomicon. That way, if he doesn't like it, it's at least an effective doorstop.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:03:03 2012 No.2815692 Umberto Eco, In the Name of the Rose and Foucalts Pendulum

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:07:03 2012 No.2815707 John le Carré maybe?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:09:03 2012 No.2815716 >>2815692 are you serious ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:11:05 2012 No.2815723 >>2815716 He might be. The books are pretty accessible for someone with your father's reading habits. He may enjoy the stories, they're pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:12:05 2012 No.2815728 >>2815723 foucault's pendulum was anything but accessible

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:12:05 2012 No.2815734 anything by Matthew Reilly not exactly deep in any way but they read like a every great action or adventure movie ever mashed together and played in fast forward

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:14:04 2012 No.2815740 >>2815389 If you want quick easy to read no brain stress try Lee Child, I use him between 'difficult' books. He doesn't use science in the sense you suggest but plot twists and deduction instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:15:04 2012 No.2815742 >>2815692 OP ignore this guy, not easy reading for your father.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:16:04 2012 No.2815744 >>2815728 What did you find so inaccessible? The language is pretty easy, sure the story is intricate and the pacing is a little slow but other than that...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:16:04 2012 No.2815746 would historical fiction interest him? are there any historical periods he's interested in?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:22:04 2012 No.2815767 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:38:07 2012 No.2815820 While poorly developed and a bit simple you may consider getting him into Star Wars Rogue Squad books. They are simple, fake science based, and enjoyable if you are into Star Wars even a little bit.

Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:41:06 2012 No.2815829

he might really dig the alienist by caleb carr (and theodore roosevelt has a cameo in it which is pretty neat)

also a case of need is a medical drama type michael crichton that he published under a pseudonym and there are characters who aren't just mouthpieces for different scientific ideas and are actually sort of developed

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 01:22:15 2012 No.2815901 Jeffrey Archer: A Matter Of Honor. Recommended.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 01:30:16 2012 No.2815912 >>2815901 His prison diaries are excellent reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 01:32:16 2012 No.2815915 Dean Koontz. His Frankenstein series and Intensity (a personal favorite) are really fucking good.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 02:17:26 2012 No.2816012 Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 02:20:26 2012 No.2816017 Finnegan's Wake

>>	Buffon Blowjob !!S4VoQvuh3lT Tue Jul 17 03:38:40 2012 No.2816160 John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Cannery Row.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 03:40:40 2012 No.2816167 >>2816160 Of mice and men is usually published with cannery row. They make a nice combination.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 05:30:21 2012 No.2816343 Interested in science? How about Carl Sagan Philip K Dick William Gibson Arthur C Clarke

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 05:37:24 2012 No.2816352 The Descent by Jeff Long. It's exactly like the movie except 1000x more epic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 05:38:24 2012 No.2816353 >>2816017 i lol'd

Anonymous Tue Jul 17 05:45:23 2012 No.2816357

>>2815389
Try Margaret Atwood. I read Oryx and Crake in a day (450 pages).

It's a futuristic dystopia about arts vs sciences and bioengineering/gene splicing, survival (in several ways), and who knows. It's also considered post-9/11 criticism if that is interesting (although it was mostly written beforehand...)

Atwood grew up with a bunch of scientists, so she's confortable writing realistically about that stuff, and a lot of what she writes is possible today, but exaggerated. anyway, it's cool and the sequel came out some time ago, if he want to continue with it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 05:53:42 2012 No.2816365 >>2816352 >The Descent Is that the horror movie with the evil midgets in a cave?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 09:16:44 2012 No.2816675 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 09:19:44 2012 No.2816681 >>2816675 People already did that joke in this thread

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