FAVOURITE FICTION?

[SANDRO43]

Aside from MOB agency write-ups on FSUW , what is your favourite fictional read?

One of mine is novels on old sailing ships: I just put on my website a new page (http://www.floriani.it/RoyalNavy-eng.htm) listing its major authors and titles, for those who might share my interest in the subject.

[Larry1]

I love Forester's Hornblower series. 

[OlgaH]

 Professor Dowell's Head  (since my early teenage years)

[Boethius]

I can't really choose one, I read a novel a week, but I like Roberston Davies, and in particular, The Deptford Trilogy.
 

[GQBlues]

Aside from MOB agency write-ups on FSUW , what is your favourite fictional read?...

Anne Rice's trilogy, "Vampire Chronicles" + "The Tale of the Body Thief".

[Muzh]

El Lazarillo de Tormes (the original Tom Sawyer)

[OlgaH]

Anne Rice's trilogy, "Vampire Chronicles"   "The Tale of the Body Thief".

"Bloodsuckers" lover?   

Maybe you will enjoy the gothic novellas by Aleksey Tolstoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_the_Vourdalak

[Boethius]

For what my better half calls "bubble gum for the mind", Stieg Larsson's Milennium Trilogy.  The Swedish movies were good, too.

[OlgaH]

Viy by Gogol

[SANDRO43]

I can't really choose one, I read a novel a week

How about your colleague's ?

[SANDRO43]

In general, I like fiction that explains the technicalities of areas that I am not familiar with. Like, in a more gruesome vein:

 

[Ranetka]

Donna Tartt. The best contemporary classic IMHO.

[Boethius]

How about your colleague's ?

I'm not into John Grisham.  Rumpole of the Bailey, OTOH . . .

[Anotherkiwi]

Aside from MOB agency write-ups on FSUW , what is your favourite fictional read?

I was going to write "AnastasiaDate" when I saw the title of the thread    except that you wrote "favourite!"
 
Only one possibility - Falco!  A wonderful series of novels by Lindsey Davis about Marcus Didius Falco, an informer (private detective) in ancient Rome, jokingly referred to as "gumshoe to Vespasian."  At least the first four (maybe more) have been translated into Russian.

[jone]

Aside from MOB agency write-ups on FSUW , what is your favourite fictional read?

One of mine is novels on old sailing ships: I just put on my website a new page (http://www.floriani.it/RoyalNavy-eng.htm) listing its major authors and titles, for those who might share my interest in the subject.

I am a huge Jack Aubrey fan.  I tramp through old ships whenever I have the opportunity.

Thanks, Sandro!   Great list.

[Gator]

Sandro,
 
About 80 years before Forester grabbed pen and paper, an American wrote an important sailing novel.   So where is  Herman Melville?
   
Complex, difficult and very long.  I managed Moby Dick only because the writing is brilliant.   Although the novel was not about naval combat against another ship, the enemy was more formidable than a mere ship, as powerful as God, yet portrayed on the surface as evil.     
 
Melville did write Billy Budd, a story aboard an 18th C British warship.  No combat, just the struggle between innocence and evil, and justice vs. law. 

[GQBlues]

"Bloodsuckers" lover?    ..

Yeah, guilty as charged. Especially with Anne's work. I love her flair for mixing dark sinister ghouls with her penchant for intense romanticism. The movie didn't do justice to her work despite trying to capture the sexiness of her novel by casting Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise. They didn't even come close.

...Maybe you will enjoy the gothic novellas by Aleksey Tolstoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_of_the_Vourdalak

That's what my wife had been telling me. Definitely on the schedule...

[SANDRO43]

Sandro,
 
About 80 years before Forester grabbed pen and paper, an American wrote an important sailing novel.   So where is Herman Melville?
   
Complex, difficult and very long.  I managed Moby Dick only because the writing is brilliant. Although the novel was not about naval combat against another ship, the enemy was more formidable than a mere ship, as powerful as God, yet portrayed on the surface as evil.     
 
Melville did write Billy Budd, a story aboard an 18th C British warship.  No combat, just the struggle between innocence and evil, and justice vs. law.

Phil, you're right, I have both of Melville's books, but I limited my list to those dealing with sea fighting.