Book Suggestions

They say you can tell how a person thinks judging on the books he reads. I don't think that's totally true. What's true though is that books bring in every person 's life a different perspective. Books ,unlike television ,wake up the "sleeping " imagination of every person .Nobody has the same opinion about a book .Ok ,two persons can agree that a book is good ,but every one of them will explain it otherwise .That's why also some books ,like "Lord of the rings " , can't be turned into movies ,shouldn't be turned in a movie. You have to be attracted by a book to turn it into a script. Anyway I love books for lots of different reasons...they fill my hours when I am alone...they make me forget about unpleasant staff when I am troubled...they make me imagine about times in the past with knights and kings , about places I have never traveled , experiences I have never lived and they brighten the horizon of my mind ,they make me dream of many magical things...and occasionally they sharpen the mind by solving mysteries in novels of authors like Agatha Christie.

Anyway ,in these page I suggest some of the books that have really touched me with information about the style the writers write.

  J.R.R Tolkien:

  1. Lord of The Rings
  2. The Hobbit

One of the best books ,tale ,I have ever read .Hobbits ,fairys ,dark lords ,black riders ,black lords ,unexpected heroes in a whole world of fantasy .For me , I think it is extraordinary to create such a world in a book and to attract readers from all ages .Lord of the rings describes with a whole new meaning the battle between Good and Evil .Evil may be beaten but won 't ever give up for good .People unite only when it is needed .That happens in the Middle - earth as well. When everything seems lost good will prevail and all the world will be happy. Friendship ,heroism , unity ,hope and the wish for everlasting peace ( Middle - Earth was in peace and it will be again - The hobbits , Gandalf , Aragorn . )

Paolo Coelho :

  1. The Devil and Misses Prim
  2. Veronica decides to die
  3. In the shore of River Piedra I sat down and cried
  4. The Alchemist
  5. 11 minutes

One of the most important authors of our times. He talks about life , the obstacles that come in life ,how a person learns to value things through misery ,boredom ,moral dilemmas and love .(My favorite is the second one)

Christian Jacq :

  1. L'affaire Toutankhamon
  2. The judge of Egypt (trilogy)

Robert Harris:

  1. Code Enigma
  2. Archangel
  3. Fatherland
  4. Pompei

One of my favorites authors - a master in political novels - presents history through a whole different view , what would have happened if Hitler had prevailed , if Stalin 's rule hasn't ended ,and how was the 2nd world war won. Very nice writing style and his books keep you till the end - you don't want to leave them.

David Ambrose (http://www.davidambrose.com)

  1. Superstition:My personal favorite book .In the boundaries between Normal and Paranormal there comes this book .A meeting of Hitchcock with Hawking , who defines reality , history ,what if all the things we take for real wasn't exactly like that .An experiment leads some scientists to question all the things they believed in and go too far into an unexpected mystery. Do parallel worlds exist and how was history defined ? Can a ghost be destroyed or it's them or the ghost they created? Rational and irrational exist together...you can't have one without the other.
  2. Coincidence
  3. A memory of Demons
  4. The discrete charm of Charlie Monk
  5. Mother of God

Mark Twain

  1. Huckleberry Finn
  2. Tom Sowyer

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

  1. Chimaira
  2. La Torre della Solitudine (Ο πύργος της μοναξιάς)
  3. Il Faraone Delle Sabie (Ο Φαραώ της Άμμου)
  4. The Last Legion
  5. Spartan
  6. Alexander The Trilogy ( Child of a dream, The sands of Ammon, The ends of the Earth)
  7. L'oracolo (Ο χρησμός)
  8. Il tiranno (Ο τύρρανος των Συρακουσών)

Dan Brown (http://www.danbrown.com)

  1. The Da Vinci Code
  2. Digital Fortress
  3. Angel and Demons
  4. Deception Point

Steven Pressfield (http://www.stevenpressfield.com/)

  1. Οι τελευταίες Αμαζόνες
  2. Οι πύλες της Φωτιάς

J.K.Rowling:

  1.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  2.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  4. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
  5. Harry Pooter and The Order of Phoenix

and last but not least :

(They have written too many books - both of them - have read almost all )