I noticed that there was not a section on books so I took a chance and decided to start this thread under movies, music and TV... Just wondered if there were any other avid readers in this community. I have a 5 book a week habit...It annoys my wife but I do it anyway lol My fiction interests include: Dean Koontz Janet Evanovich John Sandford Scott Turow Dan Brown Non-fiction: Historical Dave Barry Lewis Grizzard Erma Bombeck Biographies Serial Killers
I love Prehistoric novels like Jean Auel's and Linda Lay Shuler's. I also like the Dune Series by Frank Herbert and His Son's And all other fiction war adventure novels... even the most gory ones... ^^
Not going to capitalize them because I'm lazy, but will separate them by commas. Stranger in a strange land, job: a comedy of justice, puppet-masters, the giver, 1984, enders game, a brave new world, pendragon, artemis fowl, lost years of merlin, syrup, the stand. All of them fiction.
Patricia Wrede is one of my all-time favorite writers. I've been re-reading some of her books over the summer. A friend is trying to get me into Lauren K. Hamilton, but I'm not terribly interested in the story.
Wow. Quite a response so far....I also enjoyed the book Water For Elephants...It was a bit of a slow starter for me but it really came around. There is a rumor on the net (and they are always true you know lol) that Robert Pattison will star in the film version of this book.
I have been interested in serial killers since I was in high school. It is fascinating to me how some transforms from a regular person to a remorsless killing machine. I believe the book on John Wayne Gacy was the best of them all. A well respected businessman and leader of his community, volunteered as a clown for the local childrens hospital and all the while he was killing young men and burying them under the floors of his home.
I'm so glad you started this thread! I'm a total book nerd. I prefer to read about 3 at a time also. One serious fiction, a classic literature piece, and a lighter comedy book. Right now I am reading Anna Karenina and My Booky Wook by Russell Brand.
anyone who read the unbearable lightness of being? i forgot the author. but that book is sick. i have mixed feelings with paolo coelho although i still try to read his works. so far the ones i like are 11minutes and the alchemist. boo for veronica decides to die <-- super lame
Hey, Glad you like the thread....I have been a book nerd my entire life. It drives my wife crazy because she does not like to read...Most of my friends all tell me that "watching the movie" is so much better and saves time...Well I am a firm believer in the fact that you lose so much in the movie. Now I am not trying to down movies here...I love movies as well...But directors have to add only those elements that are necessary for the story and you lose a lot of the dialogue and such in the movies because of time constraints and so on. So for me books are the true escape. I too enjoy the classics. I have recently started reading Dante's Inferno...I love it and like to read it every year if possible.
I love the classics the most. I love mysteries and even some mysteries that most women like myself don't usually like such as books by Tom Clancy and W.E.B Griffin (war books). I absolutely adore war novels. They are usually action packed and epic. I also love the vampire novels. I know I'm going to get ragged on for this but I love the Twilight series.
I'm not a Twilight fan, just couldn't get into it. But, totally understand those who can. Have you ever read Charlain Harris's vampire series Angel?
BTW...it would be great if there was a permanent reader's forum. I'm too much of a newbie to know how to suggest that to the mods. =)
I too loved the Twilight books. It took me a while to get involved with them...If it had not been for one of my employees buying the first book for me for Christmas a couple years ago I may never have read them. However, once I got the first one down I was hooked. I appreciated the simplicity of the books myself. They were not hard to read at all and you could easily put one down and pick it back up again without a problem.
Janet is one of my top ten authors....I just finished Sizzling Sixteen and loved every word of it. She has a flare for making her books so fun to read.
saw it in there, 1984 and A Brave New World are two of my favorites definitely. I've never read the book about John Wayne Gacy, but I've seen sort of a documentary sort of deal on him. What's the author's name? I'll give it a shot.