Books, Books and More Books!

[shais_mom]

My most favorite authors are Patricia Cornwell, Sandra Brown, Jonathon Kellerman, The writer for the Alex Cross series on the tip of my tongue but can't think, Kay Hooper (just read one of hers and LOVED IT) and Dean Koontz, and Mary Higgins Clark.
My all time favorite books are the Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz.
I do enjoy the occasional Danielle Steele novel also, not all the time tho.
I admit, I also love trashy love novels too. They are for the mindless reads that you don't even have to think about.
My sister and I have always LOVED to read and oddly enough tho we are vastly different we have similiar tastes in books.
When I was a kid, we loved Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Christopher Pike, and Trixie Beldon books. Ahhh those were the days.
My dad would get mad at us b/c we would take books with us to go to church or to my grandparents house which is less than 5 min away. You just never know if you might go somewhere else!!
One of my favorite things to do now is take a book or magazine with me and treat myself to a dinner out. I read while I wait for my food and while I eat. I don't have to worry about the phone of Keegan bugging me. I love it. A couple of my friends don't get it but I live alone so what is
the difference? I can eat out alone in peace or eat at home alone with distractions!
No contest!!!

[kohala]

I was raised with books, and doubt I could begin to list favorite authors. I think the romantic in me has yet to find anything that can replace Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

I also love the "Cat Who" series by Lillain Jackson Braun. (I had the great pleasure of meeting with our own Frostfrog today, and I'll be go to heck, he isn't Qwilleran, after all!)

I love Shakespeare, Camus, Ibsen, O'Neill, and many, many playwrights, but have to confess I haven't read any contemporary plays in some time.

I enjoy Grisham usually, Clancy, and most of the writers who write in the Military genre, along with most all intrigue writers, if the plot is well done. DeMille, Patterson, King, oh, man , I can't begin to list them all.

Patricia Cornwell rocks; I'm reading Isle of Dogs now - I saw a lot of not-so-good reviews on it, but I find it hilarious!! We have an area in our city (Adams Avenue, fellow San Diegans!) where Dadcta and I used to go and buy paperbacks, going through the entire works of Anne McCaffery, Miriam Bradley Zimmer, Piers Anthony, and so forth, for several years. I couldn't begin to tell you the great places these books have taken me (I love Xanth).

Jimmy Buffet has written some terrific books, I can re-read him ad infinitum!! And has anyone ever read Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams? Great cat book, from Tailchaser's perspective, not all fluffy and gooey.

I love Dickens - I remember reading my Grandmother's tiny-print, deep-red leather bound David Copperfield that grandpa had brought her from England when I was nine or ten. My family all are voracious readers. As a child, Grandma and I used to play a game caled "Authors" - ever hear of it? You used a suite of cards that represented different Author's books. So of course I had to read the books, too. Thank you, Grandma!!!!

Loved Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. I could read Steinbeck over and over and over -- and Edgar Allen Poe is the best with word artistry - have you ever read all his peotry? Whew!!!

In the non-fiction, I like anything by Bucky Fuller, Stephen Hawkings, anything to do with scientific ideas, and read and still re-read a great book called Godel-Escher-Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. It's a real mind puzzler/exerciser. I'd recommend it to anyone!

I have enjoyed most of the Danielle Steele I've read, and am opening up to some long over looked women writers.

My next exploration is going to be the world of Latin American authors. There are some great books out there!!!!!!

[Cincy'sMom]

Originally posted by shais_mom
, The writer for the Alex Cross series on the tip of my tongue but can't think,

James Patterson....Four Blind Mice, another Alex Cross, either just came out, or is coming out this week....


My best friends and I used to hang out and read. All summer long we would be at one of our houses, just reading. We would go to "the lake" Coldwater Lake, MI and all the way up we'dbe reading, even after dark, by using the headlights of the cars following us, used to make her parents so mad

[shais_mom]

Originally posted by Cincy'sMom


James Patterson....Four Blind Mice, another Alex Cross, either just came out, or is coming out this week....


My best friends and I used to hang out and read. All summer long we would be at one of our houses, just reading. We would go to "the lake" Coldwater Lake, MI and all the way up we'dbe reading, even after dark, by using the headlights of the cars following us, used to make her parents so mad

THANKS AMY!! YES I knew it was James something but....
My best friends in-laws have a cottage up in Coldwater MI also.
My parents never let us read at night, I tell them the newer vehicles with the lights in the back would have been perfect back then!!
I get my love of reading from my dad, my mom will occasionally read the books he reads. My dad loves Westerns and collects Louis L'Amour. I love going into bookstores and just smelling the new books. My dream would be to own my own bookstore where I can take my dog too!!

[Dakota's Mommy]

For some reason, I really don't like to read. There are very few books that I can personally get into. I will read V.C. Andrews books, but lately that's about all I get into when it comes to books. I don't know how that is though, my entire family likes to read!

[iceyshiver21]

me and my friend Jen love V.C. Andrews! I'm getting her the new sieries for her birthday, we always are reading. Currently im out of books, ive read them all like five time over, I read ALASKA seven times and thats a pretty big book 1720 pages or somthing like that.

[lynnestankard]

I just adore reading and if I've not got at least two books as spares I have to go and................................buy books!!

My favourite authors include - Jean Auel. John Grisham. J K Rowling. Roddy Doyle. Kathy Reichs. Patrica Cornwell. Maeve Binchy. Barbara Kingsolver. Lillian Jackson Braun. David Pelzer.Sue Townsend. E V Thompson. Rosie Thomas. Rosamund Pilcher. Nick Hornby. And have just discovered Tammi Hoag. Luckily Don's also mad on reading!

Lynne

[mugsy]

I used to be a real book hound, but now I get easily frustrated because I read so slowly that I haven't read in a book in forever other than history articles and such. I know that's really bad for a teacher to say, but, alas, it's true...but...my favorite books are:

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Shining by Stephen King
the novelette The Langoliers by Stephen King

[Soledad]

Some of my favourites (that I can remember) are:

from childhood -

A Wrinkle In Time
Ramona series
anything about the Saints
anything on Greek mythology
selected parts from the Bible
Judy Blume anything
Christopher Pike
V.C. Andrews
Nancy Drew series
Time travel series
Tuck Everlasting
Where the Red Fern Grows
Old Yeller

from adulthood -

anything by Noam Chomsky
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
Michael Moore
David Sedaris - Naked, Barrel Fever
anything by Flannery O'Connor
Bridget Jones' diaries
White Teeth


I know there are more, just can't think of them all!

[Frostfrog]

"Arnold Goes To Town," by Ermaline Amanda - a Frostfrog book review


I began to read "Arnold Goes To Town" with a sense of eager anticpation, having read such glowing reviews in all the major literary journals. Yet, I finished it only with great difficulty and pain, for truly, "Arnold Goes To Town" is the worst, most boring, book I have ever read.

I hope never to read another one like it and, in fact, had I have had any inkling of just how horrid a read this book is, I would have flung myself in front of my electric train before I would have opened even the first page.

It is true that in the book, Arnold actually does go to town, but so what?

Who hasn't gone to town?

I go there myself sometimes.

My dog has gone to town and so have all the cats, each one of them, though, for the most part, they haven't been too pleased with the experience - Pistol being the lone exception for, truly, he does so love to ride in the car, which is the very vehicle we use to go to town.

This is a terrible book and I highly recommend it.

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by Frostfrog
"Arnold Goes To Town," by Ermaline Amanda - a Frostfrog book review
... It is true that in the book, Arnold actually does go to town, but so what?

Who hasn't gone to town?

I go there myself sometimes.

My dog has gone to town and so have all the cats ...

Ha ha ha, LOL!!! Welcome back Frostfrog. I hope you had a great time away.

I just unpacked a box of books and found my copy of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. One of my favourite books ever. It's not a first edition but still a reprint from 1939 that I found in a secondhand shop. There's a nice inscription to the original recipient; when I see those I wonder what has happened to the people who receive the books.

My favorite writers : Umberto Eco
Charles Dickens
Jean M.Auel
Tolkien
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Agatha Christie
and of course some famous Flemish writers : Aster Berkhof , Guido Gezelle , Herman Teirlynck , Brigitte Raskin , Ward Ruyslinck

These Flemish writers are unknown in the USA , I suppose ???

[Cataholic]

I love to read, and read every night before I go to sleep. I seem to stick to the same type books- legal thrillers or detective/cop murder mysteries...for those of you that like Grisham...I suggest the author Stuart Woods...he is fantastic. I have read most of his stuff, and it keeps my interest.

[Crikit]

this could be a long list, I'm around books 8 hours a day five days a week so I've got way to many books that I have and or want...way to many.

Okay let's see

Anything by Banana Yoshimoto you have to like books by someone who's name contains a fruit in it.

Obasan by Joy Kogawa my grade 11 teacher suggested it for a Canadian author project and I just fell in love with that book.

Xanth series by Piers Anthony

Susan Conant books can't wait for the one that's coming out in paperback soon.

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

All Agatha Christie Mysteries that DON'T have Perot in them...he just annoys me.

Jack London both his novels and short stories

the Murder she wrote series that's now out on books.

Bunnicula by James Howe tehehehe it's just so cute.

Gordon Korman books I read them when I was younger and well I read them sometimes on my brakes

Tamora Pierce

Fannie Flagg. Some of the funniest books you can read.

Curious George just love that little Monkey

The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern

There's more to the list but I'm not fully awake yet so I can't think of them right now.

[anna_66]

I love to read, but it seems like I never have the time now that I have a computer
But when I do read, my all time Favorite is:
Stephen King

Or any other Horror novel!