Book Readers

[ticklish_jill]

I read mainly fiction. Horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy. I am also a big fan of young adult novels because many times they are better written that regular adult novels. Anyone who likes horror should try Blood and Chocolate or The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klauss

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

I like biographies, sports books, history, and how to books (home improvement, auto repair) and books about games like chess or backgammon that have the rules and situations that you can practice on.

 

[Mimi]

I read mainly fiction. Horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy. I am also a big fan of young adult novels because many times they are better written that regular adult novels. Anyone who likes horror should try Blood and Chocolate or The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klauss

Blood and Chocolate is an awesome book! It's geared more toward a young adult sort of audience, but anyone can enjoy it. I had checked out The Silver Kiss as well, but never got around to reading it before it had to be returned. Perhaps I should look into it again.

Mimi 😉

 

[Ignatz]

...I spent the certificate on two from George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' series(like Ignatz, a big fan here). Dunno when I'll have a chance to actually read them. Possible this Summer. I've yet to be let down by his work...

You know, Fraser has pulled off something almost unparalleled in the annals of literature. Even the greatest ficitonal characters can get tiresome after awhile. Tom Sawyer should have been left out of the final chapters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Tom Sawyer, Detective and Tom Sawyer Abroad were mere potboilers. Conan Doyle got tired of Sherlock Holmes and it shows in the second half of the canon. Many people feel that Shakespeare trotted out Falstaff one time too many in The Merry Wives of Windsor. And even our buddy Travis McGee got a little old and tired toward the end of the series.

But Flashy just gets better and better with age! I've read the two most recent, Flashman and the Tiger and Flashman on the March and the old rascal is funnier than ever. When he encountered...well, I'd better not cite incidents. Don't want to be a spoiler if you're about to read one of those for the first time.

The only other recurring characters I can recall who didn't overstay their welcome are Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.

 

[Mz Chaos]

Anything by:
Dean Koontz, Michael Palmer, Robin Cook, John Saul, F. Paul Wilson, Stephen King, Ann Rule or Edgar Allen Poe

 

[Shred]

I read a lot about Buddhism but it sounds too hard for me. Let me give you an example...today I bought a framed Taxi Driver Robert Deniro picture. Upon carrying it from the car to my apt. I dropped it and broke the glass. I threw a cursing fit worthy of a sailor. In Buddhism youre not supposed to care about things like that (material things) but I mean come on were human!

 

[DEV]

Terry Prachett books for me. The City Watch series is a particualary good read.

 

[Butterfly wings]

I read mainly fiction. Horror, mystery, suspense, fantasy. I am also a big fan of young adult novels because many times they are better written that regular adult novels. Anyone who likes horror should try Blood and Chocolate or The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klauss

Both of thoughs sound like very good books. Wow so many books that i want to buy and read.

Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein also sounds like a good book.


A chilling debut, in the best gothic style, about the odd goings-on in a girls' boarding school in the late 1960s. If Picnic at Hanging Rock had been written by Anne Rice, the results might have approximated this tale, which is at once lurid and refined. Presented as a teenager's journal, it's written by an unnamed narrator who is a student at the Brangwyn School outside Philadelphia. Highly intellectual and somewhat aloof, she was sent away to Brangwyn after her father (a well-regarded New York poet) committed suicide some years earlier and her mother sank into a deep depression. At school, she associates with a fairly intense clique of girls who argue over books and ideas in a way that only the young can. They run a wide range of personalities-from the timid Lucy (quiet and restrained to the point of invisibility) to the brash Charley (who eventually leaves for another school and becomes a flower child). Two of the strangest are Dora (a pothead intellectual who quotes Nietzsche from memory and plans to write a novel based on his philosophy) and the intense loner Ernessa. One night Dora is found dead, having fallen from the roof of her dormitory. As shocked as they are, the girls are not terribly surprised: Walking along the gutters was a common prank, after all, which most of them had done as dares at one time or another. But rumors begin to circulate that Dora's death had a sinister edge and was somehow brought on by Ernessa. Was Ernessa a bad influence? A provocateur? A spoiled brat and a liar? Or was she-a vampire? The girls are taking an English class called "Writers of the Supernatural," after all, and it's possible that all that Hawthorne, Saki, and Le Fanu has gone to theirheads. Or there may be more to it than that. . . . Genuinely gripping: a brilliantly original tale written in a completely believable adolescent voice.

 

[Mastertank1]

Eclectic? Diverse?

Books I'm reading right now include;
a Scifi novel called Evolution
a history of the siege of Leningrad
500 nations, a history of the North American Indian

On my shelf waiting for me to get to them are;
2 more Scifi novels
The Popes Against The Jews
A history of machine guns
The hidden history of the human race
rising sun in the Pacific
Vows of silence-the abuse of power in the papacy of John Paul II
An atlas of the holocaust

You could say I thirst for knowledge.
You could say I'm weird.
Most say both.

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

 

[TicklishLurker]

What do you like to read when it's time for you to sit down with a book in your hand?

I like reading horror books (About vampires haunted places etc)

I read more fiction then non-fiction.

I read a varity of things. Since I work in a library I often pick whatever interests me. Children's books, mysteries, fantasies, horror, sci-fi - I once read a three volume series on the history of England, VERY boring because the writer wanted to focus on facts and dates rather then people and personalities - right now I'm reading a cheap romance novel about a woman who gets thrown back in time to 1920s New York and falls for a famous composer named Alec Aaronson who died in 1935 in a plane crash called Rapsody In Time. Before that I was reading a cheap romance about a woman who falls for a vampire. And a book called Born To Kvetch which is all about Yiddish and the real meaning of some of the phrases. (Which, granted, was really written for people who actually speak Yiddish but I found interesting all the same.)

I'm thinking about reading CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters next. I haven't decided yet.

I think I like mysteries best. Romances I read for two reasons - 1: I have no romance in my life. 2: I consider them sorbet for the mind. It clears me up when I've read too many serious things.

 

[Butterfly wings]

I'm thinking about reading CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters next. I haven't decided yet.

My Dad has read that book by him. He has alot of books by CS Lewis that he has read. My Dad is a avid book reader he loves books he reads up to 3 books at a time weather he has finished the books or not.

 

[Butterfly wings]

For all the book readers here.

What is one book that you own that you can read cover to cover alot without it ever getting old?

 

[Strider]

What is one book that you own that you can read cover to cover alot without it ever getting old?

It's not a book, it's a series, but A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin

 

[TicklishLurker]

For all the book readers here.

What is one book that you own that you can read cover to cover alot without it ever getting old?

Oh there's actually several of those that fit that bill for me.

Dracula

The Phantom Of The Opera

All of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.

The Angel Of The Opera (A Holmes/Phantom cross-over)

All of the Harry Potter books.

All of Eion Colfer's Artemis Fowl books and another book by him called The Wish List.

Dylan Shaffer's Misdemenor Man and I Right The Wrongs.

 

[Tarzan]

For all the book readers here.

What is one book that you own that you can read cover to cover alot without it ever getting old?

Tough one, but the one I've read the most over the years is 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. First read it when I was like 10 or 11 and have read it about 8 times since. Holds up really well. Plus I'm due for another reading of it pretty soon.

Close second would be David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (yeah, I'm a sucker for the classics).

 

[Butterfly wings]

20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

That book right there is like a classic among classics in book novels.

 

[chickles_:)]

Hiya!
Hey great thread, Flutter-by! 😛

Hmm, like many here i'm a book worm too. Sadly i have a condition that prevents me from reading very quickly. as such i find myself forced to read books only once.
So what do i read? I have subscriptions to history and writers mags which i read either while working out at the gym or over morning coffee. i get a spiritual mag which forms part of my devotional life.

As for books, i prefer history and speculative fiction - be it SF or Fantasy. Also romance novels.😛 I find myself gravitating to female authors, no particular reason -just happens. Maybe it's because they tend to focus on female protagonists, though David Weber and James Alan Gardner are notable exceptions. I'm reading one now by Jane Lindskold which i'm very much enjoying called The Buried Pyramid.

This is a great thread! I'm going to have to try some of the book suggestions here!

Many blessings
Chickles

 

[Butterfly wings]

So for all the mystery book fans what type of mystery books do you like reading the most? who done it type books? or suspense novels?

 

[Butterfly wings]

Hiya!
Hey great thread, Flutter-by! 😛
This is a great thread! I'm going to have to try some of the book suggestions here!
Many blessings
Chickles

Thanks chickles : ) 😛

Feel free to post your book knowledge on this thread anytime you like.

 

[WraithTickler]

Grade A bookworm here. I mostly read Science Fiction and Fantasy, though I enjoy a few classics and very much love reading history. Currently, I've been going through some Austin and George R.R. Martin, and would highly recommend Lewis' Screwtape Letters to anyone even considering reading them- though try and get an edition that has the short piece "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" along with it.

 

[Shred]

The Garbage People by John Gilmore and Ron Kenner

 

[Butterfly wings]

It's good to see that thier are so many book worms here.

Does anybody know of any good true crime books that you own or have read recently?

 

[ThatPercussionGuy]

I've read quite a bit of mystery/horror like many others here. John Grisham, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Anne Rice. My favorite however is Brian Lumley. Anyone that enjoys vampire novels really ought to give this author a try. The series he's written is called 'Necropscope'. There's an option for a movie now which I pray will be made. Website for this author is http://www.brianlumley.com, check it out when you get time.

Anyone else read this series?

Tckleguy

 

[tulipangel]

Right now I'm reading a book called "Lies at the Alter" its a relationship book! Good to read before the BIG DAY! There are little "tests" in the book that both you and your partner answer and compare answers and talk about why you each answer the way you did! Has questions on EVERYTHING, things I would have never thought to ask before walking the long walk.... Stuff you might want to know like how you want to raise kids, if you want pets in your home, how you think you might want to retire.... all the stuff we block out due to the excitement of "I need a big white dress", "I have to have the BEST cake ever"! Its not only for people looking to get married but its helpful if your already married.... Its even good to read if your single to get a better idea of what you will tolerate and what you wont when you do get with someone! GREAT BOOK! I RECCOMEND IT!

 

[Wendi]

I like traditional romance novels; classics like Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, historicals (sometimes hystericals), the occasional fantasy/horror e.g. Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, mysteries, and the odd non-fiction title.