favorite books thread

[Tiger.Lily]

David & Leigh Eddings.. The Belgariad & The Mallorean for starters

*Squee* *Love*


Francesca Lia Block
Lewis Carroll
Louise Rennison
Meg Cabot
Rita Ciresi
Tracy Chevalier

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Belgariad series and The Mallorean series by David Eddings
A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlings
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Preacher comics by Garth Ennis
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Walking Dead comics by Robert Kirkman
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
... and many mythology fables, and fairy tales

 

[Deleted member 66627]

Midnite Cafe - Anne Rice.

I have a kazillion more, but shant list them.

 

[Aragon]

I wonder if anyone has read anything by Clive Cussler?

I started to read 'Treasure' or something like that, and I didn't get far before I had to get rid of it. And from the opinions of other people, his work is much the same throughout.

I utterly abhor his work, but does anyone else share that view?

I personally love to read Clive Cussler. I am a big fan of the Dirk Pitt series and love the mythos he throws in. If you don't like him, don't read Leon Uris then. Uris and Cussler are about the same in the way they throw in history. Nor will you like my books.

 

[subZer0]

If you don't like him, don't read Leon Uris then. Uris and Cussler are about the same in the way they throw in history.

Thank you for that tip.

Nor will you like my books.

Not sure why you said that; but, ok, I won't read them.

 

[Aragon]

Not sure why you said that; but, ok, I won't read them.

I incorporate the feelings of the area and the history. I also prefer to use characters that are a product of the area and the times. I use psychology of the situation to move the plots, just as Cussler and Uris do.

 

[subZer0]

I incorporate the feelings of the area and the history. I also prefer to use characters that are a product of the area and the times. I use psychology of the situation to move the plots, just as Cussler and Uris do.

Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying that. I was trying to get at why you might have added why I wouldn't like your books; the post was only about Cussler. I'm not trying to be derogatory, as I realise one could read this post as such (please don't take it that way), but I was just curious.

Don't most authors use characters that are a product of the area and of the times? And don't they use the psychology of the situation to move the plots - if they don't, surely the plots wouldn't make much sense?

 

[BlackestLily]

I like this thread!

-I Am American (And so can you!) - Colbert

-The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King (books and now comics. The artwork in them is phenomenal)

-Scary Stories - Alvin Schwartz

- The Black House - Stephen King

- Strangers In Paradise - Terry Moore

- Classical Myth - Powell (as my name suggests, I'm hugely into mythologies, whether it be Roman, Greek, Egyptian, or others)

- Conversations with God - Neale Walsch

- Maniac McGee - Jerry Spinelli

- Amy Tan's works (Such as Opposite of Fate or the Joy Luck Club)

- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

- Amphigorey - Edward Gorey (Gorey's whole series is excellent)

- Grimm's Fairy Tale Collection

- Harry Potter series - Yes, I am that nerd 🙂

- Post Secret books

- Poems, short stories, and collections of Poe

- I am 8 bit - Gibson

- Deep Thoughts collections - Jack Handey

- Golden Compass series - Philip Pullman

- America - Jon Stewart

- Select stories and comic series by Neil Gaimon

- Ranma 1/2 - a very well written manga series by Rumiko Takahashi

- The Rough Faced Girl - Martin/Shannon (Native American cinderella)

- Sadako - Coerr/ Young (a very good children's book, heartbreaking story of the effects after wars)

- Clive Barker and Garth Ennis are also EXCELLENT dark comic book writers. Their work is gold to me.

- Anne Rice has a great mummy comic series from back in the day

There are just so many books I've loved and read that I couldn't possibly list them all. I am, simply put, a bookworm!

 

[Aragon]

Oh, OK. Thanks for clarifying that. I was trying to get at why you might have added why I wouldn't like your books; the post was only about Cussler. I'm not trying to be derogatory, as I realise one could read this post as such (please don't take it that way), but I was just curious.

Don't most authors use characters that are a product of the area and of the times? And don't they use the psychology of the situation to move the plots - if they don't, surely the plots wouldn't make much sense?

I would fall into the same genre as Cussler. Quite a bit of history thrown in for the characters to use and deal with. I also have some Uris style going on.

 

[Mislaffsalot]

List of my fave authors (cuz there are too many books from each to list here)...

Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb
Sandra Brown
Dean Koontz
Stuart Woods
Karen Robards
Christine Feehan
Kelley Armstrong
J.R. Ward
Dennis Lehane
Lara Adrian
Julie Garwood
Judith McNaught
Cindy Gerard
Cherry Adair
Kay Hooper

...and probably more that I can't think of right now...

 

[penny lane]

I Am Legend/Richard Matheson
1984/George Orwell
Goodbye Columbus/Philip Roth
The Stand/King
Barrel Fever, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays On Ice/David Sedaris
Shopgirl/Steve Martin
High Fidelity/Nick Hornby
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy/Adams
His Dark Materials Collection/Philip Pullman (I haven't read all of them yet, but I have a feeling I'll like them)

 

[brianspencer66]

Lots but one comes to mind for me. "Up in the old hotel" by Joseph Mitchell. This is a book of oddball characters most notably a vagabond named Joe Gould. Mitchell also writes about old New York places like McSorleys bar and grill which is still around to this day. But Ive read Baldwin, Voonegut, Kerouac, Alice Walker, Ann Rice, Thomas Wolf, Claude Brown, John Irving etc ...

 

[Headsnap]

Modern stuff would be The Last Legion, Band Of Brothers, Never Die Alone, The Tao Of Jeet Kune Do, and the QI (Quite Interesting) Book which taught me that the original Middle English word for crocodile was "cockadrille", which in my opinion is a far, far superior name for this animal.

Classics; Hamlet, The Merchant Of Venice, Henry V ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."), The Canterbury Tales, To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus = best character evaire), the book about the American Depression whose title I forget for some reason despite it being one of the absolute best books I've ever read (it had George and Lenny in it and I studied it in school... fuck me why can't I remember what it was called?!?!)The Book Of Five Rings, Return Of The Native, The Saxon's Creed ("approach death as you approach your bed at the end of your labours", the Saxons were a seriously hard bunch of buggers), and pretty much anything by Dr Seuss or Edward Lear.

 

[meangry]

Modern stuff would be The Last Legion, Band Of Brothers, Never Die Alone, The Tao Of Jeet Kune Do, and the QI (Quite Interesting) Book which taught me that the original Middle English word for crocodile was "cockadrille", which in my opinion is a far, far superior name for this animal.

Classics; Hamlet, The Merchant Of Venice, Henry V ("We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."), The Canterbury Tales, To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus = best character evaire), the book about the American Depression whose title I forget for some reason despite it being one of the absolute best books I've ever read (it had George and Lenny in it and I studied it in school... fuck me why can't I remember what it was called?!?!)The Book Of Five Rings, Return Of The Native, The Saxon's Creed ("approach death as you approach your bed at the end of your labours", the Saxons were a seriously hard bunch of buggers), and pretty much anything by Dr Seuss or Edward Lear.

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck?

 

[Headsnap]

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck?

You are now officially my best friend forever.

 

[meangry]

Tell me again about how we're going to have place of our own some day, and be happy keeping rabbits. And we'll chase these cats away!

 

[Headsnap]

Tell me again about how we're going to have place of our own some day, and be happy keeping rabbits. And we'll chase these cats away!

*BANG!*
*dead*
*sad 🙁*

 

[Ekdall98]

favorite book

well my favorite book has to be the gospel according to larry by janet tashjian

 

[naughtylucy]

I'm listing just the authors as well, in no particular order...

Margaret Atwood (seeing her at the Edinburgh festival this year! Hooray!)
Zoe Strachan
Arundhati Roy
Angela Carter
Achmat Dangor
Haruki Murakami
Mordecai Richler
Liz Lochhead
Toni Morrison
James Kelman
Susan Sontag
Anita Desai
Yann Martel
Zadie Smith
Roald Dahl
Vikram Seth
Helen Dunmore
Carol Shields
Zora Neale Hurston
A.L. Kennedy
Leonard Cohen
Annie Proulx (and E Annie Proulx)
Carol Ann Duffy (seeing her at the festival as well! Yippee!)
Rageh Omaar
Banana Yoshimoto
Frantz Fanon
Armistead Maupin
Sappho 😉
Evelyn Lau
Amos Oz
Iain Banks (but NOT Iain M Banks!!)
Jack Kerouac
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sylvia Plath
Allen Ginsberg
Gabriel Gracia Marquez
Carson McCullers

 

[Musicroxmysox]

I love to read. Yay! Here are some of my favorite authors:

-Anne Rice
-J. K. Rowling
-Louisa May Alcott
-J. R. R. Tolkien
-Margaret Atwood
-Alice Sebold
-Stephenie Meyer
-Gregory Maguire
-Chaim Potok
-Garth Nix
-C.S. Lewis
-J.M. Barrie
-Laura Halse Anderson
-Shel Silverstein
-Rohald Dahl
-Ellen Hopkins

I could go on for a while, but I will stop there.