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Posted: 1/14/2006 2:55:29 PM |
....but lately it is all British or Canadian mysteries.
WhoTheFox... any Canadian ones you would recommmend? | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 2:57:27 PM | Peter Robinson
he ROCKS
I love
PD James
Ruth Rendell
Ian Rankin
but on the flip side I am also a HUGE fan of Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman for you fantasy and horror buffs
Read an awewsomely hilarious book recently
The Psycho Ex Game...Merrill Markoe and Andy Prieboy
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Posted: 1/14/2006 3:04:09 PM | thats great, thanks bunches!
Ive been looking for some good books to get into ... great thread! | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 4:24:31 PM | best book evar:
a canticle for leibowitz by walter miller jr. read it.
also, if you like stuff that is thought procoking try kurt vonnegut jr.
for something hip, how about another roadside attraction by robbins, or any of the kerouac classics
house of leaves is an excellent creepy canadian classic.
im pleasantly surprized by the laack of praise for dan brown in here. i guess he is enjoyable if you enjoy flat characters, silly cliffhangers every nine pages, contrived, unoriginal plots, and an absence of insight. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 4:38:04 PM | | My favorite book is called "Avoiding Redundancy and Methods to Avoid it" I really like it and I find it worked well for me. I find myself avoiding redundant behavior all the time now. It's my favorite book. its called "Avoiding Redundancy and Methods to Avoid it". | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 4:38:31 PM | Hmm, some all time faves:
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Possesion - A. S. Byatt
The short stories of Edgar Allen Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald (love "A Diamond as Big as The Ritz")
And of course (hanging head in pseudo shame) just about every Stephen King novel. Read The Stand as a kid and was hooked. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 4:57:23 PM | jagdeb
re diana gabaldon
i am halfway through and reading way too late at night. i am enjoying it a lot more than the 5th one (drums of autumn?). this has the typical historical relevance etc etc and of course claire has to be kidnapped by a gang of ruffians and have her breasts exposed but i am really enjoying it. i got it for christmas. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 6:03:35 PM | Hmm...well, two that I've read and reread many times, would be Frederick Forsythe's "The Day of the Jackal" and Sidney Sheldon's "Master of the Game" ( although that was the only Sheldon book I really enjoyed, I have to admit). For the classics, would definitely be Dante, Virgil and especially Homer...and I also loved Machiavelli's "The Art of War" as well.
I used to love a good Clive Cussler novel as well, but not so much for the past few years...just got to be too much "same old, same old" kind of thing. Still read Martha Grimes mysteries though and love them, and also a lot of true crime ones....I'm also addicted for some weird reason to Jack the Ripper books...that mystery will never be solved, but I like reading new ideas about his possible identity for some weird reason. And I also loved Diana Gabaldon's books, especially "Outlander"....love historical stories like that. | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 6:40:30 PM | | I have just gotten into the Outlander series and enjoying every minute of it... | |
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Posted: 1/14/2006 8:13:55 PM | I read so many books its hard to pick favourites - love the Outlander series
Other favourites would be another series called Women of the Otherworld by Kelly Armstrong -good stories, and fun!
Bitten
Stolen
Dimestore Magic
Industrial Magic
Haunted
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier - the movie was good, but book is SO much better.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 3:28:41 AM | reading the book before the movie is my deal. Absolute favourite book: Memoirs of a Geisha
Anybooks by Amy Tan, Joy Kogawa (local author), Jade Peony can't remember the author, April Raintree: Beatrice Cullerton, My Mother's Ghost: Margaret Buffie was made into a movie and aired on CBC.
My favourite gendre is historical romance, sometimes contemporary romance for escapism. Lately reading nothing but textbooks etc= boring!!
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Posted: 1/15/2006 6:53:30 AM | sweetness-one
I'm also addicted for some weird reason to Jack the Ripper books...that mystery will never be solved,
Did you read Patricia Cornwell's Portrait of a Killer??,.it's her theory,..... she thinks she's solved it,. and spent WAAAAAY too much money on it too. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:49:47 AM | | whodeletedme...^^^no I haven't but thanks for the tip, I'll definitely check that book out...lol, they ALL spend way too much money on trying to prove their theories, but then again I spend way too much money on buying books about them, lol. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 9:02:44 AM | | Patricia Cornwalls theory is pretty convincing to me. I read the best bits of the book, and she has her facts in order I thought. That being said, I have seen other experts dissect and rip her apart (pardon the pun)... ;) Hell of I know | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 9:06:07 AM | "Piers Anthony" is great if you enjoy fantasy, The adept seiries is one I would recommend...
I also liked the clan of "The Clan of The Cave Bear" series, however she takes a long time between books...needs to write much faster..
"Anne Rice" is good too but she tends to babble quite a bit, I think "The Witching Hour" was her best book...
Of coarse my all time favorite is definately "Topping From Below" by "Laura Reese"...But you have to be a special type of person to read this, methinks.... | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 9:54:06 AM | Anything by Neal Stephenson
Anything by****Francis
George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series
Anything by Patrick O'Brian
I'm currently reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Good read. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 10:02:01 AM | Jean Auel's Earth's Children series ( Clan of the Cave Bear, Valley of the Horses, Mammoth Hunters, Shelters of Stone ) was a good read,. the second book had some pretty dry spots but over all the "facts" of the time were well presented,....sadly the books became too predictable and soap opera-ish by the last one,....supposedly one more coming to end it all,... SOME year!!!
Certainly noticed a lot of children being named AYLA after these books came out though LOL. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 1:19:41 PM | no doubt! i am a preschool teacher and i saw my share of aylas. and the books did definitely go downhill about the third one.
SO WHO IS JACK THE RIPPER????? | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 3:58:04 PM | Walter Sickert is probably Jack the Ripper.
Or, it is a syphilitic surgeon who just wasn't impressed with his contracting of that disease and just was too smart for Scotland Yard...
Angela's Ashes is an amazing book, I read it three times. 'Tis is good too, but perhaps not quite as good. Frank McCourt has a new one "Teacher Man" that I would like to check out too.
For history buffs, read Daniel Boorstin and Will Durant's books. Very enjoyable and edifying. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 3:59:24 PM | WEll...
I bought this book called " A Sucker is Born Every Minute" but..its just full of blank pages.....? | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 5:18:13 PM | I saw that one...........decided to buy the B.C. Lions playbook instead, 3 pages?
1st down - off tackle run for 3 yards
2nd down - incomplete pass
3rd down - punt | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:09:50 PM | | Anything by Larry Niven And Jerry Pournelle.Two great books by them are:The Mote in God's Eye and The Legacy of Hereot.......have fun!. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:11:21 PM | I am an omniverous reader, but here are some of my current favourites.
Easy Rawlins mysteries by Walter Mosley. Violent "hard boiled" detective stories set in the black suburbs of LA. Good mysteries, great personalities and a brilliant comentary on race relations in the US.
Football Factory/Headhunters/England Away by John King. Angry, violent and disturbing, while simultaneously laugh out loud funny, this trilogy about violent angry British working class men is absolutely brilliant. Also contains some of the most creative profanity ever.
Simon Kernick. British crime writer who writes noir fiction about deeply flawed, morally ambiguous yet darkly heroic people. "The Murder Exchange" was simply excellent.
RD Wingfield. Jack Frost mysteries. It's a shame that the sanitised TV show probably ruined these books fore a lot of readers. The books are edgy and absolutely hilarious. | |
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Posted: 1/15/2006 8:22:05 PM | damn
last book i read for fun (non erotic) was "the man who mistook his wife for a hat".
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Posted: 1/15/2006 9:17:22 PM | Vert:
I bought this book called " A Sucker is Born Every Minute" but..its just full of blank pages.....?
I thought that book was called "Everything men know about women". | |
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