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Posted: 1/5/2007 9:29:15 AM | Step one: Got To Bookstore
Step two: By something by John Grisham
Step three: Enjoy!
Personal faves are the above mentioned, Stephen King, Clive Cussler, Dan Brown and Tami Hoag. | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 10:26:05 AM | | Others have mentioned Oprah's book club - my personal favorite from that is House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus. As with most things, the book was considerably better than the movie! | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 11:12:54 AM | | Kings my personal favorite and my favorite book just so happens to be the stand | |
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Posted: 1/5/2007 4:42:27 PM |
Peirs Anthony (‘Shame of Man’ was excellent)
The other books in this series (so far) are:
Isle of Women
Hope of Earth
Muse of Art
All of them are excellent, I think. Then again, Piers Anthony never wrote a bad book! | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 3:30:12 AM | | There are a tonne of good books out there - alot were written quite a while ago. I am not a big fan of current or popular lists. Get alot of my books at the south side Sally Ann. Fifty cents a book allows you to put alot on the night stand and gives you a choice depending on your mood. Also allows you try authors that you might not normally buy - and there are alot of good ones out there. And no late fees from the library! | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 7:40:48 AM | | Yeah, Sally Ann is one of my favourite bookstores. I also like to shop at the library; $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardcovers. But of course the Book Fair in May is my High Holy Day! | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 11:21:59 AM | | I just finished 'Whitethorn Woods" by Maeve Binchy. It was a terrific story of people and how their lives interconnect. A++ | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 5:09:07 PM | | Most of the book selections above have been of the novel variety....I have a suggestion that doesn't fall into that gendre. For christmas this year I recieved a book as a gift....always a good thing. It is called "Uncommon Carrier" by John McPhee. I am a big fan of the open road and all things on wheels. This book is about the transportation industry.. Trucks, trains...all the way to large ships and river going boats. This writer experiences each and in turn writes about his travels with them.....Very well I might add. I am enjoying the book very much..... | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 5:43:38 PM | Oh my gosh Izzy I have been looking for the name of that book of short stories by Stephen King, I lent it 20 yrs ago out never got it back. Gotta look for a used one at Owls Nest.
I remember the stories The Lawnmower Man (Pretty Gross) and The Longaliers (sp) and Thinner . I think he had two out then. I had a hard time getting into a full book of his but really liked the short story.
More recommended reads if you like suspense/mystery
Tami Hoag
Jonathan Kellerman
I never figure out until the last two chapters who the murder/bad guy is . I like that. | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 5:49:23 PM | I just read "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy - really good.
Another one I read that I really enjoyed, I think the name of it is "End of War" but I don't know the author. It was about 2 1/2 years ago and I still mention it whenever the subject of good books comes up. It's about the last 9 months or so of the 2nd WW. | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 6:06:51 PM | | Another nonfiction book I really enjoyed was "The Rock" by Farley Mowatt. His love of Newfoundland, and his outrage over what their government did to the people, is very evident in every paragraph. | |
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Posted: 1/6/2007 6:19:24 PM | Thanks Mr. M - I will have to look that one up!  | |
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Posted: 1/7/2007 8:21:07 PM | | Currently reading "Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris (the pre-qual to "Red Dragon", the first Hannibal Lecter novel). I'm a huge fan of Harris' work (wish he'd done more than just 5 novels), and I'd recomend this! | |
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Posted: 1/8/2007 10:36:37 AM | My favourite author is David Adams Richards. He's from Newcastle (where I happen to live). He's considered one of the best writers in Canada. I highly recommend any of his books. A few of them were even made into movies - "Nights Below Station St", "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down", "The Bay of Love & Sorrow"... just to name a few.
Another must read for everyone is "Night, by Elie Wiesel. It's a novella... only 100 pages... autobiographical... Holocaust survivor. I discovered it way before Oprah put it in her book club... but I'm really glad she did. It's quite possibly the best book I've ever read. It makes me cry every time I read it. | |
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Posted: 1/11/2007 5:21:04 PM | I finally found a copy of "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison, an environmentalist SF novel from 1966. It seems even more relevant these days. Just started reading it, but it's fabulous!
Also, going back to the 60s, if you find the Fuzzy trilogy by H. Beam Piper, try it out. It's a fascinating study in ethics, sociology and race relations, as well as a very cool adventure story. The three books in the series are:
Little Fuzzy
The Other Human Race (also published as Fuzzy Sapiens)
Fuzzies and Other People | |
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Posted: 1/14/2007 8:53:56 AM | I just started reading an excellent book yesterday. It's called "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" - by Stephen King. I have been laughing out loud and am really enjoying this book. I highly recommend it! Here's a review from Amazon:
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Short and snappy as it is, Stephen King's On Writing really contains two books: a fondly sardonic autobiography and a tough-love lesson for aspiring novelists. The memoir is terrific stuff, a vivid description of how a writer grew out of a misbehaving kid. You're right there with the young author as he's tormented by poison ivy, gas-passing babysitters, uptight schoolmarms, and a laundry job nastier than Jack London's. It's a ripping yarn that casts a sharp light on his fiction. This was a child who dug Yvette Vickers from Attack of the Giant Leeches, not Sandra Dee. "I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash." But massive reading on all literary levels was a craving just as crucial, and soon King was the published author of "I Was a Teen-Age Graverobber." As a young adult raising a family in a trailer, King started a story inspired by his stint as a janitor cleaning a high-school girls locker room. He crumpled it up, but his writer wife retrieved it from the trash, and using her advice about the girl milieu and his own memories of two reviled teenage classmates who died young, he came up with Carrie. King gives us lots of revelations about his life and work. The kidnapper character in Misery, the mind-possessing monsters in The Tommyknockers, and the haunting of the blocked writer in The Shining symbolized his cocaine and booze addiction (overcome thanks to his wife's intervention, which he describes). "There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing."
King also evokes his college days and his recovery from the van crash that nearly killed him, but the focus is always on what it all means to the craft. He gives you a whole writer's "tool kit": a reading list, writing assignments, a corrected story, and nuts-and-bolts advice on dollars and cents, plot and character, the basic building block of the paragraph, and literary models. He shows what you can learn from H.P. Lovecraft's arcane vocabulary, Hemingway's leanness, Grisham's authenticity, Richard Dooling's artful obscenity, Jonathan Kellerman's sentence fragments. He explains why Hart's War is a great story marred by a tin ear for dialogue, and how Elmore Leonard's Be Cool could be the antidote.
King isn't just a writer, he's a true teacher. --Tim Appelo | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 11:48:23 AM | | I just finished reading "Blood Memory"', by Greg Iles..........good writter, interesting read, it's kind of nice when an author can 'surprise' you, with a twist or two!! | |
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Posted: 1/26/2007 4:16:04 PM | Anything by Harris is a blast to read and better than any of the movies.(don't get me started on the ending of Hannibal) and there has been a lot of great suggestions by everybody here. But I'm gonna Throw out 2 comic book suggestions for those of you out there.
Sandman By Neil Gaiman. Simply the best written series ever in comics. It even won a major literary award and then the next year they changed the rules to exclude comic books.(stuck up snobs ;-) ). He's also written a wonderful book called American Gods.
http://www.neilgaiman.com/ .. Any of his work is easily found at chapters
Strangers in Paradise by Allen Moore. I've introduced this series to people that just think that comics are still a kids medium and they were hooked after 30 pages and still by the series that is ending soon to this day. see http://www.strangersinparadise.com/.. If your interested the best local comic shop is Strange Adventures, across the street from Mazuucas .
As for True Crime anything by John Douglas is the best. The character that introduces agent Starling to the unit in Silence of the Lambs is based of him and his work.
Fantasy genre , Robert Jordan's Wheel of time series makes Tolkien look like a lightweight . currently he is on book 11 of a series that is expected to be at least 13 and each book is about 600 to 900 pages each .
Sorry I don't read romance ;-) | |
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Posted: 1/30/2007 5:58:48 PM | I started Tuesday's With Morrie today on my lunch break and just finished it a bit ago.
What a touching story, my eyes are still puffy.... | |
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Posted: 1/30/2007 6:22:13 PM |
I started Tuesday's With Morrie today on my lunch break and just finished it a bit ago.
What a touching story, my eyes are still puffy....
This is an incredible book. Provides a great outlook on life. In times of need or suffering this book always provides a good "lift" | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 10:09:15 AM | If you like CSI kinda stuff, you'll love Patricia Cornwell books - she even tries to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders hehe - one of my new fav authors!
Hoss | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 10:29:54 AM |
Was Ishmael good?
You know, I've heard a lot of people say Ishmael is good, that it shows a new perspective... I found it boring...I read the whole thing tho, just to see if it got to a point i didn't really know or think of. But I guess it all depends on how you vision the world.... But for me I already see the world the same way they speak of in Ishmael so it was pretty unstimulating for me...
I don't study more then i read just for fun but crazy off the topic favorite would be "Queen of the Sun" by E.J Michael.... for any spiritual type people..or even if you aren't, it's a part adventure/quest and part spiritual read...
P.S - been sending formal letters too much, almost sent this with sincerely and my signature, haha | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 10:58:19 AM |
Strangers in Paradise by Allen Moore
I've never seen this one, but almost anything by Alan Moore is a work of genius, by definition. After 20 years, his graphic novel "The Killing Joke" is still fabulous, and "The Watchmen" - originally a miniseries, now available in bookstores as a trade paperback - is still the benchmark for comic book excellence. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 1:43:28 PM | Douglas Preston - read his new book about the t rex and it was really good read.
Read the Shopaholic ties the Knot after that one.
At the moment I am reading Born to be Wild by Catherine Coulter. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2007 3:24:56 PM | One Child by Torey Haden. It is INCREDIBLE and I've read it over and over and over. It's a bit older I think...
It's the true story of a teacher who ends up teaching a "garbage" class- children that no other teachers will take, but is mostly about one child in particular....a 6 year old girl who ends up in the class because she kidnaps a 2 year old, ties him to a tree, and lights him on fire. It's one of those books that makes you think "wow...I could really change someones life."
There's also a sequel to the book called the Tiger's Child or something like that. | |
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