Tiny72
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Joined: 11/23/2007
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Posted: 2/6/2009 12:52:28 PM | So I am looking for some new books/authors to try out.
Any suggestions as to what to try? what to avoid?
I just read a couple by Konrath about Jack Daniels - very funny series, and love the Evanvich series. | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 2:19:40 PM | | I just started one called "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. I honestly haven't read enough of it to give an opinion. But, you could Google it and see if catches your interest. | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 3:21:57 PM | Anything by Stuart Woods.
I''d recommend reading Chiefs first. It's about three generations of police chiefs (from the same family) I think it's his first ever novel and some of the other dinosaurs in POF land may remember it as a mini-series in the late 70s. | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 5:43:31 PM | I'm simple when it comes to books.
If you're looking for a feelgood book - try The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
If you're looking for a metaphor - Watership Down, Richard Addams
Cheers,
Uni | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 7:36:25 PM | I'm reading this great book, learned tons so far. It's a quick read though.
"he's just not that into you" dang it guy's do know how to call ya. | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 7:36:36 PM | | If you liked Watership Down, try the Plague Dogs, another book by the same auther. Im kinda glad I dont live down the street from that guy. | |
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Posted: 2/6/2009 10:23:55 PM | The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks. The second book in the series is The Dark River and the third ones comes out this fall. The Traveller is an awesome book; you will enjoy it from beginning to end and will be glad you can dive right into The Dark River. Then you will be ticked that you have to wait so long for the third one - The Golden City, which will be a lot less time than those of us who've been on board since the first book. | |
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Tiny72
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Joined: 11/23/2007
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Posted: 2/9/2009 9:53:51 AM | Some great reads coming my way I see :D
I just finished reading Darkly dreaming dexter - good book - then watched the first season of the show - definitly a reader first! | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 10:49:55 AM | Depending on what you like...
Modern day crime - James Patterson - Along Came a Spider my favorite one of his novels. Skip the movie it is nothing like the book.
If you like your Sci-fi with some good politic and deep plots and sub plots Frank Herber - Dune series
If you want something fun and you have a pun-ishing sense of humor. Piers Anthony - Xanth series novels. Fantasy setting but everything is based on puns. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 11:51:54 AM | I actually just sent an email to my bf's mom with some suggestions for books for her to read. I think I will just copy and paste it here (which I believe I am allowed to do since I am the author of the email right?).
Here goes:
<div class="quote"> Fantasy:
My favorite author for fantasy novels is Mercedes Lackey. I think out of the over 50 books she has written (and I've read/owned) I have liked all/most of them.
I also liked Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. But that one is best to read in order.
Isaac Asimov is another. I am not overly into him but you might enjoy him.
Crime/Legal:
JD Robbs (this is Nora Roberts writing under a pen name) 'In Death' series is actually not bad for a light easy read. It is a series of books (around 20 now I think) about a female detective in the future (2060 I believe). It has some romance in it as well, but I usually ignore all that and concentrate on the murder and mayhem. This one can be read out of sequence if need be.
I hate to admit it but...I do like John Grisham. Not all his books but most of them are an alright read.
Perri O'Shaughnessy-this is two sisters writing together. Not that common to find, they have about 8 books out. About a female lawyer in Tahoe I believe. Best to read in order.
Janet Evanovich has a cute series out as well. About a bounty hunter. Its a funny series. Starts with 'One for the Money', goes on in that line, 'Two for the Show'.
Sue Grafton has the Alphabet Series which is also not bad. I haven't read all of them and get somewhat lost sometimes but my aunt has read them all and she seems to enjoy them.
Thriller:
Ken Follet is really good. A couple of his books are just odd and off the wall, but I like his other ones.
Sydney Sheldon is alright but I found after awhile he was just dragging out what seemed like the same story line over and over again.
Robin Cook--another author who really only has about two or three story lines in his head...but as long as you are okay with that then a book or two of his here and there isn't bad.
I also like James Patterson but that isn't included in the email because she has also read all of his books..
Hope that helps... | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 12:32:06 PM | I put John Grisham in the same bracket as Dan Brown: that being the "shut up and get to the point, already" bracket.
Grisham will take two pages to describe the two-block drive from the cop station to the court house. WHO CARES??? Instead, how about... "Jack left the cop station and two minutes later was at the front steps of the court house."
I swear to gawd, it's like he writes a 300-page novel, then fills it in with stuff like that (or half a page to describe a desk...three paragraphs to describe an office painting) only because someone once told him that 600-page novels are cool.
I'll never read another one of his or another of Dan Brown's novels.
As for Brown, I felt The Da Vinci Code was one of the most overrated novels of our time. Yes, it was a decent mystery novel. But it would have been a lot better had a decent editor gotten his hands on it first and taken out about 150 pages of crap.
Brown should take some lessons on how to write a compelling mystery by James Patterson, Stuart Woods or Michael Connelly.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Meegs about Sydney Sheldon. Formula writing. Although Master of the Game and Best Laid Plans are still good reads.
I'm not a big fan of a lot of female authors, but J.A. Jance is one of my favourites. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 12:48:29 PM |
I put John Grisham in the same bracket as Dan Brown: that being the "shut up and get to the point, already" bracket.
Yah, Grisham can be rather pedantic at times (well, most of the time actually) but if you 'glaze' over the surplus and just pay attention to the legal stuff it is a alright light read.
I honestly can't stand Dan Brown. If you have to write in a style that there is a cliffhanger and a new chapter every two pages then what's the point? It is possible to lead up to a exciting moment from time to time... I only read Da Vinci Code because I had nothing else to read at the time. And I read a couple of his other books just to see how bad an 'famous' author can be, apparently it is pretty bad.
And I know that everytime I pick up a Robin Cook novel that it will be the insurance company that is the bad guys... | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 12:51:02 PM |
If you want something fun and you have a pun-ishing sense of humor. Piers Anthony - Xanth series novels. Fantasy setting but everything is based on puns.
I read the first ten or so books in that series. Hasn't he made it up to about 20 ish now? Insane. I couldn't read anymore. I do like his Incarnations of Immortality books tho.
A really good 'pun-ish' series is by Robert Asprin. The Myth books. I find them very amusing and the quotes at the beginning of each chapter are usually funny too. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 1:55:48 PM | State Of Fear , Next - Michael Crichton
Anything by Jack Whyte ! | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 2:00:13 PM | I agree that Dan brown is very overrated , haha !!!! Finally someone that agrees with me......
One thing I will say is that he helped develop a whole new genre of books that seem to be everywhere now. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 2:14:19 PM |
One thing I will say is that he helped develop a whole new genre of books that seem to be everywhere now.
As well as, I'm guessing, a whole new market of readers, because anyone who said The daVinci Code was the best book they'd ever read clearly had not read anything since See Spot Run  | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 2:25:12 PM |
As well as, I'm guessing, a whole new market of readers, because anyone who said The daVinci Code was the best book they'd ever read clearly had not read anything since See Spot Run
I would rather read See Spot Run anyday. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 2:35:36 PM |
rather read See Spot Run anyday Ahhh, a CLASSIC that's stood the test of time. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 3:17:25 PM | I just finished reading "Mistress of the Art of Death" by Ariana Franklin last week. It's about a female forensic scientist in the middle ages and is actually quite good. I'm going to start on the second one this evening.
Over Christmas holidays I read all the Twilight Books, now that was an addicting series... | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 6:55:56 PM | You know if you sign up for readers digest they send you condensed books every couple of months. All new stuff and all good reads.
I kind of like romance novels. Yes I know its silly. Lets say my imagination is really active. | |
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Posted: 2/9/2009 9:44:50 PM | hahaha !!!! See Spot Run.... I forgot about that book. Now that is some funny shit and I agree.
Did we have to read that in grade 1 or 2 ? | |
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Posted: 8/14/2009 11:09:02 AM | Try Mary Roach...learn stuff and laugh.
Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Thinking of donating your body to science when you die?
Spook - Science Tackles the Afterlife
How much does a soul weigh?
Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Including ten things you didn't know about orgasms.
http://www.maryroach.net/
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For fiction...anything by Tom Sharpe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sharpe | |
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Posted: 8/14/2009 12:03:39 PM | good books, hmmm seems to be a matter of opinion but here goes anyway.
some books/authors that i enjoy are
douglas preston & lincoln child - they write murder mysteries.
sue grafton - noted above
robin cook - noted above
stephen king - everyone knows his work
anne rice - again everyone knows her work
the gears - a husband and wife team who write historical fiction about the first nations people (people of the lakes, of the fire, of the wolf etc)
am currently reading jean m auel -5th book in the clan of the cave bear series
and t2 infiltrator by s m stirling
there is a lot more that i read but this is a small sample for now
have fun reading
Scott | |
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Tiny72
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Joined: 11/23/2007
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Posted: 8/18/2009 9:41:10 AM | | Just finished up in smoke by Charlene Weir - not a badmystery but not a great one. | |
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Posted: 8/20/2009 8:57:03 PM | | Anything by Bryce Courtenay. You may also want to try Greg Iles.....hard to put down! | |
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