Favourite/Suggested Read

[mox]

(I love psychology and how the mind works - or doesn't),

*Me too! That is why I come to this place!! lol

[mox]

Clive Cussler

Which of his would you suggest?

[Loopdilou]

Any Clive Cussler will do, but specifically the Dirk Pitt novels.. start at the beginning and work your way through them, it's totally worth it! They're fluffy action thrillers and so much fun.

[Opti]

I'm reading books from Walter Jon Williams right now who is a Sci Fi author. My favorite of his so far is the one I read first whose title escapes me. The one prior to it may have been titled This Is Not a Game. The current one involves multiple person role playing games that take place in RL and real time with the main character being a washed up child actor. Very funny and interesting.

I liked Aristoi which he also wrote about evolved humans who are able to spin off parts of their personalities so they can do more things including managing planets of other humans. The story is about when one of them runs amok and creates worlds that have disease, etc. which had been eradicated.

Not sure I'd recommend Metropolitan which I am reading now. Interesting but not as readable.

Wish I could remember the book I read about a English woman and her maid that lived in Egypt that I read just before I read The Help.
Great book.

[Reckless Roselia]

I also love Stephen King

Yeh, same here. One of my favourite authors of all time he is.

[Artemis Windsong]

Opti - might I suggest a pen and paper or a word processing document to keep track? It's very helpful in a lot of ways and keeps a person from repeating a book unless they want to.

I have 2 books I need to get going on.

[mox]

I have been reading "Yes, Chef" this afternoon. Chef Marcus Samuellson was so fortunate to have been adopted by his Swedish parents.

[Cookies Galore]

Aug 26, 2012 18:32:20 GMT -5 Artemis Windsong said:

Still Alice by Lisa Genova [This made a profound impact on me and I do remember it.]

Yes, this book killed me!

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns were both amazing books. I'm glad I didn't finish TKR on the train because I burst into tears when I was done.

I just finished Swamplandia! and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was about a family trying to save their alligator theme park in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands.

[grits]

I love Agatha Christie, and other murder mysteries of that genre.  
I enjoyed The Color of Water by James McBride.
I liked My First White Friend by Patricia Raybon.
In all honesty, I can't begin to bring to mind all the books I've enjoyed.  
 

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

I prefer reading both fiction and non fiction - but as a form of escapism then it's purely fiction. I prefer reading the genre crime - romance I like too.

For your romance escapism, read anything by Danielle Steel - a lot of her books were also made into movies but the books are far more detailed and it's more fun to visualize the characters as you get wrapped up in the story.

For crime-type fiction novels, I love reading anything by John Grisham - a lot of his books were also made into movies - "The Firm", "The Client", "The Jury", etc. One of the best ones of his I read was a non-fiction true-account of an actual crime titled "The Innocent Man"

[Reckless Roselia]

Feb 11, 2013 1:06:18 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

I prefer reading both fiction and non fiction - but as a form of escapism then it's purely fiction. I prefer reading the genre crime - romance I like too.

For your romance escapism, read anything by Danielle Steel - a lot of her books were also made into movies but the books are far more detailed and it's more fun to visualize the characters as you get wrapped up in the story.

For crime-type fiction novels, I love reading anything by John Grisham - a lot of his books were also made into movies - "The Firm", "The Client", "The Jury", etc. One of the best ones of his I read was a non-fiction true-account of an actual crime titled "The Innocent Man"

Hi Lassie.

I have found Danielle Steele's work not to my tastes. I dunno why but my college mates did though I prefer Amanda Quick for romance. I'll look into Grisham's work too. His book titles sound interesting. 

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the "wheel of time" series by Jordan is immense and a great story    about 18k pages in the 13 books

"the sword of truth" series by Terry goodkind is also a great read

there are a lot of great fantasy/sf writers and i have read a lot of them

for crime/drama/suspense check out Kay Scarpetta novels (richmond forensic pathologist)

so many books....so little time

[Artemis Windsong]

www.litlovers.com has a lot of ideas.

There is one section which is a literature course that is on the left hand side menu.  It is interesting and helpful when reading a novel.

[Happy prose]

The best book I read this summer was Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Fiction, but will stay with me a long time. Highly recommend!

[Apple]

I always recommend "Black Cross" by Greg Iles.  Someone asked me what genre Greg Iles wrote, and all I could think of was "weird".  Black Cross is very different from the other books of his that I've read.  Other good/weird ones have been Turning Angel, Blood Memory, and Devil's Punchbowl.  I was reading True Evil, but I misplaced the book.

Right now I'm going through the "Game of Thrones" books and am on the second one.  They are great books, and I'm not one big on fantasy.

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I just finished Cutting for Stone. I really enjoyed it. Otherwise it's been mostly summer fluff...

oh, Salt, Sugar, Fat was an interesting read. 

[steph08]

Latest books I have read are Inferno, Still Alice, and The Thirteenth Tale (I am about halfway through this one). I recommend all of them!

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for those that like the crime/drama/thriller genre

any book by David Balducci

I have read at least 12 of his novels in the last few months

Killer plot twists....great characters.....fun books

I especially like the Camel Club ones he has done.....just wow!

[jencin]

Aug 27, 2012 21:30:44 GMT -5 Peace Of Mind said:

Aug 26, 2012 21:56:25 GMT -5 @mox said:

"all the Dean Koontz novels."

Those are good...James Patterson too.

Those are two of my favorites. I also love Stephen King, Maeve Binchey (sp?), John Grisham, M. Scott Peck, M.D. The Road Less Traveled and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond (I love psychology and how the mind works - or doesn't), Michael Crichton and tons others...

You'd probably also like John Sandford, Jonathan Kellerman and Patricia Cornwell.

 

[jencin]

Aug 28, 2012 2:43:44 GMT -5 Opti said:

I'm reading books from Walter Jon Williams right now who is a Sci Fi author. My favorite of his so far is the one I read first whose title escapes me. The one prior to it may have been titled This Is Not a Game. The current one involves multiple person role playing games that take place in RL and real time with the main character being a washed up child actor. Very funny and interesting.

I liked Aristoi which he also wrote about evolved humans who are able to spin off parts of their personalities so they can do more things including managing planets of other humans. The story is about when one of them runs amok and creates worlds that have disease, etc. which had been eradicated.

Not sure I'd recommend Metropolitan which I am reading now. Interesting but not as readable.

Wish I could remember the book I read about a English woman and her maid that lived in Egypt that I read just before I read The Help.
Great book.

The Snowfall Trilogy by Mitchell Smith is worth checking out. Overall it's very good ... the first of the series (Snowfall) is awesome. Genre Sci Fi, near future.

Best of it's kind (Sci Fi, time travel) has to be Time and Again (not to be confused with Time After Time!) by Jack Finney.  Another awesome. 

Favorite book in general, Beach Music by Pat Conroy. Currently reading, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (C. K. Rowling)