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Bookworms

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  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    hunter0922 wrote: »
    Any good horror books you could recommend?!

    House of Leaves
    Bird Box
    Rosemary's Baby
    The Stand
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    I am Legend
    Let the Right One In
    The Girl Next Door
    The Wasp Factory
    American Psycho

    Not all necessarily "horror", but creepy and haunting.
  • Toronto6fan
    Toronto6fan Posts: 461 Member
    Just started the Magicians by Lev Grossman, just finished Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis.
  • rph2t
    rph2t Posts: 34 Member
    mayoosh_primrose wrote: »
    *_* *_* Sent a friend request to all!
    Maybe everyone can share what's currently on their reading list? I have Stephen King's 11/22/63 :love:

    I am reading a book about Henry Knox, one of the generals in the Revolutionary War, and Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. I'm on a bit of a history kick since I'm going back for my Master's in Historic Preservation in the fall, and I'm trying to get back in that mindset.

    Also, I am halfway through Metro 2033, the book the video game was based on, post-apocalyptic novel set in Russian Metro system. It's a little weird, but very good.
  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    hunter0922 wrote: »
    denversillygoose wrote: »
    hunter0922 wrote: »
    Any good horror books you could recommend?!

    House of Leaves
    Bird Box
    Rosemary's Baby
    The Stand
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    I am Legend
    Let the Right One In
    The Girl Next Door
    The Wasp Factory
    American Psycho

    Not all necessarily "horror", but creepy and haunting.

    Thank you good sir! What's your favorite?

    Good lady ;) Hard to pic a favorite from these. Maybe The Wasp Factory. I haven't even finished reading it yet (a few pages left) but the writing is brilliant. Also American Psycho just for the sick and twisted factor.
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
    Definite bookworm, for as long as I can remember: actual books and I like electronic versions because I can carry an entire library with me and look things up in a matter of minutes.

    I like biographies and histories, though I'm picky about them. Right now, I'm enjoying a book by Nancy Goldstone: "Four Queens", about four sisters who lived in the fourteenth century, became queens by marriage, and influenced lots of policy. Before that, I read another Goldstone book, "Rival Queens", about Catherine de Medici and her daughter Marguerite of Navarre. Goldstone has a nice, easy flow of writing; she has a sense of humor; she treats her historical subjects like people, and she tries to understand and convey everyone's character and motives fairly. I like that.
  • TehLaughingDog
    TehLaughingDog Posts: 200 Member
    Definitely following this thread for more reading suggestions!
  • Noelani1503
    Noelani1503 Posts: 378 Member
    TehLaughingDog wrote: »
    Definitely following this thread for more reading suggestions!

    Me too!
  • torsab
    torsab Posts: 12 Member
    nothing better then being curled up in a comfy chair / couch with one of my dogs, my kindle ... and maybe a snack :) (much better at controlling the portion of that snack now). I travel for work a fair amount so the kindle is the way to go for me ... I don't have to worry about bringing an extra book or two in case I finish what I'm reading, and I can always shop for a new one lol
  • jenready
    jenready Posts: 2,658 Member
    A coworker brought the book Me Before You into work for me today. I love getting a new book to read!
  • lessismoreohio
    lessismoreohio Posts: 910 Member
    BUMP
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    edited June 2016
    Recommend to me a long series I can sink my teeth into. Here's some ones I've enjoyed/re-read multiple times (with the more favorite ones on top).

    Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
    Song of Ice and Fire
    Harry Potter
    The first ~5 of the Wheel of Time
    The first 2 Dune
    Incarnations of Immortality
    Hunger Games
    Vampire Chronicles
    Well World
    Chronicles of Narnia
  • Toronto6fan
    Toronto6fan Posts: 461 Member
    WBB55 wrote: »
    Recommend to me a long series I can sink my teeth into. Here's some ones I've enjoyed/re-read multiple times (with the more favorite ones on top).

    Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
    Song of Ice and Fire
    Harry Potter
    The first ~5 of the Wheel of Time
    The first 2 Dune
    Incarnations of Immortality
    Hunger Games
    Vampire Chronicles
    Well World
    Chronicles of Narnia

    The Magician series by Lev Grossman is sort of grown up Harry Potter. I'm only on the first one but liking it. Bearing in mind I read with my kids so these are more teen/young adult, I liked Suzanne Collins Gregor the Overlander series more than her Hunger Games one. The new Rick Riordan book Trials of Apollo had me snickering out loud.
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
    Medieval and Renaissance enthusiast here recommending two series by Dorothy Dunnet:

    The Lymond Chronicles
    The House of Niccolo

    Dense, rich stuff.

    And for some heavy-duty entertainment: The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy.
    I resisted this one for years, courtesy of a movie adaptation made in 1949, and which, despite Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Errol Flynn, I didn't like. I downloaded the first volume a couple of years ago out of grudging curiosity, gobbled it up, and went after the other volumes as quick as I could. And I'm sorry there aren't more!
  • SleeplessinBerlin
    SleeplessinBerlin Posts: 513 Member
    another bookworm here. I started reading when I was 4. We were living above a library at that time. What more can you wish for?
    I read pretty much everything - crime, Jane Austen, survival stories, biographies, whatever my mood tells me to read. I currently re-read The Godfather.

    Those who like something haunting - try "The Road" (you might know the movie with the same title).
  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
    edited June 2016
    WBB55 wrote: »
    Recommend to me a long series I can sink my teeth into. Here's some ones I've enjoyed/re-read multiple times (with the more favorite ones on top).

    Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
    Song of Ice and Fire
    Harry Potter
    The first ~5 of the Wheel of Time
    The first 2 Dune
    Incarnations of Immortality
    Hunger Games
    Vampire Chronicles
    Well World
    Chronicles of Narnia

    The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Best. Series. Evar.
  • WBB55
    WBB55 Posts: 4,131 Member
    denversillygoose wrote: »
    WBB55 wrote: »
    Recommend to me a long series I can sink my teeth into. Here's some ones I've enjoyed/re-read multiple times (with the more favorite ones on top).

    Hobbit/Lord of the Rings
    Song of Ice and Fire
    Harry Potter
    The first ~5 of the Wheel of Time
    The first 2 Dune
    Incarnations of Immortality
    Hunger Games
    Vampire Chronicles
    Well World
    Chronicles of Narnia

    The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Best. Series. Evar.

    I couldn't get past the one where they were in the train.
  • lisciousg24
    lisciousg24 Posts: 189 Member
    joolie1234 wrote: »
    I was up till 2am finishing Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. I'm normally a historical fiction buff tho.

    Sometimes the book is too good to put down!
  • lisciousg24
    lisciousg24 Posts: 189 Member
    _A_Real_Mouthful wrote: »
    lisciousg24 wrote: »
    mayoosh_primrose wrote: »
    lisciousg24 wrote: »

    I've never tried Agatha Christie
    Dean Koontz is my favorite though

    I like reading Patterson, Sanford, Stephen King.

    You'll love Agatha Christie if you love crime novels *_* I can never guess the murderer till the last pages
    Only know King, the others are horror authors too?

    Dean Koontz is more of a mystery kind
    Not so much like Stephen King
    But he's great!

    i actually quit reading him after the way the last Frankenstein story kind of flopped. i loved the first two but the last ones were just a slog to get through. plus he's never finished up the third christopher snow novel yet and he was my favorite.

    Agree! The first few Frankenstein books were better than the latter. But he's still my favorite!
    Have you read "From the corner of his eye" by Dean Koontz
    That was a very good one
  • mayoosh_primrose
    mayoosh_primrose Posts: 131 Member
    jammer1963 wrote: »
    Great book. The series they produced for Hulu staring James Franco was excellent. I am a huge Stephen King fan. The Dark Tower series is a must read for all his fans. He's the reason I wrote a book :)

    Yeah I have the series and hopefully will get to it soon "after I finish East of Eden, which is awesome" :love:
    What's the title of your book? Perhaps we can check it out "btw, this is so cool!"
  • mayoosh_primrose
    mayoosh_primrose Posts: 131 Member
    BioShocked89 wrote: »
    Stephen King is where I make my home. Most recently I just finished Mr. Mercedes. I also picked up his last volume of the Mr. Mercedes series End of Watch and got to see him speak in Louisville. (It was everything I hoped it would be and more)I also love Agatha Christie, autobiographies, and some of the old stuff like Beowulf, The Illiad, The Oddessy, ect. My favorite book is to Kill a Mockingbird.

    High five!! Poirot with his egg shaped head has been close to my heart since middle school :love: And the first novel I ever read for Stephen King was Mr Mercedes, was epic and since then I have been devouring his books like a starved!
    Will read the oddessy and how to kill a mockingbird soon!

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