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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
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 book1 -
Currently reading "Silence of the Grave" by Arnaldur Indridason to be followed by "Night Passage" by Robert B. Parker. I really like the Inspector Erlendur series by Indridason.
Has anyone read any of the Jesse Stone series by Parker? Your thoughts?2 -
Currently reading
"The Interior Circuit" by Francisco Goldman (a journalist's memoir)
"Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan (an approach to economics for a non-economist)
"The Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz (super prosy look at Mexican identity)
and I just finished "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (a novel about immigration and self discovery).1 -
I am a huge bookworm. Always have something to read with me.1
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lessismoreohio wrote: »I love books as well (no Kindle or electronic devices for me - love the library and the feel of a book in my hands). I especially like mysteries and crime novels. I'm currently reading the Inspector Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indriðason. Then on to the Jesse Stone series.
Please feel free to add me as a friend.
I'm the same!
Got a kindle so can share account with my sister. That way I get more books without having to buy them all myself.
Read off of it only when on vacation. Otherwise love reading actual books
No comparison
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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.1
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Hey Bookworms. Check your Amazon accounts. The antitrust suit that Amazon lost to Apple means that you might have a credit in your Amazon account. I just got an email to check and I've got $15.23. lol. Same thing with Ticketmaster if you are concert goers. Some class action suit filed against them in 2003 just paid out like yesterday. You might have ticket vouchers in your account.2
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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.3 -
Just started the Magicians by Lev Grossman, just finished Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis.1
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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
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.1 -
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.2 -
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.2 -
Definitely following this thread for more reading suggestions!3
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TehLaughingDog wrote: »Definitely following this thread for more reading suggestions!
Me too!1 -
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 lol2
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A coworker brought the book Me Before You into work for me today. I love getting a new book to read!3
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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 Narnia3 -
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.1 -
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!1
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