Book Nerds --UNITE!

Hmm paranormal romance... I think I know something you might like. If you can read german, check out Das Parfum (Perfume). There's probably an english translation out there.

My absolute favorite book is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. It's the most beautifully written book I've ever read. I've actually read it six times!

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is also excellent!

I recently read The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and really enjoyed it!

Right now I'm re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Series before I read the new one in the series, The Wind Through the Keyhole.

I love books!!! :happy:

Classics:

Watership Down
Tailchaster's Song
Flowers for Algernon

* all of which should come with a box of tissues*

me no likely the sad books! but since we're talking about them: Marley and Me (like the movie) absolute tear jerker! and My Sister's Keeper (the book is MUCH better than the movie)

Agreed on both. My daughter duped me into reading The Boy in Striped Pajamas. I brought it along on a short vacation my husband and I took. I saved it for the car ride home. It was a short read and aprox. hour down the highway I was bawling. Hubby was like, really? LOL

//Angela's Ashes has the same effect btw ;-)

In Cold Blood was definitely a great book, although it stayed with me longer than I wanted it to.

I have to agree with this. I had nightmares for months.

Right now I'm re-reading Stephen King's Dark Tower Series before I read the new one in the series, The Wind Through the Keyhole.

I loved the Dark tower series it took me a long time to read it b/c I went back and read a few of the other books that he references a lot like Salem's Lot and a few others but it was a great series.

I took a Shakespeare class last semester and my teacher went into great depth about King Lear. I must say it's one of my favorites now.

I'm so excited by this thread... I have a huge list of books to read and now i'm finding more to add! There's always SOMETHING new out there (or old... I love the classics as well )

share!!

I'm a sucker for Jane Austen. It's terrible, but I can reread "Pride and Prejudice" over and over and over again! I've read all of her books at least once, and most of her books multiple times! "The Great Gatsby" might be one of my favorite classics - I can't wait for the movie this year!

I must be the only person on this thread who hates Shakespeare. I love the storylines - but I have a hard time reading the literature!

I also like paranormal romance. Have you read HP Mallory? Really easy reads, but really entertaining. Other good ones I've read are by Barbra Annino and Rose Pressey. I also just read the Gemma Doyle series by Libba Bray - it's a YA series, but soooo good. And has anyone read Margaret Atwood?? Her books are awesome!

I could go on and on and on about my favorite books I don't think I have a favorite. There's too many good ones!

Right now I'm reading "The Dovekeepers", which is pretty awesome. I'm readying "Fifty Shades of Grey" next, at my mom's recommendation.

Classics:

Watership Down
Tailchaster's Song
Flowers for Algernon

* all of which should come with a box of tissues*

me no likely the sad books! but since we're talking about them: Marley and Me (like the movie) absolute tear jerker! and My Sister's Keeper (the book is MUCH better than the movie)

Totally agree - I hate how they changed the end in the movie. WTF??

I read a lot of romance and Christian fiction, oxymoron I know lol!! More often than not I'm usually home with a book and perfectly content.

Some of my favorite authors are Rochelle Alers, Shirley Hailstock, Nikita Lynette Nichols, Vanessa Davis Griggs, Carl Weber, and JJ Murray to name a few.....

The only christian fiction book I can think of off the top of my head would be The Facade by Michael S. Heiser don't-forget-the-Ph.D.. I don't particularly like him. I think he's a narcissist.

I have so many books on my kindle that I don't think I could read them all in this life time......But I still look for more......

I've actually written a couple of stories. Not long stories.....Ones about a page long the other about half a page.....Um, they aren't your usual run of the mill stories that some people would admit to reading....:blushing:

Fellow book nerd here! Not much for romance but I do like Shakespeare . And horror

I love Shakespeare!!!!!!!!!! Have you read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

Yep, had to read it for an English class back in high school. It was really good!!

Sisierra, Dracula was another book I had to read for school, lol. Also very good! I love vamps and weres and stuff like that. I'm in the process of writing my own series right now

I loved Dracula!!! I read In Cold Blood on my own, but... I loved it, I really adore Truman Capote. I'm looking at graduate schools in London so I can get my MBA in Shakespeare and American Literature!!! Haha

I really want to read MacBeth but the Old English is scaring me off lol

Don't let the Old English throw you off!!!! It's easy to read really, it's just the word order on some things. But, if you don't like Old English, then stay away from Chaucer... All in middle English!

Actually Shakespeare is early modern english. Old english is a low-german dialect and older than middle english, but you won't find a whole lot of reading material written in it. :-)

I have so many books on my kindle that I don't think I could read them all in this life time......But I still look for more......

I've actually written a couple of stories. Not long stories.....Ones about a page long the other about half a page.....Um, they aren't your usual run of the mill stories that some people would admit to reading....:blushing:

Whee!! Another writer!! No worries, mine aren't run-of-the-mill either

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I spent a whole semester with Chaucer... It all feels the same some how.