Does anybody read books here?

[limewave]

You guys have mentioned some new authors I haven't read yet, I'll have to check them out.

I love reading too--of course, I work in publishing so I better love it! The good thing about publishing is that I get all books 60% off--the bad thing is that I get books 60% off :-( There goes my money.

Anyway, I love Anna Maxted, Jennifer Weiner, Terri Blackstock, Patricia Cornwell, Francine Rivers, Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton for my fun reading.

Francine River's "Mark of the Lion" series is what got me hooked on reading when I was in college.

I recently read 1776 by David McCullough and found myself surprising riveted. I wish there was a 1777.

[salsabike]

I love Carl Hiaasen. Also Joanna Trollope, especially The Choir and The Best of Friends. Am also working my way through James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. I love EARLY Stephen King (Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand). I like Robert Parker's Spenser books as well.

[jeannierides]

Anyone read any of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Killer's series? I've never been into vampire books, but found myself with one from the library and absolutely LOVED them! Her latest is Danse Macabre.

[LBTC]

Ah, Books!

These days I am reading Henry Millers' "Under the Roofs of Paris". woah. serious sex.
But much nicer than the Marquis de Sade's "Justine" Pretty creepy. Finished it just before this one.

Favourite books of all time: Tom Robbins - a toss up between Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume.
Clive Barker - Imagica

And, amazingly, I really love Dean Koontz books. Despite all the depravity and violence, he has such a way of imbuing hope and a sense of the divine into his stories.

I've read and enjoyed all of the Anne Rice books, at least all that she originally published in her name. Belinda and Exit to Eden are both on my bookshelf and I will read them one day...

In high school I read a lot of Kurt Vonnegut and Frank Herbert. Later I realized that for me to find them funny I must have been pretty depressed. But I did.

I can just hear Tim Curry reading anything! Makes the snicket books seem very interesting!

And my all time favourite book to read while recovering from an illness or accident: The Good Time Gospel Boys by Billy Bittinger. Not necessarily easy to find, but a crazy funny story that had me laughing from the first sentence.

Happy reading, all!
Namaste,
~T~

[Kitsune06]

Vonnegut.... Didn't he write Naked Lunch? Maybe I'm confused. HS was spent reading Dune, Naked Lunch, On the Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catcher in the Rye, etc...

interesting stuff.

[salsabike]

Naked Lunch is William Burroughs, I think. Vonnegut---maybe in HS, you got Slaughterhouse Five?

[Kitsune06]

Ah- you're right! I need to re-read so many books... I got through them, and loved them, then forgot what happened in them.

[CyclChyk]

And, amazingly, I really love Dean Koontz books. Despite all the depravity and violence, he has such a way of imbuing hope and a sense of the divine into his stories.

Ahh = Dean Koontz. Whispers and Phantoms were my favorites from him.

As well, Ann Rice's son, Christopher Rice, is now an author. I read his first novel, A Density of Souls, and was veryyyy impressed. No vampires, just modern day mayhem. His second book was very good also.

[latelatebloomer]

Some of us even write books! My second kid's book, Oscar & the Mooncats, will be out next fall. And I'm TRYING to wrap up my first fantasy novel before the end of the year.

Since I'm working a day job and writing (and cycling and taking care of the world's smallest farm), my reading is not what it used to be. I've even been known to call out sick to finish a book (that honor goes to MamaDay by Gloria Naylor.) I love fantasy but am very picky about it - I also am devoted to Thomas Hardy and Willa Cather.

I read Dune many moons ago, snowbound in a farmhouse high on a Pennsylvania hill. My 2 housemates were also reading it, and we tore the paperback into individual chapers so we didn't fight over it. Much.

[Selkie]

Claire Messud is a wonderful writer. Her novel, "The Last Life," is one of my all time favorites.
You can't go wrong with anything by Alice McDermott, Louise Erdrich (sp?), Elizabeth George (British Mysteries), Barbara Vine/Ruth Rendell, Joyce Carol Oates, or Ann Beattie.
Jim Harrison's "Dalva" and the sequel, "The Road Home" are just wonderful books.

[Lise]

I read Dune many moons ago, snowbound in a farmhouse high on a Pennsylvania hill. My 2 housemates were also reading it, and we tore the paperback into individual chapers so we didn't fight over it. Much.

Brilliant strategy. I read Dune during finals week, my last semester of college. It was my bribe. Every two hours I'd allow myself to go out on the lawn in front of Regenstein library at the University of Chicago and read Dune for 30 min. I was in a blind panic--what do you mean, I have to leave college?--Dune gave me relief. It's kind of a miracle I didn't just go to grad school, right? I started drinking heavily instead. Then got sober and went back to school!

LLB, I'm excited to check out your books! My mom's a children's librarian. Sadly for me, this means that she deluges my nephew and niece with books. I slip one in here and there, too.

[Brandi]

I do a lot of reading with all my traveling and free time in airports. my book pick for this summer was a book called "The lobster chronicles" by Linda Greenlaw. She wrote an book on fishing as well which is really good. She was a captain of boat from the same place " A perfect storm" was from and about.
The book "The lobster chronicles" is about life on a very small island. I think there are less then 50 people living on this island. Linda talks about lobstering with her dad and just what it is like to come home and try to start a new life. It is very funny I thought. I come from a small town and can relate to it. Oh and it is a true story. I think it just came out in paperback.

[Patti37]

You guys have mentioned some new authors I haven't read yet, I'll have to check them out.

I love reading too--of course, I work in publishing so I better love it! The good thing about publishing is that I get all books 60% off--the bad thing is that I get books 60% off :-( There goes my money.

Anyway, I love Anna Maxted, Jennifer Weiner, Terri Blackstock, Patricia Cornwell, Francine Rivers, Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton for my fun reading.

Francine River's "Mark of the Lion" series is what got me hooked on reading when I was in college.

I recently read 1776 by David McCullough and found myself surprising riveted. I wish there was a 1777.

David McCullough's book on John Adams is also a very good read. He also wrote a book on Harry Truman that was good but it was not a "I can't put it down" kind of book.