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Title: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 26, 2010, 05:13:58 PM
You knew it was coming.  You had the music, the movies, next is the books(an maybe fav vacations spots will be next,lol). 

Well this is for those of you who read more than just mags.

My favorite authors are
Charlaine Harris- Stookie Stackhouse novels(aka TrueBlood series)
Jim Butcher- The Dresden Files(had its own tv series, sucked)
 Simon R. Green
Laurel K. Hamilton- Meredith Grey novels and Anita Blake novels(before it got all orgy)
Lilith Saintcrow-Dante Valentine novels
Rob Thruman
Marc Del Franco
Karen Marie Moning- fae fever novels
Michelle Sagara
and last but not least-
Kim Harrison-The Rachel Morgan series

What can I say, I'm also a book whore.  Cute geek heere. :-*
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: mikki on June 26, 2010, 05:31:16 PM
Bram Stoker's Dracula is my all time favorite book as posted in the movies thread.
Stephen King,
Robert Jordan,
Ursala K. Le Guin,
Anne MacCaffrey,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Shakespeare,
Jean M Auel,
I like Classical Literature, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, I am not big on the drivel that many call romance novels, though I will read Johanna Lindsay's books from time to time
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Post by: Janine Dee on June 26, 2010, 06:32:29 PM
 :P I was waiting till the music, movie, and tv threads started loosing steam.

I love Kim Harrison, and am starting to hate Rachel Morgan. I ADORE the sexual tension between her and Ivy, but now seven books in and Rachel's still denying she is gay for Ivy!

I personally an even gayer for Ivy and want her to bite me.

That said I love the series and it's the only set that I collect in hard cover.

I read Date's Inferno four times to get a feel for his poetic form and have a huge copy of all three part of the Comedy in my library.

I also like the more philosophical classics like The Prince by Machiavelli and the Art of War by Sun Tzu... I consider both timeless and still applicable today. (With exceptions made for not being able to route your enemies with fire and similar.  ;D)

My reading of the Punisher comic also got me into his inspiration The Executioner, a man with similar objectives, but a much cooler, much more reasoned mind, and that dominates the vast majority of my pleasure reading as it started in 1968 and is still putting out books, and still keeping up a high level of quality.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Bear on June 26, 2010, 09:10:11 PM
many favs listed here, enjoy the classics myself,...authors who I have followed through the years:

Jennifer Roberson's Shapeshifter series and Sworddancer series reign righn up there;
Frank Herbert's Dune series
anything by Piers Anthony (his Xanth series kept me up many a long winter night)

and would be remise if I didn't add Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers series
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 27, 2010, 01:50:50 AM
Love the Dune novels byt Frank himself, not the ones done by his son.  Have the movie an TV movies.
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Post by: Lover on June 27, 2010, 03:55:28 AM
Edgar Allan Poe
Agatha Chrisite in my younger years
Stephen King of course and I love "The Long Walk", which he published as Richard Bachmann
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 27, 2010, 04:24:08 AM
Stephen King.  Have you read his novel The Dragon's Eye, best fantasy book I have ever read.  His Running Man was also great.  I hated that they made a movie out of it. Once you read the story it made the movie look like shit.  It would make a really good movie if they keep to the story and the ending might have to be changed because of 911. Love King, The Stand, TommyKnockers, Cujo, and IT.  Because of IT I hate clowns, I really, really hate clowns. :P
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Lover on June 27, 2010, 04:51:46 AM
Stephen King:
Carry, Shining!!!, Misery, Insomnia, Cujo, TommyKnockers!!!, Pet Sematary and my all time fav: It

I agree to sinnnn. Most of the movies are big shit if you read the books. I waited for "It" and though the movie is a good movie, I was disappointed as my expectations have been soooo high.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: bouli on June 27, 2010, 04:56:03 AM
One of my all time favourites would be Neil Gaiman. Books like American Gods and his colaboration with Terry Pratchett in Small Gods are some of the most entertaining things I've read to date.
I'm generally into a lot of fantasy with other authors like Steven Erikson and Jonathan Stroud filling my bookshelf.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: mikki on June 27, 2010, 05:17:45 AM
Oh Stephen, How many ways do we love thee. My absolute favorite is The Stand, I liked the ending of the book so much more than the movie. The Shining, Carrie, Christine, Dreamcatcher, Insomnia, Misery, Delores Claiborne, and so many more. I watch IT, every year around Halloween, just for a good creepy scare. Like you sinnnn, this one makes me hate Clowns, not that I had much love for them before having seen or read it.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Janine Dee on June 27, 2010, 06:33:25 AM
Okay, BIG shame on me for forgetting kinky classics...

Jacqueline Carey-I've read the first three Kushiel's Dart, Avatar, and Chosen, and the heroine is Phaedra, a courtesan and a Anguisette. An Anguisette is someone marked by the god Kushiel with a scarlet mote in their eye, and they feel pain and pleasure as one and the same.

Yes folks, this medieval/fantasy novel has a sexual submissive as it's star.

I don't want to give away too much, but without ever lifting a sword Phaedra changes the course of nations, which leads to one of the most memorable quotes. "That which yields is not always weak."

The A.N. Rolequare (aka Anne Rice) wrote the Sleeping Beauty trilogy where it took more then a kiss to waken Beauty, and when they rode off to the caste the fun really began as she was trained as a sexual submissive.

Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 27, 2010, 12:42:16 PM
Janine I'm close to Achat purposal.  I was addicted to that Kushial series that I almost got that Rose tat on my back.  I stopped reading it when the story turned to the young boy she adopted, I just wanted her story.

Must not forget Anne Rice, ever read her Sleepin Beauty series? ;) 
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Janine Dee on June 27, 2010, 04:28:30 PM
Of course, it had been recommended to me by a pony girl I was close to.

The friend who got me into Kushiel has said the next books are good, but I too ended at Phaedra's three.

How nummy was the tension between her and Milisande? Yeah she may love the blade boy, but there is a part of her he just can't touch... the part Milisande made use her safe word.  :P
 
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Lover on June 27, 2010, 05:03:03 PM
John Grisham - also the movies are exciting and worth seeing
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 27, 2010, 06:53:28 PM
That babe gave me shivers.  When they found out that she was into pain had me floored.  Oh an her first time, WOW.  Remember the skinning part, damn I can go on and on about the books.   ;D  I never wanted her story to end. :'(
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: apollo13nut on June 28, 2010, 12:28:02 AM
Anything John Grisham(my favorite to date is The Brethern, one of the few NOT made into a movie).

I only read 2 by King (Tommyknockers and Bag of Bones).

I have read several books by Tami Hoag (Night Sins and the sequel Guilty as Sin) as well as other works by her. Most of her characters are either cops, DAs or ex cops (the Dark Horse).

I have also read Space by James A Mitchner, a book I highly recommend.

I must add a book to this list because it holds a special place in my heart. In middle school, we did a Holocaust unit that was a major cross-over among classes (English, reading, history, etc). For reading and English, we read a book by a survivor, Alicia Appleman-Jurman. She wrote a book about what the Nazis and WWII did to her called Alicia: My Story. At the end of the unit, we were able to bring her to my school for her to do a "lecture" and she was a sweet old lady, and I was lucky to meet her, and I had her sign a copy of her book (I bought it) and I read it every year.

And my ALL time favorite author (and it pains me NO ONE mentioned him): Michael Chrichton (Disclosure, Jurassic Park, Airframe [my FAV], The Great Train Robbery, Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, State of Fear [really good thriller revolving around global warming])
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Lover on June 28, 2010, 02:29:58 AM
@ apollo: I'm sure some of us have been thinking about Crichton, but you should be the one to list him, as he is your all time favourite ;)

Dan Brown is also missing. "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons" are two must-have books. Even "Digital Fortress" ist wort to read it.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Janine Dee on June 28, 2010, 04:13:55 AM
Sinnnn sweetie, I don't like to think about the skinning. I like to think about her BFF and her skillful knots.  :-*
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 28, 2010, 12:31:04 PM
Its not the skinning I meant to focus on.  Its the fact she had balls to deal with the crazy shit that happen all the way up to that point.  When that happen she became the ralling point for her ppl.  She became a HERO.  Thats when she truly became my Hero.  She didn't have super powers,  what she had was human strenght and a strong ass will. ;)
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Post by: Janine Dee on June 28, 2010, 04:49:16 PM
That's a very good point. I also love her mind... I mean she was weaving her way through politics, intrigue, and even the Will of God at the end.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 28, 2010, 09:33:58 PM
I will say this, I LOVE the Harry Potter books and I LOVE the Twilight books.  The movies(twilight) is not as good as the books.  I was not impress with the first movie, the acting was so so.  But I'll still go see it anyway.  Just like The Avatar-The Last Air Bender,  I'm really disappointed in some of the actors he chose to play certain characters.(but when you watch a series for a long time you end up with a certain picture of how the characters are suppose to be).  I'm still going to see it because just maybe his spin on it will make the movie come alive for me.   ;)
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Lover on June 29, 2010, 08:05:39 AM
"The Juror" written by George D. Green. I started to read this book 3 or 4-times, always stopped after some pages. Then, one day, I read some pages more - and suddenly I coul not stop reading.
They also made a movie (1996) with Demi Moore, Anne Heche and Alec Baldwin. I never saw this one, so I can't say if it's a good one.

Again the hint, if you read the plot, don't look at the last passages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juror)
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: sinnnn on June 29, 2010, 10:36:51 AM
My all time fav book an I will read this almost every month.

The Mirror of Her Dreams and the sequel, A Man Rides Through  by: Stephen R. Donaldson
another of my fav is  Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Series #1) by: Patricia Briggs
Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress Series #1) by: Jeaniene Frost
Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer Series #1) by:Karen Chance

Undead and Unwed (Betsy Taylor Series #1) by:  MaryJanice Davidson(just plain funny)
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: bouli on July 02, 2010, 04:45:47 PM
I only read the first Covenant triology by Stephen Donaldsson.  That was some heavy reading as I was only aged 15 or so at the time.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: FoxyRoxxy on March 18, 2014, 02:57:57 PM
 Lord of the Rings  and many more.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Lover on March 19, 2014, 10:01:56 AM
"The Rosie project" Graeme Simsion
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Post by: FoxyRoxxy on March 21, 2014, 01:56:05 PM
The Seduction Game

                               Sara Craven
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Momma_andrea on March 21, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
Jennifer Roberson  Tiger and Del series

(http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c3/c17381.jpg)


David Eddings  (Particularly the "Belgariad" series)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Polgara.jpg)

and Terry Pratchett and the ENTIRE Discworld series and spin-offs
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Post by: jayc on March 21, 2014, 11:56:11 PM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7MMYlTmv26g/UiZETpInC9I/AAAAAAAACF4/TK_9pDcAdZg/s1600/the-devil-in-the-white-city.jpg)

The devil in the white city

this is a very good read if you enjoy historical novels. read the reviews at Amazon   
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Justlna on March 22, 2014, 10:29:17 AM
I won't put here every book i read, because it would be way too big list for the forum. I like to read good books, and i mean that, good books which give you a lot to think about. But the book i just cannot not to mention is '1984' by G.Orwell :)
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Post by: hukk on March 22, 2014, 10:40:55 AM
@ Justina. An interesting read.

Quote
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Personal favorite is anything from Cormac McCarthy, The Road, All the Pretty Horses, or No Country for Old Men. Not recommended for readers who want a happy ending. A bit preachy from time to time, but other then that, all his works are a great analysis of human behavior and the cruelty we often show to one another.

(http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/cormac-covers.jpg)
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Post by: Peeka on March 22, 2014, 11:53:12 AM
I don't really read novels, I like to read books about philosophy, religions, essays aso.

This book had the biggest influence on me and my way to see the world: Freedom from the Known by Krishnamurti.
Most of his books give us many clues on why we act or feel like we do. And why we are often mistaken by society-build concepts. They help us have another point of view on life and ourselves.
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Post by: FoxyRoxxy on March 23, 2014, 11:33:42 PM
Holy Bible


(http://www.colourbox.com/preview/2016497-480818-on-a-photo-a-rose-and-holy-bible.jpg)
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Stone on July 26, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of 13 books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

1   Dead Until Dark   
2   Living Dead in Dallas   
3   Club Dead   
4   Dead to the World   
5   Dead as a Doornail   
6   Definitely Dead   
7   All Together Dead   
8   From Dead to Worse   
9   Dead and Gone   
10   Dead in the Family   
11   Dead Reckoning   
12   Deadlocked   
13   Dead Ever After
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Post by: Momma_andrea on July 30, 2014, 05:42:28 PM
I am halfway through "Wicked"
Which the broadway musical is loosely based on. THEY ARE NOTHING ALIKE, not really.

(http://litreactor.com/sites/default/files/images/books/Wicked.jpg)

So, if you are a fan of the musical thinking "WOW, the book should be AWESOME."  No.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: AusWoody on December 15, 2014, 01:59:21 PM


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Game_of_Thrones_title_card.jpg)

Ok you have all seen the TV series  now read the  books

(http://statfaking4.firstpost.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tyrion.jpg)

Game of thrones, its a great read though long  seven novels of 800 + pages, it tells a more complete story than the  TV series  ands is difficult to put down.  If you like medieval dramas  with some sex violence and magic thrown in  check them out. There is the usual  knights, goodies  baddies  and a whole gamut of characters all well developed  and fleshed out.

(http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/news_article/game-of-thrones-daenerys-hed-2013.jpg)

Seriously if you liked the TV series  you LOVE the books

(http://www.randomheads.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/game-of-thrones.jpg)

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Post by: jayc on December 16, 2014, 09:47:40 PM
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oNrGEbZjtPo/ShWYa9fRJ6I/AAAAAAAAC1A/Tcyq27WIAms/s320/Enemy+at+the+Gates+1.jpg)

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad
by William Craig

Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler; it foretold the Russian juggernaut that would destroy Berlin and make the Soviet Union a superpower. As Winston Churchill characterized the result of the conflict at Stalingrad: " the hinge of fate had turned."

William Craig, author and historian, has painstakingly recreated the details of this great battle: from the hot summer of August 1942, when the German armies smashed their way across southern Russia toward the Volga River, through the struggle for Stalingrad-a city Hitler had never meant to capture and Stalin never meant to defend-on to the destruction of the supposedly invincible German Sixth Army and the terror of the Russian prison camps in frozen Siberia. Craig has interviewed hundreds of survivors of the battle-both Russian and German soldiers and civilians-and has woven their incredible experiences into the fabric of hitherto unknown documents. The resulting mosaic is epic in scope, and the human tragedy that unfolds is awesome.

This is a great read, told from both German and Russian Eye witness accounts. the book reads more like a novel than a history book and even people who don't like war stories will find this hard to put down.
Title: Re: Books, Books, and More Books
Post by: Vaughan on October 17, 2017, 05:29:15 PM
Quote from: AusWoody on December 15, 2014, 01:59:21 PM


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Game_of_Thrones_title_card.jpg)

Ok you have all seen the TV series  now read the  books

(http://statfaking4.firstpost.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tyrion.jpg)

Game of thrones, its a great read though long  seven novels of 800 + pages, it tells a more complete story than the  TV series  ands is difficult to put down.  If you like medieval dramas  with some sex violence and magic thrown in  check them out. There is the usual  knights, goodies  baddies  and a whole gamut of characters all well developed  and fleshed out.

(http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/news_article/game-of-thrones-daenerys-hed-2013.jpg)

Seriously if you liked the TV series  you LOVE the books

(http://www.randomheads.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/game-of-thrones.jpg)


Here's the Titles

A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Storm of Swords (2000)
A Feast for Crows (2005)
A Dance with Dragons (2011)
The Winds of Winter (forthcoming)
A Dream of Spring (forthcoming)