I am now reading "The Hunt For Atlantis" by Andy McDermott. This is his first novel and so far is a very entertaining action-adventure in the same vein as Clive Cussler novels.

Confessions of A Yakuza.

great great book.

reading memoirs of a geisha, and LOVE heroes !!!!

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Playboy (Collector's Edition)

You have more will power than I do, I stopped after Goodkinds 4th book, I just couldn't take it anymore. But the first two were good. I agree with you about Jordan too... I think he's one of the worst authors I've ever had the displeasure of reading. I read 4.5 of them too... finally in the middle of the 5th one, I dumped it in the garbage and never looked back. LOL.



^^^ Great trillogy. I like Weis and Hickman.



Currently I'm reading some Tim Cockney murder mysteries. They're about a mortician who gets involved in murder mysteries. They're very funny, quirky, and rollicking. I've enjoyed them so far. I think this one is called "Hearst Case Scenario"

I also just finished John Irving's Widow for a Year. Typically, I find John Irving tiresome, however Widow for a Year was quite good.

And I'm also reading A Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault... again. It is historical fiction, but a retelling of Alexander the Great's life from age four, until just before he invades India. The remainder of his life is dealt with in another book called "the Little Persian Boy"

"The Witch of Cologne"
    Tobsha Learner

set in the historical 1600's, strife with witchcraft and the inquisition

Roadshow
(Landscape with drums, a concert tour by motorcycle)
by Neil Peart

I'm almost done reading Their eyes were watching god!!! After this book I would liek to read a mystery novel. ANy Suggestions?

My nomination for mystery novels are the ones by Lawrence Block. All his mysteries are written in a series, it's best to read them from the first one in the series if at all possible. (if you can't find the very first one, read the one with the oldest publishing date you can find)

Block writes the Matthew Scudder Private Investigator series which are down dirty, gritty, gumshoe type of novels that take place in Hells Kitchen a rough neighborhood in New York City. They're classic noir mysteries and extremely well written.

His other series I really love is the Bernie Rhodenbar series about a theif, who is a really good guy, but can't stop doing heists. He's sort of an anti hero that everyone loves. This series is FUNNY, rollicking, improbable, and a plain good time. You can't but help love Bernie, the main character.

He has two other series, one is popular right now and relatively new called the "Hit Man" series about a hitman who both has no conscience, AND high morals. I personally disliked this series.

The fourth, which I loved, were some of Blocks first books called "The Evan Tanner" series. Even Tanner is a CIA agent (but they never say for sure) and he has a disorder where he can't sleep, ever. These novels are nothing short of lascivious, sexy, and very very slighly perverted. Many of them are out of print now and hard to find though.

I'm reading A New Kind of Dreaming because the school's forcing me to. Sometimes I want to read more, and others I just want to put it down and go to sleep. Although there are a fair few who like it.

(btw, don't read it if you don't like swearing, I can't believe the school permitted it)

^^^ oh it doesn't surprise me. I mean, most HS'ers have to read the Catcher In the Rye. I have NO clue why that book seems to be considered a great work of literature... I always thought it was crap. I even re-read it as an adult trying to figure out if I'd missed its significance in High School when I first read it. Nope, it was still just as crappy as the first time I slogged through it.

For classic literature, I always liked Kate Chopin. She wrote Awakenings which was marvelous.

Or, Catch-22 was really good... if you like irony, metaphores, and sarchasm.

Thanks. I will try to find The novel about the private investigator. Your description really helps!!

"Carrie" by Stephen King
really good...already done. =]

xoxo,
Paola<3

ohh and "The Fifth Child" by Doris Lessing.

xoxo,
Paola<3

One of my Favorite novels!!!

I`m now on to "Duma Key" by Stephen King, which is quite good so far, quite different though. At first it was hard to see where it may be heading, but it is now slowly revealing itself. It also has the most swearing I have seen in a novel for quite some time.

Reading Ayne Rands Fountainhead.

A very interesting book indeed. Ever since I read Atlas Shrugged I've wanted to read all her works. She is an amazing author.

Since I couldn't find any good mystery books..


Today I checked out " The War Of The Wordls" By H. G. Wells

I'm very excitied to begin reading

Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov. Just finished Lolita a few days ago and I completely loved his prose work.

Plus, I'm a big modernism and existentialism fan--Kafka and Dostoevsky, and the like.

Just started reading The Catcher in the Rye. I haven't read it before, and had it lying around my place for a year or so and just got around to starting it.

So far, so good!

^I just finished reading that and Holden Caulfield is the biggest jackass I've ever seen. The worst part is...he's just like a 1950's version of me...

   "Dreamsnake"
Vonda N. McIntyre

Dreamsnake is the story of a healer called Snake, who heals people with the serum of genetically modified snakes in the world of the future.

an awesome read!

He doesn't seem so bad so far.


I'm also reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I just love his writing. I'll probably be done this one by tonight.

Finished Extremely Loud and am now reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

'Sup, peeps? Excellent thread! I am currently reading R.A. Salvatore's Servant of the Shard. I picked it up because I loved his Icewind Dale trilogy when I read it a few year's ago. However Servant is a bit of a stinker. The main storyline deals with power struggles and shady alliances (yawn). The action scenes are too few, and when they do occur they seem sterile, particularly the ones involving the dark elves. However I am only halfway through. I will stick with it and, inevitably, also read the follow-up books Promise of the Witch King and Road of the Patriarch.

Just finished Cauldron by Jack McDevitt, which wasn`t the most satisfying conclusion to his series but was at least an adequate ending. However it does leave the door open for another book in his "Academy" series, so hopefully he doesn`t leave it the way he did. Now I`ve moved on to re-reading the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Just finished the Fountainhead and moved on to the "Virtue of Selfishness" again by Ayne Rand. It doesn't usually take so long to read a book but Rand takes a little bit of comprehending

R.A. Salvatore has the habit of writing books that I either love or hate, there doesn't seem to be much in between LOL.

Personally, I prefer Raymond Feist, which happens to be what I'm reading now. The Silver Falcon or something. This trilogy hasn't been one of his best, but still good enough that I'll finish it in the next day or two.

mhm. I always liked both Salvatore and Feist.

David Eddings is another author I find fascinating.

The Fantasy Author like least is Robert Jordan. And I hope DOT never reads that

I'm afraid I find both Robert Jordan and Terry Brookes to be incredibly boring.

I don't get Terry Brooks either... it's like Tolkein light or something. It either tries too hard, or not hard enough, I can't tell. LOL

Robert Jordan I detest. I read 4.5 of those bloody novels before I realized that they were never going anywhere. In fact, I think Robert Jordan might be one of only two authors whose books I chucked in the garbage. The other being William S. Burroughs. LOL. Naked Lunch was a trainwreck.

I'm almost finishing "Before They're Hanged" by Joe Abercrombie. The second book in his "The First Law" triligy, I had both of them on my shelf for a few months - was never in a reading mood - took a month and a bit to read "The Blade itself" (as I said, I was slowley coming out of the non-reading mood) and picked up "Before They're Hanged" straight after.

It's a great read about unlikely dark hero's; you have an Inquisitor, a northman barbarian, a stubborn noble, an old magi and his apprentice, a slight-demon and an ego-tistical guide. Not all on the same journey, but they cross paths.

Great read and Joe has a good writing style that invites you into the characters mind and eyes, instead of being an crystal-ball-spectre.

A reccomended read by all accounts Also only available in the UK but an old UM member found it in a New York library.

Demonstorm by james barclay.

I think I spoke too soon. The very next day after I posted about Servant of the Shard, it became a really good read within just a few pages. The story is actually going somewhere. Pity it too 100-odd pages to do so...

The Law of the Harvest.. A book for psychology class!!!

I've started reading Deaths Master by Tanith Lee.

I only just discovered Tanith Lee and he/she is incredible. The world she has created is very close to real. I strongly recommend her to you Miss Mels as she is similar in a way to Eddings or Feist though unique at the same time.

I just finished reading Terry Pratchets Monstrous Regiment. It was great, but every single one of his books is awesome. I cant wait to get my hands on another one, I think a trip to the bookstore is in order.

for all you graphic novel fans out there, ive just started reading the walking dead vol 5 ill probs have it finished by today, i read wayyy to fast

Zep Tepi~The Conclusion

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb746334.htm

a must read..

I didn't finish H.G. Wells War of the Worlds because it was too boring!!! But I will finish it..

Now I'm reading " Pearl" BY: John Steinbeck

The Prestige by Christopher Priest.

I have just started reading it, but I am already enjoying it! It has that whole 'stranger in a strange land' beginning that is soooo creeepy.

I'am reading The Orion Mystery

So far its a pretty good book with some neat facts.

Thats got to be blasphemy...

I love HG Wells, however I do admit that his stories can drag on occaisionally.

Peter Straub's Ghost Story, very well wrote, need to get some info upon three Dean Koontz book upon my Blog, never read Koontz and have here Strangres and Midnight, both, wondering if they are worth the energy out put to read them, where does Koontz compare to King as a writer, or even to Straub, what is you views upon Koontz, also I would like to dead his Ice Bound book, any word upon that one? I am usally a fan of Steven King, I liked Bag of Bones and Thinner, and Desperation...also liked his Dichard Backman book..fprgot which but it had three short stroies in it...Thanks..Pavot post you answers for me here or upon my Blog under Dean Koontz, or go to my Blog Page as you are more then welcomed to do and post a comment there..Take care...Pavot

I am reading this thread.

Just recently finished The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx, an interesting read, read it in 2 nights. Theres nothing in there that an Motley Crue fans wouldn't have already known but the mental anguish he goes through because of the addiction is interesting.

My other half who hardly ever reads says its good...apparently boys/men, its the perfect kind of book to take to the toilet...being a girl I have never understood the reading on the toilet theory

I'm about half way through a good book called "The Deprivers" by Steven-Elliot Altman. The story centers mainly around Robert Luxley, who has a "special trick" that he uses to build a career as an assassin. Anyone he touches, skin to skin, gets paralyzed for fifteen minutes. Then he learns that there are other "Deprivers" in the world, whose gift (or curse) varies in effect and duration. Some can take away the power of sight, hearing, balance, or worse. Some deprivations are brief, others permanent. And once the public learns about the power of the Deprivers, fear and uncertainty spread like a plague!

read "The alchemist" by paulo coelho, and michael crichton is good.

OMG, that is SO ironic!

I was talking to a friend the other night who is a professional novelist/short story writer and he's a SNOB when it comes to books.

He thinks the Motley Crue book written in 4 sections (I can't recall what it's titled now) by each band member was one of the most interesting books he's ever read. He's lending me his copy next week. He claims that Nikki Sixx is a great writer, as is Mick Mars! My friend isn't even a Motley Crue fan, in any way shape or form.

I'll pick up Heroin Diaries if only because I've been told that Nikki Sixx does have talent as a writer.

And hey, I have to read a guy who shares my name in an odd way... first name Nikki, last name is basically half of Six. LOL.

I don't read in the can... I read when I'm at a coffee, on the computer, in my bed, and everywhere else except there.

But yeah Nikki Sixx should be dead a few times now, a very lucky man indeed. (read that book)

Just started The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Really liking it so far - it's an easy read and it's interesting from the get go.