What type of book/story do you like reading?

[Victoria]

Just wondering what everyone likes to read.

Personally l like reading something with a bit of action or drama in it. Not one for the Mills and Boons type books at all.

One of my favorite authors is James Patterson who has such a wonderful body of work to choose from and keep you entertained.

At the moment l am looking for a good book on William Wilberforce after watching the movie ?Amazing Grace?. If you have not seen this movie l would suggest to check it out. You may even notice a certain ?four horseman? in it with his wonderful booming voice above everyone else as the speaking of the house.

[MagicPrincess]

I love James Patterson. His books are quick and easy reads and I enjoy them a lot. I also like Julie Garwood romance novels.

My favorite thing to read is science related stuff. Like "The Human Genome", and "Hush Hush" which is about secret cover-ups and disasters in science. My favorite book though is about microbiology called "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance." If you have any interest in the history of diseases and the microbes that cause them, this would be a great book for you to read. So yeah...I'm a science nerd. LOL

[Valoise]

Cyberpunk has been a favorite for a while, but that genre seems to be mutating into other things. William Gibson and Rudy Rucker are favorites. I used to read fantasy, but sort of drifted away from that about 15 years ago. I still pull out the Tolkein from time to time for a reread. Recently read all the Harry Potter and found, much to my surprise, that I liked that very much.

Also read a lot of nonfiction, things relating to history, culinary history, beading, crafts, etc.

OH, and fanfiction. Lots of Highlander fanfic. ;)

Valoise

[Sara L]

Cyberpunk? :confused: What's that?

I have to admit to reading "classics" of American Literature mostly. Occupational hazard. But there are still quite a number in the Lit canon that I haven't read yet. Most recent were "The Catcher In The Rye" and "To Kill A Mockingbird" and I've successfully read my way around "The Sound And The Fury" for years, now.. ;)

Edward Abbey is an alltime favorite and another hunting/collecting passion because it's about as hard to get his novels for a reasonable price here in Germany as it is to get my hands on -oh say "The Cover Girl Murders".. :)

Apart from that I'm currently reading Ivan Doig who paints a lovely and vivid picture of the Montana Rockies region in the 1930s. It was a gift from a friend whom I met while doing an internship with a political organization in said Montana region.

Other than that it's non-fiction in Social Ethics, Bioethics and political stuff.

And of course: Highlander Fanfic whenever there's time before bedtime! :)

[Valoise]

Cyberpunk? :confused: What's that?:)

Science fiction that involves high tech more than hard science, that would be a very simplistic way to put it. see the wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk

[Sara L]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk


Thanks Valoise, great article. I had never heard of the term but the analytical approach of the WP article is very interesting and does explain the choice of terminology very well.

[cbas]

I'm a voracious reader and will devour whatever I find interesting, leaning toward horror/fantasy fiction. My top favorites are the incomparable Stephen King, his wife Tabitha and his sons Owen and Joe-Joe Hill's "Heart Shaped Box" is one of the best ghost stories I've read in years!

I rotate several books at one time even...I'm currently about to finish "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"-J.K. Rowling is a genius! I'm also reading "The Grave Digger's Daughter" by Joyce Carol Oates-another favorite of mine, and "Necroscope" by Brian Lumley. I've also read some of Lumley's other work at the suggestion of my boyfriend, and I love Lumley's work! He writes in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft.

My big favorite is the Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita is a Vampire hunter and a raiser of the dead in a future where Vampires have Civil Rights and Zombies can be raised to explain what they wanted in their final will and testaments. Cool, huh?

[fgh2157]

I love most sci fi, have read all sorts, EE Doc Smith is good as it was written in the 30's-50's and offers a great view of what they thought the future would be like. Every thing got bigger as in huge machines when in reality everything has got smaller. Love Asimov and Clarke. Heinlein is brilliant. Have read all the Dan Browns and am looking forward to the next one. Love the Potters just read all of them. And have to admit i dont mind the odd torrid romance every now and again. KK Moning springs to mind there.!!!. Quite like a good Who dun it, too. But i must say i do like happy endings and i dont particulary like reading too may swear words. I dont mind the odd one here and there but some books are just full of them. So i guess when i think about it i have farily varied likes. What i do tend to do is read a book by an athor and if i like it i will search out all the other stuff that persons written and read the lot.

[hlndr]

I love all of Stephen King's stuff....especially the Dark Tower series. I also like Dean Koontz. There are some of the Highlander books I'd like to read....just not the mushy romance ones.

[cbas]

Hey, Hlndr, it's good to meet another "Tower Junkie"!! I finished the last Harry Potter yesterday (I cried, I cheered, I laughed, I wished I had half the gift that Jo Rowling has in the tip of her pinky finger:p), and do you know, I STILL haven't finished the quest for the Tower?? I can't bring myself to do it...I only lived in Harry's world for 7 years...The Tower is almost half my life, and if I finish it......it's just done. No more Tower.....

[Aniviel]

I just finished The Deathly Hallows while on vacation over the weekend, family couldn't figure out why I was so sad. And it was hard to explain. But JK did a great job of closure.

But Stephen King is my favorite, I have every book he's ever written, as well as when I was 14 I wrote a letter to him to help me with me own writing and he wrote me back on a 3x5 card in pencil and sent me some copies of editors that would help me.

[cbas]

I just finished The Deathly Hallows while on vacation over the weekend, family couldn't figure out why I was so sad. And it was hard to explain. But JK did a great job of closure.

But Stephen King is my favorite, I have every book he's ever written, as well as when I was 14 I wrote a letter to him to help me with me own writing and he wrote me back on a 3x5 card in pencil and sent me some copies of editors that would help me.

Wasn't The Deathly Hallows amazing? I finished it yesterday and the ending is still living with me-so bittersweet and just as close to perfect as you can get-much like The Stand, which is one of my two favorite Stephen King novels-the other being The Talisman, which was also nearly perfect.

I have a lot of respect for Stephen King-he is a bit of a hero of mine; I think of him as a mentor in the craft of writing. He is very generous of spirit when it comes to young writers, and I just love that. Have you read any of his wife's work? Tabitha King does some beautiful work-find the novel One on One if you haven't read it. And I highly recommend We're All In This Together by his son Owen King, and Heart Shaped Box, by his other son, who publishes under the name Joe Hill, is just fantastic! The BEST ghost story I've ever read!!

[Aniviel]

the other being The Talisman, which was also nearly perfect.


THAT is my favorite Stephen King book, even though he co-authored it, it is still the best read.
I haven't read Owen's works yet. Can you tell his father influenced him?
But I agree King is generous, doing public speaking and always talking to the 'constant reader'

[RottieGirl]

Personally, I do not really enjoy reading at all. That comes from being forced to read 10 boring novels in 10 weeks, when I was in grade 12 in high school. I did however read a novel this past winter. The 1st one since high school. :eek: I read "The Gun Seller" by actor Hugh Laurie. Very good book. It's a spy type of story.

[cbas]

THAT is my favorite Stephen King book, even though he co-authored it, it is still the best read.
I haven't read Owen's works yet. Can you tell his father influenced him?
But I agree King is generous, doing public speaking and always talking to the 'constant reader'

Actually, Owen is more his mother's son...you see Big Steve's wide open imagination, but a much more "literary" tone. Joe, however, is purely influenced by Stephen; you can see it in the first chapter of Heart Shaped Box, which is I think one or two sentances.:)

The Talisman really was perfect, wasn't it...Stephen King and Peter Straub really bring the best out in each other. They did a sequel a couple of years ago called Black House that I thought was very satisfying.

I think the most generous thing Stephen ever did for aspiring writers was to publish On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. That book inspired Mick Foley (the wrestler Mankind) to write Tietam Brown, which was just a fabulous read.

[Ceirdwyn28]

I REALLY LIKE ROBERT JORDAN, THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES. I LIKE TO READ SERIES THAT DONT END IN 3 BOOKS. IVE READ ALL OF THE DRAGON LANCE BOOKS! THAT IS A GREAT SERIES!!!:D IVE READ SOME OF THE BOOKS FROM THE HIGHLANDER SERIES THEY WHERE OKAY BUT I LIKE THE TV SERIES BETTER! ;) DOSES ANYONE ELSE LIKE SIFI BOOKS?

[Sara L]

Personally, I do not really enjoy reading at all. That comes from being forced to read 10 boring novels in 10 weeks, when I was in grade 12 in high school. I did however read a novel this past winter. The 1st one since high school. :eek: I read "The Gun Seller" by actor Hugh Laurie. Very good book. It's a spy type of story.

Rottie, I can empathize. I hated having to slave through several tombs as fast as possible and then write some superficial 5pages paper on them. Did that during a year at university in California.

Reading is a completely different experience if you do it for fun and for yourself. So start with something you like and take your time.
Personally, I love reading on trains and I crave my BBB evenings:
Bubblebath, book and beer. :D

Didn't know Hugh Laurie tried himself as an author btw. My brother is a 'House' fan so I'll look into that.. :)

[cbas]

Actually, I had heard that Hugh Laurie had published a novel-I became a fan of his through the Blackadder series-guess who's gonna be the only American on line in Florida when Mr. Bean Goes on Holiday opens on Friday??:rolleyes: At any rate-I was overjoyed When Hugh Laurie signed up as House, and I LOVE that show! I'll be looking for his novel, also.

Carla

[Aniviel]

Rottie, I can empathize. I hated having to slave through several tombs as fast as possible and then write some superficial 5pages paper on them.


I was that way in school too, and then when I came out of school re read the books that I was forced to read and I loved them, turned out I love literature and just reading in general.

[Sara L]

guess who's gonna be the only American on line in Florida when Mr. Bean Goes on Holiday opens on Friday??:rolleyes:

Is that just now opening in the States? The German version is already out of theaters here and I have to admit I didn't see it. As much as I enjoyed Mr Bean in earlier days (I'll just say 'trunks' and 'beach' :D ), the blockbuster movies didn't really strike a spark with me.

Aniviel: I can't say I didn't like anything I read in school. In English even more than German. Loved lots of novels and autobiographies I read throughout university, too but we usually just read two or three and picked those apart for a whole semester. Much prefered that to 7novels one after the other.
But you're right, it's still even more fun if you just read 'em for yourself!

[cbas]

:rolleyes:Sadly, yes Mr. Bean's Holiday is just opening here, and what kind of box office it will do is anyone's guess. I don't care about sales, though, I just want to see Mr. Bean-I have to agree he's funnier on the small screen than in the blockbusters, but Rowan Atkinson is just one of those people who can always get me to laugh. It always makes my day when he does one of his memorable bit parts in big movies like the shop clerk in Love, Actually, or the minister in 4 Weddings and a Funeral.

Carla

[Lt.Mac]

Yeah, Mr. Bean's a hoot. I love him to death. My kids think he's wierd.
Reading? HMMM. anything with knights and ladies and medieval/renissance adventure for fun but most of the time I'm doing research so it's history and theology but I also like Ann Rice, V.C. Andrews and Beatrice Small-as well as all the classics and Shakespeare.
My favorite as of late (last few months) is by Nicole Galland "The Fool's Tale"
awesome story, historically based of course- unexpected ending.
:D The family lived on cold cereal the whole time I was reading it.

[Lt.Mac]

Gee wiz, sounds like I just auditioned for Reading Rainbow.

[TinaMarie]

:rolleyes:Sadly, yes Mr. Bean's Holiday is just opening here, and what kind of box office it will do is anyone's guess. I don't care about sales, though, I just want to see Mr. Bean-I have to agree he's funnier on the small screen than in the blockbusters, but Rowan Atkinson is just one of those people who can always get me to laugh. It always makes my day when he does one of his memorable bit parts in big movies like the shop clerk in Love, Actually, or the minister in 4 Weddings and a Funeral.

Carla

I LOVE MR.BEAN!!

[TinaMarie]

When i have the time i love to read historical romances to name a couple Johanna Lindsey,Nora Roberts....

[cbas]

:D To all us "Beanies"...

Mr. Bean's Holiday placed 4th in the top five grossing movies this opening weekend....Hooray for our side! Who says Americans don't get British humor??

To Lt. Mac...I used to love VC Andrews...I kind of lost the spark when she died and someone else inherited the right to use her pen name, although the writer is a darn good mimic....I loved Anne Rice as well, once upon a time-she had me with Interview With The Vampire, lost me with Blackwood Farm. Hope the new subject material she's working in gives her a spark to rejuvenate her awesome talent.

[CaDonna]

I was never a good reader in school or after. At one of my jobs, my boss recommended a Sandra Brown book to read at lunch. It was Mirror Image and from page one it had me. Since then I read all the time, probably average a book a week and you can usually find one in my purse all the time. I enjoy many different types of books and authors.

Here are a few:

Sandra Brown- Both Romance and Thrillers
Catherine Coulter- especially the historicals and the FBI Thrillers
Nora Roberts - JD Robb
Jayne Ann Krentz (contemporary) Jayne Castle (other worldly) Amanda
Quick (Historicals)

Nelson DeMille- His Charm School was a thriller but it also scared the stuffing out of me:o

James Patterson

Richard Dean Patterson- especially Protect & Defend and Balance of Power-scary in the "reality" of the story

Naomi Novik- Great Fantasy about what it would be like to have dragons in service in the Napoleonic Wars

There are several other authors, too numerous to list but ones I usually buy as soon as they are released in paperback. (Can't hold the hard cover ones and they don't fit in a purse all that easy.)

A strange variety, I know.

[Cara et Pax]

I read a variety of books.Some of my favorites are:
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series
J.R.R.Tolkein books
Harry Potter series
Christine Feehan's Dark series
SHerrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series
Janet Evanovich
Anne McCaffery's Pern series
Dan Brown's books
Anne Rice's vampire books
Dalia Lama books
Joseph Campbell's Myth books
Carolyn Myss's Anatomy of the Spirit
Brian Weiss books

[Aniviel]

Dan Brown's books

oh I forgot about Dan Brown! short chapters, just right for my attention span:p

[Lt.Mac]

Dan Brown of course how could I forget!!
speaking of historical romances ya'll, my book is still for sale through amazon- just trying to boost sales :D if you don't have it yet :(
It's made for those with for short attention spans- just put in Beyond the Legend

[RottieGirl]

I actually don't like reading at all. I did read a book last winter. It was the 1st book since I was in highschool. :eek: It was: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie. Very good novel. :)

[Silverwolf]

I am such a nerd. I love to read. Maybe cause my parents were so against me watching TV when I was young. My favorite genres are Sci Fi/ Fantasy, Erotica, and History books (Global Studies Teacher:)) I have at least 1000 books in my personal library, and that doesn't include the ones I use in school.

I have read everything that Anne Rice has ever written at least twice. And I'm a big fan of George R.R. Martin's [I]A Song of Ice and Fire[I]series. I'll read anything a friend says is really good.

Some of my favorite author's are Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaimon, Paulo Coelho to name a few.

[Sharon D.H.]

I could work at a library or book store and be happy. I love to read, and among my favorite authors are Karen M.Moning, JohannanLindsay, Gaelen Foley, J.R.R.Tolkein, George Lucas(Star wars books), R.A.Salvatore(Forgotten Realms), And now that Mr. Adrian is narrating the book by George R.R.Martin I will be checking that one out as well. I even went so far as to check out that particular website by this new author. And don't forget the author that wrote Congo, Timeline,(Ijust can't think of the name right now, since I obviously have "Adrian on the Brain" and can't get any other work done.

God Bless

[cbas]

I might be mistaken but wasn't the author that wrote Congo and Timeline Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park?

[ddecember]

Ooh, love to read!

Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry private eye/fairy princess (kind of a given)
Rett MacPherson - mysteries
Sharon Shinn - fantasy
Glen Cook (no relation) Garrett PI Series - fantasy
Whilemina Baird trilogy - CrashCourse, Clip Joint, Psychosis - urban fantasy
Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse series and Harper Connelly series - paranormal romance/fantasy
MaryJanice Davidson Betsy series - paranormal romance
Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark Hunter series - paranormal romance
LA Banks Denali series - paranormal romance
Cathy Clamp and CT Adams - paranormal romance
Jenna Black - fantasy
Tom Dietz Davy Sullivan series - urban fantasy
JD Robb Eve Dallas Series - urban fantasy

Oh gosh, there are so many good books out there and excellent authors it is hard to list them all! My goal is to wear out my library card. :)

[Sharon D.H.]

What is Urban Fantasy? Never heard of it. I forgot to include in my list of favorite authors is Anne Rice, Sherrylyn Kenyon also, and yes, it is Michael Crichton who wrote Timeline and Congo as well as Jurassic Park. (Loved those movies). I have numerous others, just can't list all of them from memory. If the guy looks yummy on the cover of the book, that is the first thing that catches my attention. So, I read the back of the book and then if my "feeling" comes into play, I buy the book and then search for more of the same, such as from Sherrylyn Kenyon, The darkHunter series....I have a couple of them.
c'ya,
Sharon

[Sharon D.H.]

Hello everyone:
I am currently reading George R.R. Martin's book in the series Ice and Fire. It is called [U]A Game of Thrones.[U] So far, it is explaining who is who and what their "title" is. Who belongs where in the North or the South of the "Wall". It also has one or two run-ins with "The Others", those on the other side of the "wall" (aka - wildings).(dead things with blue eyes)......
I am only on the 8th or 9th chapter and it is keeping my attention where I don't really want to put the book down, but I need to go to work or go to sleep, which I find myself fighting sleep so I can keep reading to the next chapter.
I will write more later after another few chapters.

C'ya
Sharon

[Beatrice]

I fall in love last year for an Hungarian's writer.
I want say you that every time I go abroad I look for culture, history, music, geography's "badeker" about the country who I visit.
I look for, in particulary, a book where I can find somethings about the city that I am visiting/visited.
Just after my travel in Budapest, where I known Adrian & Alex, I was curious to know some Hungarian's writer and I discovered Ferenc Kormendi. The first who I read book was "An adventure in Budapest".
I fall in love for the author and I bought all Kormendi's books who I found here in Italy(out of print also). I am reading "A happy generation", but its about 750 pag. and during the holidays I read some Agatha Christies also.
BUT Adrian's meeting in Budapest ABSOLUTELY influenced my book's choise anyway.:)
In general I prefer Classical Literature: Brontes, Hardy, Maugham, Zola, Maupassant, Dostojiesky, Du Maurier, Pirandello, Glasworthy, Pratolini, Christie, Cronin, Tolstoj. They are my best friends! :eek:
Love,
Bea

[SweetDarkOne]

I love to read. I'll read anything and everything, from the back of a cereal box to War & Peace. But the stuff that I enjoy reading is action/drama... the tormented hero, the quest for redemption, etc, etc. Probably why I loved the Highlander television series so much.

As far as novels go... I love Irene Radford's novels, especially her Merlin's Descendants series of books. I also love Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. There are a few romance novels that I delve into when I have nothing better to do, but tasteful storylines and not the pure smut.

Really, though, I just love to read.

[hlndr]

Anything by Stephen King and Dean Koontz.

[MeridianXO]

I'll just list a few that stayed with me:

Laurell K. Hamilton - I jump into the autograph line whenever this woman does a booksigning near me. She's so incredibly cool and her characters aren't bad either. I've read nearly all her work (Still working on 'Nighseer' and I haven't read a few of the non-Merry/Anita ones).

Mary Doria Russell - She doesn't write many non-Fiction books. But, I loved "The Sparrow" and its sequal, "Children of God". They're a combo of Sci-Fi meets the whole notion of 'Providence'.

Anne Rice - I read every book Anne wrote under every name and then she turned to religious fiction and I lost interest. Loved the vampire books so much I became a vampire (On one of those RPing forums Anne hates so much). My favorite non-vampy/witchy book would have to be "Cry to Heaven".

Homer - I'm completely obsessed with anything involving the Trojan war, so of course, Homer's in there. Most Greco-Roman mythology is in there, too, for that matter, so I guess you could throw in those authors as well. :)

J.K. Rowling - Yes, yes. I'm a Harry Potter nut. I taught my oldest son to read with these books. Nothing else worked.

Nathanial Hawthorne - I haven't read everything of his, but, I love 'The Scarlet Letter'.

There are a ton others, but, I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

~Heather

[Barney]

Love to read. I'd rather read a good book than watch tv. I have two favorite authors;

Jonathan Kellerman, author of the "Alex Delaware" series. He's recently released his 21st book in this series. The main character is a psychologist that solves murders with a LAPD detective.

Patricia Cornwell, author of the "Kay Scarpetta" series. She just released her 15th book in this series. Kay is a forensic scientist that also solves murders.

What I like about these authors is that their characters are brilliant but flawed. Makes for good reading.

But favorites would be historical non-fiction (I was a history major). I just read "Einstein" by Walter Isaacson, very interesting.

Oh I forgot, being new to the Highlander world, I also just recently read all of the Highlander novels.

[DorisJ]

I read all the time, it's my getaway!!

Authors like:

Karen Marie Moning
Catherine Coulter
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Christen Feehan
Sandra Hill
Leigh Greenwood
Kinley MacGregor
Julie Garwood
Lynn Kurland
Lynsay Sands
Cindy Holby

These are the ones I usually collect. Quite a few are series.

Doris J

[Jessika]

I read a ton! Usually 4 or 5 at a time! I just finished North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I highly recommend it. It's very similar in style to Jane Austen. I mainly like mystery and Sci-fi/Fantasy, and Sci-fi Mysteries are awesome!

Some favorite authors:
Agatha Christie (Goddess of mystery!)
Sara Douglass
Charlaine Harris
J.K. Rowling
Gregory Maguire
Jim Butcher
Anne Perry
Gerald N. Lund
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare

And my latest new finds (check these 2 out, they're great!)
Margaret Grace
Madelyn Alt

[Barney]

Thanks to everyone for so many suggestions. It's great finding new books from people who have read them.

I am currently reading Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire. It is about why so many German Jews didn't leave while Hitler was in power. Its interesting to read their perspectives.

[irishunicorn65]

I enjoy reading more than TV also! I used to read all the time when I was growing up and before I had kids. Books were my friends growing up. I could get into a book to were I was a part of the story. I would get into trouble at school because of not listening to my teacher when I was stuck in a book!
I started with many titles growing up: "Bambi", "Bambi's Children"(they were actually written by a hunter) "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell, "Romio and Juliet", "Macbeth", and "Hamlet" are my favorite Shakespearian stories. I came across a Piers Anthony book, a Xanth novel, and fell in love with that series. When I was a teen ager I found a book by Chelsa Quin Yarboro, "Blood Games", she writes historical novels with fictional characters such as Le Compte Saint Germain(a vampire). I have tried to find the other books in that series but they are hard to find.
I also love Vampire novels, my favorite is still Bram Stoker's, "Dracula". I've read Charlene Harris, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, Steven Kings earlier novels: Salems Lot, The Shinning, The Dark Half, and others. Robert R McCamon, They Thirst(about vampires that take over Los Angels).:eek:
:)One of my all time favorites is, "The Eye of The Needle" by Ken Follet(about a Gernain spy in WW2). I've read JR Tolkein, CS Lewis, The Chronicals of Narnia, J K Rowlings up to the 5th book, and many others in the Fictional and Fantasy genra.
The CSI books based on the original TV series and CSI Non-Fictional books. I also love Science, Horse books, and anything to do with the historical Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) he was an interesting person. Over all a book that I will read must catch me in the first chapter, interest me all through, and be able to see it in my mind with vivid clarity.;)

PEACE,:D
Kellie

[bryant.wanda]

I read any thing I can get my hands on. Right now I'm reading a romance novel with lots of graphic sex.:o

Wanda:)

[Dawnb67]

I mostly read romance and romantic suspense. My favorite authors are:

Diana Palmer
Linda Howard
Elizabeth Lowell
Lora Leigh
Maya Banks
Cindy Gerard
Cherri Adair
Shayla Black
Sheri Whitefeather

Met Laurel K Hamilton here in St. L when she came to the RT convention in
2005. She had to have a bodyguard because of psychos. That is so sad.

Also haven't read any of Jim Butcher's yet, but him and his wife, Shannon, are going to be speaking at my romance writers group in the fall.

Dawn B

[DebbieD]

I have read and liked many of the authors already mentioned so I will just mention some of my favorites that are not so well known. All of these are ones that I would want with me if I was stranded on a desert island!! LOL

The Nonsuch Lure by Mary Luke- an historical/contemorary novel with romance, ghosts, and mystery. I have read it many times over the last 20 years and I never get tired of it.

The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett- A series of historical novels telling the story of Francis Lymond who is a Scottish Renaisance man who fights with his band of men, but who also can quote poetry and has a "Damn your eyes!" attitude when people don't like his choices. Set in the early 16th Century and all around Europe and the Middle East. Each title is a reference to the game of Chess. The first one is The Game of Kings and they should be read in order because the story and the characters develop as the story goes on.

The Watcher by Dean Koontz - An great dog story with romance, sci-fi, mystery and wonderfull characters, especially Einstein, the golden retriever hero!!

Enjoy!!!! :D

[bryant.wanda]

I finished reading The Watcher a few weeks ago. It was pretty good. I've also read almost all of Laurel K. Hamilton books too. But I like to read Stephen Kings books. Even though I know them by heart. He has very interesting plots. They make you wonder could they really happen. I know for sure Cujo can really happen. My favorite Stephen king novel is The Stand. I rather read his books than watch the movie version of them.

Wanda:)

[luckyD]

Hi all:

Right now, I'm reading "WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It's about keeping the soul & spirit alive and FREE.....

PEACE TO ADRIAN ALWAYS

[Lt.Mac]

Just finished re-reading both Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt and Swordsong- half for research purposes/ half for pleasure- he is awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
Swordsong is about England of the 9th century and Agincourt gives an archers view of Henry V's great French battle.

[kati]

I'm reading "Bone Mountain" from Eliot Pattison, it's about Tibet and very interesting.