Your favorite book

[LyricLee]

I've recently gotten back into reading. At one point I had a good 300 novels waiting to be read but lost the time to do so.
My favorite for the moment is Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. What books do you recommend?

[Caeru]

I am going to pimp wraeththu here again, oh gee. My recent favourite... as many already know. I really DO read a lot, least one book a week, but I just have to say this anyway:

Wraeththu series (by Storm Constantine)
find out what its all about: http://www.metrogirl.com/wcompanion/wraethexp.html

[michelle]

other than the harry potter books i positively adore Running with Sissors by Augusten Burroughs...

[Sylla]

I have to read, if I can't find something to read then I feel lost and will rewsort to crappy mills and boon for lack of anything else.

Some recommendations-

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (currently in movie production with Eric Bana as King Henry VIII, yummmm)

Daughter of the Forest by Juliette Marillier (fairy tale of the seven brothers that get turned into swans, NOT for children though)

The Quickening Trilogy- Fiona McIntosh
Trinity Trilogy- Fiona McIntosh

Currently reading Sharon Osbourns Biography and that's pretty good too.

[keirra]

If you like action/suspense, Patricia Cornwell has a really good series centering around Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. I've read them all and really enjoy them.

[MrFrost]

wow, there are so many.. well right now i am really enjoying Heartbreak & Triumph : The Shawn Micheals Story. Its a good book for those who enjoy wrestling !

[Caeru]

Also:

Zadie Smith: White teeth

very clever, must read!

[GenericImbroglio]

The author Erik Larson is brilliant. Isaac's Storm is a fascinating recollection of the 1900 Hurricane at Galveston that throws the reader into the sweeping winds of the hurricane and one cant help but feel astonished at the destruction...

Isaac's Storm was great because of the epic and vivid description it allowed it's readers. It gives fascinating details of ships out to sea during this storm and a rush that the reader cant help but fall in to... He makes it ever more fascinating as the stubborn nature of men at the time refused to believe that a storm could hit Galveston, and so the residents of the city are blissfully unaware of their impending doom...

The story is completley historically accurate, covering the actions of climatoligist Isaac Cline and others through the worst storm to strike the United States. Larson builds up suspense of the storm with the slightest of details.

"At the top of the Levy Building the anemometer spun. The wind vane shifted ever so slightly. The self-recording barometer etched another decline.
Far out to sea, one hundred miles from where Isaac stood, Capt. J. W. Simmons, master of the steamship Pensacola, prayed softly to himself as horizontal spheres of rain exploded against the bridge with such force they luminesced in a billion pinpoints of light, like fireworks in a green-black sky.
He had stumbled into the deadliest storm ever to target America. Within twenty-four hours. eight thousand men, women, and children in the city of Galveston would lose their lives. The city itself would lose it's future. Isaac would suffer an unbearable loss. And he would always wonder if some of the blame did not belong to him.
This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."
-Isaac's Storm

Cliff Johnson :blob8:
Administrator of the Flying Piano

[Freelancer]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Everyone should read this at least twice in their life... twice so you can catch all the stuff you missed the first time.

[GenericImbroglio]

The Fifth Angel by Tim Green
After a lawyer's daughter is kidnapped and raped (thankfully she escaped) the lawyer goes serial killer and begins to kill various ***ual predators across the nation, without leaving a trace of evidence behind. Really is interesting, a must look-into kinda book!

Cliff Johnson :blob8:
Student of the Wee Hours

[theweirdfaerie]

I LOOOOVE books!!! I'm hoping to be a bestselling writer one day myself. I want to write dark fairytales and paranormal erotica :confused4:

I have to check out that daughter of the forest, Sylla, as I had a story when i was 5 that was a really dark thing about seven brothers turning into ravens.. Maybe its the same sort of thing.

Books myself, ummm... well I am terrible with author and title names o_O I love the vampire stories by various people... I adore:

"Exodus" by Julia Bertagna which is set a few hundred years from now when the ice-caps melt.
"Mercy" by *Can't remember the name* but its set around the Deerfield Massacre.
"Raiders Tide" and "North side of the tree" by Maggie Prince that are set in the Tudor times.
"Forever my love" by Constance O Banyon, a romancey one set around the American revolution.
The "Shannara" series by Terry Brooks, a series of wonderful fantasy books.

Oh an amazing book is "Tithe" by Holly Black. It is about fairies. Oh and it is sooooooo fantastic!!!!! I definately reccomend it :)

I am currently reading the Harry Potter books again :D But something good also, are the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer.

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[Red XIII]

Well, I don't read books very often...but the only books that REALLY pulled me in so far are both Halo: The Flood and halo: The Fall of Reach. I liked the Halo games to begin with...but the books just happen to just pull you in in a different way...

[GenericImbroglio]

The faerie of weirdness is hoping to be a best-selling writer as well? Same here though I doubt I could pull off the erotica topic. Not to mention my family would disown me :D . Anyways

Disaster 1906: The San Francisco Earthquake & Fire

Its a really excellent book. A bit older than most accounts of the disaster, it has a minute by minute, leading up to the earthquake, not to mention it focuses on several other locations besides San Francisco.

Cliff Johnson :blob8:
Marshmallowish Hot Chocolate Advocate

[GoldenSimmer]

Actually when I was younger I liked:

*Where the Red Ferns Grow.

*Mercy.

[HChangeri]

I really enjoyed "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It's very large but very good. She uses the novel as a way to explain her philosophy of objectivism through the story rather than a dry boring philosophy text.

If you want a laugh-out-loud book, then David Sedaris' "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is a must read. I don't think I've ever read a book that made me laugh until I cried...repeatedly! I used to read a lot when I worked the night shift, that was not a good book to read a work. It's very hard to explain why you're laughing so hard without reading 2-3 pages out loud.

[LyricLee]

Is it sad I only know who Ayn Rand is from Rocky Horror?

[HChangeri]

LOL! No, until I met my husband that was my only reference too :D Sadly Atlas Shrugged came in second on the Library of Congress poll of the most important books everyone should read. I say 'sadly' because I probably would have gone through my whole life without ever knowing about it outside of a few references here and there (that until recently went over my head).

[GenericImbroglio]

Not at all Lyric dear *hides french maid outfit behind the giant pair of lips to the tune of Time Warp*

Cliff Johnson :blob8:
Examenims Today

[srellison125]

If I feel drawn to read a book many times, there is something in it that struck a serious cord for me. Here are some books I have reread many times: The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, it's not for everyone, but I can't help but get swept up by this epic story. Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, it puts you inside the head of a man who lives a VERY long time. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, offers many lessons about human nature by looking at humanity from an outside perspective. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, whenever I feel lost, it helps me to recapture the wonder I felt about life when I was a young boy. There are others, but that should do for now.

[anakins88]

Well this is a hard one for me...As i wait EVER SO LONG for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I have recently gotten into the Semptiem Heap books. You know Magik and Flyte? I'm also now waiting for the 3rd book for that >.<;

[KayR247]

I love Dean Koontz right now I am reading The Husband my favorite of his is Forever Odd

[LyricLee]

o0o0o I just bought Darkfall and it scares me so much I can only read it in segments lol. But the Odd Thomas series is still my favorite ever.
Did you read Brother Odd yet?

[PerplexinglyMe]

Dean Kootnz is great. My favorite of his is Life Expectancy. I love how he does that wryly humourous yet positively thrilling thing. They also scare the beegeebers out of me sometimes, but I'm a wimp.

Another author I adore is Phillipa Gregory. She's an amazing writer. I love The Other Bolyen Girl and the Bolyen Inheritance best of hers.

Right now, though, I'm reading Frankenstein. But I'm not very good at just doing one thing, so I'm also reading Othello. I'm farther into Frankenstein, and I think I like it better.

[MrFrost]

There are alot of books that had have had really enjoyed but right at the moment i am really into a book called "No Man's Land" by Greg Rucka.

[foolinthemoon]

I really love the Janet Evonivich series, the one staring Stephanie Plum specifically! She's a female bounty hunter, who ends up having a plus sized spandex wearing prostitute as a side kick, and is occasionally occompanied by her blue haired grandmother who has a teenager's *** drive. She's constantly being scolded by her hot Italian,cop,boyfriend about her job, she blows up atleast one car per book, she has a lust thing for another bounty hunter named ranger (hotness) and finally, she has a hamster named Rex who is probably the cutest thing i've never seen! XD she has 11 books out so far... maybe 12.... either way, i sooo suggest reading them all!!! they are hella funny!

[gerbera]

Oh I own looooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaads of books and I really enjoyed most of them ...
Here are some of my favorites that have not yet been mentioned:
The "Thursday Next" novels by Jasper Fforde (very funny slightly "fantasy"-themed books, especially great if you know the classical english literature)
"His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman (needless to add any comment)
"The Hitchhiker's Guide Through The Galaxy" (all-time classic, soooo funny)
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte (great victorian novel, very accurate)
many many more ...
And if you have little children / little siblings, give them anything by Astrid Lindgren, that woman was a genius. I really love her storys, very touching and intelligent. I don't know whether they are as popular in the US as in Germany, but these novels are all awesome!

[zeldaop]

I'd recommend anything by Stephen King. He's probably my all time favorite author. Right now I'm rereading The Stand.

Some of my other favorites:

The Lord of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Vampire Files by P.N. Elrod
Roots by Alex Haley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Adora by Beatrice Small
Watership Down by Richard Adams

These are just some of my favorites, but actually any book is a good book. I love to read. :book:

[mcrkraz08]

I hate to read, but I do love the books "Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse" by Stephanie Meyer. I can't put them down! Guess anything where vampires are involved in some way (no I'm not gothic I just love vampires). I'm weird haha.

[Barb202]

Great books: Geraldine Brooks "Year of Wonders" and any Harry Bosch (main character) novel by Micheal Connelly.

[Straw]

One really good book I read was The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory, it's really long and its set in 1400's. It might be based on a true story, but its a really interesting book!