Book chat

[gummo]

I am a huge reader, besides movies, reading is how i spend most of my spare time. I was wondering what book(s)or novel(s) you really enjoyed.
I enjoy the novels of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Ann Rule is my favorite true crime author, and Patricia Cornwell is my favorite fiction writer.

[Tacitus]

My favourite novel is The Joke by Milan Kundera - love, revenge, politics - what more could you ask for? ;)

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[AboveTheClouds]

I've just finished reading these books

George Carlin- Brain Droppings
David Eddings- The Ruby Throne
J.K Rowling- Harry potter and the order of the phoenix (Guilty pleasure)
And some book on neo-paganism.

[Garrett]

Just finished J. Robert Lennon's "Mailman"
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Highly reccomended

[HellboyUnleashed]

my alltime favorite... thats hard. its probably a tie between To Kill A Mockingbord and one of the Harry Potter books(dunno which, love me all)
but i am obsessed with star wars. i own all the major series and have read some of em and am going to finish them some time in the near future

[gummo]

whats the most disturbing or strangest book anyone read. I really like to be shoked when i read and i'm having a hard time finding a new book to read.

[undercoverlover]

my fave book ever is harry potter and the goblet of fire

I also recommend animal farm, little women and 'The five people you meet in heaven'.

Also, i cried like a baby, 'A child called it' by Dave Pelzer

[AboveTheClouds]

If you want a play to read.. I suggest Faust by Goeth.

[mack]

It takes a lot to disturb me gummo. Laurell K. Hamilton used to disturb me (excellent author, btw :D), and I flat out refused to read the book, A Child Called It, although I can see that it is necessary for children to understand.

[undercoverlover]

what do you mean, for children to understand?

i found it very moving but you know at the same time horrific and gross. It's not normally the type of book i read but i read it on a recommendation.

[Diablo]

I prefer Stephen King stories and ‘Reader’s Digest Condensed Books’, four terrific novels woven into one. You can get them mail ordered.
Some other recommended novels are “Cabal”, “Midnight”, “TNT”, the “Lord of the Rings” collection, Bram Stokers 'Dracula' and anything by Jules Vern.

[Garrett]

I recommend that you all read William Peter Blatty's 'The Exorcist'.... seriously, forget about the movie, the book is so much better.

[casa]

what do you mean, for children to understand?

i found it very moving but you know at the same time horrific and gross. It's not normally the type of book i read but i read it on a recommendation.

whats the book about?

[mack]

child abuse. I read such books as a child, and I do feel they may be a necessary thing so that children can understand the "big bad world," and that (a) these things are wrong, and (b) if it isnt happening to them, it may be happening to someone else.

So in that way, I think those sort of things are often utilized as teaching tools.

[undercoverlover]

I read it a about 2 years ago, i think i was 14 at the time, no one told me to read it as a 'tool' for teaching me, i read it of my own accord. I thought it was well written and yes it does show that that kind of thing is in the world. But i don't think they are necessary, I just think it's someone's well written version of their terrible terrible childhood.

Casa, it's about Dave Pelzer-the author, and his horrific childhood. He was abused at the hands of his disgraceful mother who did the most horrendous things to him and how he tries to escape his torment. There are a few books that come after 'A child called it'. 'The lost boy' comes second i think and then it's 'A man named Dave.' Dave Pelzer also wrote a self help book called 'Help Yourself'.

[Ash_Lee]

Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy (ie, Star Wars, Expanded Universe). As good, if not better than the original film trilogy, with a villain just as likeable as Vader. Few problems though (as always). While the first 2 were fast paced and exciting throughout, the third one did seem to lose pace at the end, and Thrawns last words seemed a litlle...wrong.

[Sleezy]

Two favorites:


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[undercoverlover]

hey sleezy how would u say mothman prophecies film compared to the book?

[Sleezy]

hey sleezy how would u say mothman prophecies film compared to the book?

I read the book after I saw the film, and I still liked the book better. The film is a pretty loose adaptation of the book, which is actually a documentary (NOT a novel) of the true events that occurred during a 13 month period from 1966-1967 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia (and author John Keel was actually in Point Pleasant for most of the duration). Not only are the Mothman sightings covered in the book, but also "men in black" sightings (not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones), nightly UFO sightings, doppleganger sightings, weird phone calls, etc. All of the sources who claimed to have seen the Mothman creature, as well as men in black, UFOs, etc., were all agreed to be competent, credible sources.

As far as the Mothman goes, it was more of a creature than a transient intelligence (as the film suggests). There were quite a few "beastial" attributes that went along with the creature, but the only ones they really specified in the film were the "mesmorizing" red eyes, and the high-pitched scream. Also, the "Indred Cold" story is included, which was pretty accurate in the film (the real man's name was Woodrow Derenberger, and he actually claimed to have traveled to Cold's home planet, and didn't feel threatened by him at all - Derenberger was in consistent contact with John Keel the whole time, and had never been considered a "town crazy" or anything at all). And all the Point Pleasant sightings ended with the Silver Bridge collapse, just like in the film - except there were a few minor discrepancies with that (ie. it didn't collapse on Christmas Eve, but a few days before; and it didn't collapse at night; etc.)

The film really just took the events and translated them loosely into a spooky, atmospheric thriller. Richard Gere's character represents the younger, more curious John Keel; while the writer character he visits in Chicago represents the older, more skeptical Keel of today. Laura Linney's character is based on Mary Hyre, an Ohio news reporter who accompanied Keel through the whole event. I still enjoy the film, because it's got that creepy, old-fashioned feel to it - but the book is so much better. Reading the accounts are the best part, because every one you read is weirder than the last. It gets pretty bizarre and unbelievable, and this stuff was actually consistently reported in such a short amount of time in one place. Very interesting stuff. Go read the book, if you're into that kind of thing.

[gummo]

I really enjoyed the movie Mothman Prophecies, didn't know there was a book, can't wait to read it.

[HellboyUnleashed]

i am scared to say it but when i read WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS in 5th grade, i cried at the end. its so sad and it is highly reccommended

[gummo]

i am scared to say it but when i read WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS in 5th grade, i cried at the end. its so sad and it is highly reccommended


Is this book recommended for fifth graders, meaning rated G, or is it more of a PG-13, or R. Just wondering out of curiosity. If you were to read it now would you find it sad at the end, or do you think it was more of a pre-adolescent thing. I am asking this because my taste for books has changed drastically since 5th grade. How old are you by the way?..not that it really matters one way or another, i'm just wondering how long ago you were in grade 5, and if your taste in books has changed at all.

[windsoc]

I bought two books for my kindle app last night that I did own in physical form but lost in a move many years ago, both Bill Bryson books of:

Down Under
A Walk in the Woods

I love Bryson as a writer and these two books are for me two of his best.

[Austruck]

Hey, windsoc, we have a thread called The Reading Tab that gets a lot more traffic than this little one. Post your comment there for more interaction!

Go here: http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=1405&page=104

[windsoc]

Hey, windsoc, we have a thread called The Reading Tab that gets a lot more traffic than this little one. Post your comment there for more interaction!

Go here: http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=1405&page=104

Many thanks bud - I swear I did a search but didn't see the thread posted initially, thank you for posting Austruck :)

[jamierreed92]

Has anyone read Cell by Stephen King??
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[christine]

Hi Jamie. I've read it, in fact I don't read all his books but The Cell isn't up there with his best . What did you think? Have you read many of his others?

By the way the thread that Austruck mentioned above is one which most of us seem to use to talk about what we've read :)



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[SeeingisBelieving]

I am a huge reader, besides movies, reading is how i spend most of my spare time. I was wondering what book(s)or novel(s) you really enjoyed.
I enjoy the novels of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Ann Rule is my favorite true crime author, and Patricia Cornwell is my favorite fiction writer.

Henning Mankell's Wallander novels were a really good read, and I got into those of course through the TV series (not our disaster:), the Swedish ones).

I'm also very fond of a book called The Folk-stories of Iceland by Einar Olafur Sveinsson, which I read the Christmas before last and into the new year. Fascinating stuff, especially the theories about how stories may have travelled and evolved from as far away as India, and Max von Sydow's father is quoted a few times.

I would say that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is my favourite writer now, after reading all his Professor Challenger stories and many of his other works, amongst them Tales of Unease, I found that I liked those and could get into them more than Sherlock Holmes, which I still like. I think his writing is at times close to Charles Dickens for language and humour and I think the humanity of Doyle really appeals to me. Two of my favourite stories are supernatural in nature, The Land of Mists and The Captain of the Polestar.

[nerdy_norah]

A couple of years ago, I read a book called The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait, and it has still stayed with me to this day. It's a brilliant read, especially if you're going through similar feelings with the characters.

Has anyone else read it?

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