Please recommend a book

That's what I did wrong when I read them. I was so taken by books one and three, that I just started reading them all back to back, and in a hurry. I quickly became burnt out by all their whining and Rice's problem of always having to gush over New Orleans.

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Yeah, I can take the New Orleans details in controlled doses too ... with other reading in between. Been a while since I've read any Rice, so by the time I get back to her, I'll be ready.

susan, thanks for the link!!

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Oops...I meant to say the same thing. Sorry, Suzi-Q!

that's okay

i started reading war of the worlds on there, plus the blue lagoon

i couldn't believe how much is on there

Hit this tome up next, Slay.

Neuromancer - William Gibson

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For the aspiring writer:


On Writing by Stephen King

King rolls an interesting memoir and a useful writing manual into one without ever getting too dull or technical.


Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos

A popular and critically acclaimed children's author details his life before sucess, how he got started and many of the experiences that shaped him.

BTW: Have you read anything by Neil Gaiman? He is a brilliant urban fantasy author with highly relatable protagonists and wildly unique characters and plots that capture the imagination more than any other author I have yet to come across.

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I read The Taking this year! In fact, I wrote about it on MoFo awhile back in a different book thread. I really enjoyed it.

I tried reading Blackwood Farm awhile back and was really getting into it... until she started going ON and ON about some stupid New Orleans bimbo and the way she wore her silly, "timeless" clothes, and how these gay ole vampire boys were so enchanted and in love with her that they wanted to hear HER WHOLE FAMILY HISTORY and we, the readers, had to listen in on this yadda yadda ya. It wasn't really worded like that, but that's basically what happened and I never finished the book. I like Anne Rice, but I also read a lot of negative things about her. Blood Canticle was burned by people noticing too many mistakes she apparently made.

Make Love* The Bruce Campbel Way

funny as hell

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Suspect's Reviews

1984 - im reading it at the moment and its great!

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

So great. One of my favorite books. Enjoy!

If you like The Da Vinci Code, I recommend reading The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks. It's very similar in the sense that it's suspenseful, an easy read, and lots of intense chapters. Has anybody read it?

Perfume by Patrick Suskind.
I was looking for this book for quite sometime until finally I ordered it online through Chapters. This book is so popular that it was stolen from three libraries in my home town!! If you get a chance to read it, you must. Oh, for the Nirvana fans, the song "Scentless Apprentice" is about this book. Also you will find that some things Kurt says in interviews are quotes from this book....when you read it and are familiar with Kurt Cobain's interviews you will see what I mean. (I don't want to give anything away)...read it. I absolutely loved it.

I am so glad I found this thread. I too am an avid reader and there were many great recommends here.

I love fantasy and Sci Fi but found a mystery writer that really paints a picture of the American Southwest while giving one a good mystery to solve. Tony Hillerman writes knowledgeably about the Navajo Indians and their culture along with his love of his home, the New Mexico and Arizona Southwest. I have never been there but feel I have through his books. Scared Clowns is a good place to begin.

I have also love the writings of Pauline Gedge and her fantasies of Ancient Egypt.

Which leads me to a Norman Mailer classic, Ancient Evenings. Filled with Egypian magic, fantasy and sweaty sex. I read it 15 years ago and would like to read it again.

I am also working my way through Dean Koontz.

So, my compliments to this thread.

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im reading that book now!

interesting, thanks for telling that, i do like Nirvana, i have even bought Kurt´s Journals and i didnt know it, or maybe yes but i had forgotten about it


some books i liked, there are lots and lots more but i have just reminded these

-My philosophy from A to B (and B to A back), Andy Warhol
-The catcher in the rye, Salinger
- The little prince, Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
- The portait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

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I have a few recommendations...

"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo
"Killer" by Joey (the Hit Man)
"Robota" by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card

UJ

I've also heard that The World is Flat is really good. My friend who recommended The Traveler to me recommended that book as well. I think i'll read it next..

Well, summer has creeped up on those of us residing in the western hemisphere. Has anybody got any plans to devour some good books? What about plans to induldge in guilty-pleasure reading? I, per usual, have quite the list.

Currently Reading

Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson (Intellectuals)

• I am enjoying this book. It is really a collection of biographical essays on various creative figures (ranging from Shakespeare to Bach to Tiffany to Hugo to Austen to Balenciaga to Dior) that touch on different aspects of the creative mind.
• "However, though all are potentially or actually creative, there are degrees in creativity, ranging from the instinct which makes a thrush build its nest, and which in humans is reflected in more complex but equally humble constructions, to the truly sublime, which drives artists to attempt huge and delicate works never before conceived, let alone carried out. How to define this level of creativity, or explain it? We cannot define it any more than we can define genius. But we can illustrate it. That is what this book attempts to do." (Creators, "The Anatomy of Creative Courage")
• Chapter List (and an intriguing one at that)

1. The Anatomy of Creative Courage
2. Chaucer: the Man in the Fourteenth-Century Street
3. Durer: A Strong Smell of Printer's Ink
4. Shakespeare: Glimpses of an Unknown Colossus
5. J. S Bach: The Genetics of the Organ loft
6. Turner and Hokusai: Apocalypse Now and Then
7. Jane Austen: Shall we join the Ladies?
8. A.W.N Pugin and Viollet-l-Duc: Goths for All Seasons
9. Victor Hugo: The Genius Without a Brain
10. Mark Twain: How to Tell a Joke
11. Tiffany: Through a Glass Darkly
12. T.S Eliot: The Last Poet to Wear Spats
13. Balenciaga and Dior: The Aesthetics of a Buttonhole
14. Picasso and Walt Disney: Room for Nature in a Modern Worlds?
15. Metaphors in a Laboratory

• I highly recommend this book. Provides both the nice, surface information and the deeper analytical exploration of creative people one ought to know.

{Herself} by Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light and countless other classics), compiled by Carole F. Chase

• I am taking this book with me everywhere I go this summer. A must for fans and a must for writers. But more than just that. L'Engle writes in a paragraph what would take most all life to figure out. Her wisdom and insight are worthy of a permanent spot in my bookbag.
• The beauty of this book is that it is once more a collection, but instead of essays, short paragraphs. Simple, sweet and as enjoyable as bite-sized chocolate. Ten sections, each containing several succinct paragraphs of wisdom and whimsy, and often pure brilliance.
• True Art: "All art, good, bad, indifferent, reflects its culture. Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. Two writers may write the same story about the same man and woman and their relationship with each other. One writer will come up with art and the other with pornography. There is no subject that is not appropriate for the artist, but the way in which it is handled can sometimes be totally inappropriate. True art has a mythic quality in that it speaks of that which was true, is true, and will be true."
• I can't gush about this book enough. Go and read it now. Everybody. Here's the list of the sections:

1. Section I: Serving the Gift (Artists and Their Art)
2. Section II: Co-Creators with God (Inspiration and the Creative Process)
3. Section III: My Books Wrote Me (Elements of a Writer's Life)
4. Section IV: Faith Foundation (Writing from Truth)
5. Section V: An Accepted Wonder (The Wisdome of Children)
6. Section VI: Finger Exercises (A Writer's Technique and Style)
7. Section VII: The Empty Page (Getting Started)
8. Section VIII: A Life of Their Own (Creating Characters)
9. Section IX: Paints of the Writer's Palette (Words and Symbols)
10. Section X: This I Know (Telling Our Story)

Planning on Reading (for pleasure, guilty included)

The Party of Death by Ramesh Ponnuru
The Time Trilogy by Madeleine L' Engle
The Space Trilogy by C.S Lewis
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I: From the Age of Exploration to a World at War) by William J. Bennet

And many, many more I am sure.

Must be Reading (AP Lit)

The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brian
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Proof (play) by David Auburn
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Around these images, and cling:
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