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[PhotobearSam]

I never used to read much. I was into magazines and autobiographies but last year I made it my New Years resolution to read more and I DID!

I have gotten into suspense books.l

I really like Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, I loved Angels and Demons and liked the Davinci code, I am just starting to read James Patterson. I have read Along Came a Spider and I just bought Kiss the Girls.

I really like the fast pace these books have. Can anyone recommend any others that will be like this?

I also read the Devil Wears Prada and I am on Harry Potter #3, which is really much better than I thought they would be.

I hope my tastes are not too amaturish. I just can't get into long winded books with too much to say but no real point.

 

[NMAmy]

I hope my tastes are not too amaturish. I just can't get into long winded books with too much to say but no real point.

I think it's great that you're reading more and I've always felt that it doesn't matter what you're reading as long as you're reading something!

Heck, I even re-read kids books from time to time or my teenage dd will pass along books she's really liked for me to read so we can talk about them.

Of course, she's also been known to ask me at 9:00 at night to give her a synopsis of something like Great Expectations.

 

[Crankyshank]

Sam,
Read Lincoln Child and the books he wrote with Douglas Preston. Those are my mind candy books.
also Daniel Silva is good. I think the English Assassin is his first book in the Gabriel series about an Israeli assassin that is also a art restorer.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My friends all pretty much like the same reading material. As such, we have a mutual referral program. If any of us finds a book or series we like, we're all but contractually obligated to force each other to read it. Right now I'm busy making sure everyone I know reads the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War). Also, anything by Jacqueline Carey, Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman. As for the Harry Potter books, there's no reason to give them any more credit than they already have. My friends are already planning the release party for Book 7.

 

[FayeW]

The story of the couple sure does sound like the Gift of the Magi to me.

I think you guys might be right after all! I just read the reviews on The Gift of the Magi, and it sure sounds like the book I am looking for. How the heck could I have confused that title with "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" for all of these years?

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Just finished Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult last night. Love how she seems to always throw in one heck of a twist at the end.

I'll be starting Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan today. It's the 2nd of his futuristic Takeshi Kovacs novels. I loved the first one.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

I think you guys might be right after all! I just read the reviews on The Gift of the Magi, and it sure sounds like the book I am looking for. How the heck could I have confused that title with "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" for all of these years?

Gift of the Magi is a short story, I believe, so you would need to find it in an anthology. It's a great story.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Speaking of short stories, does anyone here read them? I love great short stories. I have almost every year of "America's Best Short Stories"(I think that's the name?!). I love how you have to quickly get into it and the story and characters develop, and how they are all different. Summer is a great time to pick up a collection and get into them!

 

[hellokitty86]

I always recommend "I Know This Much Is True" and "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb, and all of the books by Fannie Flagg, especially "Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Cafe" and "Standing in the Rainbow".

 

[NMAmy]

Speaking of short stories, does anyone here read them? I love great short stories. I have almost every year of "America's Best Short Stories"(I think that's the name?!). I love how you have to quickly get into it and the story and characters develop, and how they are all different. Summer is a great time to pick up a collection and get into them!

I'm not a huge fan of short stories--mainly because I love to grow attached to characters--but when I am in the mood for them, I pull out my Portable Dorothy Parker.

 

[HomeSweetDisney]

I love to read and I am constantly recommending books to people!

Just a sampling of some of my favorites:

1. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (memoir)
2. Wicked - Gregory Maguire (fiction)
3. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (fiction)
4. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb (fiction)
5. Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley (non-fiction)
6. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (non-fiction)
7. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (fiction) VERY long but VERY good
8. Shopgirl - Steve Martin (novella)
9. The Time Traverlers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (fiction)
10. Dracula - Bram Stoker (fiction) I had chills throughout this whole book. It's a classic and just as a scary now as it was when first published!

 

[Simba's Mom]

I have gotten into suspense books.l

I really like Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, I loved Angels and Demons and liked the Davinci code, I am just starting to read James Patterson. I have read Along Came a Spider and I just bought Kiss the Girls.

I really like the fast pace these books have. Can anyone recommend any others that will be like this?

I also love suspense, and I like the same authors as you. And like you, if a book doesn't "grab" me in the first few pages, I don't have much of an attention span. Three authors you might try also are Joseph Finder, Lisa Gardner, and Beverly Barton.

 

[Aristocath]

I think you guys might be right after all! I just read the reviews on The Gift of the Magi, and it sure sounds like the book I am looking for. How the heck could I have confused that title with "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" for all of these years?

But isn't The Gift of the Magi about Christmas gifts?

A Tree Grows in Brooklyntells the story of a young couple but the central character is their daughter. It is a great story and you should read it if you haven't.



I second the mention of Shadow of the Wind. It is a beautiful, complex story and I couldn't put it down.

If you liked Devil in the White Cityby Erik Larson, you'll probably also like Issac's Storm. This is about the Galveston Hurricane in 1900 and it is a gripping non-fiction book that reads like a novel.

 

[momsal]

I read a book about 30 yrs ago that I loved, and I was sure it was A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, but when I checked it out again from the library it wasn't the book I was thinking of. Maybe you can help me.

I think it was about a young couple (teenagers) who eloped without their parents blessing and I believe were then estranged from their families. They were trying to work and at least one of them was trying to take some classes, and they lived in a bed sitting room in a house. It was set in perhaps the 40's, because they only earned a few dollars a week. I remember that for their anniversary they each sold something important to them to buy the other a gift. (When I read the book I was about 13 or 14 and I thought it was soooo romantic!) Something makes me think that they had a baby near the end of the book.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was on my older brother's required reading list back in the late 70's.

I think yiu want MR AND MRS BO JO JONES I read it way back when

My favorite series is:
THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEARS BY:: JEAN AUEL

 

[sulleyfan]

I tend to read a lot of religious-based fiction and I really like Karen Kingsbury and Nancy Moser for that.

For fluff reading, I really like the Nerds in Love series by Vicki Lewis Thompson. Those are awesome mystery-romance books.

I also recommend to a lot of people
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Little Children by Tom Perrotta

 

[momsal]

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