Your fave writers and books

I rather like John Grisham. And Phillip Pullman. and... other authors... I don't know- I can't think of anyone else right now.

I'm a lazy reader. To me a book has to be really damn fuckin' good so I can read it fast and not get bored. Some books drag for so long on non-sense, and that's why I don't like to read much.

So from those few books I've read, and that have really kept me going...

- All the Harry Potter books (Rowling)
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Garcia Marquez)
- The Beatles Anthology ... (still reading it)
- Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
- Killing Pablo (Marc Bowden)
- Anything by Stephen King

Now, if we're talking about comic books, I know a whole bunch that I like...

- Calvin and Hobbes
- Garfield
- Mafalda
- Zits
- The Boondocks

I enjoyed reading stephan kings "night shift" the stories scared the shit out of me.

right now, i am reding roots. its amazing.

The one author i refuse to read is

Charles Dickens. I was forced by my english teacher to read one of is books. as was everyone else. I read oliver twist. It sucked, terrible, worst piece of literature ever. Maybe is b/c im only in 8th grade, but it was just terribly boring.

The worst book, was A Wrinkle in time. I hated this bok. It litterally made me sick to read it. it confused me. It made me sweat and have head aches when they got to the parts about 1 demensional worlds, and how their bodies were compressed and they couldnt breathe.

My favorite book changes every day, but here are a few authors...

-Stephen King
-Lisa Scottoline
-SE Hinton
-Dean Koontz
-Al Franken
-George Orwell
-Jonathan Kellerman
-Robin Cook
-KA Applegate (Okay, yes, I'm the biggest dork in the world. But I L.O.V.E. the "Animorphs" series!)
-Henry Rollins :)
-Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners
-John Grisham
-Anthony Burgess
-David Sedaris
-Nat Hentoff

Amanda...is there a Dickens novel out there that you would recommend? I've really tried to like him, but aside from "A Christmas Carol", every one of his books that I've read has put me to sleep, especially Great Expectations.

And Nina, the woman you speak of for "The Year They Burned The Books" is Nancy Garden. And she's great too.

Hunter Thompson
Bill Bryson
Vine Deloria Jr
Noam Chomsky
Christopher Hitchens
PJ O'Rourke
Harry Harrison

double post

Mark Twain, J D Salinger, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bill Watterson

Fave books are anything by John O'Hara, Kyle Onstott, Lance Horner, "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, "The Stand" by Stephen King, the Ian Fleming "James Bond" books, and history.

Du Maurier, Burgess, Dahl, Puzo.

... and now that I have a double post all to myself ... I'll add specifically Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn, and J.G. Ballard, The Empire of the Sun.

Oh God, how could I forget Al Franken, Mandy. 'Lies and The Lying Liar Who Tell Them' is a political humor classic.

Also when I was in Colombia, I read this book called "The Slacker Guide - How To Pass The School Year Opening Only One Book (This One!). It was one hell of a funny book.

i love Tolkien`s books.

I unashamedly love my chick books ;)

I hate all writers.