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Fave book: A Clockwork Orange
Ive only just started reading :) just about to get stick into some Terry Pratchet and Agatha Christie :)
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
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.
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.
I like Dickens a lot. Great Expectations is my favorite and a classic, of course. Our Mutual Friend is quite good, too.
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.
-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.
I think most of the time with Dickens a person really has to take some time out for his stuff cos otherwise, you get a little bored with it...simply because his books are quite long and quite involved.
I just finished reading A Tale Of Two Cities, which is about the French Revolution. I enjoyed it, but because I had so much other stuff to do (work and college), I didn't feel as though I got to give it enough of my attention...and now I have gone off on a tangent.
Oh, yeah, recommendations! lol I think that A Tale Of Two Cities is a good one to read - very much about "good against evil," if you know what I mean and an interesting plot. Our Mutual Friend is also really good, but it can be complex in some bits.
In any case, I'd give A Tale Of Two Cities a try, but if you hate it, please don't blame me. ;^)
I just finished reading A Tale Of Two Cities, which is about the French Revolution. I enjoyed it, but because I had so much other stuff to do (work and college), I didn't feel as though I got to give it enough of my attention...and now I have gone off on a tangent.
Oh, yeah, recommendations! lol I think that A Tale Of Two Cities is a good one to read - very much about "good against evil," if you know what I mean and an interesting plot. Our Mutual Friend is also really good, but it can be complex in some bits.
In any case, I'd give A Tale Of Two Cities a try, but if you hate it, please don't blame me. ;^)
Hunter Thompson
Bill Bryson
Vine Deloria Jr
Noam Chomsky
Christopher Hitchens
PJ O'Rourke
Harry Harrison
Bill Bryson
Vine Deloria Jr
Noam Chomsky
Christopher Hitchens
PJ O'Rourke
Harry Harrison
well my favorite comic books are the Oh My Goddess! comic books and ExistenZ
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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.