What Are You Reading or favorite book

[jackrat]

I am currantly reading a short story by my brother,who writes under the name John Arkwright.It was a finalist in this year's L.Ron Hubbard's most promising writers.I love anything by Hunter S.Thompson,Ayn Rand,Larry Mcmurtry,Bertrand Russell,or Aldus Huxley.A confederacy of Dunces is one of my all time favorites!

 

[fhintz]

I'm currently working on "The Girl Who . . . " trilogy by Stieg Larssen

 

[jrholls]

I just bought "Along came a spider" by James Patterson. It's the first in the Alex Cross series. I'm looking forward to it, anyone read Patterson?

 

[Yvonne G]

I just bought "Along came a spider" by James Patterson. It's the first in the Alex Cross series. I'm looking forward to it, anyone read Patterson?

I'm going to go OT a little and I hope the original poster will please excuse me:

I've tried to go back to the beginning and see if Patterson ever tells us that Alex Cross is black. Last year I saw a James Patterson movie on TV and Alex Cross was played by Morgan Freeman. I had read quite a few of that series and never got the feel that Alex was black.

 

[Marty333]

Im reading of Mice and Men and just bought the book Wicked the other day!

 

[Cfr200]

Besides all my school books on education I am reading a book called The Lost Cyclist. It is about a guy in the late 1880s who sets off to ride his bicycle around the world. He ends up disappearing in Turkey and another cyclist goes looking for him. It is a true story and a good read so far.

 

[Wirewehear]

Fantasy fiction reader here (lol .. @ the remote manual read) recently went thru a re-reading frenzy too. Didnt read Harry Potter tho. Favorite Sci-fantasy writer is RA Salvatore.

 

[Cathy L]

Most recently I read the Stieg Larson Trilogy as well and my class and I just finished an old book, The Wheel on the School which is great for older kids and adults as well. My favorite author of all time is Barbara Kingsolver. I love her book, Prodigal Summer.

 

[dmmj]

I love of mice an men, great read, right now I just finished reading world war Z and I am currently reading the first immortal. I am a geek and love scifi and fantasy.

 

[Madortoise]

Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth & Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Most recently I read the Stieg Larson Trilogy as well and my class and I just finished an old book, The Wheel on the School which is great for older kids and adults as well. My favorite author of all time is Barbara Kingsolver. I love her book, Prodigal Summer.

I read all of Barbara Kingsolver's books and "Prodigal Summer" was my absolute favorite!! She is an amazing writter.

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I just bought "Along came a spider" by James Patterson. It's the first in the Alex Cross series. I'm looking forward to it, anyone read Patterson?

I like James Patterson but never read that series. Let me know if it is good.

Right now I am reading a shameless piece of chic lit called "Millie's Fling" by Jill Mansell. It is the perfect read for sitting on the beach drinking some fruity girly drink.

 

[Angi]

J.White~ Poor you I hate Shakespeare. Though I have heard not all are as bad a Romeo and Juliet.

Marty~ have you read TO Kill A Mockingbird? It is one of my all time favorites and one I made my son read in 7th grade. The school made hime read it in 9th grade. Another one I think all young people should read is THE AUTOBIOAGRAPHY OF MALCOME X.

I am reading a boring book that my youngest son got me for Christmas at the school used book sale. It is called TRUE BELEIVER.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Another good book for Marty is "The Count of Monte CrIsto" by Alexandre Dumas. Great, great book! Ooooh or if you are looking for some current fun reads there is the Hunger Game trilogy by Suzanne Collins and of course the Twilight Series which I am embarrassed to say I LOVED. Okay, I'll stop I didn't want tooutmyself as a giant nerd this early on. C'est la vie.

 

[zoogrl]

I got a Kindle for Valentine's Day (Yay!) and am reading a book called "A Small Furry Prayer" by Steven Kotler. It's about a guy & his girlfriend, both writers from LA that move to New Mexico to run a chihuahua rescue and he writes about thier trials & tribulations in rescue & him trying to make sense of his life. It's a good read, there's a quote from the book I like as a chihuahua momma, "Sure my posse is mostly crippled chihuahuas but you'd be surprised how much *** a crippled chihuahua can kick" Ha ha! I like all the suggestions on the books, I'm going to add some to my Kindle wish list

 

[fhintz]

Typically, I'm a fantasy novel reader. My favorite series is Kate Elliott's "Crown of Stars".

 

[Angi]

I wish Barbara Kingsolver would write another book. I love all of her books. I think my favorite was The Poison Wood Bible, but I loved ALL of them.
My husband got a kendle from his I.T. guy for X-Mas. It is mine now but I haven't bought any books yet.
Has anyone read $#@! My Dad Says? It was a real quick read, but SOOOOOO funny. I guess I also liked it because they lived in San Diego.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

I have Kindle, Nook and Ibooks on my Ipad. Kindle is consistently the cheapest to download from. Someone told me that you can share books on kindle with other kindle users for free and our library has a website for kindle users to borrow books online!! After the alloted "check out" period they just disapear! Pretty crazy that libraries are digitizing to avoid becoming obsolete!

 

[Laura]

LOVE James patterson.. His Alex cross series are great.. so are the womens murder club.. '1st to die' is the first one..
Dean Koontz, reading Mr Murder now.. King..
My sister had me reading the Anna Pigeon series.. I cant recall the Authur.. She is good. Anna is the Character.. she is a Ranger in National parks all over the US.. She gets into all sorts of trouble, people and animal.. good books.

 

[Angi]

Dean Koontz is way too scary. I went through a Ann Rule phase. I like true crime/murder investigation books. I guess that is kind of strange. The one type of book I have never been able to finish is self help. They really bore me. I did like Heres The Deal DO"NT Touch Me by Howie Mondel though. He also has OCD, so I could relate.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

Has any one ever read the Janet Evanovich series? Soooooo good! They are a guilty pleasure of mine and I am madly in love with Ranger!!