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I don't know about you, but I love to read and have a room full of book's.
Thought it would be fun to talk about our favorite books and authors and maybe find some new ones.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 11, 2008 2:12 PM
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Anthony, the first season of True Blood is based on the book Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. If you enjoy it, there are more books to read in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 11, 2008 1:16 PM
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wut is the book for the television series? and is the book a series to or is it 1 novel. i like series to be honest until the last boook lol
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 11, 2008 12:36 PM
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Over the last few weeks I have been reading the Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon and have loved it. I only have like 2 more books in the series to read.
I really like the way she portrays the Gods of oldden days...I LOVE ACHERON!! He is so...yummy...in his attempts to make the world a better place and keep his mother locked away! And the way he gets the best of Artimis is fabtastic! (even though he usually has to be her love slave for 2 weeks or so afterward) But I think what I love the best about him is once he gives his word he is bound to keep it...no promise broken...are we sure he is a man?
I think my favorite hunter so far has been Zarek...His story is the one I can really relate too...only it didn't take me as long to find my salvation.
If you have not checked out the books yet I highly reccomend them
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 11, 2008 2:24 AM
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Favorite books- mostly short stories
Mark Twain- Letters from the Earth
Raymond Carver- What we talk about when we talk about love
Flannery O'conner- A good man is hard to find
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian/ The Road
Joseph Heller- Catch 22
dorothy Parker short stories
JOhn Steinbeck- Grapes of Wrath
Kafka- Metamorphis
Chekov short stories
favorite books for fun
1. Stephen King- It
2. Stephen King- The dead Zone
3. Minette Walters - The Sculptress
4. Patrick Mcgrath- Spider
5. Ruth Rendel- Le Ceremonie
there are more
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Nov 11, 2008 2:17 AM
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I haven't read "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" yet. I am reading "Fangland" now though and it is pretty cool. I think I'm just now getting to the good creepy stuff...
Lookilou, Native Son is one of my favorite books.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 10, 2008 7:30 PM
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AmongDevils:
I love to read also. I have books everywhere. I love talking books. I'm usually reading 2 books at a time. Right now I'm reading Swallowing Darkness by LKH and Night Life by Caitlin Kittredge. Some of my favorites books are (in no particular order):
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Lunatic Cafe by LKH
Burnt Offerings by LKH
Blue Moon by LKH
really anything by LKH
Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
Wild Blood by Nancy A. Collins
A Dozen Black Roses by Nancy A. Collins
Paint it Black by Nancy A. Collins
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Doom Fox by Iceberg Slim
Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray
Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
It & The Stand by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Manchild in The Promised Land by Claude Brown
Perfect Victim: True Story of the Girl In A Box (don't remember the author)
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Daddy Was A Number Runner by Louise Merriwether
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Punishment (don't remember author)
Nobody Loves A Cockroach by John Ballantine
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Visions in Death by J.D. Robb
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M.E. Kerr
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
Dead Reckoning by Michael Baden, M.D.
Minion by L. A. Banks
.......and the list goes on!!!
What's your favorites?
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 10, 2008 6:33 PM
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Nap, here is this other thread , sorry had to leave for a while...good stuff on here.
Katel, it has been many years since I read James Baldwin. I think I will try Another Country. Have you read that book I mentioned earlier that is Oprah's current pick. "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" ?
For all those Jane Austen fans out there my mother just finished reading a series of books written like hers by Rebecca Ann Collins. I haven't tried them yet but supposed to be excellent.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 9, 2008 8:55 PM
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When you said "Fluke" it reminded me of the Fluke man episode on the X Files. Also, that just reminded me of Tooms and Squeeze on X Files. sigh!!
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 9, 2008 8:48 PM
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I noticed a few of you mentioned liking humor in the stories & thought Christopher Moore should get a mention here. He's wrote a couple of humorous vampire love stories; "Bloodsucking Fiends" & "You Suck", along with one about a trickster "Coyote Blue".
All of his books address the supernatural world in the funniest of ways, the man is a nut! The only book of his that didn't do much for me was "Fluke", but even it had some funny stuff. "Lamb" is my all time favorite of his.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 9, 2008 5:28 PM
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Thanks, vgannon, for the validation on Swan Peak. I'll get through it sooner or later, I just need to not be distracted by other stuff. I like to read something fairly heavy and serious, and follow it with something light like a Janet Evanovich novel. Her Stephanie Plum series absolutely rocks until you get to the last book! I have no idea what happened there, but it definitely wasn't up to her usual standards. My cousin, who also reads them, thought maybe it was ghost-written by someone else! As far as Kellerman is concerned, I just finished Compulsion a week or so ago, and I found it riveting. I'm on the waiting list for Bones. I also want to read Robert Wagner's new biography; I always loved him.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 9, 2008 3:49 PM
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Vgannon50, I love James Baldwin. Another Country is such a beautifuly written book. He writes so beautifully about love relationships- and the destruction of racism. I wonder what he would write about Obama.
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Nov 9, 2008 3:15 PM
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Merce,,been off for a day so didn't see your post about Swan Peak. Yeah not one of his better books,,slightly repetitive and a little slow. BTW Alafair Burke also writes.
She is not as good as James Lee but still not too bad. Since I feel like I watched her grow up I thought I'd have to support her writing. Definitely like the other two writers you mentioned but have gotten a little tired of Kellerman.
Katel...Flannery o'Connor..she is one of those painful writers and yes that is literature not just fiction. James Baldwin is another.
Anybody who likes James Lee will definitely like anything written by Dennis Lehane, they are very similar.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 9, 2008 12:28 PM
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This is a great thread! I don't have as much time to read as I used to but I still always have something waiting to read. I just don't get through them as fast.  )
Some of my favorites:
Diane Mott Davidson: Goldy Schultz
Jill Churchhill (both of her series are great, Her Jane Jeffrey and the "Grace and Favor) mysteries)
Susan Wittig Albert
Carolyn Hart "A body in the..."
J.K. Rowling
I haven't started Charlaine Harris books yet, but I am ready to once the first season of TB is over. ;o)
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 8, 2008 7:22 PM
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Hey Marlene! Good to be here...still clunking along w/ the old computer. A new one's on my wish list but right now other stuff is taking priority... I know you originally said you haven't read the TB books, but are you going to read them sooner or later? And what else do you read? Reading the TB books will NOT wreck the show for you, trust me. There are enough differences between them that both can be thoroughly enjoyed.
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Re: Avid Readers Talk Books
Nov 8, 2008 6:54 PM
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Merce:
Hello how you doingt??
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