I just bought Stephen King's 11/22/63 -- a book about going back in time to save John F. Kennedy -- and I can hardly put it down!
I'm also listening to "The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck on my iPod. I download those for free from my local library. A great book! It's amazing what you miss when you're forced to read a book in 7th grade.
Whoops, I posted this to the wrong place! Can someone please move this to the Social Hour??? :-X
I just got the same book!! It's holding my attention, too. I also bought Ryan Buell's Paranormal State: My Journey Into The Unknown . I'm into the paranormal, mystical, the unknown, etc...and I love the show Paranormal State and Ryan so I thought his book would be good too.
Stephen King --- now there's a guy who can write!
I love time travel books, that's my favorite genre. Have you read "Time and Again" by Jack Finney? He's the same guy who wrote "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut is my all-time fave book. I wrote my senior paper on that one in college.
If you like sci fi you would love "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card.
I haven't read any of those. Sounds like my kinds of books though. I'll see if my library has any of them and if they do, check them out.
Slaughterhouse Five was a good book, but my all time favorite is Catch 22. I usually read non-fiction, but if you like Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle was pretty good too.
Dean Koontz writes almost as well as King - at least the older stuff I read. I liked Fear Nothing and Seize the Night.
For those of you who like Nicholas Sparks, his new book is good. The title is The Best of Me.
I'll follow up on some of your suggestions!
Cheryl
Jan and I are listening to "Inheritance" the fourth book in the "Eragon" series.
I have the new "King" book but haven't started it yet, it's a big one. I have been a big fan since Carrie. Dean Koontz is also excellent. My favorite "Koontz: are Watchers and Lightning. They are both older books. Lightning is about time travel and is a real page turner. Reading is my favorite thing, I just have to find the time.
Happy reading!!
quiger
Lightening! I loved it! I love Koonce also, but lately he's been writing about children in danger and I can't read that kind of thing. It just feels wrong to read. I don't mind if it's adults, but leave the kids out of it!
Did you read The Time Traveler's Wife?
mshistory, Yossarian Lives! :D
Have you read any other Heller books?
A66eyroad, I did read The Time Traveler's Wife and also saw the movie, pretty good. I skip the books about kids being hurt too. Can't handle kids or animals being hurt.
Gosh I'd love to get the new Kindle but I have too many unread books sitting on the shelf waiting for me. (sigh)
quiger
Reading Ender's Game. I'm supposing it'll get into more of an explanation of the background of what's happened. Really liking it so far!!
Quote from: A66eyroad on December 02, 2011, 05:15:25 AM
mshistory, Yossarian Lives! :D
Have you read any other Heller books?
No, I have not - are they as good? I love Yossarian's character...and yep, he definitely made it to Sweden!
What I'm reading now is corny, but its "Cowboys and Aliens" - yeah, often read the book before seeing the movie (I've also bought the movie and haven't watched it yet :P).
Oh my, I'm another huge Steven King fan and have been since "The Shining" came out - scared the bejebbers out of me and have loved him since. I'm also another Koontz fan and "Seize the Night" with the cat, Mungojerrie, was my favorite character in the book - loved that critter.
Yeppers, also adored "Catch-22", "Dracula", "Up the Down Staircase", "Go Ask Alice", and "The Stranger Beside Me".
How about Ray Bradbury, anyone else like him? How about "Fahrenheit 451" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes"? Man, talk about heebee jeebees when you're in elementary school!
"Where the Red Fern Grows" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" are the only books that always made me cry.
And lets not forget the grand Madam of Mystery herself, Dame Agatha Christie. I spent several summers as a youngster reading her books, and "And Then There Were None" and "Murder on the Orient Express" were the ones I kept reading over and over. Classics.
Wow, reminds me I need to reread a few of these. :D
Happy reading!
Patze
Just a question about books you read when you were quite young. Anyone here every read the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace??
Betsy and Tacy, Betsy, Tacy and Tib--these books take place in the early 1900's in the town of Mankato, MN only it is called Deep Valley. This is the town that is also talked about on Little House on the Prairie.
The books go on through school and up through college and Betsy's marriage. Also, there is another book she wrote called Emily of Deep Valley. I just love that book. I read all of the books many times and I still read them now periodically. They just published the first 4 books of the series again due to popular request. These books are great gifts for girls age 10 years and up.
I read all the time---every day. I do my Vest and nebulizer twice a day for 20 minutes each time and I have learned to read during this time in spite of my body shaking. I keep a pile of books close by so I always have one to start when I finish one.
I read the lawyers/murder/crime etc.,--the bookd similar in format to Jogn Grishams books. I buy them at garage sales and thrift shops. Also, my local libray always has a big table set up with books to buy that they are removing from their inventory. The paperbacks are 25 cents and the hard cover are 1-2 dollar. When I like a book really well I can't get rid of it. I have learned to put my initial on the inside of the front cover along with the date I read the book and a one word comment regarding quality of the book. SoSo means I won't read it again. Irish ;D
Oh, Irish, those books remind me of my favorite children's book series, Anne of Green Gables. I just love that Anne girl! She's definitely a kindred spirit! :D