I\'m in need of some new reading material.
I hate starting a book and then putting it down because it sucks.
Thanks!
I\'m reading Cormac McCarthy\'s "The Road" right now. Considering what it\'s about (post-apocolyptic road story w/ a father & son) I didn\'t think I\'d get through the first 50 pages before giving up. But I\'m really enjoying it and it\'s a pretty quick read.
The Worst Case Scenario Handbook - best book ever!
The Talisman-King/Straub
The Adventurers-Harold Robbins (back when he was good)
Give Wally Lamb\'s stuff a try. He\'s a great writer and he teaches up at UConn.
I just started reading a book by Charles Fort... it\'s really out there... check him out
If you like History
An Army At Dawn - Rick Atkinson
The Day of Battle-The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - Rick Atkinson
He is kind of the go to guy for WWII non-fiction. The Day of Battle is his latest it came out in Oct. I just gave it to my grandfather for x-mas.
I don\'t know what kind of stuff you are into, but there\'s an author who does mystery kind of books (not whodunit\'s, but she holds out telling you the complete story and then you\'re like, holy
**** that is nuts). She\'s from New Hampshire and a lot of her stuff takes place in New Hampshire-Jodi Picoult.
Wally Lamb is fantastic too.
try tom robbins for fiction...plus his books tend to be female-centric, which probably helps if you\'re a female
"jitterbug perfume" is my favorite of his...starts slow but is epic
ummm i don\'t know..."the kid stays in the picture" for a good autobiography...robert evans\' life is unbelievable
Mitch Albom - Five People You Meet In Heaven, For One More Day, Tuesdays With Morrie
Anything by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Anything by Mario Puzo (especially The Fortunate Pilgrim and Dark Arena)
try tom robbins for fiction...plus his books tend to be female-centric, which probably helps if you\'re a female
"jitterbug perfume" is my favorite of his...starts slow but is epic
"Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" and "Still Life With Woodpecker" were amazing. life altering books for me, right up there with the best of Vonneguts stuff. But I could never get into Jitterbug. It\'s still on my shelf... never got past the first couple hundred. Maybe I should give it another shot, it\'s been awhile.
James Patterson
Kiss the Girls
Along Came A Spider
Black Friday
Most of his books are pretty good and he writes in a style that makes them move quickly.
The movies they made based on his books were not that good but the books are pretty crazy.
Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider are Alex Cross books. Alex Cross is a detective and is the main character of many of Patterson\'s Novels.
Black Friday is an earlier book of his. It is more of a spy / espionage / but it is really good. Takes a little longer than his other books to get going but definitely picks up and has some really good twists
Wow, quite a task.
I\'ll just write down some of my favorites books/authors and the genre it falls into
These books are in no particular order.
Darkness At Noon - Auther Koestler*, historical fiction. It\'s about a fictionary relovultionary in russia during the stalinist purges of the 1930s. It\'s based roughly off the experince of the author and his friends and particularly trotsky.
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vaunagut* - All of his stuff is good, but this good contains references to Naragansett Beer, and has one of the best lines in world in it.
The Stranger - Robert Calus* - Classic nihilism/existensialism book, plus the main character has traits in similar with the main character in Darkness at Noon
The Kool-Aid Acid Test* - Tom Wolfe - Great book about the Merry Pranksters and the start/peak of the "san fransico sceen"
The Leather Stalking Tales: (Deerslayer, Pathfinder, Praire, Last of the Mohicans, Pioneer) :: Tales of the first great westard expansion of america by james finmore cooper. Yes, sometimes the language is wordy and the characters very acrane, but read it for no other reasons than for the amazing description of western new york and the apliations.**
Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Ender\'s Children - Orason Scott Card. A great sci-fi series as long as you ingore the most recent books writen about the same time frame. Read these four first, then move on to the rest. I don\'t like any of the newer books because of how they degrade from the characters of the first 4.
*Spelling of title/author may not be exact
**This word should be: the appliachains, like the mountains, which I can\'t spell either.