i have many favorites
1- a christmas carol. by charles dickens.[keeping with the holiday season}
2- the legend of sleepy hollow by.washington irving
3-tom sawyer by mark twain
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
The Dresden Files (whole series) by Jim Butcher
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson
And the ones evil Rylie mentioned
two of my favorite writers anything by stephen king and tony hillerman
a couple of my favorites from stephen king
the shining
pet symetary
cujo
tony hillerman
skinwalkers
a thief of time
short story would be " The Lottery" , by Shirley Jackson
fiction would be, "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
non fiction would be, "Too Big To Fail", by AAron Sorkin, or " Murder Machine, by Jerry Capeci
biograhpy would be , "Monster", by Chris Cody
A favourite of mine is the photo-story MasterGirl vs The Analyzer.
There are just too too too many to make a list or try to. And I wish I could live a few hundred years longer than normal, to read everything I still I would want to read.
white fang
call of the wild
by.jack london
Quote from: lexibabe on December 26, 2012, 06:25:35 PM
two of my favorite writers anything by stephen king and tony hillerman
a couple of my favorites from stephen king
the shining
pet symetary
cujo
tony hillerman
skinwalkers
a thief of time
Skinwalkers? Hmm. I might have read that.What is that one about?
Thanks.
J.T. hillerman wrote murder mysteries set on the navaho indian reservation.
"skinwalkers" is about the indians beliefs in witchcraft... shapeshifting.
HILLERMAN was a terriffic story teller all but one of his stories was set in navaho nation. he became one of my favorites :)
Atlantic Fury by Hammond Innes
Always by my Side by Christina Schmid
It's not a story but
The raven.by edgar allen poe
One of.my favorites
child hood classics that i simply adore
jack and the bean stalk
red riding hood
cinderalla
lady and the tramp
so many others.
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Novels of the Nightside by Simon R. Green
The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Safehold series by Jim Weber
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
The Wild Card series by George R. R. Martin
The Forgotten Realms created by Ed Greenwood
The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
Throw in just about anything by Clive Cussler as well as Tom Clancy's flagship novels (like Rainbow Six and Debt of Honor), and that's a pretty good reflection of my tastes.
Something few people have probably read...
Something few people maybe have heard of....
Patrick O'Brian's...Aubrey and Maturins Series.....otherwise known as the Master and Commander Series....with Cpt Jack Aubrey. If you saw the movie...Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World....the book series makes it pale in comparison
Nothing wrong with a little adventure in one's life :)
Running through a LOT of Dresden files. Playing catch up in the series.
Another fave is the elemental assassin series, by Jennifer Estep. THAT one I am current with, through all 7 books in paperback.
Storm
Quote from: stormbolt7 on March 11, 2013, 05:09:42 PM
Running through a LOT of Dresden files. Playing catch up in the series.
Another fave is the elemental assassin series, by Jennifer Estep. THAT one I am current with, through all 7 books in paperback.
Storm
Which of the Dresden stories are you on right now?
Quote from: Smokey on March 12, 2013, 11:57:06 PM
Quote from: stormbolt7 on March 11, 2013, 05:09:42 PM
Running through a LOT of Dresden files. Playing catch up in the series.
Another fave is the elemental assassin series, by Jennifer Estep. THAT one I am current with, through all 7 books in paperback.
Storm
Which of the Dresden stories are you on right now?
Smokey give you a hint, if your reading them as well ... One just finished.. had him riding a dinosaur while fighting zombies!! Oh and YES already like 70 pages into the next one ... while that still fresh in mind.
WORTH mentioning again .. not sure have done it this thread.
Kim Harrison .. The Hollows series.. very fun and enjoyable. First book of series.. think/ titled Dead Witch Walking.
9 books in series in paperback. Have all mine signed by author... book 10 now in hardcover.
Storm
Quote from: stormbolt7 on March 17, 2013, 02:40:36 AM
Quote from: Smokey on March 12, 2013, 11:57:06 PM
Quote from: stormbolt7 on March 11, 2013, 05:09:42 PM
Running through a LOT of Dresden files. Playing catch up in the series.
Another fave is the elemental assassin series, by Jennifer Estep. THAT one I am current with, through all 7 books in paperback.
Storm
Which of the Dresden stories are you on right now?
Smokey give you a hint, if your reading them as well ... One just finished.. had him riding a dinosaur while fighting zombies!! Oh and YES already like 70 pages into the next one ... while that still fresh in mind.
WORTH mentioning again .. not sure have done it this thread.
Kim Harrison .. The Hollows series.. very fun and enjoyable. First book of series.. think/ titled Dead Witch Walking.
9 books in series in paperback. Have all mine signed by author... book 10 now in hardcover.
Storm
Man, I love Dead Beat. Polka will never die.
Yep seems Smokey knows Dresden files ...
I am part way into Proven Guilty ....... After that. Will probably take a break.. read something else. Before going into the next volume.
Storm
animal farm ..one of my favorites
Been reading the last two Clancy books, Dead or Alive and Against All Enemies. Still not done with the second, but they just don't seem to have the same spark that Rainbow Six and Debt of Honor had. Maybe my opinion will change once I'm through.
Quote from: bigfatmarci on March 26, 2013, 04:12:34 PM
Does my heart good to see all the Dresden Files love. I just finished Cold Days myself. Easily on of the more entertaining series being written today
Damn straight. I can't wait 'til Skin Game comes out.
Quote from: bigfatmarci on March 26, 2013, 10:07:27 PM
Is that the next one? I can't wait.
I tried his fantasy series, but while it wasn't too bad, it just didn't capture me like Dresden Files did
Yep, I think it comes out around holiday season this year.
Fantasy is my original forte, so I really dug the Codex Alera series. I'm also looking forward to the new steampunk series he's working on.
Dresden kept steamrolling through... made it to, and through white knight... Should have next 2 by end of this weekend ...
Some other Urban Fantasy to check into ...
Kim Harrison Hollows series ... This lured me in, with the covers and the tongue in cheek use, of Clint Eastwood movie titles, for series novel titles. After the usual time to establish the different universe. Have been running fast and furious.. with lots of great humor at times as well.
Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series ... Nice twists on the normal supernatural characters.
Kelly Meding TWO series.. Urban Fantasy .. Three Days to dead .. first book in a enjoyable series..
ALSO she has started a series, kind of like superhero characters ... First book titled Trance.
Jennifer Estep Elemental Assassin series ... 7 books out.. and looking forward to more.
Kat Richardson .. Greywalker series ... Some very different, and unique ideas here.. using some actual locations, with twists on local or historical legends.
Had these listed before.. but that thread got dropped...
Storm
My favorite urban fantasy author next to Jim Butcher has to be Simon R. Green. Between the Nightside series and the Secret Histories, he does some great work.
always liked "little women" by louisa may alcott
Quote from: emmett52 on May 08, 2013, 04:00:55 PM
Anything from Stephen King.My favorite of his would have to be "IT".Great read.
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i'm a huge king fan.
reading "from a buick8 now.
Ok .. VERY close to caught up.. Dresden Files.. now through Ghost Story ....
BACK into Jennifer Estep's Elemental assassin series ... book 8 .. Deadly Sting!!
Storm
I love Stephen King's short stories
"1408" and "Last Rung on the Ladder" are my favs
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson
Jack Ryan Series by Tom Clancy
Most Trollope especailly the Last Chronicle of Barset (and the whole of the Barcester series), my fav Dickens is Bleak House and then David Copperfield; and I like Vanity Fair (Some peeps here rather remind of me of Becky Sharpe).
More modern favourites - J B Priestley, John Buchan, Arnold Bennett and H G Wells.
I also love reading history
A Song of Ice and Fire by Georges Martin..both the books and the TV show.
I also loved the four books by Marion Zimmer Bradley : The Mists of Avalon and Labyrinth by Kate Moss
I am biased but I recommend to this site, and to LexiBabe in particular, Untamed Rivalry: Scenes from a Female Fight Club by Alexis Diletti and me...available on Amazon as an ebook. see m profile.
For me, any of the John Grisham novels, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.
EVallant strikes home with John Grisham...he's sooo awesome.....I am re-reading some of his stuff now...I love it!
I am currently reading a biography that won't be everyone's cup of tea....but its so insightful to me...
Its by one of my favorite authors.....Jon Meachem....its called......"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
Its a riveting (at least to me) biography of one of my great heroes in Life...Thomas Jefferson....
Its easy to see when you read this how he could have been the chief architect behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
Thomas Jefferson was such a feeling..... really human man....Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat.
The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown.
If you love history as I do...and have always wondered how our founding fathers thought.....and wanted to understand them simply as men...and as human....this book is a great start and Meachem is such a wonderful story teller and historian.
Meachem also wrote..."American Lion - Andrew Jackson in the White House"...which I also highly recommend, Jackson being another heo of mine.
Give them a shot.....I think you'll like :)
that has to be a big book michelle, I still want to get it to read. Jefferson is so interesting
Stephen King is my favorite author. I'm really glad to see Under The Dome on tv this summer. It's a great book and so far they have been doing a great job on the show.
I've been reading the Honor Harrington books by David Weber. Great reads if you enjoy war stories in a sci-fi setting.
Terry Pratchett - the Discworld stories. For the fantasy fans in this thread, they're the funniest fantasies ever written! "Going Postal" is, imho, the best book ever written.
Well, I'm still hoping for a leather-bound, First Edition of the Chronicles of Lexibabe.
It didn't appear in my Christmas stocking last year, but I haven't given up hope.
GG