I couldn't find a thread for this, so I decided I'd start one.

I like the book "Runemarks" by Joanne Harris a lot, if anyone's read that. Actually, I like all of Joanne's books.

Just finished "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which was really good. It was sort of like "1984" or "Brave New World", but different. In first person.

NO SPOILERS PLEASE!

Indeed "We" was the influence on both Huxley and Orwell.

I love "The Master and Margarita" (Mikhail Bulgakov), "Dracula" (Stoker, of course), "A Hero of Our Time" (M. Yu. Lermontov), "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (Ray Bradbury), and "The Monk" (M G Lewis).

I hate "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (Anne Radcliffe), and - need I say it - "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyers.

A bunch of books I don't know... except for Twilight and Dracula. I want to start "2001: A Space Odyssey" soon, too.

I think I read We ages ago. I didn't understand it. I just finished Wolving Time. It was nice. Shame I can't turn into a wolf. I'm also reading Me by Katherine Hepburn, Where the Girls Are which is about how the media shaped women in the 50s and such. I can't believe how some of this junk is still shoved down our throats!
Last year was a terrible book year. Hush Hush, Fallen and those Cassandra Clare books were terrible. Sure they had nice covers, but, terrible books with annoying female characters and men who were JERKS! I hate bad boys.

I kind of like Twilight.. I reread it recently. It's an amusing series, but that's not a healthy way to be in love! The Host by Stephanie Meyers is a nice book. She's a wuss about killing characters though and she wants everyone to be happy at the end I think. I'd rather read her than OSC. He just yells at people about marriage and babies all day.

"2001" is an...interesting novel. One thing I like about Arthur C Clarke compared with his contemporaries is a level of accessibility; his novels tend to deal with either concrete, known, science or extrapolations thereof, whereas Brian Aldiss and Michael Moorcock deal with far stranger, more theoretical concepts. Therefore, "2001" leads you down paths which - depending on what you're looking for - will be a far more satisfying and fulfilling experience than the movie.

Just an opinion.

And at least three of the "bunch of books" you don't know are acknowledged classics, and you might well enjoy them. I fully recommend them. But then, I would.

It was confusing!

Minnie, I'll put them on hold at my library if their as good as you say they are!

I want that book to have annotations. I love annotations.

What an awesome idea for a thread!

Reading Now: It was my own book called A Dream Come true, about a man from the 1700s who dreams of the same girl over and over. Likewise she dreams of him- but she is from the future. Through a dream, she is able to transport to his world but is forced back to her own after only a brief stay until she is given the chance to return. It is unpublished and a work in progress.

Last Read: One of my books. I have been reading them over lately. What? I like my books, even if I don’t have the guts to try to get them published.

I have well over 300 hundred books and read nearly constantly (or use to...In school i read over 5-8 books a week, and I bought every book I read since I don't like to rent them in case I love the story too much to let it go!)

Favorite Arthurs Short List:

Lisa Kleypas, Katherine Kingsley, Connie Mason, Rebecca Brandewyne, Cathy Maxwell. Dean Koontz, John Saul, V. C. Andrews.

Favorite Books: To many to count. I list some though, based on my number of re-reads (excluding my own):

Katherine Kinsley: In the Wake of the Wind (first in a trilogy), No Greater Heaven (2 of a different trilogy), and No Greater Love (last of trilogy about the son of No Greater Heaven). Favorite author. She never wrote a book I disliked. Sadly she no longer writes. I guess she made so much she didn’t want to do it anymore and retired to a Greek Island last I heard. Such a shame. I miss her.

Lisa Kleypas: Wallflower series, Hathaway series, Because You’re Mine (sequel to Somewhere I’ll Find You).

Rebecca Brandewyne: Swan Road (About Vikings, based on actual events), Dust Devil (another stand alone and the ONLY contemporary book I like in the romance department). Any book from either “the love Knot onward or “No Greater Love” onward is fucking terrible. My opinion. I had to stop reading her. What a shame. Her older books are so…wonderful.

Cathy Maxwell: Adventures of a Scottish Heiress (heh, guilty pleasure…)

Dean Koontz[/b]: [b]False Memory (a psychological thriller about an evil psychologist who can literally control people and gives them false memory to replace the time he had them in his control. Fucking. Awesome.) Lightning (time traveling Nazi who is trying to stop hitler and falls in love with a girl during his travels), Door to December (about out of body experiences.)

John Saul: the Right Hand of Evil. I typically dislike John Saul greatly because he said he doesn’t like the genre he writes in and just does it to make money….Jackass. It’s a shame his books tend to be so good.

V. C. Andrews: The Cutler Family series. My Sweet Audrina. I don’t read the newer books. I don’t much care for them anymore.

Least Favorite Books:

Well…there is an author called Karen Widdon[/b]. She has a series I think is called the [b]Shadow series. I bought her book Shadow Dancer. I did not like it. However, I sometimes get an urge to re-read it, so I do.

Same can be said of Lisa Jackson. She has a book Impostress that I didn’t like, yet still reread from time to time.

Now, the worst book I have EVER had the displeasure of forcing myself to finish (and almost because the only book I refused to finish was No Greater Love by Rebecca Brandewyne. Oh. My. Fucking. Word. Really? The hero was a rapist , a womanizer, and a physical abuser. The heroine apparently got off on that sort of shit. They cheated on each other during most of the book and eventually found their way together again and realized they loved each other. Seriously? What part of rape and abuse constitutes as love. What a mockery of the romance section. Epic fail.

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Oh - has anyone read "Sleep Pale Sister"? It's by Joanne Harris, about this painter in the Victorian era who starts drugging one of his models, then she goes off and becomes a prostitute. Actually, the plot's much more confusing than that. But still, it's a good book.

Sounds like the sort of book that would make my head blow up.

I just can't go wrong with Harry Potter. I enjoy it everytime I read it. Unlike Orson FRIGGING Card turning his books into long Mormonism books about the evils of gay marriage and non-traditional relationships. Cringe worthy. I can never read him anymore because he ruined Ender's Game with the Bean series that is just there to push his doctrine. Dude just takes over characters and has them go on and about marriage and making babies.
And Ender in E hile was simply HORRIBLE. I can't believe someone allowed him to write that. They should have stopped him from that! Worse book ever.
Also he keeps writing let's dislike gay people articles so I give up. There's Neil Gaiman to consider. He doesn't make me miserable all day long. And he has that British wit I like so much.

Neil Gaiman sort of reminds me of Joanne Harris. I like Harris better, though. Harry Potter is good. I started Ender's Game on the kindle, is it really like that? The Cartoon Guide to Physics is really good, too.

The first books of the Ender series have a bit of conservative nagging, but the Bean series is mostly GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES! WHY ARE YOU READING THIS BOOK WHEN YOU COULD BE HAVING BABIES? And you need to be heterose ual. Even if you're gay go FIND A GIRL, MARRY HER AND HAVE SOME BABIES!

It's not that I am against having babies. I'd love to have some babies, but I don't need some Mormon dude telling me what to do with my uterus! GAH!

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I'm confused, Midi. Are you saying you're not keen on it?

That's what I think she meant...