Summer/Winter Reading Lists
 

Since I am beginning my summer vacation and am gonna have a bit of time on my hands I was hoping for some good suggestions of books to read. Any good ones?

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice

(I know you've read them, but just spreading the word) LOL

Juliette and/or Josephine by the Marquis De Sade

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

Here's wishing you a happy (horny) summer Lil!! :D

Anything by Pat Conroy -- but especially Beach Music

What genre is it, osuche?

Pat Conroy writes fiction...I guess you'd call them dramas. But they'll make you laugh, cry, and feel wonderful. Conroy makes love with words -- some of the best usage of the English language I have ever read. He writes about rites of passage and life experiences.....

What do you usually like for your summer reading Lil? You gotta reign me in before I drown you in things you'll absolutely hate ;).

marquis de sade? Read some of his works in a humanities course back in university...um....interesting reads to be sure. ;)

Lord of the Rings definately!

Um, I would suggest the Avalon series by Marrion Zimmer Bradley for something different (fiction -- historical / fantasy). In order:
- The Fall of Atlantis
- The Forest House
- Lady of Avalon
- Priestess of Avalon (touches on some characters in Lady of Avalon)
- Mists of Avalon

Thanks for some great suggestions!!!!

GingerV~ historical fiction, horror, typically but I am flexible.

Have you ever watched the movie Mists of Avalon? Great movie!

I recommend anything by John Irving, because he is my favorite author. If you're looking for a starting point, I recommend The Cider House Rules or A Prayer For Owen Meany.

The Cider House Rules Is my favorite movie ever.....I keep forgetting I want to read his stuff!

yes Lilith John Irving is a must read for a short list of others I love

Christopher Moore - a good start with him would be Practucal Demon Keeping kind of a horror comdie

Elmore Leonard - hard to recomend just one book by him but a good start might be Out of Sight he true one of the greatest crime fiction writers out there

Tom Robbins - start with Even Cowgirls Get The Blue and I'm sure you'll have to read everything he's writen

Carl Hiaasen - not sure if you read anything before knbow you correct steph on his name in a thread if you haven't read anything by him

Tim Dorsey - Florida Road Kill the first book I've read by him and I think his first book but it will have you LOL'in you ass off

Tim Sandlin - Skipped Parts is one more must read

Lilith you know where to find me if you need more I have a long list I could recomend

Well if you loved the movie, Lilith... the book is even better! Yes, I am one of those people that see movies and and comment on the book. The movie was wonderful, but it was nothing that a book could provide. I'm actually re-reading that book when I have the time. :)

Its a pretty good movie but they destroyed the book :(

Thats what happens a lot with books which are made into films, unfortunately. There are some exceptions though.

Off the top of my head.....you really should read "Cider House Rules". And because I read them about the same time..thinking of that one always brings "Snow Falling on Cedars" to my mind, one of my all time favorites.

One of the funniest things I've ever read was by Christopher Buckley, and was called "Thank You For Smoking."

Tom King is a Canadian writer I absolutely adore, whom you may not have heard of. If I only get to recommend one, I'd say "Green Grass, Running Water." If you like Gabriel Garcia-Marquez at all (and if you don't know...put him on the list NOW ;)), run don't walk and order it. Which, unfortunately, you'll probably have to do.

OH, and on the non-fiction front.....I think you'll really like this one, Lil. It's called "Time, Love, Memory." By, oh hell, brb....Jonathan Weiner. It's kind of a semi-historical account of the discovery of the connection between behavior and genetics. It's really accessible to the non-scientist. At least, I think it is. It captures the magic of science, what makes us willing to do it.

And for a little tiny book to slip in your bag, there "The Ice Finders" by Bolles. Again, history meets sociology....about geology this time. But it's really a lovely little read.

And that's enough from me....always more I could recommend. If you do pick any of these up, do let me know what you think!

G

"The Doomsday Book"~ Connie Willis...Sort of historical fiction/fantasy. Time travel back to the days of the black plague. Very interesting read...

"Good in Bed"~ Jennifer Weiner...Laugh out loud funny!!! Read this last summer on vacation.

I've been addicted recently to some not so well written, but fun vampire slayer type books by Laurell K. Hamilton

"A Widow for one Year"~John Irving.....just about anything he's written is good!

"Parable of the Talents"~ Octavia E. Butler

If you like any science fiction or fantasy type books I have a slew of those I could recommend. I read on average a book or two a week almost all of which I enjoy, so my tastes are quite varried.


Happy reading!:)

Books...
 

"On Writing" or "The Dead Zone" by Stephen King

"DaVinci Code", "Angels & Demons", "Deception Point" or "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown

"Civil War" trilogy by Shelby Foote

"Bloodletters and Badmen" latest edition

Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich (for laughs) "One For The Money" is the first one.

Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak novels

"The Keep" by F. Paul Wilson

That's a few. :o)

I enjoy the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich...light reading, a little frustration, a little sex (maybe) and lots of laughs. Light reading that doesn't require a lot of deep thought, just pure enjoyment. Good beach books.. lol

I highly recomend the series by Richard Paul Evans of "The Locket and" The Christmas box." and his other book "The looking glass" they all tie together and are a great read, I couldn't put them down.

I've been reading mostly technical books for study so I don't have too many recommendations for non-tech stuff right now but a few that come to mind are:

• American Scream : The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True.
• The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso.
• Food Of The Gods by Terrence McKenna.

King, anything and everything by King

nikki

Have you ever read anything by Laurell K. Hamilton..if not just e-mail me. I have almost all of them and will be happy to mail them to you to borrow...and trust me I don't loan out books normally, but, well you are an exception.


You also might like to try Janet Evanovich for some light reading with lots of laughs!

I just started the DaVinci COde

Actually STO had suggested Hamilton to me awhile back and I got A Kiss of Shadows for Christmas but have not been able to really get into due to school reading responsibilities. I'll try to finish that one first!

As I mentioned earlier about Laurell K. Hamilton, I have read 6 of the Anita Blake series and the 2 Merry Gentry(A kiss of Shadows is one of the later). I read all these in a matter of a few weeks. I picked it up on a whim from my local bookstore and though I find the writing a bit elementary, its my new guilty pleasure. I really enjoyed the Merry Gentry series.

Laurell k Hamilton rocks! I introduced Nikki to them and they're great!

Also the Kushiel's servant trilogy by Jacqueline Carey - about a coutesan who enjoys pain........very kinky!

Lilith,How about Isabel Allende's APHRODITE A Memoir Of The Senses.The lady can make you hungry and horney at the same time.Come to think of it,thats a pretty natural state for me.

I'm reading one nice steamy brand new trashy romance novel right now. It's by Lisa Kleypas, and it is called Suddenly You. I just got it early last week, off the new sellers section. Very steamy, set in 1836, however, I could see quite a bit of it even relating to life today.

Like I've said twice all ready- steamy. ;) Quite a lot of sex scenes for a historical romance. ;)

Well, I don't know how it's going to be yet, but I just bought Sting's autobiography. I don't like Oprah, but watched one with my mom about him and his life, and this book, and Oprah read excerpts from it, and ... the book flows like poetry. It's just.. the snippets she read were like.. honey.

So I bought it. I'll let you know how it goes. :)