I'd like to recommend the "Spellman" series of books *(the third one in the series just came out) by Lisa Lutz

it's about a private investigator, and it's also very very funny.


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biographies for me

Right now I'm reading Popcorn by Ben Elton. I'm not done yet but based on what I've read so far I'd recommend it.

I love Stephen King's novels.
Right now I'm almost finished with the "30 Days of Night" series of novels, tho... I put aside "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for them.

One of the top 10 books I've ever read as far as entertainment, quality, and message. It was is just simply brilliant.

I need to read a book.
While I was recovering I read The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. It's about when her husband died and her daughter was sick.

I also started Reading Lolita in Tehran, it is a slow read I am still working on that one little by little.

I read the new one by Anne Rice Angel Time. It was interesting, I am looking forward to more in the series.

my top 3 favorites in fiction:







all 3 are spectacular books that i have read numerous times

^^ I'm supposed to be reading "The Hours" to teach in Contemporary Lit. I just started it.

chocolate1 said:

it's fantastic. one of the few books that ever made me cry.

cborgman said:

puleez. you cried reading an Archie comic book!

BlackAdder7 said:

Man, that time Betty got stood up again by Archie had me bawling like a newborn.

meow85 said:

Veronica definitely had the money, and the vixen looks, but Betty had the clean scrubbed tomboyish quality. Betty deserved better

chocolate1 said:

I think I'm going to get Just After Sunset later this week

Nelson Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom"

Eldridge Cleaver's autobiography, "Soul on Ice"

Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (about how the US Gov't screwed the Native Americans out of their land, tribe by tribe)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's, "This Side of Paradise"

Fantastic!!!





and my standby...

i read this good book, like in a couple hours called

maybe tomorrow by jay little, it was written in the 1950's and its pretty rare,i found it via another library

baroque said:

and i also finished reading this book called pulp friction. which was like a book on the history of gay pulp stories. it was pretty awesome. i like reading alot about gay history. i would major in gay history if i knew they had a major for that. i am so interested in it.

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz

I started reading Looking for Alaska by John Green.

It's really funny

Alej said:

Shame - Salman Rushdie (bloody genius)

BlackAdder7 said:

Elvis cole series... By Robert Crais

Cole is "the worlds greatest detective (or so he says) with a kick arse ex cop/ex marine side kick Joe Pike...a man of few words who you wouldnt want to meet in a dark alley.

I started the series at LA Requiem (book 7?), loved it, and went and bought the entire back list.
http://www.robertcrais.com/novels.htm
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my favorit 25 books of all time, in no particular order:


wurthering heights - emily bronte
midnights children - salman rushdie
journey to the end of the night - louis ferdinand celine
melodies - helmut krausser
the island of the day before - umberto eco
the master and margarite - mikail bulgakov
dead souls - nikolay gogol
night - edgar hilsenrath
the bell jar - sylvia plath
house of leaves - mark z danielewski
the plague - albert camus
my name is red - orhan pamuk
nostromo - joseph conrad
the brothers karamazov - fjodor dostoyevski
madam bovary - gustav flaubert
blindness - jose saramago
the ghospel according to jesus christ - jose saramago
the moor's last sigh - salman rushdie
elementary particles - michel houellebecq
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradburry
the old man and the sea - ernest hemmingway
the sun also rises - ernest hemmingway
la pianiste - elfride jelinek
the arrival of joachim stiller - hubert lampoo
gstaad 95-98 - marek van der jagt
the assylum seeker - arnon grunberg

there's something there for everyone, i guess. i've read a few books
in my time but any of these, i feel, i'd be able to read again and
again at least 10 times in a row. they're all just very very special.

vivid said:

i love all of rushdie's work. i've read them all 2 or 3 times
by now. i love magic realism. and he has written some of the
very best of that ever. the only one i didn't care for all that
much was his latest "the temptress of florence"

I love Anne Rice

and I love Charlene Harris the sookie stackhouse novels

insatiable3 said:

Those books fly off the shelves

its amazing what a tv series does for a book series

IstenSzek said:

I've only read Shame and Midnight's Children. Both brilliant. What did you make of the Satanic Verses? I've always wanted to read that.

anything by Neil Gaiman comes highly recommended from me. :]

vivid said:

my personal favorite is probably still "the moor's last sigh", there was
just something about that story and the brilliant characters that stayed
with me very long. i have the constant urge to take it off the shelve to
read it once again, even in favour of new books i got.

"the satanic verses" has some crazy good elements but it does tend to go
off into 'weirdness' that is a bit mind bending at time.

but as a non muslim, it was hard to see exactly which elements of the
book so many people got so incredibly upset about. there are no insults,
at least not overt and plain insults. it's all a parabel (is that the
right way of saying it?), a fairytale if you will. i'm sure that if my
knowledge of muslim religion were more extensive i would be able to
pinpoint which characters were somehow a take on it or so but as i'm
not, it's just a very enjoyable and good book.

the opening scene is one of those images that will remain stuck in your
head forever.