Books

la-henry

Just wondering what books (if any) people like to read. I'm into more of the fantasy type. Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (RIP), Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, anything by R.A. Salvatore, the Mistborn series and Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, the Halo series, and Hithikers Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

madurofan

I've heard great things abou Wheel of Time. I'm not much of a fantasy reader usually. TYpical John Grisham, Dan Brown kinda guy. I am reading Gamorrah By Robert Saviano true Naples mafia stories.

urbino

urbino

la-henry:

Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

My older brother used to read a lot of George R.R. Martin. Can't remember any of the titles, though.

urbino

urbino:

Right now I'm re-reading Moby ***

Ha! It filtered out the second word in the title. Hilarious. Anyway, it's the one about the white whale. cackle

madurofan

You can't even type Moby ***? What is this world coming to!

urbino

kuzi16

madurofan

urbino

Yeah, I totally understand why they do it. If I ran a forum, I'd probably do it, too. It just has funny side-effects sometimes.

Scrambler

urbino

Isn't his son a novelist, too?

Scrambler

j0z3r

urbino

j0z3r:

I've wanted to settle down and read The Great Gatsby again... that seems like it would be a good cigar book.

Definitely.

madurofan

Scrambler:

2 months before his death he blamed his failing health on "the idiocy of cigars inhaled".

I agree that inhaling cigars would not be advised.

rdnstn

I have a wide range of stuff I like. Of course there are the old standbys like everyone else, Dan Brown, John Grisham, and the like. I also really like Dale Brown if you haven't read any of his stuff. Mostly I like military fiction and some history. I also read anything that remotely involves scuba diving like Shadow Divers. Right now, I am reading a book that was written by one of my SCUBA instructors. It's kind of rough because its his first book, but pretty entertaining. Especially since I know the guy. You can see a lot of his personality in the writing and the characters.

madurofan

I keep picking up Dale Browns books and going wow a new Dan Brown. Then realizing its not Dan I set it down, maybe I'll actually buy the next one I pick up.

rdnstn

Dale Brown is not near as intellectual as Dan Brown or Dean Koontz, but he is still entertaining. My stepfather turned me on to him and he found him in much the same way you did except he actually bought the book before he realized it.

madurofan

Thats cool. Thats what I like about Grisham, don't get em wrong I like an itellectual book also but sometimes I want to read a good story that I don't have to think about what I'm reading.

zacharyp

Good choice of books. It's a real shame Jordan didn't live to finish his epic series of novels. And Salvatores Dark elf books hold a special place in my home library. As for other books, I found this one blog a few weeks back called "100 books every man should read".~google it and you'll see. In it were classics as recent as only a few years ago, going as far back to biblical and even greko roman times.(books like Lord of the Rings, Biography of Teddy Roosevelt, Plato's republic, King James Bible, Brave New World etc..) Taking the advice of the reviews I just recently read Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", amazing book btw, and have just recently started Earnest Hemingway's "For whom the Bell Tolls".

urbino

Sounds like a fun list, zach.

Matt Marvel

I enjoy reading Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, and Louis L'Amour. I'm looking at reading some of Kurt Vonnegut's works, but I'm having trouble finding his books. I'm going to have to order off the internet.

j0z3r

Bad Andy

I have been listening to some audio books in the last several months, I prefer them, I just read to slow and my mind wonders. The last I two finsihed though were by Malcolm Gladwell. Interesting books on how the mind works. I've also listned to some 'Why Marines Fight', decent but I was expecting a little more. I started listening to 'One Bullet Away' a month ago while traveling across the desert by helicopter, still need to finish that one. I prefer nonfiction and mostly history. I am actually reading the New Testament and slowly making my way through The Moses Code.

madurofan

Still Reading Gommarah but I'm almost done and about to pick up McMafia I think.

Matt Marvel

urbino

Matt Marvel

That sounds like something I would love Urb. I'll have to check that out. A little tid-bit about "The Moon is Down", it's the novel that inspired the idea for the movie "Red Dawn".

urbino

la-henry

I've just started to read the Vampire Chronicles by Anne rice. (the books that the movies Interveiw with a Vampire and Queen of the Damned are based off of)