How many stoners here are active readers?

That's odd... I remember waiting for sos to come out, but it didn't bother me that much... I think because of her style of writing, each book had more of a solitary feel then a series normally does.

Oh see.. actually writing that reminded me of exactly why it didn't bother me.... you could cut each book to 2/3 or less, if you took out the references to the other books in them... In each book, she goes to pains to repeat earlier books to lay out the foundation of the current one...

 

i think part of why i was upset was that i was younger, i started on VoH when i was 12, found it in the car during little bros tball/ baseball game. mom shouldnt have left good reading material laying around... but it was the first series that i had to wait for a book to come out, which was frustrating, but from 96-2002 is a loong time for a girl to wait, and while most of her books tie up satisfyingly at the end, PoP does NOT! sure, they get there, but then the book ends without touching on much. theyve been travelling a year, Ayla is newly knocked up, and then the book was over. and then i thought there wouldnt be another. so age probably had something to do with my frustration. cant wait until the next one is out, my mom said this time we'll just buy two instead of trying to share, but we both read so fast its not that hard to share either.

 

I like reading about random shit. So the internet is a gr8plaze4me<3

 

yeah i've had several different people tell me King's writing is brilliant and try to get me into him, but I find his writing style rather bland. Its always the writing style that draws me. The story could be great but if I don't like an author's writing style I'm not going to bother.

I think stylistically my favorite contemporary writer is Cormac McCarthy. Now that is one brilliant writer.

 

god this thread is to me what the real kinky forum is to normal people. i get off on some books man.

 

I read a lot. Two good books I've read in the last 2 months or so are "The Book of Negroes" and "The Shipping News".

 

I have the same with Terry Goodkind. And also with the Pern series I'm afraid.. I did like the setting very much in the last one though.

Of course the writing style is pretty important how much fun it is to read but with fantasy the setting can make the difference clearly for me as well. I love Robin Hobb's settings for instance, Tolkien of course (there are many similar fantasy settings of other writers which don't do the same trick for some reason, well perhaps because it's may be perceived a bit like a rip off unconsciously altough if it's well done I don't mind another fantasy world with orcs, dwarfs, elves and humans ), George Martin, Robert Jordan (btw, this guy died before he finished his series ), Katherine Kerr, etc. :2thumbsup:

 

Why do you think the best part of the book is called the climax?

 

I am an avid reader. These authors I buy as soon as a new book is released. I will read others inbetween.

Jeffery Deaver, especially love the Lincoln Rymes series
Minette Waters
Patrica Cornwell, especially Scarpetta series
Harlan Coben, my all time favourtie author. Love his Myron Bolitar character and side kick Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood III. They are not what you expect if you have not read one of the books.
John Saul
Robin Cook
Sue Grafton
Dean Koontz
Clive Cussler
Bill Bryson
John Connolly
Tess Gerritsen
James Patterson

 

I like these ones too....plus

michael Connelly
John LesCroat
and my all time favourite...Carl Hiaasen

 

I like to read. I'm taking a lit class this semester, which will mostly comprise my non-scholastic reading. It's good stuff though, Tolstoy, Doestoevsky, Turgenev and a less renowned Russian author called Goncharov

 

He did, but the series is finished/being finsihed...

 

Philosophy of Religion by Gary E. Kessler is a good book.

Its more factual and makes you question. Not a novel but points out so much that I believe everyone has a question to.

Had to read it for a college class while back.

http://www.bookbyte.com/1/1/36272-philosophy-of-religion-toward-a-global-perspective-by-kessler.html

 

i vaguely remember reading the shipping news in high school. I think I'm thinking of the right book. It takes place in Newfoundland and is about a single dad with daughters right? I've always meant to go back and read that now that i'm older.

yeah I have issues with other fantasy novels. I'm obsessed with LOTR but I was never able to get into other fantasy, everything I've tried to read just seems like it rips LOTR off..which I'm sure is not entirely the case, I just need to give the genre more of a chance.

The Handmaid's Tale was really good, I enjoyed it.

I often find myself judging people on whether or not they put reading material in their bathroom. If I go to someone's house and find absolutely no reading material in the loo my opinion of them goes down a bit lol

 

not a book reader but i do read about stuff online.mainly anything to do with fixing or modifying cars.but i will read anything interesting especially titanic research.huge titanic curiousity.

 

That is the one - it won the Pulitzer for fiction in the early 90s.

If I can make one recommendation for you, read this:

http://www.amazon.ca/Golden-Spruce-Story-Madness-Greed/dp/0676976468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295421745&sr=8-1"]The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed: Amazon.ca: John Vaillant: Books

I can almost guarantee you would like it.

 

Something in one of the reviews on Amazon made me think of Jon Krakauer, anyone ever read any of his books? He wrote Into the Wild, which was made into a fantastic movie. My favorite book by him is Into Thin Air. He just happened to be doing an Everest exhibition for Outside magazine during what turned out to be Everest's most deadly season ever, so he turned it into a book. He has a way of writing that draws you completely into the setting; I felt chilled to the bone for days after I finished this book. He also wrote a great journalistic account of the Mormans called Under the Banner of Heaven.

 

I've read Wild and Thing Air as well, plus a couple shorts (one about putting up a FA on the Devil's Thumb in Alaska). I also know a couple guys that have met him - and apparently he is a kind of a dick in real life. That may just be hearsay though.

 

I think that's only logic, since lots of other fantasy series and their worlds and races are obviously influenced by Tolkien. And if it isn't the setting, it's the approach of good vs. evil and giant battles (this is what I get instantly bored of in new series, I like 'grey' characters and setting, not black and white as is often the case in fantasy). Some writers manage to pull it off with no problem, others are terrible annoying in their unoriginality. I had this for instance with the Shannara books as well, which are also glorified by lots of peeps as one of the best fantasy series. Ah well it's all personal of course in what makes another book with elves, dwarfs and humans fun or lame. At least it feels great when you discover a series which seem really original. Although there probably are still a lot more great ones around there I still always gets a bit suprised when I discover that I'm reading something equally great as Tolkien or other favs

 

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