Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. My husband and I got ourselves all the Harry Potter books for Xmas, and we are reading them together. What this actually means is that I am reading them out loud, which is fun. I can see why kids like them so much, and they’re accessible to adults, too.
You know, I want to have kids so that I can share my favorite books with them.
I love the Discworld books, and Barbara Hambly too. She’s formula, but she tells stories well.
When I need something more substantial to sink my teeth into, I read Anthony Trollope. It’s surprisingly good beach reading.
David says:
It’s interesting that you feel that way; I prefer the ones that do that simply cause I have a hard time following novels that not only create a new world (no problem) but also a new language (big problem). Plus I like the idea of the unexpected in life. I find it distracting to have to turn back and forth to the dictionary/appendix at the back of the book to try and figure out a word. Kind of makes reading stop-n-go. That said, I am going to tackle Tolkein one of these days for the most part cause everyone who does read him, loves him.
Woody Allen – biography by John Baxter – I love Woody’s movies, and have consciously avoided knowing anything at all about his personal life (as if that were possible) for fear that I would like him much less as a person… Just started the book, we’ll see what happens
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – actually started this one about a week before he died, but when you’re always reading a bunch of stuff, these things take time. Don’t much care for the writing style, although a lot of it is brutally funny
Our Dumb Century – The Onion – our favorite fake newspaper goes retro, showing fake news stories from the last 100 years. I’m only up to 1912 thus far, but it is great. (WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR HITS ICEBURG)
Raymond Carver short stories – read them, re-read them, re-re-read them… This guy could say more in five pages than many writers got out in a lifetime
I’m reading Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad. It’s sci-fi in that it assumes slight advances in technology, but it’s nothing we can’t do already (exceptthe immortality… but we’re close on that one). Basicly it’s about a very influential talk radio host who is offered immortality in exchange for his help in breaking it to the public that they can only perform the immortality procedure on a thousand people a year. It has one of my favorite quotes in it, which would have been my new sig, but I forgot it while I was changing.
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There’s a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but not all of them will bring you lasagna at work. Most just cheat on you.
Fatal Cure by Robin Cook.
I have read it about 2 times before, and haven’t been able to get to the bookstore.
There’s something about the HMO conspiracy theory that keeps me hooked.
My all time favorite book is Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It’s about the good and evil in the face of disaster (no need to give out the plot) check it out. If you like horror based books, this is the book for you.
Ohmigod! I love Swan Song! I read it once when I was about fourteen, and once again two years ago. My favorite post-apocalyptic book ever. (I was going to say the best ever, but then I realized that I haven’t read that many…) I especially like the bits about Job’s Mask.