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Can you recommend a good book?

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Help, I am in need of something good to read!! I like mostly fiction books but am open to anything as long as it's interesting. My fav's are like romance, mystery, horror, suspense,.. etc... I just finished Michael Crichton (sp?)'s Timeline and really liked it. I am just kinda at a standstill and looking for some recommendations. Thanks for any and all suggestions :2razz:
 

Have you read any of Mary Higgins Clark's books? I love them all. They are all murder mysteries with some romance. I also like Sue Grafton--she does the ABC books (A is for Alibi). Those are murder mysteries. Sometimes she goes into too much detail, but she is definitely entertaining.
 

Anything by DeMille & Baldacci I would recommend. James Patterson has good books also, some made into movies... especially the Cross Novels.
 



I love MHC too! She is one of my all time favorite authors. I just finished "The Cradle will fall" about 2 weeks ago and I really liked it. She is a pageturner for sure.

I've seen those Sue Grafton books around but never really thought about them. I think though I will try her out, thanks
 
reaganburch said:
Anything by DeMille & Baldacci I would recommend. James Patterson has good books also, some made into movies... especially the Cross Novels.
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Never heard of the DeMille and Baldacci but I will go check it out. I have heard of the author James Patterson but nothing comes to mind that he has written. What kind of genre is it?
 
There are so many good books, it's hard to recommend one over another.
Based on your description of your literary tastes, I'd recommend Margaret Atwood, a lovely Canadian writer; start with Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, and then read The Handmaid's Tale.
Or, if you want something adventurous, one of my old favorites is The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux.
 
americanwoman said:
Never heard of the DeMille and Baldacci but I will go check it out. I have heard of the author James Patterson but nothing comes to mind that he has written. What kind of genre is it?
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Mostly crime fiction....

Kiss the Girls with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd was one of his books that was made into a movie. So was Along Came a Spider, that also was a Morgan Freeman movie.
 
Have you ever read any Martha Grimes murder mysteries, I love the way she writes? I think she's even better then MHC who I love.
 
Try any of the Jonathan Kellerman books. Crime/suspense/mystery with a psychological twist.
 
Or try Freedomland, by Richard Price. Psychological crime/drama novel.
I haven't read any of his other books (he also wrote Clockers), but I just read Freedomland a few weeks ago, and it was godawfully good. I'm going to get the rest of his books, as soon as I have some money.
 
Read...

"You suck, I don't". By teacher.

Paterson? Please. Oh, it's detective Cross, perfect father, cop and one man swat team. Can drive 100 miles, find a hiar, drive back, and pick a perp outta a train station at rush hour.

Word on the street is this is a political site, right?

Most important political issue that will come marching straight at you, soon?

AND you want a good read?

No way teacher you can tie the two together and come up with a book you say.

You'd be correct.

Got two for you.

"The Haj". Leon Uris.

"Whirlwind". James Clavell.

When you're done reading them and are on your way to understanding the stupid Arab mindset that is so important to oh so many debate topics on this site, lemme know.

And for some light reading...

"It's like shooting Fish in a barrel". By teacher.
 
For when you're done escaping from reality and reading fiction novals or had enough of Jackie Collins, I recommend:
  • Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, by Gerry Meander
  • In the Abscence of the Sacred (The failure of technology and the survival of the Indian nations), by Gerry Meander
  • Getting the Love You Want , by Harvel Hendrix
  • Legacy of the Heart (The spiritual significance of a painful childhood), by Father Frank Mueller
  • The Hydra of Carnege, by Craig Hulet
  • The Knight in Rusty Armour
  • The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
  • Stickman, by John Trudell
  • Were All Doing Time, Bo Lozoff
  • No one here gets out alive
And for when you want to get away from reality:
  • The Adventures of Don Juan, by Carlos Castenada
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
 
Yeager: An Autobiography (by Chuck Yeager)

He is the first pilot who flew in a speed higher than the speed of sound. Very interesting autobiography of his childhood in the country zone, his time as a pilot at ww2 and his life as a test pilot. I've read the book.
 
These are about as clichéd as it can get, but I would recommend The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath for the (imo) brilliant story and use of language. Also The Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger.

For more "modern" books, although the ones listed above are timeless, I highly recommend American Psycho and Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, and Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
 
Snow blind...
 
If you like Crichton and haven't read it yet, check out State of Fear
 
If you like some twisted, messed up horror/psycho thriller type stuff...I got the perfect author for you. Her name is Poppy Z Brite and she is from North Carolina. Start with her book "Exquisite Corpse"...but I want to be the first to get your reaction when you are done!!!

Joey
 

Poppy Z = cheeze-o-rama.

She's nothing but an Anne Rice wannabe (unless her other books are a whole lot better than 'Lost Souls', which was the only one I read or wanted to read).

re, the OP:

If you're looking for non-fiction, I can recommend a lot more; I thought you were only looking for fiction recommendations.
One of my favorite non-fiction books is called "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down", by Anne Fadiman.
 

Lost Souls? was admittedly one of her worst books but it was also one of her earliest. Drawing Blood was awesome but Exquisite Corpse was, by far, the best of her works...it just creeped me out altogether.
 
sextus - outlines of pyrrhonism
 
Scott Smith..."A Simple Plan"

Great reviews, a bestseller, and Stephen King says it's the best suspense novel since "Silence of the Lambs."

And this may sound corny to some, but I've recently discovered R.A. Salvatore...tremendous Science fantasy....great stuff...great escapism.
 

I love R.A. Salvatore's books. Drizzt Do'Urden was one of my favorite characters and I loved his last project The War of the Spider Queen.

The way I see it, most of what I have read in my life is what I was told to read for my curriculum (I have an English degree as well as a Zoology degree). If I want to indulge a bit of escapism and pleasure reading, I certainly deserve it at this point.
 
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