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Post by lrthunder on Jun 6, 2012 12:09:22 GMT -5
What other books series/authors do you like to read?
Currently, I'm reading Tom Clancy novels, reading "The Cardinal of the Kremlin."
I'm also a big fan of Star Wars novels with my favorite SW novels being "The Thrawn Trilogy" by Timothy Zahn.
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Post by Serena R. Snape on Jun 6, 2012 12:16:21 GMT -5
I'm currently rereading The Da Vinci Code, then I'll start reading Angels & Demons and then The Lost Symbol. I love Dan Brown's work.  I'm also a huge fan of Nejka Omahen's works - she's a Slovenian author that writes amazing stories! |
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Post by ShotgunWilly on Jun 6, 2012 12:19:00 GMT -5
I read almost exclusively fanfiction, but when I do read other books, it's usually one of David Weber's Honor Harrington books, Robert Jordan's WoT books, or a Tom Clancy novel (I really like Executive Orders and its prequel and sequel).
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Post by Point Given on Jun 6, 2012 12:24:56 GMT -5
I used to like Tom Clancy when he wrote about the Cold War, but with the exception of Rainbow Six, he's really really bad at writing about other global events, particularly his Debt of Honor/Executive Orders/The Bear and the Dragon trilogy. I liked them enough when I was younger, but he has a pretty bad grasp of foreign affairs and motives.
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Post by Serena R. Snape on Jun 6, 2012 12:42:57 GMT -5
True, I'm also an almost exclusive FanFic reader ever since I found fanfiction. But I still read other books sometimes. That's how I found Percy Jackson books and Dan Brown's works. |
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 6, 2012 14:25:12 GMT -5
Apart from fanfiction and HP, I really love the Dark Heavens Trilogy by Kylie Chan (up until recently it was only published in Australia but is starting to make it's way into the UK and maybe US?).
It's about Asian Gods and martial arts mixed with a type of energy-based magic and demons. SU-HUPER cool!
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Post by codygotkilld on Jun 6, 2012 14:29:08 GMT -5
Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros series, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series, Brain Jacques' Redwall series, H.P. Lovecraft, David Moody, and a whole lot of others.
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Post by Trilonias on Jun 7, 2012 0:21:40 GMT -5
Harry Turtledove's Alternate History series, Robert Jordan's WoT series, Robert Asprin's Myth series, his Phule series, and the Dragons series that he started but never got to as he died(someone else is putting his notes together), John Moore's books, Anne McCaffrey's Pern books(Well, some of them, anyway), Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Some of Laurel K. Hamilton's stuff, Gail Carriger's Alexia Tarabotti series, Alan Dean Foster's Damned series (OLD), KE Mills and her other alias(forget her other name) books, Peter David's Apropos of Nothing series, Lois McMaster Bujold's stuff and geeze I can just keep going...
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Post by queenguin on Jun 7, 2012 0:38:29 GMT -5
Apart from fanfic, I enjoy Jules Verne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Matthew Reilly, James Patterson, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Enid Blyton, and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer. I love all the pre 1950's detective stories- Maltese Falcon etc; the Alex Rider series, by Anthony Horowitz and CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore I used to enjoy as a teen and sometimes enjoy re-reading them. Treasure Island (RL Stevenson), anything by Mark Twain, Dracula, 1984, some of Anne Rice's retellings of fairy tales, Hans Christian Anderson and Grimm Bros fairy tales, many of the novel/ stories from the original Gothic era- Edgar Allen Poe for example.
Umm there's probably a few more but nothing I can think of right now.
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Post by mountaingirl777 on Jun 7, 2012 1:41:14 GMT -5
I'm a Christian and I love books by Robin Jones Gunn, Frank Perretti, Karen Kingsbury Francine Rivers, Lori Wick and Jesus Freaks series. I also LOVE the books that says "brides" in it, they are Christian romance stories and usually are three or four small stories, each is a different girl and sometimes the girls are related in some way. (e.g. California Brides, Alabama Brides, Renaissance Brides, Brides of Mexico, ect.)
I also like Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins and the books Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights. I used to read Twilight, but the movies ruined it and I don't have the desire to read them anymore.
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Post by Marwana on Jun 7, 2012 10:09:20 GMT -5
On the moment I like: Rick Riordan, Sir Arthur Connan Doyle, Paolini, Lewis and a bunch of others. I have to much books to remember them all^^
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 7, 2012 10:36:02 GMT -5
There was one book I read when I was younger that I would love to find and read again called The Sight which was about a pack of wolves, one of which I think was a seer. Don't remember the plotline too well but it had a sequel Fell. Those were pretty good. I've read the Twilight Saga, Inheritence Cycle, Some of the Wolf Brother series, Darren Shan series and some of his Demonata series but I grew out of them. Chinese Cinderella I read years ago and now I can't rind it anywhere to reread it.
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Post by Serena R. Snape on Jun 7, 2012 11:05:53 GMT -5
I remember reading White Fang when I was ten... It was a good story.
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Post by basketsarah120 on Jun 11, 2012 5:35:56 GMT -5
Besides FF. I like to read anything written by Harlan Coben, The Hunger Games, and the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer.
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Post by Ithiarel on Jun 11, 2012 5:42:35 GMT -5
Book series? Well, I read Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. And I'm fond of Jonathan Howard's "Johannes Cabal" series. Other than that, though, the content of my bookshelf is very much patchwork.  |
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Post by Kitty279 on Jun 11, 2012 5:49:06 GMT -5
J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte MacLeod, Rita Mae Brown and Dorothy L. Sayers are some people I can always read and re-read. And the earlier Diana Gabaldons. Otherwise, I just pick this and that, often not a particularly author, but based on the story.
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Post by basketsarah120 on Jun 11, 2012 5:50:45 GMT -5
The Harlan Coben books do have a series I read  . They were the Myron Bolitair series. That's the book series that got me into mystery. |
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Post by Strange Hearts on Jun 11, 2012 11:17:21 GMT -5
Outside of fanfiction, I like to read the Twilight series, Harry Potter series, Percy Jackson series, Kate Daniels series, Argenaeu series, Chronicles of Prydain series, and the Night Huntress series. For independent books, I like almost anything by Christina Dodds, Victoria Alexander, Susanne Enock, Jude Deveraux, Lindsay Sands, Jeaniene Frost, and Katie MacAlister.
Oh, and one of my favorite books to read a lot is Girl, Interrupted by Suzanne Kaysen.
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Post by codygotkilld on Jun 11, 2012 14:46:27 GMT -5
I'm a Christian and I love books by Robin Jones Gunn, Frank Perretti, Karen Kingsbury Francine Rivers, Lori Wick and Jesus Freaks series. I also LOVE the books that says "brides" in it, they are Christian romance stories and usually are three or four small stories, each is a different girl and sometimes the girls are related in some way. (e.g. California Brides, Alabama Brides, Renaissance Brides, Brides of Mexico, ect.) I also like Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins and the books Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights. I used to read Twilight, but the movies ruined it and I don't have the desire to read them anymore. I'm a big fan of Frank Perretti also. I especially enjoyed reading Monster and the Oath due to his excellent use of suspense. |
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Post by Spaz86 on Jun 11, 2012 15:34:32 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series. Starts with "Enders game" really good sci-fi. Read it in High school and have loved it ever since. I like quite a few of the authors already mentioned so I'm not going to repeat them, but I didn't see this one. I also like the Sherlock holms series. |
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Post by basketsarah120 on Jun 11, 2012 17:56:40 GMT -5
Strangehearts do you read Twilight fanfiction?
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Post by overcastcrystal17 on Jun 11, 2012 18:36:36 GMT -5
Outside of fanfiction, I read classics like those of Jane Austen, and I also love murder mysteries, primarily Kathy Reichs, the hit forensic anthropologist that inspired the show Bones on Fox, It starts With Deja Dead, I believe. Other than that, I like to pick up individual books if they look interesting, and there are so many works that I have yet to read. The Lauren Kate series I have yet to read, so I don't know if it actually good or not, but it looks interesting.
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Post by Strange Hearts on Jun 12, 2012 15:44:58 GMT -5
Strangehearts do you read Twilight fanfiction? Read and Write it. Why? |
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Post by basketsarah120 on Jun 12, 2012 17:19:41 GMT -5
Was just interested, because I do it too . |
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Post by kumainpink on Jun 12, 2012 18:41:03 GMT -5
The Secret Circle Series, by L.J. Smith
A Stir of Bones, by Nina Hoffman
The Snow Was Black, by Georges Simenon
The Wicked Years series, by Gregory Maguire
The Dating Game, by Danielle Steel
A Child Called It, by Dave Pelzer
The Good Guy, by Dean Koontz
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
These are just a few of the books I like to read. I have nearly a whole library in my house lol. Okay...not really a library, but I do have two bookshelves and the second one is nearly full.
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Post by G. Novella on Jun 12, 2012 21:27:27 GMT -5
Starting to read the Dune series.
Also, anything by Alan Moore that I can get my hands on. The man's a genius, albeit a dark one. Wait, do comic books count? Because they're kind of my obsession at the moment.
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Post by codygotkilld on Jun 13, 2012 0:04:21 GMT -5
Has anyone else read the 30 Days of Night book adaptations? For a former comic book series, these books are quite chilling. The Twilight vamps wouldn't stand a chance against these monsters.
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Post by Marwana on Jun 14, 2012 14:19:55 GMT -5
I never managed to get very far in Dracula. The writing style just... well it just wasn't my style^^
Have you guys ever heard of 'Crusade in Jeans'? (It's actually a Dutch book but it's a great read.)
About not my style: I sometimes really wonder how people can like Twilight, but that's just me... I'm more of the fantasy/gore/ adventure type of person.
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Post by Silvertongue on Jun 14, 2012 14:28:03 GMT -5
My mum just bought the Hunger Games series all for just £5. I will bet around to reading them eventually but it probably won't be for a while.
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Post by G. Novella on Jun 14, 2012 14:53:13 GMT -5
It's a great series! You'll probably enjoy it, fleshes things out a lot better than the movies.
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. They were the Myron Bolitair series. That's the book series that got me into mystery. 
