i LOVE everything David Eddings, his books are hilarious. you get some little gems of description, friends and enemies who are beleivable and books you can read again and again (i've only read the Belgariad and Malorean 20 times)
i'm into fantasy though i'm not ashamed to admit that i've read Pride and Prejudice so many times the book fell apart ( ) and a few other classic books
actually i lose count of the books i've read, mostly because every couple of months i have to empty off the book shelf and put a load up into the attic.
i'll also recommend the Bitterbynd trilogy, the ending of that makes me cry with frustration so you can imagine what it's like. i've read all of the HP's (book 5 burn in hell!) i didn't like what happened in the end of that, even if i did read it in under a day!
"I can't fix it, it's a lost cause. Maybe if you vomit on it, it'll fix itself!"
The Belgariad. Fantastic. Best book ever (well, best five-part book ever, but you know what I mean!). I was disappointed by The Malloreon - it didn't match up to the perfection of The Belgariad.
And Artemis - as a 20-times reader, you'll understand when I say that Silk's question, "Does bouncing count?" is one of my favourite ever lines. The first time I read it I nearly cried, I was laughing so much, and was still giggling over ten minutes later.
Pride and Predjidce is an excellent book but I prefer Emma.
Was trying to remember yesterday which other books I've read this year. Secret Life of Pi is excellent (I picked it up last year but didn't get round to reading it until Jan this year - it's funny and sad).
I've also recently read Enterprise: Shockwave (lousy) and Yellow Fever - the dark heart of the Tour De France (all about the infamous doped up 98 Tour)- how ecclectic is my taste in books!!
There is a really funny guy by the name of ROHAN CANDAPPA. He's written lots of really funny books about childcare but his best is a little book of stree which takes the piss out of The Little Book of Calm. It teaches you how to revell in stress and wind up others.
Try this one out...
"If your woman wait until you've been in a relationship a few weeks then ring up your boyfriend and say your period's late. This is best done by leaving a message on his answerphone..."
I can't comprehend how people managed to read the fifth Harry Potter in ONE DAY! It took me about three weeks! Were you all reading constantly, only putting the book down for occasional meals and toilet breaks?!
i'm a huge fan of Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire). i got ten of her books for my last birthday.
I'm also the person who keeps snapping up all those Startrek voyager books. I've got about twenty-five now and i've read them all at least three times. i'm so sad...
read a couple of buffy and stargate books too... not as much fun as watching the ass kicking and jack.
great big stargate fanfics by Vanessa Nichols - she's fantastic. if you like stargate and in particular Jack and Sam - go! go now!
And i'm the sad git who loves 'Heidi'. oh come on, it's a classic!
I think that's it.
I used to read a book a day in primary school, just couldn't keep me nose out. no wonder i was a nobby no mates... sob! lol
can't remember any of them now... except 'the wolves of willoughby chase'. i remember thinking it was the best book ever when i was eight but now all i can remember is the title... strange...
It's not that hard to read a book in a day, if it's a good book. I don't think I could read Harry Potter in a day. I have to break Harry Potter up with proper books (don't kill me HP fans...).
I'm afraid I'm one of those people who tends to read two or three books at a time. Right now I'm reading a Terry Pratchett ("Guards! Guards!" Jolly good, I always recommend Pratchett, read it like comedy and you'll love 'em.) and a Caroline Graham, one of the Midsomer Murders book (weird, but great). Oh, and I've just finished Michael Palin's 'Sahara', which I'm afraid I don't recommend. Some of his other books, great..go for it. But Sahara? No.
Oh! I just thought of another good, but hard to find, book. If you're at all interested in natural history or travel or like a good, funny read...find 'Last Chance to See' by Douglas Adams (it's not sci-fi, although I realise that's usually what Douglas Adams writes).
See a penny, pick it up and all day long you'll have....a penny...
quote:Originally posted by lady_macgyver: i'm a huge fan of Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire). i got ten of her books for my last birthday.
------------------------------ can't remember any of them now... except 'the wolves of willoughby chase'. i remember thinking it was the best book ever when i was eight but now all i can remember is the title... strange...
Which Rice books do you have ?
I remember The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase as well but I can't remember what it was about either.
Katerina, it took me ages to read Potter 5 as well. I just couldn't get into it. Possibly because it was too repetitive and totally tedious
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The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase was written by Joan Aitken. It was about an orphan called Simon who lived in the woods near a mansion. or did he live in the orphanage? cant remember. He had a pet donkey. I know this cause I read the second book about Simon, Black Hearts in Battersea. I won it at school and is one of my fave of all time - have read it so many times. Dido came after but Simon wasn't the star, it was all about someone he met in Black Hearts. It all ends happily as it comes to be that is the Duke of Battersea's long lost nephew or something. Ah the memories
Anybody read any Sophie Kinsella books? The shopaholic ones? Very very funny.
I've read 'Interview With The Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat' by Anne Rice, and enjoyed both immensely.
Yes Verno, I found HP 5 quite slow to get going, I think there were certain things that JK Rowling could have left out to quicken the pace of the book. I did still enjoy it, though!
I'd love to be able to read a book a day but sadly I have other commitments - maybe one day I'll get up to speed. Paulo Cuelo's the Alchemist was cool, that one took me about three days but I was hardly sleeping because I didn't want to put it down. And Clive Barker is good too, most especially 'the great and secret show;. I once read the autobiography of Ludovik Kennedy (On my way to the club) and found that really interesting. When he met his wife she was a prima ballerina but he had no clue and asked her to dance. He fully admits that he has two left feet and trod all over during the dance. He could not believe that she'd want to see him again, but she did and they married and had several children. The guy himself is pretty cool and did the 'prisoners of conscience' program a few years back, where he looked into individual cases of ppl who had been been wrongly tried for various offenses (without reliable evidence, or very little evidence at all) and some were thankfully let out of prison as a result of his program and his interest in their cases. I think that was very noble work.
quote:Originally posted by britishbecca: It's not that hard to read a book in a day, if it's a good book. I don't think I could read Harry Potter in a day. I have to break Harry Potter up with proper books (don't kill me HP fans...).
I'm afraid I'm one of those people who tends to read two or three books at a time. Right now I'm reading a Terry Pratchett ("Guards! Guards!" Jolly good, I always recommend Pratchett, read it like comedy and you'll love 'em.) and a Caroline Graham, one of the Midsomer Murders book (weird, but great). Oh, and I've just finished Michael Palin's 'Sahara', which I'm afraid I don't recommend. Some of his other books, great..go for it. But Sahara? No.
Oh! I just thought of another good, but hard to find, book. If you're at all interested in natural history or travel or like a good, funny read...find 'Last Chance to See' by Douglas Adams (it's not sci-fi, although I realise that's usually what Douglas Adams writes).
See a penny, pick it up and all day long you'll have....a penny...
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Jenna, i understand completely what you mean when you say: "does bouncing count?" the fact that i know most of that part by heart doesn't count.
did you ever read the Elenium or the Tamuli? Talan is one of the best characters Eddings has written, he never fails to make me laugh!
"I can't fix it, it's a lost cause. Maybe if you vomit on it, it'll fix itself!"
I havent read a book since the summer. I dont like to rush books too much though cos I always get a sad feeling when they end, does anyone else get that?
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Yes, if it's a really good book and I've finished the set, because Sci-fi and Fantasy normally come with more than just one (thank god!) What's even worse is when you really like the writer and you've read all of their books because sometimes it's not just the books themselves but the style and then you have to wait until they write something else, or, if they're dead, it's all gone! I think I'm welling up! I read so many books, generally this kind of genre but not normally the show books, like Buffy etc, but I read a couple of the X-Files ones a few years ago and they were quite good. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Books by Laurell K. Hamilton are absolutely brilliant. The kind of book you end up reading until 5 O'Clock in the morning becasue you can't put them down.
There are so many authors and books I don't know where to start! I am going to enter the halls of Incredibly Sad now but I'm a member of the Fantasy and Sci-Fi book club (fsf.co.uk) and so I get lots of discounts and offeres etc. You need all the help you can get when you read as much as I do because it saves cash and it's delivered to your door. I have so many books my room looks like a library so I've had to put them in storage until I find somewhere permanent to live. And before anyone suggests it, no you can't just use the library instead because being able to look at them is like being with old friends and you smile with the memories of a good read. One of the strangest, coolest, funniest books I ever read was Sceptisism Inc. (spell?) by Bo Fowler. It's written in the point of view of a shopping trolley and I'll say no more so as not to spoil it. If none of you have read any David Eddings, Anne MaCaffrey, Terry Brooks you should all do so now because they are some of the founding Fathers (and Mothers) of the Fantasy genre.
quote:Originally posted by nat66: I always get a sad feeling when they end, does anyone else get that?
Totally. If I have been really into a book I feel bereft when it ends.
I bought the new Stephen King (Wolves Of The Calla) today. I feel a bit guilty because it is a real extravagance. But I felt like treating myself and the nice people at Visa were more than willing to help out.
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) and a few other classic books 
I think I'm welling up!
