Book Recommendations

[riverman]

I loved Water for Elephants......my grandfather was a silversmith with Barnum and Bailey Circus his whole life and this painted a great picture of circus culture...great novel and I believe it was her first novel.

 

[PDXFonz]

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

 

[Stevenson]

The best dystopian book lately is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Not into young adult fiction, but nothing beats Holden Caufield.

 

[Stevenson]

I always like a good trashy novel in the summer and am reading Valley of the Dolls. Highly entertaining!

One of my faves otherwise is Confederacy of Dunces.

 

[riverman]

I always like a good trashy novel in the summer and am reading Valley of the Dolls. Highly entertaining!

One of my faves otherwise is Confederacy of Dunces.

Aztec by Gary Jennings....epic take on a journey of a scribe back through time speckled with eroticisms...guy travels all the regions and always gets the girl

 

[PDXFonz]

Do any of you use audible?

Amazons audio book service - for $14.99 a month you get 1 credit per month; which is good for the purchase of an audiobook.

I registered in April but haven’t been using it much, had 3 credits and ended up using one of them on another one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books, the other two I used to get the Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers (Didn’t know what to get and LOTR was the first thing that came to mind).

Would definitely recommend audible for anyone who likes audiobooks.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Do any of you use audible?

Amazons audio book service - for $14.99 a month you get 1 credit per month; which is good for the purchase of an audiobook.

I registered in April but haven’t been using it much, had 3 credits and ended up using one of them on another one of Robert Kiyosaki’s books, the other two I used to get the Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers (Didn’t know what to get and LOTR was the first thing that came to mind).

Would definitely recommend audible for anyone who likes audiobooks.

I recently listened to Dune and it's sequels on audible. Highly recommend.

Also lots of libraries these days will rent audiobooks through apps for free of course, if anyone is looking to avoid paying another monthly subscription.

 

[crandc]

I have always disliked people reading to me and still do.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I have always disliked people reading to me and still do.

Its wierd huh?

 

[Orion Bailey]

The dragons eye by stephen king. one of his only fantasies and its pretty good.

 

[Hobbesarable]

The dragons eye by stephen king. one of his only fantasies and its pretty good.

That Dark Tower series by Stephen King is also pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books:
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

 

[Orion Bailey]

That Dark Tower series by Stephen King is also pretty good. I thoroughly enjoyed the first three books:
The Gunslinger
The Drawing of the Three
The Waste Lands.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

What did you think of the movie?

I liked the drawing of the three book the best, though its been 15 years since i read them. Lol

You a big stephen king fan? Ive got alot of older books and most movies on dvd. Let me know if you wanna borrow next time you are over.

 

[Hobbesarable]

For sci-fi geeks like myself:
Isaac Asimov's Robot Books
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles
Michael Crichton - Sphere
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (the movie "Bladerunner" is based on this book)
Robert L. Forward - Rocheworld (fantastic Hard Sci-fi)
Walter M. Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Clifford D. Simak - Cemetery World

For those horror fans:
John W. Campbell - Who Goes There? (the movie "The Thing" is based on this novella)
Stephen King - The Mist (the movie is based on the novella with a different ending!)
Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (one of my all-time favorites as a youngster)
H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
Richard Matheson - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (the Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner and the Twilight Zone: The Movie Segment 4 with John Lithgow is based on this short story)
Richard Matheson - I am Legend (3 movies are based on this novella)
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - The Relic

Historical Fiction:
Michael Crichton - Eaters of the Dead (the movie "The 13th Warrior" is based on this book)
Dan Simmons - The Terror (the Television Series Adaptation is based on this book)

Nobel Prize:
William Golding - The Lord of the Flies

Other:
Douglas Preston - Jennie (book about an orphaned chimpanzee learns ASL American Sign Language to communicate and is raised by a family of 4 with 2 small children)

 

[Hobbesarable]

What did you think of the movie?

I liked the drawing of the three book the best, though its been 15 years since i read them. Lol

You a big stephen king fan? Ive got alot of older books and most movies on dvd. Let me know if you wanna borrow next time you are over.

I haven't seen the movie yet. I heard it's a big disappointment with Dark Tower fans. Have you seen it?

Yeah, I am big fan of Stephen King. Thanks for the offer to borrow books and movies. We will have to hang out again when we both have time.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I haven't seen the movie yet. I heard it's a big disappointment with Dark Tower fans. Have you seen it?

Yeah, I am big fan of Stephen King. Thanks for the offer to borrow books and movies. We will have to hang out again when we both have time.

Absolutely.
You can borrow the movie and then we can discuss.
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