What to read |
Author: Carl Purdon (---.static.networktel.net)
Date: 07-15-08 13:59
I just got back from the bookstore and couldn't find anything that struck my interest (that I haven't read). I'm not into sci-fi or fantasy or horror. The last book I really loved was "Pillars Of The Earth" but I ditched another Follette book after the first chapter.
I'm looking for some well-written mainstream fiction that I might learn a few tricks from, or at least get inspired by. Any suggestions? Maybe something someone here has written that I could find on Amazon....
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Re: What to read |
Author: Sail Away (---.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net)
Date: 07-15-08 14:24
Why not check out your local library? Many libraries have summer reading clubs. You might enjoy those choices.
-SA
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Re: What to read |
Author: Carl Purdon (---.static.networktel.net)
Date: 07-15-08 14:31
My kids are adicted to the local library and attend a weekly reading club there. I have this thing about keeping my books after I read them. Even my wife doesn't understand it....I just like to keep them.
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Re: What to read |
Author: Christopher Chance (---.range86-139.btcentralplus.com)
Date: 07-15-08 14:52
Hi Carl,
you may find some new tricks and a bit of inspiration from non-fiction, especially in the true-crime genre. There's nothing wrong with keeping your books mate... lots of us do it.
Regards, Chancer.
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Re: What to read |
Author: Sail Away (---.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net)
Date: 07-15-08 14:54
My kids are adicted to the local library and attend a weekly reading club there. I have this thing about keeping my books after I read them.
Well, what's keeping you from buying the recommendations you find at the library?
-SA
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Re: What to read |
Author: Patrick Edwards (63.240.53.---)
Date: 07-15-08 16:05
A few good books I know....
The Corrections (Jonathan(sp?) Franzen)
The Long Walk (Stephen King)
Black Boy (Richard Wright)
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies (June Casagrande--one of our own; this is more than a trade book--it's also very fun)
Mixed Angela Nissel
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Re: What to read |
Author: John D (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: 07-15-08 16:18
The problem is that the current crop of agents, editors, and publishers are illiterate morons who can't tell good writing from bad. So they keep pushing out crap, hoping some of it will stick.
Sad, very sad.
I'm glad I'm retired and no longer have to put up with this.
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Re: What to read |
Author: Lily (---.net)
Date: 07-15-08 16:39
"I have this thing about keeping my books after I read them."
This is natural, they become part of our consciousness. Represent part of our history. Sometimes we like to glance back into them, rediscover what we were like back then.
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Re: What to read |
Author: L C (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 07-15-08 20:49
I used to keep all my books. I've been in a decluttering mode for the past few years, though, and I now regard books that I'll never read again as just clutter.
Last month I gave away 15 boxes of them. Hardcovers, paperbacks, all read just once and in excellent condition. I'm glad to have the space back that they took up.
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i agree |
Author: Linden Holidae (---.254.220.136.Dial1.Denver1.Level3.net)
Date: 07-16-08 03:32
Yea, i am finding the same thing, there's a lot of crap out there, and i wonder, how do the publishers make the money on so many crap novels? so i joined a couple of book clubs outside of the library. I am in a classic one, and a new release novel. The good thing is that as i get to know the people there, i come to find that some of them think the way i do, and if they recommend a book to me, they're usually right on. Maybe you should find one to join outside the library... these are fun.... or start one of your own... ;)
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Re: i agree |
Author: Carl Purdon (---.static.networktel.net)
Date: 07-16-08 08:35
I love non-fiction, Christopher, especially history and biographies, but it doesn't inspire me to write the way a good novel does. I also favor the classics but the writing style is so different than what sells today.
My problem is I can't find anything recently written that grabs me. I agree, John, there is so much crap out there.
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Re: i agree |
Author: Sapphire Savvy (76.251.180.---)
Date: 07-16-08 10:12
Pillars of the Earth is one of my absolute favorite books. No other Ken Follett is quite like it, so quit looking there. Here's other good stuff...
Bitterroot Landing by Sheri Reynolds
Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
The Fourth Queen by Debbie Taylor
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Goldin
Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delany
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
Patrick: Son of Ireland by Patrick R. Lawhead
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
A Silver Thread of Madness by Jessica Salmonson
The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert
Meridon by Phillippa Gregory
Sexing the Cherry by Jeannette Winterson
Gifts of Blood by Susan Petrey
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Passion by Jeannette Winterson
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Wild Gratitude and Other Poems by Edward Hirsch
Kev and Me and The Book of Frank by Simon Black
Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
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Re: i agree |
Author: Jackie Lynch (---.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)
Date: 07-16-08 13:23
I read about 2 books a week - off for the summer, and The Alienist by Caleb Carr was so good. It is a historical thriller about the first serial killer in NYV - read it in 1 day. I recom. it to everyone.
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