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calling all bookworms....

Just started reading Homeland The Legend of Drizzt, Book I by R.A. Salvatore. It's pretty good, I hadn't been able to get into any of his other books I've tried but might have to get the other books in this series. I only got Homeland because it was briefly free on Kindle yesterday.
 
Tavia said:
Just started reading Homeland The Legend of Drizzt, Book I by R.A. Salvatore. It's pretty good, I hadn't been able to get into any of his other books I've tried but might have to get the other books in this series. I only got Homeland because it was briefly free on Kindle yesterday.
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I read that one, and then the next 2 or 3, after that is gets kind of monotonous and silly.
 
Hey Outcast and Tavia,

Please do not make fun of the books I read. The author typed them very slowly so I could reads them because he knows that I do not read fast.

Please remember that some people need predicable story line like fat people who eat and eat and eat ect ....

Sorry, I just needed to stand up for books that I like.

Love the Fatman
 
Fatman608 said:
Hey Outcast and Tavia,

Please do not make fun of the books I read. The author typed them very slowly so I could reads them because he knows that I do not read fast.

Please remember that some people need predicable story line like fat people who eat and eat and eat ect ....

Sorry, I just needed to stand up for books that I like.

Love the Fatman
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My problem in those books is that R.A. Salvatore is too attached to his characters. It is hard for me to read a book like that.
 
I look at them like Lord of the Rings were none of the main characters die.

I do understand your thinking. I was just harassing you about those books.

Love the Fatman
 
Lol, I know.

I do like some books where the main characters don't die, but some of them make you think they will die... Salvatore's writing is really predicable and I always know that drizzt is going to win.
 
Last few in approximately retro order :

The Greek Treasure (Irving Stone)...about Heinrich and Sophia Engastromenos Schliemann.
The Snake Charmer (Jamie James)...about Dr. Joe Slowinski, herpetologist.
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman)
The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope)
The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman)
In Search of Lost Time/Time Regained (Marcel Proust)
---vol. VI
---vol. V
---vol. IV
---vol. III
---vol. II
---vol. I
The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman)
The American Senator (Anthony Trollope)
Orley Farm (Anthony Trollope)
The Eustace Diamonds (Anthony Trollope)
Illusions perdues (Honoré de Balzac)
La Cousine Bette (Honoré de Balzac)
Le Père Goriot (Honoré de Balzac)
Last Tales (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
Winter's Tales (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
Seven Gothic Tales (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
 
Eric, you read real literature! Troloppe, Balzac... I haven't read anything serious in years unless it was work-related.
 
Most of the time I can't stand "real" literature....I never liked any of the books I was made to read for an English class in school except maybe Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird. Those two were okay, but not my favorite books by far. it never helps tha twe have to pick them apart after we read them. I always appreciate a good story, but I hate trying to find every little reference slightly alluded to in subtle metaphorical ways. It just kills the enjoyment I got out of the story and turns it into work.
 
I just started two series that are quite good so far. One is The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan. I'm on book 5 of that one. The other series is the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold.
 
Right now, Dante Alighieri's Inferno. It's been sitting on my shelf for four or five years. It's more of an exercise...with notes and footnotes and essays and references.
I hope I don't run out of steam before Purgatorio and Paradiso. How could paradise be more fascinating than the many layers of hell?
 
After watching the movie I am rereading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the third time(My goal is to read the series 5+ times read them all twice and a few 3 times). When ever I have time than to just read a few pages I work on writing my book.
 
I go through bouts where I will read everything in sight and then where I can't get into even the best book. ( Something definitely Freudian about that! I would LOVE to get that fixed to reading non-stop! ) Right now I'm in the non-reading phase. GRRRRR!

I mostly like fantasy. In high school, I used to read a fantasy book a week. I'd like to get back to that.

I can't read LOTR anymore because I've got parts of it memorized I love it that much. I LOVE the Drizzt series but I do get tired with 2 things in R.A. Salvatore's work: Its "dove" not "dived" and its all about Drizzt. But then even the character himself gets kinda fed up with that.

If you like horses but get fed up with fantasy writers not knowing a damn thing about them when they include them in a story, read Kirsten Britain's "Green Rider" series. This gal actually knows what she's writing about! ( Ever tried to catch a horse that doesn't want to be caught or dealt with a slipping saddle when you don't have time??? Its in there! )

I've written a vampire novel that's stuck in limbo right now. Its finished and I've even gotten a few rejection letters on it! ( That's a good thing. ) It was probably rejected because it badly needs proper editing and I'm having a ton of trouble doing that myself.

But at least my vampires don't sparkle!

Devon
 
My English teacher told me that they are turning away vampire novels in droves. And, in fact, have actually started telling people not to write them anymore. LOL
 
Yeah, I think there are just too many of them right now....they made an entire section called "Vampire Novels" (or something with Vampire in it) in the teen section in Barnes and Noble.
 
ugh. i watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the theatre 2 nights ago, and there was a preview for ... some movie... can't remmeber. it was obviously by the director of Twilight, and it had to do with Warewolves. so, no thanks lol

the Vampire thing is definitely sickening me now haha.

i have asked my boyfriend for a Sony eReader for Christmas, so hopefully he follows through!

i have a giant list of book si wanna read, though unfortunately i'm on a non-reading spree right now too. the last book i finished was When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. i loved it! i'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love (i'm not sure why though)

it's totally not my style but it's somehow comforting at the same time. haven't picked it up in days, though. next on my list is another by Chuck Palahniuk, "Haunted"
 
I just got done reading a great book called Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir. It's about Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for a whopping nine days in 1553. Alison Weir does a beautiful job and follows history as faithfully as possible. Of course, she added a few flairs where information isn't available. I ended up crying. It's really a great book and I'm going to get all of her books when I can.
 
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