What do you like to read?

[MystiRose]

I did some searching, but I wasn't able to find any topics about reading recommendations. I can't be the only one around here who likes to read. There's talk of books that became movies in the TV and movies subforum, but that's the best I can find. So I'm curious what everyone likes to read. Favorite book? Graphic Novel? I'll even settle for audio books =)

My all time favorites
Enders Game (the entire series is pretty awesome)
The Relic
Life of Pi
Mists of Avalon

I haven't picked up a good book in a while so I'd love some reading recommendations! I feel a trip to the library is imminent.

 

[nancy_raygun]

I finished Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and I loved it. Of course, it sounds cheesy, and it kind of is, but I liked believing that Lincoln being a vampire hunter and that sort of helped fuel the civil war. It made it sound so much cooler.

Right now, I'm reading The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. It's a fantasy murder mystery and it's very different. A boy leaves his small town to go find his fortune in the city. He runs into the city, but it's inhabitants are toys (and some nursery rhyme characters). He eventually volunteers to help a teddy bear solve a serial killer case.

Other recommendations: 'Fool' by Christopher Moore (think 'King Lear' but 100X more entertaining), the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer, 'His Dark Materials' by Phillip Pullman, 'The Dresden Files' by Jim Butcher, the Redwall novels by Brian Jaques, and ANYTHING that Neil Gaiman touches. I may be biased, but that man is one hell of a writer. I suggest a really awesome book that he wrote with Terry Pratchett (another literary God) called 'Good Omens'. Read it. READ IT!

 

[AllisonWilder]

I like who-dun-it type books mostly, but I have a love for the written word something fierce, so if it catches my attention, I'll read it without bias.

I'm currently reading A Place of Execution by Val McDermid and I'm not really far enough in to know what it's about other than it's loosely based on a true story about a missing/possibly dead teenage girl. I'm also reading What To Expect: The Toddler Years but I don't recommend that to anyone since it will likely make you feel like a parenting failure.

My all-time favorites:

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
The Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman

I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot, but I read upwards of 40 books a year, so I'm bound to miss some that I would proclaim my love for.

 

[SatanJonez]

I love the bizarro genre.

Motherpuncher
The Faggiest Vampire
Piecemeal June
Help! A Bear is Eating Me
Annndd most of the short story collections.

Besides all of that this past year and currently have read...

Breakfast of Champions
The Eden Express
2br02b
World War Z
The Zombie Survival Guide
So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead

I like weird, horror, bizarre or any combination of the three.

 

[mynameisbob84]

I like to read crowdcaming's business proposals :?

 

[Mirra]

I like a lot of different stories. I used to be big into reading in middle school but my enthusiasm for it fell off for like... a decade. Since getting my Kindle for Christmas, I've started reading a lot more As far as things I've read recently there's been a few Star Wars novels, Dead America: A Zombie Novel by Luke Keioskie, The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen, the Righteous Series by Michael Wallace (though the 4th book in the series comes in October), and, thanks to the HBO special prodding my interest, (though I should have listened to AshaSnow so long ago apparently) I've read the first 3 books of a Song of Ice and Fire and am working on the 4th now.

The biggest thing tying them all together is being Fiction so yeah.

 

[Rose]

I read everything from horror and murder stories to historical romance and all out smut novels. Right now I'm currently reading The Zombie Wilson Diaries and it's just fucking awesome. I was reading Lords of Rainbow, but I got a little bored and didn't have the time to really focus on it. Once I finish the Zombie Wilson Diaries I'll probably try to finish Lords of Rainbow.

 

[MystiRose]

ANYTHING that Neil Gaiman touches. I may be biased, but that man is one hell of a writer. I suggest a really awesome book that he wrote with Terry Pratchett (another literary God) called 'Good Omens'. Read it. READ IT!

I'll have to look into this, can't turn down a Neil Gaiman recommendation. I'm not familiar with a lot of his stuff, but I had an ex-BF who was obsessed and I couldn't hate on any of it.

Zombies seem to be a recurring theme in reading material. Are we learning how to avoid the apocalypse, or preparing for the aftermath? lol

 

[GreatDane]

I have been reading the George R.R. Martin series... you may have heard of it... Game of Thrones (Better than the HBO series if that tells you anything) have also liked reading most of Devon Monk's series http://www.devonmonk.com/ for some fun reading.

 

[MystiRose]

Is it sad that I've only heard of Game of Thrones because of this website? :? When I first saw the title I assumed it was just a video game and moved along. :lol:
Now that I know better, I'll have to check it out.

 

[GreatDane]

Is it sad that I've only heard of Game of Thrones because of this website? :? When I first saw the title I assumed it was just a video game and moved along. :lol:
Now that I know better, I'll have to check it out.

was recommended to me by one of the girls at MFC, and I have been enthralled with her ... I mean with her choice of reading material they are not short books by any means but they are fun. there are 5 books in total but I am waiting to purchase them all for later. Love the library for having them all in when I am wanting them. (Multiple copies at the branch I go to)

 

[Lintilla]

If you recognize my name then a) you are a huge nerd (my avatar might be more easily recognized?) and b) you can probably guess that my favourite author is Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams was a big fan of P.G. Wodehouse (the man behind Jeeves and Wooster), and so am I. Their writing, despite completely different subject matter, is actually quite similar. They were both experts in the use of similes and metaphors. Everyone quotes the Hitchhiker's Guide line "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." For Wodehouse I think people usually offer up "She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when'." (Occurs to me just now that this was stolen a bit in the movie Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang... "She poured herself into a seamless dress... from the looks of it she spilled some.") I'd put Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut and Woody Allen into the same category of clever folks. Always looking for more, but just can't find much to compare. And don't tell me Terry Pratchett. Felt like I should like it, tried it, tried it again, and I'm just not into it. But if you've got other suggestions, gimme!

Other than those two I'd have to give you a very long list. I read a lot. And I read anything. I tend to prefer great prose to sticking to a particular genre, but if I could have it both ways I suppose I like sci-fi the most. I grew up with walls of bookshelves double-stacked with sci-fi. Mostly stuff like Herbert, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke...

Currently I'm reading Infinite Jest (have been for seemingly forever, it's non-short!), I'm halfway through the Ender's Game series (again), and I was in bed all day yesterday feeling crabby and reading some YA urban fantasy vampire crap (because I'm a horrible person and deserve to be punished? Or I'm just lazy... this summer is too hot!)