Hiya LCB’ers,

I don’t always have the time to sit down and read a book. But when I find a book that interests me I can’t seem to put it down til I have read it from cover to cover. My favorite books are inspirational.

Amongst my favorite books are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is a inspirational book about a journey and following his dreams…… “And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have on meaning.”

The other book is The Holy Man. It’s about pilgrims who wait in line for days to seek answers from the holy man at the top of a mountain. Along this journey encounters with people who wait in line and the wisdom it sends to the reader.

The grandmother who never receives thank you notes from grandchildren, the man whose jealousy is all-consuming, the alcoholic, the veteran who can't forgive himself for the loss of life he contributed to during the war, the impatient woman, the self-absorbed "famous person" all of these characters and many more make up a cast of incredibly human individuals. Readers are sure to see a bit of themselves or someone they know within these brief chapters.  It’s a little book that sends a Big message!!

What are your favorite books?

Lips

Right of the top of my head....hmmmm

Love in the Time of Cholera, Prince of Tides, The Great Gatsby, YES lips The Alchemist!!!, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, oh...I dunno I have tons. 
My mom is reading The Woman with the Dragon Tatoo...she can't put it down so its next on my list.

My favorite childrens book is " I Am A Bunny" by Richard Scarry.  My favorite adult series is the vampire series by Stephanie Meyers. No I do not want to be bit on the neck but the love story is fantastic-lol.

I love horror novels. Read just about every Stephen King book there is. I am also very much in nonfiction history. Speaking of children's books, my all time favorite as a child was Charlotte's Web. I must have read it a hundred times.

Hi wmmeden,

I love Stephen King's movies but never read his books! One book i remember i had to read in 8th grade and it was one of my fav's "The Outsiders". That was the only book i read from cover to cover in school.

Lips

i love neck bites...maybe i am a vampire...hehe 

Funny you should say that about The Outsiders. I happen to be from Oklahoma.

sportsbook 

without remorse by tom clancy

Too many to count but if I have to choose one it would be,Demianby  Hermann Hesse and another would be, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë...I think I was 13 when I read these books and fell in love with... Now I love reading books by Anita Shreve-Resistance, Fortune's Rocks, The weight of water...

Who here likes to curl up and read a good book?

I do. I love James Patterson, his books are amazing. I am looking forward to getting his latest and having a good read.

I sometimes can finish an entire book in a day.

Who is your favorite author?


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You have GOT to read his books, for the most part his movies do not translate well to the big screen with a couple of exceptions,Shawshank redemption, The Green mile, Carrie,Christine, I have read almost all of his books and am a serious fan.
The 5 people you meet in Heaven, Manchild in the promised land, Autibiographies and as a child my favs were The little house on the prairie series, The Strawberry patch girl, The Boxcar children, Encyclopedia Brown, Henry Huggins, Beezus and Ramona,and The Borrowers

romance books jude deveraux is my favorite author

Thats my Moms favorite too.

Ahhh yes The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. Also wrote That was then, this is now. Great books.


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I bought a set of books over a year ago, bought them for a friend.. things happened and the books never got delivered to them.. BUT.. i pulled out the the seventh series and began to read it..

They are in paperback.. but there was 3 novels written, the series i beleive is 32 Books, first coming out in 1988

These are fantasy books with everything in them..

Piers Anthony - Dragon on a Pedestal is the one i started with.. #7

There was trouble in Xanth again, all kinds of trouble, in fact. The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget whorls that wandered about giving amnesia to all they touched. Good Magician Humfrey might have had the Answer, but he had overdosed on water from the Fountain of Youth and was only a helpless baby. And Ivy, three-year-old daughter of King Dor and Queen Irene, was lost in the jungles south of the Gap. While Irene sought her without much hope, Ivy was wandering further into danger, her memories ereased by a passing forget whorl. Her path was leading her directly for where the Gap Dragon was seeking dinner.

Summary:
There's trouble in Xanth. A dragon has been terrorizing the vicinity of Castle Zombie, yet Good Magician Humfrey has issued dire warnings against harming it. And an inexplicable, invisible wave of amnesia appears to be sweeping away the memories of countless citizens.

This urgent state of affairs brings King Dor and Queen Irene, along with their 3-year-old daughter, Ivy, to Castle Zombie for an emergency conclave of Magicians.

Humfrey offers his colleagues some surprising and grim news: the rampaging beast is none other than the Gap Dragon- whose survival is essential to Xanth's security. The amnesia, he reveals, is the unfortunate result of miniature forget-whorls that have spun off the Forget Spell.

Dor and Irene, deeply concerned for all of Xanth, are suddenly absorbed in another, more personal dilemma. For a Zombie who has rescued Ivy from a dragon attack has stumbled into a forget-whorl and can't remember where he left her!

Now the frantic Irene must search the wilds of Xanth and find Ivy before she's discovered by one of the land's deadlier inhabitants. It is a search complicated by Ivy's own magical talent, nobody is aware of- especially the young princess herself.



Now i have not read them all but from what i understand in these books everything is in them, based alot mainly in fantasial.. midevil times, from drama to comedy, from romance to sex, from love to hate and back again, heroism to exile..much more.. words and characters i could never dream up!

I am a reader, my mom was a reader, so I would read her books as a kid.  Now I have refined what it is I like more and it varies.  I love Kay Hooper, a new one I love is Keri Arthur with the vampire/wolf series.  It's awesome.  I love mysteries, but fun light stuff too like Janet Evanovich.  I tried to read 'Clubbed to Death' by a series author who writes lighter mysteries, and couldn't get past the first chapter, got bored too easily.  I love the Alphabet series, her latest U is really great.  You can see her writing improve over the years.  I have read Stephen King, but I think some of his best writing is his book 'On Writing' where he talks about how he writes, and his personal life, about being a junkie and alcoholic etc.  I just read Wicked last week even though I didn't want to, but it was pretty good!

Those books look FASCINATING to me Imagin.ation, I'm still grieving the loss of a WHOLE box of Nancy Drew mysteries I had as a kid, I think they were lost in a move, they were hardcover and I read them all. Me Natalie was good, and the ORIGINAL Wizard of Oz books are very Sci-fi and different from what we grew up with.
I was a bookworm too and if my parents knew that I was reading some stuff beyond my years...oh boy. But no porn just more adult topics.

I just read



It was awesome. Great Book....I couldn't put it down.



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Gonna start this one today, I hope it's just as good.






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Some of my favorite reads:






I like all of Tom Robbins' books.  He's crazy funny and very insightful of the human condition.







Happy Reading!

Good book, I couldn't put it down



Started a new one today...1/2 way done with it..LOVE IT!



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Finished 7th Heaven, started 8th Confession, so far so good.




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someones a speed reader 

LOL I love to read, so when I get into a good book it's hard to put it down, plus James Patterson is my favorite...I love him. He is always putting out new ones....I have read every book he's put out.


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Oh my,Rena...she is one of my favorite too and if you like her style, you will love my favorite...........................JUDITH MCNAUGHT

Paradise/Almost heaven/A kingdom of dreams/Perfect-my favorite-/Whitney my love/Until you/Remember when/Night whisper....so many to list all...

Anyway, my favorite book which I first read when I was 8 and read probably 20 times more over the years...makes me cry every time I read it!!!

I enjoy a good tabloid magazine from time to time
They're perfect for me, mostly pictures and all the good stuff is in the captions 

LOL One of my friends emailed me this




Love it!


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My real name is Omarie.  There's a ook out there, Stories Out Of Omarie.
I didn't particularly like it,it's kinda foreign-ish, and the stories were pretty good.
My favorite book is The Dragon Who Liked to Spit Fire.  I remember always laughing and leaving off the word "fire".
I used to read ALOT. Was reading college level when I was 7. For many years now I haven't cracked a book open at all.  Don't know what happened to me.
There is one author, Stephen R. Donaldson, who wrote a series -The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.  I fell in love with the land and the giants, and the ur-viles and even Lord Foul.  You may even see me online under the name Fleshharrower.  Gee, it's been like 30 years since I read that series and I really don't remember reading much after that but have read some parts of some books about Texas I inherited from my mom.

Mommy I LOVE James Patterson .He's one of my favs and I could read one of his book in a day too...can't put em down. I also like Patricia Cornwell!!

I just read I, Alex Cross...really good...8th Confession wasn't the best, but it was still good..Looking forward to his next one.




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Flight...another great book by one of my favorite writers, Sherman Alexie

a fun and fast read... about a throwaway kid name Zits.  Half-Native American, half- Irish, an orphan since the age of 6, Zits is a self-proclaimed blank sky, a solar eclipse. He inherited his mother's green eyes and his father's acne. At 15, he has lived in 20 different foster homes, gone to 22 different schools and owns just enough clothing to fill a backpack.

Despite the naughty man being locked up - Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel and Not a penny more not a penny less - both published in the 70's but not read by me until a much later date.  Fantastic books - don't get time to read anymore though. 

Hmm... I read a lot and I would recommend Pilgrim, Timothy Findley, that's one of my favorite books. In short, Pilgrim can't die even though he kills himself over and over again. He's sent to a phyciatric hospital to be under the care of Carl Jung. It's a historical fiction, fantasy.... really good.

And another book, a must-read in my opinion,  is The wind -up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I don't know, the book is simply a masterpiece.

the stand was a great read but very long book

 

Stpehne Hawking.

The Grand Design

 

 

A Briefer History of Time

 

 

Little bit from Stiven King

(all books i'm readed in Russian lang) sry for my fair English ;D i'll improve it.

 

 

i use to  love to read gone with the wind and stephen king. now though i never read but love the movies of steven king. and real life movies. there is a movie about everything anymore.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. If you need some inspiration or you lost your faith in love or family, this book is for you! It is about important values we tend to forget. 

My favourite novel which was also the only novel that I finished is called Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

The main reason why I like this novel is because I had to do a book report on it in high school and I feel that I was able to learn more about the plot and characters then the average reader. I learned a lot of lessons from reading and studying this novel and Irecommend it to all audiences.

To be honest I'm not a fan of reading books, I prefer watching films based on books, it's easier to follow and much shorter.

My favorite author is Victor Pelevin. I can`t choose one best book, they all are good with specific charm.

Hart to me to name just one book, my favourite writers are Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly, so I like this kind of stuff.