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Mike
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 Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: Suggest your top reads!? |
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| I've won a few gift certificates to chapters coles etc. and I would like to purchase a few books.... any suggestions?I'm not into any fantasy novels....If you dont know what to suggest list your top 5 novels... thanks!The last novel i read was No Country for Old Men, i enjoyed it... |
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whiteharleytrike
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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| how about john grisham, roberrt b. parker, erica spindlar and j.a. jance. |
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ck1
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| My favorite novel is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. As far as only another four favorite novels, I would have a really difficult time choosing because I enjoy so many different authors. (I love many books that are considered classics of literature like those by Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters, for instance.)One of my favorite modern authors would be Dean Koontz. I've loved many of his books like Odd Thomas (and the rest of the series: Forever Odd, Brother Odd and Odd Hours), Christopher Snow books (Fear Nothing and Seize the Night), The Face, Watchers, The Darkest Evening of the Year, The Taking (apocalyptic in nature) and From the Corner of His Eye.Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series is unique and really good. The first in the series is The Eyre Affair. It starts out in 1985 in England, but an England like nothing we've ever seen: fictional characters are being kidnapped right out of their books, real people can jump into works of fiction, literature is taken so seriously that there is a special ops section devoted to it and Thursday Next is one of the Literary Detectives and much more.Stephanie Barron wrote a wonderful series of Jane Austen mystery stories that were written as though by the pen of Jane Austen herself. The first is called Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor. I loved the series - 9 books in all.The Oath by Frank Peretti was a really good book. It's an unusual story and quite creepy in parts.I really enjoy Vince Flynn's CIA/special ops thrillers. They are fast paced and keep you on the edge of your seat. The first is called Term Limits, which has quite a twist on that phrase. The second book, Transfer of Power, begins a series of books with his protagonist, Mitch Rapp.I also enjoy Catherine Coulter's FBI mystery series which starts with The Cove. The Cove is an idyllic little town filled with, mostly older, friendly residents, but it has one problem: tourists who visit this place have the bad habit of disappearing without a trace.For general mystery stories, Agatha Christie can't be topped, in my opinion. Her stories like And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Cards on the Table, The ABC Murders, The Mousetrap (and more) are excellent.If you enjoy mystery AND the Medieval period, I'd recommend the Brother Cadfael mystery series by Ellis Peters starting with A Morbid Taste for Bones. They are both good mysteries and excellent stories.Though there are many more books and authors I really enjoy, I think I'd better stop before I write a novel-sized answer. I hope this helps. Happy reading! |
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