• hinana said on Nov 04, 2007....

  Ive read only one book in my whole life that really really touched me, and ive read ALOT.

  its called 'what happened to lani garver' ..i dont remeber the author...but i honestly truly loved that book..

• the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 05, 2007....

  My favorite classic is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I can't think of a better example of humanity set down in ink.
  
  One series I re-read upon occasion, for reasons that shall remain my own, is Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane series. It's not about the dragons so much as it is about relationships and the true origins and nature of what some might call magic.
  
  I loathe Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Ugh. What a waste of paper.
  
  Oh, another good one is the Rhapsody series by Elizabeth Haydon.
  
  ~Infernal
  

• silverwhisper said on Nov 05, 2007....

  books that had a large impact on me:
  
  the three musketeers, alexandre dumas, and its sequels.
  the catcher in the rye, j. d. salinger.
  
  i've read anne rice and after a while, concluded that i just don't like her. to me, she and william gibson have the same flaw: they construct interesting worlds, but they don't explore them in ways that i find compelling.
  
  ed

• rupert7 said on Nov 05, 2007....

  I like Shakespeare but don't read much these days. What reading I do is pretty light. I like spy thrillers mostly. Can't say i have a real favorite.
  
  I am one low brow hombre!
  

• Mamie said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Fiction that I enjoy include authors Lisa Scottoline, Louanne Rice, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham
   
  New age authors that I find interesting include: ilanya Vansant, Gary Zukav
   
  Timeless reads on psychology, etc: M. Scott Peck, Dyer, and Marianne Williamson. I tried to read The Course in Miracles and no can do.
   
  My book club just read Caleb Carr's The Alienist, a historical murder mystery set in NYC 1896. I am not a huge fan of this genre but my girlfriend is and I just wrote on a post it note to her last night, another one of those recommentded in a recent mag..."why mermaids sing" by Harris.. I read the review not the book.
  thats all I can think of right now! mamie

• destinydiva said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Illusions by Richard Bach  really opens your mind up, I love it and it defo changed my way of thinking  :-) xx

• skald said on Nov 05, 2007....

  Fallyn, I love books too and the serenity they give me when I sit alone in my room reading or lay in bed. The imagination goes anywhere and it´s just wonderful. Books are an other kind of medium. Not like films or TV. 

• Fallyn said on Nov 05, 2007....

  thanks hitana.
  
  infernal....my mother has read all of 5 books all the way through in her LIFE.....3 of them were the count of monte cristo.
  the wheel of time was the first non kid fiction i ever read.......maybe that is why it holds a special place in my heart.
  
  ed....i can understand that......for me...it's just pushing my own bounderies....though i think those bounderies have been pushed by her as much as is possible....and now i need something else.
  
  Mamie....i've read several of Joudie Picoult.......she's really intriguing.....i've found i can't put her books down...the human questions and what would you do in this situation are so gripping.
  
  destiny....i THINK i've read illusions......at least i'm familiar with it...it was my ex's favorite book.....maybe that's why i'm not sure if i've read it or not.
  
  skald.....books are how i keep my sanity when i'm hurting.....
  i read nearly all 30 some books by terry pratchett in a month when i was having a really hard time dealing with stuff.
  

• bloc said on Nov 05, 2007....

  walden - henry david thoreau
  cosmos and "billions and billions" - carl sagan
  

  the road less travelled - m scott peck

  the autobiography of malcom x

  1984 - george orwell

  ideas and opinions - albert einstein

  zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance - robert pirsig

  lot's of books by alan watts

  tao te ching

  
  

  I'm sure I'm forgetting some important ones.

• Fallyn said on Nov 05, 2007....

  that's quite a list.....i'll check some of them out.

• starchini said on Nov 15, 2007....

  Marc Leevy, If Only it Were True...i can read it over and over again.  It is just a wonderful story.  I never tire of it. 
  Also the book Lupe is wonderful.

• Fallyn said on Nov 15, 2007....

  neat.....i'll add those to the list! thanks!

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