Any fellow bookworms out there?

[rosepetal77]

Who are some of your favorite authors and what are your favorite books? I love classic literature and murder mysteries. A few of my favorite authors are Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Jane Austen and more modern authors such as Dean Koontz, Mary Higgins Clark and Anne Perry.

[Tanya40]

I am a bookworm myself.  Maybe a book addict.  I am a mystery fan and really enjoy authors from what they call the "golden era"prior to and including WWII.  Some of my favorite authors from this period are Margery Allingham, Georgette Heyer, and JS Fletcher and of course Agatha Christie.  It is hard to find books by some of the authors but I have had some good luck at 2nd hand book shops.  The modern authors I  really enjoy are Tasha Alexander, M.C. Beaton, P.D. James, Martha Grimes, and Carola Dunn.  I really like Anne Perry as well.  I  am really looking forward to winter coming on and having a weekend or two of being snowed in with a few good books.

[rosepetal77]

I forgot to mention Agatha Christie. I've never read a book by her that I didn't like. I also like the movie adaptations with David Suchet as Poirot.
What's your favorite Anne Perry series? The Monk series is my favorite but I also enjoy the ones with Pitt.

[Nyxienoodles]

Heck yes.  I have so many books I have run out of space.  They are now being stacked in the hall.  I'm investing in a B&N Nook for Christmas this year. 

[rosepetal77]

I have the same problem. They just keep piling up! I'm also looking into getting a nook for Christmas.

[paularodney]

Is any one available to talk right now-- need to talk

[frazzle]

Reading David Sedaris right now, titled "When You Are Engulfed In Flames"
put it aside for awhile and have picked it back up.....love his writing style...knows how to tell a story in a humorous and sarcastic way.

The other one I read of his was "Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim"

Great for a pick me up, and escape into a lighter mood...

[Carryon]

Love to read. My favorite current author is Richard Ford and now dead William Manchester. I buy more books than I can read because I like to be surrounded by book. I have a library that is full. I can't read as much as I would like to because I have tinnitus which can interfere and because I may nod off into a nap while reading at home after which I usually feel iky (nap not worth it) for an hour or two and the tinnitus is loud (very common with tinnitus). So I tend read in restaurants and cafes, usually with an MP3 player stuck in my ear. I could put the music on the Nook but that's work and my music is in WMA format which I does not support, and the Sansa player fits in my shirt pocket anyway.

I got a Nook and thoroughly love the thing, even though many of the books I like (own but haven't read) are not available. I've been indulgent to the point of buying books for the Nook even though I have the hard copy, knowing that I way I will read it. I am currently reading "Einstein" and "The Lay of the Land" on the Nook and recently finished "Better to Never Have Been Born", a most interesting argument by a philosopher on humanity's future.

I also subscribe to magazines and papers but don't read them as much as I used to. I just the expense as supporting places for authors.

[Cuchculan]

Don't think I have been without a book in my hand for over a year now. Lot of biographies and auto-biorgraphies. Bob Marley, Ozzy Osborne, Tito Ortiz, Forrest Griffen ( one amusing book), Rubins Carter ( People may know the song the hurricane by Bob Dylan and the film as well, based on his story ). Then I read a lot of Irish history and modern day troubles in the North of Ireland. Only fiction I have read was The Lost Symbol ( Dan Brown ) and The Kite Runner ( Also made into a film ). Guess you could say my reading styles vary. Like true crime and the paranormal as well. Won't say I have a favourite author. But if I was to pick anybody it would be Emily Dickenson and her poetry. I love to read her work. When you consider it was written so long ago. It still holds its own today. She was a depressive and was going insane. Which made her work very dark and morbid at times. One amazing writer.

[Lucid]

Anything from the Book of Exeter to fantasy.Terry Brooks,Piers Anthony,David Eddings,Robert Jorden are a few of my favorite authors.Pretty big into history also.I really really enjoy reading.If I can't get my hands on a book,I will read the back of a cereal box.:-)

[WineKitty]

I just started a book called "The Tortilla Curtain" and so far its great. :)

[PurplePain]

I love reading and it takes my mind off of a lot of things too. At the moment I am really enjoying The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and have just bought The Fall which is the second one in the trilogy. I like thrillers and mysteries, humorous books and autobiographies but will give anything a go really

[rosepetal77]

I read the Tortilla Curtain as well. It has a very interesting ending....

[colliedog]

I love my books. I always have. I always have a book whereever I go. Some of my favorite authors are Kathy Reichs and Daniel Silva. I love the Gabreil Allon series by Daniel Silva.

[jmc981]

I like Philippa Gregory. Historical novels.

[karadee]

LOTR trilogy

[Susanna]

My love of books drove me to a career in being jobless or underpaid all the time publishing. I graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, which for me means a lot of English and American literature, which I love. I read both classic and contemporary authors, among my fave: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Coe, Scarlett Thomas, Stephen King, Ruth Rendell...

[GenSec]

I love to read quite a lot and always have - probably too much! But i struggle to read fiction books, even when i start one i rarely am motivated enough to finish it. History and old ideological/political works are my favourite. Currently i am reading "The People's State" by Mary Fulbrook, which is actually quite good as far as the literature goes concerning East German history. My favourite author though has to be Karl Marx..... pure genuis and head and shoulders above his later followers. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" and "The Civil War in France" are pinnacles of historical account and polemical writing, admitted as such even by many an anit-marxist academic historian. However try as i may i cannot today find a copy of "The German Ideology" by Karl Marx anywhere.... it seems to be out of print. 
His colleague Friedrich Engels is not bad but nowhere near the level of Marx (which he openly admitted himself), my favourite work of his is "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific". I read so much of Marx and Engels when at university and continue to read them to this day. You could spend your lifetime reading through their Collected Works!

[s3ptember]

I LOVE reading too. Although, my taste seems so different from everyone else that posted on here so far! I don't have a favorite author per say, expect maybe Nicholas Sparks, but I enjoy series, trilogies, fiction... :)

s3ptember

[Lanie]

My New Year's resolution is to read more. I'm out of college now and I don't need to read anymore of those time consuming textbooks

I used to read alot as a child and teen - fantasy/adventure, nonfiction crime, religious, classics, some ancient history and mythology (Italy and Greece mostly), etc etc. I loved to read and I'd like to get back into it! So I'm getting a library card next month and I'm going to become an avid reader again

[camel]

Hi everyone

I read every day. Its like escapism. I really really enjoy anything by Terry Pratchett, and I read them over and over again. Also Kathy Reichs.
Thank goodness for libraries. I could never afford to buy the amount of books that I read.

Hope everyone is well 

[Carryon]

Owning a Nook has exceeded my expectations, a reader who enjoys having a libary and a book to touch.

The Nook makes it simple to have read anywhere., carrying you library with you. I especially the ability to switch between books.

With the wireless version, you can search for a book anywhere and buy or add to your wish list for a future purchase/download.  There are hundreds of free and nominally priced older books and classics.

BN recently introduced the color Nook.  However, it has much shorter batery life, up to 8 hours, while the black and white orignal Nook can run for more than a week without recharging, as is easier to read in bright light.
Those are major negatives in my opinion. The color Nook is targeted to color illustrated kids books and magazines. The serious reader should stick with the original Nook.

[Kafka]

Ive got a good list of things im reading. Im currently reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. I like a lot of his books and am fairly close to reading every novel he has written.

After that in no particular Order
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
The Brothers Karamazov- Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
The Recursive Universe- William Poundstone
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas.

[ZivaD]

I prefer nonfiction. I'm currently reading The Scriptural Roots of Catholic Teaching.

[Kafka]

Sounds like an interesting book Ziva. Itd be cool to see what happened during the Dark Ages to the bible.