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Archive through September 18, 2003

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Twinkie

Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 7:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reiki, I didn't even notice! I read all of the scifi books by the 3 authors I mentioned. Those are the best in the business. Some of Harlan's short stories just blew my mind!

Dj, I also love Patricia Cornwell books.

Denecee

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Readonly- my favorite Dean Koontz book is also "Twilight Eyes"! I have read it several times and will read it again.
I also love all his other books.

Meli456

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is easy...

White Oleander

My favorite, without a doubt! I even met the author, Janet Fitch and had my many times read copy signed by her. If you haven't read it, you should, but its not for the closed minded.

Also:

The Harry Potter series, of course.

Great Expectations

Readonly

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Denecee: I too love Dean Koontz books. Watchers and Strangers are two of my particular favorites in addition to Twilight Eyes. Dean Koontz was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania near where I lived when I was growing up. I feel like I have a connection. I think he often uses his hometown as a basis for his books and I can recognize that town in his descriptions.

Wink

Friday, June 13, 2003 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I read Dean Koontz for a number of years but I haven't read one in a long time. My favourite of his older books was Lightning. Loved the time travel.

Squaredsc

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i forgot to add roger zelanzy(sp)'s amber series and david eddings all of his books. i love sci-fi/fantasy and some mysteries and romance and of course anything with witchcraft and vamps and lycanthropes, etc. oh and ann rice is my fav too.

Twinkie

Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Square, did you read The Mummy by Anne Rice? I LOVED that book! I also loved the Lestat books and The Witching Hour and Lasher. I know at the end of The Mummy it is supposed to be continued but I have yet to see a sequel to that book and its been many years.

Squaredsc

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yes ive read them all. the only one i didn't care for was servant(sp) of the bones, was too slow. i also really loved the mummy. did you read taltos? it was after lasher. and i haven't seen a sequal to the mummy either and she doesn't mention it on her site.

Squaredsc

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ok i checked with her site which is a new one it looks like and she said she isn't doing a sequal because its been so long but she may write another book dealing with egyptians.

Twinkie

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, I loved Taltos. I so hate that she's not doing a sequel to The Mummy. I never even finished Servant of the Bones. It was just too boring. I have Violin but I haven't read it yet. Was it good?

Squaredsc

Monday, June 16, 2003 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
violin was ok, it too was a lil slow but it picked up. did you read blackwood farm? i think thats her latest and its one of the vampire chronicles and had my man lestat. great book. oh did you read merrick? she's also in it.

Jasper

Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris was a very good book, much better than either movie based on it.

Dean Koontz as well as John Saul, and their older books are the best.

Ric_Munoz

Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 4:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Living writer: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
Dead writer: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky

Adven

Saturday, July 19, 2003 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I tend to like escapist fiction: adventures, thrillers, mysteries, offbeat stuff. Five of my favorites would be:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Sick Puppy or Striptease by Carl Hiaasen
True Crime by Alex Klavan
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The World According to Garp by John Irving

Not1worry

Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 5:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Adven, I agree on Lonesome Dove. I could never, ever pick one favorite book, but that one would definitely make a list. I'm not a western lover, but I'll read almost anything of Larry McMurtry's. The last one or two in the Lonesome Dove series got really too gory for me. Have you read his latest, Sin Killer? I can't wait for the rest of the series.

One other that would make a favorites list is by Francine Rivers called Redeeming Love.

Adven

Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Larry McMurtry is one of my favorites, too, Not -particularly his westerns. I'm not a big fan of westerns, either, mainly because few in the genre are well-written. I also agree that the last couple in the Lonesome Dove series were not up to his usual standard, although he set the bar so high with L.D. that any sequel was bound to be disappointing.
Funny you should mention "Sin Killer". I've been waiting for the second one in the series to come out so I could read them both, back to back. I just noticed the second is now in the bookstore so I'm planning to pick them up this week.

Not1worry

Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Adven, you'll have to tell me what you think of it! I loved it as much as L.D. and was didn't want the last page to come. I read most of his novels, with a few exceptions. It's his style of writing that I enjoy the most. Both Dead Man's Walk and Comanche Moon, the L.D. prequels were both too bloody and gross for me. It's hard to read and wince at the same time.

Lizajane

Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Can't think of a favourite book of all time, but my favourite author is Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Micheals. As Elizabeth Peters she writes the Amelia Peabody mystery/archaelogy series and as Barbara Michaels she writes slightly supernatural thrillers.

Adven

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not, I finished Sin Killer last night. Loved it! Can't wait to start the second one.

Not1worry

Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Adven, The Wandering Hill comes next. It was terrific too. Those Berrybenders are nuts. I learn a lot of history from McMurtry sometimes.

Slothkitten

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi everybody!I'm a newbie at tvch..I've lurked this summer and recognize many of your name's...nice place you have here!Seamonkey,you've kept me so entertained and informed over at BB :.)

Here's a new writer(for me)I found this year,Kage Baker....she writes these book's about"The Company".The 1st one is..the garden of iden...it's a series...science fiction..well written and clever and funny...the company is in the future and has developed a way to make people immortal,they send them back in time to plunder the world of all it's lost goodies...everyone I've turned on to this series really enjoyed them.
btw-the future is so dull..it's illegal to smoke,eat chocolate,or worry..also she has a book of short stories about the company that ties some people together.

Adven and not1worry....i've read all of McMurtry's...love his westerns..if i remember right,he had a eccentric english bunch in commanche moon?i'm really liking the Berrybenders

Lizajane

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 3:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Slothkitten, welcome! That sounds like a series I would enjoy, I'll be looking for it next time at the library. Thanks!

Not1worry

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 5:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Slothkitten, I love your name!

Seamonkey

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Slothkitten, what a great name :) I catnap with my kitty, so I can relate.

Glad you got over here from BB.. I love TVCH because of all the nooks and crannies.

And of course I adore books and reading.

Hard to just have favorite books, but certain authors just make my heart leap when I see that the've written a new book.

Tracy Kidder: I have loved every single book he's ever written. He explores issues in such depth and with such attention. Non-fiction.

Anne Lamott: fiction and non-fiction. Love her.

Jonathan Kellerman: Enjoy his Alex Delaware series.

That's off the top of my head.. I'll probably come back.

In the past, each Anne McCaffrey book was a cause for celebration, same with Steven King.

Slothkitten

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOW! Thank you all for the welcome!

I'm brand new to computers AND typing..I'm finding it difficult @ times to get the words from my brain to my fingers,lol!
Then I am trying to be aware of online manners/etiquete..my spelling,oh my!

It's alot fun to be trying this brand new thing..exciting!

I'm a daily reader..LOVE books,got a couple going all the time...

Like alot of you, I love cats! Always have a couple of them,too,lol!
:.)Glad you all like slothkitten,my other name is Minxlouise..my youngest cats name..that name cracks me up!


Seamonkey..cant' wait to try Kidder and Lamont.
I just finished Wally Lambs-Couldnt keep it to myself-at yours and others sugg.....I liked it alot..painful to read...the idea of how writing can teach a person to cope and see ones life and free yrself..of course,every story is the writers own story..this writers program is so worthy..I do love non-fiction.

Yay! I'm a big King reader..since the 70's...I'm re-reading The dark tower series in anticipation of the next one(november). Do you read those?

Yes,my heart leaps,too.I have to confess i'm at the bookstore the minute it opens,the very day certain books are released!!Remember some of the old movies that show bunches of woman rushing into a store w/ a sale..they are grabbing and pulling...lol!Thank goodness..plenty of books,lol!


Lizajane...love your name!I love the song..i'm singin it now

oh,eliza
little lizajane :.)

Kage Baker is my newest fave...i read the series front to back,then for desert...the short storys...delish!Let me know what you thought!


Not1worry.....Can I borrow your name for my new way of lookin at things?lol..I like it!