Someone give me something to read!

HistorianChick · Jan 10, 2008, 05:42 AM

Ok, I need a new book.

My list of favorite authors include, but are definitely not limited to:
Agatha Christie (read all of her books numerous times)
Dan Brown
Lillian Jackson Braun (read them all)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shakespeare
Classic literature

Mysteries, suspense, action, some romance (not too much - its got to be real!

), classics....

Just finished The Last Templar (wasn't all that impressed) and The Picture of Dorian Gray.... I need new material!

(Oh, favorite book is The Scarlet Pimpernel and all other books by Baroness Orczy - haven't read them??? Please do... its WELL worth it!)

George_1950 · Jan 17, 2008, 09:13 AM

You are going to read Atlas Shrugged this weekend? No football? No AMHD?

friend4u178 · Jan 17, 2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by life1973happened

I can't believe that authors name has even been allowed to float around this post. Next thing I know friend4u178 is going to start suggesting you read the Harlequin Romance series.

Help me Rhonda!!!

Well I was going to mention Harlequinn romance novels but decided against it for fear of being "ganged up on" again :-)

What about Dr Zeuss?

George_1950 · Jan 19, 2008, 07:42 AM

ok, is Atlas shrugging?

HistorianChick · Jan 19, 2008, 07:46 AM

Rah.... I have sadly been drawn away from literature with the tempting, seducing quality of The Italian Job... Actually, I blame it on Jason Statham

LOL

But, believe me, Atlas will be shrugging, Mona Lisa will be winking, and David will be shopping Rodeo Drive for the newest fashion in fig leaves very, very soon.

iAMfromHuntersBar · Jan 19, 2008, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by HistorianChick

Rah.... I have sadly been drawn away from literature with the tempting, seducing quality of The Italian Job ...

Oh lordy, I had such respect for you, and this thread, right up to that point!

It's a TERRIBLE film and I don't know how they dared call it The Italian Job! It should have been called The American Job!

But then again, I'm English and I love the original!

/RANT

Fair play though, Jason Statham is pretty handsome, but he's far, far better in Snatch!

life1973happened · Jan 20, 2008, 06:22 AM

I don't like to watch movies that were first best selling books or Broadway Musicals that have turned to the big screen. I'll take a pass. Rarely, if ever do they compare to the book itself.

With that being said, I finally finished 'ATONEMENT' by Ian McEwan.

I enjoyed the book but some advice if you decide to read it; have a full box of tissues ready to go.

Another good book that surprised me was, 'The Shock Doctrine,' by Naomi Klein

kmrc · Jan 20, 2008, 08:46 PM

Some suggestions for your classic side: Our Mutual Friend by Charles ens (The author or A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield). This is a great book. Charles ens with murder, romance, and poetic justice. This book was really something different for him. Also Wives and Daughters, The Moorland Cottage (novella), Cranford, and North and South (in England not the American Civil War) all by Elizabeth Gaskell. I'm still working my way through the rest of her work.

HistorianChick · Jan 21, 2008, 06:27 AM

Thank you kmrc! I adore Charles Dic_ens - he was a literary genius.

I still have yet to pick up Atlas Shrugged. But, I will! Life happened this weekend, as much as I wanted to sit down and read, alas...



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