What do members here like to read? Novels? Biography? History? Non-fiction? Science fiction? Harlequin romance? Mystery? Humour? Fantasy? Newspapers ( )?

And what are you reading now?

As long as it's interesting, and well written enough to hold my interest, I enjoy a wide variety of material. All of the above, excepting romance and newspapers, and more. I lasted for about ten years without owning a TV and had at that time about 1,500 books.

Some of my favourites:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes

JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings

Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Connecticut Yankee, to name a few

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart among other shorts

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer

Andrew Garcia's Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist

Stephen King's The Shining, Salem's Lot, among others

Robert Arthur Smith's The Prey

Richard Bach's Illusions

Carlos Castenada's The Teachings of Don Juan, and others

Jane Roberts' Seth Speaks, and many others

Well, this is a short, short, short list but I better not list them all!

Well... you should bloody care !!

Why don't you just read through all of this topic and make a reply there...

What Are Your Reading?

It's getting boring now..

totster

Geez Tippy, Tots is all over you man! Now, I think you might be doing this just to mess with him.

I'll reply anyway. I like to read various mags, lots of newspapers and as far as books, I like only non-fiction. One of my favorites are anything written by, or about, Leo Strauss. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known. I have praised him before many times on here.

Geez Tippy, Tots is all over you man! Now, I think you might be doing this just to mess with him.

I'll reply anyway. I like to read various mags, lots of newspapers and as far as books, I like only non-fiction. One of my favorites are anything written by, or about, Leo Strauss. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known. I have praised him before many times on here.

Don't encourage him Trixie..

totster

Geez Tippy, Tots is all over you man! Now, I think you might be doing this just to mess with him.

I'll reply anyway. I like to read various mags, lots of newspapers and as far as books, I like only non-fiction. One of my favorites are anything written by, or about, Leo Strauss. He is one of the greatest minds the world has ever known. I have praised him before many times on here.

Don't encourage him Trixie..

totster

Hey, my rehashed thread/poll in the General forum ran a respectable 5 pages. And it was quite civil, too.

Thanks for the link, tots. Should I copy and paste?

I read Playboy.

I like to read almost anything that is well written and a lot that isn't.

Some favorite authors are:

Issac Assimov

Russell Banks

Thomas Berger

Bill Bryson

Camus

Herman Hesse

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

George Orwell

and many more...

Some favorite books are:

One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest

The Outsider

Little Big Man

Dune

Ender's Game

The Foundation Trilogy

Perelandra

Catch 22

Papillon

From Here to Eternity

Into Thin Air

Sidhartha

Into the Void

Lord of the Flies

and many, many more...

I like to read almost anything that is well written and a lot that isn't.

Some favorite authors are:

Issac Assimov

Russell Banks

Thomas Berger

Bill Bryson

Camus

Herman Hesse

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

George Orwell

and many more...

Some favorite books are:

One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest

The Outsider

Little Big Man

Dune Love it, I just wish he could have finished it.

Ender's Game Ender is great. Did you read any of the others?

The Foundation Trilogy Wanted to read this, I guess I should.

Perelandra

Catch 22

Papillon

From Here to Eternity

Into Thin Air

Sidhartha

Into the Void

Lord of the Flies

and many, many more...

Ender's Game Ender is great. Did you read any of the others?

The Foundation Trilogy Wanted to read this, I guess I should.

The second book in the Ender's series, "Speaker for the Dead", is as good as the first one. The 3rd one, "Xenicide", sucks - most people agree - but after that they all get great reviews ( I haven't gotten that far yet).

The Foundation series is amazing too, and if you liked Dune and Ender's Game, you will love it for sure. It was a trilogy but expanded into a large series and almost every volume is worth reading.

I read Playboy.

I'd hardly call looking a pictures, reading ...!

totster

Anyone who likes horror I'd suggest Salems Lot by Stephen King (yeah, it's an oldie, but dam.n good, or should I say dam.n evil). Also, a much lesser known work by an English writer, Robert Arthur Smith, who wrote The Prey back in the 70's, I believe. That one was based on classic horror and was creepy as all getout. Hard to put down.

Ender's Game Ender is great. Did you read any of the others?

The Foundation Trilogy Wanted to read this, I guess I should.

The second book in the Ender's series, "Speaker for the Dead", is as good as the first one. The 3rd one, "Xenicide", sucks - most people agree - but after that they all get great reviews ( I haven't gotten that far yet).

The Foundation series is amazing too, and if you liked Dune and Ender's Game, you will love it for sure. It was a trilogy but expanded into a large series and almost every volume is worth reading.

Dune was awesome. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though I never saw the movie. I've seen the additional volumes but by the time they had come out it was so long since I had read the original trilogy that I felt I'd have to reread them to do justice to the later volumes.

Anyone who likes horror I'd suggest Salems Lot by Stephen King (yeah, it's an oldie, but dam.n good, or should I say dam.n evil).

IMHO King's best book is "The Stand" - it is a cult classic and a great end of the world fantasy.

If you haven't read it, track it down!

Dune was awesome. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though I never saw the movie. I've seen the additional volumes but by the time they had come out it was so long since I had read the original trilogy that I felt I'd have to reread them to do justice to the later volumes.

Don't feel bad. It went downhill after the third book.

The Foundation series - on the other hand - maintains the quality of the first titles.

How do you find time to read books. Doesn't that require sitting down and putting your feet up?

When I could relax I loved reading Robert Ludlum spy novels.

Now, I like trying to read my girlfriends' mind. I find that more interesting than anything Ludlum could write.

When she is not around, the vast majority of my time is spent trying to read the stock market.

How do you find time to read books.

I used to read when I wasn't getting laid in America, so I read lots and lots of books over many years.

Don't read so much now-a-days!

How do you find time to read books. Doesn't that require sitting down and putting your feet up?

When I could relax I loved reading Robert Ludlum spy novels.

Now, I like trying to read my girlfriends' mind. I find that more interesting than anything Ludlum could write.

When she is not around, the vast majority of my time is spent trying to read the stock market.

Ludlum's got great stuff. I read The Aquitaine Progression and The Bourne Identity. Sounds like you just need to find more time to read, MM. It's tough, though. Trash your TV and you might find time. And just think of how much time you spend reading TV. 555555555!

I just got Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" and I am really looking forward to reading it.

I really enjoy his books and have read nearly all of them.

So far, "A Walk in the Woods" (love the bear story) and "A short history of nearly everything" are two of my favorites.

I'm a sucker for esoteric useless knowledge

As far as humour goes, I can't think of much that beats Mark Twain. Dr. PP, maybe?

Oscar Wilde wrote some great plays, too. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was wacked, but great, as is Hunter Thompson in general.

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was wacked, but great, as is Hunter Thompson in general.

GREAT leisure-drug-use book. In fact, the best ever written IMHO.

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was wacked, but great, as is Hunter Thompson in general.

GREAT leisure-drug-use book. In fact, the best ever written IMHO.

The movie was an absolute classic, too. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro played their roles to perfection. Dam.n, I laughed my arse off watching that flick.

Brought back some memories, too. Ahem . . .

Sorry all, but can't get Hunter Thompson off my mind just yet. So here are some classic quotes. Enjoy!!

A word to the wise is infuriating.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

I read Playboy.

I'd hardly call looking a pictures, reading ...!

totster

Reading in to.

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was wacked, but great, as is Hunter Thompson in general.

GREAT leisure-drug-use book. In fact, the best ever written IMHO.

The movie was an absolute classic, too. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro played their roles to perfection. Dam.n, I laughed my arse off watching that flick.

Brought back some memories, too. Ahem . . .

I love the scene where is in the room with all the cops and they are watching a movie on how to stop a drug user. That was awsome!!!

Da Vinci Code....thought it was about Italian cooking but soon got into it.

Picked up the book on last trip at Heathrow and almost finished reading it on the way to Bangkok but must have overdone the bread and wine on the plane.

Unfortunately so busy on last jolli didnt finish it and its still in Samut Pracan (next to the telly)

Great story... and anything than gets the old Papas Mafias knickers in a twist must be good.

NewsNet 5 - A senior Vatican official has called for a boycott of "The Da Vinci Code," while the Council of Churches in Jordan and Roman Catholic activists in India want their governments to ban .......

Turkish Press - The conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei and another US religious group went on the offensive against .......

...in the story old J.C and his wife mary have a daughter called Sara....but I never got to finish it........next time..

Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was wacked, but great, as is Hunter Thompson in general.

GREAT leisure-drug-use book. In fact, the best ever written IMHO.

The movie was an absolute classic, too. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro played their roles to perfection. Dam.n, I laughed my arse off watching that flick.

Brought back some memories, too. Ahem . . .

I love the scene where is in the room with all the cops and they are watching a movie on how to stop a drug user. That was awsome!!!

My favourite was the scene where they picked up the hitchiker. And Depp is struggling with all the bats flying around. 5555555555555555555555555!

Greatest line:

'I didnt tell him about the bats... I wanted him to see for himself.'

Greatest line:

'I didnt tell him about the bats... I wanted him to see for himself.'

555555555! Yeah, great! I really need to see that movie again.

I basically read newspapers and books these days.

Hmmm, over the years, so many books. Some you can remember so clearly, others have faded into the past.

The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer

The Drifters - James Mitchener

Shogun - James Clavell

Salem's Lot - Stephen King

The Divine Comedy - Dante (Dante's Inferno)

The Histories of Herodotus

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Almost everything by Clive Cussler (though he is getting worse as the years go on). Some of Tom Clancy's earlier stuff (when he was writing his own stuff, and not "co-authoring" garbage written by others to cash in on his name).

Tons of Science Fantasy stuff over the years.

Plus, "A Fool in Paradise" and "The Fool is Back" by Neil Hutchison.

Recently finished a Clive Cussler novel, plus Dan Brown's The DiVinci Code, and am on "1421, The Year China Discovered The World".

Recently finished a Clive Cussler novel,

I've just discovered Clive Cussler.. not bad if you want a pickup/put down book..

totster