I read a lot, Christian fiction, Jewish fiction and non-fiction, History info books when I can find them, Biographys, Computer books and mags. Best time is before bed time for an hour or so.

Have you ever read any Francine Rivers or Frank Peretti?


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I have worn out This Present Darkness, Piercing The Darkness, The Prophet, The Oath. Never read Tilly yet., Also have read all of the Left Behind Series. Read Pilgrams progress, The Holy War, by John Buyan and an now on the series by Bodie and brock Thoene called SecondThought. It's a version of early AD with the messiah still there. Read a biography of a man in your neck of the woods, called Andrew Murray.

classics mostly, im trying to read war and peace

I love reading. I'm into science fiction and fantasy mostly. I read the Shannara books, The Lord of The Rings, Star Wars, and a bunch of others. I also have some stuff from Stephen King, like The Stand and Green Mile. I also read stuff from Dean Koontz, like Phantoms, Watchers, and Fear Nothing and Seize the Night.

"Here I am, enjoying my 2nd Amendment rights, and you people have to freak out on me."

when I was young i used to read a LOT of sci-fi and fantasy and war and horror, but now unless they are very very good (classic stuff mainly) I rarely bother with those genres. Mostly I read metaphysical novels that play on words and ideas.

if I had to choose which authors and their works I like best, I would say

Italo Calvino - The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Our Ancestors, Under The Jaguar Sun
Peter Ackroyd - Hawksmoor, The House of Dr. Dee, Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (imho the best novel ever written in the English language and one fo the few to show the true nature of man) Lord Jim, The Nigger of the Narcissus (I don't like Nostromo though)
Michael Ondjaate - By The Skin Of A Lion, The English Patient (far superior to the shallow film)
Henrik Ibsen - Emperor & Galilean (ok it's a play but it's better as a read) and any of his other works
Gore Vidal - Julian (and pretty much anything else he's written, the man is a genius)
J G Ballard - Vermilion Sands, The Day of Creation, Low Flying Aircraft, Empire of the Sun (far superior to the botched film)
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose, The Island of the Day Before, Kant & the Platypus
H P Lovecraft (and followers) - anything in the Cthulhu mythos
C S Lewis - Narnia series, and Out of the Silent Planet/Perelandra/That Hideous Strength.
Frank Herbert - Dune (first 3 books) and The Dosadi Experiment/Whipping Star
Frederik Pohl - Gateway
Asimov - the Foundation series (first 3 books) and his collected early works.

and Euripedes, esp the Birds, and the Wasps. Just as funny now as it was in 5th C Athens.

and pretty much anything by H G Wells

and Gormenghast, Neuromancer, 1984, Brave New World, The Silmarillion and LOTR, The Arcanum, Quincunx, The Chymicell Wydding of Christian Rosencrantz, Time's Arrow/Time's Cycle, Death & the Maiden, Eagle in the Snow, Winter Quarters, Spartacus, The Robe, Quo Vadis? The Keep, Canopus in Sirius, Watership Down (those leetle rabbeets, so braves, just like real peoples) the Avestas, the Upanishads, and of course, the Holy Qu'r'an Ludo & the Star Horse, The Aeneid, Parzival, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Frankenstein, 1066 & All That, Shock of the New, Sea Lion, Panzer Commander, The Shining and lots lots more...

a non-fiction and particularly relevant work I cannot recommend highly enough is Ahmed Raschid's superb analysis, Taliban

..how I dearly wish I was not here..



Edited by - Tawakalna on 5/31/2004 3:51:22 AM

I've just discovered a huge stack of unread books in the attic, so I'm working through them. They're mostly science fiction, my favourites among them are The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke and Tiger Tiger by Alfred Bester

and I was expecting a thread about Reading Festaval. Ah well.

Yes, of course, started by someone who lives in South Africa...

Hmm I read mostly fiction...action, havent really found a good schi fie writer, my favourite authors include:
Toma Clancy
Matthew Reilly... a quote from his newest book, "Scarecrow"(this is an excellent book) Hey, Captain Schofield. Nice to hear from you. So , what have you destruyed today?
I've flooded a Typhoon class submarine, levelled a building, and launched a ballistic missile to destroy a maintanence facility"
Slow day huh?

Then also Patric Robinson
Robert Ludlum
Frank Peretti
Francine Rivers
Jerry B Jenkins
Tim LaHaye
and many more

Edited by - sycho_warrior on 5/29/2004 12:49:19 PM

Edited by - sycho_warrior on 5/29/2004 11:54:22 PM

I like to read when I have time, which I will again after exams.
I tend to read whatever catches my mood or imagination. I read travel writing fairly often and I'm trying to get through this huge reading list I've made for myself. It's mostly classics, a few books about the American wilderness (Jack London, Krakauer, Thoreau etc) which intrigues the heck out of me and some other random stuff by Vonnegut, Palhniuk, Cheever etc

George R.R Martin
Steven Erikson

Two fo the great HIGH f antasy at the moment

And um

GORMENGHAST

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At the moment it's revision guides and notes for me. I do like Star Trek Novels particularly ones by John Vornholt

Tom Clancy mainly, I just finished reading Patriot Games ... one of his better books, actually .......