Favorite Authors and Books
 

I'm just curious to see who people enjoy reading the most?

My favorites are Bently Little, Dan Brown, JK Rowlings, and a few others I can think of. I enjoy suspense/horror type books. I have never read any Stephen King books, but I've been told Bently Little is along those lines.

I've also started reading a book Andy gave me by John Sandford, called The Empress File. I'm only to Chapter 5, but it's awesome!! I believe it's book one, out of a small series.

Anyway, what does everyone else enjoy reading??

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Seems like every time I start reading books from a new author he becomes my favorite. Right now it's Robert B Parker, the Spencer novels. Some of my other favorites are John Sanford, Michael Connelly, and Willam Kent Kruger.

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John Grisham. By far.

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Joe pettitt! hahaha

-Colin

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A. Graham Bell

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I have never made it through an entire book heh.

My dad read me a book when I was younger. It was called like "the 7th power" or something along those lines. I guess I really liked that book. He still has it I think. I will try and find the legit title / author.

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John Grisham, Dan Brown (His books got me into reading), Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and some other authors. I enjoyed some of the Tom Clancy stuff even though it seemed slower then some of the others. There are also some other "law" people that I like, cant think of names though. If you cant tell I like justice system, horror, and suspense books.

I just read a book not too long ago that was AWESOME, I don't know who it is by but the book is called "Cut and Run". I highly recommend the book if you like suspense books, its quite similar to the Dan Brown style.

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I like Clancy books to but they are a little bit to slow for me also. A couple more authors I like are Steve Hamilton, Stephen Coonts, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind. I could go on for ever naming authors I like. I should really go through all my books and make a list of all the books that I have.

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I just finished reading The Empress File (John Sandford). It was an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. It is a great start to a small series about con artists. :)

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I actually just finished my first book. "The Return" by Bently Little. I have never been into reading much but finishing this book was enjoyable. I'd recomend it to anyone.

Now I am starting a book by Greg Bear called "Dead Lines".

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OK I'm scared now. You're back in school and reading books, we don't do that der kind of stuff in Iowa! :p

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All of Dan Brown's books are amazing. If any of you can give recomendations on similar books, I would love you long time.

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Someone mentioned to me an author similiar to Dan Brown, but now I can remember who it is. I'll look into it and let you know. He does have a new book he is working on that will be about The Masons, should be very interesting!! :)

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Steven Jay Gould, Michio Kaku, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan.

Steven Jay Gould - "Wonderful Life", "Full House", and "A Dinosaur In A Haystack"(Mostly on Darwinian Evolution)

Richard Dawkins - "The Selfish Gene", "A Devil's Champlain", and "Unweaving The Rainbow"(Mostly philosophical views on biological systems)

Jared Diamond - "Guns, Germs, Steel", "Collapse", and "The Third Chimpanzee"(Mostly about the evolution and collapse of various societies)

Carl Sagan - "The Dragons Of Eden", "The Demon Haunted World", "Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors", and "Billions And Billions"(About Evolution, critical thinking, scientific method, etc)

Michael Talbot - "The Holographic Universe"(This is kind of a alternate view on everything based upon theory from David Bohm and Karl Pribram, I've read this book an easy 50-60 times, it's probably the most thought provoking book ever written)

Kenneth R. Miller - "Finding Darwins God"(about the Creation/Evolution argument with a christian bias, It's an excellent book regardless of which side you are on)

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R.L. Stine - Goosebumps.

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Just wanted to update those who care, but I found out that Dan Brown's next book is being released in 2006 (exact date unknown yet), and the title is The Solomon Key. You can sign up on Amazon.com and it will e-mail you when the book becomes available for pre-order. I'm so excited!!!! :D

Yes, I'm a nerd sometimes.... :rolleyes:

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LOL, just had to laugh because you are still reading that book.... ;)

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If you like CIA/Goverment books I highly recomend Vince Flynn. I just started reading his books last month and they are easly some of the best I have ever read.

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Favorite authors;

Hugh Heffner & Larry Flint

Favorite books;

Misery & Final Victim

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Chuck Palahniuk's books are twisted and awesome.

i also enjoy everything i've read so far written by Stephen Hawking