Books! How do you read and what do you read?

Yes, like to read. Almost anything including cereal boxes. Just getting into reading books online , txt pdf and so on.. Some great books are being made available online having been written long ago. Science Fiction, Adventure. Fantasy real life, also science advances. Depends on what catches my attention, eye opener on some of those Fantasy books.....:ROFLMAO:
 
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1. mickey spillane- read for sexy parts, sizzled in the fifties

2. Orwell, read his main two, then had to read them for school

3. Moravia-no knowledge

4. Tom Sharpe-read two, then went to book store, bought several-he's not funny
anymore, overdosed I suppose. Greene's humor and sometimes 'biting situtations'
stay with you.

5. Beauvoir-no knowledge

6. satre-do not care for existentialism-read for pleasure, do not lead me astray.
I have enough trouble with reality as it is.

7. John Fowles-The Collector: Roommate had to explain to me-
'No he was not a rapist, he collected things.'
'True, but he raped and killed the girl.'
'Then he was both.
'No he was a collector first.'
He did make you question motives
The Magus: sometimes I lost my way
French Lt's Woman-started it twice -gave up

Fowles and Kazuo Ishiguro have a similar style, but Ishigur says,
'Here read and work.' I have no idea why a reader would torture oneself, but
there worth it. The Remains....was an easy read compared to other works.
He won Nobel Prize in 2017, just found about it.

8. Amy Tan-have two hardbacks in bookcase, have read a few pages of each-good.
'But you have not read them?'
'No.'
'Why'
'Don't know.

We here in the colonies do not like the author putting us through our paces;
we like our westerns, mountain men and adventure novels simple.
We know life is not that simple and search for literature that challenges us.

I am terrible at names and titles, will have to go pull books from bookcase.

Lot of regionalism in the colonies
our big authors tell the truth, but 'they tell it slant.'*
Faulkner
O'connor
Mcculler
(*Emily Dickinson)
 

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JaniceM said:
Gary: I always keep my word, even though unexpected circumstances can result in long delays. Have an alert on one site for when your book becomes available, and periodically check Amazon, Alibris, etc. too.
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That's just it
Spring/summer/fall at the cabin are my busy seasons

The manuscript is complete (if I'd ever get done fiddling with it)

Big poser is the publisher
Handling this one a bit gently

Had someone with connections that sorta flaked off
.....OK....OK....I pissed her off
She got impatient with me when I'd delayed things a bit
I had my shingles, and my lady suddenly got a hernia
Something about not staying in touch with her while I was bombing down hwy 97
in the middle of winter at 80mph to the hospital,
while itching off the sloughing plague like sores on the shingles side of my head

I unloaded on her
 
Falcon said:
I read anything with words on it. But my favorites are small paperbacks because I do most of my reading in bed, just before going to sleep.

Every Friday my local library has a used book sale. For a couple of bucks I come home with a whole bag full.

They are 25¢ each.
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You sound like me. I'll read the ingredients on condiment packages if that is all that is available! Paperback books are my preference, too. It is hard to cuddle up with a hardbound and hard-edged book! I buy from the local Goodwill store.
 
Keesha said:
Reading is a pleasant past time. There are so many great books to read.
What are some of your favourite books you have read and what do you use to read them?
perhaps an ireader or a kindle? Or maybe you prefer listening to them.

These are great for reading with since you can:
-load as many books as you want to
-adjust the letter size
-read at night without needing to turn on a light so you don’t disturb others.

At at the moment I am reading ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ by Sue Monk Kidd
which is extraordinarily written.

What are you reading right now and what great books can you suggest to the rest of us?
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that's an excellent book btw keesha.

i haven't graduated from being old school and still having actual books. not sure if i ever will or not.

i prefer crime or murder mysteries. anything fbi or csi. i like dean koontz. i used to read anne rice.
 
MarciKS said:
that's an excellent book btw keesha.

i haven't graduated from being old school and still having actual books. not sure if i ever will or not.

i prefer crime or murder mysteries. anything fbi or csi. i like dean koontz. i used to read anne rice.
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Yes indeed. I’m a fan of mysteries also but I also like romance too. Nora Roberts comes to mind.
Some writers I like are John Grisham, Michael Connelly , Mary Higgins Clark and Patricia Cornwall; however some of her writings a bit too graphic for me to read. Adventurous books are exciting also.

There’s nothing like getting swept up to another place and time by a good author. Reading is certainly one of life’s simple pleasures.
 
"The day after Roswell", Paanjali, Kahil Gibran, Vinnegarroon, Roughin It. The Spiritual brain.

On my list and sitting in front of me to read next are: Meetings with remarkable men, The Seven Story mountain, The Giza Prophesy, and some Jung books. I must get started. My soul is hungry!
 
I prefer reading paperback books,once in awhile I'll buy a hardcover one
At the moment, I'm reading another Kristin Hannah book"Between Sisters',read 7 of her other books
A couple weeks ago read'Normal People' by Sally Rooney,,another 'overhyped' book in my opinion,it was ok
 
I finished reading "Between Sisters' a couple days ago,enjoy it bit too long 375 pgs
The next book is"Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.I know this was made into a HBO series{don't subscribe to HBO} never read any of the author's books before
 
moviequeen1 said:
I finished reading "Between Sisters' a couple days ago,enjoy it bit too long 375 pgs
The next book is"Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.I know this was made into a HBO series{don't subscribe to HBO} never read any of the author's books before
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Love almost everything by Liane Moriarty - just one or two didn't float my boat. Big Little Lies is excellent, but my favorite is What Alice Forgot.
 
moviequeen1 said:
A couple weeks ago read'Normal People' by Sally Rooney,,another 'overhyped' book in my opinion,it was ok
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My library often on-line first several page look-sees of many books. I checked into Normal People a while ago. When I realized the author doesn't use quotation marks, or other special punctuation to indicate when someone is speaking, I decided to pass on it.

Did you find her writing style distracted you from what the content?
 
NON-FICTION: Bios of celebs, athletes, and historical figures. Problem is that I've read 'em all. I have no interest in today's celebs or anything related to current pop culture, have lost interest in sports especially since they've been politicized, and have read about every other person who interested me.

So for non-fiction, I guess my favorite genre is true crime such as the novels of Ann Rule.

FICTION: Love me some multi-generational family sagas, the current of which is "The Son" by Philipp Meyer. Great book. AMC apparently ran it as a TV series for a couple of yrs.
 
Several authors started using dashes (OR the publishers) in place of quotation marks
in the late 80's & 90;s I prefer the dashes: i.e.
-You'll get caught.
-Could be
 
jerry old said:
Several authors started using dashes (OR the publishers) in place of quotation marks
in the late 80's & 90;s I prefer the dashes: i.e.
-You'll get caught.
-Could be
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Sally Rooney (Normal People and other works) uses neither. From that standpoint, she writes like an 8 year old:
Here's a screen shot from the first chapter:

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