joe (Liverpool) Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 For me it was Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and The Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyHeyWhatCanIDo Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Escape by Carolyn Jessop. Fascinating read about a woman's escape from the polygamist cult of the FLDS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 This book is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 this one comes to mind, but there have been many over the years. i first read this when i was about 16, i must read it again soon .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayougal65 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock Historian Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 When I was in Italy 5 months ago, I took a book for the travel /plane. I found myself reading almost the whole thing in 2 weeks... "1984" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 The Ruins by Scott Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Babs Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Yikes! I read that when I was a kid. Scared the hell out of me. The Magic Cottage was another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ady Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Yikes! I read that when I was a kid. Scared the hell out of me. The Magic Cottage was another. I first read it when I was a kid too, and the two sequels Lair and Domain. The graphic way James Herbert describes things was very disturbing to me back then! Shame that The Rats was made into a laughable film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 To name a couple: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 I first read it when I was a kid too, and the two sequels Lair and Domain. The graphic way James Herbert describes things was very disturbing to me back then! Shame that The Rats was made into a laughable film. I've never read the sequels but with the magic of the inter web I just bought them for my e reader Another great scare is 'The Woods Are Dark' by Richard Laymon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjin-san Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 To name a couple: Both excellent. New Manson tapes are coming out: http://www.latimes.c...age=2&track=rss Jaws,the book is very diifferent than the film.Benchley (who had a cameo in the film) ,did -championed- sharks later in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bong-Man Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Somebody threw me "The Hunger Games" last weekend, and I surprisingly destroyed it. A very easy read, but a good story too. Kind of like Jaws....a lazy Summer read fit for a teen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 The Help, Message in a Bottle (the book was way better than the movie), the 5th and 6th Harry Potter books and the entire Vince Flynn / Mitch Rapp series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_apathy Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut, I read it twice one summer and can always come back to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bitnogoodjive Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the chase Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the chase Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 this one comes to mind, but there have been many over the years. i first read this when i was about 16, i must read it again soon .... looks good I have Groucho's Biography.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepscoda Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 The Exocsist....in high school it scared the crap out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 looks good I have Groucho's Biography.. i first read the harpo one when i was about 16, i think. i was prepared for how funny and WARM it was. harpo really loved his brothers a lot. i would like to read his sons book, too. i haven't read the one you mentioned ... i can''t quite make out the title ... i have just started reading groucho's son arthurs' book about him. of course these are all written years ago .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZeppfan77 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 When I had to read novels in school I figured the last book in the world I could ever get hooked on was Gone With the Wind. After struggling through the first 100 pages or so, I was then hooked. Another book I really loved was Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer. A diary actually by the former Green Bay Packer guard who stamped his ticket to immortality with that famous block in the freeze bowl vs Dallas in 1967. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I don't tend to read many novels but the last one to really get me hooked was The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe... Alot of sci fi/fantasy seems rather clinched and cheesey to me but these books are incredabley dense and interesting, rather like a weirder more disorganised version of Dune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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