Tell me what book(s) to read.

[Jalapeñomel]

I need some book recs. The last couple of books, I just couldn't get into. I have 50 Shades, but i dont think i want to waste my time.

Any suggestions? I love memoirs, thrillers, anything except super chic lit.

[Muddled]

I just finished one of the Jack Reacher books- Tripwire by Lee Child. It's a fast, entertaining read. Action with a whodunnit air to it.

[Jalapeñomel]

I read the first one, and I am not sure why I didn't continue reading them. I enjoyed it.

[underwaterrhymes]

Have you read 11/22/63 by Stephen King? It's really good.

[Muddled]

11/22/63 is good, too.

If you like the Jack Reacher books, you may also like the Sigma force books.

[taylormillgirl]

I recommend these books on the NBC all the time, but just in case you haven't seen one of my bazillion posts, you should check out the "First Grave" series by Darynda Jones. There are 3 books out so far, and they're very funny, light reads. The main characters is kind of like the grim reaper. She's a portal to the other side, so souls have to cross through her, and she often gets caught up solving their murders, etc. And there's a smoking-hot love interest, too.

Anyhoo, book 1 is called "First Grave on the Right."

[janiejones]

[cleo29]

I've read a lot of thriller/mysteries by Wendy Corsi staubb. They are quick reads.

I've also loved most of Lorna Landvik's books; I adored Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons.

[Jalapeñomel]

May 29, 2012 7:25:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Have you read 11/22/63 by Stephen King? It's really good.

I gave up reading SK years ago, because his endings suck so bad. It's like I get all this amazing foreplay, and then he quits right before I orgasm.

[underwaterrhymes]

Haa, yes. A lot of King's books' endings suck, but this one is actually pretty good.

It's very different from his previous material.

[Jalapeñomel]

Ok maybe I'll check it out. His short stories are usually pretty good though.

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May 29, 2012 8:03:04 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

May 29, 2012 7:25:01 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Have you read 11/22/63 by Stephen King? It's really good.

I gave up reading SK years ago, because his endings suck so bad. It's like I get all this amazing foreplay, and then he quits right before I orgasm.

i felt that way about this book. and the ending pissed me off.


in any event, the marriage plot is fantastic, and i also am enjoying the orphan master's son (though i haven't finished it yet, so i can't vouch for the ending). the family fang was funny and poignant and weird. i loved it.

[Jalapeñomel]

I read the Marriage Plot and really liked it. I worked my way through NPR's top 10 books of 2011, and I think it was my favorite. I also really liked State of Wonder by Ann Pachett

[Cayl]

I really liked Under the Dome by SK, but I can't remember if the ending was good or not.

If you like zombie/post-apocalyptic stuff The Passage by Justin Cronin was really good (and it's a novel for adults, not one geared towards teens).

I just read Night Road by Kristin Hannah and it was excellent. Firefly Road by her is one of my favorite books.

[underwaterrhymes]

Do you like nonfiction? I think Half the Sky by Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is a book that everyone should read.

I also loved The Fault in Our Stars. It's YA, which I love, and ugly cry sad, but very good. (I have a ton of other YA suggestions.)

I also really liked Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Breakfast with Buddha, Room, and Life of Pi.

My favorite of all time is Shantaram, but I think you've read that, no?

[underwaterrhymes]

May 29, 2012 8:18:21 GMT -5 Cayl said:

I really liked Under the Dome by SK, but I can't remember if the ending was good or not.

If you like zombie/post-apocalyptic stuff The Passage by Justin Cronin was really good (and it's a novel for adults, not one geared towards teens).

I just read Night Road by Kristin Hannah and it was excellent. Firefly Road by her is one of my favorite books.

Under the Dome was great up until the ending. The ending was probably one of his worst ever, IMO, and that is saying something.

I also dug The Passage.

[bleubook]

I'm reading The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin.
It's good. Very Downton Abbeyesque.

[Jalapeñomel]

May 29, 2012 8:21:56 GMT -5 frkls said:

Oh. I just saw that you went through the list. one of my friends said that the marriage plot was super sexist. Did you find it to be?

Super sexist? I dent red it that way, but I suppose you could get that from the book.

[Jalapeñomel]

Is there some online library somewhere where I can check out ebooks so I dont have to buy them all? if not, there should be damnit.

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May 29, 2012 8:21:56 GMT -5 frkls said:

Oh. I just saw that you went through the list. one of my friends said that the marriage plot was super sexist. Did you find it to be?

i thought that the primary female character wasn't given the inner life and 3D qualities as the male characters were. she was sort of their foil. in a way, it was similar to the sort of directionless "self" i had at her age (when it came to men), and thus accurate. in another way, it pissed me off. like, wtf eugendies, you can only write a realistic, whole female character when she's actually a hermaphrodite?

in any event, i didn't see it as sexist per se, but perhaps symptomatic of the problems inherent in any writer trying to write a character of the opposite sex. it is amazing and gripping in its portrayal of severe mental illness and its affect on everyone touched by it. and, to the extent that it's a modern updating of "the marriage plot" in a novel, it's an interesting and compelling take on the genre. it really flips the notion on its head.

[Cayl]

May 29, 2012 8:33:10 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Is there some online library somewhere where I can check out ebooks so I dont have to buy them all? if not, there should be damnit.

Do you have an Amazon Prime account? They have a "library" and you can get one book a month from it for free. Not much, but it's something. Some public libraries also offer an e-reading service. I think the service is called OverDrive and it's only offered at some libraries. I haven't used it so I have no idea how it works or how big the selection is.

[Cricket0619]

One of my favorite memoirs is called All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein. It is an amazing book and you will think about her for a while after.

[Jalapeñomel]

May 29, 2012 8:48:51 GMT -5 Cayl said:

May 29, 2012 8:33:10 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Is there some online library somewhere where I can check out ebooks so I dont have to buy them all? if not, there should be damnit.

Do you have an Amazon Prime account? They have a "library" and you can get one book a month from it for free. Not much, but it's something. Some public libraries also offer an e-reading service. I think the service is called OverDrive and it's only offered at some libraries. I haven't used it so I have no idea how it works or how big the selection is.

I do have an amazon prime account, but I haven´t really used it since I´ve been here. I will definitely check it out, thanks!