Yeah, yeah, but besides fantasy...

[littlemissattitude]

I have just discovered Thomas Berger, I have read two books of his so far, 'meeting evil' and 'little big man'.

I recommend the film that was based on Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman. I liked that one a lot.

 

[weaveworld]

I saw 'Little Big Man', it was really enjoyable, some parts were sad and some parts were very funny.

 

[stencyl]

Thomas Pynchon
Don Dellilo
Chuck Palahniuk
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
James Joyce
Joseph Conrad
Toni Morrison
Vladamir Nabokov

Just to name a few

 

[GOLLUM]

I, thankfully, only needed to hear or read a few reviews to know I'd be wasting my time with this book. Why do such things become so popular?

I think it might be called having a good publicist and being a natural salesman, although it's probably more involved than just that as I'm sure the topic (esp. DaVinici code with religious themes) would have had mass appeal. I read a bit of the book and perused through other parts of it but found it pretty lack lustre and everyone I've spoken to became quickly bored with it...

 

[HieroGlyph]

...DaVinici code with religious themes...

...The thought was rather off-putting. But, once the furor has receded I may have to find out just what it was about!

I did forget to mention I do keep dabbling into the Bible (such a tuff nut t' crack!).

And next in line hopes to be a Krishnamurti offering (philosophy)...

 

[Allanon]

mmmm... im not too sure is a while since i read anything else, i like shakespeare. correction, i love him. his writing is great. i like poetry of all sorts, dont have a particular favourite i just like what i like. photography and travel. comedy and cook books, i absolutely LOVE cook books

 

[Sibeling]

I have to read quite a lot of different books for my studies, but that probably does not count because I do not choose them, I am made to read them.
The books I read besides sci-fi, fantasy, and horror are old detectives (Conan Doyle!! ), books about art (particularly architecture and painting) and some other authors: Kurt Vonnegut (love his books), Bret Easton Ellis (he's sick), Irwin Welsh (interesting), and I just can't remeber the other names..

 

[ladyflorange]

I'll read anything... literally, anything, but I mostly read crime - agatha christie, ellis peters, elizabeth peters, susanna gregory, and I read a lot of Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare etc, but that's mostly for my uni course.

 

[murphy]

I'll read anything... literally, anything, but I mostly read crime - agatha christie, ellis peters, elizabeth peters, susanna gregory, and I read a lot of Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare etc, but that's mostly for my uni course.

Have you read any of the Stephanie Plum series, by Janet Evanovich? Very, very funny mystery stories.

 

[ladyflorange]

No I haven't, but I'll give them a go! thanks!

 

[murphy]

The first Stephanie Plum book is One for the money. You can read them separately, but it's better to read them in order.

 

[kyektulu]

... and cook books, i absolutely LOVE cook books

I have tried with cook books but everything I try to make with them goes horrably wrong!

To think of some of the monstocitys I have created...

I have poisoned my poor partner on several occasions... bless him.

 

[Tickle]

Besides fantasy........? Mmmm........Well.......
I like some horror (Dean Koontz/Stephen King).
I also love The Left Behind Series - Tim LaHaye & Robert Jenkins
I read a lot of African-American Fiction (Zane, Eric Jerome Dickey, Gwynne Forster, etc.)
but mostly, I read SciFi/Fantasy.

 

[Lioness]

Hmm...I'm a big historical fiction person. I love reading Diana Gabaldon, Kate Morton, Kate Mosse, and Edward Rutherford. History is just interesting.

 

[biodroid]

I like thrillers like Ludlum and Gerald Seymour, political thrillers too

 

[Laerten]

I will read anything but like 'period' books and am a big fan of Jane Austen, the Bronte's, Elizabeth Gaskell etc. I also like Dan Brown but can't quite decide what category his books fall under.

 

[Vladd67]

I love Dostoyevsy, Conan Doyle, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley (and not just his black magic books), Zane Grey, John LeCarre, Umberto Eco (his Travels in Hyperreality I really enjoyed), Bill Bryson, Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen (or should that be Daniel (David) Nathan and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky), Edgar Allan Poe, the list could go on and on

 

[kythe]

I don't read a lot of fiction in other genres, but I do read a lot of non-fiction. I enjoy reading books on health and medicine, childbirth (I am a nurse and want to be a midwife), science, mythology, and comparative religion.

I was just thinking about what my favorite books are outside sci-fi and fantasy, and they tend to be biographies/autobiographies. I think there is a lot to be learned from understanding other people's lives, their motives and what got them where they are - for better or for worse.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I love Dostoyevsy, Conan Doyle, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, Dennis Wheatley (and not just his black magic books), Zane Grey, John LeCarre, Umberto Eco (his Travels in Hyperreality I really enjoyed), Bill Bryson, Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen (or should that be Daniel (David) Nathan and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky), Edgar Allan Poe, the list could go on and on

Among the authors who "were" Ellery Queen were
Avram Davidson, Theodore Sturgeon and Jack Vance


Talmage Powell, Richard Deming , Fletcher Flora, Edward D. Hoch,Gil Brewer, Stephen Marlowe, Walter J. Sheldon, Henry Kane and Charles W. Runyon.

 

[soulsinging]

I'm a big hard-boiled detective fan... Ken Bruen, Dennis Lehane, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, John Connolly. Other than that, random authors I'm partial to are Michael Chabon, Graham Greene, Roddy Doyle, Ernest Hemingway.