Recommend me something to read please (Page 2)

Read all of Gillian Flynn's books!  Also, I just finished 1Q84 - a real mindbender (but a very long, undoubtedly heavy book)...

I have to bring up again the suggestion of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.  It's perfect if you like murder mysteries, etc.  Even if you saw the movies, the books are great.  Also, readily availalbe in easy to carry and toss paperback version.

I would not recommend Fifty Shades of Grey.  Life is too short.

I really like James Patterson, there are several series to pick from if you've only read Alex Cross.

A few of my favorite old school mysteries:

• Rebecca
• Wuthering Heights
• Strangers on a Train 
  (1 and 3 probably easier to read on vacation)

I am reading Chrissy Wellington's book now and I like it, it about her whole life and not just a sports book.

Other random books I loved:

• Time Traveler's Wife
• Poisonwood Bible (maybe my favorite book, very complex and interesting)

You like dogs...

My two favorite "dog" books lately...

"Lost and Found" by Jacqueline Sheehan

"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein

A few good ones I finished recently:

Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets by Kathleen Alcott
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff 

Just finished:

As Good as Gold - by Kathryn Bertine. ESPN gives her two years to make the Olympics and pays her write about it. It's pretty funny, and definitely entertaining.

Body Parts - by Vicki Stiefel. Mystery - you'll probably like it if you like Alex Cross stuff.

Was talking a bunch about Dean Koontz over Thanksgiving - my family combined has probably read all of his books. They're mystery/adventure, usually with a supernatural/sci-fi twist thrown in. Relentless and Seize the Night (2nd in the Fear Nothing Series) were some favorites. Harlan Coben also writes books along similar lines.

x2 on the Stephanie Plum series. I just started these books and I am really liking them.  Easy reads and very entertaining!  I also loved 11/22/63 - excellent book.

I'm on a non fiction kick.  The last few I have really enjoyed are:
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Drinking, A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich
Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Comet - 2012-11-27 5:35 PM

jldicarlo - 2012-11-27 5:18 PM

You like dogs...

My two favorite "dog" books lately...

 

"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein

NO! Don't do it. I cried and cried.  

I did too - it was right up there with Marley & Me  in terms of the gross snotty sobbing that accompanied the end of the books. 

The Stephanie Plum books are light, fluffy, entertaining reads. 

I'm reading a James Patterson book right now that's fairly intriguing so far:  Guilty Wives

Also reading the latest Sherlock Holmes book:  House of Silk

One that came out a little while ago, but I absolutely loved:  The Night Circus

Have fun on the cruise! 

Tom Cruise?! Every one of the books mentions how Reacher is so freakishly big.  Unless they're going to film it with the same trick photography they're using to make Gandalf bigger than the hobbits, my mental image of Reacher is going to be ruined.  If you like the Reacher books, you should also try Vince Flynn's series of the CIA assassin Mitch Rapp.

Just finished reading all of the original Sherlock Holmes short stories.  Most of them are really good.

If you like early Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, you should try Vince Flynn. He has a series based upon Mitch Rapp, the primary character.

I also just finished Killing Lincoln: The shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever and am now reading Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot.  Both of these are quick, interesting reads.  

Good luck and enjoy the cruise.

The three I've been reading lately:

Jill Homer - Be Brave, Be Strong. Kindle Edition is $0.99 for the next couple of days. Her journey across the Great Divide on a mountain bike.

Marcus Luttrell - Lone Survivor. The story of Seal Team 10 and Operation RedWing. It's an eyeopener. I may have had something in my eye throughout the book.

Matt Fitzgerald - Iron War. Dave Scott vs. Mark Allen at Kona. Their stories, training, and battle for the wins.

I'm sure this is compleltely not what your looking for.  They are old books, and not even popular.  But they were GOOD (to me).  Simple reads that were fun, and CHEAP, if you have a kindle.

My mom is into crime/law/detective novels.  She lent them to me over my Kindle.  I read Harvey Parnells books the Steve Winslow series (laywer books), and Stanley Hastings detective novels.   I plowed through about 15 of them in the last several months.  Just fun reads and at 99 cents to 1.99 each for a kindle, cheap!

'The Red Tent' by Anita Diamant.  I couldn't put it down.  It's fiction, based on the Bible.  (HOLD ON!)  It's not a religious, preachy, book.  Basically, take the Old Testament and tell it from the women's point of view.  A fictional account of the women; Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah.  There role and what life was like being married to the famous men in the Bible.  It was AWESOME!

This reminds me of another one, sort of in the "historical fiction" category. I really liked Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund. It's the story of Marie Antoinette and I think it's fairly closely based on her real life.

"I need to be on a low sodium diet."

X2 on Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. I read that book over the summer and it was awesome!

I just finished The 19th Wife, same category. About Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's 19th wife who began the crusade to end polygamy in the Morman church. Her 1800s story (and other stories from points of view of her mother, brother, Brigham Young, etc.) are intermixed with a modern-day story line from the current church/cult. Fascinating.