novels:
How to Kill a Mockingbird, Four Miles to Pinecone, Of Mice and Men, The Outsiders, Grapes of Wrath, the Cannary Row novels, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Let The Circle Be Unbroken, A Wrinkle In Time, Where The Red Fern Grows, and a few others on my mind that i forgot :banghead:

authors:
John Steinbeck, S.E. Hinton, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Jean Craighead George, Garth Nix, and many others whose names i forgot, many of which i only read 1 of they're novels

some of these novels i haven't read, they are on my list:: Grapes of Wrath, the Cannary Row novels,Let The Circle Be Unbroken


Some of my books and authors might not be novel-related, but hey, who really cares?, they're good authors and books.

who says kids these days dont read enough?

:laugh: too many to list!!

i'll get back to this when my DSL is working. jay

The latest books I read were the Dark Tower series (7 books) by Stephen King, and Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King. The DT series was great, they worked as a very good time filler over the summer.

Now I have to start reading the Scarlet Letter for english class :banghead:

lol, spelling cow?

i actually started writing something of a novel last night.. and yeah.. lol, i only got like 2 paragraphs

My favorites would have to be Stephen King and Ann Rule. Just about anything based on true crime.


My favorite from high school English class had to Uncle Tom's Cabin.


All of my books in my shelf have been read at least once and some have been read to many times to count.

Patricia Cornwell
Jonathan Kellerman
Sandra Brown

These are the authors i'm into atm.

my friends favorite author is stephen king, ( hes in 11th now but he had the same 8th grade english teacher that i have now, shes pretty good at getting people to like reading. ) anyway, how good are stephen kings books? and what are they about?, what are they like?, etc..

ive never read any of his novels, but hes somebody whos novels i want to read sometime.

Fall of Reach and First Strike and soon Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund. <3

Why?

His Master Chief and Elite battles are AWESOME! The Flood by William C. Dietz sucked even though I <3'd Zuka Zamamee....

Yes I'm talking about Halo novels...

I read just about anything and everything by any author or groups of authors. I read every textbook that my children were issued until about 10th grade, I have read 90% of King, Koontz, Cromwell, and too many others to try to remember.

I typically go through a Steven King novel in 2-4 days, I also like to read medical books and assorted college textbooks when I can get my hands on them. :laugh:

I haven't really read many of the classic authors.:hmm:

:laugh:


i suppose ill give them a try and read them.. my brother read them,

IME, his books are great, and hard to explain, but they will drag you in :)

I read most anything voraciously, as for good authors...

Classics:
Aldus Huxley was a master of the "English" language.
Dickens wrote Great expectations which I really liked.
Tolkien is awesome. There is something to be said about
Hemingway's intrinsic skills.

Modern:
Dan Brown is entertaining, Angel's and Demons owned The Davinci Code.
King is always a fun read though sometimes he struggles with endings.
Crichton is always fun.
Sandra Brown is usually great until the last 50 pages.
Ursula K. Le Guin is a very deep author.

That's a few.

There is one book I havent read from that Dan Brown series. I will get to it eventually!

I always found there were parts to Stephen Kings books that were slow and it was a real struggle to keep reading. Of all his book I recommend IT. See the movie first then read the book because the book is much more enjoyable.

No one else reads Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series? The autopsy descriptions take some getting used to but great books with lots of twists.

I love King's work, but you are right about seeing the movie first, even with todays special effects they can't capture on screen what you can create in your mind. I have read some of his books before seeing the moovie and I was always dissapointed with the movie.

I love the Scarpetta series, crime and medical topics fascinate me, and she creats vivid imagry, like finding her best friend in a shallow grave with a pic of her daughter in the grave, close attention to detail.

I'm currently reading "The Court" by Coughlin.

well, i finish Of Mice and Men,

poor poor lennie what a way to go...



so.. what should i read next?, thinking grapes of wrath, or the seventh tower series, by Garth Nix, or IT by stephen king, or something, suggestions?

Hey Youth...the biggest influences on me when I was your age included:

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and "Doors of Perception" are must reads.

Farenheight 451 ....by Ray Bradbury

"1984" and "Animal Farm" by Orwell

"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthoney Burgess

(anybody see a trend in the above books?)

...a little later in High School and College I really got into Hunter S. Thompson..."Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a must read and his letters and journalism have also been combined into a number of books(Southern Gentlemen Series)..."Hells Angels" is another good one by Thompson too.

Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" is great...

Thomas Wolfe's book about Ken Kesey "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is fabulous..

Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions"

"Days of War, Nights of Love" is a dangerous little Anarchist Manifesto...very interesting....

If you want a REAL challenge give "Ulysses" by James Joyce a read....Probably the finest modern novel out there...more layers of symbolism than you can shake a blunt at...I recomend having either an English Lit. Professor on call or a copy of the "cliff notes"...don't worry if you don't "get it all"...people have spent their entire lives trying to fully understand everything Joyce was trying to say about the human condition, Jewishness, Irishness, love, cheating, sex, daily monotony, drinking, prostitutes, motherhood, fatherhood, the Church, the pleasure of taking a shit....etc...

yeah a trend, i dont know any of them books at all

i actually started grapes of wrath, then gon' check out the dark tower ( series ?)and\or finish the seventh tower series, 6 books, only read 1-3

:laugh:

I just started reading I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson. My friend let me borrow it because he said it was a great book, and he didn't lie. It's a short read, but well worth it.

alright, so, favorite over all:

authors: Margaret Weise, Tracy Hickman, david farland.

Novels:dragons of autumn twilight, Dragons of winter night, dragons of spring dawning, test of the twins, war of the twins, time of the twins, dragons of a fallen sun, dragons of a lost star, Dragons of a vanished moon, and currently, dragond of the dwarven Depths.

also,the books in the death gate cycle, from Margaret Weise, Tracy Hickman.
and, these are all si-fi fantasy.


all the books above are from them, and i have read all of them, besides Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, which i am currently reading.


i'll post more when i get more of a list.


(by the way, i have read all of these in the past year and a half.)

I read The Green Mile (Stephen King) over the weekend, IMO, a very good book :)

yeah, i just read... umm...a stop sign, last. and IMO it was very informative and helpful,


yeah im not getting far on grapes of wrath, too lazy,