Book worms?

[LIBRA]

Any book worms about??

I have just recently fell in love with reading. I used to pick up a book and within the first chapter be bored, or lost or too usy thinking about the dishes/laundry. BUT I started reading and the last 2 months I have read more books then in the last 2years!

I read "Into The Wild" By Jon Krakauer . Great book, and it just came out as a movie which was great, but Id read the book first, it was better.

Anyone else read that????

Right now im reading Anne Rice "The Mayfair Witches" FREAKIN great read, its a long one but its so good I cant put it down.

So any good books I should look into too? Or want to discuss any??

[country]

if you like Anne Rice and the Mayfair Witches you might also like her Vampire Chronicals.I love all her books.

[Unkle_John]

JuJu and I went to a harvest festival over the weekend, the local library was having a book sale. 25 cent for paperback, 50 for hard. We spent about 7 bucks or so. We love to read.

[hippielove]

love love love to read. there is a groovy website out there, where you can connect with other book worms, get reviews of books.. etc. www.goodreads.com It's free!! :D

[CowboyHippy]

once a month or so everyone here goes on our rounds to the big box discount booksellers and we work our way around town ending up at the used place, everyone gets a book. I usually get some crafty books, survival skills, knots/homesteading. the wife gets novels and the kids get kids books.

I always reccomend the foxfire set (foxfire 1-12) i currently have 1-4. moonshining, cabin building, making butter/chairs/baskets/banjos. splitting logs for siding and shingles, making tar from pine sap. ...canning, drying veggies for overwinter use...natural (some are crackpot i say) remedies.... soap....i hear #5 has flintlock rifles.....c

the thing i love best about these books is that all the quotes and a lot of info is in genuine apalachain talk "then ya takes th' lye and mix in th' lard till its about...."

[Yossarian]

In no particular order, loosely grouped with regards to genre/writing style, authors that any reader should be familiar with:

Kurt Vonnegut
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Joseph Heller
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Wolfe
Anton Chekov
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson

and a plethora of others. Everyone should read - no exceptions!

[Kookie_Baron]

Ive been on a great scifi kick lately, mostly classics. However, here are a few of my favs:

John Varley
-titan
-wizard
-demon

Orsen Scott Card
-enders game
-speaker for the dead
-xenocide
-children of the mind

Robert Heinlien
-anything by this man he was a genius
-stranger in a strange land

Phillip K Dick
-anything by this man as well
-writes a lot of short stories

The books I mentioned by title are really good, the kind that grip your mind and take you far away into unknown imaginations. They captured my attention immediatly and didnt let go even after the books were read.

[Unkle_John]

I've been picking up Sci-Fi books that have really cool painted covers from the 40's-70's. Those have been some awesome reads!

[LIBRA]

Lovin all the ideas!!!


The foxfire series (set) sounds great, Im going to look into that. Im into it.

Yossarian, thats a great list of authors!!

[Unkle_John]

I picked up vol 1 of Foxfire at a thrift store a few months back, it is worth getting! I love it and want the rest of the series. OH if you have some extra cash go to mother earth news and order their back issues on CD, worth the money indeed!

[LIBRA]

I get the current mother earth news and I love it!!

My dad has like 30 yrs of back issues in his cellar, I dont know what shape they are in though? But I can have them anytime, just gotta pick em up!

[PEACE FROG]

I subscribe to that publication as well. I also get the Sierra club mag. Good stuff!!!

[LIBRA]

I always get junk mail for sierra club and it bothered me but it looks like a good organization, anyway. Is it??

[country]

The Foxfire books are great.Anybody know the history of how they came to be?It's a story within itself.

[Hippie Staff]

http://www.foxfire.org/prodFFbooks.html These are fun. Thanks for sharing!

[PEACE FROG]

I always get junk mail for sierra club and it bothered me but it looks like a good organization, anyway. Is it??Oh ya, google them check out their website. Oh and also HELLO COUNTRY :D
Peace.

[StellaBlue]

A few of my favorites...

anything by Maeve Binchy
The Red Tent
The Time Traveller's Wife
Harry Potter
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
On the Road
Gone With the Wind
Catcher in the Rye
anything by Anita Shreve

...and I really want to read the series about vampires, by Stephanie Meyer. I've heard great things about them.

The computers at my local library have Oprah's book club list on them, that's always a good place to start for me. I've found some really good authors from that list.

[SgtPepperSiobhan]

Anything Poe (his short stories are wonderful) and F. Scott Fitzgerald are great. A lot of meaning in the classics.

-Keileigh Ann

[Gratefulapril]

I read part of 'into the wild'. Then I moved. And it is in a box at my mums. Hopefully it will be here with me oneday and I can continue. Have you read any other books by John krakauer? Into thin air is excellent! Sad, very sad. But rockin.

My fave books recently were... the dark tower series, by stephen king, invisible monsters by chuck paluhniuk, (actually anything at all by him totally kicks ass!) & then about 2 days later, survivor by c.p. as well.
I love clive barker, poppy z. bright (brite??), anne rice, ray bradbury, some issac asimov (sp?), and other than weird shit, horror, a bit of sci-fi, I just read lots of plant books. I think I'm a geek. And I'm very proud. ;)

[Gratefulapril]

Any book worms about??

I have just recently fell in love with reading. I used to pick up a book and within the first chapter be bored, or lost or too usy thinking about the dishes/laundry. BUT I started reading and the last 2 months I have read more books then in the last 2years!

I read "Into The Wild" By Jon Krakauer . Great book, and it just came out as a movie which was great, but Id read the book first, it was better.

Anyone else read that????

Right now im reading Anne Rice "The Mayfair Witches" FREAKIN great read, its a long one but its so good I cant put it down.

So any good books I should look into too? Or want to discuss any??


Um, forgot to quote you so you'd know I was replying about your book! :) You should def read the vampire chronicles. Effin' amazing! :ufo:

[LIBRA]

Um, forgot to quote you so you'd know I was replying about your book! :) You should def read the vampire chronicles. Effin' amazing! :ufo:


Im almost done with the mayfair witches and was thinking I may read Lasher after, or not... maybe witch overload,lol So far I do love Anne Rice, she is a dirty bird though, lol, gets kinda hot and heavy in some parts.. :p

I want to read Into thin air, I bid on it on ebay and lost so I will grab it at the library.. LOVED into the wild, pick it back up and read on!!!

Nothing wrong with being a self proclamied GEEK! Im a dork and proud of it :48:

[country]

If you think she got" hot and heavy' there read her book The claiming of Sleeping Beauty

[Gratefulapril]

Oh, yeah, read the first half of that, wow. Very, uh, strange. But I will finish it one day. I could start a whole thread with the books I've read half of.....

Hey, for anyone who has lots of already read books and wants a great deal on new one's, check out www.paperbackswap.com It's where I get all my books. If they don't have the one you want already, you can get on a waiting list. It's really cool, free to join, and all you pay for books is the cost to ship your book that you don't want to a requesting member. (about 2.50 average sized paperback, mabey 5.00 for a hardcover) they give you a credit for sending someone else a book, and your credit is good for one book. They have everything! And if you have to wait for a book, it's still worth it. Cuz now you own it for virtually nothing. Awesome!

[LIBRA]

I too half finish LOTS of stuff, like painting my room,lol Its been 2 yrs and im still not done!

But thanks for that link, thats awesome!!!! Book swap, what a great idea. I dont buy new books, I go to rummage sales and get em cheap or the library, but I dont read em quick enough sometimes.

[Gratefulapril]

pbswap is GREAT! They are also participating in the Miami Book Fair (this weekend?) for anyone around this area.
I've literally gotten $500 worth of books for about $50 worth of shipping total, and that's just so cool in my 'book' (yep, I'm a geek, oh, well!)
They should pay me for advertising :p

[butterflyDancer]

In no particular order, loosely grouped with regards to genre/writing style, authors that any reader should be familiar with:

Kurt Vonnegut
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Joseph Heller
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Wolfe
Anton Chekov
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson

and a plethora of others. Everyone should read - no exceptions!

Oh man, agreed agreed! -hugs- I highly recommend Thoreau, Emerson, Kerouac, Vonnegut, and Orwell.

I finished Breakfast of Champions (my first Vonnegut book) in three days, and now I'm on a Kurt Vonnegut binge :D

[Gratefulapril]

i'm thinking i should finish 'rant' by chuck palahniuk, take all my library books back to the library, and focus on one book at a time for awhile. reread the dark tower books. enjoy, then move on to the next palahniuk book; 'choke'.

[Hippie Staff]

This company just listed in the directory - and he has some great books, and the prices are good too.

Burned Books Publishing (http://shop.burnedbookspublishing.com/) - a small independent publisher of radical non-fiction eBooks and a reseller of new & used books, videos, DVDs and more.

My fav is the Axis Of Evil III Finger Puppet Set- haha.

[butterflyDancer]

I registered on paperbackswap :) it's a great site
i mailed out slaughterhouse five saturday. waiting for the receiver to receive so i can get a copy of on the road :D