Hey all,
Does anyone here really like to read? By that I mean do you spend some of your free time reading for enjoyment/recreation.
I am in the process of writing my first novel. I would like a few people to read a chapeter or two and give me an unbaised opinion.
If you think you may be interested please let me know what you've read lately, who your favorite authors are, and what genre you prefer.
Thanks,
'Mash
Quote from: Monstermash on December 16, 2008, 08:23:37 PM
Hey all,
Does anyone here really like to read? By that I mean do you spend some of your free time reading for enjoyment/recreation.
I am in the process of writing my first novel. I would like a few people to read a chapeter or two and give me an unbaised opinion.
If you think you may be interested please let me know what you've read lately, who your favorite authors are, and what genre you prefer.
Thanks,
'Mash
Recently just finished "Dreams from my Father"
my favorite author would be Bret Easton Ellis
crime/psychological thriller
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I love to read... except I seem to spend more time reading the DMF than I do books.
I bet I've got 20 books at home that I haven't even opened. I go to the book store, find something that looks interesting, then put it on the shelf.
i have 3 hours a day to do nothing but read.
send me wat you got , as long as it can be read in a blackberry!
Quote from: androgynous on December 16, 2008, 08:46:50 PM
Recently just finished "Dreams from my Father"
my favorite author would be Bret Easton Ellis
crime/psychological thriller
Bret Ellis is your fave author? ???
To quote the lit professor we shared in college (I knew Bret in college. Woo, facebook friend name drop!) "Mister Ellis does not write. He types."
Never liked his writing. Guess I never "got" it.
Back on topic, I'd be happy to read whatever you got.
ditto. lit major (and former editor) from way back with more than a little time on my hands.
doze et hav pitchurs?
I can reedz
;D
I'm afraid I don't know how to read. ??? :'(
I like Tom Clancy novels ~
JM
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Typically read about 2.5 hours a day mostly fantasy but I read a lot of different stuff.
I read quite a bit. mostly scifi/fantasy, fave author, Heinlien is badass, been reading S.M. Sterling lately. Richard Morgan is very good.
I read for probably 1 - 2 hrs/day. Lots of historical fiction (Clavell, Cornwell). Also military history (Ambrose, Keegan), fantasy, and some news/current events (The Economist).
I like reading!
As for what I like to read, it's all over the map. Currently I'm reading "The Sushi Economy" by Sasha Issenberg,
just finished "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Also working my way through Dante's "The Divine Comedy"
Crichton, Card, Clancy are some of my guilty pleasures.
i cant promise i can finish a book though. i got the. uhh mad cow.
Authors: Tim Powers, Chuck Palahniuk, Steven Pressfield, Glen Cook, Alastair Reynolds, Gene Wolfe
I'll read most anything that isn't overly technical or found in the "Romance" section. :-*
Recently: Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About, Outrageous Fortune, The Drawing of the Dark
Quote from: DCXCV on December 17, 2008, 08:44:35 AM
Authors: Tim Powers, Chuck Palahniuk, Steven Pressfield, Glen Cook, Alastair Reynolds, Gene Wolfe
I'll read most anything that isn't overly technical or found in the "Romance" section. :-*
Recently: Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About, Outrageous Fortune, The Drawing of the Dark
Well you just listed two of my faves (Palahniuk and Wolfe) so I've got to check out those others.
And I'll recommend Michael Chabon and Richard Russo (Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool)
I'm on the last book of the Black Company series by Glen Cook. Really ,really good books. [thumbsup]
I lurve to read, and would look forward to an excuse to do so :)
If you're screening, my desert island books are White Noise, Lolita, and Confederacy of Dunces. Recently read Blindness (Saramago), and Downtown Owl (Chuck Klostermann), and I have been plodding my way through Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
I've been going through a ton of Cussler books lately. Being newly unemployed has its' perks!
the wife and i both read lots of books.
(i read faster...but she reads books with more substance 8))
Same genres as mentioned...historical fiction is my fave...currently reading Shaara book. also like Pressfield, Cornwell, Wibur Smith, etc.
Also like thrillers but I get burned out on authors that have same character in all their books doing the same things- like Patterson, Sandford, etc.
here's my plot summary of every Alex Cross book-
crazy but deviously smart serial killer captures <children, girlfriend, whoever>
Cross is conflicted wants to get out of police work, plays piano on porch, grandma cooks something and dispenses home-spun wisdom
big chase and shootout with samson in tow, bad guy thwarted, girlfriend either gets back with Cross or dies.
<yawn> ;D
We just discovered the library here is excellent. It's saving us a ton of money we used to spend at Barnes-Noble!
I'm a voracious reader of a number of genres. Lately I've been on an automotive kick, so I just finished Brock Yates' 'Against Death and Time' and am starting on Mark Donahue's 'Unfair Advantage'. Aside from biographies and histories, I also read some sci-fi & fantasy for fun.
If you'd like constructive criticism and proof reading, I'll check your stuff out. Be forewarned though, that when I proof something, I'm generally pretty critical.
I read when I have freetime.
I usually read books in one sitting, even if that means pulling all nighters.
My favorite author is Dick Francis, therefore I prefer mysteries/thrillers.
Quote from: DesmoDiva on December 17, 2008, 05:09:02 PM
I read when I have freetime.
I usually read books in one sitting, even if that means pulling all nighters.
My favorite author is Dick Francis, therefore I prefer mysteries/thrillers.
:o one sitting????
Yeah, I'm crazy like that.
I'll sit down and read for 18 hours straight. It's like I leave this world and enter another realm of existence.
I polished off Les Miserables in a few days. Had to stop for naps with that one.
Quote from: He Man on December 17, 2008, 07:14:22 PM
:o one sitting????
Same here. Finished Atlas Shrugged in 22 hours strait. I was so wired at the end it was pretty intense.
I'm a pretty big bibliophile, and am actually writing a book at the moment as well. But nothing that has taken too much shape yet.
Send me your stuff if you want, I have a few hours to kill on flights over the holidays.
Quote from: El Matador on December 17, 2008, 07:28:35 PM
Same here. Finished Atlas Shrugged in 22 hours strait. I was so wired at the end it was pretty intense.
I'm a pretty big bibliophile, and am actually writing a book at the moment as well. But nothing that has taken too much shape yet.
Send me your stuff if you want, I have a few hours to kill on flights over the holidays.
Atlas Shrugged is a great read. [thumbsup]
Took me a while to get into it, but glad I did.
The Fountain Head was much easier to read/understand.
Quote from: DesmoDiva on December 17, 2008, 07:32:34 PM
Atlas Shrugged is a great read. [thumbsup]
Took me a while to get into it, but glad I did.
The Fountain Head was much easier to read/understand.
I know. One of my favs. A lot easier bc it doesn't have a 60 FREAKING PAGE LONG speech saying the same shit that you're led to understand in the first 800 pages.
But Ayn Rand is the shit [thumbsup]
i read Dr. Suess on the train today. took about 25 mins.... :'( you guys make me feel illiterate. [laugh]
i was reading a book suggested to me by chris kelly..... its been about 3 months now, theres 150 pages left that i never finished.
hop on pop
Send a copy my way - if it starts with " It was a dark and stormy night " i'm calling the gremlins from those commercials to knock your bike over ;)
Adam
Quote from: DrDesmosedici on December 17, 2008, 09:00:35 PM
Send a copy my way - if it starts with " It was a dark and stormy night " i'm calling the gremlins from those commercials to knock your bike over ;)
Adam
Ye of little faith. Thanks Adam. >:(
Thank you everyone for the replies to this thread. I will be putting a few more finishing touches on the first few chapters in the net day or two and then I'll get them out to some of you. [thumbsup]
Quote from: DesmoDiva on December 17, 2008, 07:32:34 PM
Atlas Shrugged is a great read. [thumbsup]
Took me a while to get into it, but glad I did.
The Fountain Head was much easier to read/understand.
Love to read... Ayn was [thumbsup]
Quote from: El Matador on December 17, 2008, 07:40:04 PM
I know. One of my favs. A lot easier bc it doesn't have a 60 FREAKING PAGE LONG speech saying the same shit that you're led to understand in the first 800 pages.
But Ayn Rand is the shit [thumbsup]
I'm a big fan of Ayn Rand too. Did you know that they made a movie about her? I saw it when I was flipping around the other day. She's played by Helen Mirren.
I'm a big fan of Chuck Palahniuk and Margaret George writes great historical fiction. I'm going to pick up Mission: Black List #1 by Eric Maddox on my way home. He's the SSgt and military interrogator who was responsible for the capture of Saddam Hussein, his book sounds very interesting!
Quote from: DaniD on December 18, 2008, 12:12:53 PM
I'm a big fan of Ayn Rand too. Did you know that they made a movie about her? I saw it when I was flipping around the other day. She's played by Helen Mirren.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140447/) [thumbsup]
Adam
Quote from: DesmoDiva on December 17, 2008, 07:32:34 PM
Atlas Shrugged is a great read. [thumbsup]
Took me a while to get into it, but glad I did.
The Fountain Head was much easier to read/understand.
Atlas Shrugged is definitely my favorite book so far, Fountainhead is top 5. I will not say how long it took me to read Atlas Shrugged though. I'll just say it was a little bit longer than 22 hours [bow_down]
1984 is another favorite, I've read that one a few times.
Quote from: DaniD on December 18, 2008, 12:23:23 PM
I'm a big fan of Chuck Palahniuk and Margaret George writes great historical fiction. I'm going to pick up Mission: Black List #1 by Eric Maddox on my way home. He's the SSgt and military interrogator who was responsible for the capture of Saddam Hussein, his book sounds very interesting!
+1 for Chuck P
Adam
I can add a few of my regular favrites. I only read for fun mostly.
Stephen King
Dave Berry
I Azamov
Arther C Clarke
M Crichton
John ? Grishum. Sorrabout the spelling
Tom Clancy
Jimmy Buffet
The Onion
Farley Mowat
Zane Gray
and as mentioned earler ,,,C. Cussler Good reading for a fishing shack.
All easy reading I could go on and on. Howabout the first 3 vampire books by Ann Rice ?
This is the type of books that regular (I think) assholes like me read.
"It wsa a cold day in the north....the last thing I expectied was......... "
Kilgore Trout
I am an avid reader and my tastes are all over, from "junk food for the brain" to political and historical or scientific. Pretty much the only thing I don't read are romance novels. It usually takes me 3-6 hours to get through a popular fiction novel (Koontz, Baldacchi, Cornwell type novels) but longer for biographies, etc. This week I've read the 2 latest Stephen King novels, something stupid by Dean Koontz, and Boots on the Ground by Dusk, by Pat Tillman's mom.
I'd love to read your first couple chapters.