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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 4:32:19 PM   
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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 5:02:47 PM   
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On the serious side:
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Grendel by John Gardner
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

For lighter reads:
any of Tess Gerritsen's medical thrillers.  I like her straight thrillers, too, but prefer the older stuff.
Stiff by Mary Roach.  It's non-fiction and all about corpses, and no one I've recommended it to has liked it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The first two of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic novels. 
Gordon by Edith Templeton
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

It's a short story, but I love O'Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief."  Oh, and two more short stories, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.

And, if I can include a play, "Equus" by Peter Shaffer.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 5:44:04 PM   
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James Patterson except the letters and diaries stuff
Dean Koontz
Diana Galbaldon
Patricia Cornwall
Robert Heinlen
Cosmos, Carl Sagan (the movie had no hopes of ever capturing this book)
The Dragonlance Series (only those written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman)
Pat Conroy
The Harry Potter Series
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Lisa Gardner
Iris Johanson
Barbara Delinsky

I could go on and on...lol.  I've listed mostly authors, but because you can't go wrong with just about anything of theirs.




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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 6:04:44 PM   
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Anything by Asimov, Heinlen, Ellison, Bradbury, MacCaffrey, Rice.



Any favorite Ellison stories, twice?


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Really he is such brilliant writer i love them all.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 6:17:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kushiel's Dart (Jacqueline Carey). The first book in in a fantasy trilogy that is quite popular among friends of mine who are submissives. Well writen, interesting world (romantisized Renaisssance France), and the main character is a courtesan who is "blessed" by the god of pain. 

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 6:35:54 PM   
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Any favorite Ellison stories, twice?


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Really he is such brilliant writer i love them all.


Yes, I agree *smiles*. I have almost every book he's written, and tons of magazine interviews, articles, etc. I had a brief "brush" with him a few years back. He was looking for a first edition of the I, Robot screenplay that was put in book form, and I thought I had the one he needed.... but I had no way of contacting him. Anyway, I told a friend of mine that I had the book, and forgot about it.
 
A few weeks later, my phone rang. It was Ellison calling, and it was so unexpected, it just about blew my mind lol. Turns out I didn't have the edition he wanted, but we chatted a few minutes and I hung up the phone a happy camper .

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 7:20:46 PM   
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Future shock- alvin toffler.
 
1984 Geo Orwell


Have you read War- Antiwar by Toffler?

BTW.. I wish I could write a list like so many here, but books are like children, and I just have a hard time making a few favorites above the rest...lol. I do really love the Wheel of Time series as far as fiction goes, but I read at least one book a week, sometimes more... and I just love most everything I read.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 7:25:06 PM   
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Reaper Man- Terry Pratchett ( Death takes a holiday and all hell breaks loose in the land of the living, and un-dead)

Kushiel's Dart- Jacqueline Carey ( a story about how painsluts are originated)

edited to say: oops, hadn't realized Kushiel's Dart was already there...hadn't read the rest of the posts first

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 8:37:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		i am very thankful for the posts to date.  i hope S/someone other than i benefits from the recommendations.  i thought it only fair to post some of my own favorite books.
 
1.  i seriously lust after a subscription to Oxford English Dictionary online, but cannot justify the expense.
 
2.  Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol.  Until i started law school i read this book every summer.
 
3.  The Gift of Fear by Gavin De  Becker.  Be able to protect Y/yourself; rid Y/your life of worry and anxiety.
 
4.  Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon  -- a truely horrific novel based upon some solid research into Paganism, skewed of course, for the horrorific effect.
 
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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 8:53:49 PM   
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - the most gripping autobiography i have ever read
any of Dave Eggers' short stories
also, the whole Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, perhaps with Good Omens by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman first.


I don't want to burst your bubble here but this was a book written as fiction.  It was rejected by 17 publishing houses, and in a conversation with someone in one of the rejecting publishers James was told that this story would be more marketable if it were truth and not fiction...and voila the birth of a "memoir".
 
I too was pulled into this book.  As a recovering addict, I was amazed and a little leary at first but I figured that a publisher would check the facts...I was as shocked as Oprah.   

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 9:33:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		the only lifestyle book i read was "The Loving Dominant" very informative for both of U/us.

my favorite author otherwise is James Patterson and maybe Nicholas Sparks


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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 10:36:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have to agree with everyone that recommended Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy, but maybe that's just because it was the first set of books I ever read dealing with BDSM. It can get a little flowery at time, but overall it's wonderful to get caught up in the whole world she creates. The third, Beauty's Release, is probably my favorite.

I recently finished reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and I loved it. Couldn't suggest it enough. It centers around an angel and a demon who decide, as the antichrist prepares to rise, that they enjoy the world far too much to see it destroyed. It's a comedy with a religious/fantasy spin to it.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/25/2006 11:04:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Kushiel's Dart was a very good read, I am currently reading Kushiel's Chosen.
Jacqueline Carey is an amazing writer, IMO, however some parts of the story seem to drag on more for my liking.  None the less a very good read.
A little off topic but her marque is quiet breath taking, I have decided to actually have a tattoo of my own inked, not exactly, but quite similar to the one described and pictured.

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kushiel's Dart (Jacqueline Carey). The first book in in a fantasy trilogy that is quite popular among friends of mine who are submissives. Well writen, interesting world (romantisized Renaisssance France), and the main character is a courtesan who is "blessed" by the god of pain. 


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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/26/2006 10:03:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you're seeking unique genres, I recommend Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy and other books by Steven Leacock.  Sort of a turn-of-the-century Steve Martin.

p.s. Here's a list of bdsm-related books I've read:
Venus in Furs
The Confessions of Wanda Von Sacher-Masoch
Story of O
Torture Garden
The Leatherman's Handbook
Exit to Eden



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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 4:17:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Please give a quick synopsis of the book that you recommend.
I've searched a few that had more than just a title, and found some real interesting hits.
But just bare titles give so little to go forward on.
I've wandered the bookstores so fruitlessly, but a few of the books mentioned have piqued my interest already.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 4:58:32 AM   
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The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Through Wolf's Eyes (and the sequels) by Jane Lindskold

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 5:26:06 AM   
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A few weeks later, my phone rang. It was Ellison calling, and it was so unexpected, it just about blew my mind lol. Turns out I didn't have the edition he wanted, but we chatted a few minutes and I hung up the phone a happy camper .


Wow, i am so jealous! I loved the the interview he did where he told the story about being fired from Disney, evidently it was politically incorrect to say "f**k the mouse" at lunchtime, roflmao again.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 6:04:01 AM   
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Green eggs and ham... Dr Seuss
the cat in the hat...           "
Hairy McCleary  series
Enid Blyton (especially the folk in the faraway tree, the wishing chair, the famous five...)
 
lol... ... yes... i have kids.... thought this thread could use a little lighter reading
 
cheekily,
tali
 

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 11:25:42 AM   
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A few weeks later, my phone rang. It was Ellison calling, and it was so unexpected, it just about blew my mind lol. Turns out I didn't have the edition he wanted, but we chatted a few minutes and I hung up the phone a happy camper .


Wow, i am so jealous! I loved the the interview he did where he told the story about being fired from Disney, evidently it was politically incorrect to say "f**k the mouse" at lunchtime, roflmao again.


lol twice...... yes, he's left not only millions of happy readers, but a trail of crunched egos in his wake. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, today is his birthday. So, Happy Bday, Unca Harlan, and thanks for all the wonders your mind has come up with, be it the short stories, or the "City On The Edge of Forever" script done for Star Trek, or the tons of essays.

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RE: Please Recommend Y/your Favorite Books - 5/27/2006 1:57:04 PM   
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i'm interested in finding some new genres so i'm asking for recommendations.  What is Y/your favorite book(s).....and please include reference works or BDSM books if Y/you like.
 
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Hmmm...

The Once and Future King- T.H. White
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Armor - John Stakely
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot - Al Franken

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