Books

Shandashey

What kind of books do you read? Do you read at all? Do you read autobiographies / biographies / crime / romance / thrillers etc.?

I love to read and I do it a lot. I can't imagine a life without books

kneemos

What now?

Kylo Ren

My favourite genre would be Harry Potter.

Cold War Kid

Wat ya readin' for?

Tsipras

Cormac McCarthy :cool: especially Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses but once you've read that you'll want the rest of the border trilogy:)

kneemos

Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.

Shandashey

Keno wrote: »

My favourite genre would be Harry Potter.[/QUOTE


meeeeeeh

Tsipras

kneemos wrote: »

Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.

McCarthy was on Oprah so he ain't obscure!

Shandashey

kneemos wrote: »

Just remember the more obscure the smarter you'll look.

noam Chomsky is a dear bed time friend

Lisha

Murder, cop stories and chick lit. I love reading. I always have a book on the go,

lazeedaisy

Thriller, Lee Child, Patrica Cornwell, Linda Fairstein,

Or whatever takes my fancy when I go to the library, I also like a light read for the car, audio cd's are the way to go, just finished a P G Woodhouse, The Single Batchelor, love listening to books in the car, it passes time,

That said..... I would read the back of a cornflakes box, I love reading, I would get through 3 books a week.

pablomakaveli

I love to read. Mainly into fantasy/sci fi books lately. Reading the Wheel of Time series at the moment.

eviltwin

Anything and everything, currently reading one of the Game of Thrones series, the Panti autobiography, a Neil Gaimen and a psychological thriller.

the evasion_kid

A lot of sci-fi not as Much anymore,prison escape stories and recently hobo literature

Poor Uncle Tom

...on a real cracker at the minute, Jill has just followed the boyo up the incline, he must be a programmer as there's something about him being pail! it's nail biting I can't wait to get to the next excerpt, will she persuade him to come down again? who's Doug? won't somebody think of the children?

Leogirl

Mostly history & historical fiction. I'll read most genres but I have no interest in science fiction.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

History and popular science during the day and fiction at night.

5 library books per week and I buy around 3 per month.

kylith

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Wat ya readin' for?

Why read when you can just flip on the 'tube?

I'm not too fussy about genre. I love Pratchett with a passion but other than that pretty much anything that's interesting and well written is good.

Not a Stephen King fan at all though.

Junkyard Tom

There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

Shandashey

Heidi Small Belly wrote: »

History and popular science during the day and fiction at night.

5 library books per week and I buy around 3 per month.

Do you have a kindle?

ArtyM

I love Books, especially Big Books.
I search the Internet all the time for videos of Big Books.
My favourite ones are big bouncy latina ones.

Shandashey

Junkyard Cat wrote: »

There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

SEPT 23 1989

bukes

Turtyturd

Comic books.

Jinonatron

I used to read a lot when I was a kid. Then at college kind of stopped me. Back into it now. I love a lot of stuff. This year I have read:

Mao : The unknown story -- Jung Chang
In the Miso Soup -- Rhu Murakami
Keane -- The auto biography.
1984 -- George Orwell
The Commitments -- Roddy Doyle.

I love lots of genres. I was mad into Lee Child a while ago. Think the Reacher character is great. Not read the latest ones yet though.

Recently bought a few in a second hand shop.
Looking forward to reading:
Red Dragon -- Thomas Harris
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
The devotion of suspect X-- Some japanese dude.
The Snapper -- Roddy Doyle.

Currently reading "Nothing to Envy" which is a biography of north korean defects. I love to read history, horror, crime, science fiction and autobiographies.

I was using a kindle for about two years and liked it. Then I read a paper book again and just couldn't go back to the kindle.

Tsipras

Jinonatron wrote: »

I used to read a lot when I was a kid. Then at college kind of stopped me. Back into it now. I love a lot of stuff. This year I have read:

Mao : The unknown story -- Jung Chang
In the Miso Soup -- Rhu Murakami
Keane -- The auto biography.
1984 -- George Orwell
The Commitments -- Roddy Doyle.

I love lots of genres. I was mad into Lee Child a while ago. Think the Reacher character is great. Not read the latest ones yet though.

Recently bought a few in a second hand shop.
Looking forward to reading:
Red Dragon -- Thomas Harris
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
The devotion of suspect X-- Some japanese dude.
The Snapper -- Roddy Doyle.

Currently reading "Nothing to Envy" which is a biography of north korean defects. I love to read history, horror, crime, science fiction and autobiographies.

I was using a kindle for about two years and liked it. Then I read a paper book again and just couldn't go back to the kindle.

Read this bad boy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fidel-Castro-Life-Spoken-Autobiography/dp/1416562338

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muhammad-Ali-His-Life-Times/dp/1907554807/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429391714&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=hausen+ali

lazeedaisy

I have a kindle and use the app on my iPad, but that said, I now use the library, but my local one does not support e books yet.

I browse online and order books via the online system, then also pick up random books in the library. It's an expensive hobby, but I enjoy the whole trip to the library.... .. It's obvious I don't get out enough, ha! I used to buy a book a week on amazon, now it's only one a month,

eviltwin

I love books so much I listen to audio books when I'm places I can't read. I get through 1-2 books a week. I'd be lost without something to read. I love meeting people into books and if I go into a house and see books everywhere it endears me to that person.

Mam of 4

Love books, this is a great thread Will read practically anything apart from -- they meet,they fight,they make up, they marry-- yep, the mills and boons are banned from my house

Love thrillers, war stories,really anything with a good storyline

osarusan

Moved recently and had to cut down on books to save packing space.

Here's some of what I kept:

J.M. Coetzee
Charles Dickens
John Irving
Kazuo Ishiguro
George Orwell
Harper Lee
J.D. Salinger
John McGahern
John Steinbeck
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Philip Roth
John Updike

kylith

osarusan wrote: »

Moved recently and had to cut down on books to save packing space.

I donated 3 boxes of books after my ex moved in so I feel your pain. I can't stop thinking of all those books I rehomed that I'll never have again.

SparkySpitfire

Absolutely adore reading... I remember finishing the LC and thinking I'd have loads of time to read and discover new books in college. HA. I barely do the required reading nevermind any reading for fun!

I still love books though and I've three lined up for when I finish exams in May. I recently did my 10th reread of the whole HP series and it's reignited my love of books. I'm so excited!

One thing college did do was turn me into a telly addict, I used to just watch films but now I've got loads of series' on the go I can hardly keep up! That being said the passive action of enjoying tv is monumentally different from the active excitement that reading gives. It's truly a unique experience and one I'm truly grateful to find enjoyable.

Summer wind

I absolutely and truly love reading. I could never be without a book. I remember my dad buying me ladybird books at the supermarket at home when I was only about 3 years old. It's fantastic to get stuck in and read about 200 pages in one go. I always have a book with me everywhere I am. The only drawback is when you have to be up at 8 and don't stop reading until 5 because you can't put the book down:) I love James Patterson Martina Cole, Karin Slaughter, Lynda La Plante, Charlaine Harris, Jeffrey Deaver, Kelly Armstrong, Matthew Reilly, Anne Rice, Agatha Christie and loads more:)

Junkyard Tom

I used to read quite a lot before I became a bit of an info/internet junkie. Now when I read a book I find it hard to keep my mind on the subject because I want to 'click' on certain terms, dates, locations etc and explore them further like you can on the web which is very distracting.

I watch and listen to documentaries and lectures on the web now and have largely abandoned reading books. I'm glad I grew up before the advent of the internet when a book was really the only form of media you had access to as a child after bedtime. I loved Roald Dahl novels when I was a kid - it felt like you were actually there in their comfy little wooden caravan with Danny (the champion of the world) and his Father.

osarusan

kylith wrote: »

I donated 3 boxes of books after my ex moved in so I feel your pain. I can't stop thinking of all those books I rehomed that I'll never have again.

No, you have passed them on and somebody else will get to read and experience what you did. There's no pain when you look at it like that.

Never keep a book on a shelf for years without looking at it.

Pass it on to somebody else.

Umekichi

I'll read anything once it's half decent but my favourite genres are fantasy, sci-fi and crime fiction. I have a kindle and honestly ereaders are some of the best inventions ever, since I have a load of books to read when I travel. Doesn't beat a good old fashioned book though(that old book smell is great!).

danslevent

Absolutely love reading, last month I read six books!

I will read most things, I will read anyone's biography/autobipgraphy, love reading about peoples' lives and how they became famous etc

I feel really sorry for people who don't like reading, it is such a wonderful escapism. My friend wishes she could concentrate enough to read, instead I just read the books and then tell her the stories

Dozer Dave

Working on alot of vintage tractors lately and been reading shop manuals on them.

frankoreagan

I torrent the NYT fiction + non-fiction bestsellers list every few months and plough through it. Reading 'Dead Wake' by Erik Larson at the moment.

diomed

Sports biographies; horse racing.

FanadMan

Anything and everything apart from Mills & Boon type of books. Mind you, I read the 50 Shades books to see what the hype was and am still trying to figure it out - worst waste of paper ever! Good job I only downloaded the e-book torrents of them so I was able to delete them.

Am currently book-minding for someone......over 100 books and I want to read them all but promised not to

Capt'n Midnight

Dozer Dave wrote: »

Working on alot of vintage tractors lately and been reading shop manuals on them.

If you give it up you'll regret it as you will forever be known as an ex tractor fan.

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

...on a real cracker at the minute, Jill has just followed the boyo up the incline, he must be a programmer as there's something about him being pail! it's nail biting I can't wait to get to the next excerpt, will she persuade him to come down again? who's Doug? won't somebody think of the children?

turns out that Jill wasn't thinking about the children

Collie D

FanadMan wrote: »

Am currently book-minding for someone......over 100 books and I want to read them all but promised not to

I don't get this. Why?

Earthhorse

Junkyard Cat wrote: »

There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

Like a list of everyone's phone number.

Mint Aero

I read AH and that's enough

Macavity.

Mostly screenplays or TV pilots these days. Then I watch the movie or TV pilot.

Don't read books that much anymore.

MRnotlob606

I like reading some Philosophy. I think reading in general stimulates the mind a lot.

Corruptedmorals

I'm obsessed with reading and my book collection is a bit out of control. I re-read and don't like libraries so I cant bear to give them away.

Most of my books are easy-reading fiction. Some chick lit, most just good stories. I don't like anything too deep, obscure or philosophical and avoid those books like the plague. I don't like crime either unless it's historical like the brilliant CJ Sansom Tudor crime series. I love historical fiction, some history and some fantasy. I'm about to start the Wheel of Time series.

folamh

I mostly read non-fiction and theory. Philosophy, politics, pop science and psychology, etc.

oEmmao

i love to read also, its my fav thing to do! such a nerd hehe

at the moment im reading Harm's Reach by Alex Barclay, very good books

I use www. goodreads.com to keep track of my books and www. bookmooch.com to swap paperbacks

thinking of getting a book tattoo soon too

the_syco

Shandashey wrote: »

I can't imagine a life without books

Some people only live one life. If you read, you can live many... :pac: