Reading Time

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:10 am

Helefra

I noticed in another thread that you started "The Watcher"

I also have put it on my list of "Books to Read"

Great idea for a thread! :-6

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:23 am

helefra wrote: I remember reading a book called "Adventureland" which was written by Steve Harris. I loved that book

Helefra (I am having trouble finding a nickname for you!),

Would you call this book along the lines of Koontz or Stephen King?

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:09 pm

Try out John Saul or Jonathan Kellerman, if you like suspense or mystery. I recently finished Saul's Perfect Nightmare, and I really liked it. I also read Gone, Kellerman's most recent and that was good too.

A Koontz fan? Try Velocity. I am reading it now, and though not my favorite by him, I am enjoying it.

Tigerlily · Post by **Tigerlily** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:25 pm

Reginald Hill, The Stranger House. Unputdownable.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:00 pm

Oh "The Stand"! A Stephen King classic.

The only scary King movie (besides "The Shining") that I thought held up on screen was "The Dead Zone". With Christopher Walken. Who is fabulous!

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:07 pm

"The Cell" by Stephen King. If you read, and liked, "The Stand", you'll love it. On a specific day, the people using cell phones turn psychotic and a group of peeps try to save everything.

It's good.

I'm a book fanatic, and I can recommend many, but I read all over the place, meaning genres, so what is your most favorite genre?

Good authors (small list):

Stephen King and Dean Koontz of course

Nora Roberts

Heather Graham

Linda Howard

James Patterson

Jeaffrey Deavor

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:13 pm

You want a fabulous series?? Read the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel. 5 books, (I'll list them in order below) about what it was like during an ice age when Neandertahl man and "regular" man both co-existed, but set in fiction. The many character, Ayla, was raised by Neanderthals, and breaks away from them to find her own kind. There's lots of detail about the land, and tool-making and the foods they ate and lots of hints at how modern devices came to be, through the discoveries of the people of that time. It's really an incredible series, and I've re-read all 5 books so many times, I've lost count.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Valley of Horses

The Mammoth Hunters

The Plains of Passage

The Shelters of Stone

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:20 pm

If you like SK, then most of his are good, but one of my favorites was "The Green Mile" Book was great, so was the movie (IMO).

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:25 pm

I'm sure most of you already know that "Stand by Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" were based on King short stories.

"Shawshank", IMHO, is one of the all-time great movies.

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:27 pm

helefra wrote: Oh what a film, I cried at the end of that one. SK has a great way of portraying the bad guys in his book, when he makes the bad guys bad, he makes them so bad that they are evil - excellent work by the writer.

That's true, and what I liked so much about the Green Mile was that much of the dialogue was taken directly from the book. Not many movies-from-books can say that. He's just a phenomenal writer.

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:27 pm

cherandbuster wrote: I'm sure most of you already know that "Stand by Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" were based on King short stories.

"Shawshank", IMHO, is one of the all-time great movies.

Oh my goodness, I watch that movie every single time it comes on. I never get sick of it. IT's absolutely fantastic!

I feel the same about the book "A Time To Kill", and I've read it several times.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:59 pm

I remeber reading a short story from SK called "The Mist" it creeped me out. Anyways if you like good heart warming women stories I suggest Angry Housewives eating BonBons by Lorna Landavik. Also I recommend Debbie Macomber's 2 books The shop on Blossom Street and A Good Yarn.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:07 pm

I can't remeber which book it was in, I just remeber it had a funny looking toy monkey on the cover. :-2

Carolyn · Post by **Carolyn** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:59 pm

Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child --

Early last year I happened across "The Cabinet of Curiosities" and loved it. Then I read "Still Life with Crows" and "Brimstone". I also read "Ice Limit", but it is the Pendergast stories I really like. I am half way through "Dance of Death" and I have "The Book of the Dead" ready to start when I finish.

I love mysteries and I find books written by these two authors so descriptive. I feel as though I am there in the sub basements or the caverns and can really visualize what is happening.

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:28 am

"The Mist" is in 'Skeleton Crew'.

Other good stories in the collection (IMHO) are:

*The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet

*The Jaunt

*The Raft

*Survivor Type (Probably my favourite story in the book....actually, probably one of my favourite Stephen King stories ever...WARNING!!...NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED!!!)

*Word Procesor of the Gods

Then, I am biased towards Stephen King. There's not much he's written that I don't love :-4