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Just started "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds last night. I'm only a couple of chapters in but I have a feeling I'm really going to like this. But I also just finished BSG (the tv show) so I'm kind of on a space kick.

 
igbomb said:
Ilov80s said:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter wears really fantastic. I always avoided it assuming it was some kind of love story, but that couldn't be further from the case. Think To Kill a Mockingbird meets Grapes of Wrath. Poor Southern town, lots of lost souls struggling through a rough life, all tied together through a friendship with a deaf mute.
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Added to my list. That's an ambitious comparison. To Kill a Mockingbird is perhaps the great American novel and Grapes of Wrath is amazing in its own right. If this is even on the same playing field as those two I'm sure I'll be more than pleased.
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Completely IMO, of course, but I also through To Kill a Mockingbird was a spectacular book. Grapes of Wrath, however, was the worst piece of dreck I was ever forced to read. Steinbeck was a pretentious ###.

So I'd be split on this recommendation. :lol:

 
Sand said:
igbomb said:
Ilov80s said:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter wears really fantastic. I always avoided it assuming it was some kind of love story, but that couldn't be further from the case. Think To Kill a Mockingbird meets Grapes of Wrath. Poor Southern town, lots of lost souls struggling through a rough life, all tied together through a friendship with a deaf mute.
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Added to my list. That's an ambitious comparison. To Kill a Mockingbird is perhaps the great American novel and Grapes of Wrath is amazing in its own right. If this is even on the same playing field as those two I'm sure I'll be more than pleased.
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Completely IMO, of course, but I also through To Kill a Mockingbird was a spectacular book. Grapes of Wrath, however, was the worst piece of dreck I was ever forced to read. Steinbeck was a pretentious ###.

So I'd be split on this recommendation. :lol:
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It's more TKAM in style. There are a lot of elements of Marxism and the plight of the poor, but in general those characters that have that agenda don't get painted in anywhere near the same way that Steinbeck did. Steinbeck famously wanted to write a book that would shame the wealthy. Not a chance Carson McCullers ever had that thought. She was more concerned with people and their search for meaning than political motives. The main character that does have a Socialist agenda and gives some speeches is a pathetic person that seems unable to even understand what exactly it is he is trying to get people to believe or do.
 
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facook said:
Currently reading Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. I'm about half-way through, and I like it. It's a little different from his normal "horror" stuff...in fact I'd say it's more detective/crime. But if he can finish it strongly (always a big if with King) it will stack up nicely with the latter half of his work.
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So did you finish it ? What did you think of it and the finish ?

I liked it start to finish. Good Read !
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Yep, felt like it was a very strong effort from King. I liked the whole thing.

 
facook said:
Gave up on Zone One. Pretentious crap.

Nearly through Niceville by Carsten Stroud. Really good, intriguing, creepy mystery/horror/adventure. Kind of reminds me of Peter Straub.
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Highly recommend this one. The ending is a bit underwhelming but it's the intro to a trilogy so he definitely left room to continue the story.

 
Finished Red Rising. Wow what a good book. As engaging a story as I've read in quite a while. Simple premise, great storytelling. Big thumbs up.

 
For the next year, in order to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday, I am re-reading my 100 favorite books of all time. Currently on The Stand. Next up after that is Lies My Teacher Taught Me. Then Hart's War.

 
NetnautX said:
timschochet said:
For the next year, in order to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday, I am re-reading my 100 favorite books of all time. Currently on The Stand. Next up after that is Lies My Teacher Taught Me. Then Hart's War.
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100 books in one year? So no more posting here huh.
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However long it takes me. About 2 years, I'd guess.
 
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just read Doing Harm. The author, Kelly Parsons, is a friend of mine from high school. He's always been really freaking smart, so I figured his first book, if nothing else, would be extremely well written. It is. It's also quite the page-turner. It's a medical thriller by a urologist who teaches surgery at UCSD med school, so he knows what he's writing about. His next book (already written and sold) is also a medical thriller, but I get the feeling that Kelly could write a riveting book in any genre he chose. He's got a pretty great day job, but he's a natural writer and I'd be a little surprised if he's not a full-time novelist within a few years. In any case, putting aside my bias as best I can, I recommend the book heartily.
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The film rights have been optioned. This is going to be a movie. (I understand that's kind of rare for a novelist's first book so soon after its release.)

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just read Doing Harm. The author, Kelly Parsons, is a friend of mine from high school. He's always been really freaking smart, so I figured his first book, if nothing else, would be extremely well written. It is. It's also quite the page-turner. It's a medical thriller by a urologist who teaches surgery at UCSD med school, so he knows what he's writing about. His next book (already written and sold) is also a medical thriller, but I get the feeling that Kelly could write a riveting book in any genre he chose. He's got a pretty great day job, but he's a natural writer and I'd be a little surprised if he's not a full-time novelist within a few years. In any case, putting aside my bias as best I can, I recommend the book heartily.
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The film rights have been optioned. This is going to be a movie. (I understand that's kind of rare for a novelist's first book so soon after its release.)
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Totally cool that he got the option, but only about .01% of books/life story rights that are optioned actually become movies (probably less, but I was trying to quantify it). It is a long laborious process to develop from book to film option to actual movie.

 
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Todd Andrews said:
Maurile Tremblay said:
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just read Doing Harm. The author, Kelly Parsons, is a friend of mine from high school. He's always been really freaking smart, so I figured his first book, if nothing else, would be extremely well written. It is. It's also quite the page-turner. It's a medical thriller by a urologist who teaches surgery at UCSD med school, so he knows what he's writing about. His next book (already written and sold) is also a medical thriller, but I get the feeling that Kelly could write a riveting book in any genre he chose. He's got a pretty great day job, but he's a natural writer and I'd be a little surprised if he's not a full-time novelist within a few years. In any case, putting aside my bias as best I can, I recommend the book heartily.
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The film rights have been optioned. This is going to be a movie. (I understand that's kind of rare for a novelist's first book so soon after its release.)
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Totally cool that he got the option, but only about .01% of books/life story rights that are optioned actually become movies (probably less, but I was trying to quantify it). It is a long laborious process to develop from book to film option to actual movie.
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I think I misunderstood the announcement. I knew that he'd already sold the film rights before the book was published. So I figured the recent news (in which "optioned" was used as a verb) meant that the studio had exercised the option. That seems to be wrong. I guess he sold the film rights to the publisher, not to the studio, and now the studio has purchased an option from the publisher. So yeah, not as close to being a movie as I'd thought.

 
Ilov80s said:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter wears really fantastic. I always avoided it assuming it was some kind of love story, but that couldn't be further from the case. Think To Kill a Mockingbird meets Grapes of Wrath. Poor Southern town, lots of lost souls struggling through a rough life, all tied together through a friendship with a deaf mute.
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I liked The Heart is a Lonely Hunter but it dragged a bit at the end.

Tonight I'm going to start Inherent Vice by Pynchon in advance of the film adaptation that is coming to screens this fall.

Also saw the new Jack Reacher novel drops today.

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just read Doing Harm. The author, Kelly Parsons, is a friend of mine from high school. He's always been really freaking smart, so I figured his first book, if nothing else, would be extremely well written. It is. It's also quite the page-turner. It's a medical thriller by a urologist who teaches surgery at UCSD med school, so he knows what he's writing about. His next book (already written and sold) is also a medical thriller, but I get the feeling that Kelly could write a riveting book in any genre he chose. He's got a pretty great day job, but he's a natural writer and I'd be a little surprised if he's not a full-time novelist within a few years. In any case, putting aside my bias as best I can, I recommend the book heartily.
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The film rights have been optioned. This is going to be a movie. (I understand that's kind of rare for a novelist's first book so soon after its release.)
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I read this and thought it was pretty good.

 
Reading In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson now. Good so far. I have read Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, and Thunderstruck before. I like his style.

 
Recently read-

First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - Harry August is one of a group of people that when they die they are reborn and start over again in the exact life they had before, except now they can remember everything from their previous life, and from multiple previous lives depending on how many times they've died. Excellent read with some existential questions.

World of Trouble: The Last Policeman Book III by Ben Winters. Last book detailing the impending end of the world via giant asteroid strike as the protagonist, Hank Palace, tries to unravel the mystery of what happened to his sister, who disappeared with a group claiming they could save the world. Not too bad.

World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler. Starts off in a New York town with the people trying to remain civilized and functional some year after the collapse of the global economy. No gas has lead to no government and survival of the fittest. I enjoyed it a lot.

 
The Master and Margarita was pretty wild. If you are into satire and really off the wall black humor, it's a great read. The devil and his entourage (which I includes a big fat talking cat) comes to Moscow during Stalin's regime. It's way out there, but I really liked it and was certainly unpredictable.

Now onto Brave New World which I somehow never read during high school or college.

 
I searched this forum for 'Jorg' and was disappointed. Go read Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire Trilogy if you like some fantasy, dark themes and morally ambiguous characters.

 
Close to finishing up Hampton Sides' "In the Kingdom of Ice" about the arctic expedition by the USS Jeanette and George de Long. (Sides is most well-known for "Ghost Soldiers"). A lot of interesting details about the prevailing arctic theories at the time that led to the pretty foolhardy quest (the idea was that there was a warm water current causing an open sea at the North Pole, so you could reach it by boat, and that Greenland extended to near Siberia). Don't want to give too many details away, but, as you might expect, things go terribly wrong.

Good read about what is now a little known expedition.

 
I just caught up to the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's not J.K. Rowling; it's fan-fic by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and he's posting the chapters as he writes them. Here's up through chapter 102 as an epub, mobi, or pdf.

I really dig this book. It's an alternate-universe version of Harry Potter, using Rowling's characters and settings, but telling a different story in a different way. As in the original, Potter was raised by Muggle parents after his biological parents were murdered by Voldemort (I hope I'm not giving too much away). But unlike the original, these Muggle parents were supportive professor-types who instilled a bunch of Muggle book-learnin' into Harry. When Harry reaches Hogwarts, it's his intelligence, knowledge, and rationality that set him apart from the other wizards. He approaches magic using the scientific method, which can be confusing and frustrating for him since magic often seems to defy that sort of investigation. But as he perseveres... the reader identifies with Potter, and the author makes Potter say and do really smart things, and thus the reader gets to feel really smart, which is a lot of fun.

I'm disappointed that there's no more of it to read right now, and I look forward to the next installments very much. (Rowling herself is also reportedly a fan.)

(A review, of sorts, here.)

 
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Finished Something Happened, now reading Revolutionary Road...not sure what it says about me that I am stuck on mid century novels filled with unhappy marriages and unhappy drunks.
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Something Happened was great (read it 5-6 years ago?). What did you think?

 
krista4 said:
Ilov80s said:
Finished Something Happened, now reading Revolutionary Road...not sure what it says about me that I am stuck on mid century novels filled with unhappy marriages and unhappy drunks.
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Something Happened was great (read it 5-6 years ago?). What did you think?
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It was ok. I thought it dragged a bit and was repetitive. Catch 22 is probably my favorite novel so maybe my hopes were too high, but I was underwhelmed.
 
Socrates11 said:
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First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - Harry August is one of a group of people that when they die they are reborn and start over again in the exact life they had before, except now they can remember everything from their previous life, and from multiple previous lives depending on how many times they've died. Excellent read with some existential questions.
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:blackdot:

Don Quixote said:
Close to finishing up Hampton Sides' "In the Kingdom of Ice" about the arctic expedition by the USS Jeanette and George de Long. (Sides is most well-known for "Ghost Soldiers"). A lot of interesting details about the prevailing arctic theories at the time that led to the pretty foolhardy quest (the idea was that there was a warm water current causing an open sea at the North Pole, so you could reach it by boat, and that Greenland extended to near Siberia). Don't want to give too many details away, but, as you might expect, things go terribly wrong.

Good read about what is now a little known expedition.
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:blackdot:

Ilov80s said:
krista4 said:
Ilov80s said:
Finished Something Happened, now reading Revolutionary Road...not sure what it says about me that I am stuck on mid century novels filled with unhappy marriages and unhappy drunks.
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Something Happened was great (read it 5-6 years ago?). What did you think?
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It was ok. I thought it dragged a bit and was repetitive. Catch 22 is probably my favorite novel so maybe my hopes were too high, but I was underwhelmed.
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Interesting, I liked Something Happened better than Catch 22. I think some of this is just based on at which point in your life you come to these books.

 
facook said:
Recently finished Brilliance by Markus Sakey: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AESRRQS

Very good,4 out of 5. There is a predictable twist, but the writing is excellent and characters are good and engaging. First in a trilogy, highly recommended.

Now reading The Prophet by Michael Koryta. It's decent, not special.
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I liked Brilliance a lot, also the second book of the saga A Better World was at the same level and I recommend both

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just caught up to the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's not J.K. Rowling; it's fan-fic by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and he's posting the chapters as he writes them. Here's up through chapter 102 as an epub, mobi, or pdf.

I really dig this book. It's an alternate-universe version of Harry Potter, using Rowling's characters and settings, but telling a different story in a different way. As in the original, Potter was raised by Muggle parents after his biological parents were murdered by Voldemort (I hope I'm not giving too much away). But unlike the original, these Muggle parents were supportive professor-types who instilled a bunch of Muggle book-learnin' into Harry. When Harry reaches Hogwarts, it's his intelligence, knowledge, and rationality that set him apart from the other wizards. He approaches magic using the scientific method, which can be confusing and frustrating for him since magic often seems to defy that sort of investigation. But as he perseveres... the reader identifies with Potter, and the author makes Potter say and do really smart things, and thus the reader gets to feel really smart, which is a lot of fun.

I'm disappointed that there's no more of it to read right now, and I look forward to the next installments very much. (Rowling herself is also reportedly a fan.)

(A review, of sorts, here.)
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But are there any Draco/Ron smut scenes?

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Maurile Tremblay said:
I just caught up to the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's not J.K. Rowling; it's fan-fic by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and he's posting the chapters as he writes them. Here's up through chapter 102 as an epub, mobi, or pdf.

I really dig this book. It's an alternate-universe version of Harry Potter, using Rowling's characters and settings, but telling a different story in a different way. As in the original, Potter was raised by Muggle parents after his biological parents were murdered by Voldemort (I hope I'm not giving too much away). But unlike the original, these Muggle parents were supportive professor-types who instilled a bunch of Muggle book-learnin' into Harry. When Harry reaches Hogwarts, it's his intelligence, knowledge, and rationality that set him apart from the other wizards. He approaches magic using the scientific method, which can be confusing and frustrating for him since magic often seems to defy that sort of investigation. But as he perseveres... the reader identifies with Potter, and the author makes Potter say and do really smart things, and thus the reader gets to feel really smart, which is a lot of fun.

I'm disappointed that there's no more of it to read right now, and I look forward to the next installments very much. (Rowling herself is also reportedly a fan.)

(A review, of sorts, here.)
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But are there any Draco/Ron smut scenes?
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Ron's barely in it, but Harry/Draco and Harry/Snape possibilities have been discussed.

 
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
For the next year, in order to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday, I am re-reading my 100 favorite books of all time. Currently on The Stand. Next up after that is Lies My Teacher Taught Me. Then Hart's War.
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I'd be interested in your top 100 list.
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Based on your preferences, I doubt it will be much to your taste, as it's filled with popular novels. But since you asked, here they are, in the order they were written (not in the order I'm reading them this year.):

  1. [SIZE=medium]Les Miserables[/SIZE] by Victor Hugo
  2. [SIZE=medium]The Count of Monte Cristo[/SIZE] by Alexandre Dumas
  3. [SIZE=medium]A Passage to India[/SIZE] by EM Forster
  4. [SIZE=medium]An American Tragedy[/SIZE] by Theodore Dreiser
  5. [SIZE=medium]And Then There Were None[/SIZE] by Agatha Christie
  6. [SIZE=medium]Animal Farm[/SIZE] by George Orwell
  7. [SIZE=medium]The Fountainhead[/SIZE] by Ayn Rand
  8. [SIZE=medium]The Caine Mutiny[/SIZE] by Herman Wouk
  9. [SIZE=medium]The Wall[/SIZE] by John Hersey
  10. [SIZE=medium]The Desperate Hours[/SIZE] by Joseph Hayes
  11. [SIZE=medium]A Kiss Before Dying[/SIZE] by Ira Levin
  12. [SIZE=medium]Marjorie Morningstar[/SIZE] by Herman Wouk
  13. [SIZE=medium]Atlas Shrugged[/SIZE] by Ayn Rand
  14. [SIZE=medium]Exodus[/SIZE] by Leon Uris
  15. [SIZE=medium]Hawaii[/SIZE] by James Michener
  16. [SIZE=medium]The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich[/SIZE] by William L. Shirer
  17. [SIZE=medium]Mila 18[/SIZE] by Leon Uris
  18. [SIZE=medium]King Rat[/SIZE] by James Clavell
  19. [SIZE=medium]The Man[/SIZE] by Irving Wallace
  20. [SIZE=medium]Taipan[/SIZE] by James Clavell
  21. [SIZE=medium]Flowers for Algernon[/SIZE] by Daniel Keyes
  22. [SIZE=medium]The Chosen[/SIZE] by Chaim Potok
  23. [SIZE=medium]Nicholas and Alexandra[/SIZE] by Robert Massie
  24. [SIZE=medium]The Promise[/SIZE] by Chaim Potok
  25. [SIZE=medium]The Godfather[/SIZE] by Mario Puzo
  26. [SIZE=medium]The Seven Minutes[/SIZE] by Irving Wallace
  27. [SIZE=medium]The Winds of War[/SIZE] by Herman Wouk
  28. [SIZE=medium]The Day of the Jackal[/SIZE] by Frederick Forsythe
  29. [SIZE=medium]The Water Is Wide[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  30. [SIZE=medium]The Odessa File[/SIZE] by Frederick Forsythe
  31. [SIZE=medium]Marathon Man[/SIZE] by William Goldman
  32. [SIZE=medium]Carrie[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  33. [SIZE=medium]The Glory and the Dream[/SIZE] by William Manchester
  34. [SIZE=medium]Shogun[/SIZE] by James Clavell
  35. [SIZE=medium]Ragtime[/SIZE] by E.L. Doctorow
  36. [SIZE=medium]The Great Santini[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  37. [SIZE=medium]Roots [/SIZE]by Alex Haley
  38. [SIZE=medium]The Boys From Brazil[/SIZE] by Ira Levin
  39. [SIZE=medium]Trinity[/SIZE] by Leon Uris
  40. [SIZE=medium]Evergreen[/SIZE] by Belva Plain
  41. [SIZE=medium]The Immigrants[/SIZE] by Howard Fast
  42. [SIZE=medium]The Shining[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  43. [SIZE=medium]By the Rivers of Babylon[/SIZE] by Nelson De Mille
  44. [SIZE=medium]Kane and Abel[/SIZE] by Jeffrey Archer
  45. [SIZE=medium]War and Remembrance[/SIZE] by Herman Wouk
  46. [SIZE=medium]The Dead Zone[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  47. [SIZE=medium]The Lords of Discipline[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  48. [SIZE=medium]Firestarter[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  49. [SIZE=medium]The Fifth Horseman[/SIZE] by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre
  50. [SIZE=medium]Noble House[/SIZE] by James Clavell
  51. [SIZE=medium]Cathedral [/SIZE]by Nelson DeMille
  52. [SIZE=medium]The Elfstones of Shannara[/SIZE] by Terry Brooks
  53. [SIZE=medium]Christine[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  54. [SIZE=medium]The Last Lion: Visions of Glory[/SIZE] by William Manchester
  55. [SIZE=medium]Thinner[/SIZE] by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
  56. [SIZE=medium]Word of Honor[/SIZE] by Nelson De Mille
  57. [SIZE=medium]Battle Cry of Freedom[/SIZE] by James MacPhearson
  58. [SIZE=medium]The Prince of Tides[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  59. [SIZE=medium]Misery[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  60. [SIZE=medium]The Bonfire of the Vanities[/SIZE] by Tom Wolfe
  61. [SIZE=medium]The Silence of the Lambs[/SIZE] by Thomas Harris
  62. [SIZE=medium]The Charm School[/SIZE] by Nelson De Mille
  63. [SIZE=medium]The Last Lion[/SIZE]: Alone by William Manchester
  64. [SIZE=medium]The Power of One[/SIZE] by Bryce Courtenay
  65. [SIZE=medium]The Pillars of the Earth[/SIZE] by Ken Follett
  66. [SIZE=medium]A Time to Kill[/SIZE] by John Grisham
  67. [SIZE=medium]The Stand (Complete and uncut)[/SIZE] by Stephen King
  68. [SIZE=medium]Muhammad Ali: Life and Times[/SIZE] by Thomas Hauser
  69. [SIZE=medium]Tandia[/SIZE] by Bryce Courtenay
  70. [SIZE=medium]She’s Come Undone[/SIZE] by Wally Lamb
  71. [SIZE=medium]The Guns of the South[/SIZE] by Harry Turtledove
  72. [SIZE=medium]Crazy in Alabama[/SIZE] by Mark Childress
  73. [SIZE=medium]A Dangerous Fortune[/SIZE] by Ken Follett
  74. [SIZE=medium]Brothers and Sisters[/SIZE] by Bebe Moore Campbell
  75. [SIZE=medium]Beach Music[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  76. [SIZE=medium]Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil[/SIZE] by Rafael Iglesias
  77. [SIZE=medium]Lies My Teacher Taught Me[/SIZE] by James Loewen
  78. [SIZE=medium]The Rainmaker[/SIZE] by John Grisham
  79. [SIZE=medium]Black Cross[/SIZE] by Greg Iles
  80. [SIZE=medium]I Know This Much Is True[/SIZE] by Wally Lamb
  81. [SIZE=medium]Empires of Sand[/SIZE] by David Ball
  82. [SIZE=medium]Protect and Defend[/SIZE] by Richard North Patterson
  83. [SIZE=medium]Hart’s War[/SIZE] by John Katzenbach
  84. [SIZE=medium]What You Owe Me[/SIZE] by Bebe Moore Campbell
  85. [SIZE=medium]Pale Horse Coming[/SIZE] by Stephen Hunter
  86. [SIZE=medium]The Kite Runner[/SIZE] by Khaled Hosseini
  87. [SIZE=medium]The Devil and Daniel Silverman[/SIZE] by Theodore Roszak
  88. [SIZE=medium]Hostage[/SIZE] by Robert Crais
  89. [SIZE=medium]Whitethorn[/SIZE] by Bryce Courtenay
  90. [SIZE=medium]The God Delusion[/SIZE] by Richard Dawkins
  91. [SIZE=medium]World Without End[/SIZE] by Ken Follett
  92. [SIZE=medium]Exile[/SIZE] by Richard North Patterson
  93. [SIZE=medium]A Prisoner of Birth[/SIZE] by Jeffrey Archer
  94. [SIZE=medium]The Help[/SIZE] by Kathryn Stockett
  95. [SIZE=medium]The Abstinence Teacher[/SIZE] by Tom Perotta
  96. [SIZE=medium]The Confession[/SIZE] by John Grisham
  97. [SIZE=medium]Sing You Home[/SIZE] by Jodi Picoult
  98. [SIZE=medium]Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall[/SIZE] by Frank Brady
  99. [SIZE=medium]Sycamore Row[/SIZE] by John Grisham
  100. [SIZE=medium]We Are Water[/SIZE] by Wally Lamb
 
timschochet said:
krista4 said:
timschochet said:
For the next year, in order to celebrate my upcoming 50th birthday, I am re-reading my 100 favorite books of all time. Currently on The Stand. Next up after that is Lies My Teacher Taught Me. Then Hart's War.
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I'd be interested in your top 100 list.
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Based on your preferences, I doubt it will be much to your taste, as it's filled with popular novels. But since you asked, here they are, in the order they were written (not in the order I'm reading them this year.):

  1. [SIZE=medium]The Bonfire of the Vanities[/SIZE] by Tom Wolfe
  2. [SIZE=medium]She’s Come Undone[/SIZE] by Wally Lamb
  3. [SIZE=medium]Beach Music[/SIZE] by Pat Conroy
  4. [SIZE=medium]I Know This Much Is True[/SIZE] by Wally Lamb
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I like some popular fiction. The above four are among my favorite books, too.

 
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