Favourite books

[SamBlob offline]

What kind of books do you like? Personally, I'm undecided between "general non-fiction" and "any I can get my hands on"...

(I know there will be at least one vote for #10; I wasn't just joshing around when I added it...)

[Jellybean <33 offline]

I usually lean towards fiction because fiction means horror stories, horror stories means amuseing myself by telling my friends it really happened, but I picked other as in those 'based on a true story' where only part of its non fiction, creEepy lol

[Dummo Marx]

Fantasy....horror mostly (H.P Lovecraft is one of the few worthwhile horror writters)

[SamBlob offline]

Aw, heck, I voted for "any I can get my hands on" although I will NOT read Lovecraft... or Koontz, or Straub, or any more Stephen King (unless it's a mild one like The Eyes of the Dragon or Dolores Claiborne...)

Not a big horror fan, despite having read more than ten Stephen King novels...

[Dummo Marx]

Dude...Stephen king is as much a Horror Writter as Dan Brown is a....writter in short...

[Ransomed_Heart offline]

I adore Dean Koontz, but I've only read one of his, so I really can't be that good of a judge. I love fantasy though ^_^. That, and I will read any decent mystery novel I can get my hands on. Arthur Conan Doyal all the way! Janet Evanovich is another good mystery author.

[Paige offline]

I love Stephen King and J.K. Rowling. I also love the Artemis Fowl books. Very creative. I have read so many books that I love I can't say them all. It would take me like a day to type them all. Some of them iclude...

The Phantom Tollbooth by: Norton Juster
The Hidden Children Series by: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson
Catylist by: Laurie Halse Anderson
Torn Threads by: Anne Issacs (holocaust fiction its my FAVORITE)
Charlie Bone and the Children of the Red King by: Jenny Nimmo

[SamBlob offline]

Dude...Stephen king is as much a Horror Writter as Dan Brown is a....writter in short...

Don't know who Dan Brown is, but if Stephen King is that mild, then that would explain why I was able to read more than ten of his books.

OTOH, Night Shift, one of King's collections of short stories, is the only book I have ever burned. If Lovecraft is more infernal than that, I don't want to be within 100 metres of any of his books.

[Dummo Marx]

It's not that King's mild...it's juts that his plots (the few one's I've tried to enjoy) lack any kind of originality....for him, horror comes from the mudane...his horror is a mutation of our reality....while Lovecraft transcends this...with Lovecraft we do not fear what is seen....but what is truly there...from great gods invisible to our eyes, yet capable of dominating this realm in seconds, to eons past our reality, not in time, not in space, but simply past...realms of infinite dimensions...thigns that are there, things the protagonits is able to see...yet cannot describe...for it is real, yet undescribeable. Moving in manners unkwonw to our intelect, shapes and figures of geometric perfection yet of qualities never seen. The Lovecraftian cosmos is based on the horror of the unknown, yet not unseen.

For Lovecraft...Humanity is not trapped in a war, nor is it part of one....Humanity is nothing...tis a mere tool to be used by the gods, and be disposed of inmediately if need be...

[DeadViolet offline]

i love mary higgins clark! she writes cool mystery storis! but my fave book of all time is be more chill by ned vizzini! it rox meh sox!

[Lotho offline]

Fantasy != Sci-Fi

Ender's Game is the best book out there.

[Dummo Marx]

hmmm....Ender's game hasn't really caught my attention...for some reason the plot seems too...common....

[Doggiegal offline]

I picked "Anything I can get my hands on" though there are books I WILL NOT read. But I read realistic fiction, sci-fi (Harry Potter and Charmed), some non-fiction (like the Japan section of my textbook, no joke), Nancy Drew...and other stuff. You should see my "mini-library" I have exactly *goes to count books* 486 books:
1st shelf:75
2nd shelf:86
3rd shelf:70
4th shelf:70
5th shelf:80
Books lying around:5
Total Books:486


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[MY85 offline]

Voted for #9, I don't have a definite favourite taste, let's say I'm freestyle...

(I know there will be at least one vote for #10; I wasn't just joshing around when I added it...)

Eres una basura, compadre...

Btw, who voted for #10?

[SamBlob offline]

Voted for #9, I don't have a definite favourite taste, let's say I'm freestyle...

Not #1, then...

Btw, who voted for #10?

I have an idea as you'd expect... but I really don't know.

[MY85 offline]

I have an idea as you'd expect... but I really don't know.

Definately, it was somebody from USA.

[Doggiegal offline]

I have an idea as you'd expect... but I really don't know.

Definately, it was somebody from USA.

Haha, I couldn't agree more...*thinks about a certain annoying boy in my class who'd choose that answer*

[Lotho offline]

hmmm....Ender's game hasn't really caught my attention...for some reason the plot seems too...common....

Common? An outcasted kid by birth, watched by the government, goes and fights a war between civilizations and wins.

Maybe...

[Doggiegal offline]

hmmm....Ender's game hasn't really caught my attention...for some reason the plot seems too...common....

Common? An outcasted kid by birth, watched by the government, goes and fights a war between civilizations and wins.

Maybe...

Sounds a lot like The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer....I'm almost done reading it.

[Skysong offline]

I voted for fantasy, me... I'm a sword and sorcery junkie. And Eoin Colfer is my GOD. Even if I don't know how to say his name. I have a copy of "Ender's Shadow" but I've never read it... scifi usually makes me go "meh".

But "whatever I can get my hands on" describes how I shop for books.

[Doggiegal offline]

And Eoin Colfer is my GOD. Even if I don't know how to say his name.

I plan to ask my brother's friend's mom for the pronunciation (she's Scottish; she might know). But yeah, he's good.

[Little Vili offline]

I chose "other" because Im not much of a book reader. I usually read fanfics on ff.net, but now, I've also gotten into graphic novels (aka, Manga). Such as Naruto, and MegaTokyo. I will read more (such as Trigun, and DNAngel...once I get a job, those two are at the top of my list...as well as the Code Lyoko graphic novel).

[Yizzy offline]

I voted fantasy as well.idk they're just intresting to me :3

[DL offline]

I voted action...personally I like Clancy and Ludlum...but there are some good non-fiction ones as well

[vertig73 offline]

I choose fantasy because well i like fantasy.