Any specific favorites, or genre favs?

Has anyone tried the online locations like Shelfari or Goodreads, that gives you a basis for storing the titles? Thoughts?

I'm on both, and like Goodreads better. It was able to store more of my books, whereas Shelfari had a problem finding them, even with the ISBN#. http://www.goodreads.com/profile/RavenAcres

Ian Fleming is my favorite author everyone should read at least one 007 novel in their lifetime be seeing you

Have you ever read Oblomov?


by Ivan Goncharov

No, what is the subject matter of this author?

I liked Dianetics by L.Ron Hubbard Changed the way I look at life

Oblomov is a classic study in indolence. The dude spends 150 pages in bed

Haven't read Oblomov, sounds interesting. Though I don't know that it wouldn't irritate me, as I'm not a big one for lazyness as an art form.

Ian Fleming is good. I read his books as I come across them, rather then specifically seeking them out. Same with Clive Cussler.

Anything by C.S. Lewis is good

Snow White,Sleeping Beauty, Cars...lol have had my grandkids for a few days.

That was an interesting book, I'll stick with his SciFi stuff. :-)

Not bad, I've been wanting to go back through the Narnia series, in the order it's supposed to be done. Course, then it sends me off into a myth search for some of the older beliefs, like Cailleach, the winter witch, and Celtic crone goddess.

Well, try something like A Grief Observed or The Problem with Pain. Those are excellent books. He wrote The Problem with Pain prior to his wife's diagnosis and death from cancer. A Grief Observed is in almost a diary format of his journey thru that time in his life. Interesting to watch him come full circle.

Some of my favorite authors are Micheal Connelly, James Patterson, Tad Williams, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, C.J. Cherryh.

I just read this book:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57017.Fortress_in_the_Eye_of_Time

Very good book, first book in a long series. Lots of politics and intrigue. The language is a pretty eloquent. I like that but I know it is not for everyone.

I am a book addict, and am positively lethal in a used book store if I have funds to spend at will, lol.

I go all over the board when it comes to genre, but have my favorites. I love Jodi Picoult, (if anyone hasn't heard of her/read her books, I recommend Nineteen Minutes & My Sister's Keeper as starting points - they're amazing), but not sure what genre I'd place her in. C.S. Lewis, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Jane Lindskold for fiction & fantasy, and in the non-fiction categories, have lately gotten into Thomas Keneally and Michael Korda.

My bookshelves are a study in eclectic material :)

just don't read anything Oprah recommends i loathe that woman be seeing you

Some of her recommendations haven't been bad, but I tend to make my own decisions or trust recommendations from friends who know me & my tastes :)

I enjoy listening to author interviews on NPR. Sometimes I will be listening in the car and pull into a book store and buy it.
Bought and read two books in the last 3 wks.

"Columbine"
And
"The Scalpel and the Soul"

Both non-fiction, both excellent.

Tad Williams? Cool! Have you read his Otherworld series?

I've always liked non-fiction books about people who had a hard childhood. Like Dave Pelzer's "My Story" Trilogy and Kathy O'Beirne's "Don't Ever Tell". Both have to be great favourites of mine.

Anything, anything, anything and EVERYTHING. They don't call me "Bookworm" for nuthin', ya know.