I am reading a book titled Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen. It is so ignorant, witty and hilariously funny that I have to tell somebody about it. :D

The next time you are in the bookstore, pick it up and if you can just read the first 10 pages uninterrupted, I guarantee you will laugh out loud at least once...well I did more than once. It is very dark humor, witty dialogue with a eco message. LOVE this book!

Native Tongue by Carl Haaisen

Reviews: Start at the THIRD review if you want to avoid too much story info.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0446613207/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/102-5470322-9028967?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155


Any other good reads out there?

I have heard mixed reviews on Time Traveler's Wife. I have yet to pick it up.

Carl Hiassen is funny... Skink is one of my favorite literary characters! Keep reading all of his books- Skink shows up in them all (except maybe strip tease)

I read da Vinci Code- wasn't so bad, but didn't live up to the hype.
Just spent an hour today re-reading Skipping Christmas by John Grisham cause I'm planning on seeing Christmas With the Kranks this week.

Secret Life of Bees is women's book- but it was good.
and I'm hoping I get james Patterson's London Bridge for Christmas.

:) Meta <-- I'm a bookworm!

This is my first Carl Haaisen and it has me Iiterally bursting out in laughter!! :lol2: I even had to laugh in the crook of my arm once on the Commuter Express so that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself. People tend to give you a look as if to say, "It couldn't be THAT funny." :P

I am starting to believe that stifling laughter does damage to your internal organs. :-\

;D

Skipping Christmas is Awesome! My wife and I listened to the CD last year around this time. So hillarious. I hope the movie doesn't ruin it.

I just finished reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I thought it was hysterical! I can't remember the last time I laughed at a book like that. Now I am reading Pride and Prejudice, which is just not so funny. It's actually been a difficult book to get into, which is odd for me.

I just finished reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I thought it was hysterical! I can't remember the last time I laughed at a book like that. Now I am reading Pride and Prejudice, which is just not so funny. It's actually been a difficult book to get into, which is odd for me.


It is SO worth the read though. Dreamy :)

the most recent thing i've read is America: the Book, then An Actor's Tale by Sean Astin. pretty soon i'm going to get started on rereading the Tolkien books, I'm going to read them every year before Christmas

Varda I'm so like you! :lol2:
The most recent book I finished was Sean's book and now I'm reading the HomE #6, "the Return of the Shadow"! :D

A must read book is Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It puts a whole new perspective on the story of the Wizard of Oz.

My last two reads were :

The de Vinci Code, which I couldn't put down.* I even reread it slower within a week
* just to make sure I didn't miss some of the good story points.* I rarely if ever do that!

Glorious Appearing:* the final book in the Left Behind series of which I have read them all.
* This one was one of the best, allthough they are all good to great reads.* Very moving!


* :santa:

Hiram, I stopped at the Remnant.* :-\* I do need to finish the series.* I think I finished seven of them in 2 weeks when I was on my roll...
Have you heard of the trilogy that had one newspaper say that the Left behind series was the milk and it was the meat and potatoes?* IN HIS IMAGE by James BeauSeigner

A scientific expedition examines the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ and discover body cells stuck to the shroud* "alive"* *Scientist then decide to take on the greatest scientific experiment known to man, by attempting to clone Jesus Christ. The results produce baby Christopher and changes the course of history.* The*ancient DNA is then linked to the coming of the Antichrist. But some creations should be left up to God as evil is introduced into the world to the likes mankind has never seen.

The reviewers also say that the author challenges the readers in regards to their faith and that they often times found themselves rooting for the bad guy.* Oops!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446613274/ref=lpr_g_1/102-6048828-9592907?v=glance&s=books

Have you heard of this?

I read all the Left Behind books, too....I usually soared through them, but Glorious Appearing took me a while longer.

Just finished reading: Star Wars- Tatooine Ghost (great to see Chewie alive!)
Just tried to read: Catch-22....I got the book from the library, and the end of all the lines was in the binding...drove me crazy, had to put it down.

Stephanie

I'm also a James Patterson fan .... Looking forward to reading London Bridge as well ..... Big Bad Wolf left me feeling "icky" :-X must have been the little Alex thing ???

Any Janet Evanovich readers out there? David Baldacci? Harlan Coben? Jonathan Kellerman? Karin Slaughter? Tess Gerrittsen? ... ahhh, there are too many to list in the suspense/mystery genre!

DiamondLife1985: I'll take your In His Image Trilogy and raise you
The Hiram Key , The Second Messiah, and The Book of Hiram
by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight.

http://www.knight-lomas.com/index2.html


*:santa:

Suspense / Mystery: How about P.D. James?


:santa:

Ya got me Hiram, *folding* I'll have to pick those up. :)

Any Jeff Deaver fans? He wrote the The Bone Collector?

Yes, James Patterson started to wear on me too, I started seeing the twists before I would read it. Your right rabgal, there are too many mystery suspense to name. :P

I read all kinds of books, some old whodunits by Raymond Chandler and James Cain too.

Right now I need to read FLUFF and zany, so the Carl Haaisen is fitting the bill for now. I'll most definitely pick up the Hiram Key stuff. I take a commuter in so I have more time to read.

Is there anything remotely like LOST out there to read? Other than The Stand andLord of the Flies which I have already read?

I've read The Time Traveler's Wife. Its not bad, but has some things that are out there. In the beginning it can be confusing, but it all kinda falls into place at the end.

I also liked The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It took me about 2-3 hours to get through, and I couldn't put it down. Or if you want something kinda funny, maybe a little girlyish, Alice, I think and Miss Smithers (goes with Alice) are good.

I will definitely check out that In His Image Trilogy, by the way.


I imagine you have already read Hitchhikers Guide, right?


:santa:

DiamondLife1985: Not to get too preachy but there is a great totally new Bible out now,
called The One Year Chronological Bible.

What they have done is taken "the order of biblical events and the historical context in which
they unfolded. . . .arranges the entire Bible text - books, chapters, and even verses- in the
order the events actually happened."

It is published by Tyndale:* www.tyndale.com/products/details.asp?isbn=0-8423-5090-x


* :santa:

Five People You Meet in Heaven is a wonderful book.
Da Vinci Code was also a very great read.

I'm reading Native Tongue right now. It's hillarious!
Also reading New Spring by Robert Jordan.

nxmrf, isn't it a riot?!! Today when I was reading, I was so completely engrossed in it, that someone on the Commuter had to tap me on my shoulder and ask me if I had reached my stop! I couldnt' believe it - it seemed like I had just gotten on!

Hiram, so nothing is changed except the order? That sounds very interesting! So it starts out with Job then?

I read everything by Dean Koontz! LOVE Him! I also have a thing for Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series.

i like to read brian jacques. he rules. and john piper and john eldridge books. they are devos tho. but brian jaques writes great fantasy type books. they rock! well thats all i have right now folks. adios
me

I've been reading a lot of "classics" lately (Les Mis is EXCELLENT, Virgina Woolfe, Crime & Punishment)

But one of the best books I ever read was : House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, its not like anything else, plus, it ended up not reading it at night because it creeped me out too much.

JAVI posted this today on the linear board.* So I thought I might as well post it as a* recommendation - lol. ;D

It sounds VERY intriguing!

"kaidy - The Curious Case of the Dog in Night Time is pretty awesome - it's a mystery told from the point of view of an autistic child. "

runonmoonlight (like the name) House of Leaves sounds good too.* I like creep me out stuff too.

ipokebadgerwstiks, I can't get past laughing at your name to read your post.* Come to think of it, the characters of the book I mentioned in my first post would come after you!*

Any Jeff Deaver fans?* He wrote the The Bone Collector?*

Yes, James Patterson started to wear on me too, I started seeing the twists before I would read it.* Your right rabgal, there are too many mystery suspense to name.* :P


*waves her arms* me! me! I am in L-O-V-E with just about anything Jeff Deaver has written - I think I own just about all of them at the moment. ;D I recently finally finished ]The Vanished Man[/i] and am trying to get Twisted back from a friend of mine (since I'm about to be moving out of the state).

And to add to the mystery roll call: Patricia Cornwell - I like most of the Kay Scarpetta books

I am a self-professed bookworm who has not been able to feed her mind very much of late. My preferences are Mystery/suspense/thriller types (like the Jeff Deaver books) and true crime books (I prefer Ann Rule). My all time favorite book is And Then There Were None by Dame Agatha Christie. I think someone already mentioned Catch-22 which is another of my favorites. I am also a huge fan of Tolkien and just started rereading Lord of the Rings.

haha thanx, DiamondLife1985, i think. lol! yeah ive gotten several comments on other sites about my name. oh well its all good. ;D anywho, what characters were you talking about? id like to hear about that!

In the very first post of this thread I posted a book review . You'll understand it when you read it. ;)

Five People You Meet in Heaven is a wonderful book.
Da Vinci Code was also a very great read.


I loved both of those books.

I loved The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It's the first book in a long time that I've read in one sitting. Did anyone see the movie they made of it on ABC?

Da Vinci Code was good...as a page turner. However, I think Dan Brown would have done better to just present it as a conspiracy theory book than a novel. It felt very...choppy.

I'm currently reading The Farthest Shore, which is the third book of LeGuin's Earthsea books. Also, North and South for AP English, which is kind of like Pride and Prejudice, which I wasn't too fond of either.

I also love Hitchhiker's Guide! I've read that book far too many times. Just out of curiosity, did anyone understand the ending of "Mostly Harmless"?

I loved The Time Traveler's Wife. I recently finished The Rule of Four, which has similarities to Da Vinci Code, but a little more character development (gets awfully "self-conscious" at times). It's a good read, but if the major kick you got out of Da Vinci Code was trying to solve the puzzles before the characters did, that probably won't work in this one. I got part of the first sort of by coincidence, but you'd have to be a Renaissance scholar yourself to come up with the rest. I'm working on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell now, but I haven't gotten too far. On deck are some Alison Weir history books and Margaret Atwood's books "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake". I've never read any of her stuff but friends said I'd like it. :)

JAVI posted this today on the linear board.* So I thought I might as well post it as a* recommendation - lol. ;D

It sounds VERY intriguing!

"kaidy - The Curious Case of the Dog in Night Time is pretty awesome - it's a mystery told from the point of view of an autistic child. "




It's by Mark Haddon, and I bought it...It is great so far, however, since I spend so much of my time on the TB and LB, I rarely have time before I pass out to read...Making time this weekend to finish it!

GO Javi!

kaidy

I'm right in the middle of The Da Vinci code. I'll let you know when I finish reading it. So far is keeping me at the edge of my seat. I can see why so many people see it as very controversial.

Haven't been able to do much reading lately. It's sad really because aside from a couple Dean Koontz books, I've got the final books of Stephen Kings Gunslinger novels, and the entire Dicworld series on my reading list (not to mention that after the cinematic debacle that was Earthsea, I have the sudden urge to re read those novels as well).

Anyhoo...

I really enjoyed The Da Vinci Code I definitely reccomend it.

Currently I am reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. The characterization is very interesting, and the voice and style used is different from Koontz's usual.

Also by Dean Koontz is The Taking It is a little more typical of Dean Koontz in terms of story, but it's the end that makes it really interesting.

For anyone who hasn't read it and are into british humor or scifi please please read The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy and accompanying novels. They are a Riot!!! and of course and self respecting Scifi fan needs to understand the importance of 42.

Nanse you are the second person to recommend that book to me in a week and Hiram mentioned it earlier in the thread. I'll have to pick it up because one of the Amazon reviews said it was "Pythonesque" (Monty Python) so I MUST pick it up.

Thanks for the recommendations. If I can stay off this board I might even finish reading one of them. :)

I like to recite Shakespeare aloud - haha....yeah...dumb
Wuthering Heights is really interesting and alittle naughty
I love Louise Rennison and her hilarious books on Georgia Nicholson
Little Women - Lousia May Alcott (yea...another classic)
Lord of the Flies - ggooooorrrrrrrrryyyyyyy
Anything on Fanfiction.net that is about Claire and Charlie

A few special favorites:

Dorothy Dunnett
George R. R. Martin
Jane Austen
Phillip Pullman
Guy Gavriel Kay
Jacqueline Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold

Too many books, not enough time...


Cheers,
Templeton

I read The Time Traveler's Wife this summer and absolutely loved it. I found it a little confusing at first, but this book sucked me in and I read it within a few days. I also loved The five People You Meet in Heaven. I read that one in an afternoon. The ABC movie was adorable and I thought it conveyed the book's message perfectly. I haven't read many books lately, only school work. I hope to make a trip to Barnes & Nobles to pick up some books to read during winter break. I'll have to check out some of the books mentioned - they sound great!

Kerri

The Secret life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a fabulous book.
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner is great also.

Walden -- Thoreau
The Wheel of Time series -- Robert Jordan
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
Last of the Mohicans -- James Fenimore Cooper
The Moonstone -- Wilkie Collins (The first detective novel! :))
Tale of Two Cities -- Dickens
Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card
His Dark Materials trilogy -- Philip Pullman
Good Omens -- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (very Hitchhiker-esque!)
Stiff -- the Life and Times of a Human Cadaver (not a novel, but incredibly interesting)
Love Medicine -- Louise Erdrich
White Teeth -- Zadie Smith (HILARIOUS)

I have a whole list of other things I've read in my English classes, but I think that should be enough for now :)

Ah! I forgot my favorite authors books, Nicholas Sparks! OMG, he is wonderful.
I haven't seen the movie, but the book 'The Notebook' ( :'( tearjerker) is great and 'A Walk To Remember' (* :'( another tearjerker) is ten times better than the movie. By far! And A Message in a Bottle? *le sigh*

Another one that is remarkable is 'The Devils Arithmetic' by Jane Yolan. Its about the Holocast and this girl who goes into the past as one of her dead relatives to live her tale. Beautiful.
And 'Maiden Voyage' by Diane Bass is about the Titanic and this boy, this woman, and this man. None related but all mesh together into one unforgettable story.

I read secret lif of Bees this year too!!

and Angry housewives eating Bon-bons.

Of course I read anything by Anne Rice too...(and I'll admit I read VC Andrews.)

I got London Bridge by James Patterson for Christmas- Can't wait to open it up!!!

:) Meta

On the last 80 or so pages of Cryptinomicom by Neal Stephenson.* It's a whopper of a book and while I'm usually a fast reader this behemoth had me slowing down for all the math and crypt-breaking formulas.* Very good though and I picked it up because I really enjoyed Stephenson's earlier novel, Snow Crash.

Next on my list is Night Fall by Nelson Demille, one of my favorite authors.* I've read everything by him and my favorites are Gold Coast, Plum Island, and Lion's Game.* I probably love them so much because the protagonist, John Corey,* (excluding Gold Coast) is such a wise***.*

Then there's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell - very much looking forward to this.
I'll give State of Fear a whirl by the now-screenplay writer, Michael Chricton.* It'll be a library read though, not buying.
Since Stephen King has recommended Philp Roth's The Plot Against America I'll trust his judgement and read it.
And there's a new Dirk Pitt adventure so I might as well read it.* It's my one guilty pleasure since I don't read Nora Roberts, Jackie Collins and the like.* C'mon, who can resist Dirk's twinkling azure eyes?

hey ophelia- you should pick up Briar Rose by Yolen too... it's about the holocaust too, but also is a fairy tale.. you have to read it to understand what I mean...

and I got Angels & Demons for Christmas too... (the "prequel" to DaVinci Code) I like it better than DVC.

and Terry Goodkind's ChainFire just came out this week and I'm gonna go get one this weekend...

:) Meta

If you want to make your brain hurt, read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley a few hundred times. I swear every time I read it I pick up some new parallel I never thought of before! It is truly fascinating though - and altogether prophetic.

If you are in a stable emotional state, try "Angela's Ashes" - but if you are already depressed I wouldn't recommend it. :P

And the funniest book I've read in a looong time: "The Broke Diaries" :lol2:
If you've ever been "rolling pennies for gas, broke" you will identify with this author. I laughed so hard I nearly passed out!
;D

I read secret lif of Bees this year too!!

and Angry housewives eating Bon-bons.

Of course I read anything by Anne Rice too...(and I'll admit I read VC Andrews.)

I got London Bridge by James Patterson for Christmas- Can't wait to open it up!!!

:) Meta


I'm so happy to hear that someone else read Secret Life of Bees! Nobody seems to have heard of that. I got the Time Travelers Wife for Christmas and I was so excited because I have read so much about that book on this thread. I didn't even ask for it so it was a wonderful surprise. :lol2: If been writing all the recommended books down and like someone else said earlier, if I can ever get off this board, maybe I can read some of them! LOL

PEACE!

tuesdays with morrie - get your hankie out
my life as a geisha - very interesting


Savage Spawn : Reflections on Violent Children (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by JONATHAN KELLERMAN

Your right about needing the hankies for Tuesdays with Morrie! :'(

I just read the first five books in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I liked em, even if they are almost 5000 pages. I thought it was good.