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[yumeshi]

I read books from time to time, usually fantasy or mistery. Last one i read was the "the name of the wind" i loved how he was changing from his story to reality, trying to buy the second book.

[gin_gin]

I read horror novels (like Heart shaped box by Joe hill. Really creepy, it still gives me the shivers whenever I remember it), Mystery novels as long as the main protagonist is not an FBI or any person affiliated to the government, I got tired of those after watching criminal minds and CSI (all three series) at the same time.

I like novels written by Dean Koontz.

I don't read romance novels as they give me nausea and headaches but romance novels written by Jayne Anne Krentz, Amanda Quick, and Jayne Castle (The three are all the same author) are really good ( my sisters have a bunch of those with the different pseudonyms and I tried one out of boredom and I was surprised that I got hooked). I also read fantasy novels and from the Psychological genre. For some weird reason I can't stand sci-fi novels, not that I hate them but I just can't "feel" it you know what I mean....or not.

I also like books written by John Saul and Lemony Snicket (did I spell it right?) and that's about it. My favorite genre of all is horror with a dash of gore in it ( my dark side is showing).

Oh and I read comics too especially the ones made in my country. But there is a Filipino comic that everyone can read since the language is in english and the title is Trese (pronounced as the #13 in spanish; treh-seh). Its a continuing series and book four just came out. I don't know if its available internationally. The comic is about the mythical beasts here in the Philippines existing in the modern city of Manila.

I just noticed that I am fond of the word "also" . I almost forgot, can anyone recommend me some really good horror novels? Thanks . Wow, I just wrote a long one (0-0).

[WickedEly Liencourt]

I don't read horror novels I read once and was never able to sleep and vomitted my breakfast the next morning.

I read fantasy novels and also real-life novels.

I've read almost all of Paulo Coelho's Novels, my most favorite of his works is "Veronika Decides to Die"

I'm currently reading "Song of Ice and Fire" while watching its TV series, though I recently had a nightmare because of it...

[ValorantX]

I mostly read nonfiction these days......mostly those that serve my interests. I think manga is good enough for me at the moment for any of fiction.

[αɖα- ɕɧαɲ]

I'm really a bookworm. I love reading classic novels
aside from that I also read paranormal/ghost/horror stories although it makes me a coward when night falls.

I'm also in to fairy tales even though I'm not a kid anymore~

[darkhunter]

reading ... well i quitted reading when i started gaming (i do read some books from tie to time mostly sf) but i have read so many books and went to so many libraries that i even got picked up there by girls O.o

[LittleMelon18]

I read:
-novels
-non-fiction
-textbooks
-advertisements
-light novels
-the news
-articles
-the things I write
-what other people write

Um....yeah, I think I covered most of it.

[ValorantX]

Oh I do read blogs and articles a lot though. If not too much....

http://blog.millsbaker.net/ <- He's one of the most interesting that I've been reading.

[freekidd]

hmmmmm I read Darren Shan (his books in general, like his city trilogy or the demonta series) ......some book about vampire pirates (pretty awesome read a lot of his series but I havn't read all the latest ones.....I forgot the authors name) the left hand of god (the giant hard back version)......I'm also in love with John Steinbecks books....damn man just started reading his books "Of mice and men" at school and I think I'm going to buy his other books. I have more books which I'm too tired too mention. I'm currently reading battle royal. for as far as you can see I'm a pretty big horror thriller fantasy fan. I like reading, its just that I'm too lazy to read them and if I have time to actually go out and buy them.

[Boomsickle]

Sicne ive been outta high school for a while i dont keep up on published books, for a while i read stories on a kind of social network for writters to post their stories but haven't kept up to date there

[No Comment]

Been reading Amazing Spider-Man and Future Foundation. And as far as books go I generally like to read Fantasy, Sci-fi, or mystery stuff.

[TheCrowSword]

hmm well what gets into my hands rarely exit unread...

[Phantom_rose]

Hahaha, I'm gonna have to say, I like romance novels. But I'm actually rather selective about them. I'm more fond of certain authors than I am of the genre, I guess I could say. Julia Quinn, for example, has a way with words and the sheer amount of witty humor contained within her novels are just some of best I've ever read anywhere. And despite the fact that the setting and the story is often a variation of others like it (English victorian??), she has quite some interesting characters. Also Susan E. Phillips. Her football novels are fun to read. Other than them and a few others, I actually don't read much romance.

Twilight really wasn't my cup of tea, either, though I have to admit that I did read them (in high school, where emotional drama really appeals to the senses ). The whole vampire pregnancy and implied pedophilia in the 4th book just creeped me out. By the time the first movie came out, I was kind of horrified by the mass of mindless, screaming fangirls. Thank god I never turned out like them >.>"

I do read other genres, like Sci-fi and fantasy. LOVE fantasy! I'm an epic fan of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemor/Velgarth series, and Tamora Pierce's books were freakin' awesome regardless which series. I'm very fond of the whole female underdog/heroine theme.

I'm not exactly the epic high fantasy type, though. I mean, if it's for six or so books, then yeah, I'm up for it. More than that, and I'm done. The last time I tried to read anything like that was probably the first 9 novels of the Dragonlance series....or was it Terry Brooks' Shannara series...?

This is gonna sound kind of odd, but I don't read American comics like Superman or Wonder Woman - not even Archie! Maybe it's the whole bulging muscles and campy heroes thing?

[Zero King]

the percy jackson series ( i love greek mythology)

[Seiris21]

textbooks ( >_>)...

When school was easy... Ursula Le Guinn's books, Sci-fi in general, and subtitles =P

[Katzilla]

I also can not read Horror. My imagination is so vivid that I scare myself to pieces.

Haha, I'm the same, only I actually enjoy being scared. Well, by that, I mean scared by atmosphere rather just cheap cat scares that most movies use nowadays...but I digress.

My favourite genre is mystery. It's hard to find good mystery novels nowadays however.

[Buttock Follicle]

try val macdirmid (can't remember spelling orz) she writes the only crime books I've ever been interested in xD they have such a OH NO YOU DIDN'T FEEL XD

Forever in love with fantasy, but mostly scifi fantasy I also love reading legends/myths, sadly they're rather hard to find :/

[pizhhh]

Besides manga, I only read
* local newspapers
* textbooks (when required)
* cracked
* tvtropes
* wikipedia (and a bunch of smaller wikis)
* yahoo articles (when they show up in my facebook wall)
* and google (when I need something answered, translated or located.)
..throw in a bunch of random books and magazines I come across every now and then.

Edited by Pizhhh, 20 March 2012 - 01:23 PM.

[Hellion Twins]

I see quite a few of the books and authors I grew up with already listed.
I stopped reading novels pretty much four years ago. I'm 21 this year.

Already listed:

Anne McAffrey - Dragonrider of Pern
Enid Blyton
Garth Nix - Abhorsen Trilogy
L.J. Smith - Night World Series (ONLY) Vampire Diaries (NO to this piece of work)
Tamora Pierce
Ursula Le Guin

Not yet listed:

• Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl series
• Bruce Coville - The Unicorn Chronicles
• Erin Hunter - Warriors
• Tolkien - I could only survive his Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Mark Twain - Anything and everything except Tom Sawyer
• Oscar Wilde - I really can't remember any of his stories except for The Picture of Dorian Gray and flowery descriptions
• Raymond E Feist - Oh god, his books are orgasms for fantasy, medieval settings and political conspiracy
• Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time - I'm missing the last book.
• Julie Bertagna - Exodus Trilogy
• Mitch Albom - The bastard makes me cry every page of every book he worte
• Brenda Joyce - Masters of Time for all the historic porn.
• Classics (e.g. Black Beauty, Oliver Twist (Thick version), Othello (compressed version), etc)

I really really recommend Charles De Lint to Fantasy fans.
I really really recommend Lorenzo Carcaterra to fans who love gritty stories.

I am not a fan of Twilight. Actually I hate it because I lean towards Lestat, Spike and Mathias Cronqvist.
Argued with my best friend for hours over the sparkling skin is diamond is fact theory, with her 'winning'.
I still hate sparkling vampires.

If I want sparkle, I'd take the Fey, the Unseelie and Seelie Courts.
If I want leather, I'd take kelpies and selkies.
I also hate Harry Potter after Sirius died in such a shitty manner and his actor was some washed out uncle instead of the 80s heart throb he was supposed to be.

P.S. Regarding popular vampire love stories, Anne Rice started it. However, Twilight is really, loosely dependent and based off Vampire Diaries, which started a few years before and was read by Twilight's author.

Personally, I don't like the Vampire Diaries. It was... lesser than her first series, the Night World.
Smith was trying very hard to ride on Night World's success into Vampire Diaries and while truly, many of her fans migrated over, there are also a huge chunk of us left behind, awaiting for her final book for Night World which doesn't seem to be coming out anymore.

Needless to say, I like Twilight even less. You can recognize the close but failed similarities after reading Vampire Dairies. I couldn't even pass the second chapter of Twilight - it was that horrible for me. Prose, composition, character... urgh.

I say all this from the insider's point of view, having been there in the eye of the fan war storm.

Edited by 悪魔双子 Devil Shota Twins, 13 April 2012 - 05:21 PM.

[annihilator]

my list:
news.. both on paper and on line...
blogs...
books : sci-fi, fiction/nonfiction, motivational, bios, food, etc..
researches: some interesting thesis
textbooks
magazines