What are your favorite kinds of books?

[LadyGreenleaf22]

Do you like horror, mystery, fantasy or non-fiction?? Tell about your phavorite books, and kinds of book!

My favorite, obviously is LOTR, but I also enjoy Historical Fiction!

[durin's bane]

I like to read fantasy, adventure, mysteries, and science fiction if it's not too cheesey and has some originality to it.
My favourite books are Lord of the Rings (duh), Harry Potter, Holes, and Dust (a kind of un-known sci-fi/mystery/fantasy that's really cool! I'd recommend it if you can find it)

[Coney]

Yeesh, that question is like asking "what colour did you crap this morning?" :D

I read wotever diet my imagination requires at the time:)

(currently, Irvine Welsh..........must be constipated)

[Aralyn]

Nice image there Coney

I like, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy and whatever happens to sound good.

[Dreran the Green]

Mwahahaha...All things fantasy! I also like science fiction, its just so hard to find a GOOD book in that category for me. I also like, uh, everything:D

[Wayfarer]

As a general rule, I prefer storybooks to, say, addressbooks or cookbooks or checkbooks. But that's just me. :D :rolleyes:

[Aralyn]

cookbooks make good eatin . . I mean readin';)

[Sheeana]

Mostly scifi. As a general rule, fantasy doesn't do anything for me - Tolkien's my exception.

[Lizra]

Magazines for me! :)

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Fantasy, and old historical fiction. Mostly Middle Ages and back.

[Linaewen]

Fantasy, historical fiction, normal fiction. No sci-fi. (The complete opposite of Sheeana)

WF: Addressbooks are cool. What's wrong with them? I'm also fond of the phone directory. ;)

[Grey_Wolf]

Fantasy...(Tolkien, Brooks, Jordan, Stephen King (DT), Roger Lancelyn Green, A A Attanasio)
Science Fiction...(Piers Anthony, A C Clarke, J P Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson)
Adventure Thrillers...(Clive Cussler, Dale Brown, John Gardner, Harold Coyle, Peter O'Donnell, Tom Clancy (The Hunt for...))
Thrillers...(P D James)
History & other Non-fiction...(Churchill, Michael Baigent, Ludovic Kennedy, Tom Clancy)
Historical Fiction...(Edward Rutherfurd, Nevil Shute)

[Dreran the Green]

Originally posted by Grey_Wolf
Science Fiction...(Piers Anthony, A C Clarke, J P Hogan, Kim Stanley Robinson)


Yeah, Peirs Anthony is cool:cool:

[Lalaith]

I don't like Fantasy books. Actually I can't say which type of books I'd prefer, I can only name authors:
John Irving
John Grisham
Thomas Brezina (a austrian childrens book writer)
Tolkien
Herman Hesse

I like also like the books of the after-war writers from Switzerland.

[sun-star]

Just regular fiction - I don't read fantasy (apart from Tolkien and Harry Potter), scifi, mystery, horror, crime, all that stuff. And I don't read historical fiction as in novels written now about the past, I just read old books. I like non-fiction too, mostly biographies. I'm picky :D

[Baby-K]

Originally posted by Lalaith
I don't like Fantasy books. Actually I can't say which type of books I'd prefer, I can only name authors:
John Irving
John Grisham
Thomas Brezina (a austrian childrens book writer)
Tolkien
Herman Hesse

I like also like the books of the after-war writers from Switzerland.

Hey, another John Irving fan! Which one was your favourite? I loved The World According to Garp & A Prayer for Owen Meany (wasn't too crazy about Setting Free the Bears & The Watermethodman).

As for which types of books I like - I guess anything really, 'specially factual fiction (I'm a big fan of Ken Follet & Bryce Courtenay), but then I also love autobiographies and thrillers / horrors.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Baby-K

As for which types of books I like - I guess anything really, 'specially factual fiction (I'm a big fan of Ken Follet & Bryce Courtenay), but then I also love autobiographies and thrillers / horrors.

I'm a fan of Bryce Courtenay too. Have you read 'The Power of One'? That's the only Apartheid-era book I have read, (I really like those types of books- that have racism in them so you can empathise etc) and I love it. I'm kicking myself now because I didn't buy 'Solomon's Song' when I had the chance to, when it was really cheap. Damn.

[Baby-K]

Power of One was the first Courtenay book I'd ever read, I still love it - my copy is completely worn from all the reading. Also read Tandia (the follow up to Power of One), Solomon's Song, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, April Fool's Day (another of my favourites) and Jessica (I found that an interesting parralel to Power of One as it also dealt with the unfair treatment of minorities by the government, as well as the power of a single woman's convictions and parental love etc) but this time the scene had shifted to Australia.

[Linaewen]

Originally posted by Baby-K
Power of One was the first Courtenay book I'd ever read, I still love it - my copy is completely worn from all the reading. Also read Tandia (the follow up to Power of One), Solomon's Song, The Potato Factory, Tommo & Hawk, April Fool's Day (another of my favourites) and Jessica (I found that an interesting parralel to Power of One as it also dealt with the unfair treatment of minorities by the government, as well as the power of a single woman's convictions and parental love etc) but this time the scene had shifted to Australia.

Wow! It has a sequel? Oh dear, I've got a whole lotta reading to catch up on... Damnit, so many good books...