Adding a new author to my list...

[Guest]

Sorry I'm late.

I have mentioned before that I don't read many books simply because very few authors can hold my interest for more than a few chapters. My all time favorite is gone,no chance of anything from him.

But I finally got the chance to read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. Wow. I'll be reading all of his work. Past, present, future.

 

[Belegon]

been thinking about picking up on the Mr. Brown thing...but wonder if I should just read "Da Vinci" or I should read "Angels & Demons" first...

 

[impressive]

I've had it sitting here for months -- and not cracked it yet. Gonna have to dive into it, I guess.

I just added Marge Piercy to my list. I've been reading her poetry for a while ... but just added her prose.

 

[Guest]

If you haven't read it let allow me to give you a little warning. I never understood why the church was so upset over a book the author repeatedly said was fiction. Now I do. While the story itself is a fictional tale the facts about christianity are far from fictional. They may shake shake the foundations of your faith. And that is why the church hates these books.

I won't go into specifics, I didn't start this thread to get into an arguement. but I wouldn't want my endorsement to sway you into reading something that distressed you.

 

[Sabledrake]

I far preferred "Angels & Demons" to "The DaVinci Code." I thought the former was the far better written and more entertaining of the two.

I've read some of his other stuff, too, and the "academic drawn into the life of a save-the-world super-spy" seems to be a pattern

-- Sabledrake

 

[Lisa Denton]

Sorry I'm late.

I have mentioned before that I don't read many books simply because very few authors can hold my interest for more than a few chapters. My all time favorite is gone,no chance of anything from him.

But I finally got the chance to read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. Wow. I'll be reading all of his work. Past, present, future.

Hi Dran, didn't I see somewheres that your favorite is Robert Heinlein, I read lots of his stuff as a teenager but saw one at a garage sale I missed and picked it up for a buck, never been opened, "Have Space Suit-Will Travel". Amazing something written that long ago can still be good, but he is timelessly good. Its kinda fluffy but I liked it for a quick read.

At the same garage sale I got a hard-cover of Dean Koontz's "Intensity". I hate to recommend him cause he has written some barf-bad stuff. He pumps out the books too fast sometimes I think, but there is some very good stuff he has done, for horror genre he is close to Stephen King with a totally different style, and mixes comedy with horror well. "Intensity" will make you wet your pants, and like it, whether you like horror or not.

I just finished a John Nance thingie "Blackout" which was excellent. Great female F.B.I. agent character but no way was it chick lit. Nance is an airline pilot so his stuff is airline related and there are others that are boooring, but I recommend "Blackout".

Anywho, I will be lookin out for Da Vinci Code, I thought I had read it but when I looked it was something different. Reading too much of all genre's means I have to empty my brain occasionally to make room for new books, or new to me, older books.

See ya, Lisa.

 

[Guest]

I too enjoyed Da Vinci, although part of the appeal has to be the cliff ending of every single chapter. Sort of reading the script of an old time movie serial.

Angels & Demons is sort of a prequel, you can read in either order, but if I had to do it again, I'd read A&D first.

Heinlein does stand up well. In a weird sort of way, I've lived near many of the places he did and enjoyed when he put those locales in his stories.

Ken Follet is an OK writer, with one great book in my opinion--one of my favorites. Pillars of the Earth about the building of the large Cathedrals in the Middle Ages.

 

[Guest]

Good memory, Lisa. Yes, Heinlein has long been my favorite and even works that I have read a dozen times are still a joy to read again.

Perhaps that is why I am impressed with Dan Brown. His characters come to life through dialogue. I found similarities between The characters in Da Vinci code and some of my favorite recurring Heinlein characters. But browwn also worked my brain over. He made me really think about things and take a much closer look religions and what is really behind them.

 

[impressive]

I too enjoyed Da Vinci, although part of the appeal has to be the cliff ending of every single chapter. Sort of reading the script of an old time movie serial.

Angels & Demons is sort of a prequel, you can read in either order, but if I had to do it again, I'd read A&D first.

Heinlein does stand up well. In a weird sort of way, I've lived near many of the places he did and enjoyed when he put those locales in his stories.

Ken Follet is an OK writer, with one great book in my opinion--one of my favorites. Pillars of the Earth about the building of the large Cathedrals in the Middle Ages.

I enjoy Follet ... and Heinlein (R.I.P.) ... and Asimov (R.I.P.) ... and Herbert (R.I.P.), but for sheer entertainment, I love re-reading Anne McCaffrey's Pern books. They're not literary genius (although I'm not sure I'd recognize that if it bit my butt), but they're engrossing and uplifting and thought-provoking. I can get out-of-self when lost in one of those tales ... and grieve when it ends.

 

[eric shawn listo]

I, too, enjoyed Davinci Code and have A&D on my desk.

Currently working my way through the Pendergast series by Doulas Preston and Lincoln Child. On the last now, for me, read them out of order.

Great combination of police/detective/FBI and horror. and a great character in special agent Pendergast of the FBI.