Threadless.com - Best t-shirts in the world
Type Tees - Amazing tees created from submitted slogans!
The Select Series - Artist edition limited invite only tee shirt designs
Threadless Kids - Designer kids & baby clothing
brokennightmare aka Laura is a 19.54 year old girl, has been a member since May 25, 2005, has scored 1090 submissions, giving an average score of 1.53.
  Aug 09 '05 by brokennightmare        44 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
Well, I'm sure at least some of you enjoy reading too. So who are some of your favorite authors/books?

I'm a horror frantic so my favorite writer is Stephen King, I've read almost all of his books (including the dark tower series). I also love Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. And yes, I am a Harry Potter fan but I hate Lord of the Rings.


tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:01pm
Bret Easton Ellis is a must, and if you like him check out James Frey, he is also excellent if you like that whole Cather In The Rye feel. Stephen King rocks, too.
gerpander
gerpander on Aug 09 '05 at 7:01pm
Just actor/director/doomedrock star/nazi biographies.
tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:02pm
Oh and if you like terry Pratchett you must read Good Omen, a non-disc world book that is simply fantastic.
tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:03pm
Gerpander - read Frank Skinners biog.
gerpander
gerpander on Aug 09 '05 at 7:04pm
thx tesko, mark that one for my library to do list.
margolove
margolove on Aug 09 '05 at 7:18pm
I love Oscar Wilde. If you haven't read it, read The Picture of Dorian Gray... one of my all-time favorites. Also, I love Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo." The complete version, not abridged (which clocks in at about 1200 pages.. haha) I read "The Three Musketeers" as well but didn't like it anywhere near as much.

The fantasy geek in me will also devour anything, well, fantasy. <3 Tamora Pierce, Diana Wynne Jones, and all those other authors (although sadly I'm a little too old for them now).

At the moment I'm trying to read more classics (Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, etc..), although those have been put on hold until I finish reading my summer assignments for AP US history. Goddamn you, Stephen Ambrose!
gerpander
gerpander on Aug 09 '05 at 7:21pm
Three Musketeers and The Two Dianas are good adventures. Better than the Potter filth spread nowadays.
BuriedAlive
BuriedAlive on Aug 09 '05 at 7:22pm
Im reading Stiff right now. Its about cadivers.
OrangeJuiceRevolution
OrangeJuiceRevolution on Aug 09 '05 at 7:27pm
I'm starting on Memoirs of a Geisha at the moment.
margolove
margolove on Aug 09 '05 at 7:28pm
I've been meaning to read that... how is it so far?
brokennightmare
brokennightmare on Aug 09 '05 at 7:36pm
I've read some sections of Stiff that looked cool. It was pretty interesting...but non fiction just doesn't make me feel as good as a good, made up story.

I'm not a big fan of "classics" unless they're really good. I liked the Grapes of Wrath, and Rebecca, and Watership Down and a couple of others but I would probably never be able to finish Pride and Prejudice and a Tale of Two Cities that we had to read for English wasn't all that great either.
OrangeJuiceRevolution
OrangeJuiceRevolution on Aug 09 '05 at 7:37pm
margo-it's pretty good so far. I wasn't really sure about it at first, but the story is told in a very interesting way. I would suggest picking it up. I heard they are making it into a film as well.
margolove
margolove on Aug 09 '05 at 7:38pm
I loathe reading classics for school... and there are some classics I just can't deal with, no matter how good they're supposed to be. I need to read Rebecca, too. I know a lot of people that liked it..
tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:39pm
Treasure Island is a classic classic
margolove
margolove on Aug 09 '05 at 7:39pm
OJR - yeah I heard about them making it into a movie
snacktivity
snacktivity on Aug 09 '05 at 7:40pm
There's a book written By JESUS!!!! It's called the bible!!!!

OMG
tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:42pm
Everyone knows the Bible was written by aliens.
snacktivity
snacktivity on Aug 09 '05 at 7:43pm
Jesus is an Alien. CONSPIRACY!!!
esea
esea on Aug 09 '05 at 7:46pm
Michael Crichton and Chuck Palahniuk....
Hemingway is always good though, heh.
OrangeJuiceRevolution
OrangeJuiceRevolution on Aug 09 '05 at 7:48pm
*gag* I dispise Hemingway.
tesko
   tesko on Aug 09 '05 at 7:52pm
Chuck Palahniuk... man he wrote a short story that really DID make me *gag*, it was about a dude who decided to jerk off in his swimming pool and...and I just can't repeat it.
Art is Hard
Art is Hard on Aug 09 '05 at 7:54pm
Favorite Books: Interview With The Vampire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Harry Potter ( the whole series), The Gashlycrumb, and Goosebumps (all of them).

Author: I dont have a favorite, yet.
brokennightmare
brokennightmare on Aug 09 '05 at 7:59pm
Don't get me started on Anne Rice. Her books were okay at first...I kind of liked Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. And then it just got so terrible. If I'm lucky I could get through the first half of a book but I can't ever finish another one again.
mad.rhetoric
mad.rhetoric on Aug 09 '05 at 8:01pm
I love Chuck Palahniuk, Vonnegut, and Neal Stephenson. Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Material's" was really good, too.
Dacia
Dacia on Aug 09 '05 at 8:05pm
tesko, don't go on, my friend read it and told me about it and i was just like oh gosh. No doubt though, I love his writing. My favorites are Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, and Daniel Wallace's Ray in reverse.
margolove
margolove on Aug 09 '05 at 8:07pm
mad.rhetoric - I adore "His Dark Materials"... so good.
MoniqueH
MoniqueH on Aug 10 '05 at 6:29pm
Haha

http://www.noops.org/guts.html
little_hobbit_feet
little_hobbit_feet on Aug 10 '05 at 6:42pm
"His Dark Materials" book one was good.
Book two was excellent.
Book three might as well have been ghost written or left out altogether.
Bleh.
brokennightmare: what's your favourite King?
brokennightmare
brokennightmare on Aug 12 '05 at 5:46pm
MoniqueH: What a story. I especially loved the end bit about Tiny Mix Tapes. I actually went ahead and read a few mix tape requests.

My favorite King book is probably Misery, just because the sawing off of Paul's leg was the first scene in a book I remember actually feeling sick about. Brillant. Or possibly On Writing, since I've read that about ten times...but that's mainly for motivational values.
bigpig
bigpig on Aug 12 '05 at 5:48pm
My favorite is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
kanavera
kanavera on Aug 12 '05 at 5:54pm
I really love Jonathan Safran Foer... Oh yeah, and his writing too
rinzii
rinzii on Aug 12 '05 at 7:14pm
Sarah Vowell
is a
genius.
the
end.
tastypieee
tastypieee on Aug 12 '05 at 7:22pm
My favourite book EVER is Sushi Central by Alasdair Duncan (also known as Dance, Recover, Repeat).
I like Misery by Stephen King. And Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne.
blucow
blucow on Aug 12 '05 at 7:24pm
Fight Club and Survivor by Palahniuk are my favorites. Haunted was pretty good, but not quite up to snuff with those two.

Meh, I'm not a huge reader. If you can't pull me in within the first chapter or description, I'm moving on.
gerpander
gerpander on Aug 12 '05 at 7:27pm
Charles Bukowski. Reading that stuff makes one's life seem pretty uneventful and blogging.
gerpander
gerpander on Aug 12 '05 at 7:27pm
Sorry I meant boring.
kidaro
kidaro on Aug 12 '05 at 7:36pm
Haha, freudian typo!

Douglas Adams, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov, Neal Stephenson, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Neil Gaiman to name a few greats.
4 days later
owns_you
owns_you on Aug 17 '05 at 12:57am
bucowski indeed kicks my wimpy ass...

i know everyone has pretty much consumed their share of this book by now, but whoever hasnt needs to: house of leaves. im a sucker for the concept, the infinite abyss locked within your own home....
Ady bear
Ady bear on Aug 17 '05 at 1:01am
i'm currently reading house of leaVES,its nicely creepy
if you click on me name you'll see i asked a book question a while ago,if you find anything there of help go for it.
jillbob
jillbob on Aug 17 '05 at 5:15am
tesko: yeah chuck palahniuk's haunted is way out there with the short story about the kid going "pearl diving" and ends up wishing he had teeth for ass. that'll teach you to jerk off in a pool... can't wait to see what happens to the rest of the characters in the book
Ady bear
Ady bear on Aug 17 '05 at 6:43am
jiibob:the story your on about is guts.

my mum loved it!
MrDomino
   MrDomino on Aug 17 '05 at 6:56am
I don't have time to read anymore. I think the last thing I read was a Stephen Ambrose book. Well to be fair, I read Imperial Networks which is a history of the rise of racism in South Africa and the other British Imperial colonies. But I HAD to read that.
Ady bear
Ady bear on Aug 17 '05 at 6:57am
heavy stuff there mrdomino.
MrDomino
   MrDomino on Aug 17 '05 at 7:05am
Back in my more literate days I mixed it up more. For example, the Art of Sexual Ecstacy by Margaret Anand is a good read.
You must be logged in to leave a comment.
My gallery photos

All about me
A horror writer and a music lover. All you need to know and more.