Need a book recommendation

[ladymoreta]

Just finished Book 5 from Martin. Fantastic!

It's great! I mentioned it somewhere in another thread, but for those venturing into epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time series is almost finished. The last book comes out in January. It has much more magic than Game of Thrones, so be aware of that if that's a turn off for you, but it's really good.

[Sheherezade]

I finished the Game of Thrones series (what's written so far) but I don't think it will grab you from page one. My husband is not an avid reader and he is struggling to get through book one. I keep telling him that it gets very good once you know the characters but there is some start up time. They also almost lost me in book four when they introduced a bunch of new people so maybe not a sure fire win for everyone.

Tana French is AWESOME. I've read all of hers. They are all different enough that you don't need to read one to get the other. The characters overlap but the backstories in the first books don't really play in to the later books. If anything, they are written in reverse order, I think. It's mystery, though. Not sure if you like that.

I'm enjoying Dark Places more than Gone Girl... of course, now I'm waiting for that to fall apart. The lead character is SO unlikeable and I get a kick out of that. I haven't read Sharp Objects, but it's on my shelf for winter.

Did you do Discovery of Witches and the follow up book? I have the sequel also waiting for winter -- but I haven't read it yet. I heard it was not as good as book one.

I've also enjoyed the mystery series by Karin Slaughter (dyslexic former abused child as the detective), Michael Gruber (voodoo in Miami and Africa), PJ Tracy (computer hacker/game designer detectives), and Laarson (Swedish journalist and punk kick-ass girl sidekick detectives -"The Girl Who..."series).

Jan Burke's Bones and Flight were both excellent.

Phillipa Gregory writes good soapy historical fiction. I liked the White Rose, Red Rose series about the women in the War of the Roses best but I've read them all.

CJ Sansom series combines historical fiction and mystery in Henry VIII's England. Michael Connelly is always good for a thriller.

From my daughter who consumes dystopia teen fiction novels like candy, she says the The Uglies (and then The Pretties and The Specials) series by Scott Westerfield is very good. Her friends all claim that Divergent is also a new winner in that category.

[Chrisada]

Angie is right about Game of Thrones. I think I liked it so much because I watched Season 1 on HBO first, so I knew the characters. I also 3rd the recs. on Phillipa Gregory.

[MDPhDWife]

I really like Emily Giffen. I just finished Where we Belong and loved it. Couldn't put it own. I've been dying to read Gone Girl! I'm too cheap to buy books, so I've had it on hold at the library for what seems like forever!

[spotty_dog]

In keeping with the "I am a giant nerd" theme, I've really been getting into classic literature. I am also very picky about what I read, and for me I don't like it when a series starts out strong but peters in the writing quality or the plot strength. And lately, junk novels (fun though they are) just infuriate me if they have flat characters and are predictable. Novels from the 1800s are just right for me, Austen and Bronte and Thomas Hardy and even Melville can really turn a phrase and the situations in those books can be hilarious, gripping, unpredictable! I love reading them with no intention of analyzing them, just enjoying the plot, LOL.

[Thirteen]

In keeping with the "I am a giant nerd" theme, I've really been getting into classic literature. I am also very picky about what I read, and for me I don't like it when a series starts out strong but peters in the writing quality or the plot strength. And lately, junk novels (fun though they are) just infuriate me if they have flat characters and are predictable. Novels from the 1800s are just right for me, Austen and Bronte and Thomas Hardy and even Melville can really turn a phrase and the situations in those books can be hilarious, gripping, unpredictable! I love reading them with no intention of analyzing them, just enjoying the plot, LOL.

You might enjoy Roxanne. Great read!

[spotty_dog]

You might enjoy Roxanne. Great read!

Google fails to elucidate and all that comes to mind is the Steve Martin film. Care to expound?

[Thirteen]

Autocorrect! Blargh!

Roxana by Daniel Defoe. Defoe's works are pretty interesting. 18th century British Lit is always fun.


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[Meenah]

If you like to listen to books, check out the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books, They are really fun!!

[MsSassyBaskets]

Tana French is AWESOME. I've read all of hers. They are all different enough that you don't need to read one to get the other. The characters overlap but the backstories in the first books don't really play in to the later books. If anything, they are written in reverse order, I think. It's mystery, though. Not sure if you like that.

I'm enjoying Dark Places more than Gone Girl... of course, now I'm waiting for that to fall apart. The lead character is SO unlikeable and I get a kick out of that. I haven't read Sharp Objects, but it's on my shelf for winter.

It's funny, the unlikeable main character was the reason I didn't like Dark Places -- and Gone Girl isn't much better. Just goes to show everyone's tastes are different! After three books I've just gotten a little sick of Gillian Flynn's "trying so hard to be edgy" thing. It's like she's the female Chuck Palahniuk.

Also, I'd never thought about Tana French's books being written almost in "reverse," but you're so right! I've heard that Sophie Hannah is a somewhat similar writer to French, I was thinking of checking her out soon.

[spotty_dog]

Fabulous, thank you!

Whoa, Defoe's Moll Flanders is being offered as a free trial of the new Amazon Whispersync! You get the audio book *and* the ebook for free, and then as you listen it automatically syncs so when you open the written book it's at the spot you left off the audio. Neat!