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What types of books do you read?

What types of books do you read?

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polgara said:
Greetings, Lutherf. :2wave:

Although I have read a little of almost everything over the years, I like thrillers like those written by Brad Thor Act of War, Patriot and Lincoln and Childs, Relic, Cold Vengeance but I especially like the science fiction genre with authors like David Eddings, who introduced us to Polgara :2razz: and Raymond Feist. I also own everything written by Patricia Cornwell, whose books are about Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the various means used to identify and apprehend killers unknown. I also enjoy historical novels, both real and fiction.

I read One Second Later a while back, which was a fictional account explaining what will happen in the case of total grid failure caused by one of our enemies detonating an electromagnetic pulse bomb high in the atmosphere, which will bring our civilization to an instant standstill since everything electronic will be fried. Scariest book I have read in a long, long time! Unfortunately, I now learn this is no longer fiction since N Korea has conducted a successful test recently in a small area near them, as has Russia in areas near them. :shock:
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I don't read much sci-fi but if Tom Clancey wrote or collaborated on it I've probably read it. Same goes for Robert Ludlum. In my fantasy life I really should be a top notch spy.:lamo
 
Little bit of everything.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
What types of books do you read, or do you read books at all?
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Being a history student, I love non-fiction. I reeeeaaallly have to interested in a work of fiction in order to read it.
 
I read only good books. The rest of you, well, heh. Yeah, yeah. You're reading War and Peace, Insight, In Principia Mathematica and all that stuff. Don't hand me that rot. Right this second you're looking at Playboy and wondering where all the content went.
 
Lots of horror. I have been divorced twice, it has to be pretty damn scary to even keep my attention.
 
WillyPete said:
90% fiction, 10% history (I love What if?-style history.)

Lately I've been pouring though the old Sci-Fi classics, which can be very hard to find as eBooks.

Most recently I read the first three of Frederick Pohl's "HeeChee Saga" and especially enjoyed the first one.
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More of a historical fiction, but if you haven't read them you must read Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome books. Wish the publishers would get their act together and come out with e-versions of all of them so I can re-read them.
 
Mostly non, faves are C.S. Lewis, Paul Johnson (historian), and I.P. Knightly.
 
I notice most people do a very dangerous thing, mixing fact and fiction.
 
Winchester said:
More of a historical fiction, but if you haven't read them you must read Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome books. Wish the publishers would get their act together and come out with e-versions of all of them so I can re-read them.
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I'll have to check it out. I have to reserve my heavy reading for work right now, so it's space romps during personal reading time.

I hear you on the e-books. It seem like there's money to be made for someone to start pumping out older books as ebooks. There are generations of books out there that just need to be scanned and formatted!
 
WillyPete said:
I'll have to check it out. I have to reserve my heavy reading for work right now, so it's space romps during personal reading time.

I hear you on the e-books. It seem like there's money to be made for someone to start pumping out older books as ebooks. There are generations of books out there that just need to be scanned and formatted!
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The books are long 1,000+ pages each and there are seven of them, but they IMO are well written. Covers Gaius Marius, Sulla, Julius and Augusta Ceasar's reigns. Completely readable and full of political intrigue. I had little knowledge of Gaius Marius till I read them, holy **** guy was amazing, ended up being Consul of Rome and unprecedented 7 times, let alone his military feats.
 
Histories, historical sociologies, memoirs, education policy, public policy journals.
 
Mostly sci-if and fantasy, more the latter. I really like stories that turn the classic archetypes on their ears. Mercedes Lackey's 500 Kingdom series is great for that.
 
Fiction and non-fiction

I like action / adventure / thriller novels (Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, Lustbader, Vince Flynn, Lee Child, et. al.), historical novels, classics definitely
Non-fiction is mostly history, politics, philosophy, religious...
 
Non-fiction history. Contemporary mysteries. Gardening and small-animal husbandry. Anything with a really bright-coloured cover- lotsa read and black and yellow will make me buy it.
 
Good mix of fiction and non-fiction, been leaning more to fiction lately.

Currently reading a compilation of Robert E. Howard's Conan short stories.
 
I read pretty much anything that interests me. Everything from sci-fi to thrillers and classics when it comes to fiction books. For non-fiction usually historical stuff (I especially like Bronze and Iron Age ancient history), biographies and how-to books.
 
I have big non-fiction projects that last a few years, most recently being Roman history from 700 BC - 1400ish AD. (Livy, Gibbon, and a bunch of stuff to bridge the gap between them).

Now it's mainly non-fiction of other sorts interspersed with SF (working my way through the Stanislaw Lem books I haven't read).

Next project will be Middle Eastern, Arab, and Jewish history from X thousand BC archaeological accounts up through the present. That'll probably carry me through to 2019 or so...

Before that, I perhaps ought to catch up on the patches of American history I'm not as familiar with.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
What types of books do you read, or do you read books at all?
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What don't I read? (Genre Romance, evidently, is the one thing I tend to back away from time and again. The stories might interest me overall but the approach that modern authors make irks me fiercely).

I read for a huge number of reasons. Entertainment, fun, a get-away, education, enlightenment, research (for my own fiction).

Right now i'm in the middle of several books: Biography (of Vladimir Nabokov), Expedition Journals (Lewis and Clark), Literary Fiction (Donna Tart) . . . and I recently read a few books by Baker (Vox, The Fermata) and Nelly Arcan (Both authors: Literary Erotica).
 
Hardboiled, noir fiction, sci-fi, thrillers/mysteries, etc.
 
True Crime. I got hooked forever the first time I read "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. You have to be careful because there are some very poor writers in that genre. One of the best and fairly prolific was the late Jack Olsen, who established an incredible standard for background research.

On the fiction side, I'm presently working my way through the Jack Reacher series by Lee Childs.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
What types of books do you read, or do you read books at all?
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Right now, I'm reading PoS's book, The Opener, along with Hands Off My Gun. A fiction and a nonfiction. I usually read a mix. Since I got my Kindle a few years ago, my reading had probably tripled.
 
I'm on my 4th Kindle, and never leave home without it. I read mostly fantasy, some sci-fi (some of the new LITRPG stuff is really good, a lot of it is terrible), and some philosophy when I'm in the mood. I'm about to dig into Social Contract for a review, the info's been in my head for 10 years since college and is a bit rusty, and maybe afterwards make a thread about it.
 
I gave up reading fiction years ago, just couldn't get into any thing that wasn't non fiction for several years. Before that I loved fiction, was reading Faulkner, Steinbeck etc for fun by 15 years old. Definitely wasn't something most kids my age were into.
Lately I've gotten back into fiction, as most non fiction and political books are depressing lol.
I've been reading Huxley, Orwell, and went back and read One Flew Over The Cuckoos nest which is a masterpiece of American fiction. I think Hillary could play a very convincing Nurse Ratched.
 
Ray410 said:
True Crime. I got hooked forever the first time I read "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. You have to be careful because there are some very poor writers in that genre. One of the best and fairly prolific was the late Jack Olsen, who established an incredible standard for background research.

On the fiction side, I'm presently working my way through the Jack Reacher series by Lee Childs.
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I think Capote was fiction? I got into reading noir crime novels for a while; Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, I'd recommend Jim Thompson his stuff really holds up and he really lived done of the crime stuff he wrote about.
 
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