Recommend a book here!

[Binky]

I've read Steven Tyler of Aerosmith's book "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You".It was very good, all about his life & struggles with drugs.It's lucky he's still with us with all the stuff he's been thru.I've also read "The Heroin Diaries" by Nicki Sixx of Motley Crue.
After reading it you have to wonder how these guys even survived.I enjoyed reading both.Like @Demona I find myself reading a lot of women's fiction too.I like Nancy Thayer, Elin Hildebrand & like @Demona Kristin Hannah.I love to read & spend all my free time reading.

[IGoeOn]

@binky1957 - I have S. Tyler's book on my kindle - I haven't read it yet. I sort of compulsively download books - surprise, surprise. I would like to read Nicki Sixx's book too - I remember when it came out but was never a big Motley Crue fan. I love most things memoir.

I don't read a lot of fiction - well, I didn't used to. . .more now.

Books have always been dear to me. I struggled with the decision to buy a Kindle - I simply love books and bookstores. I finally pulled the trigger on the Kindle years ago after realizing that I am out of room - can't store more books - especially ones that I will probably never read again. It saddens me to think about book stores closing and the entire industry of paper and publishing going away. Ah - it is what it is. ..

[sophie30]

@binky1957 , I spent like three days in the dark reading The Heroin Diaries, it only seemed right, and I loved it. I also LOVE Kristin Hannah, have you read Homefront?
@IGoeOn , I had the same struggle as a writer myself, real books are very close to my heart. As it turns out my kindle fire is so handy to take places and have 40 books at my fingertips though.

[Mlmk]

@Demona ,
I only have a second. I'm reading the trilogy. It isn't rocket science but it is very sexy. Oh boy. They really didn't need 3 books tho. I'm on the last one. I love them. Simple and satisfying. I feel naughty reading it lol.

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@pia ,
I loved every book that you mentioned! Read 50 Shades or Grey. I was useless for months getting through the Diana Gabalon series.

[Demona]

@binky1957 I just read some Elin Hilderbrand not too long ago and enjoy her. Nancy Thayer is good too.
@IGoeOn and @sophie30 - I write and had the same struggle with the Kindle. When the Fire came out I was convinced to try it so this Christmas I got mine. I still rotate in some regular books every other book or so, but I am in love with the fact I no longer have to cart several books on a trip. Even overnighters was 3 or 4 books because what if I finished the one I'd brought? I needed choices on what to begin next! What if I chose horribly???? I needed at least 2 choices.
@Mlmk I'm starting to wonder if I should read that trilogy. Everyone is reading it or talking about it and I thought they were pretty "erotic" but now there's movies being made so my brain is confused. Will the movies be anything but porn????? I know they are trying to get Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart on board but she's hesitant.

I was all caught up on Hannah's stuff a few years ago but I bought Night Road and will buy Home Front next.

[sophie30]

@Demona , same thing, got mine for Xmas and suddenly I don't need a backpack full of books for vacation! Homefront is by far her best yet imo, you'll have to let me know what you think!

[10 years after]

I just started " I am Nujood, Age Ten and Divorced" by Nujood Ali and Delphine Minoui. It's about a ten year old musilm girl in Yemen who seeks divorce from her husband, something a muslim woman never does. It's pretty good so far. Hard to put down. Brave girl. It's a true story. This really happned in 2008.

[sophie30]

Oooh that's going on my to read list @10 years after , sort of a nonfiction version of a Thousand Splendid Suns?

[barkingmad]

My fave is "Everything I Ever Needed To Know, I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulgham.

[MellowMind]

I would have to go with the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R.Ward. Sex, drugs, vampires, and desouled humans. How could you go wrong?
I would reccomend this book to anyone, it's just so addictingly amazing.

[Demona]

@PanickedMind I just picked up a JR Ward freebie on my Kindle a week or two ago I've heard good things about her books.

The Muslim divorce story sounds interesting I added it to the wishlist too...Okay I told you how many books I have my wishlist is like 15 pages. I don't need a 12 step book program. If you take them all away I'm just forced to write more. :P

[MellowMind]

Just thought of another great biography to add to this list. It's called The I Chong Meditations From the Joint. Tommy Chong's book from Cheech and Chong. He talks about why he went to prison and how he coped while being there. Really great read in my opinion.

[rugoingplaces]

Eleven minutes by Paulo Coehlo: based on the experiences of a young Brazilian prostitute called Maria, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer....". When a chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, she dreams of finding fame and fortune yet ends up working as a prostitute.
As Maria drifts further away from love, she develops a fascination with sex. But when she meets a handsome young painter she finds she must choose between pursuing a dark path of sexual pleasure for its own sake, or risking everything for the possibility of sacred sex; sex in the context of love. Eleven Minutes is a gripping and daring novel, which sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love, inviting us to confront our own prejudices and embrace our "inner light".

[imtilda]

I love the book When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.

Winner of the 2010 John Newbery Medal

Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.

By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.

But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda’s mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen. And then Miranda finds a mysterious note scrawled on a tiny slip of paper:

I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.

[rugoingplaces]

Oh man!! that was my 60th post and I have one green dot...I don't know!!! kind of exciting. Damn just looked up.. I am now officially a senior member.. I will now drift off to sleep. With a vision of PR forums gates of knowledge and wisdom being opened for me to step inside. Goodnight all

[rugoingplaces]

I'm mostly into older books, as I don't seem to get much out of contemporary writing at all....with that in mind, here is what I suggest....

......A real old classic, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski is a real nail-biter, romance, murder, suspense, and psychology, all wrapped into a single story.

......Another beautiful suspense classic is The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. The description of the scenery in the novel was itself a work of art.

......Moving forward a bit, I loved Atlas Shrugged, although the story drags a bit in the middle, and probably could have been cut in half, with no loss of impact.

......If you have a Christian bent, I'd also recommend a couple of short novels by CS Lewis.....the Screwtape Letters and the Great Divorce being two of my all-time favorites.

I second Atlas Shrugged as a great yet wordy book and Love C.S lewis both Screwtape and Great Divorce. I have been wanting to read Dorian Gray after coming across numerous quotes I enjoyed and now have another push

[Nimbus]

......Moving forward a bit, I loved Atlas Shrugged, although the story drags a bit in the middle, and probably could have been cut in half, with no loss of impact.

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I only recently began reading Fiction again and Atlas Shrugged had me enthralled from front to back, I then read 'The Fountainhead' which was ok but nothing on Atlas Shrugged. I highly recommend it to any one considering reading Ayn Rands work.

[Demona]

I once dug into an aunt's shelf and found a book. Started it, she let me keep it. My mom got rid of it because she didn't like the content. I was 19!!!!
Anyway I have often wondered what in the world it was because the beg of the book was really intriguing if it sounds familiar to anyone toss out some titles

It was about a girl who was raped at 15/16 by her Uncle and he continued to molest her while she lived with her grandmother. It was somewhat graphic in describing his abuse as it told of how he "taught" her things and that is how his wife believed the girl when she did say something about it.
The girl however, ran away and joined a commune. She was living with hippies...that's about as far as I got.
It was haunting and I still remember the first part of it because it was so very graphic with her abuse. It's just one of those "lost books" that I always wonder what the rest of her story was.

[zakalipo]

I have recently read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand and I found it was fantastic. It's a long book (well what I consider a long book), but you get to appreciate it.

Albert Camus is one of my favourite author. If you read "The Stranger" (sometimes translated as The Outsider), and you are into more philosophical work, you will love this.

[need2losewt]

The Hunger Games Trilogy are the latest books I have read. All three very good, especially the first two. The movie is also very good in my opinion and stays true to the first book. Looking forward for the second movie which is about the second book. BUt it is not out until NOv. 2013