Looking for a new book to read- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/7/09 at 3:36am

Stay far away from Harris--basically her books are romance fan fics compared to what Ball has done with them for True Blood. She should get credit for doing great work with her characters but story structure or even how to frame a decent sentence are nonexistance.

I'd recommend any of Alan Hollinghurst's four novels.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/7/09 at 8:17am

@yodamarie.............you will love South of Broad. I love Pat Conroy too, and was so glad he FINALLY wrote a new book!

I read another book recently that was very good. It was called Tethered and I think the author was Amy MacKinnon.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 12/7/09 at 10:32am

I really enjoyed reading Steig Larsson's Lisbeth Salander trilogy. The first two are out in the US: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. The third, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, gets released in the States in June, but if you're too anxious you can be like me and order an import so you don't have to wait.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 10:08pm

I just finished the 540 page book, "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult. It was just released March 2nd. It was a little bit too long and drawn out but very good. I generally recommend reading it but especially if you are into crime scenes, laws/court or if you or someone you know has been plagued with Autism/Asperger syndrome.
As long as the book was, the ending was very abrupt. It just kind of seemed to stop without any real resolution, which I'm sure was her objective; I would just have enjoyed more of a closure.

Updated On: 3/8/10 at 10:08 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 10:25pm

My mom has The Girl That Kicked the Hornets Nest, but my grandmother was borrowing it the last time my mom came to visit, so I have to wait until I go down in April to get it. I read the first 2.

Gertie, if you like Sophie Kinsella, I just discovered another author that is very similar. Her name is Sue Margolis. Very cute books.

I just started Paint it Black by Janet Fitch (who wrote White Oleander). So far it's pretty good.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 10:28pm

"The Pact" by Jodi Picoult was pretty good. I'm currently reading "Mistress Shakespeare: A Novel" by Karen Harper. It tells the story from the point of view of Anne Whateley, Shakespeare's reported true love and Mistress. It's pretty good, if you like that sorta thing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 10:35pm

I enjoyed She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Also, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 10:36pm

Matt, I LOVED both of those books!

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 11:07pm

I also agree with Mr. Matt and StockardFan. Both are worth reading. Also, The Kite Runner is a fantastic book.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/8/10 at 11:09pm

Loved the Kite Runner too. But A Thousand Splendid Suns touched me more. I think it was more of a female oriented book.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 12:14am

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner. I find her more tolerable than the average chick lit author. She also wrote In Her Shoes, which they made into a movie with Cameron Diaz and Toni Colette if movie translations make you more comfortable with reading books.

[Craww]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 2:38am

I'm not familiar with the authors you mentioned, but based on what everyone else is saying? The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff.

[danmag]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 8:56am

I just finished The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rachel Miller and just LOVED it. It's coming out as a movie soon with Robin Wright Penn.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 9:38am

I really liked "The Monsters of Templeton." And it reminds me a tiny bit of another I enjoyed, "The Lace Reader."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 10:06am

I was very disappointed in "South of Broad." It was like a mishmash of a story. The characters are not always consistent in the book and great leaps of fantasy are needed to believe the plot. (Spoiler alert: What's up with the crazy father plotline? The author builds it in the book and it never makes sense why it is there. And it's really a stretch of the imagination that several people would put their lives and families on hold and run to the other side of the country to search for a friend.)

"Wolf Hall" is a great subject and interesting story, but it needed someone to edit it. For example, the leading character is often referred to as "he" but in a paragraph where he's interacting with other men it gets confusing who the author is referencing. And also there are paragraphs that just come out of nowhere for no reason. It's like the author published notes that she meant to develop but didn't and they were never taken out of the book. Interesting story but extremely difficult to read.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 11:29am

Just remembered: I loved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand," about a retired, widowed British gent who falls in love with the Pakistani shopkeeper in his village.

Wonderful characters, lovely writing, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 11:32am

Hm. I really liked South of Broad. Oh well, different strokes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 12:18pm

Loved the Kite Runner too. But A Thousand Splendid Suns touched me more.

Same here. I liked The Kite Runner, but I thought Splendid Suns was even better. The female perspective of the events was a more compelling read.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 12:44pm

If you like Phillipa Gregory books read "The Boleyn Inheritance"...that is my favorite of hers!

Since you have already read "The Other Boleyn Girl" you know all you need to know to read this book.
Also, if you can get this book on CD's, it's great to follow it being read too!

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/9/10 at 1:06pm

I liked the Boleyn Inheritance too!