Can Anyone Recommend Some Good Books?

[kaat1220]

I would like to know what you are reading, have read, or are planning to read.

I want the type of book that is hard to put down. Lately, I find most of them very easy to put down, and I mean to go back to them, but they simply are not that compelling.

Keep in mind that I prefer fiction.

Thanks.

 

[freedavis]

I would recommend reading the book Misery.  This book will keep you wanting to keep reading whole book in one day.

[kaat1220]

Are you referring to Stephen King's Misery?

[gwilson31]

The Stephen King book Misery was so much better than the movie.  The movie was okay but the book was better.  Usually the books are better than the movies anyways. 

[kaat1220]

With a few exceptions such as Bridges of Madison County. The book read like a first novel and did not do justice to the characters. The movie was much, much better. It put me inside of that movie.

 

[rghvac69]

My favorite book is Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Excellent read if you like vampires/horror.

[kaat1220]

Yes! That sounds great as does Misery. I cannot help but notice that both suggestions are by Stephen King.

Have you read "It" or "Insomnia?" Both excellent reads, and I loved the movie with Richard Thomas, John Ritter, and Annette O-Toole.

 

[mjoseph1]

the godfather is a great piece of writing

[debidoo]

They certainly aren't modern books by any means but my favorite books as a young person were Gone with the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath and The Secret Garden. I want to read them again but I have to get large print somehow or some kind of techno way of reading books. I loved those books so much I got posters of each for my office.

[1imaginarygirl]

I prefer non-fiction, as fiction is generally boring to me. However I just finished watching season 1 of The Terror on AMC, and now I want to read the book. It's fiction inspired by/based on the true story of Sir John Franklin's expedition to the arctic and the northwest passage.