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I know this is a an old cliche subject but what do you read people??
i personally read lots of sf s and fantasy novels and of course our romaniam writers nobody ever heard of
Oh another thing in your country what is the most renown author in our country it is Mihai Eminescu a romantist poet that you probably never heard of
Anyway i expect some decent chat here or probably now

I read Eminescu. I loce it. I like his poems!!! hehehe

Reading........what's that ??? Neah....just jokin'.....or....not quite! I mean I started lately to read fantasy novels just like tarbosaurus_geticus. He's my friend and sometimes I get books from him !!!

My favorite of all times is Terry Pratchett... very funny fantasy, with lots of parodies, etc...
But i usually like reading Fantasy and SciFi as well... I think quite some of my books are technically for slightly younger readers, but I don't care, as long as it's not too childish...
My problem is, that i often have phases where i read a lot, but those are often followed by phases where I don't reed books at all, leading to a gigantic baglog of books tha i still want to read... Just by looking up for, like, 5 seconds i already saw 10 books I still actively plan on reading... And there are more then i just saw, I#m certain of it...
I also read mangas, although those are not really books...

I like Terry Pratchet too, and ofcourse Douglas Adams. Also enjoy people like Tom Holt, Raymond Feist, Peter Hamillton. All have really good books.

I mostly read fiction (im teh Harry Potter addict:p), JK Rowling, Tolkien, Dan Brown, Tonke Dragt (yeah I know, kids books but I realy used to enyoy his books).

Nowadays I don't realy read much anymore, I realy liked the fiction books for kids but I grew over it, not yet up for the 'adult' books I guess:p

rootland wrote:I mostly read fiction (im teh Harry Potter addict:p), JK Rowling, Tolkien, Dan Brown, Tonke Dragt (yeah I know, kids books but I realy used to enyoy his books).

Uh, uh, uh, I know this last one... *scratch* but where from...
ah, yeah, right, I got 3 of HER books here on my cupboard... has been ages but when I last read them i declared them to be really great...
And i've also read all Harry Potter at least once, LotR 1,5 times (looooong before the movies) and all of Dan Brown, so we seem to have a similar taste... =)

I will read whatever you throw at me, as long as reading it is not like trying to pour a bowl of porridge into your nose.

WOW silentguy i also read Lotr loooong before the movies (i remember walking up at 5 AM under a blanket and starting to read up until 8 when i had to go too school---a the good old days ) I also like terry pratchet ALOT but here in my country only five volumes have apperead so far
I never heard of these guys Douglas Adams Raymond Feist and Peter Hamillton what did they wrote?? excuse if i never heard but in my country we dont get much foreign literature.I read a book of Tom Holt the only one to appear in my country but its not as good as Terry Pratchet
I used to like reading Harry Potter but i m afraid i dont like it anymore, as for Dan Brown i hate his writing style; i mean he has interesting ideas but his novels are so badly written

Okay, "Douglas Adams" most famous book is "Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy"... Personally, i don't really know "Raymond Feist" and "Peter Hamilton", but it looks like one is a known Fantasy Author and the other is a known SciFi(-Opera) writer... Horray for my bestest friends Wikipedia for telling me this =)
I think here in germany, almost all Terry Pratchett books have been translated, but I usually buy the english version anyway...
At the beginning I liked Dan Brown a lot, and I did not think his style was bad either, I just found after reading all 4 books, that the main plot always seems the same... Always the same "everything points to person A but it turns out, it was B all along" etc...

Now i remember Douglas Adams i love that book.... hmmm i think ill check wikipedia myself though i will most likely whip because i cant purchase the books

silentguy wrote:

rootland wrote:I mostly read fiction (im teh Harry Potter addict:p), JK Rowling, Tolkien, Dan Brown, Tonke Dragt (yeah I know, kids books but I realy used to enyoy his books).

Uh, uh, uh, I know this last one... *scratch* but where from...
ah, yeah, right, I got 3 of HER books here on my cupboard... has been ages but when I last read them i declared them to be really great...
And i've also read all Harry Potter at least once, LotR 1,5 times (looooong before the movies) and all of Dan Brown, so we seem to have a similar taste... =)

Hehe, didnt know it was a female, Tonke sounds more manly to me but then, fuck if I know where she comes from

Ever read the Hobbit?, its damn nice aswel!

Yeah ive read the hobbit nice book all in all but lotr is better still it was the first tolkien book ive read and it has sentimental value
Nobody mentioned the sci fi classics like asimov or frank herbert
Does nobody read sf anymore

I have read 5 Books in my whol live. I think watching Films is much better, but some books are much better then the film. Sometimes ther is mor action in the book

tarbosaurus_geticus wrote:Yeah ive read the hobbit nice book all in all but lotr is better still it was the first tolkien book ive read and it has sentimental value
Nobody mentioned the sci fi classics like asimov or frank herbert
Does nobody read sf anymore

I like SciFi as well, but I must say, I don't think I've read many classics... although read anything from asimov is something i still plan for the future... just have to finish all those other books

deeg wrote:I have read 5 Books in my whol live. I think watching Films is much better, but some books are much better then the film. Sometimes ther is mor action in the book

Man, I'm like, addicted to watching shows and movies, but i still shink you should read some good books... i never understood how people can say stuff like "i don't like reading", but i know a lot of people like that