Your Favorite Fiction

[jamesglewisf]

I haven't read any fiction books in about ten years. I like the mystery/suspense type books the best. I used to read some Clancy and Steven King. I've heard that Clive Cussler is good.

What are your recommendations?

[blinc]

If you like Sci-fi with a good taste of comedy - I love Robert Aspirin. Piers Anthony is also excellent.

Scarey books, I like Stephen King of course (who doesn't?), and Clive Barker. Gosh, it's been so long since I've had a good read, think I'll have to visit the bookstore soon!

[LisaRx]

You DEFINITELY should read the Left Behind series! It has added a lot of depth to my understanding about Bible prophecies. I know that it is fiction, but LaHaye and Jenkins are very credible in their interpretations.

[In_His_Shadow]

The next book in the Left Behind series is due out November 5, I can't wait. Also the movie to video is due out October 30. It's hard to imagine that they can get all the information from this series into a movie.

[jamesglewisf]

Thanks everybody. Frankly, I was trying to find some non-Christian books that are worth reading. I need a break from theology.

[TWTCommish]

I guess my choice, The Chronicles of Narnia, would be no-good then? :) I love those books...it's a requirement in our family really.

[jamesglewisf]

I read those a long time ago. I'm not that big of a fantasy reader.

[TWTCommish]

Me neither, but those are so brilliantly written that I cannot help myself. Those books are as much art as they are books. I love the metaphors, too - what a perfect way to explain God to a young child.

[41mama]

I've been reading this series of murder mysteries called the Miss Zukas Mysteries by Jo Dereske. She's a local writer and the stories are basically set in my hometown. It's very fun to read the stories and try to figure out if she lives in this apartment building or the one down the street. The stories themselves are suspenseful and exciting too although the one I'm reading now isn't as good as the others (I think it's called Miss Zukas and the Island Getaway.) There was one in which she was trapped in a snowstorm in a cabin on Mt. Baker (I don't think that's what she called it but it was) and it was pretty suspensful and the characters were well-drawn enough so it kept you going. And the last person you expected to do it was the murderer. I also read some books by Dick Francis, murder mysteries about horse racing. They were very interesting, but some of them got pretty sexual. The last one I read got just too suspenseful for me and dh suggested I not read them anymore so I've been looking for other books. Christie I'm reading the Chroncles of Narnia to my 5 y/o ds now and finding them harder to get through than I thought they would be. There was some heavy philosophical stuff in The Silver Chair. I really liked Till We Have Faces best of all his books but even my little genius would probably have to be a teenager before he reads it.

[blinc]

41 Mama that has got to be thrilling! Wow, a writer writing about your own town. Wow! That is so neat! Does it ever get spooky? I mean if you're right in the middle of it... it's late at night, and you think she might be talking about a place right down the street... Yikes, I'd have to have a baseball bat next to my chair, big chicken that I am.

I love the mystery books where you don't figure it out half way through. Do you remember the name of the one where she was trapped in the snowstorm? I'd like to read a mystery where it has a good surprise ending. :)

[41mama]

It's called Out of Circulation. I also really liked the first one in the series, Miss Zukas and the Library Murders. She calls her town Bellehaven, a combination of Bellingham and Fairhaven. She's a librarian in the public library, and sometimes when I visit the library I wonder what's really going on behind their calm exterior! Christie

[blinc]

{eek} Now that is a thought! I bet it kind of makes trips to the libraries interesting! *chuckle*

[TTP]

Although you said you weren't much into fantasy. I personally love The Hobbit series, but John Ronald Raulf Tolkein. (sp?) J.R.R. Tolkein to most.

[rs0522]

'The Dispossesed' by Ursula LeGuin. Sci fi that takes the idea of an anarchic society seriously.

Susan Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series 'A is for Alibi', 'B is for Burglar', etc. A female private eye where it does not feel like a gimmick.

'The Maltese Falcon' by Dashiel Hammett. Sam Spade, the morally ambiguous private eye in a completely amoral world.
Anything by Dick Francis. I care nothing about horses or racing, and I read all the mysteries by him I can find.

Dave Barry's mystery is funny. P.J.O'Rourke if you like conservative political commentary. Try 'Parliament of Whores' or 'All the Trouble in the World'.

I am currently trying to plow my way thru 'Brideshead Revisited', and not getting too far.

[jamesglewisf]

Hey, rs0522. Welcome to MarriedAdults.com! Thanks for the post.

[Debby]

Well I love Stephen King, but I am currently reading a Thomas Harris novel, Hannibal. If you saw the movie The silence of the Lambs, it is the sequel...it is great so far! I too have read all the chronicals of Narnia books...I even have an album about the chronicals of narnia, that was made by the former christian band, The second chapter of acts....the album is called the roar of love, since aslan the lion is actually christ, because the series was written by a christain man, and is actually an allagory (sp?) for the bible. Hope that makes sense....

[jamesglewisf]

allegory - http://www.m-w.com. I have to look up spellings all the time.

[utah007]

Judging by your tastes you'd like anything by Nelson Demille or Robert Ludlum. They both write murder mystery and some cloak and dagger. I found them much more enjoyable than Clancy. They make the characters stand out and can weave an intricate web that keeps you riveted. Nelson Demille adds comedic wit to the mix as well.
Few of my favorites:
Nelson Demille:
The Gold Coast
Plum Island

Robert Ludlum:
The Materese Countdown
The Scorpio Illusion
The Bourne Supremacy

[roldfiel]

There are some great books that I have read recently. First is Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Juneteenth. He is a fabulous author. It isn't mystery, but worth the read. The other one is called Power of One. I can't remember who wrote it, but it is definitely on my list of all time favorites.

[jamesglewisf]

I'm right in the middle of reading "Flood Tide" by Clive Cussler. It is the first book I have read by him, and it is unbelievable. It is a great thriller with a little romance. So far it has been very clean with little language and no sex.

[Freezerwaffle]

Well, I was going to suggest anything by Frank Perretti but there's a "bit" of theology in them! I've read every one of them. {eyes}