I have a pile of books that I recently picked up at a used book sale and haven't gotten around to reading all of them. I'm currently reading The Bourne Supremacy (after reading The Bourne Identity, of course) and I've not quite been able to get into it like the first book (though the first one is an excellent read).
Off the top of my head, some of the books I picked up that I haven't read:
Don Quixote
Dracula
The Philosophy of Law
Predator
Splinter Cell
The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum/Legacy
...I can't seem to recall the last book I picked up. However, I also have the complete works of Anne Rice, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.P. Lovecraft through which I haven't read (though some I read a long time ago).
Any recommendations for what I should read next? I don't really have much time for reading anymore, but I should be flying out of town this weekend, so I may have some time to do so. Also, any books that I should pick up? I'm quite fond of Michael Crichton as an author (I've read most of his books), and greatly enjoy the Artemis Fowl and Cirque du Freak series (but if you recommend some vampire books, please don't make it the teen romance kind - make it more along Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles or Cirque du Freak).
I'm sure my opinion goes against the grain, but I can't stand Stoker's "Dracula." I can't quite explain what bothers me about it, due to spoilers.
I'd recommend Jules Verne's "Paris in the Twentieth Century." It reads easily (and quickly) while maintaining poignancy and it's an interesting look into the mind we all associate with grand adventures spurred on by scientific advance.
I was never able to get into his stories when I was younger either; I preferred more the melancholy company of Huxley, Orwell, Nabokov, and Salinger (brooding doesn't begin to describe those years). That may be why years later when I picked up this book by Verne, I was interested in it. It isn't a happy romp in space, through a jungle on an unknown island, or under the sea. Its setting has much more in common with the works of the men I loved in adolescence.
I have a pile of books that I recently picked up at a used book sale and haven't gotten around to reading all of them. I'm currently reading The Bourne Supremacy (after reading The Bourne Identity, of course) and I've not quite been able to get into it like the first book (though the first one is an excellent read).
Off the top of my head, some of the books I picked up that I haven't read:
Don Quixote
Dracula
The Philosophy of Law
Predator
Splinter Cell
The Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum/Legacy
...I can't seem to recall the last book I picked up. However, I also have the complete works of Anne Rice, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.P. Lovecraft through which I haven't read (though some I read a long time ago).
Any recommendations for what I should read next? I don't really have much time for reading anymore, but I should be flying out of town this weekend, so I may have some time to do so. Also, any books that I should pick up? I'm quite fond of Michael Crichton as an author (I've read most of his books), and greatly enjoy the Artemis Fowl and Cirque du Freak series (but if you recommend some vampire books, please don't make it the teen romance kind - make it more along Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles or Cirque du Freak).
The Sonja Blue vampire books are pretty good if you're more into the Shadowrun/Underworld/White Wolf kind of vampire stories. I haven't read them in a long time but they were enjoyable when I did.
Definitely read Lovecraft, all of his stories are amazing.
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Off the top of my head, some of the books I picked up that I haven't read:
Don Quixote
Dracula
The Philosophy of Law
Predator
Splinter Cell
The Bourne
Supremacy/Ultimatum/Legacy...I can't seem to recall the last book I picked up. However, I also have the complete works of Anne Rice, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.P. Lovecraft through which I haven't read (though some I read a long time ago).
Any recommendations for what I should read next? I don't really have much time for reading anymore, but I should be flying out of town this weekend, so I may have some time to do so. Also, any books that I should pick up? I'm quite fond of Michael Crichton as an author (I've read most of his books), and greatly enjoy the Artemis Fowl and Cirque du Freak series (but if you recommend some vampire books, please don't make it the teen romance kind - make it more along Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles or Cirque du Freak).
I'd recommend Jules Verne's "Paris in the Twentieth Century." It reads easily (and quickly) while maintaining poignancy and it's an interesting look into the mind we all associate with grand adventures spurred on by scientific advance.
As for Dracula, I can't help but want to read it, as I share a birthday with Bram Stoker.
The Sonja Blue vampire books are pretty good if you're more into the Shadowrun/Underworld/White Wolf kind of vampire stories. I haven't read them in a long time but they were enjoyable when I did.
Definitely read Lovecraft, all of his stories are amazing.
STRANGER: Indeed?
CASSILDA: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
STRANGER: I wear no mask.
CAMILLA: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!