Description : What is your favorite fantasy/fiction book/series?
Last Answer : Being as I’ve only read one “fantasy” series, I can only recommend the Icewind Dale trilogy.
Description : Who here likes to read fantasy novels? (Tolkien and the like...no science fiction, sorry!)
Last Answer : The best fantasy novel I’ve read lately was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. (At least I think it’d be considered fantasy)
Description : Any suggestions for light (but not mindless) fiction to download for a vacation?
Last Answer : The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.
Description : Can you recommend books (fiction) that are based around the lives of Circus entertainers?
Last Answer : The Circus in Winter.
Description : Suggestions for great books on astrophysics?
Last Answer : If you’re not only interested in astrophysics, “Physics of the Impossible” is a good entry level book. However, I don’t remember the author’s name off the top of my head, and am too lazy to get it off my shelf to get it.
Description : If books that you'd love to have read could be implanted in your mind - which would you choose?
Last Answer : None.
Description : What books did you not care for that everyone else seemed to love?
Last Answer : The Bridges of Madison County – blech, blech, blech.
Description : Does anyone know of any good comics/manga about magic?
Last Answer : Fruits Basket has people turning into zodiac animals. It’s the only manga I’ve ever read, and I liked it.
Description : Great fantasy fiction books for middle/high school students?
Last Answer : Brave New World
Description : Those of you who read non-fiction, what are you currently reading?
Last Answer : I’m not really reading any non-fiction these days. I do enough serious, real life reading throughout the day that when I don’t sit down to read at leisure I want pure escapism.
Description : What's "women's fiction", and is it okay if I, as a man, read it?
Last Answer : answer:I wouldn’t ridicule you. And that looks like a really good book. I’ll keep it in mind. I don’t know what “men’s fiction” would look like. In my experience women tend to read more than men.
Description : Could you recommend a good space travel / science fiction novel?
Last Answer : Anything by Larry Niven.
Description : What do you focus on when reading a fiction book?
Last Answer : White space. Easy on the eyes.
Description : What's the best contemporary, English language, fiction book that you have read?
Last Answer : Windham’s Day of the Triffids and Stephen King’s The Stand both share a common theme of the quick, unexpected fall of society, and the survivors struggles. I love both these stories.
Description : When reading for pleasure, do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
Last Answer : Non fiction is always my favorite.
Description : What is your best non-fiction book recommendation?
Last Answer : answer:Marx-The Communist Manifesto Even if you're not a communist, it's still an important book because it shows the inner-workings of capitalism. Not to mention that Marx had an influence on ... for. Eliade-The Sacred and The Profane This book really gave me a deeper understanding of religion.
Description : Do you prefer reading genre fiction or literary fiction, and why?
Last Answer : You really have to get yourself into the book more with genre fiction I personally don’t have a preferance, I like both. You’re not being snobby by the way it’s just your preference.
Description : What is a genre of fiction that you have never given a chance, and why didn't you give it a chance?
Last Answer : Romance Novels. No thanks.
Description : Can anyone recommend some good fiction novels?
Last Answer : Rather pedestrian, but how about The Road ?
Description : Can you recommend some good lesbian fiction? see details...
Last Answer : This could be great blog idea because I like to write fiction at times… I wish I could help, you mean like a day long seduction between a couple? Almost sounds like me and the wife several times a week!
Description : Recommended historical fiction novels?
Last Answer : Gore Vidal’s Burr.
Description : What are some cool fast-paced conspiracy, mystery-fiction novels similar to The Da Vinci Code?
Last Answer : Little Brother.
Description : What's the best non-fiction book you have read recently?
Last Answer : Standard and Poor’s Guide to Money and Investing
Description : What fiction should I read next?
Last Answer : The Magus http://www.amazon.com/Magus-John-Fowles/dp/0440351626
Description : Can you recommend some wholesome gay fiction?
Last Answer : Mary Renault, The Charioteer and The Last of the Wine.
Description : Gandalf, Dumbledore, Ebenezum...in fantasy/fiction, who's the greatest wizard or sorcerer of them all, and what makes them so great?
Last Answer : The wizard that Mickey is an apprentice to, because he has Mickey Mouse as an apprentice.
Description : Book suggestions for Alzheimer's patient?
Last Answer : O. Henry short stories Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom Essays by Loren Eiseley Tuesday science section of the New York Times
Description : Im looking to get into Russian literature. Any suggestions?
Last Answer : Tolstoy.
Description : I need some great book suggestions. Would you mind telling me your favorite and why?
Last Answer : I hope @Jeruba answers. She is a library. I really liked The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond. I think it was a very well written, solid full bodied book, the story was interesting and a bit eerie.
Description : Great, short stories / literature suggestions?
Last Answer : I just loaned A Short History of Indians in Canada from the library yesterday which is a collection of short stories by Thomas King, a prolific Canadian author. The first story, of the same title as the ... last year about this time called If You Liked School You'll Love Work. Great book as well :D
Description : I'm looking for a few great summer reads. Any book suggestions?
Last Answer : Summers are when I like to read big, classic books: like War and Peace, Magic Mountain. That kind of stuff. You have the time and fewer interruptions.
Description : Would you ever support banning or burning books?
Last Answer : Nope. That said, I don’t think all books have to be taught, but there’s a huge difference between excluding bad books from the curriculum and outright banning them, let alone burning them.
Description : Do you think the Harry Potter books turned more kids into readers?
Last Answer : Yes. Temporarily any way. My girls and I are voracious readers. Chris never cared for it. I walked in the living room one day, and he was curled up in my reading spot, spell bound by Harry Potter!!!!!
Description : What books from your childhood have you reread and still loved?
Last Answer : Wrinkle in time Watership Down Lord of the Rings Lensmen Series Just to name a few
Description : How do I import free books from Project Gutenberg to my Kindle?
Last Answer : answer:I figured it out, and it was much too simple. However, I’m still interested in other sources for free books.
Description : What are the 4 books you plan to read in 2017?
Last Answer : answer:Peter Berresford Ellis, The Druids. Non-fiction, by one of my favourite scholars of Celtic history and anthropology. Continuing my venture into Dune-lore, I'm going to start on the House novels. I' ... shelf I haven't read yet. Probably get into those when I have some junk food reading time.
Description : Which do you prefer, softback or hardback books?
Last Answer : I almost never read books so I'm probably not the person to answer this, but when I do read if it's a book I'm not very concerned about it looking like it has some wear I prefer a softback. It's ... thing. If I want it to stay as perfect as possible and be on my shelf, then a hardback is preferred.
Description : ask-publicites, care to suggest some good books to read?
Last Answer : Calvin and Hobbes the complete collection. Any Dilbert books.
Description : What are your top 5 favorite books?
Last Answer : 5. The View from the Mirrror – Ian Irvine 4. Gay, Straight and the Reason Why – Simon LeVey 3. On the Origins of the Species – Charles Darwin 2. Dracula – Bram Stolker 1. The Age of Reason – Thomas Paine
Description : Books you've gotten lost in?
Last Answer : Sacajawea and Seabiscuit, hands down.
Description : What books are you reading these days?
Last Answer : Barreling through Louse Penny’s “Inspector Gamache” mystery series and loving it.
Description : What books are you binge reading right now?
Last Answer : Several Lee Child (Jack Reacher) mysteries over the last week. He’s fun.
Description : How many of your books have you not read?
Last Answer : About a third.
Description : Do you feel books influencing you?
Last Answer : Books definately influience you. They aid you in understanding the small details about life. Self help, motivational books helped me a lot in conquering what I believed I could never achieve.
Description : Do you ever feel the emotions characters in books are feeling?
Last Answer : Yes. Pain, too. I don’t think reading fiction is a lot of fun if you don’t have the ability to empathize.
Description : Can you recommend some mystery books?
Last Answer : answer:Donald Westlake was one of my favorite authors years and years ago. I still recall a line in one of his stories where he talked about how the police department of a particular area had always ... mystery writers around, and your aunt may not have read them all yet. (She was very prolific.)
Description : Which books should I choose from this reading list?
Last Answer : answer:Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird I hear good things.
Description : What are some of your favorite books?
Last Answer : What are some of your interests?
Description : What are some books similar to the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy?
Last Answer : It’s probably going to make be sound boorish, but when you say “similar”, what exactly do you mean? Poorly written pablum, or are you looking for books about the BDSM lifestyle?
Description : What are the most mind-numbing books you have ever read?
Last Answer : Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing was highly recommended, and was tortuous reading. I am still amazed it won anything, other than an award for curing insomnia.