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Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2253
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 6:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Okay.

I'll cut to the chase.

I adore the novels of Dean Koontz.

Now...your turn:

:-)

~T
Gary Blankenship
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Username: garydawg

Post Number: 28911
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 7:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

The Bourn novels not written by their creator, Ludlum and others of that fast spaced ilk.

Smiles.

Gary
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M
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 34959
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 8:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Chick lit by practically anyone, though the Brits are a real hoot! If I read serious stuff all the time, my head explodes.

Love,
M
Michael Harty
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Username: paloduro

Post Number: 80
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Robert Parker's Spenser novels -- the opposite of chick lit, a chance to taste macho invulnerability.
Michael
Dale McLain
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Username: sparklingseas

Post Number: 3682
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 11:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Historical fiction... I like to think I can peek into Marie Antoinette's diary, Josephine's boudoir...
Fred Longworth
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 6554
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 2:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Michael Connelly
James Patterson
P.D. James
Daniel Silva
J.D. MacDonald
Robert Crais
Evan Hunter (aka Ed McBain)
Tess Gerritsen
Kathy Reichs
Sue Grafton
Patricia Cornwell
Donna Leon

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Andrew Dufresne
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Username: beachdreamer

Post Number: 2809
Registered: 01-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 2:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

James Lee Burke (when he's writing about Dave Robicheaux)

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Gary Blankenship
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Username: garydawg

Post Number: 28919
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 3:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

But Andrew, do read Rain Gods. As good as he gets.

I don't consider Donnelly, McBain, Reich, MacDonald as guilty pleasures but just damn fine writers. Add Deavers, Lippman and Vachss to that list.

Ed Mc wrote 56 books and I read everyone though finding some was a trick.

Smiles.

Gary
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Dan Tompsett
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Username: db_tompsett

Post Number: 787
Registered: 07-2007
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 3:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I read a book by John Grisham, once. Never again. What an artless piece of crap that was.
"People who believe a lot of crap are better off." Charles Bukowski
Helm Filipowitsch
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Username: flitz

Post Number: 94
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 4:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I'm a sucker, but, Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Darkover series of novels.
Blog: http://cancan-nono.blogspot.com/
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2257
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 4:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

interesting...velly velly interesting.

Fred...you have quite a list!!!! I, too, like a good Michael Connolly book once in a while.

Oh (gosh, who above mentioned him?) and about the attorney-turned-writer (Grisham)...read one--never again.

Has anyone tried to read anything by (gawd, what's her name?) O yeah, Danielle Steele? Urp.

~T.

(Message edited by teresa_white on August 06, 2009)
J.B.
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Username: poetessx

Post Number: 116
Registered: 06-2008
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 6:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Sue Grafton, Nicholas Sparks,James Patterson -- I think of them as junk food for the brain. Not essential to function, but danm enjoyable every now and again! -- J.B.
"...anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." -- David White, "Sweet Darkness"
S. Thomas Summers
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Username: s_thomas_summers

Post Number: 1746
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 5:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Star Wars novels.
visit me at http://www.freewebs.com/sthomassummers/

author of "Death settled well" and "Rather, It Should Shine"
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2260
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 7:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

J.B.
I don't consider your choices exactly "junk food."
Sparks is fairly respected --far as I know...same with Sue Grafton (or I could be thinking of someone else).

Scott,
You and my hubby would get along quite well. :-)

~T.
Jane Røken
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Username: magpie

Post Number: 3758
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 12:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Oh dear ..... Tom Sharpe! (the ultimate bad taste, I've been told).
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2264
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 8:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Gosh, Jane.

Never heard of T. Sharpe. Now I'll have to check him out.

:-)
Judy Thompson
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Username: judyt54

Post Number: 1703
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 6:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Robert Parker (I have an orgy of rereads once every few years, IN ORDER)

Terry Pratchett (all of them, in order, starting in January each year)

Lawrence Block, his Hitman series. A bit off the wall, but always enjoyable.

Science Fiction (or any other genre) that deals with time travel, time manipulation, time warping.

And of course Sue Grafton. She's just plain fun, and now and then nails one beautifully.
Afraid of the Dark
Zefuyn
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Username: zefuyn

Post Number: 1417
Registered: 12-2006
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 6:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Garfield comics.
Judy Thompson
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Username: judyt54

Post Number: 1705
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 8:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Zits
Afraid of the Dark
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2270
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 11:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Get outta here Judy...

tee hee

Jane Røken
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Username: magpie

Post Number: 3770
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 3:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Teresa! ... you can find mr Sharpe here: Tom Sharpe

If you give him a try, don't ever read his novels in public places. I did once, on a train, and people thought I was having a fit of sorts. I didn't merely laugh, I horse-guffawed, tears streaming, and I couldn't stop. If I were someone else, I would've found it bloody embarrassing.


Judy! ... Terry Pratchett rocks, yea! science-fiction too, and steampunk!
Judy Thompson
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Username: judyt54

Post Number: 1706
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 4:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

i love zits, it's hysterical, and almost the only comic I read. I am a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes, too. so there.

Pratchett is another you dont want to read in public, he builds his scenes the way good ensemble comedy builds, and at the end you realize your eyes are streaming and your nose is running and dont know if you should laugh or cry...

I can hardly wait for January so I can start my journey with him all over again. Every time I read those, I find something I missed the last time.
Afraid of the Dark
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2271
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 6:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks for the link, Jane! I'll check it out.

OMG, Judy. I'm red-faced...kinda. I thunk you meant, you know, the OTHER kind. Don't get a paper or read funnies online :[

hee
KA
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Username: kerryann

Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2009
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 8:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Glamour magazine. :o)
Teresa White
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Username: teresa_white

Post Number: 2273
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Saturday, August 08, 2009 - 9:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Welcome to WILD, K!

Hey, ask M, our great administrator. She told me to submit something to that mag once. I think it's a worthy publication............

~T.