Does anyone here read?

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I just had to make a comment here on the passing of a great American author.  Gregory McDonald, most famous for his Fletch novels, recently passed away.  Not only do I mourn the loss of a major talent and gifted writer, I think the writers of yesterday are gradually becoming extinct as well. 
I don't know, I just hope my kids still like to read when they grow up and maybe books will still be a part of our culture for some time.

It just doesn't feel like that's the way we're headed.

Sorry to be droopy.  I'm just sayin'.

[Skelton]

Like Chevy Chase Fletch? either way I'm always up for a good read. Book lists anyone?

[Juniquex]

Books better not die out! Though I havn't read any books for a while, I only just realised that  I hadn't read a book in ages. You just end up getting sucked into tv...

Books are great, and there is a specail something with them that you can't make better with any computer animation or specail effects.

[KevanA]

Oh, yeah. I think I would prefer a good book to TV. They're more enjoyable, I think. Here's a list of some of my favorites:

-CS Lewis (of course)
-Tolkien
-Ray Bradbury
-Michael Crichton (r.i.p.)
-Kazuo Ishiguro
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Ted Dekker (lately)
-Daniel Wallace
-Frank Peretti
-Tons More
Anyone else want to make a list?

[Metaphizzle]

I just acquired Pavear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I know what I'll be reading for the next month (at least).

Do comicbooks count? Because I love love love Gunnerkrigg Court.

[popvoxmusic]

Here's my partial list:

- William Goldman
- CS Lewis
- Gregory McDonald
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ray Bradbury
- Rod Serling
- Frank Peretti
- Umberto Eco
- Mario Puzo
- Ian Fleming
- Agatha Christie
- Jeffrey Deaver (Guilty Pleasure)

Phil

[popvoxmusic]

Like Chevy Chase Fletch? either way I'm always up for a good read. Book lists anyone?

By the way, yes, like Chevy Chase Fletch, although the books are very different from the movies.

[Jono]

I like to read! But I don't do it often enough these days.

I just acquired Pavear and Volokhonsky's translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I know what I'll be reading for the next month (at least).

That book is a treat. I would start reading it or even Crime and Punishment again right now even though I've just read them within about a year and a half. I want to get The Idiot next. Also, something by Tolstoy.

I've been enjoying reading Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories off-and-on. I'm somewhere in the middle of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens and I think I tried restarting it again recently.

Also, for Biblical matter, I'm in a study for Acts and I've never read it too carefully before now, and it's been real encouraging.

[Spirit Flyer]

I enjoy reading, but I'm a non-fiction guy.

[mtroads]

I've been working on The Brothers Karamazov for a while but still only about a third of the way through the book. Thankfully, I'm enjoying it more than Crime & Punishment but it's still taking me a long time to get through it.

[card games and old friends]

i don't know how to read.  someone dictated this to me.
j/k of course...


here's some authors i enjoy:

Thomas Merton, George MacDonald, Dr. James B. Richards, Rev. Jay Bakker, Charles Finney, C.S. Lewis, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Donald Miller, J.R.R. Tolkien, Czeslaw Milosz, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Howard Zinn (check out A People's History of the United States), Madeleine L'Engle (her fiction), Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, Noam Chomsky, G. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Bunyan, Calvin Miller, Dale Carnegie, Phil Yancey (mainly Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life), Richard J. Foster, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, St. Augustine, Robert Conquest, Douglas Adams, Victor Hugo, Annie Dillard, Brother Lawrence, The Desert Fathers, Stephan Lawhead, the stuff the Bruderhofs put out through Plough Publishing House (especially Johan Christoph Arnold), Soren Kierkegaard, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley

[KevanA]

Oh, yeah, I love O'connor too, & George Macdonald

[Spirit Flyer]

i don't know how to read.  someone dictated this to me.
j/k of course...


here's some authors i enjoy:

Thomas Merton, George MacDonald, Dr. James B. Richards, Rev. Jay Bakker, Charles Finney, C.S. Lewis, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Donald Miller, J.R.R. Tolkien, Czeslaw Milosz, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Howard Zinn (check out A People's History of the United States), Madeleine L'Engle (her fiction), Leo Tolstoy, Flannery O'Connor, Noam Chomsky, G. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, John Bunyan, Calvin Miller, Dale Carnegie, Phil Yancey (mainly Unhappy Secrets of the Christian Life), Richard J. Foster, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, St. Augustine, Robert Conquest, Douglas Adams, Victor Hugo, Annie Dillard, Brother Lawrence, The Desert Fathers, Stephan Lawhead, the stuff the Bruderhofs put out through Plough Publishing House (especially Johan Christoph Arnold), Soren Kierkegaard, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley

I recently read "A Good Man is Hard to Find". I was a little shocked at the ending.

[KevanA]

Yeah. O'connor's pretty intense. It took me a while to get used to it

[Jono]

Also guys, the Watchman comic is amazingly good--it has a movie coming out soon but the book itself has been praised so much I had to check it out. And it's really that good.