Gone with the Wind, A prologue to love, Dr. Zhivago for now.

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Gone with the Wind, A prologue to love, Dr. Zhivago for now.

Good start.

Two of those ( off the top of my head) made into movies - that are in the AFI top ten movies of all times!!

Louis L'Amour
Tom Clancy
Scott Turow (sp)
Michal Creigton
Stephen King
James Hadley Chase
John Grisham
Mark Twain
Erle Stanley Gardner
Oliver Strange ( created Sudden)

in no particular order

Books I really enjoyed

Tom Sawyer ( all time favorite)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo)
The Firm ( both book and movie)
I enjoyed all of Louis LAmour books...especially the ones about the Sackett boys...especially Tyrel Sackett

will continue.....

Enid Blyton (goes bk to young days)
Mary Higgins Clark
Sandra Brown
John Grisham
Louis Lamour
Agatha Christie
Sue Grafton
David Baldacci
Anne Perry
Bourne author (can't remember right now)

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Originally posted by raymond:
Louis L'Amour
Tom Clancy
Scott Turow (sp)
Michal Creigton
Stephen King
James Hadley Chase
John Grisham
Mark Twain
Erle Stanley Gardner
Oliver Strange ( created Sudden)

I am surprised that Louis L'amour books were so popular in Guyana. And many people still rank them "highly"

I also read all the "Sudden" books as a teenager.

I think the series was continued for a bit after Oliver Strange died.

Moonlight becomes you - Mary Higgins Clark
The Client and The Partner - John Grisham
The Hyde Park Headsman - Anne Perry
The Bourne Identity
Louis L'amour - all his books I love, to pick one I would say Lonely on the Mountain..

Hi Tas.

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Originally posted by IK:
Enid Blyton (goes bk to young days)
Mary Higgins Clark
Sandra Brown
John Grisham
Louis Lamour
Agatha Christie
Sue Grafton
David Baldacci
Anne Perry
Bourne author (can't remember right now)

Now you talking - WRT Enid Blyton.

I have probably read like 400 of her books in my younger days!

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Originally posted by IK:
Moonlight becomes you - Mary Higgins Clark
The Client and The Partner - John Grisham
The Hyde Park Headsman - Anne Perry
The Bourne Identity
Louis L'amour - all his books I love, to pick one I would say Lonely on the Mountain..

Hi Tas.

HI IK.

Grisham wrote a "nice little book" - Playing for Pizza. It is quite different from all his other books. Did you read it by any chance?

Tas..sorry I can't quote or open the full posting form.

did not read the 'pizza' book by Grisham.
now Enid Blyton I have read about 400 of her books or so, I have been collecting them for the longest while now and I probably have about that..still read them now and then when I get tired of murder/mayhem.

Harold Robbins
Irwin Shaw
Scott Turow
Sidney Sheldon
John Grisham
David Baldacci
Robert Ludlum(Jason Bourne Series)
Dan Brown
Patricia Cornwall(only started reading her books early this year.)
Jacqueline Susann( read all 6 of her books)
Judith Krantz(her earlier books)

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Originally posted by TAS:

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Originally posted by IK:
Moonlight becomes you - Mary Higgins Clark
The Client and The Partner - John Grisham
The Hyde Park Headsman - Anne Perry
The Bourne Identity
Louis L'amour - all his books I love, to pick one I would say Lonely on the Mountain..

Hi Tas.

HI IK.

Grisham wrote a "nice little book" - Playing for Pizza. It is quite different from all his other books. Did you read it by any chance?

read this one....it was humourous

In no particular order- (and sorry I do read serious books)

My top ten authors would include

Jhumpa Lahiri
Carl Sagan
VS Naipaul
Deepak Chopra
Michael Crighton


And T.A. Sankar - of course

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Originally posted by IK:
Tas..sorry I can't quote or open the full posting form.

did not read the 'pizza' book by Grisham.
now Enid Blyton I have read about 400 of her books or so, I have been collecting them for the longest while now and I probably have about that..still read them now and then

[b]when I get tired of murder/mayhem.[b/]

An Enid Blyton collector, eh? Great!

WRT no murder/mayhem -

then you need to read T.A. Sankar

www.tasankar.com

Don't forget Nick Carter from that Ifill bookshop in Stabroek Market and Lobsang Rampa.

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Tom Sawyer ( all time favorite)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo)

and Huck Finn.

Agata Christie and James Hadley Chase from my days of back home. With no TV and the Library far away I was a book worm and radio junkie in those days.

Books and Authors - don't have time to read now but these were my favourite

Mills and Boon or any romantic novels
Enid Blyton
Harold Robins
John Grisham
James Hadley Chase
Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Louis Lamour
Archie
Tin Tin

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Mills and Boon or any romantic novels

Lol I remember my mother's collection, some August holidays I was so bored that I use to read them.

Book covers
http://www.google.ca/search?hl...d=1x&xhr=t&q=louis+l'amour+book+covers&pq=louis+l'amour&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=574&wrapid=tljp1317567978453220&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

we had quite a collection too. Mills and Boon, Harlequin, Silhouette etc..

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Originally posted by Alexander:
Don't forget Nick Carter from that Ifill bookshop in Stabroek Market and Lobsang Rampa.

Ha , Nick Carter eh?

Wasn't it the Perry Mason guy ( Earl Stanley Gardner ) who wrote those books?

Some steamy sex scenes I remember...

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Originally posted by amral:

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Tom Sawyer ( all time favorite)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo)

and Huck Finn.

Agata Christie and James Hadley Chase from my days of back home. With no TV and the Library far away I was a book worm and radio junkie in those days.

Mark Twain is an instution indeed.

Both Tom Sawyer and Huch Finn are classics - but may be considered politically incorrect by today's standards...

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Originally posted by Rosita:
Books and Authors - don't have time to read now but these were my favourite

Mills and Boon or any romantic novels
Enid Blyton
Harold Robins
John Grisham
James Hadley Chase
Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Louis Lamour
Archie
Tin Tin

I read dozens and dozens of Nancy Drew and Hardy boys in my early high school years. Along with Enid Blyton - i beielve that is what may have "tipped" me off into writing.

Now if we want to bget the ladies into the conversations - Mills and Boon - it IS!

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Lol I remember my mother's collection, some August holidays I was so bored that I use to read them.

Don't be bashful now Amral.

I have read a few too - many many moons ago.

Those Edgar Rice Borroughs series, Tarzan and the science fiction of his hero John Carter were great.

I had a look at Tas books, they remind me of a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. As a kid I loved the stories of Issac Asimov.

Alistair MacLean - Night Without End.

Sidney Sheldon - Master of The Game

Winston Graham's After the Act is a good read.

Top ten authors:
Gogol
Hemmingway
Thomas Wolfe
Steibeck
Poe
Hawthorne
Carlos Fuentes
Maya Angelou
Ludlum
Frederick Forsythe

To name a few:

James Patterson
Sidney Sheldon
Harold Robbins
Sandra Brown
Iris Johansen
Jackie Collins (The entire Santangelo series)

Isabel Letelier
Edgar Mittelholzer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Khaled Hosseini
Walter Rodney
Vidia Naipaul
Frederick Forsythe
Ernest Hemingway
Anita Desai
Arundhati Roy

GREAT lists guys!!!


Keep em coming.

Will respond in more detail later - as my time permits.

I am currently reading - in parts

Physics of the Future: by Michio Kaku

(How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 )

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Originally posted by raymond:
Books I really enjoyed

Tom Sawyer ( all time favorite)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Boo)
The Firm ( both book and movie)
I enjoyed all of Louis LAmour books...especially the ones about the Sackett boys...especially Tyrel Sackett

will continue.....

i name one of my sons tyrel and one lance kilkenny

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Originally posted by TAS:

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Originally posted by raymond:
Louis L'Amour
Tom Clancy
Scott Turow (sp)
Michal Creigton
Stephen King
James Hadley Chase
John Grisham
Mark Twain
Erle Stanley Gardner
Oliver Strange ( created Sudden)

I am surprised that Louis L'amour books were so popular in Guyana. And many people still rank them "highly"

I also read all the "Sudden" books as a teenager.

I think the series was continued for a bit after Oliver Strange died.

he receive the hightest award in america by a US PRESIDENT

Although I am not an avid reader, as a youngster I enjoyed the Louis L'Amour series, later Agatha Christie and a few others. However some books does etch a permanent place in one's memory. Among these are:

The Power Of The Subconscious Mind By Dr. Joseph Campbell
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistery ( Perhaps one of the all time best story teller)
Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
Ananga Ranga - Kalyana Malla
Doomsday Conspiracy - Sydney Sheldon
MONKEY ON A STICK ? Infiltration of The Hare Krishna Movement by false gurus & criminals...

BTW TAS, Welcome to the club! grab a peerha and make yourself comfortable!

There was also Zane Grey and Nicholas Monserrat. Nicholas wrote 'the White Rajah' that was thrilling.

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Originally posted by Sunil:
I had a look at Tas books, they remind me of a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. As a kid I loved the stories of Issac Asimov.

I am sure I was influenced by my reading in my preteen and teen years.

So instead of going for a vacation in Akaska or Berbice -

perhaps in the year 2884 - the teens may go to another part of the galaxy! Who knows

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Originally posted by Anan:
Alistair MacLean - Night Without End.

Sidney Sheldon - Master of The Game

I remember being up late by myself - and reading the beginning of night without end at a young age - I was scared at the time!