Over43 Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 So I might be frequenting here quite a bit. Just finished: 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart by Christiaan Barnard. Not a bad book on health. Also: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. For those of you that are familiar with many of the hoaky Bond movies out there the books are the real thing. On the Church side of reading I'm reading the Book of Mormon and listening to CDs of Spencer W. Kimball. O43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Who are some of your favorite authors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over43 Posted March 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Who are some of your favorite authors?Saul Bellow, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Carl Hiaasen, Ian Fleming, George Cornwell (The Sharpe novels), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction), etc.And you?O40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pushka Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 My ex husband is a fan of James Bond films and books. I read Live And Let Die, and really enjoyed it, I'm not too keen on the Bond movies however, just the other week Diamonds Are Forever was shown on UK TV and I saw the final scene..I couldn't believe how hammy it was!! I was around 7 the 1st time I watched that, and probably took it really seriously at the time, lol :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Girl Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Anyone here like mysteries?? I am a huge fan of Agatha Christie, and have read nearly everything she wrote (love both Poirot and Marple, but Poirot is my favorite), M.C. Beaton (Hamish McBeth series), Dianne Mott Davidson (Goldy Schulz series), Nancy Pickard (Jenny Cain series) and Caloyn Hart (Death on Demand series)... As well as others... Silver Girl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over43 Posted March 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 My ex husband is a fan of James Bond films and books. I read Live And Let Die, and really enjoyed it, I'm not too keen on the Bond movies however, just the other week Diamonds Are Forever was shown on UK TV and I saw the final scene..I couldn't believe how hammy it was!! I was around 7 the 1st time I watched that, and probably took it really seriously at the time, lol :)Somewhere after Dr. No the director (Brocolli) decided that the campier the Bond movie, the better? "Casino Royale" which came out the year before last seems to have taken the movies back to the actual Bond character and the "seriousness" that Fleming was writing with.O43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelleDrew Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Over- I respect anyone who can call Ayn Rand a favorite author. Her works are not easy reads, I had to literally kick myself for two months to finish Atlas Shrugged. Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Levi Peterson is my favorite author in the LDS genre. His fiction is not two-toned stories of easy faith; rather, it is grittier, evocative, poignant, yet softer, exquisite and more crucial than any other LDS fiction I've read. In my opinion, Levi Petersen is the best Mormon author there is, and I am not saying that just because he was my English professor once upon a time. Reviews -- Aspen MarooneyBelow I've listed his books, with The Backslider, my favorite, listed first. I will say, as I told him, that I was not satisfied with Backslider's ending. If anyone reads it, I'd be interested in your thoughts. The BacksliderAspen MarooneyCanyons of GraceNight SoilElphaba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GhostRider Posted April 8, 2008 Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 O43 i also read alot like you. some of the authors that i read are: Tom Clancy, Dale Brown,Dan Brown, The Gears, Louis Lamour, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and just about anything to deal with woodworking or native american history. I am looking for an author of a book that i hear is quite good. Its called Jesus the christ. if anyone knows the author and where i might be able to locate this book let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over43 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2008 O43 i also read alot like you. some of the authors that i read are:Tom Clancy, Dale Brown,Dan Brown, The Gears, Louis Lamour, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and just about anything to deal with woodworking or native american history.I am looking for an author of a book that i hear is quite good. Its called Jesus the christ. if anyone knows the author and where i might be able to locate this book let me knowElder Talmage wrote "Jesus the Christ" in the early 20th Century. It is a classic. Another excellent book on Jesus is, and although not of the LDS faith, Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth". It isn't an easy read, but informative.I love Tolkein, and Lamour myself. The Last of the Breed and The Haunted Mesa are my two favorite Lamour novels.O43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted April 9, 2008 Report Share Posted April 9, 2008 Saul Bellow, Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, Carl Hiaasen, Ian Fleming, George Cornwell (The Sharpe novels), L. Ron Hubbard (science fiction), etc.And you?O40 Love Sidney Sheldon and Robin Cook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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