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What books have you read that you couldn't put down?

What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?

What books would you like to see made into a movie?

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?

What books have you read that you couldn't put down?
*Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie McDonald
*Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
*Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?
*The Potato Factory by Bryce Courtenay. Didn't finish it, it was gawdawful
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by... I forget
*On the Road by Jack Kerouac

What books would you like to see made into a movie?
*Hrmm... I don't know, but I'm tired of classics being turned into star vehicles. (i.e. Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley!)

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
*Classics
*Canlit
*chicklit

What books have you read that you couldn't put down?
* The Kite Runner
* The Time Traveler's Wife
* I'm sure there are others but I'm blanking out right now.

What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?
* I have to have actually finished for this question? I don't think there are any. I tend to give up in the middle if a book is that horrible.

What books would you like to see made into a movie?
* Ender's Game

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
* I'd like to point out here that mysteries are fiction and biographies are non-fiction, LOL. Just my geeky inner nit-picker coming out to play.
* I like basically any type of fiction except cheesy romance novels (ala Harlequin). Mysteries, sci fi, straight fiction, chick lit, John Grisham, classics, it's all good. I'm not a big fan of horror, aside from Stephen King. Like, I won't read a Dean Koontz novel. But maybe that's just a prejudice, I haven't actually tried them.
* I don't read much non-fiction. I do read the odd biography if it's someone I'm interested in. I used to read lots of diet books.

What books have you read that you couldn't put down?
~Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
~The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago (it's a memoir, not smut!)

What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?
~The End of Blackness by Debra Dickerson (interesting ideas, absolutely horrible execution)


What books would you like to see made into a movie?
~Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary Bray

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
~Memoirs
~Non-fiction (usu. about women's issues or poverty)

What books have you read that you couldn't put down?
The Kite Runner, but only after page 70 or so
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Bag of Bones by Stephen King (shut up)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, but only after 200 pages or so
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Oh, and many, many more!

What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?
Name all the Animals by Alison Smith
The Romantic Movement by Alain de Botton
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Live to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez (I love the man, but his autobiography is boooring).

What books would you like to see made into a movie?
Oh well, it depends on what they'll do with them. I'm very curious to see what they'll do with Shantaram. The book had some very boring parts, but they'll probably skip those in the movie. The Time Traveler's Wife will probably be interesting to see, too. But seriously, how often does the movie industry do anything decent with your favorite books??

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
Fiction 99.99% of the time.

Silvia, I loved Bag of Bones too. It was so enthralling. I'm glad Stephen King has matured.

Crystal Meth wrote:What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
*Classics
*Canlit
*chicklit

What is Canlit?

Canadian literature. It really is a genre unto itself...

What books have you read that you couldn't put down?
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Nora Nora by Anne Rivers Siddons
The Family by Anita Burgh


What books have you read that you agonized through and just barely finished?
I'm with Crystal on the Potato Factory. Ugh. I did finish it though, grudgingly. I so loved some of Bryce Courtenay's other books I figured it had to get better. It did not.

What books would you like to see made into a movie?
I will have to give this more thought.

What types of books do you usually read (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, biography, mystery, etc.)?
General fiction, chicklit, non-fiction social commentary, cookbooks