That's real funny MattV!

I loved "Expendable" by James Alan Gardner and the other books in that universe. I'm also getting into Alan Dean Foster's science fiction books. I generally stay away from books that aren't sci-fi or fiction. Though I do love Kenneth Robeson's series "Doc Savage".

IT creeped the crap out of me. I was young, maybe 16 years old and was away on vacation. The hotel room was on the first floor so we had a sliding glass door leading outside as well as the front door. It was really windy and I was sleeping on the pullout couch in the living room and I was reading It with a single light on next to the couch.

As I was reading it i kept hearing things getting blown into the sliding glass doors and it was scaring the crap out of me. I remember this so vividly. Book was incredible.

I dont really have a favourite and a most hated book. I never read fantasy books. Read a few S.King books, but used to prefer books by john grisham, dan brown, tom clancy. Ever since Uni (bout 2001) I have stopped reading books much. I cant concentrate for too long and have a bit of stimulus satiation from the work i do and the life i live. The last book took me 3/4 of a year lol. Currently reading "Der menschliche Makel". I try to read one german one english one german one english book...

Oh MattV!

That is just pure evil thoughts....but I like!

Ahh, sorry Pandora, I know how you feel "IT" was the book that terrified me, the only difference I did read it all the way through.

But come to think of it I do have a slight paranoia about drains.

Best: probably Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk.

Worst: probably Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. It started well, then went gradually down hill, and then there was the part with the helicopter.......



I read IT for the first time this summer, I've always found clowns to be creepy, this book just made this worse! Great, truly scary book!

This post has been edited by evilmonkeyz: Sep 22 2007, 06:07 AM

Best book is a toss up between "Without Remorse" by Tom Clancy and the " Revelations of John" (plus the rest of the Bible)

hard to pick a worst, as I dont finish any thing that I don't like and then "purge" it from memory as much as possible (except for a mental marker that it sucked )

Even if a book sucks, I'll usually finish it in the hopes that it might suck less by the end. Sometimes I'll start reading a book and think "this sucks", but by the time I'm halfway through I can't stop reading.

The best book I've read so far are academic. "Accounting for Non-accountants"
Worst: "Accounting for Non-Accountants"

I used to be the same way until I had kids. Then I realized time is too precious to waste on a really crappy book. Now if I start a book, and I give it a 100 or so pages and it is still crap, off to the library donation pile it goes.

I always wondered why there were so many crappy books in the library.

LOL.

Hey at least I donate em I actually donate every book I read, unless they are so good I would want to reread in the future.

When I buy a book, the only way it will leave my possession is if it somehow destroyed. I have books that I've never even opened, simply because they're antiques and/or collector's items. Valuable, in other words.

I have some valuable books to (mostly stephen king signed or Donald M. Grant first editions of Dark Tower), but when I go out and buy a paperback, I see no reason to hold on to it. They rarely increase in value and I would rather allow someone else to read it.

A few years ago I went over to buying everything as ebooks to read during the commute. With all the DRM and stuff donating or lending them are an impossibility and would probably violate some license agreement I've agreed to along the way. But it is nice to be able to carry a thousand books in my pocket.