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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I'm kinda stuck on Dean Koontz right now.
    I've read almost all of his, my absolute favourite was "Dark rivers of the heart" closely followed by "Strangers"

    I'm reading 'The Stand' by Stephen King again at the moment

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    I'm kinda stuck on Dean Koontz right now.
    Him and King are my all-time 2 favorite horror authors

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxdana View Post
    I've read almost all of his, my absolute favourite was "Dark rivers of the heart" closely followed by "Strangers"

    I'm reading 'The Stand' by Stephen King again at the moment
    I love The Stand....a truly scary book in many parts of it

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    Have you tried Richard Laymon? A very twisted soul, atleast he had an outlet with his writing, or he would have been a serial killer I think!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxdana View Post
    Have you tried Richard Laymon? A very twisted soul, atleast he had an outlet with his writing, or he would have been a serial killer I think!!
    The name sounds really familiar

    I'll look when I get home from work at my books

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    A lot of similar tastes , I love sci-fi. Asimov, Larry Niven etc. Also Dean Koontz, Steven King, Micheal Crichton, Greg Bear....

    Damn, I need to get my laptop back or I'm gonna need to make a trip to Half Priced books.

    I think the last thing I read was something by Asimov.

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    Dean Koonce and Stephen King are both good. I've enjoyed many of their stories. But they are both derivative of their predecessors. I'm serious, if you want to give your brain a good workout and read real literature and get some chills going at the same time, try M.R. James or even Henry James ("Turn of the Screw") or even Washington Irving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Girlfriend View Post
    I've read Asimov's "I, Robot", Papa... a must read if you like sci-fi!

    I've also read an abridged version of Arthur C. Clark's "Sentinel" and a movie book adaptation of "2001" but I probably should read more of his fiction.

    The good thing about a snowy weekend, is that I spent all day inside today finishing off that "Marie Antoinette" book. Didn't end as well as it started.
    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    A lot of similar tastes , I love sci-fi. Asimov, Larry Niven etc. Also Dean Koontz, Steven King, Micheal Crichton, Greg Bear....

    Damn, I need to get my laptop back or I'm gonna need to make a trip to Half Priced books.

    I think the last thing I read was something by Asimov.
    You two rounded out my list... I just had a brain fart and forgot to list them. Asimov should have been first on my list as I read tons of his stuff. After seeing "2001" at the theater I had to go out and buy the book... just to figure out what I had just seen.
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    Besides reading a bunch of textbooks, I'm just about done with Letters To A Young Chef by Daniel Boulud.

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    Stephen King, Koonce and Asimov rock. Never heard of Mr James, will have to check that out.

    Right now I'm reading Frank Barron's What Fish Don't Want You to Know: An Insider's Guide to Freshwater Fishing


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    Funny book. Anna David lived the life I had in my dreams.

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    Excellent book about the formation of a new type of unit and how effective they were during the Vietnam conflict.

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    not reading anything at the mo but I've just picked up a Maeve Binchy book up The Copper Beech I think it's called, she's an irish novelitist who manages to pull me into the story and get me hooked.

    Favourite authors so far have been Stephen King (not read all of them just a handful) James Herbert's Fluke and The Survivor,

    ....Catherine Cookson, Judith Krantz, Virginia Andrews and Maeve Binchy.....obviously they're the chick books and nowt you men folk would be into reading

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