Do you like to read?

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Do you like to read? If so name at least three books that you have read and liked in the past.

As for me I have enjoyed in the past books such as Fight Club (the film is better than the book in my opinion), Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (the supernatural and non-supernatural elements send chills down my spine), some Disc World novels for a good laugh or two, and lastly I Am Legend for its surprising twist ending (which the movie got wrong on so many levels). I am also a fan of classical Russian literature, which includes such examples as Crime and Punishment. The reason why is because I am curious as to what life was like in 18th - 20th century Russia, before the Red Revolution and all of the horrors that took place in it had begun.

I love your topic! I thnk I have discovered more about myself and how the world works through reading than by any other means. Also, finding out what others are reading gives me a chance to explore new possibilities.I adore reading!
Some of my favorites:
Walk two moons - It's an adolescent book but should be read by all
The Giver - and the whole series/sequels
Harry Potter- my secret wish for magic to exist in this world
All Jane Austen with my favorite being Pride and Prejudice , I love historical British fiction
How far would you have gotten if I hadn't called you back?
Mr. Pettigrew's Last Stand
The Accidental Tourist - I like how quirky these people are.

I could go on for awhile...! !! !...Asimov, Tolkien, Kipling....

I don't like reading things except online because I'm slow at it due to dyslexia & I also have vision issues & my head can hurt when reading small print for a while.

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I like to read, but lately I don't do it as much. I get easily obsessed with the Internet. I also tend to get distracted by my own thoughts when reading. When I was younger, I hardly ever read a book from cover to cover, but instead flipped through it and read bits and pieces. As for books I like, there's too many to count, but I have enjoyed the Beautiful Creatures series, Harry Potter, etc.

I enjoy reading, but I can't do it much because of difficulty with concentration as a result of OCD.

Books I have liked include Fight Club, The Road, Moby Dick, Blood Meridian, Dracula, The Hobbit, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, and Desperation.

Another lover of historical fiction, except it's British. Good for you though. Oh and I almost forgot to say that I would recommend Goodreads to you (link: https://www.goodreads.com/), because it has a plethora of books which you could review and you can read other people's reviews, and such. You have to make an account though .

Yes, I'm a bookworm, and among my faves are:

Dean Koontz: “Watchers”, plus his books about Christopher Snow and Odd Thomas
Lois Lowry: “The giver”
Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié: the Wolf Springs Chronicles trilogy
Suzanne Collins: The hunger games trilogy
Julia Ecklar: ”Regenesis”
Stephen King: ”Pet sematary”, ”The fire starter”
Frank Schätzing: ”The swarm”
Johan Harstad: Darlah – 172 timer på månen/ 172 hours on the Moon
Fredrik Backman: A Man Called Ove
Susan Pfeffer: The last survivors trilogy
Anne J Elven: Sannhetens løgner
Finn Carling: Frokost i det skjønne
Ingvar Knudtsen jr: Tyrannosaurus rex (+ some of his short stories)
Some of the B5 and ST Voyager books
Eric Knight: “Lassie come home”

How about I give you 3 series' instead?

The Chronicles Of Narnia by C.S. Lewis: I loved this series as a kid and have since read all 7 books several times over.

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins: I had only read the first chapter of The Hunger Games when the first movie was coming out, but I was able to read the rest of the series before the subsequent sequels. Both the books and the movies have their strengths and weaknesses, but, for my money, the books were better.

The WaterFire Saga by Jennifer Donnelly: This is a series I only came across recently and it's still an unfinished series as the 4th, and final, book doesn't come out for a few months, but I love how fully fleshed out the mythology this series has about Merfolk culture is, even dating all the way back to the sinking of Atlantis. Anyone who likes Fantasy stories with strong female leads and equally well developed characters should definitely check this out.

I can only ever read around 15 books at once, I flit between them like an energized butterfly and re read stuff constantly. Fight Club is a superb novel, I still can't believe how good the film adaptation is because that story is not easy to put onto screen. Poe is brilliant, I have so many more of his tales to read but I have always admired the fall of the house of usher, masque of the red death, descent into the maelstrom and william wilson in particular.

I liked Poe's work too from The Fall Of The House Of Usher to The Tell-Tale Heart to even the one where that drunk guy gets shackled to the wall while the other man builds the wall over him (anyone who can name the latter would be greatly appreciated as its name has escaped me) among others. I was actually at a panel at a convention this past weekend where the speakers went into a deep discussion about Poe's life and career. I found it to be very tragic that every woman in his life that he was connected with died from tuberculosis.