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I read horor novels i enjoy the blood shed ,among other things its an inspiration to me.
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My favorite book is of Saints and Shadows. Its a very graphic horror novel, so it should be right up your alley, but more importantly, it contains meaningful messages sbout human nature.
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My favorite series is by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. It is about a vampire called St. Germain. Each book is set in a different time period and builds the horror around what mankind does to mankind. St. Germain, the vampire, is the good guy. Yarbro does some super research before writing about each period and many of the secondary characters are actual historical figures. She has been writing about St. Germain since the late 70's so there are something like 20 related books to date.

I also like stories based on the Arthurian Legends, like Zimmerman's The Mists of Avalon and Mary Stewart's books about Merlin (The Crystal Cave, etc) as well as more reality based historical fiction like Pennman's When Christ and His Saints Slept, a book about the war between King Stephen and Queen Maud of England in the 1130's.

I also read some biographies and straight history, particularly that relating to the middle ages and Renaissance.
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here are my favorites from the past month...

~Everything's Eventual
~Fight Club
~Family Circle
~Family Album
~Blood cantical
~Till dawn tames the night
~Victor hugo: collection
~Edgar Allen Poe: collection

but my all time fave for the month of feburary was 'Go Ask Alice' beautifuly honest book that goes beneathe the kicks and giggles of a drug addict teenager
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huh

i did this post 2 times
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you can't have a good novel without suspense!

latest reads. Contest-Mathew Reilly-action
Ice station ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Life Expectancy-Dean Koontz-suspense horror type thingy....aka not sure.
The Da Vinvi Code-Dan Brown-thriller something, with great suspense.

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I've never been to keen on reading, so that might explain my spelling issue. I'm still in the middle of a Stephen King Novel~ Gerald’s Game, I love it. it's a really good novel, but I wouldn't recommend it to younger people. It's pretty graphic, but I love the kinda things that are happening in it. 'm doing a book report on it, but I can't present it in front of the class it's just not appropriate.
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickins
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You guys make me feel bad. I'm not smart enough for those kinds of books.

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i loove this 2 books_voice of the blood and wounds
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Let's see, I read:

Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, Pretty much anything and everything by R.A. Salvatore, Cloud of Sparrows, Autumn Bridge, and everything by Tolkien.
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I just finished reading "Jacob's Hands". An excellent book indeed, very moving.

Next:
"The ESP Affair" by Alison Tyler (don't know if I'll like it... :?)
And then,
"On The Bright Side, I Am Now The Girlfriend Of A Sex God" by Louis Rennison (suppose to be hilarious, borrowed it from a friend :mrgreen:)
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Sci-fi
I like reading Rick Shelly's Dirigent Mercenary Corp series. Read some David Drake as well, didn't like his short stories so much. Maybe I should find and read his Hammer's Slammers books.

Favorite book of all time is Robert Hienlien's Starship Troopers. The movie was a very poor attempt to bring to book to life, and it failed on several levels.
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I have been reading classic and new-wave sci fi

Piers Anthony's Magic of Xanth series
<good if you like puns or have a short attention span like me :) >

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
<this book is nearly impossible to put down>
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I read other comics. My favorites are Shanda the Panda, Ninja High School, Gold Digger, Katmanda, Finder, Furrlough, Knights of the Dinner Table, Dork Tower, Nodwick...

But I also read hardcovers and paperbacks. The last hardcover I read was Ira Levin's This Perfect Day. My current one is Howard Cosell's I Never Played the Game.
As for paperbacks, my last one was Tristram Shandy...and my current one is Battlestar Galactica.
I prefer conspiracy books, James Bond novels, mysteries, some classics, and whatever else catches my fancy.
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Harry Potter series
Forgotten Realms series
David Cooperfield (pretty good story) :D

many more can't remember them at the moment
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