Slime Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Which books in your collection are the literary equivalent of crack? Which books are just so addictive that you honestly have a hard time NOT reading them when you are trying to focus on other material? Which books do you feel you could shred up and put on a mirror for the same effect as reading? I nominate every book in the Harry Potter series. JK Rowling is a drug lord and book stores are pushers. Simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Slime @ Jul 19 2006, 04:08 PM) JK Rowling is a drug lord and book stores are pushers. Simple as that. Yeah. Lets burn her books. The slag. I f***ing hate Harry Pothead. I don't understand grownups reading that shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I know I'm going to shock the crap out of people with this one: the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slime Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 I THINK you're missing the point I was trying to make Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Slime @ Jul 19 2006, 04:20 PM) I THINK you're missing the point I was trying to make no i just hate harry pothead and had to say yes, it's crack in the world of literature IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:20 PM) I know I'm going to shock the crap out of people with this one: the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Link me up Jacko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 19 2006, 12:26 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:20 PM) I know I'm going to shock the crap out of people with this one: the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Link me up Jacko With pleasure! The Aubrey-Maturin books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:31 PM) QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 19 2006, 12:26 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:20 PM) I know I'm going to shock the crap out of people with this one: the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Link me up Jacko With pleasure! The Aubrey-Maturin books. Excellent! Sounds much like the beginning series of some of Wilbur Smith's books of the Courtney's when they were privateers *(It is 1667 and Sir Francis Courteney and his son Henry "Hal" Courteney are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa. They have a letter from Charles II sanctioning them to hunt down and capture enemy ships "beyond the line". ) for England. I shocked myself by liking those. I'll have to give those a try thanks mang *from Birds of Prey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 19 2006, 12:38 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:31 PM) QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 19 2006, 12:26 PM) QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jul 19 2006, 04:20 PM) I know I'm going to shock the crap out of people with this one: the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Link me up Jacko With pleasure! The Aubrey-Maturin books. Excellent! Sounds much like the beginning series of some of Wilbur Smith's books of the Courtney's when they were privateers *(It is 1667 and Sir Francis Courteney and his son Henry "Hal" Courteney are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa. They have a letter from Charles II sanctioning them to hunt down and capture enemy ships "beyond the line". ) for England. I shocked myself by liking those. I'll have to give those a try thanks mang *from Birds of Prey You're very welcome! You can read the first few pages of Master And Commander here. Thank you for telling me about Birds Of Prey. I shall check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodoff Baldrick Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Pretty much anything by Carl Hiaasen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddy Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. The only problem with "The Runes Of Earth" was that I finished the book in less than a day and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyRulz Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 The biggest addiction I had was when I first read Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, well before the movie was released. I couldn't stop reading, and any obligatory social engagements I had were total distractions from what I really wanted to be doing. I know it's got a lot of detractors (and some lovers) on this board, but I also was addicted to The DaVinci Code. That was one of those "finish it in less than a week" books; I've read others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Sodoff Baldrick @ Jul 19 2006, 11:50 AM) Pretty much anything by Carl Hiaasen oh sweet holy hell, yes! his books are addictive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 QUOTE (Mrs. Huck Rogers @ Jul 19 2006, 11:12 AM) QUOTE (Slime @ Jul 19 2006, 04:08 PM) JK Rowling is a drug lord and book stores are pushers. Simple as that. Yeah. Lets burn her books. The slag. I f***ing hate Harry Pothead. I don't understand grownups reading that shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubled_mystic Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 book equivilants of crack....well the da Vinci Code, I finished that one in one night I couldn't put it down. Tom Clancy's books would qualify for me. I mean the ones he wrote, not the "created by" crap series. Sum of All fears, Debt of Honor and Executive Orders are especially engrossing. But the most adictive literarty crack right now has to be Harry Potter. It's entertaining, draws you in to it's world and has lots and lots of people jonsing for more...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfhrafnr Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Frank Herberts Dune. I read the original trilogy at least one a year. Stephen Kings Dark Tower series is equally good, it was kind of a letdown at the end, but the wait for each sequel was like withdrawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I thuink the main one with is Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonriders of Pern' series which I've been repeatedly reading for 30 odd years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Jul 20 2006, 01:36 PM) I thuink the main one with is Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonriders of Pern' series which I've been repeatedly reading for 30 odd years Slaine, you old dog! I've been wondering when you'd make an appearance in here! Welcome, it's good to see you again! My apologies if you've made an appearance in here before and I missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfhrafnr Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 QUOTE (Slaine mac Roth @ Jul 20 2006, 09:36 AM) I thuink the main one with is Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonriders of Pern' series which I've been repeatedly reading for 30 odd years How could I have forgotten Pern?!? Thanks for the reminder! *goes to the bookcase to hunt* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jul 19 2006, 08:33 PM)The biggest addiction I had was when I first read Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, well before the movie was released... I know it's got a lot of detractors (and some lovers) on this board, but I also was addicted to The DaVinci Code. The Da Vinci Code really is the literary equivlent of crack. I know it does me no good, I know I'm going to feel bad for doing it the next morning, but, boy, when I'm reading it, it makes me feel good. And like our favourite street drugs, while it's not made particularly well, it certianly gives you a hit. The Silence of the Lambs I got in a cheap pack of '10 films from which books were made' pack. It's not normally the type hit think of taking, but that was my mistake as snorting this was great. Much more nuanced than the film. The last book that had me crawling down on my hands and knees late at night wondering if any small delicious crumbs had somehow spilt on the sofa earlier for me to snort now was Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife a beautiful, emotional, technically audacious novel with a little sci-fi twist. While I was reading it I though men should not be allowed to write sci-fi. Women: How would time travel effect a life, a love, a family? Men: Dude, we can go and see the dinosaurs! Love to all Disco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 QUOTE (Disco @ Jul 26 2006, 04:24 PM) The last book that had me crawling down on my hands and knees late at night wondering if any small delicious crumbs had somehow spilt on the sofa earlier for me to snort now was Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife a beautiful, emotional, technically audacious novel with a little sci-fi twist. My wife read that. She loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostGirl Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 I'm one of those goofy grown-ups who loves Harry Potter...I think because it's absolute and total escape, and I need that. Many of Dean Koontz's books fit this bill for me, as well. I re-read Watchers once a year at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Jul 26 2006, 05:07 PM) I'm one of those goofy grown-ups who loves Harry Potter...I think because it's absolute and total escape, and I need that. Many of Dean Koontz's books fit this bill for me, as well. I re-read Watchers once a year at least. Koontz' stuff is definitely brain candy. I've read a couple of his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelingwithyourskin Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 rand. i think i tore through atlas shrugged in 5 days... 5 work days. when i was done i think i slept for 24 hours straight it isn't the best written book in history, but there was something compelling about it that absolutely refused to let me put it down, even for a second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 (edited) QUOTE (feelingwithyourskin @ Jul 20 2006, 12:45 AM) QUOTE (Sodoff Baldrick @ Jul 19 2006, 11:50 AM) Pretty much anything by Carl Hiaasen oh sweet holy hell, yes! his books are addictive Ladies, I'm with you 100%, but I must recommend two authors to you. Christopher Brookmyre - I know, I know, change the record Madra, but this guy is a genius. His imagination is so twisted it's being used as the blueprint for an unsolvable maze game on PSP and his writing ability is top class. A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away is probably his masterpiece (and is also my 'crack' book), but All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye runs it close. The Scottish terminology takes a bit of getting used to at times, but well worth the investment. Colin Bateman From Belfast, most of his books centre on a dysfunctional journalist called Dan Starkey. There tends to be a fair bit of story crossover, so I'd advise you to start with Divorcing Jack (which was also made into a cracking film starring David Thewliss). The latest, Belfast Confidential is also one of his best. (True story - The day I was diagnosed in March, I started Belfast Confidential. After the diagnosis when the counsellor came up to talk to me on the ward, I had the ipod headphones on and was reading BC, cracking up with laughter. She came over, gently asked how I was......I'm still pissing myself. That's a recommendation!!!!!!!!!). Both of them tend to be compared with Hiaasen, and it's a fair comparison to a large extent. However, Brookmyre and Bateman tend to be a bit darker, but no less comedic for that. Brookmyre has also based a few of his books around a journalist, Jack Parlabane, and says he based Jack on Ford Prefect from THHGTTG. He told BBC's 'Hitchhiker Memories' - "I always adored the idea of a character who cheerfully wanders into enormously dangerous situations and effortlessly makes them much worse." The fact that both share the initials CB is also, as far as I'm aware, a total coincidence, but I'm sure Dan Brown can make something of it.... Edited July 27, 2006 by madra sneachta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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