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I just finished a cute/funny novel called, "Must Love Dragons", by Stephanie Rowe. Just fluff, but entertaining with several laugh out loud comedy moments. I love books that make me laugh.

Angie...I used to read F Micheals...Haven't read any of her stuff in a while.... I plan on checking out these...thanks for the recommendation.

Jasmine..Susan Johnson is great! What trashy romance novel reading is all about. I love it!!

Marimaru, it sounds like you and I like the same stuff.

I love the Damphir series by Barb and JC Hendee. Can't wait for "Traitor of the Blood" to come out in paperback. And I am a fan of LKH also. Not as much of the newer stuff, but I still read her. (ps...her web site is creepy...some of her "fans" are scary :) ).

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WoW Kutia! someone else who knows who Robert Heinlein is! My dh and I were just talking about how much fun it would be to do a movie of Glory Road! The last Unicorn is one of my all time favorites- one that I reread regularly. I like hard backs because I reread most of my books again and again over the years.

I love sci/fi and fantasy and inhale instead of read. Love the books of Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey and many others. OK, and i will even admit here and in public for the first time, I am hooked on Sherilyn Kenyons Darkhunter series. There, I said it!

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Glory Road is awesome. I'd love to see a movie of it. My fave though is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Adore that book! I had never read The Last Unicorn before. I just saw the movie when I was a kid and loved it. I'm hoping my library will get in a copy of Heinlein's latest (ghost-written, obviously) book soon. Hardbacks are too expensive for me.

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My favorite series', which I have read over and over, are Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, and Stephen King's The Gunslinger series. These are great stories that last a loooooong time. As a matter of fact, I am still waiting for Jordan to put out the last two books in his series. I have been reading the series for about 14 years. It takes about 3 or 4 years in between publishings, so I start to reread the stories all over again.

I do read the porn, that we women like to call romance. There is one book called Ghost Fox, or Ghostfox, by a man, its got a great story along with the romance. I wish I could find it on a book exchange gruop somewhere.

I belong to frugal reader, where you exchange books online. You ship your books to whomever requests it, and if you request a book from someone, its free! You can either keep that book when you're done, or you can relist it for others to request. It goes on a points system. frugalreader.com.

Kristi

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I bought myself a portable cd player for hitting 199 lbs. I put an audio book in and just lose myself in the story and walk , walk and walk.

edie:nervous

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I am addicted to Nora Roberts. I have read most all of her books and am not sure what I will do once I finally get through them all:omg:.

Another great site to trade your paperback books is...

paperbackswap.com

If you decide to join, please consider entering my e-mail addy as a referral (nrh@ev1.net) since you get book credits for referring others. I have already traded several books this way and have really enjoyed it.

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WoW Kutia! someone else who knows who Robert Heinlein is!

Make that three of us. I was the only girl in the Sci Fi Club in high school. My all time favorite was the Dune trilogy. Second most favorite - Farnham's Freehold.

What's your favorite sci fi book?

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kutia - I've read the Princes of Ireland - good reading!

My favorite authors are Kathleen O'neal Gear & W.Michael Gear, a husband and wife team, they start with an acheologial :) dig and then the story evolves around the bones that were found. They are the First North American Series - I've read ALL of them. But I also love historical romance - and a good mystery - and just about any thing. Some of my favorites are the Gracelin O'Malley series by Ann Moore - and Diana Gabaldon has a series, it starts with Outlander. I have so many books piled around my house its terrible. I work at a private golf club and the older ladies who don't golf play bridge and read so we have our own little library right there at work! Its great and we put our initials in them so we know if we've read a book or not. Every year they pull out the old books and replace with new ones. I also do the book in the purse. One of the older ladies told me a few years ago to always carry a book with you and then waiting isn't so bad. One more favorite writer is Nancy Turner she wrote These is My Words and Sarah's Quilt - if any of you are from Oklahoma those are a must read!

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I love to read too. I don't read much sci-fi but I do enjoy Ray Bradbury. Our book club just read the first in the series The #1 Ladies Detective Agency. It was really good and something I probably would not have picked on my own. I also recently started The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (he is awesome). One of my favorites of all time is This Much I Know Is True by Wally Lamb and also the Clan of the Cave Bear series (but did not care too much for the latest of that series - hope the next one is better because it is supposed to be the last). I enjoy Dean Koontz a lot. I like to try a variety of styles.

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I've read Dune but I never really got into it, the same with the Foundation series. I don't know why, I just never got into their worlds I guess. I loved Farnham's Freehold. I've never read a Heinlein that I didn't enjoy.

I've read all of the Outlander series. They are really great. Historical fiction/romance/fantasy/action/adventure. What more could you want?

I'm really open-minded when it comes to reading. I'll give any genre or author a try.

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Kutia and anyone else who enjoys sci-fi, you should give Robert J. Sawyer a try, some of the best sci-fi since Heinlin IMHO. If you want I have a few papaerbacks of his lying around so PM me and I'll send you a copy.

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I've read Dune but I never really got into it, the same with the Foundation series. I don't know why, I just never got into their worlds I guess. I loved Farnham's Freehold. I've never read a Heinlein that I didn't enjoy.

I've read all of the Outlander series. They are really great. Historical fiction/romance/fantasy/action/adventure. What more could you want?

I'm really open-minded when it comes to reading. I'll give any genre or author a try.

I especially love disaster stories - end of the world stuff. Anyone else read Alas Babylon?

I liked the first of the Cavebear series, but not the last ones so much. And Watership Down....although none of those were sci fi, I don't think.

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Heinlein's -Job a comedy of errors- Just a hoot! Another author that was compared to him that I like a lot is John Varley- after a long absence he just put out 3 new books in the last few yrs. Fun reading but go back and read his older stuff also.

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I've read all the Jean Aul books (Llan of cavebear) and loved the first 2 or 3 but then the last one wasn't as good. I also just read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, supose to be a classic but I had to push myself through it, and I'm reading a Jane Austin book, can't think of which one. I love all the classics and try to mix them in with the easy reading. Sometimes I just need something light and easy and sometimes I enjoy the deeper books.

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