Book lovers discussion

Look Me in the Eye My Life with Asperger's

Touching the Void The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival and This Game of Ghosts.

Into the Wild and Into Thin Air A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

Be True to Your School

Girls Like Us Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation

The Nasty Bits Collected Varietal Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

Mockingbird A Portrait of Harper Lee

Haunted Heart The Life and Times of Stephen King

The Big Skinny How I Changed My Fattitude

What's So Great about America

Know what, i never read real life stuff. I may read the Stephen King life & times, but thats it. When i read i like to go away from reality not toward it. I don't read the paper or watch the news, if something important is happening someone tells me. My oldest daughter likes to read non fiction, and thinks i'm crazy for not keeping up with current events.

I'm a King NUTCASE. But if anyone reads only one book by him it should be The Stand. IMO it's the embodiment of good & evil. Also IT but thats because it's my favorite.

Thats funny I just read The Stand early this summer (the expanded Edition!) It was a long book. My husband said it was his favorite book as a teenager so I had to read it. He said that he really loves the Gunslinger series too. Maybe I'll pick up another Steven King book soon. I think he dose a wonderful job on character development of all types of people. I enjoy how he writes from all points of view too.

I just finished The glass castle it was a good eye opener and was hard for me to put down!!

and I really want to read:

The Dirt by Tommy Lee!

I Love Motley Crue! It should be a rocking,shocking read!!

I've studied allot of the most famous Serial Killers and a few other people that interest me, like Liver Eating Johnson, George Lucas, Stan Winston, Alfred Hitchock, and allot of books on various religions and of course their sacred texts [some of them anyway:].

I think I've only read In Cold Blood. But I bought a few non fiction books lately. (Band of Brothers, A Night to Remember, Skinny Bitch, A Beautiful Mind, Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl). Hope I'll get to them soon.

Cold Blood is excellent. I can remember jumping at every noise I heard when I was reading it late, late one night.

Tressa wrote: "Cold Blood is excellent. I can remember jumping at every noise I heard when I was reading it late, late one night."

I remember being nervous even during the day while I was reading it!

Tressa wrote: "Look Me in the Eye My Life with Asperger's

Touching the Void The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival and This Game of Ghosts.

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I read and liked both Into Thin Air and Into the Wild....

Endurance...Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Helter Skelter

both very good.

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule...I still get freaked out in the woods alone! The book was good...but it scared me.

Krakauer is a good writer. I can't put his books down. I love to read about mountaineering for some unknown reason--God knows I couldn't pull my own weight up a mountain with my weak vermicelli arms. If you like adventure stories you should try Touching the Void. The documentary is incredible. Here's the trailer for Touching the Void:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65VrY...

I just bought a book about Shackleton. What an amazing man. He actually cared about his men and made sure he went back for them. Unlike cruise ship captains these days who knock women and children out of the way as they're first to abandon ship.

Helter Skelter...read that one once and I never want to read it again. The torture and stabbings are just too horrible. And Sharon Tate was about ready to deliver when she was killed. I can't imagine what her baby felt. :(

Ann Rule has written some good true crime books. Stranger Beside Me is her best one, but Green River Killer is another good one.

Into the Wild is amazing. I couldn't stop reading it and it was so sad. You might like Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven. In the '80s two college graduates head off to China for a backpacking vacation, and this is when China first opened its doors to tourists. So that China they experienced was much different from the China of today.

Has anyone read Under the Banner of Heaven? It's on my TBR...

Shelli wrote: "Has anyone read Under the Banner of Heaven? It's on my TBR..."

I read this a couple of years ago and it was very good. I find the whole idea of polygamy completely repulsive and this book didn't make me think any differently.

Karla, I read a couple of years ago and liked it. I'm a pop culture bio freak! Will read just about anything along that line. A couple of really good books in that genre are and .

I loved Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. Under the Banner of Heaven is on my TBR too.

Also really liked:
Lucky Man and Always Looking Up by Michael J Fox
MJF is so humble, and for someone who lives with one of the most debilitating human conditions, he is definitely no victim.
Quiet Strength and Uncommon by Tony Dungy
Quiet Strength was amazing. Uncommon wasn't nearly as powerful, but still a great read.
It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong
Same thing here .. It's Not About the Bike was WONDERFUL. Every Second Counts was kind of anti-climactic for me, but still enjoyable.
Age is Just a Number by Dara Torres. I felt this could've been written better, but was an easy, fun read.
Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. (Hope I don't instigate a political debate by mentioning these two. I simply enjoyed the books.)
Jumping Fire by Murry A Taylor. I know NOTHING about smokejumping, but was captured by this book.
I'm just starting Bootlegger's Boy by Barry Switzer. It's an older book I just ran across at our local library.

I like memoirs and autobiographies just a pinch. :)