Subject: Is reading one of your hobbies?
Posted by: Livstar
Date: Mar 08 09
Is reading one of your hobbies?Is reading your favourite hobbie?What books do you like to read?
Posted by: Livstar
Date: Mar 08 09
Is reading one of your hobbies?Is reading your favourite hobbie?What books do you like to read?
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mjws1968 
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Reading is my second favourite hobby after Funtrivia, love Sci-Fi and Fantasy mainly, but a good historical fiction is nice, anything really except romance. Reply #1. Mar 09 09, 8:13 AM |
rayven80
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Reading is my main hobby. I read a little every day. Mostly fantasy/scifi. Reply #2. Mar 09 09, 12:20 PM |
uscgx2
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I read a lot. I have read my way through several genres & popular (and not so) authors. I just read Kathy Reichs' set. If you are into forensic science novelization, she & Patricia Cornwall are the best although I think they both short-serve their main characters "private lives". Reply #3. Mar 09 09, 3:51 PM |
| mjws1968
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Love Kathy Reichs novels, so much more satisfying than the TV adaptation she advises on, Bones, never read any Patricia Cornwell, but I suspect you would like Ellis Peters' novels, about a mediaeval monk called Cadfael who takes a very scientific and almost forensic approach to exciting and dark mediaeval murders. Reply #4. Mar 10 09, 10:28 AM |
| uscgx2
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I've read Ellis Peters' short stories (I think via Ellery Queen?) I get most of my books from thrifts/yard sales etc, so I just haven't run across his series cheaply enough. I usually get a handful of an author on the cheap, and if I like what I read, I'll pick up the rest on Amazon/Ebay. I read all of Steven Saylor's Gordianus the Finder (ancient Rome) "detective" series. I suspect he didn't expect the character to catch on because he advanced his age rather quickly in the first few books. I also liked Sarah Andrews - Em Hansen seies, a forensic geologist. Now THERE'S a specialization. Reply #5. Mar 10 09, 11:08 AM |
longcoolwoman2
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I am an avid reader. I mostly read mysteries and detective fiction but I have, on occasion; read fantasy and si-fi. Reply #6. Mar 10 09, 4:16 PM |
| mjws1968
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Try the Falco stories by Lindsey Davis, a good Roman whodunnit series. Ellis Peters did a lot of stuff, quite a few historical romances under the real name of Edith Pargeter, she is no longer with us, but I was absolutely stunned to find out that "Ellis" was really a woman, the writing gives no clue, it is non-gendered, but she writes well-rounded men and women, so just a versatile author. Reply #7. Mar 10 09, 7:20 PM |
| uscgx2
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I was surprised and oddly let down when I discovered, after the fact, that Memoirs of a Geisha was written by a man. My copy was sans dustjacket and before the movie, so it wasn't until the very end of the book that I read the afternotes by the author on who he had interviewed to add authenticity to the book. Reply #8. Mar 11 09, 12:35 PM |
deaconblues63
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Reading is a hobby of mine. I enjoy both fiction and non-fiction. Reply #9. Mar 11 09, 12:48 PM |
Cymruambyth
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Not so much a hobby as a passion! I read voraciously and usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. I read practically anything except sci-fi (although I like John Wyndham's books - 'Day of the Triffids', 'The Midwich Cuckoos', etc.), fantasy and romance of the Danielle Steele/Debbi McComber school of bad writing and worse plots! I read history (both fiction and non-fiction), poetry, theology, biography, mystery and detective novels (favourite writers in this genre are Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and Deborah Crombie), newspapers and news magazines - as I said, voracious reader here! My father always said that if there was nothing else to read, I'd read the labels on jam jars! Reply #10. Mar 11 09, 1:32 PM |
kit-kat24
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reading would have to be my main hobbie for sure. i prefure to read fantasy or crime books Reply #11. Apr 02 09, 9:06 PM |
| deaconblues63
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Reading is one of my hobbies. I read a great deal. Reply #12. Apr 03 09, 2:23 PM |
1lady
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Enjoy reading, when I can make time. I like James Patterson and used to read eveything Sidney Sheldon wrote and some Danielle Steele, every once in awhile. I've read a couple of Jerry Bledsoe's, "true crime" type books and found them interesting, if not totally accurate. Reply #13. Apr 18 09, 9:44 AM |
purcy
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When i am not on this site, i read a little every day. Choice is vast although not Mills and Boon. I like thrillers, classics, sci-fi and true stories. Love Agatha Christie, the Brontes and David Eddings. Reply #14. Apr 18 09, 4:13 PM |
| gtsnm
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I wish it was. Reply #15. Apr 19 09, 7:47 PM |
vanillamilk
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Yes, I very much enjoy reading. Unfortunately, classes keep me busy and I do not get much personal reading time, but I love reading a great assortment of genres! Reply #16. Apr 22 09, 8:23 PM |
7PinKy7
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The only reading I do is the reading on the Fun Trivia chat boards. Reply #17. Apr 26 09, 4:51 PM |
rosmarinus44
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Reading is one of my life-long passions. I enjoy the classics, poetry, non-fiction, biography and most fiction except horror and war. My favourite authors include Austen , the Brontes, Gaskell, Reichs and Cornwell, but there are many others I've enjoyed over the years. Reply #18. May 04 09, 5:06 AM |
| goobas
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I read all the three investigator books. I like David Eddings and Piers Anthony and Terry Brooks. Reply #19. May 13 09, 9:31 PM |
| sad-woman
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Sadly no. I wish it was. I have never been a great reader and at the present time I have 3 books half read. I do like to read trashy romance novels on holiday and also I have the full collection of Ed McBain's 87th precinct novels which I have read in the past. Reply #20. Jun 06 09, 3:59 PM |
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