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Flowers for Algernon made me cry. It's a pretty sad book.

Right now I'm reading Shadowland by Peter Straub. All I gotta say is this book kinda sucks. I was reading some of the reviews on the cover and back, as well as from some sites and everyone says it's supposed to be scary. It's not scary at all. It was dull as hell to begin with and it's just NOW starting to pick up and I'm already around page 350. Peter Straub does have some good writing techniques though. Even though the book sucks.



Actually, Flagg is from one of Stephen King's earlier books called Dragon Eyes. In the Dark Tower series, he brings together the greater majority of his major characters in most of his books. I wouldn't suggest reading Dragon Eyes. It blew.

Yeah. I still need to read some of his stuff. xp I'll get around to it eventually. blaugh

i love reading i swear thats why im going blind
best book ive read is called
THE SWOLLOW by Mary Doria Russell
Amazon.co.uk Review
This strange, ambitious science fiction novel has already won enough attention for its first-time author to make it a selection by both the Book of the Month and QPB clubs. Father Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit linguist, heads a team of scientists and explorers on an expedition to the planet Rakhat, where contact has been established with two apparently primitive races, the Runa and the Jana'ata. The narrative shifts back and forth between 2016, when contact is first made, and 2060, to a Vatican inquest interrogating the maimed and broken Sandoz. A palaeoanthropologist, Russell makes the descriptions of the inhabitants of Rakhat both convincing and unsettling

it sounds stupid but its just amazing i highly recomend it
theres the second part as well called
Children of God
Amazon.co.uk Review
Mary Doria Russell's first novel, the award-winning The Sparrow, proved that any stock sf theme can be renewed by hard thought and good writing. The first human expedition to the alien world of Rakhat ends in complex disaster; the only known survivor, the Jesuit linguist Emilio Sandoz, is brought back raped, mutilated and an emotional wreck--only by telling his story of complex cultural misunderstandings does he even gradually regain his sanity, if not his faith. Sandoz is shanghaied back, by a coalition of the Church and the Mafia, only to find the situation even more complicated--he was not, after all, the only survivor. Sophie, infuriated by massacres, has started a revolution - and when prey determine to be rid of their predators, revolution becomes genocide. This is a powerful novel of religion, politics and bad choices--it is a sequel which intelligently undercuts and revises assumptions its predecessor imposed on us;

please give these books a go as i think you cant help but love them

I'd have to say one of my all-time favorite books is Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite.
Acctually I recomend all her books, particularly Exquisite Corpse, Liquor, and Lost Souls.

In my opinion, I didn't really enjoy the Dragonlance Chronicles. The earlier books were actually pretty good, but it just started to degrade after a while. I stopped following it about 4 or 5 years ago and there are like a bajillion books out for the series now. I just noticed a marked decrease in the quality of writing the further I read into the series. I guess my opinion wouldn't be much of a good one seeing as I haven't read any of the latest releases. xp I just thought they weren't written very well. They were a bit too jouvenile for my tastes.

Heh... Well I've only read the books in that saga. I really can't be bothered buying more of their books because as you said... there are bazillion books released.

Ack, I hate starting in the middle of a set or books or movies. It sucks not knowing the back ground of the characters except the basics they go over.

...why you gotta do that? domokun