Istoryan Readers: Book reviews and recommendations~

[strat60]

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1. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova - The story is about Vlad "the Impaler" Vlad Dracula. Many critics believed that Bram Stoker's Dracula was based upon the real Vlad Dracula. Great Novel.

2. "The Romanov Prophecy" by Steve Berry - Great plot! You can read Rasputin's prophecy here...

[lindsay]

on the run by iris johansen....if you like thriller reads, this one is really good....

[Gwynhuever]

1. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova - The story is about Vlad "the Impaler" Vlad Dracula. Many critics believed that Bram Stoker's Dracula was based upon the real Vlad Dracula. Great Novel.

2. "The Romanov Prophecy" by Steve Berry - Great plot! You can read Rasputin's prophecy here...

i am currently reading The Historian...will look for your second recommendation! :mrgreen:

[samokan]

The 7 Books of Piers Anthony's Incarnation of Immortality

1. Death: On a pale horse
2. Time: Bearing an Hourglass
3. Fate: With a Tangle Skein
4. War: Wielding a Red Sword
5. Earth: Being Green Mother
6. Evil: For Love of Evil
7. Good: And Eternity

http://www.piers-anthony.com/incarnations.html

[strat60]

1. "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova - The story is about Vlad "the Impaler" Vlad Dracula. Many critics believed that Bram Stoker's Dracula was based upon the real Vlad Dracula. Great Novel.

2. "The Romanov Prophecy" by Steve Berry - Great plot! You can read Rasputin's prophecy here...

How do you find it so far? I find "Historian" to be quite entertaining and educational. I would also like to recommend "The Templar Legacy" by Steve Berry and "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury. i'm just so fascinated with Templars.


If you are into legal thrillers / courtroom drama, I strongly recommend Richard North Patterson books. No offense to John Grisham fanatics, but i find Richard North to be somewhat like a more intelligent version of Grisham. Peace! :mrgreen: Try reading first "Degree of Guilt", the story is so unpredictable. After reading this one about 6 yrs. ago, i have read all of R.N.Patterson books.

[samokan]

Hey ive been contemplating on that book strat60, is it really good?

[Isabella Rain]

I love the following books:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1. Love in the Time of Cholera
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
4. Of Love and Other Demons
5. Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Umberto Eco
1. The Island of the Day Before
2. Focault's Pendulum
3. The Name of the Rose

John Irving
1. The World According to Garp
2. A Prayer for Owen Meany
3. The Cider House Rules
4. Hotel New Hampshire
5. Setting Free the Bears
6. The Water-Method Man
7. A Widow for One Year
8. Son of the Circus
9. The Fourth Hand

Tom Robbins
1. Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas
2. Skinny Legs and All
3. Still-Life with Woodpecker
4. Another Roadside Attraction
5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Isaac Asimov
1. Robots of Dawn
2. I, Robot
3. Foundation (series, Bk 1 to 6)

Pyotr Dostoevsky
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoi
1. War and Peace

Oscar Wilde
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Pearl S. Buck
1. The Good Earth

There are still more books in my small but quality collection. I don't buy or read crap.
In case of doubt, read the classics. You can never go wrong.

Right now, I'm reading:
1. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
2. Gravity's Rainbow
3. Mila 18
4. The God of Small Things
5. Napoleon (Biography)

Yes, I read several books at a time.

[tolstoi]

Leo Tolstoi
1. War and Peace

name sounds familiar ..anywayz, i had only read couple of pages from the book..the plot was so boring that you'll lose interest upon reading it...and it's friggin looooooooooong

[weedmeister2]

WAHHHHHH!!!!! tooo many to list down.... books left and right, up and down.... Â*in every nook and cranny of my house... where to start? Gibran, Sagan, Poe, Tolstoi, Lev, Crichton, The agony and the ecstacy, lust for life, of mice and men, scarlet letter, asimov, Astral Dynamics, Tolkien, Eco, Ludlum, WAAAAHHHHHH, they're all over... my headboard, bathroom, library, family room, kitchen, dining table, terrace, car, office, garage, parent's house, ahhhhhhhhh.... they drive me nuts.... rand, sophie's world, vatican billions, the emperor has no clothes, cannabis, down under, coffee table books, textbooks, novels, collectors editions, magazines, Walden, Hugo, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Joaquin, Mann, Kidnapped, Verne, Merck Manuals, Zen Gardening, Cultivating Marijuana, Psychic Self Defense, James Clavell books, James Michener books, The Little Prince, Anything on Venice, Santorini, Tangier, Paris or Sydney, Anything on Architecture or Interior design, The Rule of Four, LOTR, The Coral Island, Ragged Dick, Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Hiram Key, thorn birds, Ulysses, Nabokov, solzhenitsyn, Toffler, orwell, Joyce, Great Gatsby, hemingway, james, L. Frank Baum, Salinger, Hesse, ARRRRGGGGHHHH, The playboy mansion, Seth Speaks, Jay Leno, Ray Romano, Lewis, Lawrence, faulkner, Vonnegut, Lord Jim, Wide Sargasso Sea, Kipling, rushdie, forster, capote.... where does it end...? Â*

did i tell you that i collect books? Â*:mrgreen: some of my more "arranged" collections:

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I prefer the way they used to bind back in the 1800's better than our modern day methods... although some clubs like Folio Society ( http://www.foliosoc.co.uk/default.php ) still try to deliver great quality collector's items...

For those looking for a particular book, new, phased out, out of circulation, or used, i suggest using www.abebooks.com they carry books from 10 cents to $100,000's

Keep on reading!!!! Â*:mrgreen:

[samokan]

grrr.. am so jealous of your collection weed...