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I’m looking for some good books to read.

Some authors I enjoy are Albert Camus, Stephen King, Hemmingway, Dennis Lehane.. there’s a lot more, but those are the topish ones. Any suggestions?

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mariposa2008 offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 5 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (5 minutes after post)

The Lovely Bones is the most painful and uplifting book I’ve ever read.

For light hearted fare, I recently read “Water for Elephants” and laughed out loud and cried a bit on the plane as I read it.

If you like King, and have read “It”, I recommend “Floating Dragon” by Peter Straub. It’s a very similar storyline but without the “and then it turned out to be about a giant turtle” (sorry, if I just spoiled “It” for anyone, but honestly, it was so dopey and “Floating Dragon” is much better!)

I’m not familiar with Dennis Lahane, so I can’t help you there.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (9 minutes after post)

I’ll check out Water For Elephants. I’d heard it was good.

I have read Floating Dragon, and a few others by Straub, I did enjoy them.

Dennis Lehane wrote Mystic River, which was made into a movie, although the book was better which is often the case, but the movie was fairly close. If you liked the movie, you’d like his books.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (10 minutes after post)

how funny! I JUST watched Mystic River tonight! I’m sure the book was quite good, but the movie, on its own, was riveting.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 minutes after post)

hah, how ironic. He’s an amazing author, I fell in love with him from the moment I picked up one of his novels.

He also wrote Gone Baby Gone, which is part of a “series” involving the two main characters.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (17 minutes after post)

Water for Elephants was good. One of my favorite summer reads was Life of Pi.

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