Best and Worst

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So far the best have been the Sookie Stackhouse series from Charlaine Harris and The Janitor by Jan Irving because the books have characters that you can get behind and feel for as the story goes along. I haven't run across any so far that made my worst list yet, though.

[James]

I can't say I read one that I would describe as worst. I have been reading the Earth Chronicles by Zecharia Sitchin. Very interesting non-fiction books about how we came to be using the writings of the Sumerians (the first known civilization), the Egyptians and others, including the bible. I've just started book III, there are seven in all.

[Nicholas]

I really enjoyed The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I identified with the story April &Oliver in that I too have an ‘April’ in my past and always wondered ‘what if?’ I also enjoyed Crow Lake because family roots are deep into a small Colorado town and farming. Clunkers? The Shack and The Final Theory.


I started South of Broad (Pat Conroy) and am emersed in his graceful lyrical style.

[Mickey]

Just finished Dan Brown's The Lost Code. Very disappointing. I have to admit I was not a huge fan of the DaVinci code, but this book does not surprise. It's rather like one long chase scene with some preaching thrown in.

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The best are too many, most of them classical russian: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and the Insulted and Humiliated; Gorky's the Mother; Tolstoy's Master and Man; Nikita's Childhood by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, D.H Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, and many other. The worst was Marquez's "Memories of my Melancholy Whores", I read it in one day, and felt that he had written it in one day too after eating a bad meal.

[Dawn]

The beginning of Autumn, and I'm beginning some new books -- "Lost Symbol" (which isn't looking good) and "Level 26" (which is). Also re-reading some old favorites.

[Shirley]

I say this with sincerity - the best books I read this summer were "A Spark of Heavenly Fire", "Jack Rabbit Moon" and "The Fox". All different types of books and all very good. It would be hard to chose a best from these three.

The worst book I read was "Apocalypse" by Manis.

[Gracie]

Pat Bertram wrote: "What was the best book you read this summer? What was the worst? Inquiring minds want to know!"

A Vampire's Claim by Joey W. Hill was the best.
The other, not really a worst, but a book I couldn't finish and didn't enjoy after 3 months of reading more than a third of it before I called it quits: Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh. I love Singh's Psy/changeling series, but her angel series is not for me.