[Angua]

I've just read five Feist books in very quick sucession, as a break I am now reading the Da Vinci Code.... it's an odd book.

I like books that engage my imagination, I like to read poetry (Yeats / Keats / Worsworth) but sometimes it is nice to just sit down with something mindless and easy like a romance novel or a mag.

[msmosser]

I have been reading fantasy books for 20 years straight. Hard to believe. But I have so many books to read yet (289 at last count). But starting in 2004 I left fantasy for awhile.
I read

Da Vinci code Dan Brown
Angels & Demons Dan Brown
Deception point Dan Brown
Digital fortress Dan Brown
Rule of Four Ian Caldwell
Band of Brothers Stephen Ambrose
Flags of our Fathers james Bradley
9/11 commision report (still reading)
kiss behind the mask
Archers tale Bernard Cornwell

But now I am back to fantasy. With assassins aprentice robin hobb

[Angua]

I have been reading fantasy books for 20 years straight. Hard to believe. But I have so many books to read yet (289 at last count). But starting in 2004 I left fantasy for awhile.
I read

Da Vinci code Dan Brown
Angels & Demons Dan Brown
Deception point Dan Brown
Digital fortress Dan Brown

I'm about half way through the Da Vinci code, i got so engrossed reading it yesterday morning that I was late for work :eek: Luckily my boss had read it too so he understood :)

Are the other Dan Brown books part of a series, Msmosser?

[msmosser]

Angels & Demons is part of the Da Vinci code series. It Acually came out before Da Vinci code. NOt as good, but still really good. The next book in the series is coming out this year. I think its called "Solomens Key". The other two books are stand alones. Both are pretty good reads. I flew through them both.

[Blackwing]

I read mostly fantasy, but occationally something else, too. Lots of comics and some science fiction, historical and detective novels. I'm also doing my Master's theses on translation so translation books, too. There aren't too many of them, though.

[KatG]

I read other stuff at the same time. I just got a whole box of books from my in-laws that are mostly mysteries but other stuff too which I'm looking forward to sorting through them, even though I have no real place in the house to put them.

Most recently that I've read that I've liked have been:

Jennifer Cruise -- "Bet Me" -- comic romance
Rosellen Brown -- "Half a Heart" -- literary family drama
David Sedaris -- "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" -- humorous memoir essays
Justin Hill -- "The Drink and Dream Teahouse" -- novel set in post-Tiamenn Square China; not a fantasy, but might have some appeal to fantasy fans anyway.

[Monty Mike]

I've just read five Feist books in very quick sucession, as a break I am now reading the Da Vinci Code.... it's an odd book.

I like books that engage my imagination, I like to read poetry (Yeats / Keats / Worsworth) but sometimes it is nice to just sit down with something mindless and easy like a romance novel or a mag.
A lot of people dislike the Da Vinci Code.... I was wondering if anyone knew why?

[msmosser]

Most christians dislike it,mostly because of some of Browns ideas or theories. Like that Jesus didnt die on the cross. That he lived and had kids. That he may have been involved with Mary Magdaline. I told my mom I read it and she bought me a very christian anti Dan Brown book that debunks all his ideas. Of coarse some of their theories are just as crazy. Cant wait for the movie myself.

[Monty Mike]

movie?! when's it out?

[Rob B]

A lot of people dislike the Da Vinci Code.... I was wondering if anyone knew why?
Its a bit fluffy, it is very over-rated and is not as well written as other novels dealing with the same themes.