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gruiz · Kenneth Cole

What to read next?

Eurodaisy · Dooney & Bourke

I always check out Amazon.com and read their reviews for titles I have in mind, or to find a good book on a subject I want to learn about.

If you haven't read this one yet, it's really great:

A great collection of stories by a female Russian university student.

serisvictoria · BCBG

if you haven't allready read "Divine Secrets Of The YaYa Sisterhood" i would highy recomend reading that. the movie leaves out so many things that absolutely should have been in it.

another great book that i love is an anne rice book that isn't a vampie book. it is called "Cry To Heaven". it extremely sexual and there is homosexuality in it, so if that doesn't bother you, it is a great book.

Maddie · Coach

Book Slut posts a bunch of reviews.

gruiz · Kenneth Cole

Maddie wrote:

Book Slut posts a bunch of reviews.

Yes, this is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for. Thanks.

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

I'm finishing up the last book from the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series (by Anne Rice). I love them! They're great books and have kept me interested through all 3 of the books

member · Hermes

If you haven't read Memoirs of a Geisha, I'd suggest that. I also heard that Oprah's newest Book Club book, Night, was good.

serisvictoria · BCBG

carries, i love anne rice. i have read vitorio, pandora, the vampire lestat, cry to heaven, and the vampire armand. i love that her books are so sexual, and get you going but they don't lose interest with the story line. she is a great author.

-- Edited by serisvictoria at 14:59, 2006-02-02

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

serisvictoria wrote:

carries, i love anne rice. i have read vitorio, pandora, the vampire lestat, cry to heaven, and the vampire armand. i love that her books are so sexual, and get you going but they don't lose interest with the story line. she is a great author. -- Edited by serisvictoria at 14:59, 2006-02-02

I'm thinking about the Vampire series for my next books I *think* I read Interview with a Vampire many years ago, but I wasn't into it then. It sounds more interesting to me now though.

I can't believe she won't be writing like this anymore either...

serisvictoria · BCBG

you know i have tried to read interview with the vampire a couple of times also and have not been able to get into it. i wanted to read it after seeing the movie and to me the movie was more interesting. but in the queen of the dammed, the book was sooooooo much better than the movie. i thought the movie sucked and they didn't pick the best actors for the roles.

but if you are wanting to get into the vampire chronicles, i would start with vitorio and pandora. they are not linked in line with the other books, so they would give you a good start. they rest kind of go in order.

Ally S · Kate Spade

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult was excellent, I highly recommend it but keep some tissues handy.

luckylily · Gucci

Carrie and serisvictoria - You all have hit on one of my major guilty pleasures - Anne Rice. I've bought every single one of her books on the day of release. I'm a dork. I love them all, but my faves are "Feast of All Saints" and "Blackwood Farm." They both take place in New Orleans, which is my favorite city in the U.S. "Blackwood Farm" has connections to both the vampire and witch stories, but you don't have to have read them in order to enjoy the book.

halleybird · Hermes

CarrieS wrote:

serisvictoria wrote: carries, i love anne rice. i have read vitorio, pandora, the vampire lestat, cry to heaven, and the vampire armand. i love that her books are so sexual, and get you going but they don't lose interest with the story line. she is a great author. -- Edited by serisvictoria at 14:59, 2006-02-02 I'm thinking about the Vampire series for my next books I *think* I read Interview with a Vampire many years ago, but I wasn't into it then. It sounds more interesting to me now though. I can't believe she won't be writing like this anymore either...

My dad bought her new book about Christ. I am sort of interested in reading it.

gruiz - what type of books do you like? I get most of my recommendations from my book club, my dad, and people here. It's also sometimes helpful to search for some of your favorite books on Amazon, and then check out the Listmania pages that contain that title. I've found some good books that way.

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

Well, I've decided to become an Anne Rice whore

I just spent 20 minutes surfing the Barnes & Noble site and now I want these books from her (oh, and did I list the Vampire Chronicle ones in order?):

-The Mummy

-The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
-Beauty's Punishment
-Beauty's Release

-Interview With A Vampire
-The Vampire Lestat
-Queen of the Damned
-Tale of the Body Thief
-Memnoch the Devil
-The Vampire Armand
-Merrick
-Blood & Gold
-Blackwood Farm
-Blood Canticle

Possibly:
-Pandora
-Vittorio the Vampire

I never knew the Vampire series was connected to the Mayfair series, so I'm super excited to read those

relrel · Marc Jacobs

serisvictoria wrote:

carries, i love anne rice. i have read vitorio, pandora, the vampire lestat, cry to heaven, and the vampire armand. i love that her books are so sexual, and get you going but they don't lose interest with the story line. she is a great author. -- Edited by serisvictoria at 14:59, 2006-02-02

just to throw my four cents in...if you love anne rice i totally recommend these:

anita blake series by laurell hamilton

merry gentry series by laurell hamilton

kushiels dart series by jacqueline carey

women of the otherworld series by kelley armstrong

also...i have attached my book list that i am continously updating. the crossed-out ones are the ones that i have read. ask me if you have any questions!

laken1 · Hermes

CarrieS wrote:

I'm finishing up the last book from the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series (by Anne Rice). I love them! They're great books and have kept me interested through all 3 of the books

These are probably my favorite books of all times! I read the first one literally 5 times throughout my life before I realized that there were sequels - what are you reading now Carrie?

luckylily - have you read the The Witching Hour? I think she paints New Orleans more perfectly in that book than any other I've ever read. And I've read bunches of stuff set there....

-- Edited by laken1 at 21:35, 2006-02-02

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

laken1 wrote:

These are probably my favorite books of all times! I read the first one literally 5 times throughout my life before I realized that there were sequels - what are you reading now Carrie?

luckylily - have you read the The Witching Hour? I think she paints New Orleans more perfectly in that book than any other I've ever read. And I've read bunches of stuff set there....-- Edited by laken1 at 21:35, 2006-02-02

I'm on the last in the series, Taltos. The Witching Hour was probably my favorite out of the 3

luckylily · Gucci

laken1 wrote:

luckylily - have you read the The Witching Hour? I think she paints New Orleans more perfectly in that book than any other I've ever read. And I've read bunches of stuff set there....-- Edited by laken1 at 21:35, 2006-02-02

Yes, I love that one! I should read it again, it's been years. The first time I went to NOLA I totally went and saw all the places she describes in the book.

Carrie - You did order the vampire series correctly. The first five are very connected and should really be read in that order. However, the rest of them are about the lives of individual empires, and they don't need to be read in the order you listed them. I totally love the way the vampire series and the witches series were separate, but the witches and the vampires casually cross paths in the books.

exsupahero · Kate Spade

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a great, great book. I had to read it in high school and I'm glad I did. It's also a very thought-provoking book but I like that sort of thing.

The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism." --Alix Wilber

-- Edited by exsupahero at 21:35, 2006-02-03

tara t · Marc Jacobs

these are really sex-y books. i think they may be considered a lighter form of erotica?

-The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
-Beauty's Punishment
-Beauty's Release

i'm an anne rice fan, but i have to be in the mood for it. but as an FYI, i bought a lot of anne rice books from ebay for about 12 bucks. i just did a search and there are several lots to choose from. :)

-- Edited by tara t at 07:45, 2006-02-03