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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I am going to be nosy, what type of books do you read?
I may can lead you to some inexpensive finds.
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I don't mind nosy at all! I'm also interested in getting good recommendations. Here are some of my favorites, arranged most-favorite-author first:
James Rollins - Adventure. I especially loved Subterranean, Ice Hunt, and Amazonia from his stand-alone novels. I bought the entire Sigma Force series, and have read through 75% of that. Sigma Force is very good. I've never found a James Rollins book that I didn't like, I'd rate them all either 4 or 5 stars.
Patrick Lee - Adventure. The Breech, Ghost Country. Both were very good. I have Deep Sky purchased, waiting in queue to be read now.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - either together or individually. Adventure. I liked The Ice Limit and The Codex. Deep Freeze was OK. Relic was OK, but I didn't think that one was all as great as I had expected. Not really into horror so much.
William Forstchen - Post-Apocalypse. Once Second After, One Year After. I have The Final Day queued up for reading.
Michael Crichton - Adventure. Jurassic Park, The Lost World, others I can't remember right now
Clive Cussler - Adventure. Haven't read terribly many, but they've all been at least decent. Currently reading Spartan Gold right now. Not bad, but a little mushy with the lovey-dovey husband wife team. Not too mushy, but could become that way - the jury is still out on this "Fargo" series of Cussler's. Oregon Files and Dirk Pitt series are a bit better I think.
Suzanne Collins - Future dystopia. Hunger Games good, Catching Fire OK, Mockingjay finished it, but not interest in going further (which is good, since there is no "further" to this series!)
Jean Auel - Historical fiction. Valley of Horses was really good, The Mammoth Hunters good, Clan of the Cave Bear OK. I stalled in Plains of Passage and haven't gotten past 1/3 of the way through that one. Her books can be over-detailed and tedious at times. And I skipped over the parts describing Jondalar's manhood in "romance novel" detail.
I haven't read these guys yet, but I am planning to: Jeremy Robinson, Matthew Reilly, A.G. Riddle
I liked Robert Heinlein (Tunnel in the Sky) and Andre Norton (Here Abide Monsters) and other of their juvenile novels as a kid.