Looking for summer reads

[Steve Min]

I haven't read a book in about 5 months now, school but the main reason is I don't have anything to read! I enjoy a good book, my favorite would have to be The Road. Are other Cormack Mccarthy's books good? I also enjoyed I am the messenger.

[Stephen Rollins]

I haven't read any of the above.  XD  The best I can do is refer books I liked...  All fantasy, though.  Terry Pratchett is great, as are E. E. Knight and Elizabeth Kerner.

Or you could always wait til someone more knowledgeable comes along and posts. XD

[Max Celto]

I guess it all depends on what kind of stuff you like to read.
There are some really good entertaining books out there and here are some of my favourites that have come out recently.
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE DOOMSDAY KEY, by James Rollins
3. KNOCKOUT, by Catherine Coulter
4. OMEN, by Christie Golden
5. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck
6. FOREVER, by judy blume
7. THE EVOLUTIONARY GLITCH, by Albert Garoli
8. NEW MOON, by by Stephenie Meyer
9. THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards
10. DELTA OF VENUS, Anais Nin

[gabe smith]

i would suggest you read julie lessmans books they are very good! the intensity makes you feel as if you are truly apart of the story!

[BlondeAngel]

Haha, i have this similar problem alot. Usually i go to the library and look for books with interesting cover art that make me want to read them. That's how i found my favorite book series, the Maximum Ride series. I highly encourage these books. They are realistic and action packed with a little romance in them Other good books i have read include a book called the Outcasts, (has a skull on the front) and a book i believe is called the five people you meet in heaven. im trying to leave out my girly books  i do highly reccomend just going to your library and looking around. If you find anything good, tell me! --BlondeAngel*

[Moshe Paul]

I would suggest checking out The Penguin Press' quarterly catalogs.  About the time of this strand's original post, they released their summer catalog, and I came across it while searching for information about the [then] upcoming release of my favorite author Thomas Pynchon's newest book, Inherent Vice, which was excellent, by the way.  I ended up discovering a few other books that were just released or soon-to-be that caught my interest, and I read one of them: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larson, a previously unpublished novelist.  That book was a great experience for me, and I discovered it through a little searching.  Definitely check out those seasonal catalogs.

[ddebarra]

McCarthy's 'No Country For Old Men' is a great read, pacy like a novel but with his usual high quality literate writing. But if you've seen the movie then there won't be anything new in terms of story.

I've read the first 2 of his Borderland trilogy and highly recommend the first, 'All the Pretty Horses'. A gem of a novel.

The second, 'The Crossing' has a great ending - in emotional terms rather than a surprising denouement - but I found myself putting it down twice during sections where it wandered off on tangents musing on the Mexican civil war (one of them anyway) and religion.

For other recommendations, if you like McCarthy's underlying melancholic style then you might like Martin Cruz Smith's 'Gorky Park'. It should have dated with the end of the Cold War but I reread it recently and was impressed with how well it stood up, mostly because its not about politics but people and choices.