Dante's Divine Comedy Trilogy. Just finished Inferno, and started Purgatorio.

Patricia Cornwell is another great read and of course Stephen King - and if you like series type novels and mysteries Sue Grafton is good - she has an alphabetic type thing going on, not sure what letter she is up to now - I got as far as N is for Noose - good wise cracking female private investigator series.

The latest Tom Clancy just for fun. I just finished "The Time Travelers' Wife". It was excellent. Not a hokey SF book as the name might imply but a very engageing love story of sorts.

Book 10 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Excellent books.

kornazoo

thanks, i just ordered at half.com

Hey Mac, good choice. I love those too. I am also reading these..

Emperor The Gates of Rome - Conn Iggulden
A clash of Kings - George RR Martin (Best fantasy series ever)
Wicked- Mcguire
Shadow Warriors- Clancy
Holy Blood, Holy Grail- Can't remember the authors.

liz: i'll know who to give my true crime books to now. 🙂 i just gave away a bunch of 'em, but i'm sure that more will be excavated.

have you read ressler's If You Fight Monsters?

right now reading some of barry hannah's short stories. been on a short fiction kick lately. also have been reading the stuff at www.mcsweeneys.net, which i HIGHLY recommend for a good sardonic read.

and all the while my own novel's getting nowhere. 😛

I used to be a voracious reader, now all my time is consumed reading posts on bulletin boards! 😞

I actually just received 3 new books...I only go for the nonfiction, how-to, self-help, spiritual type books.

Just can't get into novels very easily. Although a few years back, I did enjoy Tuesday's With Morrie, The Pilot's Wife, and Where The Heart Is...

NOT that *I* need them, but, hey, any old dog can still learn a few new tricks 😉 The 3 books are:

My sister in law just gave this one to me Sunday...

1] The Sexy Years - Discover the Hormone Connection: The secret to fabulous sex, great health and vitality, for women and men by Suzanne Somers

And I just got my order from Amazon...

2] Talk Sexy to the One You Love - and Drive Each Other Wild in Bed by Barbara Keesling, Ph.D.

3] The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio - How To Go Down On A Man and Give Him Mind-Blowing Pleasure by Violet Blue (lol)

I'll let you know how it goes.............Marla

E-dude is in for an experience... WTG e-chick, keepin' your man happy. GOOD GIRL!

awesome Cav!!!! please do send them my way if you find anymore!!!!! I need all the help I can get writing my novel. I just signed up for a crime writing email group to try to get some advice etc.

Have You true crime fans read John Douglas's books?
He supervised for many years in the FBI's old Behavioral Sciences Unit.

What's the name of it ??

love reading about the FBI's BSU - my main character in the book I'm going to be writing shortly is going to be from the BSU 🙂

MACS(SW) -

Don't let E-Chick pull the wool over your eyes ... she only get the books to look at the pictures .... 🙂

rastus: skimmed once, but i haven't read his stuff much. apparently he and robert ressler have a kind of animosity thing going on -- ressler's the FBI guy who is the "father" of FBI profiling; he started the unit and all.

his book, Whoever Fights Monsters (always get that wrong. doh!) is all about how that all came to be and also gives some great insight into profiling in general, cases he worked on, etc.

i guess in january of this year he gave a one-day seminar on profiling at the prince william campus: "Through The Eyes of a Profiler; a One day Seminar for Students." would have liked to have caught that.

http://www.robertkressler.com/ 

i'll have to check out douglas' stuff and get his POV now. 🙂