Have you ever read a book that affected you for days?

[awesomefowl]

I am a H.G. Wells and Jules Verne fan--I loved the War of the Worlds (scary!!!), the Time Machine, and 80 days around the world! Engrossing books, and the writing is good, if dated to today's readers.

 

[theotherranch]

Good for you awesomefowl, two of the starters of the sci-fi genre!
And also two of the masters.

 

[farmdude]

I read "The Seth Material" by Jane Roberts and then "Seth Speaks", and then the rest of the books. Changed my life. I recommend them to anyone who wants to know the truth about who we are and what we are all doing here. We all create our own reality whether we are aware of it or not. My reality has greatly improved with this knowledge.

 

[Linn Bee]

Another book lover, I have read a book a day (or nearly so) every day since I learned to read up until 9 years ago. Used to tote 7 books a week from the library where the Librarian sneaked books from the adult section that she thought I'd like. Loved that woman!

Loved "THE THORN BIRDS" more than most, but Jules Verne was a favorite when I was younger as was anything by Bradbury and Asimov. Walter Farley when I was even younger.

Always thought that "Twilight Zone" episode about the glasses wearing book lover was written just for me. A true nightmare!

Haven't been able to concentrate to read for the past 9 years. Although I did manage all the "Harry Potter" books they took several days each. Still haven't figured that out completely.

Love, Linn B (aka Smart Red) Gardening zone 5a - 4b in south-est, central-est Wisconsin

 

[bakerjw]

I've read almost everything by Larry Niven. The complete Ringworld series several times. I've even had a couple of e-mails back and forth with him. He is terse but encouraging to other authors.

Asimov. What else can be said. I am such a sap that I cried when Dors died. I've read the Foundation series a couple of times and even some Foundation work by other authors such as Gregory Benford.

Heinlein and Pohl. Two of the grandfathers of modern SciFi.

Dan Simmons is another who did a lot of great massive works.

The Ender series by Orson Scott Card was another great piece of work. I especially liked Enders Shadow. That was probably the best of all of them.

I hope that the Dragonriders series can catch my interest. It is slow to start but looks like it might pick up.

I'll have to look up the Tally Youngblood series to see if I can get into them. I was really surprised that I enjoyed THG series so much. I rarely read YA stories with heroines as the protagonist.


To continue THG spoiler alert.
Gale helped come up with the concept that was used to kill Prim. Even though Katniss and he had always been close, imho, that put a gate in place never allowing that road to be taken. As it was only Haymitch and Peeta could understand what it was like to survive the games. I found it fitting that Kitness returned to him what he had given to her for so long. And the fact that he did start to love her again meant that she had beaten Snow but at a heavy price. It was a very complex book emotionally on many levels. No right or wrong answers just let them rattle around a bit. Rather than Prim dying I fully expected one of the other main characters to not make it and that would have certainly added to the rattles.

 

[DuckLover2399]

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I still feel bad for poor gale, but I do agree. Oh well, I guess I can marry gale.

 

[Tylt33]

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Too bad books 4 and 5 of GOT were terrible. If you liked the series you can read the three novellas that take place in the same realm. If you want a series like GOT (I actually liked it better) read The First Law series by Abercrombie. You will love it.

 

[Beekissed]

I've read many books that affected me for days and even for a lifetime. One quick example is The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck another is The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck.

More recently I've read two that will stay with me forever...one was The Shack and the other was Peace Like a River. I can't remember the author's names right off the bat, but both books were moving in many ways, turned my mind in directions I had never taken and explained some questions I'd always had.

Two other books that were fun and memorable were Garden Spells and The Sugar Queen...both by the same author. Can't remember her name right off hand but she is a great story teller!

 

[maizy'smom]

The one instance that comes to mind (I'm an historical fiction reader) is Leon Uris' "Trinity." It's been about 30 years since I read it, but it affected me so profoundly, I still think about it. I was on an all Uris binge. "Exodus," The Haj," "QB 47(#?)".....pretty much everything written by him. Perhaps "Trinity" hit too close to home, I have deep Irish roots. But, I had to put it down for days at a time when I reached certain parts, they were so disturbing to me. At the same time, I couldn't not finish it, the suspense was also tantalizing. It still haunts me to this day. Some books are like that.

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[fuzziebutt]

For authors, I used to read Ray Bradbury and Issac Asmov, and old Micheal Crichton. Loved them, and one book that was hard to put down wasn't sci-fi, but it was called "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner.