Any serious readers on here?

[sand flea]

When I'm not fishing, drinking, or spending time in the company of disreputable women, I have my nose in a book.

How many of you on here are serious readers and what are the last good things you've read?

Right now I'm reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and Under The Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer.

(PS: Anything with "Dick" or "Jane" in the title does not count.)

[Talapia]

I read a lot...nothing heavy though.
My favorite authors are:

Raymond Fiest (my favorite)
Robert Jordan
Terry Goodkind
Glen Cook
Jeffrey Archer
Eric Van Lustbader (older books)
Melanie Rawn
R.A. Salvatore
Margaret Wies
Tracy Hickman

[RedskinFan228]

i also pass the time between work and fishing by reading. I like:
Thomas Ahern (survivalist series)
Koontz
patterson
S. King (when I have the time to get through the 200 pages building all the characters)
W. Johnstone (great easy read if you like those books about after the holocost.....action type or he does a great western series called the Mountain Man)

I can and do read allot of others just depends on what it is about other than those listed I dont follow specific authors. If its good I will read it :D:D:D

avoid at all costs romance, mystry (agatha christi) or docter/hospital type crap you know those soap opera type books :--|

[Shooter]

Does the lables on B/L cans count? and did yall know they really do have some good writting in Playboy :rolleyes:
But on the sad note I have read all the books from J.R.R.Tolkin long before the Hobit movies came out,, now ya know where my mind went all wrong :(

[RedskinFan228]

Does the lables on B/L cans count? and did yall know they really do have some good writting in Playboy :rolleyes:
But on the sad note I have read all the books from J.R.R.Tolkin long before the Hobit movies came out,, now ya know where my mind went all wrong :(

Yes i have read them as well....good reads though

[shaggy]

Tolkin, and the Trilogy of the Rings, great read if you ask me, and like the DVDs also, yeah read some of the Potter books, but mostly King and Koontz, but currently reading No Second Chance by Harlan Coben, and The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.

Have Jeep will travel :D

[MaverickFWA]

When I took the family on a fishing trip across Australia I read the whole lord of the rings when the wife was driving , I nearly missed the whole of the Nullabor plain for reading ( only 600km's of NOTHING, worlds longest straight stretch of road as well).

YEP I like the books too, I usually get my library to get the new stuff in for me so I don't have to pay for them :) :) :)

I have the whole collection of Wilbur Smith as well. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[RuddeDogg]

Eastern philosophy....Lao Tszu, Sun Tszu, etc. I also like horror, Stephen King, Clive Barker. My altime favorites though and I have to thank a teacher from high shcool are books about ancient cultures, Romans, Greeks, Celts and the Pics, The Huns, and my favorite in this category the Samurai.

Oh I almost forgot cooking.....lol. :p

[SeaSalt]

any suggestions on a good book about real life survivior, something like man vs. nature?

[Otter]

Favorite is Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, think I'm gonna start it again actually.

Last read was Selby's Requiem for a Dream, that's a real laugh-a-minute :rolleyes: . Great book though.

If you want something quick and mindless, pick up The Washingtonienne. Yup-that slutty intern that had her blog published. I was suprised, it was actually funnny and pretty well done if you're interested in DC goings-ons.

[fisherkid]

I enjoy reading the problem is once I read a book I don't read it again for about a year because I still remember it. Thats why I like reading P&S it's always changing. if I find a good book I'll read it nonstop. generally I can just ask my sister if I can borrow from her library(her room) which is quite bigwith thousands of dollars worht of fantasy :eek: but if I'm bored I'll read almost anything. I've been known to read owners manuels when I've got nothing else to do :rolleyes:
Fisherkid :)

[MANDINGO]

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
John Grisham
T. Clancy
Any Good Historical Book/novel
And A :d Biography Here And There
I even enjoy reading the sports page just to see how dallas is losing..lol :D

[Big Rad]

Your reading list actually is just like mine!
The Lustbader Ninja series
The Jordan Wheel of Time series
to name a couple.

I read constantly. I believe my all time favorite book is The Thirteenth Valley by DelVechio. It is an intense Vietnam story.

[fish-on]

I'm not much of a reader, but this guy is an acquaintenance...a friend of a friend of the family. He actually stayed at my folk's place when he did his book tour in no. va, maryland.

you can check him out at davidvann.com

i haven't read his book, but it appears like a man vs nature.

[SeaSalt]

fish-on, just visited the site and read the reviews on Amazon. The book is in my cart and I'll let you know how it is.

Any civil war buffs out there? I would also like to read some true life adventure story during a war.

[Blloyd]

Figured everyone that has answered so far has said that they like to read. Well, unfortunately, I don't, but I do have to read books on insurance for classes I take and would just like to give some friendly advise. Ever see those commercials on TV for Ambien?...well, all you really have to do is order one book on insurance and it'll last you for a whole year (put you to sleep in no time)- No refills needed because once you're finished the whole book you'll have forgotten what was in the first chapter and you can start all over again. :D

[MDFisher]

My favorite author by far is Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age)

Other authors I've enjoyed are...
Tad Williams - Otherland series.
James Clavell - Shogun (and the whole asian saga).
Charlie Papazian - Extra points if anyone knows what he writes.

There are many others but these are the ones that I can think of at the moment.

[Talapia]

Your reading list actually is just like mine!
The Lustbader Ninja series
The Jordan Wheel of Time series
to name a couple.

I read constantly. I believe my all time favorite book is The Thirteenth Valley by DelVechio. It is an intense Vietnam story.

Yeah, those Lustbader books were great.
Unfortunately he started to run the
series into the ground after a while. :rolleyes:

If you have not read Raymond Feist, you
are in for a treat. IMO his stuff is 100
times better than Jordan's or Goodkind's.
He is also very prolific and must have
about 20 books out which are ALL excellent.

[Orest]

Thanks to my teachers I can read.

James Patterson
Jack Higgins
Older Sidney Sheldon - Deadly Sin's books
John Grisham - Skipping Christmas is to die for
John Sanford
Steve Martini
Janet Evanovich - Nothing serious - but funny stuff
Stephen King - Green Mile
Nelson Demille

[pensfan]

fish-on, just visited the site and read the reviews on Amazon. The book is in my cart and I'll let you know how it is.

Any civil war buffs out there? I would also like to read some true life adventure story during a war.
Must reads, The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals, By Sharra (spelling?)

Other favorite authors:

Sandford
King
Parker
Leonard
Cook
Clancy
Coonts
Koontz
Louis L'Amour
Zane Grey
and on, and on

[fisherkid]

Unfortunately he started to run the
series into the ground after a while. :rolleyes:

I find that very often with extended series the auther starts to ruin the book with taking apart what should have been intresting. for instance I'm not so intrested in the 7th harry potter. its just gotten to be very dissapointing
Fisherkid :)

[sand flea]

any suggestions on a good book about real life survivior, something like man vs. nature?

I'd suggest Krakauer's other two books: Into Thin Air and Into The Wild.

And Otter, I thought Jessica Cutler was an absolutely contemptible human being. I don't think I could bring myself to read her (though I did often read her blog with a wide-open mouth a couple of years back).

[rattler]

if you liked tolkin...try stephen r. donaldson..."WHITE GOLD WEILDER"...3 book series...if you like true war..."GOD IS MY CO-PIOLET...WW2...used to read all the dragon relhm books...scfi fantasy, t. clancy, LONGARM(westerns)...i have the illistrated history of WW2...23 vols...read the all X3...i don't read as much as i used to...it seems work, comp, or fishing has taken the lead there...if i get a book i like, its cover to cover...

[RedskinFan228]

for the sci fi fans try Edgar Rice burrows. some pretty good fast reads

[J_Lannon]

The " Fair Tax" book by Neal Boortz

[chest2head&glassy]

I'd suggest Krakauer's other two books: Into Thin Air
Yep, I couldn't put this book down on a very slow (fishing) weekend trip to the OBX years ago.

This next book on my list is "The World Is Flat" by Freidman. This book talks about global economy/technology and the growth of outsourcing, a topic us IT folks are fully aware of.

[Otter]

And Otter, I thought Jessica Cutler was an absolutely contemptible human being.

that's what makes it so much fun, she's a friggin trainwreck.....you know you wanna read it. Don't worry I won't tell anybody.

[shaggy]

Oh, and forgot one, Dorthea Benton Frank.
Shem Creek A Lowcountry Tale (a lowcountry tale is what got me to pick it up and get it). Pretty good and easy enjoyable read so far. Figure pick up Pawleys Island next, also wrote Isle of Palms, Plantation and Sullivan's Island, guess part of it was that since our honeymoon in SC, just north of the Georgia border, and our annual vacations to the "low country", decided to give her a shot. Easy read, enjoyable, maybe more on the "chick side", but describes most of what my wife and I have experienced in 17 plus years heading south.

Anyways, lot's of family oriented, conflicts and pleasures, so, since I am a family man, it AIn't all bad.

Have Jeep will travel :D

[Sendah]

Rattler's right on the money with Donaldson, but there's actually six books in that series and a new seventh book which just came out. The author wrote it twenty years after the first six. Donaldson pays homage to many of Tolkien's characters and you'll see many similarities. If you're tired of the typical sci-fi junk, do "The Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin, which is a set of three books going on four. Man, this guy keeps you guessing and it's a great read...

[MANDINGO]

Gary Jennings
Aztec And Aztec Autumn both are Very Good Reading Set In 16th Century Mexico Pre And Post Spanish Occupation.

[AL_N_VB]

Hmmm...I like Maxim..it's got purty pics in it....an entertainin articles.....

But on tha serious side...I'll read anything from the following authors...and most of the time there ain't no pics in the books :


Piers Anthony
J.R.R Tolkein : an he just didn't write LOTR
any Biography about seriel murderers
any Biography of the mob

[Orest]

Did read Son of Sam? Good read.

As wall as Armans Hammer and Lee Iacocca.

[rattler]

dang sendah...you just coas me $35...i didn't know he wrote more...thanks...

[Sendah]

Well, the books are divided into two different time periods, with White Gold Wielder actually being the last of the six. The first one to check out is Lord Foul's Bane. Man, I read that entire series twice, once in seventh grade and once in college and what's so good about them is Donaldson's consistent quality from start to finish. The newest book, The Runes of the Earth, actually picks up some years later, with Covenant's son being grown and Linden Avery is scared of what this guy's up to. I hope that one's good. I've had it for a few months and haven't had the opportunity to crack it. Anyways, enjoy the books and lemme know if you have any other sci-fi suggestions...or striper holes ;) cause i'm tryin' to wet a line this weekend...Tight Lines

[TreednNC]

I cant beleive Louis Lamour was only mentioned once out of all you guys. Dont have a whole lot of time to read, but as a genere I like war books, and read one about some smoke jumpers that was totally awesome. Survival stories and events leading up to are a favorite.

[Newsjeff]

Since having kids, I don't read as much as I once did.
My all time favorite novels are by classic American authors such as Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Poe, Steinbeck, Faulkner, O'Neill. ect. Those guys are in a class by themselves. No one in modern times even comes close. Well, Salman Rushdie has a very unique style. He might be as close as anyone.
The last three novels I read were "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, "Native Son" by Richard Wright and "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
"The Jungle" was a little too much at the end with Sinclair going off on a Communism kick. "On the Road" might have appealed to me more when I was younger. Or not. I've been poor, and I never saw any glamor in poverty. Or people without scruples.
Two of my favorite books - off the top of my head - are "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut and "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller. Plus almost all of the novels written by authors at the top of this post.
I hate to say it, by I'm a pretty big Steven King fan. I've read just about all of them.
I haven't read any of the Op-Center books, but I've read all of Tom Clancy's novels, too. Nothing like a little light reading every once in a while.
RedskinFan228, have you read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein? It's worth your time if you haven't. A very good sci-fi novel.

[jjaachapa]

My all time favorites are
Fox and sox
Green eggs and ham
The little engine that could.
Good night moon
And my all time best, Surf Fishing for Dummies.

Chapa



Living in a world full of commitment and responsibility I’m still young at heart.

[rattler]

piers anthony...xanth...to me they are fun...but they make you think...

[combatcatcher]

Im a big reader and fisherman so naturally I read books about fishing. The last good book I read was called "Striper Wars" by Dick Russel. Its sort of a history book on Striped Bass. For those who dont know much about the fight and struggle to preserve our favorite fish you should check this out. It was recently released, my wife bought me it at Borders.
Another book and then Im done going fishing with Pops in a few. Some of you may have heard of this guy. David DiBenedetto writes for Saltwater Sportsman and is the deputy editor for Field and Stream. His latest book, "On the Run" an anglers journey down the Striper Coast is a must read for all real strped bass fishers.

Both these books are great for people learning more about how to fish for stripers but more importanly about what needs to be done to help perserve one of our favorite fish.

[AL_N_VB]

Yes! read Son of Sam.....the Midnight Stalker...and one of my faves : Helter Skelter....guess when ever I get psychotic ...or serial...I'll have my references...


I also liked the Forgotten Realms..books...yeah I was a Dungeons and Dragons geek...I was never smart enugg ta be a Dungeon Master...I was just the Half Elf Ranger LV 13...confused about right vs wrong...showin no mercy

[Hat80]

I was just the Half Elf Ranger LV 13...confused about right vs wrong...showin no mercy

Come on Al, spill the beans. Is this you or what? :eek:....Hat

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Tony_Cox_as_elf.jpg
Alfee the Elf

[AL_N_VB]

Come on Al, spill the beans. Is this you or what? :eek:....Hat

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Tony_Cox_as_elf.jpg
Alfee the Elf

you's jus one funny old bass turd...wait till December this lil elf is gonna lite yer a$$ up...jus like in that movie :D

[Hat80]

If history repeats itself. You'll be passed out on some beach waiting for the hightide alarm clock. :p :p :p.....Hat

[ro-h2o]

Has anyone read year zero or dust? I don't know the authors off hand but they were great books. I started reading The descent and lost the book and changed jobs. Just curious if any of us has read those books?

[sprtsracer]

OK...1st, Patricia Cornwell. If any of you like James Patterson (2nd choice), you'll like her too. I also like Grisham, Coontz and Koontz. The rest of the time, I read mags like "Southern Living", and a bunch of cooking mags. Next in line are newspapers. :D

[BrokenRod]

Hello all. I will just about read anything with words. I like the dragon lance series and other forgotten realm books.

P.S.Y.C.O.
Love, Peace,and Chicken Grease!!!
Take Someone Fishin

[SeaSalt]

Almost done with reading 'Into the Wild', true story about a young man in his 20s from Annandale, VA who after graduating from Emory lived a tramping life, then decided to enter into Alaskan wild. Pretty good book, I wonder if anyone done a documentary on this story.

[captain pinfish]

fish-on, just visited the site and read the reviews on Amazon. The book is in my cart and I'll let you know how it is.

Any civil war buffs out there? I would also like to read some true life adventure story during a war.
i'm a huge civil war buff. "the civil war in savannah" is a good read. i can't think of others right off hand, but plenty of good ones out there. one of my all time favorites is "FREE AS A RUNNING FOX" about a p.o.w. in germany WWII. GREAT BOOK !!!!!!! check it out. - only non-fiction for me. currently reading "DOOLEY MY 40 YEARS AT GEORGIA" - GOOOOOO DAWGS !!!!!!!!!!!

[murphman]

Reading Willie Nelson's bio right now! Would love to burn one with him before he kicks!;)

[countingdown]

while you all reading im writing. i plan coming out with the next best seller if the wife lets me. it called KAMASUTRA POPUP-VERSION.

[ro-h2o]

Go for it. Let us know and we will proof read it for you.

[rattler]

already out...and the plug-in version to follow soon...lol

[ro-h2o]

Does lol mean --laugh out loud, --lots of love or deos it mean something else?

[clinder]

laugh out loud

[Fish Bait]

I never did much non-work reading but in the two plus years of retirement I have enjoyed it. So here is my retirement reading list:

“Knowing Bass” Keith Jones
“Bass” In Fisherman
“Kayak Fishing” Daubert
“Fly fishers Guide to the Chesapeake Bay includes light tackle” Russell & May
“Fishing the Upper Potomac” Penrod
“Striper Surf” Diagnault

“Washington’s Crossing” D. H Fischer
“His Excellency George Washington” J. Ellis
“Founding Brothers” J. Ellis
“Antietam” McPherson
“The Battle Cry of Freedom” McPherson
”Against All Enemies” R. Clark
“The Middle east” Lewis
“Sleeping with the Devil” R. Baer
“John Adams” McCullough
“Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” Walter Isaacson
“Theodore Rex” Morris
“The Clash of Civilizations” Huntington
“Sands of Empire” Merry
“Guns Germs and Steel” Diamond
“Consilence” E. O. Wilson
“The Selfish Gene” Dawkins
“Defenders of the Truth” Segerstrale
“The Seven Daughters of Eve” Sykes

“Night Soldiers” A. Furst
“The Life of Pi” Martel
“Saturday” McEwan
“The Kite Runner” Hossieni”

[bcssux]

I know some of you guys had to read this book in highschool, but Orwell's 1984 is a pretty good book. It is pretty deep and it's one of those that makes ya think (or become a paranoid conspiracy theorist) but it can really broaden your thinking/views on the world as we know it. Things may not be what they seem...just kidding, but seriously.......

[Blloyd]

O.K. wrote an earlier reply on insurance books and I said I didn't like to read much, but I did run across a book that I purchased a while back and started reading again last night. Handwriting Analysis - Putting It to Work for you. Pretting interesting stuff on graphology.

[SeaSalt]

hey FishBait, how's that book “The Life of Pi” by Martel? Interesting read?

[chest2head&glassy]

Does lol mean --laugh out loud, --lots of love or deos it mean something else? Hope this helps for future reference:

BFD Big f***ing deal
CYA Cover your ass
FOMCL Falling off my chair laughing
FUBAR F***ed up beyond all repair or recognition
FWIW For what it's worth
IANAL I am not a lawyer (but)
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
LOL Laughing out loud
NFG No f*****g good
NFW No feasible way or no f*****g way
PCMCIA People can't master computer industry acronyms :D
PITA Pain in the ass
ROTFL Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off
ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling on the floor laughing my a** off while peeing in my pants
ROTFLMBO Rolling on the floor laughing my butt off
RTFM Read the f***ing manual
SWAG Stupid wild-a** guess

[fisherkid]

PITA Pain in the ass

You mean peta:p

[rattler]

PETA...people eat tasty animals...

[fisherkid]

That turkey I had for dinner tonight was yummy :eek:

[rockhead]

I like randy white, he writes about living on sanibel island forida, fishing boating, marine biology, with a mystery spin, light reading, great for day dreaming about warm florida on cold winter nights. check it out!

[Fish Bait]

hey FishBait, how's that book “The Life of Pi” by Martel? Interesting read?
John,
I liked that book. The story line is a fantasy that you know could not happen but it’s so well written that you start believing that it could happen.
Del

[Lipyourown]

any suggestions on a good book about real life survivior, something like man vs. nature?

Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex (The Hungry Sea?)

[Orest]

'Murder List' good read and now am reading her book 'Heartbreaker'.

[Lipyourown]

anything by Thomas Harris and Peter Benchly put out a good one a couple of years ago "Shark Trouble". I also enjoyed those two books that recount the true story of what Jaws was based on..."Close to Shore"

No Whaleship Essex readers out there?

[Orest]

Just requested the book from my local library.

[Lipyourown]

It great especially if you love the sea. to be sure it is the "Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex"

[Orest]

by Nat Philbrick

The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

[Lipyourown]

Yea thats it, sorry for the misinfo.

[longcast]

Bring um back alive. any of the many biographies of Ernest Shackleton who's south pole research party got caught in the southern ice. It took 3 years to get all of the men out and none died. Pretty good for 1905. another good read is a bio of Genghis Khan or Napoleon. and don't forget Ollie North.
longcast

[pensfan]

I can't remember the author, but a great read was, Team Yankee. About a tank commander stationed in Germany facing a Russkie invasion. I've read it twice now, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now reading Micheners, Texas. 1100 pages but so far so good.

[Orest]

Fish-on thanks for the tip. Just finished his book,"A Mile Down", It was hard to put down.

I highly recommend this book.

[fisherman]

Palahniuk is one of my favorites - read all his stuff I can get my hands on. Fight Club is an inspiration for all FHBs. In to the Wild is great - check out Paddle the Amazon about a father and son who canoe from Canada down the Miss around the Gulf to Brazil and up the Black River and down the Amazon. Fishing books? Check out Profiles in Saltwater Angling by George Reiger - great history of our sport. Favorite book of all time - Don Quixote. Dude is a trip.

Ric

[sun_goddess]

I love to read. Very relaxing. And if there's a really good "explicit" scene in it, all the better. Yes I am a woman and I like to read fluff books(romances). However i like a good murder mystery type and right now, I'm reading the Da Vinci Code. I'm only a coulpa chapters in and I'm hooked. Other than that, I'll read jsut about anything.

Mandi :D

[catman]

I like medical thrillers and read whatever I can find. Robin Cook has to my favorite author. I also read anything I get my hands on that deals with Chesapeake Bay history.

[big brother]

simon singh, steven levitt, eoin colfer, anything by harry turtledove.
charlie

[Blackbird]

I can't believe nobody seems to have discovered Vince Flynn (or maybe nobody likes him!) Great fast reed, for those who like Clancy but don't have the time. Flynn is great for taking on trips. My favorite Clancy-"Debt of Honor" & "Executive Orders" (should be read in that order). Going back a bit-Herman Wouk,"Youngblood Hawke" is a great read-also, "The Winds of War" & "War and Remembrance." Michael Crichton-"State of Fear", James Clavell, "Taipan" and especially "Whirlwind", a great look at the mid-east. James Michner-"Chesapeake" & "Hawaii" are still my favorites of his. Seems that the older ones are better. "Space" is good too. For a bit of contemporary sociology, Thomas Sowell's "The Vision of the Annointed" is hard to beat, and his more recent "White Rednecks and "White Liberals" is SUPER-it taught me things I had never considered, and I'm 63 & consider myself pretty well informed on history, current events, & the politics driving them. Just my 2cents. Hope that someone who hasn't discovered these yet will enjoy them.

[Orest]

Lipyourown - A little more than half way through the book; very good book.

I don't recall reading Moby Dick; but I remember reading this book forever.


Thanks for the great read.

[SameOle]

I do not read a lot because I am so busy but when I do it is usualy a Jimmy Buffett book or Hemingway classic. Anything that can make me imagine I'm somewhere warm fishing or exploring, "if you can't live it at the present, you might as well dream it."

Oh yeah, and treasure island is a constant reread.

[Lipyourown]

Raptor Red: a book narrated by a dinasaur, sounds dumb I know but you'll like if you like nature and pradator/prey relationships.

Now another book is out about a big female mako shark, told from the sharks point of view. Forgot the name but it is advertised in Sport Fishing or Saltwater Sportsmen.

[Lipyourown]

Orest, glad you like the book...its one of those I can read over and over. Don't read the next sentence if you haven't gottn past the island made of dead coral:











I wouldn't have left the island.

[Orest]

if the island held enough food for all of them and for how long. Am going to read the Owen Chase book next.

My thought exactly, I was thinking of re-reading the book.

My wife and I went to North Beach for the day a few weeks back and I saw another book on the Essex in an antique store. Now I want to back and look at it more closely, to see which one it is.

It's a great story.

[Lipyourown]

yeah food may ahve run out on the island but since we are fishermen we should be able to scavange a few crabs etc plus they found a fresh water spring and that was the big thing for me. The book makes me want to go to Nantucket for a vacation.

[Orest]

It sounds like it's full of history. I work with a guy frmom the Cape Verde Islands, where they picked up the pigs.

[Lipyourown]

And the surf fishing on Nantucket has got to be good...take the truck w/all your gear on a ferry and have a great vacation but I think it would be xpensive there.

[Eragon]

I'm a huge reader. It is about all I do. My all time favorite author is Christopher Poalini. He wrote the Inheritance trilogy. Only 2 are out now they are Eragon and Eldest. They are Fantasy about a farm boy who brings back the legendary Dragon Riders. I'm and avid Fantasy fan. Also Fiction and some Non-Fiction.