Iluvthearmy

[moorea]

I Hope you enjoy it, I'd hate to recomend a bad book to someone. Also looks like an 8th book will be released in 2012.

Keep us updated on how you are liking it. And when he get home from the dessert get " the eyes of the dragon " and read it to your son! It is a book he wrote for his children and ties into the dark tower series. Or just read it yourself!

 

[Iluvthearmy]

Will do! now I'm off to midnight chow

 

[Glam]

Hi AG--hope the chow was good. What is the chow there by the way? I think (hope) it has improved since hubs was in the army 35 years ago. He still talks about that food--not in a good way.

I love some of Stephen King's books, and The Stand is my favorite book of all time. I read that when my kids were still in school, and I would tell them to fix their own dinner cause I could not put it down. I did not care for the Dark Tower Series (just my opinion--hubs loved it). I just thought it was too weird.....and I do like science fiction. But I read all kinds of stuff--if it is written well, I will read it.

My mother in law has all of Danielle Steel's books--I am thinking of boxing all of them up and sending them to you. Salem can send you e cig supplies, and I will send Danielle Steele--something for you to read while you vape your new stuff. I know you will love these.

So I will catch you later...am on my way to the post office right now. She has written 92 books, and I am sending them all. Feel free to pass them around to all the guys in tent city. They will be so grateful to you. You will become a hero to them.

 

[salemgold]

Sheesh! King I understand but Grisham has written some good ones as has Robert McCammon

 

[Iluvthearmy]

I Loved the stand, it was the first king novel I read. But after that i tried tommyknockers and IT.Sorely dissapointed. I can only read his incredible detail of the most boring rock on the ground for so long. Grisham is ok too. I liked the pelican brief, and loved a time to kill. But I tried a couple more and just lost interest in the legal speak I guess. this Michio Kaku book I'm in is great, I just cannot put this down. he speaks like that one teacher we all had at one point that can make the incredibly difficult actually fun.
Never read any steele gramva, I'll definitely give her a whirl. Plus the uso has a makeshift library that is pretty pathetic, so a few extras won't hurt . And yeah the chow is much improved...not to the point of being good, we do still have powdered eggs. but the C-rations are replaced by the semi-edible M.R.E. I did try one of my grandfathers old c-ration can years ago. i don't know how your husband did it.

 

[moorea]

Sheesh! King I understand but Grisham has written some good ones as has Robert McCammon

King is hit or miss. I like every Grisham book I have read, but I am able to put them down and pick them up later. But when I read a Margaret George book like The Memoirs of Cleopatra I can't put it down. Nothing gets done and the kids and hubby get upset because I am paying no attention to them. Worst part is I am a VERY slow reader and tend to like bigger books!

 

[5cardstud]

My favorite writer is Koontz. I'm not a reader but I read them. I love his books. Shadowfires was great. Oh and also Odd Thomas that has been in a few of his books.

 

[Iluvthearmy]

I read door to december by koontz. I liked it but that was 6th grade and I kinda forgot he existed. I ought to try him again too.
Got plenty of time now lol

 

[moorea]

I Loved the stand, it was the first king novel I read.

Elements of the Stand show up through the Dark Tower books.

I never was able to read an entire Steele book. I mostly read SciFi, some horror, lots of fantasy (anything that has to do with King Arthur) and occasionaly enjoy a little historical fiction, but I can not sit through a romance novel. Just not my cup of tea.

 

[Iluvthearmy]

well even if I don't enjoy it, there is bound to be someone who does.

 

[Glam]

Hey AG and all: The Danielle Steel references were meant to be a joke......sorry. They are just light fluffy, romantic, very girly girl, and I was laughing out loud to myself as I was writing that post. Picturing all those young virile guys sitting all around the tent, each with a Danielle Steel book in his manly hands. Maybe you guys did not think it was funny, but it has given me one heck of a laugh. I am still laughing.....I hope you did not already tell the guys that a big box of Danielle Steel books were coming their way.

And I am still laughing.....the picture in my mind is awesome.

 

[moorea]

I'm so glad it was a joke! Sometimes things get lost in translation when you are reading them and I thought you were really putting 92 of those books in a box for them! I know a bunch of girls that read her books, but couldn't picture a group of hardened soldiers doing so!!! I wanted to say something, but didn't want to hurt your feelings or insult your choice of reading!

 

[Glam]

Thanks, Moorea.......I should have put smiley faces on that post, but I was laughing too hard to think straight. Picturing AG handing out Danielle Steel books, "Cmon guys, come see what a wonderful surprise I have for you!". Priceless.

 

[Glam]

well even if I don't enjoy it, there is bound to be someone who does.

Thanks for being sweet....what was really going through your mind?

 

[leary]

Been out of the forums for a while, just got back on a few days ago and found this thread. You guys all rock.
Check out some of King's short stories.

 

[Glam]

I agree AG---one called Dolan's Cadillac comes to mind. The best short story I have ever read. I do love his short stories, and I think I have read them all. The Shawshank Redemption was one of his best short stories made into a movie. This is making me want to re-read some of them.

 

[5cardstud]

I read door to december by koontz. I liked it but that was 6th grade and I kinda forgot he existed. I ought to try him again too.
Got plenty of time now lol

Door to December was great. I haven't read any for a couple years now so he has some new ones out.

 

[leary]

Dolan's Cadillac was a great one gram. what book was that in?! 4 past midnight?

 

[Rosco]

There is and has always been 1 author that can give me TONS of laughs, and she is Janet Evanovich.

At present, I am laughing my .... off reading "Smokin' Seventeen".

I have read 1-16, in order, and have laughed a ton. I am so familiar with her characters that I laugh just "thinking" about them and the antics they have done.

 

[Glam]

Dolan's Cadillac was a great one gram. what book was that in?! 4 past midnight?

Nightmares and Dreamscapes. All the stories in that were good.