Hello Purple world.

Just thought I'd put up a thread for the love of reading Books. And as a bookworm myself I thought it would be lovely for us to share the shelves of Authors, collaborators and readers across the globe. We are quarantined for a while but a mind does need some word infused encouragement from time to time in whichever mood you're in. The list is endless as I still go back to them.

Here's my list of a few:

Zakes Mda:
- Little Suns

Don Materra:
- Azanian Love

Stephen King:
- On Writing
- The Tommyknockers
- The Bazzar Of Bad Dreams
- Different Seasons

Melinda Ferguson:
- SMACKED

Roald Dahl:
- Minpins

Oscar Wild:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Intentions

Shakespeare:
- Macbeth
- Julius Caesar

Danielle Steel:
- A Perfect Stranger
- THE CAST

Nick Carter:
- Web Of Lies

Jules Verne:
- Around the world in 80 days

Escort South Africa
- Forums

There are so many books written and read. Leaflet books to online books and from sex, thriller to cook books.

Please share yours, I might just find myself purchasing an interesting book from our readers here.

Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Atlas shrugged

Bryce Courtney
Power of one

Ronald Balson
Once we were brothers
Saving Sophie

Steve Kemper
Labyrinth of kingdoms

Alexander Dumas
Count of monte christo


Isabel wilkerson
Warmth of other suns

Bill Messenger
Elements of jazz

Alexandra Fuller
Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness

Paulo coelho
The pigrimage

Stieg Larson
The girl who...(all 3)

John Steinbeck
Grapes of wrath


Etc etc....oh i can go on and on :))

Apart from biograhpies of Sports People I love to read murder mysteries

Faye Kellerman
Patricia Cornwall
John Glass
John Conelly
Cathy Reichs
Jeffery Deavers

To name a few of my favorite authers

With the arrival of Netflix in my life the reading of books has fallen away big time. I think with this COVID-19 virus scare fucking up my industry I will now have more time to read. In no particular order...

Stephen King ( am a fan like you Kimmylee)
Dark Tower Series
Any of his short story collections

Stephen Donaldson
All the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Gap Series

L. Ron Hubbard ( yeah I know a weird fucker but he could write a funny sci-fi story)
Mission Earth Series

Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time series

Danny Sugarman
No One Here Gets Out Alive

Hunter S. Thompson
The Curse of Lono
The Great Shark Hunt
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72
Anything in fact

Ben Elton
Stark
Dead Famous
The First Casualty

Justin Bonello
Roads Less Travelled

Raymond E. Feist
Magician

Herodotus
The Histories

Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle.

One of my favourite amongst all the books I love to read is "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone.

Mwah

Arz

if you like Stephen King, then you should read The Stand...especially with everything going on :)

Ok here we go...hahaha...I will give you three really good ones.

Grow Ritch While You Sleep
By - BEN SWEETLAND.

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
By - Stephen Covey.

And of cause the best book you will ever read:

Tanakh/Torah or Bible or Quran
By - God.

Sorry, I dont read fiction.

1. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront
4. Letters to his son by Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield
5. The plays of William Shakespeare.
6. Vanity Fair. by William Makepeace Thackeray.
7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
8. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky.
9. He knew he was right by Anthony Trollope
10. The Domestic manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope
11. The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
12. Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad
13. The importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
14. The mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
15. The essays of Francis Bacon
16. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
17. Jurie Steyn's post office by Herman Charles Bosman
18. The Diary of Samuel Pepys
19. Robinson Crusoe. by Daniel Defoe
20. Novels and short stories of Sherlock Holmes.
21. The Letters of William Cowper
22. The essays of Charles Lamb
23. Principles of Politeness by Lord Chesterfield.
24. War and Peace. by Leo Tolstoy
25. James Boswell's London diary
26. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
27. A grammar of the English language by William Cobbett.

Others too numerous to mention.

I must read Don Quixote this year.

Interesting books out there and thank you guys for sharing. I got some shopping to fill my archives.

On 2020-03-19 07:44:02 Kimmylee said:
Interesting books out there and thank you guys for sharing. I got some shopping to fill my archives.

Read the great literature of previous centuries especially by native English speakers.
I make no doubt but that there are some very good modern writers out there.
But the best of them cannot match the abiding charm and exquisite diction of the English classics.