Originally Posted by CDSmith

What larks, Pip?





I read pretty much everything I can get my hands on, always have. I've read everything from Dickens and Hardy and Twain to Grisham and Stephen King, from Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke to Follett and Cussler, and back again. I'm currently reading one from Anne Rice called The Witching Hour, and before it I completed my second read-through of the existing five Game of Thrones books. I've also in past years poured through dozens of business and self-help books, Authors like Og Mandino, Littauer, and everyone's favorite (or should be) Carnegie.

Favorites? Way too many to list. Name one of my favorite authors and it's often too difficult to name a single favorite. One of the sci-fi series I found quite interesting was titled The Moat in God's Eye, by Niven & Pournelle.
The First Americans series by Sarabande, and likewise The Clan of the Cavebear series by Auel were super great reads.
The Bastard, aka; The American Bicentennial series by John Jakes.
Just about every novel James A Michener ever wrote was an epic series unto itself, Chesapeake was the last one I read by him and it was terrific.


But I think the real question in this thread is the 'why' rather than just listing the 'what'. And for that I think I will defer to the wisdom of Tyrion Lannister who said simply this: “My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Words to live by if there ever were any.