Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 10:09:40 GMT
Among my favorite books are the Tom Ripley volumes by US author Patricia Highsmith, "Woodswoman" by Anne LaBastille, (auto)biographies, anything suspenseful by Enid Blyton (just going through my second childhood 
), Nancy Thayer (her early novels), "Night Over Water" (Ken Follett), "Under The Lake" (Stuart Woods), Carlene Thompson, Mary Higgins Clark, Linwood Barclay, "Forever Amber" by Kathleen Winsor, "Angélique" series by Anne Golon, "The Movies according to Hitchcock" by François Truffaut, "Midnight is a Lonely Place" by Barbara Erskine, "A Summer Place" by Sloan Wilson (I enjoy some of his other books as well plus he wrote a good autobiography), "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck, and a few of Daphne DuMaurier's novels like "Frenchman's Creek", "The King's General" and "The House on the Strand", but to be honest, I think Daphne DuMaurier's life was even more fascinating than her books (try the biography by Margaret Forster).
My most favorite novel and most often read book is "The Little Girl who lives down the Lane" by Laird Koenig. I love the movie, but the book is even better. I usually read it on almost every Halloween.
My second favorite and third favorite novels are "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" (K. C. McKinnon) and "A Peculiar Chemistry" (Kitty Ray).
My fourth favorite is probably the crime novel "In A Dry Summer" by Peter Robinson, IMHO it's the best from his DCI Banks series.
Books are not always better than movies. For instance "Shining Through" by Susan Isaacs is pretty boring over the first 300 pages (even though I like her sense of humor), then on the last 100 pages when the American heroine/protagonist flies to Nazi Germany it gets very gripping. The movie director of "Shining Through" must have come to the same conclusion, because he only filmed the last 100 pages of the novel (with Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith plus Liam Neeson as a Nazi officer).
Over the past 20+ years I've noticed that I find less and less of the new novels interesting and that formula writing becomes more and more popular, so I find myself more and more often re-reading good books from the past 50+ years and enjoy it. Good books can be like good movies and be enjoyed more than once.
I also love film noir and read the books on which they are based, for instance "The Blank Wall" by Elizabeth Sanxay-Holding (sp?) which was filmed with Joan Bennett and James Mason (Reckless Moment) and "The Uninvited" (Ray Milland) which is based on a book by Dorothy Macardle which I just read last summer.
Any opinions?
), Nancy Thayer (her early novels), "Night Over Water" (Ken Follett), "Under The Lake" (Stuart Woods), Carlene Thompson, Mary Higgins Clark, Linwood Barclay, "Forever Amber" by Kathleen Winsor, "Angélique" series by Anne Golon, "The Movies according to Hitchcock" by François Truffaut, "Midnight is a Lonely Place" by Barbara Erskine, "A Summer Place" by Sloan Wilson (I enjoy some of his other books as well plus he wrote a good autobiography), "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck, and a few of Daphne DuMaurier's novels like "Frenchman's Creek", "The King's General" and "The House on the Strand", but to be honest, I think Daphne DuMaurier's life was even more fascinating than her books (try the biography by Margaret Forster).My most favorite novel and most often read book is "The Little Girl who lives down the Lane" by Laird Koenig. I love the movie, but the book is even better. I usually read it on almost every Halloween.
My second favorite and third favorite novels are "Dancing at the Harvest Moon" (K. C. McKinnon) and "A Peculiar Chemistry" (Kitty Ray).
My fourth favorite is probably the crime novel "In A Dry Summer" by Peter Robinson, IMHO it's the best from his DCI Banks series.
Books are not always better than movies. For instance "Shining Through" by Susan Isaacs is pretty boring over the first 300 pages (even though I like her sense of humor), then on the last 100 pages when the American heroine/protagonist flies to Nazi Germany it gets very gripping. The movie director of "Shining Through" must have come to the same conclusion, because he only filmed the last 100 pages of the novel (with Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith plus Liam Neeson as a Nazi officer).
Over the past 20+ years I've noticed that I find less and less of the new novels interesting and that formula writing becomes more and more popular, so I find myself more and more often re-reading good books from the past 50+ years and enjoy it. Good books can be like good movies and be enjoyed more than once.
I also love film noir and read the books on which they are based, for instance "The Blank Wall" by Elizabeth Sanxay-Holding (sp?) which was filmed with Joan Bennett and James Mason (Reckless Moment) and "The Uninvited" (Ray Milland) which is based on a book by Dorothy Macardle which I just read last summer.
Any opinions?