If I were to write a book what would you like to read?

Question

TIME FOR A QUESTION.
In fact I am writing one. I understand that there will be many varied answers. I want to incorporate a good cross section of what people like to read. I thought this forum may be a good one. I am not writing fiction nor anything religious nor is it about me. Although I am putting a section about those things as a means of introduction. I see many 'popular' books out there like 'The Secret', 'What the bleep..." etc. In terms of genre it is akin to that. This forum definitely helps me gather important info about people. Enough details....
Thanks in advance for your creative input....

Wanda
I am honored to have you. I read your website. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction

Answer 1

I started reading at a very young age. I read books that normally all children read, the books to nurtures their tender imagination, to tickles their delicate sense of reason about a brave new world unfolding around them while offering alternative visions of immaculate beauty and goodness against all that a child needs to know is bad in a fantastic world. These were the books of magicians, wizards, saints, princes and princesses, kings and queens, poor fishermen, the rich, the cruel and the bad, and those of the exploits of greatest heroes from the history of mankind. Then in my college days, I read books that inspired me, the books about natural sciences, space, the Earth, parapsychology, palmistry, numerology, astrology, crime, detection, wars and adventures great explorations and discoveries of greatest minds. And later on the books about pure ideas to initiate me into a world of deeper thoughts, about affairs of a real world versus ideological reconfiguration of the world order, they were the books about life, about people, about religion and about mind.

But now I hardly read any book, as I find myself too busy trying to live what I am, to know who I am both when alone and when with other people, too busy observing the world around me. I feel that all the knowledge that I gathered through reading in the earlier stages of my life I no longer know as knowledge but as myself proper. Now if I see a thing in the world I cannot help wondering about it; to me trees like fountains grow, and stars still like candles glow. In my mind trees miniaturise the a journey of life from dark and damp soil underground to bright and sunny airs above that they reach out to. But I still remember someone said that ‘we all are in a gutter only few of us are looking at stars’. This perhaps is the reality of life that we all attempt to improve upon our own ways. But I see along this way opinions however important are quite limitative and often marred by prejudices and personal inhibitions of narrowness in minds.

You can say that I am addicted to writing now. But I must enhance and improve along the way all that I have and the world that I am. If I am serious about writing just the way I have been avid about reading then that means I whish to reach out to other people across differences and divisions to share my view of simplest things with great many great people who I share my life with.

Answer 2

Here are a few you could try: Neil Gaiman is an amazing author! William Shakespeare is good too. Any books by Scott Westernfeld or Neal Shusterman are really good too. The Princess Bride by William Goldman 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson Abarat by Clive Barker, Make sue you get the hardcover version though!!! If you liked the first one be sure to check out the next book in the series Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War. The Maximum Ride series (The Angel Experiment, Schools Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning) by James Patterson Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) by C.S. Lewis The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt The Sight and Fell by David Clement-Davies

Answer 3

i will read it. I read a wide variety of things, and a good book is like a good friend.

As Wanda said, be true to yourself in writing or it doesn't work. Also, it is almost inevitable that some parts of yourself creep into your writing, and family and friends will wonder if some part is about them. Write from your heart, tell the truth, and sometimes telling it like it is in your imagination might be interpreted in ways that could be hurtful.

You have to be true to your story.

Good luck!

Answer 4

At the present time I'm writing an essay which is about two poor souls from different culture. My writing form is spontaneous and goes along depending on the 'Goods' moods. It's about two people with a lot of passions, humor, sincerity and sadness. They are childish too and there is a vague mistrust between them; however, there is a strong friendship between them. The title – I don't know but it seems like 'through the Mediterranean sea'. I'm writing it with my poetic French words. This essay is a mystery that people could not resolve it within one night, but through their own life. Its sad basic: "My beloved… follows the teachings of Death that denies death and many of the natural expressions…"
Its mystery basic: "Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow".
Aesop
fl. c. 550 BCE, Khemetic (Egyptian) Fabulist

Good luck with your book!

Answer 5

I like to read romance, fantasy, science fiction and a good suspense every once in a while, I stay away from horror like a plague and I'm drawn to investigate anything with an attractive cover on it and from publishers/authors I recognize.
Good luck with your book!

Answer 6

Wanda is right. You shouldn't try to go along with what you think everyone will like. You'd have the time of your life with that, wouldn't you? Even J.K. Rowling couldn't do that (although I'm shocked to find out that people who are die-hard Potter fans don't know that there are people who would have liked Harry to die.... because they hate everything about Harry Potter).

Anyways, go with what interests you. Fantasy, action, adventure, mystery, historical fiction, anything you like to read or anything that you would like to write about.

Personally, I write fantasy/romance stories. Because that's what interests me.

Answer 7

I like smart, well-written books that makes you think. Asimov's one of my favorites. He's written a lot of stuff, both fiction and non-fiction, and he's very smart. If you have an interesting topic and it's well-researched, well-organized, well-developed, I might consider it.

Answer 8

I think the best book for you to write is the one YOU would like to read. Write for yourself first, from yourself. We will read it and love it too.

Answer 9

So your writing a non fiction book? If there's magic and stuff that blows up I'll read it...

Answer 10

Truth--I didn't read all of your detail, just the question.

Don't write what you think (or what others tell you) they want to read-- Write what you feel. otherwise I promise it will be work and it won't be any good.