I am going to the bookstore tomorrow and I want to pick up a few books.What are your favourite books and which would you recommend?
And it would be nice if you could add the plotline.
thanks!
2007-10-26 21:10:57 · 14 answers · asked by krystal_engel 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
24/7 by Jim Brown
On a small Caribbean island Dana Kirsten joins the newest reality TV show: 24/7.
The island is a technological marvel, rigged with remote control cameras, a satellite surveillance system and the most powerful television transmitter ever created. Furthermore, anyone can go on-line and access any of the 638 cameras – live, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For Dana, winning the $2 million prize could mean saving her child’s life.
Fifteen minutes into the first live broadcast, the host, camera men, producers, grips, everyone on the island becomes sick and dies.
Everyone but the contestants.
The explanation is chilling and simple. Someone has stolen the show. The contestants have been infected with a virus that will become ‘lethal’ in 24-hours unless they receive a life-saving injection.
There are 12 people but only 11 injections.
Tomorrow there will be 11 people and only 10 injections.
But there’s a twist – who lives and who dies is determined by on-line voting. The person with the least number of votes loses . . . their life.
Would you vote? Would your neighbors? Remember your vote could save a life. But it could also cost one?
Reality TV has never been this real. And now the whole world in playing . . . 24/7.
2007-10-26 22:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by Chipilona 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This author has several books published. So far I've only read six, but they are all in a series. I have two more to go before I finish the entire series. But what I've read so far is during the 1860's during slavery and the time slavery was ended. It is a heart warming story of how a black slave girl became owner, or part owner, of a southern plantation called Rosewood. It's a very moving story and will have you wanting to grab up the next book as soon as you turn the last page of the first one.
The author's name is Michael Phillips. The series I am speaking of is called Shenandoah Sisters, the first book in the group being Angels Watching Over Me. There are four books in this series. But the story continues on in another series called Carolina Cousins, the first book being A Perilous Proposal. There are four books in this series as well. As soon as I'm finished with the very last book, which is Miss Katie's Rosewood, I plan on reading some more books by this author. He has a unique talent and I find his work, of what I've read thus far, very brilliant and stimulating.
2007-10-26 23:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by angelwithadvice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
That's what I recommend for you tomorrow. It's only on hardcover though. The paperback comes next year.
About a ninteteen minute shooting at a high school from a student that gets revenge. A very powerful book . It's very contemporary as the book's setting is May 2007. It's also fiction.
The Da Vinci Code is also a good book by Dan Brown. It's also his most famous one. But in my opinion, Angels and Demons is the best book by him.
If you plan on getting Angels and Demons, it's a mytery novel. You follow along the clues of the Illuminatis, Italy, Hassasans, etc. It's good book to read along with informationa dn entertainment. One thing though.....Dan's Brown's style is that he tends to switch characters in the book out of nowhere. That's his style. Hope you like it!
Chicken soup will always make you feel good.
2007-10-26 21:15:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by any one of the following best Authors/writers:
1) Sidney Sheldon
2) Danielle Steel
3) Stephan King
4) Nicholas Sparks
5) Jude Deveraux
6) Judith McNaught
7) Andrea kane
8) Phillip Margolin
9) Dan Brown
10) Ayn Rand
2007-10-26 23:07:28 · answer #4 · answered by feminist to the core 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Green Darkness by Anya Seton. In the beginning it's set in in England 1968.But when Celia, the main character, has to be hospitalized after an argument with her husband during house party, the book takes us back to sixteenth century England where Celia,her husband and most of the guests at their house party lived in another life. It's sooo good.
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine is also about reincarnation,with the person who killed her in her previous life still holding a grudge and is after her in her present one.
Timeline by Micheal Crighton is about a corporation that dabbles in science sending a professor through a time portal and when he doesn't come back sending a group of people in afer him.
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg is about a small town in the forties,the story kind of goes from one person to the next but centers around Dorothy, a housewife that runs a radio show from her living room. Lighthearted and really funny. Or Welcome to the wrold,baby girl by the same author.Fannie Flagg is the person who wrote Fried Green Tomatoes.
Fast Women by Jennifer Crusie. It's about Nell a woman who has a son in college and whose sleazy husband just divorced her.She goes to work in a small detective agency, and there the fun starts :) Between the cute detective and her friends, one of whom is hiding something (or someone) in her freezer it really keeps you truning the pages.
Hope you like some of these!
2007-10-27 00:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by sarahtahani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really love fantasy books, so anything by Tamora Pierce. Asides from that Prey by Michael Crichton is a really great read. It's about a scientist who forms 'swarms' of tiny microscopic cameras that eventually evolve... I'm not usually one for thrillers but it was very tastefully written and interesting.
Other than that, the originall Dinotopia books are magnificent, but they have many drawings, not that much text.
2007-10-26 21:23:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jenny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine would be Narnia.. the third book : Prince Caspian.
about I think 5 kids went into this world called Narnia and helped and young prince to get his kingdom back
:) nice story.
2007-10-26 23:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by Tsarey 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chicken Soup for The Soul. A compilation of many diffrent inspiring stories.
2007-10-26 21:21:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are into suspense/mystery, Harlan Coben is by far my favorite.. anything by him.
Horror would be Bentley Little or John Saul. Bentley Little is really graphic and explicit though, so if you are of a more "conservative" nature, I would steer clear of him.
2007-10-27 00:27:00 · answer #9 · answered by ?huh? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG! I love the books Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and I'll Tell You I Love You, but Then I Have to Kill You! Those are great books!
2007-10-27 04:22:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋