Lee's Library

I thought a good place to begin is with some of my favorite authors. The first that comes to mind is James Patterson. If you like suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat writing, buy one of his books. I read his novels incredibly fast because I can not put them down once I begin. An awesome series to get into it the Maximum Ride series. Max, the fifth book in the series, just came out last March. I'll talk about that in my next post, but I will say that it did not disappoint. When you read Patterson's books, you never know whats coming. Sometimes things are "thrown in from left field," just out of nowhere, yet that is what makes his novels really good. If you want a good book of his, I would consider Beach Road. It shocked me toward the end. I won't say what happens of course, but I didn't see it coming at all.



To another author - Mary Higgins Clark. I found her not too long ago and I can't stop reading her novels. They are suspenseful as well and really good. You can kind of see what could happen to her characters, but you never really know what is actually going to happen. The most recent novel I've read by her was The Cradle Will Fall. As with the other ones I've read before, this was just as good. I'll talk about her novels in the future because I've got a few I still have to read.



J.K. Rowling is a popular author that a lot of people know about. If you don't know, she wrote the Harry Potter series. I really enjoy those novels. I plan on re-reading them, and probably will more than once. They are well written and you can connect with the characters easily. I must say though, that I enjoy the novels more than the movies.



Now, most people have heard of this next author. C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia series. Yet another great series to read. And yet again, I enjoyed the books more than the movies. What I found interesting is that The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe was written first, but Lewis wrote another novel, The Magician's Nephew, as a prequel to the series. I need to re-read those because they are so good and I haven't read them in quite a while. If you liked the movies, get the books.



I'm sure that there are other authors out there that I would really enjoy and just haven't found them yet. I will mention here, other authors that I like. One is Gregory Maguire who wrote Wicked. I will be talking more about The Wicked Years series later on. Maguire writes quite interesting stories. One thing that he does is write about fairy tales, but not the way you are used to them. He tells "the other side" of the story. Take Wicked for example, this is about the Wicked Witch of the West and her life-her side of the story. It is incredibly interesting to read, but more on that later. Edgar Allan Poe is...interesting to say the least. Sometimes you have to find the meaning of what he writes. As you probably know, his writings are very dark. I'm currently reading in the middle of The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. How can you talk about writing if you don't mention William Shakespeare. Now that is some text that you have to decipher. I currently in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. That is coming along slowly because I take breaks in between his stories and read other novels. He is a good writer though when you can understand it. Now I have to mention Stephenie Meyer because I have just finished Twilight and loved it. I have not seen the movie yet, but I plan to. I will still probably like the book better, but we'll have to wait and see about that. I will talk about Twilight in my next post, so I won't say anything about it here.



So, there you have it. These are the authors I enjoy reading. I know I've probably left some people out, but as I think of them, I'll let you know. Next post will be about Max and Twilight and possibly New Moon. That's what I'm currently reading.