Do you buy books regularly ? who are your favorite authors ?

hi kiran madam, that is right the second books vending on the road side,but we may get our selected books are there or not, now a days buying a book also very costly ,i am not buying any novels books which you have mention,but recently book exhibition was conducted in that i have purchase Telugu-English dictionary and a book about astrology,have a nice day

Hi Kiran! I used to buy romance books and Tamil books for myself.Many of them were second hand but I buy some new ones also. But generally, we buy new books and my son has a huge collection of all the P.G.Wodehouse novels, Alistair Maclaine, Agatha CHristie etc.THey are all new. In fact, all his books from his junior classes are new because they are more longlasting.I used to read fairy tales, and mythology too. My personal favourites are Mills and Boon,Tamil historical and certain other novels, best sellers of Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer and P.G.Wodehouse.I do not read science fiction or war stories.Generally we are crazy about books and the movers and packers looked at us strangely when we packed a total of some 35 cartons of which more than 16 were full of books when we relocated.I too cannot live without reading and I find reading more relaxing than any other activity be it T.V. or internet..

i typically dont read fiction because i am pretty busy and i am a history fanatic, so the books i read are generally historical. i like to read about the little guy who got caught up in an event in history. (ie: someone that was on the Titanic or a soldiers recount of a war he was in).

Yes We've been buying books a lot lately. My favorite authors are probably Nora Roberts, Diana Palmer, James Patterson, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I am intrigued about the Indian author's you mention.

No i don't buy books regularly. But i bought some important ones for me.I used to lend book from library for reading.

When I drop by at NBS I usually look for there best selling books.But my favorite authors are Mitch Albom and Nicholas Parks.I read all their books.Mitch Albom Tuesday's with Morrie and the five people you met in heaven are my faves.All of Nicholas Parks books are very interesting.

i normally buy books from bookstore, either sapna or gangaram's in b'lore. i have good collection of some 2000+ books in my personal library. i can read anything and everything. i like girish karnad, yendamoori veerendranath and shivram karanth in particular but, i have read most of them including sagarika ghose, ravindranath tagore, arundathi roy, APJ kalam etc.,

I used to buy books all the time from big book stores and then realized, though it's helping the author, it's hurting my wallet, so I started going to flea markets, yard sales and second hand stores to buy books. On top of buying from those places, I use my library regularly. I love to read and can read anything from history to the back of cereal boxes, lol. I like Debbie Macomber, Fern Michaels, Sandra Brown, Anne George, Fannie Flagg, Jackie Collins, Mary Kay Andrews, Nora Roberts, Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer, and my list could go on and on. I enjoy reading and getting lost in the book, and for the most part once I start reading a book, I can't put it down until I've read it all.

For me I don't read a book if not a bible because I like the author of it his name is Jehovah God.

To be honest I don't actually BUY many books but I do read loads and loads of them!! Where I live we are all avid readers and all have friends and families who are so we all pass our books around and have a constant stream of new books to read all teh time. I also use the public library a lot, when I DO buy books it is generally from a charity shop. As for favoutrite authors I have so many and enjoy so many genre of books - I love Daphne Du MAurier books, and despite having read them all often go back and read them again - especially Rebecca, I love all the classics lime Hardy, Dickens, the Brontes etc, I really enjoy Harlan Coben thriller books - they are excellent, in fact there are very few books that I do NOT enjoy!! Happy reading!!

Yes I buy books regularly and some of my favorite authors are. Karen Kingsbury, Debbie Macomber, Lori Wick, Susan Mallery, Kristin Hannah.

nowadays am not having the time to read and write ..... now am having busy life .... earlier always i used to read something every time... but now am not having the time to do so... i know i have to read ...... i like to read incidental stories.... i like to read all good ones ,there is no author specification.....

i am li from china. and being an international trader. i have no time to read. but i wnat to read some book , and i ever being a student for 20 years long .however ,i dont read anyone book after i worked . so you are so luck to have enough time to read books. till now. i don't know whoese book is good to me . but sometime i must come on reading . no matter its author is famous or not , because any book may has something good to us . thank you .

i am also like you.. i prefer any books as long as it is interesting and enjoyable to read.. but i do prefer the detective novel type of novels.. one that is such is like the lincoln lawyer by michael connelly who is incidentally also my favorite author.. i also have another author that is good this kind of genre and his name is nishio ishin.. i really recommend his books to you.. but as you can see, he is japanese and thus his books are all in japanese.. so books that are in english are rather limited..

Hi Kiran, I love to read too. I never buy books though. I get all my books from the library. Not only is it free but I am afraid that books are going to be a thing of the past. I do also pick up a few books at the thrift store or at yardsales just to keep on hand...just in case. I have to have a good book going....always. I don't have a favorite author. I like so many of them and so much of what I read depends on my mood of the moment...like my music tastes. Currently, I am reading Time in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks. It's good but easy reading. Prior to this I read the "Clan of the Cave bear" series that was amazing. I like all sorts of of books and different authors. It would be easier to tell you what I don't like. I could not and won't read the harlequin novels which are cheap generic love stories from the 70's...my mom was a big fan. And this one will probably upset some because I know she is very popular. Danielle Steele....I really think she is over-rated. I read one or two of her early books and thought she was pretty good but as time went on...not so much.

Charles de Lint, Ben Bova, Jack McDevitt, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter...

I really enjoy reading. I always have. My husband and I will occasionally buy books, as we both enjoy reading and such. It's nice to get new books from time to time. We don't always get books, as we can't always afford to get anything new. But when we can, we like to maybe get one or two new books.

I buy books all of the time. I am a big Danielle steele and Stephen King fan. I buy a lot of romance novels and horror novels as well. There's nothing like a good book to chase away the gloom of a dreary or hectic day.

Yes. I am also regular reader of books and I love reading because it is not only a diversion from regular work but also entertaining.In fact I read a lot.As I was student of history I like reading books on history.They are the stories of people who lived in flesh and blood at the material time and lived at a time when there was no scientific advancement.They lived a hard life without present day comforts.Secondly I love reading detective fiction.Here there is thrill besides enjoyment.In my younger days I used to read every novel of Agatha Christi or Earl Stanley Gardner.Agatha Christi was perhaps the first English lady to write detective fiction. I would like to read her novels for a second or third time if possible .In the novels of Earl Stanley Gardner.. half of the book is court scene which are interesting. Of present I immensely like novels by John Grisham. He is a wonderful writer. I do not miss any of his novels.In fact I am his fan.....

Reading remains to be an active means to learn. Although a lot of information can be easily heard from TV and radio, or search over the internet, we cannot deny the effectiveness of reading. However, books are quite expensive so many cannot afford to buy one or two. What is most cost effective now is reading through internet sites or having an access to e-books.