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 2005-06-13 11:41 AM in reply to: #173199 |
Extreme Veteran  404  Chicago, Il |  Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books?LadyKeetes - 2005-06-12 12:31 AM Lately I've been reading anything I can get my hands on by Robert Heinlein. The man (imho) is an absolute genius when it comes to writing believable, sci-fi with politcal/religious twists that just make you go "Oh My Gawd that could happen, couldn't it? EEEK!" Heinlein is a master. I've read Friday more times than I can count. I think it says something decidedly odd about me that Heinlein and Rand have been the two biggest influences in my life. But on to my list: To Kill a Mockingbird (duh) A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You -- Amy Bloom, master of the short story Letters, Sabbatical -- John Barth Written On the Body, Sexing the Cherry -- Jeanette Winterson Sofie's Choice -- William Styron (sp?) Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace The Corrections, Strong Motion -- Jonathan Franzen Welcome to the Monkey House -- Vonnegut The Color Purple -- Alice Walker The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf -- Kathryn Davis Cavalier and Clay -- Chabon Ex Libris -- Anne Fadiman I'm sure I could go on, but my books are almost all in storage, so I've had to go by memory and take the ones burned into my consciousness for one reason or another. I have met myself through books, experienced things I never would have the chance to, live alternate paths of my own life. The written word is sacred to me. I would wither away if I could not read fiction. I don't think I would have made it to adulthood with my sanity without my public library. |
| 2005-06-13 9:01 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Expert 725  Wilmington, NC | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Ooooh where to begin - Anything CS Lewis Tolkien I've read LotR almost every year since I was 13. That was a LONG time ago. Robert Jordan's Eye of the World Series Dickens Jane Austen Terry Pratchett's Disc world series Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first three, anyway...) Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" and "Fabric of the Cosmos" - great reads on string theory and physics! The Bronte Sisters Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers Harry Potter - yep another adult who reads them Stephen Hawking's books All Dr. Seuss Schindler's List Michener - Especially The Source and Hawaii Arthur C. Clarke - most anything Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game Frank Herbert - Dune The list goes on and on. Edited by nuke_angel 2005-06-13 9:04 PM |
| 2005-06-14 7:56 AM in reply to: #172703 |
| Veteran 171 Eilat, Israel | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Travels- by Michael Chrichton a must must must must read. It's basically a journal he kept with observations about life; cannot reccomend it enough. Anything by Mario Puzo or Leon Uris if you are looking to just pass th time. |
| 2005-06-14 9:43 AM in reply to: #174470 |
Buttercup 14334  | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Oh, I read a couple of Leon Uris books 20+ years ago. Good stuff. I looked on my bookcase last night - Chaim Potok is another favorite - The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev. |
| 2005-06-14 10:03 AM in reply to: #172703 |
Champion 4902 Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? A few more, along with some that were already mentioned: 1984 - George Orwell Animal Farm - George Orwell Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin The Cider House Rules - John Irving Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Exodus - Leon Uris Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hess How Green was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (and all the sequels) - Douglas Adams The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupééry Lord of the Flies - William Golding The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kessy The Red Tent - Anita Diamant Papillon - Henri Charriere Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett The Prince - Machiavelli Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe Sherlock Holmes (all stories) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Source - James Mitchener The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas And so many more ...... |
| 2005-06-14 2:39 PM in reply to: #174547 |
| Member 32 | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Tania-- Great subject!! There are way too many to list, but here are a few novels on my Top 10 list: Shogun, Tai Pan, and Noble House by James Clavell (but all of his books are worth reading) I re-read these every few years. Bonfire of the Vanities--Tom Wolfe The Gold Coast, Upcountry, and Nightfall by Nelson DeMille Anything by Vonnegut |
| 2005-06-14 3:02 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Pro 5153 Helena, MT | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? I don't really read much fiction, just can't get into most of it. Monkey Wrench Gang (hands down, the best fiction I've ever read! Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, Wesley Powell Cadillac Desert, (forgot author) How to be your dog's best friend, Monks of New Skete The art of raising a puppy, also by Monks of New Skete Down the River. Ed Abbey (ok, nearly everything of Abbey's, I have a picture he drew tatooed on me ferchrissake!) Under the Banner of Heaven, John Krakauer Basically, if it's a non-fiction about dogs or rivers, I like it. I'm a simple woman. |
| 2005-06-15 1:34 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Supersonicus Idioticus 2439 Thunder Bay, ON | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? wow, some of you have more favourite books than I have read, ever! My vote is for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
| 2005-06-15 3:21 PM in reply to: #175382 |
Elite Veteran 1817 Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Well, the way I figure it, I have been reading non-stop since I was 14 years old and I am now 41. Taking into account some faster and some slower (because of pesky interruptions like work and kids, etc), say I average a book a week, so that would put me somewhere around the 1,400 mark. So needless to say, my list of favorites is extremely abbreviated!  |
| 2005-06-15 4:43 PM in reply to: #172753 |
Champion 5495 Whizzzzzlandia Silver member | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? The Red Tent was a good book... I read it with my book club. I never would have picked it up under my own accord. I also enjoyed the Kite Runner... another book club book. A bit dark, and gritty, but a very good book nonetheless. Confessions of a Shopaholic (the FIRST one) was a hilarious read... Took me all of 4 hours to get through it... and I laughed my butt off... Whizzzzzzzzzz |
| 2005-06-15 4:45 PM in reply to: #172833 |
Champion 5495 Whizzzzzlandia Silver member | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? |
| 2005-06-15 4:48 PM in reply to: #174815 |
Champion 5495 Whizzzzzlandia Silver member | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? You should read "Dogs don't Bite when a Growl will do" and "Dog is my Co-pilot" Both good dog books. |
| 2005-06-15 7:06 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Elite 2796 Texas | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? "Lord Jim", Joseph Conrad. Quote from the Irishman who recommended I read it, "Read Conrad. Probably Lord Jim is best. But you'll be ruined by it. After you read Conrad, everyone else is crap..." |
| 2005-06-16 10:25 AM in reply to: #172703 |
| Extreme Veteran 323 Kochi, Japan | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Many of these have already been listed: Life of Pi- Yann Martel(sp?) Candide- Voltaire Catch 22- Heller Anything by Vonnegut The Alchemist- Paolo Cohelo Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (FANTASTIC!)- Dave Eggers To many others to think of now! |
| 2005-06-16 10:35 AM in reply to: #172703 |
| Extreme Veteran 323 Kochi, Japan | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Can`t forget the real classics: Yellow River- I.P. Freely Under the Beachers- Seymour Butts  |
| 2005-06-16 10:35 AM in reply to: #172703 |
| Extreme Veteran 323 Kochi, Japan | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Can`t forget the real classics: Yellow River- I.P. Freely Under the Beachers- Seymour Butts |
| 2005-06-16 10:53 AM in reply to: #172703 |
New user 149 Westchester County, NY | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? I'm also a big fan of John Irving, especially A Prayer for Owen Meany. I read it in highschool when the AP class was reading The World according to Garp, so I read both as a personal protest for not being selected for the class on the basis that my 11th grade English teacher didn't like me and told me she wouldn't recommend me for that reason only. Darn you Clemente! I also like any book by Garth Nix especially Sabriel. Good, fun stuff. |
| 2005-06-16 3:45 PM in reply to: #172703 |
| Master 1315 Shreveport, LA | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoffer I am big fan of John Piper, but especially: Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions Desiring God Don't Waste Your Life I also really like the Harry Potter books and will be there with the other Pottheads to get my copy when the Half Blood Prince comes out. |
| 2005-06-16 7:09 PM in reply to: #176300 |
Pro 4292 Evanston, | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Wow, great reminders. Loved the Bonhoffer & Piper's -Desiring God,- will have to check out the others. I'm currently reading Jerry Bridges -Discipline of Grace-, but it's not rocking my world the way "Transforming Grace" did a few years ago when I first read it. |
| 2005-06-16 7:24 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Pro 4292 Evanston, | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? I have loved many many books. From my first solo "chapter book" as a child (-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe-) through -Watership Down- at 12. "Favorite novel" (perhaps?) - Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky. Unless it's -A Wrinkle in Time- by madeleine l'engle, a very satisfying read over there in the kids' section, behind that wall of Harry Potters. (yeah, i like those too!) I also read a lot of nonfiction (history, biography, memoir, politics, urban planning) but nothing leaps to my mind as a "favorite." Maybe -Wild Swans- in the memoir category: gave me a better understanding of China than anything ever has. Don't know if it's too "chick." It's like Amy Tan but nonfiction. |
| 2005-06-16 8:21 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Elite 2527 Armpit of Ontario | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? LOTR et al by J.R.R.T. Jack Whyte's entire A Dream of Eagles series (Camulod Chronicles in the U.S.) |
| 2005-06-17 8:28 AM in reply to: #176418 |
| Master 1315 Shreveport, LA | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? CitySky - 2005-06-16 7:09 PM Wow, great reminders. Loved the Bonhoffer & Piper's -Desiring God,- will have to check out the others. I'm currently reading Jerry Bridges -Discipline of Grace-, but it's not rocking my world the way "Transforming Grace" did a few years ago when I first read it. My favorite "grace" book is Grace Walk by Steve McVey. It changed my life in terms of the way that I thought about grace. |
| 2005-06-17 2:10 PM in reply to: #175868 |
Veteran 215 Pound Ridge, NY | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? alanna_bologna - 2005-06-16 11:53 AM I'm also a big fan of John Irving, especially A Prayer for Owen Meany. I read it in highschool when the AP class was reading The World according to Garp, so I read both as a personal protest for not being selected for the class on the basis that my 11th grade English teacher didn't like me and told me she wouldn't recommend me for that reason only. Darn you Clemente! I also like any book by Garth Nix especially Sabriel. Good, fun stuff. i was just about to post those two books! both great! will have to check out the Nix book... |
| 2005-06-17 2:44 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Master 1967 | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Tough to list them all - but these come to mind quickly: Cannery Row - John Steinbeck Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger On the Road - Jack Kerouac Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson The Electric Coolaid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe |
| 2005-06-17 7:13 PM in reply to: #172703 |
Member 25 Houston | Subject: RE: What are your favorite (non-tri) books? Wow mul we have almost the exact same list of favorites I didn't think anyone else shared my love for cannery row-one of his overlooked novels. Other: A wrinkle in time (someone mentioned that earlier-prolly one of the best science fiction kids books ever written) Enders Game (ok I like 'grown up' books too...) 1984 For whom the bell tolls Guerrilla Warfare (che guevara) anything Dean Koontz for a quick entertaining read Jane Eyre anything from good ol bill shakespeare (a small obsession of mine...) Walden/civil disobedience-thoreau Chronicles of Narnia This is only a short list...I love reading, was an english major, so...I have many favorites |
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