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whats your favorite book
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My favourite by a living author would probably be "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth. I also love all of Jane Austen, my favourite changes from year to year but is probably Mansfield Park.
I am very fortunate in that I run a small independant bookshop and spend my days among the books.
I am very fortunate in that I run a small independant bookshop and spend my days among the books.
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Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia are my favourites series.
As for favourite books, I love To Kill a Mockingbird.
As for favourite books, I love To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Quite a few, really:
Brother Alaric of the Grey Knights gets captured by the forces of the Chaos god Khorne, whilst defending an Imperial outpost, and gets taken to one of their daemon infested homeworlds and forced to fight in gladiatorial style battles to appease Khorne. He ends up killing just about every daemon on the planet, pretty much single handedly.
Captain Vimes of the Ankh Morpork Watch gets warped back in time on the trail of a murderer, and ends up having to train his younger self in the ways of crime fighting. I love all Discworld books, though. Night Watch and Pyramids are my favourite. Pratchett is a genius.
The start of the Horus Heresy, the story of how several of the founding Legions of Adaptes Astartes turned against their brothers, plunging everywhere into all out war between the Imperium of Mankind and the forces of Chaos.
Dr Hunter S. Thompson > Everyone else.
And
Both pretty much tell the same true story from two different perspectives, about the SAS squad, callsign B20 getting captured and escaping and evading whilst walking for miles across the desert, in the first Gulf war.
Also, just about anything by Stephen King.
Brother Alaric of the Grey Knights gets captured by the forces of the Chaos god Khorne, whilst defending an Imperial outpost, and gets taken to one of their daemon infested homeworlds and forced to fight in gladiatorial style battles to appease Khorne. He ends up killing just about every daemon on the planet, pretty much single handedly.
Captain Vimes of the Ankh Morpork Watch gets warped back in time on the trail of a murderer, and ends up having to train his younger self in the ways of crime fighting. I love all Discworld books, though. Night Watch and Pyramids are my favourite. Pratchett is a genius.
The start of the Horus Heresy, the story of how several of the founding Legions of Adaptes Astartes turned against their brothers, plunging everywhere into all out war between the Imperium of Mankind and the forces of Chaos.
Dr Hunter S. Thompson > Everyone else.
And
Both pretty much tell the same true story from two different perspectives, about the SAS squad, callsign B20 getting captured and escaping and evading whilst walking for miles across the desert, in the first Gulf war.
Also, just about anything by Stephen King.
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Sounds great!! I would love to do that for a while...
My favourite books are the 'Hitler Years' trilogy by Judith Kerr, particularly the first one, 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'. They are kid's books really but I love the way she takes you through the characters' lives trying to fit in different countries in as Jewish refugees. We did a fair bit of moving round when I was younger and the books really struck a chord.
As far as 'grown-up books' go, 'Testament of Youth' was heartbreaking but incredibly gripping. I also recently read 'The End of the Affair' and loved it - totally different to what I thought it would be! I know I will reread it in the future. For easy reading I like a bit of Poirot/Miss Marple - can't beat it!
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The Twilight Series - I can't help it!
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Bell Jar
The House at Riverton
Wuthering Heights
White Teeth
Clockers
Girl, Interrupted
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Bell Jar
The House at Riverton
Wuthering Heights
White Teeth
Clockers
Girl, Interrupted
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Favorite book.....One Hundred Years of Solitude...but I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A close second is To Kill A Mockingbird....I'm rubbing my feet across my border collie/lab mix names Scout.
When I was younger my favorites were Bridge To Terabithia and Animal Farm.
I'm a fan of John Irving(fav: The World According To Garp), Louise Erdrich (fav: Master Butcher's Singing Club), Barbara Kingslover(Poisonwood Bible), EL Doctrow, Dave Sedaris, Joyce Carol Oates.
Some other faves....The Jungle, My Antonia, The Red Tent....I'm scanning my bookcases without glasses,lol.
I like the classics too. Steinbeck is someone I can re-read all the time. James Joyce is another.
I've been gravitating more towards non-fiction lately. I've been reading a lot of Ehrman, Crossan , Spong.....I have a collection of MLK's sermons that I re-read all the time. My all time favorite is Harry Fosdick. I read him with pen and paper in hand.
I read all the time... a few books a week. It's my favorite thing to do. I get on a genre kick and then force myself off and into a new direction. I hit up thrift stores, I'm a member of Paperback Swap and I love half.com.....and of course, the library. I have about 300-400 books in my front room. I shelve those that I want to keep for future reference or re reading...the ones that are to be read are sitting on their sides in front of the shelved books so I can scan and grab....and then I have another shelf for books to be traded. I probably have 200+ kids books downstairs in the playroom.
When I was younger my favorites were Bridge To Terabithia and Animal Farm.
I'm a fan of John Irving(fav: The World According To Garp), Louise Erdrich (fav: Master Butcher's Singing Club), Barbara Kingslover(Poisonwood Bible), EL Doctrow, Dave Sedaris, Joyce Carol Oates.
Some other faves....The Jungle, My Antonia, The Red Tent....I'm scanning my bookcases without glasses,lol.
I like the classics too. Steinbeck is someone I can re-read all the time. James Joyce is another.
I've been gravitating more towards non-fiction lately. I've been reading a lot of Ehrman, Crossan , Spong.....I have a collection of MLK's sermons that I re-read all the time. My all time favorite is Harry Fosdick. I read him with pen and paper in hand.
I read all the time... a few books a week. It's my favorite thing to do. I get on a genre kick and then force myself off and into a new direction. I hit up thrift stores, I'm a member of Paperback Swap and I love half.com.....and of course, the library. I have about 300-400 books in my front room. I shelve those that I want to keep for future reference or re reading...the ones that are to be read are sitting on their sides in front of the shelved books so I can scan and grab....and then I have another shelf for books to be traded. I probably have 200+ kids books downstairs in the playroom.
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My favorite book so far is "This present darkness" by Frank Peretti.
Despite the fact that I am NOT a spiritual person, it's still a great read since the author is very descripitve but still leaves readers in suspense [in terms of events to the point where you feel the urge to keep reading].
Despite the fact that I am NOT a spiritual person, it's still a great read since the author is very descripitve but still leaves readers in suspense [in terms of events to the point where you feel the urge to keep reading].
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Some wonderful books listed. Absolute favorites vary, but my fiction list includes The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters (Lewis), Gilead (Robinson) Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), Gifts of the Christ Child (a collection of MacDonald stories), Excellent Women (Pym), Sense and Sensibility (Austen) and Little Dorrit (Dickens).
I loved Home (Robinson) and The End of the Affair (Greene), but they are too hearbreaking to list as favorites.
I was glad to see A Suitable Boy mentioned. I thought that was a wonderful book, rather like Dickens.
I loved Home (Robinson) and The End of the Affair (Greene), but they are too hearbreaking to list as favorites.
I was glad to see A Suitable Boy mentioned. I thought that was a wonderful book, rather like Dickens.
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Among my favourites:
Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR and THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. One could say they were written for performance and are incomplete on the page, and possibly that's so; but who else ever made antiquated poetry so vitally relevant to every age? And particularly these two tragedies, so dead-on in dissecting the human and inhuman nature of men's fears and ambitions? Re-reading either is like contemplating, at 40, the father you fought bitterly with at 20, and marveling at how much smarter he's gotten in the two decades since. (It doesn't hurt that both have language that has been cannibalised for centuries to such an extent that they have become almost foundation stones of Western literature.)
Almost anything by Mark Twain, but especially THE MAN WHO CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG.
Almost anything by PG Wodehouse and SJ Perelman: I highly recommend each writers MOST OF omnibus edition (as well as their individual titles, of course).
I have a strong bias for short-to-medium length fiction for the simplest of reasons: the novel has, for some time now (with the collapse of the commercial short-fiction market), become the coin of the realm - the fulcrum of modern publishing, the only viable avenue to make a living writing fiction as well as the obvious shortest distance between original manuscript and the all-important tv/movie sale without which most writers would need to keep their livery-driver licenses current at all times.
Unfortunately, as a result, too many of the modern novels I've read feel bloated, padded, piled heavy with climaxes and secondary plotlines. Whereas the short story/novelette is more often the story told at the precise length required to make the greatest and most lasting impact. The relative brevity of the format allows for suggestion and elliptical nuance, inviting the reader to fill in the areas hinted at; whereas too many novels, reaching for word-volume and page-counts, cross every t, dot every i, and explicitly underline every point.
Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR and THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH. One could say they were written for performance and are incomplete on the page, and possibly that's so; but who else ever made antiquated poetry so vitally relevant to every age? And particularly these two tragedies, so dead-on in dissecting the human and inhuman nature of men's fears and ambitions? Re-reading either is like contemplating, at 40, the father you fought bitterly with at 20, and marveling at how much smarter he's gotten in the two decades since. (It doesn't hurt that both have language that has been cannibalised for centuries to such an extent that they have become almost foundation stones of Western literature.)
Almost anything by Mark Twain, but especially THE MAN WHO CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG.
Almost anything by PG Wodehouse and SJ Perelman: I highly recommend each writers MOST OF omnibus edition (as well as their individual titles, of course).
I have a strong bias for short-to-medium length fiction for the simplest of reasons: the novel has, for some time now (with the collapse of the commercial short-fiction market), become the coin of the realm - the fulcrum of modern publishing, the only viable avenue to make a living writing fiction as well as the obvious shortest distance between original manuscript and the all-important tv/movie sale without which most writers would need to keep their livery-driver licenses current at all times.
Unfortunately, as a result, too many of the modern novels I've read feel bloated, padded, piled heavy with climaxes and secondary plotlines. Whereas the short story/novelette is more often the story told at the precise length required to make the greatest and most lasting impact. The relative brevity of the format allows for suggestion and elliptical nuance, inviting the reader to fill in the areas hinted at; whereas too many novels, reaching for word-volume and page-counts, cross every t, dot every i, and explicitly underline every point.
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A very old book I doubt that most of you have read, but it's called The Clan of The Cave Bear. Really an awesome book and I would suggest anyone to read it.
Also, I like The Belgariad and The Malorian from David Eddings. Also Robin Hobb's books...all of them. Terry Pratchett's Books are also my favorite. Then there is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Too many to pick a single favorite...but I would REALLY suggest you read The Clan of the Cave Bear J Auel. (Cant remember exactly what her name is).
Also, I like The Belgariad and The Malorian from David Eddings. Also Robin Hobb's books...all of them. Terry Pratchett's Books are also my favorite. Then there is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Too many to pick a single favorite...but I would REALLY suggest you read The Clan of the Cave Bear J Auel. (Cant remember exactly what her name is).
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Well at least your calling it very old is ironic, since it was published in 1984!
If someone does decide to read it I would suggest going to a used book store. It was on High School reading lists at one point and used book stores are apt to have piles of them. (I've never met anyone who read it except for those foreced to in High School classes).
For fairly old try "Ivanhoe" or something by Dickens, Kafka or MacDonald.
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I loved "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
Also good was "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer
Also good was "Knowing God" by J.I. Packer
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