getting to know you part 2 - favorite books

[edb19]

Someone mentioned books - only one of my favorite topics.

So - what are some of your favorite books (any sort - doesn't have to be theology)

1. Little Women

which led me to

2. Pilgrim's Progress

3. To Kill a Mockingbird

4. Mere Christianity

5. the entire James Herriot series of books

and that's just for starters. I have lots more but want to see what other people's interests are first.

edie

[3girls2dogs]

My all time favorite book in the whole world is Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I also love anything by Nicholas Sparks (my guilty pleasure).

Jodi Picoult is an amazing author, and if you haven't read My Sister's Keeper, I highly, highly recommend it.

My teenage daughter forced me to read, and thereby fall in love with The Twilight Series by Stepanie Meyers


If someone could tell me how to do those things where you name your linky so that it just shows up as the name....you know that <a href...> thing I will post links. I can never figure out how to do it, and Amazon links are so long sometimes.

[Izdaari]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

The Honor Harrington series by David Weber. And the Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester, which inspired it.

The full Three Musketeers saga, unabridged, by Alexandre Dumas.

Lots of C.S. Lewis stuff, but especially Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters.

More later, but that's a good start. :)

[Criada]

Ooh - could go on all night!

I agree on Jodi Picoult - brilliant author.

The "Anne of Green Gables" books are some of my all-time favourites.

Surprised by Joy

Lord of the Rings

Anything by Tori Hayden

Anything by Terry Pratchett

Asimov's "Robot" books

Wodehouse's Jeeves books

The Practice of the Presence of God

Kipling's poetry

K, going to stop and give someone else a chance :)

But there are so many more....

[3girls2dogs]

The Stand by Stephen King

His son just wrote a book under the name Joe Hill called Heart Shaped Box. Also very good.

I have loads and loads of fun reading Marian Keyes books. I really love those Irish sisters ;)

[DailyBlessings]

Is there... a limit to how many favorite books we can have? I have very much trouble choosing... These are not ordered by preference either, I could never decide.

The Silmarillion, by JRR Tolkien
Frank Herbert's Dune
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
Words of My Roaring, by Ernest J. Finney
The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

[Criada]

Also

Mister God, this is Anna. - probably the book I have read most often - and it still makes me cry!

and the Singer Trilogy - awesome allegory.

[CelticGrace]

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Diary of Anne Frank
The Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters

[Rhamiel]

DailyBlessings, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury is a great book
Fahrenheit 451 is another Bradbury classic
my favorite book would have to be 1984 by Orwell
The Power and the Glory by Greene
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
American Gods by Gaiman
the Sandman books also by Gaiman and his short stories
Inferno and Purgatorio by Dante (have not finished the comedy yet)

[SwirlingEd]

Blue Like Jazz -Miller
God of the Possible -Boyd
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

[Michie]

There is no way in the world I could name my favorite books. I read too much!

I will say I prefer fact over fiction.

But I am crazy about CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters as well.

[edb19]

Mister God, this is Anna.

very good book - very sad yet uplifting

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Diary of Anne Franks

forgot both of those - I've read several of Corrie ten Boom's books, all very good.

Fahrenheit 451 is another Bradbury classic

love it - especially given my fondness for books

Blue Like Jazz -Miller

my daughter has and loves that - she loaned it to me, just couldn't get into it at all - mostly because I didn't think it was very well written - maybe I should try again

[SwirlingEd]

my daughter has and loves that - she loaned it to me, just couldn't get into it at all - mostly because I didn't think it was very well written - maybe I should try again

Yeah, it has a very post-modern, rambling style aimed toward the kids (which may be code for poorly written):P, but once you get into it, it makes some strong points - though it does lean pretty left of center. The follow up by Miller may appeal more to your tastes and is also a great book. It's called Searching for God Knows What.

[Tenebrae]

Whats so amazing about grace

Anything by Jean Sasson

And yes, I like the Harry Potter books

The Hiding Place

[RebekkaH]

Where to start? I have so many favourites!

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
The Defence - Vladimir Nabokov
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters - J.D. Salinger
Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
Oblomov - Goncharov
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
all Jane Austen books
all Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The crimson petal and the white - Michel Faber

and many Dutch novels that you won't know anyway.

[edb19]

Jane Eyre

another one of my favorites - I've read it at least 10 times (maybe more)

more from my younger days:

The Once and Future King (White)

Le Morte d'Arthur (Malory)

Last of the Mohicans (Cooper)

Kidnapped (R.S. Stevenson)

[Melethiel]

Tough question...I love so many books. I guess I'll just start listing...

Lord of the Rings
Silmarillion
Chronicles of Narnia
On the Incarnation
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Aeneid
Sacred Meditations ~ Johann Gerhard

I'll probably add more to this later. :P

[Melethiel]

Oh yeah...

Master and Margarita
Ender's Game
Dune series
CS Lewis - Space Trilogy and the Screwtape Letters

[Joykins]

I can't narrow it down to books so much. I'll list books, series and authors.

Susan Howatch. Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan series), C.S. Lewis, Gillian Bradshaw (particularly _The Beacon at Alexandria_ and _Hawk of May_), R.A. MacAvoy (_The Book of Kells_), Madeleine L'Engle (_The Moon by Night, particularly), David Feintuch, S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove (_In the Presence of Mine Enemies_, particularly), Diana Norman, Georgette Heyer, Robert Jordan, I'm sure there are more that escape me right now.

[Rochir]

1. The Green Cloud - Alexander Sutherland Neill
2. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown

[Rhamiel]

Mel you are such a well read young lady, I never finished the Aeneid
Freitag, I also liked the Harry Potter books, the last one was great but a slight disapointment

[3girls2dogs]

I had to translate the Illiad from Latin to English part by part :cry:

I love the Harry Potter books. I read them, now I am reading them again with my younger kids.

I also love the Kellerman's, both Jonathan and Faye. I love reading mysteries with the Orthodox Judaism intertwined in Faye Kellerman's books. It was so interesting to learn.

I also loved The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I know a lot of people thought it was kind of hard to get into, but if you give it some time, it ends up being such a fascinating book.

[Criada]

This thread is increasing my library request list every time I look at it!!

I'd forgotten the 'Dune" books - must re read those!
(have read Harry Potter four times now - and finally run out of children/excuses! )

[3girls2dogs]

This thread is increasing my library request list every time I look at it!!

I'd forgotten the 'Dune" books - must re read those!
(have read Harry Potter four times now - and finally run out of children/excuses! )
Oooo I have to ask. Do you have the "adult" version of the covers I have heard so much about in England? I heard they made special edition covers so adults would feel less silly reading children's books. (not that I ever feel silly, LOL, my girls and I just finished the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, and it was soooo much fun reading them again.

[Criada]

Nope - I'm quite happy reading kid's books!
i have to read all my children's just to make sure that they are suitable! :P
(well, that's my excuse!!)
And the Alex Rider books are great too! (My son just read those!)

[3girls2dogs]

How old are they again, Criada?

[Criada]

14,12, 9 and 7

[Joykins]

I had to translate the Illiad from Latin to English part by part :cry:

The Iliad or the Aeneid? the Iliad is in Greek. I spent a whole semester translating just the 1st book of the Iliad with a professor who hated me. :tutu:I hate it when the prof yells at you to not look at the text while you're translating :scratch:

[3girls2dogs]

Well, for the fourteen year old maybe, try the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. It's about Vampires, but totally not what you would expect, and soooooo well written. It isn't a Buffy-type thing. It's very good. Highly, highly, highly recommend it.

[3girls2dogs]

The Iliad. My teacher had it a version in Latin. I had to translate it. It was basically all we did for Latin II. This was over twenty years ago. I remember, because when we were supposed to be doing it, we were writing this in the book.

Latin's a dead language,
Dead as dead can be
First it killed the Romans
Now it's killing me.


For all I know it was just the first book, it took us almost the whole year. I didn't retain a word of it, because it was just soooo boring for a junior in high school. I would never consider reading it. I want to read Dante's Inferno, though.

[Tenebrae]

Also the Narnia series

[Criada]

Well, for the fourteen year old maybe, try the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. It's about Vampires, but totally not what you would expect, and soooooo well written. It isn't a Buffy-type thing. It's very good. Highly, highly, highly recommend it.
Will look out for that.
It's hard to find things for her to read - she's like me. We get through about 5 books a week each - so any ideas are appreciated!

[Criada]

Also the Narnia series
Yes!!!!

[Criada]

And Lewis's cosmic Trilogy is great too.

[Tenebrae]

Yes!!!!
And the Lord of the rings series. I love watching the movies it makes me realise how awesome our country is

[Joykins]

The Iliad. My teacher had it a version in Latin. I had to translate it. It was basically all we did for Latin II. This was over twenty years ago. I remember, because when we were supposed to be doing it, we were writing this in the book.

Latin's a dead language,
Dead as dead can be
First it killed the Romans
Now it's killing me.


For all I know it was just the first book, it took us almost the whole year. I didn't retain a word of it, because it was just soooo boring for a junior in high school. I would never consider reading it. I want to read Dante's Inferno, though.

Taking the Iliad from Greek to Latin to English is kind of like the lyric game. I'll go right away and post a thread on the lyric game :)

[Criada]

And the Lord of the rings series. I love watching the movies it makes me realise how awesome our country is
Yes - the scenery is incredible!
My kids now want to go to NZ for a holiday!

[Rhamiel]

3girls2godsOooo I have to ask. Do you have the "adult" version of the covers I have heard so much about in England? I heard they made special edition covers so adults would feel less silly reading children's books.
they have started to do that with the "His Dark Materials" books in america, I never read them nor do I have any interntion too:sick:

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Well, for the fourteen year old maybe, try the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. It's about Vampires, but totally not what you would expect, and soooooo well written. It isn't a Buffy-type thing. It's very good. Highly, highly, highly recommend it.
yea this girl I like is trying to get me to read those books, she says they are very good too

[Tenebrae]

Yes - the scenery is incredible!
My kids now want to go to NZ for a holiday!
Come, I'll let you pitch a tent in my backyard:P

[Criada]

Come, I'll let you pitch a tent in my backyard:P
Thanks.
All I need now is the air fare!!

[Tenebrae]

Thanks.
All I need now is the air fare!!
I have about 3 dollars in my wallet its yours:P^_^

[Melethiel]

I've read the Iliad (in English) - it's pretty dull. The Odyssey is much more interesting. In Latin III, we had to translate Book 1 of the Aeneid...Virgil liked the subjunctive construction way too much. I hate the subjunctive mood. (And in case anyone asks, that was 5 years ago and I remember very little Latin.)

Adding more books:

A Wrinkle in Time
Deryni series (by Katherine Kurtz)
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Rhamiel]

In Latin III, we had to translate Book 1 of the Aeneid...Virgil liked the subjunctive construction way too much. I hate the subjunctive mood. (And in case anyone asks, that was 5 years ago and I remember very little Latin.)

Mel, you were reading Latin when you were 12:confused: :confused: :confused:
wow you are hardcore

[Criada]

I have about 3 dollars in my wallet its yours:P^_^
:clap: :clap:

Hold on - just googling an airline which will fly 6 people half way round the world for 3 dollars.....

I may be gone some time!

[Joykins]

:clap: :clap:

Hold on - just googling an airline which will fly 6 people half way round the world for 3 dollars.....

I may be gone some time!

:scratch: What do they do, drop you off in the middle of the ocean?

[Tenebrae]

:clap: :clap:

Hold on - just googling an airline which will fly 6 people half way round the world for 3 dollars.....

I may be gone some time!
I could possibly make it a hundred on monday:P

Roll on the day when I actually have full time work and am no longer a student.

All assignments finished, one exam to go and then
:clap::clap::clap::clap:

I:M FREE

[edb19]

In Latin III, we had to translate Book 1 of the Aeneid...

me too - only in my case it was 35 years ago

[Michie]

This is definitely not on my favorite books list. But one that scared the tar out of me & left a big impression as well as a lot of question marks was....

Divine Revelation of Hell by Mary Baxter. *shudder*

[Willtor]

My favorite book of all time is:

"The Pilgrim's Regress," by C.S. Lewis

Besides that some of my favorite books are:

"The Cost of Discipleship" and "Ethics" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (I quote from them all the time and I can't remember which quotes come from which ;) )

"Religious Essays" by Leo Tolstoy

"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin (though, I've only finished Book 1; but it still has me hooked)

"The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo" by Plato

---

And although I've barely scratched the surface, "Summa Theologica" by Thomas Aquinas has greatly inspired me.

[Criada]

I could possibly make it a hundred on monday:P

Roll on the day when I actually have full time work and am no longer a student.

All assignments finished, one exam to go and then
:clap::clap::clap::clap:

I:M FREE


:clap: :clap:

When's the exam?
Praying for you, sis.

[Mary of Bethany]

Ohhhh . . . my favorite subject. :)

Little Women
The Silver Sword

Madeleine L'Engle:
A Wrinkle in Time and the others in that series
Meet the Austins

everything ever written by Jane Austen!

C. S. Lewis:
Narnian Chronicles
The Great Divorce
Mere Christianity
Surprised by Joy
Screwtape Letters

J.R.R. Tolkien:
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Silmarillion

the Harry Potter books

Dorothy Sayers' novels - especially the Lord Peter Wimsey series

John LeCarre's novels, especially the George Smiley trilogy
and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

all of Agatha Christie's novels

Brideshead Revisited

The Hiding Place

A Severe Mercy
Under the Mercy

that's enough for now :)



Mary

[3girls2dogs]

Omigoodness, I cant' believe I forgot to put Jane Austen on there. I adore Jane Austen. Emma is my favorite.

[Avatar]

Favorite book - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Favorite series - The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

Favorite authors - Dean Koontz (guy can tell a story!), Stephen King, Anne Rice, Ken Follett, John Grisham, Tom Clancy

[Joykins]

This looks like a group that needs a book club :D

[3girls2dogs]

Favorite book - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Favorite series - The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

Favorite authors - Dean Koontz (guy can tell a story!), Stephen King, Anne Rice, Ken Follett, John Grisham, Tom Clancy
Have you read Stephen King's son's book, Heart Shaped Box. It was very good. It was like SK's older stuff. I liked it a lot. I did not, however, like Cell by Stephen King.

Stephen King's best book ever, IMO, is The Stand. I could read it over and over.

[Criada]

I didn't like The Cell either.
Couldn't ring anyone for days....:D

[3girls2dogs]

I didn't like The Cell either.
Couldn't ring anyone for days....:D
The image brought on by the description of the guy biting the dog's ear off had me ill for days. I know he likes "eww", but I put the book down for weeks after reading that part, and I still get images of it. :sick: :sick:

[Avatar]

Have you read Stephen King's son's book, Heart Shaped Box. It was very good. It was like SK's older stuff. I liked it a lot. I did not, however, like Cell by Stephen King.

Stephen King's best book ever, IMO, is The Stand. I could read it over and over.
I didn't know his son had a book out, I'll have to get it. If it's like King's older stuff - great! He's gotten a bit weird in the last decade. but I have to admit I did like cell. That makes only two I liked from the last ten years, no three. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (did I get that right) and Bag of Bones. As for The Stand, you are absolutely right, best work he did IMHO.

[Avatar]

The image brought on by the description of the guy biting the dog's ear off had me ill for days. I know he likes "eww", but I put the book down for weeks after reading that part, and I still get images of it. :sick: :sick:
Yeah, I understand. I've got a strong stomach though, so I enjoyed the story despite the goryness.

[3girls2dogs]

I didn't know his son had a book out, I'll have to get it. If it's like King's older stuff - great! He's gotten a bit weird in the last decade. but I have to admit I did like cell. That makes only two I liked from the last ten years, no three. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (did I get that right) and Bag of Bones. As for The Stand, you are absolutely right, best work he did IMHO.
The son writes under the name Joe Hill. I really enjoyed it.

[MrJim]

Guilty pleasures ;) ~ These are definitely not recommended moderate reading, all in my attic and get re-read every few years for some reason

Unintended Consequences~John Ross (betcha no one here has read that one)

Out of the Ashes~William Johnstone

The Survivalist~Jerry Ahern

The Turner Diaries~Andrew McDonald (Wm. Pierce)

Guns of the South~Harry Turtledove

The Five Fingers~Gayle Rivers

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[Avatar]

The son writes under the name Joe Hill. I really enjoyed it.
Ah, thanks! :)

[Pogue]

All-time favourite book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=One%20Hundred%20Years%20of%20Solitude&o=4), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Also:
A (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=A%20Gun%20for%20Sale&o=4) Gun for Sale (Graham Greene), All Quiet on the Western Front (Eric Maria Remarque), Puckoon (Spike Milligan), Star of (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=Star%20of%20the%20Sea&o=4) the Sea(Joseph O'Connor), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Roddy Doyle), A Long Long Way (Sebastian Barry), The Poor Mouth (Flann O'Brian), Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris), Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut), The Stone Cradle, and Fires in the Dark (Louise Doughty)

Can't think of any more for the moment. For lighter reading, I love historical fiction, although I prefer military-related stuff to historical romances: Bernard Cornwell is great, especially the Sharpe series, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden are pretty good too, and I quite like Elizabeth Chadwick- her books are more focused on relationships than on wars, but I still think they're quite exciting.

[3girls2dogs]

All-time favourite book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=One%20Hundred%20Years%20of%20Solitude&o=4), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Also:
A (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=A%20Gun%20for%20Sale&o=4) Gun for Sale (Graham Greene), All Quiet on the Western Front (Eric Maria Remarque), Puckoon (Spike Milligan), Star of (http://shef.facebook.com/s.php?adv&k=100000010&n=-1&bk=Star%20of%20the%20Sea&o=4) the Sea(Joseph O'Connor), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Roddy Doyle), A Long Long Way (Sebastian Barry), The Poor Mouth (Flann O'Brian), Five Quarters of the Orange (Joanne Harris), Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut), The Stone Cradle, and Fires in the Dark (Louise Doughty)

Can't think of any more for the moment. For lighter reading, I love historical fiction, although I prefer military-related stuff to historical romances: Bernard Cornwell is great, especially the Sharpe series, Simon Scarrow and Conn Iggulden are pretty good too, and I quite like Elizabeth Chadwick- her books are more focused on relationships than on wars, but I still think they're quite exciting.
Have you read W.E.B. Griffin?

[Pogue]

Have you read W.E.B. Griffin?

I haven't- should I visit wikipedia to look him/her up?

[edb19]

Just saw the tail end of an older and very good movie that reminded me of another of my favorite books.

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

[porterross]

The Complete Works - William Shakespeare

[edb19]

Oh - and anything Sherlock Holmes

[Mary of Bethany]

Just saw the tail end of an older and very good movie that reminded me of another of my favorite books.

Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Ooooh, yes! I can't believe I forgot that one. :thumbsup:

Was it the movie version with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine?

Mary

[edb19]

Ooooh, yes! I can't believe I forgot that one. :thumbsup:

Was it the movie version with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine?

Mary

yes - it was soooo good

Laurence Olivier looks so anguished throughout the movie - very, very believable in the role - he really was extremely talented.

[JimfromOhio]

All of A.W. Tozer Books
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of my favorite "Cost of Discipleship".
John Bunyan (The Pilgrim's Progress)
John MacArthur (Gospel According to Jesus)
Chuck Swindoll (Amazing Grace)
R. C. Sproul (Now that is a Good Question)
J.I. Packard (Knowing God)
Francis Schaeffer (The Church before the Watching World)
David Jeremiah (Invasion of Other Gods)
Jerry Bridges (Pursuit of Holiness)
James Montgomery Boice (Whatever Happened to the Gospel of Grace?)
Ray C. Stedman ("What Faith Is" and "True Worship")
Commentaries by D. Martin Lloyd-Jones
I have many more.

[MrJim]

The Complete Works - William Shakespeare

I blame my public school education (1983 graduate if I hadn't left after my Junior year, got a GED, and joined the USMC) but I don't know Hamlet from Othello. All we EVER had in school was the Romeo & Juliet thing. Saw a bit of Midsummer's Night Dream on the Dead Poet's Society movie, and that's about it.

Think I missed something?^_^

[porterross]

I blame my public school education (1983 graduate if I hadn't left after my Junior year, got a GED, and joined the USMC) but I don't know Hamlet from Othello. All we EVER had in school was the Romeo & Juliet thing. Saw a bit of Midsummer's Night Dream on the Dead Poet's Society movie, and that's about it.

Think I missed something?^_^


Uhm, perhaps, but it's never too late? The thing about Shakespeare is the analysis of human behavior and there is a lesson in each of his works that should help you recognize yourself, good and bad. :thumbsup:


I suppose you've not read any Edgar Allan Poe or Tennyson either. Classis literature is a gift more people should allow themselves to experience. :)

[Joykins]

I blame my public school education (1983 graduate if I hadn't left after my Junior year, got a GED, and joined the USMC) but I don't know Hamlet from Othello. All we EVER had in school was the Romeo & Juliet thing. Saw a bit of Midsummer's Night Dream on the Dead Poet's Society movie, and that's about it.

Think I missed something?^_^

Yes! One fine June day if you end up down in the DC area stay for the evening and watch Shakespeare in the Park (Free For All) (http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/about/free.aspx)...this year's wasn't the best one but there have been a lot of good ones, perhaps next years will be. Shakespeare is a LOT of fun, it can be easily watched as it was meant to be!

[meh]

In no particular order:

Lord of the Rings trilogy
And I Don't Want To Live This Life
Harry Potter
Elizabeth I: Collected Works
The Life of Elizabeth I
Royal Panoply
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Mary Queen of Scots
Bloody Mary
The Great Movies I and II
I Hated, Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Your Movie Sucks
all of The Onion yearly collections
Not Without My Daughter
Treasury of Royal Scandals
Treasury of Great American Scandals
Treasury of Deception
The Traitor and the Spy
The First American- Benjamin Franklin
1776
John Adams
Truman
Team of Rivals
The Best and the Brightest
anything by David Sedaris
anything by Dorothy Parker
all the James Herriott books
The Little House on the Prairie books

I think that'll do it.

[Melethiel]

The Complete Works - William Shakespeare
I own that, but have never gotten around to reading it...I've only read Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet.

[stumpjumper]

My top three:

The Lord of The Rings (technically 6 books)
The Silmarillion
The Count of Monte Cristo

[Melethiel]

My top three:

The Lord of The Rings (technically 6 books)
The Silmarillion
The Count of Monte Cristo
Technically, LOTR is one huge book divided into 6 parts. That was the way Tolkien envisioned it - as one huge work.

[Rhamiel]

Mel you got to read MacBeth

[MrJim]

Uhm, perhaps, but it's never too late? The thing about Shakespeare is the analysis of human behavior and there is a lesson in each of his works that should help you recognize yourself, good and bad. :thumbsup:


I suppose you've not read any Edgar Allan Poe or Tennyson either. Classis literature is a gift more people should allow themselves to experience. :)

Oh it's never too late, and you are correct on the Poe & Tennyson.

Schoolin' in SW Missouri, hillbilly edukatshun at it's best:thumbsup:

[MrJim]

Yes! One fine June day if you end up down in the DC area stay for the evening and watch Shakespeare in the Park (Free For All) (http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/about/free.aspx)...this year's wasn't the best one but there have been a lot of good ones, perhaps next years will be. Shakespeare is a LOT of fun, it can be easily watched as it was meant to be!

^_^ I spend entirely too much time in the district~sounds neat though.

[meh]

My top three:

The Lord of The Rings (technically 6 books)
The Silmarillion
The Count of Monte Cristo
I have one divided into 6 parts, one that's in 3 and one that isn't divided at all.

I just realized what a complete dork I am after saying that.