Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:01am

Howdy everyone! This week's question is:

What was the best book you have ever read?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 2:15pm

Im reading The Notebook now. Its wonderful.

If you havent yet read them, The Color of Water and Tuesdays With Morrie are the most powerful and moving books Ive read.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 2:19pm

Hm. This is a hard one, since I don't know if we can count plays. Not counting plays, I'd have to say I'm on the fence between 1984 and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:37pm

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (there are no numerals in the title) was a wonderful book...though I wish Orwell hadn't been so ill when he was writing it...sometimes it is just TOO bleak. I also loved Animal Farm.

The best books I have ever read was a trilogy by an Australian Author, Sara Douglas, called the Axis Trilogy. Three Books: BattleAxe, Enchanter and StarMan. All "unputdownable."

For unputdownable quality, The Da Vinci Code is certainly up there.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:38pm

My copy is titled with the numbers.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:44pm

It is wrong...

I studied it for my final High School Exams, and in the external exams if we wrote 1984 we lost a lot of marks...

Maybe this is because we follow the English System in Aus...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:45pm

and that post was not meant to sound mean...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:45pm

I was going to say, it might be an American thing. I studied it in high school, too.

Here's the copy I have: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=mb7x0qvAcc&isbn=0881030368&TXT=Y&itm=3

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:48pm

Because of the impact that its simple philosophies had on me when I read it in my youth - and because I still think the language is breathtakingly beautiful - I'll go with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach. Updated On: 2/13/05 at 03:48 PM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:51pm

The first "long" book I read was "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm," followed by "A Gril Named Disaster" and "The Warm Place" - all excellent books written by Nancy Farmer...one day I'll read The Scorpion...something...

I also LOVE Les Mis and I am going to be reading The Romanov Prophecies soon...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:53pm

WE seriously got into SO much trouble for writing 1984...of course we all wanted to...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:57pm

That's really strange. Probably just a weird American thing, though. :-P

[sweetiedarlinmia]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 4:00pm

"The Temple of My Familiar" by Alice Walker. An incredibly enriching book that spans time. Initially designed to stem off of the storyline presented in "The Color Purple," but presents a more mystical and spiritual story. The section entitled "THe Gospel According to Shug" is without a doubt one of the more beautiful things I have read in my life. My favorite quote: "Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant." Walker has a wonderful way of painting beautiful images with her words.

[mominator]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 4:04pm

Hmmm... the best book.... Well there's always the classics, so I am going to stay clear of them and go with a newer book.
"A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. Tells the tale of an American coming back home after 20 years living in Britain.
Very funny and insightful. Also by the same author "In a Sunburned Country" Read it if just for the opening paragraph!

[Staci1818]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 4:07pm

My copy that I stole from my mom says
"1984 Commemorative 1984 Edition"

BSoBW2 please read "The Scorpion" its a great book...

[BEKA531]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 4:23pm

that's a REALLY good question...

~ ender's game - card
~ wicked - maguire
~ the lovely bones - sebold
~ harry potter and the order of the phoenix - rowling
~ the witches - dahl (my childhood favorite)
~ to kill a mockingbird - harper

[Ebonic_Singer]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 8:28pm

I didn't like the lovely bones as much as I thought I would.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 8:30pm

Staci:

Is it just called "The Scorpion?"

HAHA!

I need to finish my others before I can start it, or buy it...

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 8:57pm

The Lovely Bones
The Da Vinci Code
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (movie sucked, book rules).

[bwayballerina]

Posted: 2/13/05 at 9:04pm

I Capture the Castle, forgot the author. Was such a good book... hard to get into at first, but soooo good.
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Second Bend in the River by Ann Rinaldi
The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot (good for when you're depressed w/ the flu)