Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#0Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:01am
Howdy everyone! This week's question is:
What was the best book you have ever read?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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.
#2re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 2:19pmHm. 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.
#3re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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.
#4re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:38pm
My copy is titled with the numbers.
#5re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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...
#6re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:45pmand that post was not meant to sound mean...
#7re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:48pmBecause 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#9re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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...
#10re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:53pmWE seriously got into SO much trouble for writing 1984...of course we all wanted to...
#11re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 3:57pmThat's really strange. Probably just a weird American thing, though. :-P
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#12re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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.
#13re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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!
#14re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#15re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#16re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
Posted: 2/13/05 at 8:28pmI didn't like the lovely bones as much as I thought I would.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#17re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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...
#18re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#19re: Ebonic_Singer's question of the week!
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)
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