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Favorite Book of All Time
#25re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:08amThe Stand
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#26re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:29amI thought Jonathan Livingston Seagull made a better film. Best acting by a seagull since that gas station scene in The Birds.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#27re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:31amThe Bible. Also know as The Good Book, though I really think when people say that they mean The God book.
#28re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:36amI love Perks too. I know it's probably cliche' to love it, but I do.
RENThead414
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/05
#29re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:38amLord Of The Rings Trilogy, the Hobbit, Harry Potter, Eragon, Eldest, Pride & Prejudice, anything by Ursula LeGuin, anything by E. Rose Sabin....the list could continue
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#30re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:38am
You know,Kringas, you bring up a good point. If the Bible is so special why is it only the "Good" book and not the "Best" book?
Or "Excellent" book..."Awesome"?
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#31re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:42amI don't think they had those words yet. And a lot of times when something is said in The Bible it is often followed with the line, "And it was good."
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#33re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:45amAs in "The Most FABULOUS Story Ever Told?"
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#34re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:46am
That play wasn't really based on the Good Book, though. It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, okay?
BSoBW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#35re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 12:46amI don't know why - but THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM. (Nancy Farmer)
#36re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 6:33am
Two words I never thought I would see from an intelligent person in a thread with a subject theme of "Favorite Book Of All Time"...DEAN KOONTZ!
What's wrong with that? It was actually the book that got me into reading since I used to say, "What's the point in reading a book when there will be a movie of it in a few years?" I didn't say it was the BEST book ever written but it is the only one that I have read 3 or 4 times. I usually just read a book and never read it again.
#37re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 7:58am
#38re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:34am"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "How Green was my Valley"
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#39re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:38am
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain
or
Tabloid Dreams
(both by the greatest living writer, Robert Olen Butler)
I also think the newest pulitzer prize winner, Gilead, is brilliant.
#40re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:05am
DG- I'm a big Richard Bach fan. My favorite of his is The Bridge Across Forever.
Sueleen - Jonathan Livingston Seagull (the film) is why Richard Bach never ever made another movie of one of his books again...apparently a bad experience
One more vote also for The Catcher in the Rye
a few more:
Where the Sidewalk Ends
East of Eden
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Giving Tree
#41re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:09am
Of all time? So tough to choose...
In fact, I don't think that I can, so I'll list a few.
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (I'm not even sure why, but it's an entrancing novel)
1984 by George Orwell (though it's often considered overrated, I love it)
Also, pretty much anything by Jane Austen (with Persuasion being the underrated second-best behind Pride and Prejudice).
#42re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:12am
Weaveworld, by Clive Barker
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart
#43re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:06pmI haven't read any Clive Barker books. I need to get started, huh?
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DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#45re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:16pmAlthough I prefer Orwell's ANIMAL FARM, I wasn't aware that 1984 was considered over-rated.
#46re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:22pm
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
#47re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:29pm
"Forever" by Judy Blume
(joke)
Probably either "A Tale of Two Cities" or "The Great Gatsby."
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MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#48re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:36pm
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Honourable Mentions:
A Fine Balance
The Way the Crow Flies
#49re: Favorite Book of All Time
Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:41pm
Some of my favorites...
"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
"Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
"A Home at the End of the World" and "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Having Our Say" by Sadie and Bessie Delaney
"The Shining" by Stephen King (and pretty much every other book he's written)
"Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
"The Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
"Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
"Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt
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