Favorite Book of All Time — Page 3

#51

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:44pm

Catch-22

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#52

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:48pm

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I read it at least twice a year and have done every year since fifth grade.

I just flat out love that book. I even have favorite chapters...is that weird?

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#53

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 8:53pm

That's not weird at all, Kitzarina--I've read the chapter where Rochester proposes to Jane like fifty thousand times over the years. I tend to go read favorite chapters more often than I do full rereads.

Maybe 1984 isn't considered overrated, DG, I just have personally encountered a lot of people who were disappointed by it and consequently get that impression. I also had a favorite teacher who appreciated it for its ideas but wasn't a fan stylistically, so I suppose that factors in.

#54

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:03pm

A Prayer For Owen Meany

It has everything - humor, pathos, mystery, spirituality, sex - combined amazingly well by John Irving.

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#55

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:08pm

Hmmm.....my top 3 are...

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

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#56

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 9:14pm

i agree with mark and red ... A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY!

and if you want a short, wonderful read ... BOY MEETS BOY, by david levithan. (just got his new book, and can't wait to read it.)

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#57

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:15pm

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#58

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:17pm

The Story of O.

#59

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:19pm

Catcher in the Rye and Phantom (by Susan Kay) is by far the best books i've ever read.
Lady Chatterley's Lover was the most ummm. "interesting"

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#60

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:14am

I should read Atlas Shrugged. It's definitely on my list of things to pick up from the library.

#61

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:19am

right now its a million little pieces but i think of all time is The Lovely Bones

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#62

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:21am

the chronicles of narnia (of course -- especially the magician's nephew!)
weird like us: my bohemian america
all quiet on the western front
catch-22
the great gatsby
wonder boys
white oleander
the joy luck club
the kite runner
the handmaid's tale

#63

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:50am

Pride and Prejudice
The Little Prince
The Scarlet Letter
The Prophet
The Great Gatsby
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

And absolutely anything written by Dave Barry. Love him.

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#64

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 5:49am

i LOVE Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Beautiful book.

Do NOT see the movie!

#65

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 6:05am

ok, lucious, that is now my favorite book COVER of all time

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#66

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 7:08am

There is just too much history there for me to say anything other than The Giving Tree.

Craig, it's nice to see another adult mention that book as one of their favorites.

Books that deserve mentions:
The Color Purple
2001: A Space Odyssey
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Updated On: 1/31/06 at 07:08 AM

#67

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:13am

Either Ayn Rand's "Fountainhead" or "Atlas Shrugged."

For non-fiction books I would have to say either Dr. Norman Geisler's Dictionary of Christian Apologetics or Lee Strobel's "A Case for Christ."

#68

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:27am

I've always liked The Giver, but I enjoyed Catch-22 and Brave New World.
And Harry Potter.

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#69

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:13pm

*** "SATURDAY" - IAN MCEWAN ***
"Walden" - Thoreau
"A Tale of Two Cities" - Dickens
"Into the Wild" - Jon Krakauer
"Lying Awake" - Mark Salzman
"The F*ck-Up" - Arthur Nersersian
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" - Shel Silverstein
"Le Grand Meaulnes" - Henri Alain-Fournier (an undiscovered gem!)

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Updated On: 1/31/06 at 12:13 PM

#70

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:21pm

I JUST yesterday gave up on Ian McEwan's Saturday. I was thoroughly bored by it. I couldn't possibly name my favorite book of all time, so I'll just honorably mention two of my most treasured recent reads:

Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Cloud Atlas

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#71

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:30pm

Of all time, ever? I have two favorites, and one is a children's book:

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle.
"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

And kudos to Craig for mentioning "The Giving Tree." I still get teary every time I read that book - such a simple, yet important message. Actually, pretty much anything by Shel Silverstein is downright brilliant.

Other favorites:
"The Beans of Egypt Maine" by Carolyn Chute (hysterical).
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden.

I'm also thoroughly enjoying Jodi Picoult lately. Well-written, good stories - good reading for airplanes!

#72

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 1:00pm

To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
Summer Sisters ~ Judy Blume
The Notebook ~ Nicholas Sparks
Bling ~ Erica Kennedy

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#73

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 1:02pm

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Perks of Being a Wallflowers- Stephen Chbosky
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Everything was Possible - Ted Chapin
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#74

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 3:30pm

Pride & Prejudice
Harry Potter
Little Women
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

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#75

re: Favorite Book of All Time

Posted: 1/31/06 at 5:56pm

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner
Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Three Junes by Julia Glass