Favorite Books?
Favorite Books?
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#0Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:38pm
Hey, I'm just wondering what are some favorite books out there.
Mine is AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie.
Updated On: 1/27/05 at 09:38 PM
LetMeLeave
Featured Actor Joined: 1/16/05
#2re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:42pm
LIGHTNING by Dean Koontz
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
and as a pet peeve of mine I have to say this......book titles do not go in quotation marks. They are underlined, italicized, or capitalized. Poem and Short Storie titles are put in Quotation Marks.
Ok, I am spent. 
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#3re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:44pmI love "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides and "Three Junes" by Julia Glass.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#4re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:45pmI apologize Spider, you're completely right. i should've remembered.
#5re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:46pm
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#6re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:47pmeither PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING or VANITY FAIR or.....omg too many to choose from
"Where are we headed?
Judy- "Over the god-damn rainbow"- Boy from Oz
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#9re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:58pmi know, he really was, i loved how he would like talk to the reader and tell his position on what was going on instead of just telling the story
"Where are we headed?
Judy- "Over the god-damn rainbow"- Boy from Oz
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Joined: 12/31/69
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#11re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:02pmI've heard it's quite good, I plan on getting it soon.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:03pm
JONATHON LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
CRY TO HEAVEN
A TIME TO LOVE, A TIME TO MOURN
TIM
THE FRONT RUNNER
I'm actually not much of a fiction reader, but those have touched my heart.
CaTheatreGirl
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#14re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:56pm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Great Gatsby
#15re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:00pm
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
THE PRINCESS BRIDE by Willliam Goldman
MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Graphic novel... just decided that counts. Might as well add the SANDMAN series by Neil Gaiman)
WHITE OLEANDER by Janet Finch
Go read all of them now.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:02pm
Charlotte's Web
The Cricket in Times Square
Misty of Chincoteague
The Assassins Cloak
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Rebecca
Mapp & Lucia
Gotham: A History of New York City
London The Biography
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:04pmEmcee, we have the same taste in books...Snow Falling on Cedars was a big scandal when I had to read it in my English class. A few Christian fanatics threw a fit because they said it was a pornographic novel, even though we were all instructed not to read the graphic parts if we didn't feel the need.
#18re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:05pmThat's weird; I read it for an English class in my junior year of high school. But, then again, I'm from a pretty liberal area in New York. You're from TX, aren't you? And geez, it wasn't even *that* graphic!
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:09pmLike I said, they were Christian fanatics. It was a group of about four guys that they were being "forced to sin", even though we didn't have to read the graphic parts. Their parents also got into it. And yes, I'm from Texas. It was stupid and they threw it into a huge deal, but it's still one of my favorite books.
#20re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:11pm
eep. That's crazy.
Have you seen the movie?
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#21re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:12pm
THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey
THE STAND - Stephen King
scooter3843
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:13pmI saw it in theatres, but not since then. Another thing they griped about was that the children weren't married. I tell ya, it was so stupid. They picked everything wrong abotu that movie and threw it in the teacher's face. The parents took it to the school board and tried to get her fired, but she had been teaching for 50 some odd years and she was (she's retired now) one of the best teachers, so the school board said no and ignored the parents.
amasis
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/7/04
#23re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:24pm
Just for my dear Spider:
"The God Small Things" by Arundhati Roy 
And the for the rest I'll follow the rules:
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
In The Skin Of The Lion by Michael Ondaatje
CaTheatreGirl
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#24re: Favorite Books?
Posted: 1/28/05 at 12:06amGothampc, Charlotte's Web and A Cricket in Times Square are also two of my favorite books that I read many times when I taught third and fourth grades. Another favorites that I love to read to my fifth graders is The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
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