Favorite Books?

[Johnnytoc]

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]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:40pm

"What Dreams May Come"

[spiderdj82]

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.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:44pm

I love "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides and "Three Junes" by Julia Glass.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:45pm

I apologize Spider, you're completely right. i should've remembered.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:46pm

[ashbash6819]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:47pm

either PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING or VANITY FAIR or.....omg too many to choose from

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:47pm

"THE LITTLE PRINCE"

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:54pm

I love Vanity Fair. Thakeray was a genius.

[ashbash6819]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 9:58pm

i 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

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:01pm

A Density of Souls, by Christopher Rice.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:02pm

I've heard it's quite good, I plan on getting it soon.

[Unknown User]

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]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:31pm

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 10:56pm

The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Great Gatsby

Updated On: 1/27/05 at 10:56 PM

[MyNameInLights]

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.

[Gothampc]

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

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:04pm

Emcee, 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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:05pm

That'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]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:09pm

Like 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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:11pm

eep. That's crazy.

Have you seen the movie?

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:12pm

THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey
THE STAND - Stephen King

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/27/05 at 11:13pm

I 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]

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]

Posted: 1/28/05 at 12:06am

Gothampc, 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.