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#39005 - Tue Jun 05 2001 07:33 AM Re: All time favorite books
IndieQueen Forum Champion Registered: Tue Apr 17 2001 Posts: 7306 Loc: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA	In no order: The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams Brave New World-Aldous Huxley Anthem-Ayn Rand The Grapes of Rath-John Steinbeck The Princess Bride- William Goldman Indie [ 06-05-2001: Message edited by: IndieQueen ] _________________________ [color:"purple"] "One of the best features of Forums is that they allow people to parade their monumental stupidity, their hang-ups, their little prejudices in public." [/color]
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#39006 - Tue Jun 05 2001 01:04 PM Re: All time favorite books
MollyGrue Prolific Registered: Wed Mar 21 2001 Posts: 1765 Loc: Michigan USA	The Neverending Story - Michael Ende The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle Something Upstairs - Avi Twice In A Lifetime - Danielle Steele Brain Droppings - George Carlin Cruel Shoes - Steve Martin _________________________ "I don't have to conform to vagaries of time and space...I'm a loony for god's sake!"
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#39007 - Wed Jun 20 2001 02:32 AM Re: All time favorite books
Anonymous No longer registered	and i thought i liked odd books... but my favorites would have to be the great gatsby and this side of paradise, both by francis scott fitzgerald all of iris johansen's ooks such as the face of decption and the search the portrait of dorian gray by oscar wilde stephen doybyn's poetry a seperate peace by john knowles wuthering heights emily bronte trainspotting by wat's his name and joanthan kellerman's delaware novels
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#39008 - Wed Jun 20 2001 07:31 AM Re: All time favorite books
justawful Mainstay Registered: Sat Mar 03 2001 Posts: 571 Loc: Sykesville Maryland USA	Here's an interesting hobby I have. Ask your friends and co-workers what their all time favorite book is. Make them decide on just one, and then read it yourself. It gives you an insight into their personality, and it is a lot of fun. I've read some very good books in this fashion, many that I would have never tried. If they own a copy they usually are more than happy to loan it to you. Try it, it's a lot of fun. _________________________ Gravity, not just a good idea....It's the law!
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#39009 - Wed Jun 20 2001 08:07 AM Re: All time favorite books
Sypher Moderator Registered: Thu Sep 30 1999 Posts: 16542 Loc: East London England UK	I don't read a lot of books by different authors but I have read goes a little something like this... 1. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy 2. Casino Royale - Ian Flemming (In fact, any Ian Flemming) 3. Jedi Academy Triology - Timothy Zahn 4. The Beach - Alex Garland 5. Lightning - Dean Koontz 6. Assasin - Shaun Hutson 7. Any Discworld - Terry Pratchett 8. X-Wing Rogue Squadron - Michael Stockpile 9. Babylon 5 - J. Michael Straczynski (He is now writing Spiderman Comics...YAY !!) 10. Babylon 5 - J. Gregory Keyes _________________________ I'll get enough sleep when I'm dead !!
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#39010 - Wed Jun 27 2001 12:53 PM Re: All time favorite books
Zepcat Participant Registered: Tue Apr 10 2001 Posts: 46 Loc: Over the hills and far away	The Holy Bible The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett Beowulf The Decameron - Giovanni Boccacio Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy Dave Barry Slept Here - Dave Barry The Eye of the Dragon - Stephen King Complete Works - Edgar Allan Poe [ 06-27-2001: Message edited by: Aragorn ] _________________________ Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. -Italian Proverb
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#39011 - Wed Jun 27 2001 06:29 PM Re: All time favorite books
Anonymous No longer registered	Ruthg, Ilove Koontz, don't much care for King. Read on average about 3 books a week, so to list my favorites would take forever, but here are some: Watchers-Koontz Anything by Dickens Anything by Hemingway
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#39012 - Thu Jun 28 2001 06:02 PM Re: All time favorite books
Anonymous No longer registered	The hitchikers guide to the galaxy series. By the late great Douglas Adams. Followed by most everything Harlan Ellison has ever written. My mental plane is flooded due to a severe brainstorm!
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#39013 - Fri Jun 29 2001 01:40 AM Re: All time favorite books
JennyC Explorer Registered: Sun Mar 25 2001 Posts: 61 Loc: Nsw Australia	I am almost finished and absolutely loved - you have to read it... Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon and in no particular order As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer Anything by Jeffrey Archer The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon They're a Weird Mob by Nino Culotta
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#39014 - Mon Aug 13 2001 09:17 PM Re: All time favorite books
Rika Participant Registered: Sat Jul 21 2001 Posts: 23 Loc: USA	Good question ... one I think about from time to time. justawful, your suggestion is something myself and a friend of mine do frequently. After we share with each of our own friends, we share with each other. It's an interesting hobby. As for my list, tough to say and it changes from day to day, but here is a rough sketch, so to speak, and in no particular order. Contemporary Fiction: 1. My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok 2. The Chosen - Chaim Potok 3. The Final Judgment - Richard North Patterson 4. A Time to Kill - John Grisham 5. The World According to Garp - John Irving 6. Shoeless Joe - I forget the author's name 7. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien 8. The Princess Bride - William Goldman 9. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone - J.K. Rowling 10. A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle (heck, ANY Roddy Doyle) 11. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon (a tough read but worth it) Classics: 1. Great Expectations (Dickens) 2. Last of the Mohicans (Hawthorne) 3. Uncle Tom's Cabin 4. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) 5. 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) 6. Moby Dick - Melville 7. Robinson Crusoe 8. Anything by Washington Irving Contemporary Kid Lit: 1. Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak 2. In the Night Kitchen - Sendak 3. Green Eggs & Ham - Seuss 4. Goodnight Moon - ?? 5. The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle 6. Anything by Roald Dahl 7. Anything by J.K. Rowling 8. The Foot Book - Seuss 9. And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street - Seuss Well, I should quite before I get even more carried away. Besides, I'm being senile and I KNOW there are other selections I'm absolutely forgetting. Oh well ...
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#39015 - Sat Sep 01 2001 06:13 PM Re: All time favorite books
BrainyBlonde Mainstay Registered: Sat May 12 2001 Posts: 575 Loc: Nova Scotia Canada	The only way I can answer this, is to break them down into categories. All in no particular order Books: Roots by Alex Haley Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw Savages by Shirley Conran The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross The Second Son by Charles Sailor Ghost Fox by James Houston Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Authors: Stephen King John Grisham Dean Koontz Robin Cook James Patterson Jeffery Archer Sydney Sheldon Content: Historical Sagas Horror Fictional Multiple Generation Families Serial Books Quick Read Trash Fictional Legal Books Series: Earth's Children by Jean M. Auel The Australians by William Stuart Long The Kent Family Chronicles North and South Trilogy both by John Jakes Wagons West The Holts: An American Dynasty Empire Trilogy all by Dana Fuller Ross Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton Eden Series by Marilyn Harris Barstow Series by Mary Loos Emma Harte Trilogy by Barbara Taylor Bradford Father Koesler Series by William X. Kienzle Non-Fiction: Papillion by Henri Charriere David by Marie Rothenberg and Mel White Alive by Piers Paul Read Any book about WWII Biographies True Crime Books For anyone who has not read any of these books, I highly recommend all of them! _________________________ 'Till we meet again, Brainy Blonde
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#39016 - Mon Oct 08 2001 10:12 AM Re: All time favorite books
Lanni Prolific Registered: Tue Oct 02 2001 Posts: 1817 Loc: Brooklyn New York USA	Kate Chopin's, "The Awakening," is my all time favorite, followed by "A Raisin in the Sun" (not the poem the book), I forget the author's name, and then "Roots," by Alex Haley.
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#39017 - Mon Oct 08 2001 11:52 PM Re: All time favorite books
Lanni Prolific Registered: Tue Oct 02 2001 Posts: 1817 Loc: Brooklyn New York USA	Although I can't spell it, I also enjoyed "Canturbury Tales." My brain isn't working properly today, again I can't remember the name of the author. It's a really funny book, if you haven't read it yet I suggest you do.
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#39018 - Mon Oct 08 2001 02:53 PM Re: All time favorite books
thejazzkickazz Multiloquent Registered: Fri Apr 14 2000 Posts: 3232 Loc: Utah USA	Canterbury Tales is a nice set of stories...authored by Geoffrey Chaucer!
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#39019 - Mon Oct 08 2001 03:27 PM Re: All time favorite books
Lanni Prolific Registered: Tue Oct 02 2001 Posts: 1817 Loc: Brooklyn New York USA	Thanks jazz. Which story from the book is your favorite?
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#39020 - Mon Oct 08 2001 03:42 PM Re: All time favorite books
Lanni Prolific Registered: Tue Oct 02 2001 Posts: 1817 Loc: Brooklyn New York USA	For me, the Wife of Bath wins the award hands down. She stole the spot light, there is no doubt that she brought the most life to the book. [ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: Lanni ]
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#39021 - Tue Oct 09 2001 04:09 AM Re: All time favorite books
Movie_Wizard Forum Adept Registered: Wed Aug 15 2001 Posts: 191 Loc: Wherever I am right now!	I know this can't compare to yours, Lanni, but my favorite book of all time is the book of poetry: Where The Sidewalk Ends -by Shel Silverstein. Also Light In Th Attic and Falling Up, also both by Shel Silverstein. Chat back later! -peace _________________________ Don't let anyone ever tell you you don't deserve what you want.
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#39022 - Tue Oct 09 2001 09:40 PM Re: All time favorite books
Dougelle Participant Registered: Sun Sep 30 2001 Posts: 31 Loc: London	My favourite books: THE THOUGHT GANG by Tibor Fischer (or to be honest anything by him although I haven't read his short stories yet) 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE WIND ON THE MOON by Eric Linklater A SUITABLE BOY by Vikram Seth THE WAR OF DON EMMANUELS NETHER PARTS, SENOR VIVO AND THE COCA LORDS, & THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN all by Louis de Bernieres THE POWER OF ONE by Bryce Courtney BIRDSONG by Sebastian Faulks WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro (REMAINS OF THE DAY too I guess) THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbera Kingsolver Sorry, initially I could only think of one book and then it started to get a little out of hand, also there are all of the Harry Potter books and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books.
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#39023 - Tue Oct 09 2001 10:26 PM Re: All time favorite books
Copago Moderator Registered: Tue May 15 2001 Posts: 14384 Loc: Australia	Wasn't the "Poisonwood Bible" fantastic, Dougelle? She wrote that in a way that made you feel like you were there. Actually after reading you're post, I'm going to read it again due to a shortage of new books in this house.
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#39024 - Wed Oct 10 2001 06:07 AM Re: All time favorite books
DieHard Prolific Registered: Wed Oct 10 2001 Posts: 1127 Loc: Louisiana USA	On a less sophisticated note, some of my favs just off the top of my head- The Hunt for Red October The Parsifal Mosiac - The Chronicles of Narnia - A Short History of A Small Place - Cold Mountain - _________________________ In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - FDR
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#39025 - Wed Oct 10 2001 10:41 PM Re: All time favorite books
Dougelle Participant Registered: Sun Sep 30 2001 Posts: 31 Loc: London	It was brilliant, I read it whilst I was away and someone left it in my room at the hostel so it was one of those books where I really wasn't expecting that much from it. I just thought that the characterisation was superb. I have never read anything else by her though as I am afraid that nothing else she has written will be as good! Incidentally if you enjoyed that you should also try 'The Glass Palace' by Amitav Ghosh, it is another book which is very evocative and interwoven around history although this time in Burma.
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#39026 - Tue Oct 16 2001 10:26 AM Re: All time favorite books
wimm Mainstay Registered: Sun Oct 07 2001 Posts: 912 Loc: Houtvenne Belgium	A book I just discovered last summer: the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a trilogy in 5 parts... brilliant, but not really easy to read when english is not your native language . I'm really keen of Malvin, the droid And one I enjoyed very much: the Stand by stephen king. _________________________ Nostalgy ain't what it used to be
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#39027 - Sat Oct 20 2001 08:43 AM Re: All time favorite books
flem-ish Enthusiast Registered: Thu Oct 11 2001 Posts: 319 Loc: Belgium	My list of ten would certainly have to include the following dozen... 1.Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 2.Fermina Marquez Valery Larbaud (French) 3.Titaantjes Nescio (Dutch) 4. Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas 5. Le Grand Meaulnes Alain Fournier (French) 6. The Virgin and the Gypsy D.H.Lawrence 7. Her First Ball Katherine Mansfield 8. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 9. Travels with a Donkey R.L.Stevenson 10. Cakes and Ale Somerset Maugham 11. Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis 12. Wife to Mr Milton Robert Graves and that omits at least a dozen others which I liked equally well and also omits the more recent ones which I have not yet re-read because I only feel certain I like a book when I have read it a second time.
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#39028 - Sat Oct 20 2001 12:25 PM Re: All time favorite books
thejazzkickazz Multiloquent Registered: Fri Apr 14 2000 Posts: 3232 Loc: Utah USA	Oops...sorry it took me so long to respond Lanni...I missed out on your post I guess. I agree that the Wyf of Bath is probably tops...and maybe the Pardoner's Tale?
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#39029 - Thu Nov 01 2001 05:51 AM Re: All time favorite books
KingGramJohnson Forum Adept Registered: Tue Dec 19 2000 Posts: 105 Loc: Ridge, NY USA	Here are some of my favorites: 1. The Bible 2. The Seven Sleeper Series 3. The Left Behind books 4. Star Trek books 5. The Hardy Boys 5. Star Wars books 6. The Neverending Story (the book is much better than the movie.) 7. The Great UFO Chase 8. A Wrinkle in Time 9. The Prince and the Pauper 10. The Chronicles of Narnia 11. The Eleventh Hour That’s all I can think of now, but if more come to mind I'll ad them. Andrew Ronzino (KingGramJohnson) <>< [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: KingGramJohnson ] _________________________ Jesus Christ is Lord of all!!!
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