Fav book?

Noogynoogs
Noogynoogs Posts: 1,028 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
Paulo Coelho - the alchemist

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  • cblue315
    cblue315 Posts: 3,836 Member
    Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the wind. An older book, I think I have read it every year since I was 12 (am now 54).
  • Noogynoogs
    Noogynoogs Posts: 1,028 Member
    I loved the film, not read the book though.
  • cblue315
    cblue315 Posts: 3,836 Member
    So much more happens in the book. You must read it to get the whole meaning of her life.
  • Noogynoogs
    Noogynoogs Posts: 1,028 Member
    Will do
  • maggymae78
    maggymae78 Posts: 305 Member
    Devil in the White City (can't remember hte author right now) OR Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Stephen King's The Stand
  • maggymae78
    maggymae78 Posts: 305 Member
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    Stephen King's The Stand

    I loved it until he pulled that "hand of God" thing at the end...he spends hundreds of pages setting up this great war between good and evil - only to end it with no actual confrontation. It pissed me off - but he does that in a number of his books. The one that stayed with me was the ending of Needful Things
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    maggymae78 wrote: »
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    Stephen King's The Stand

    I loved it until he pulled that "hand of God" thing at the end...he spends hundreds of pages setting up this great war between good and evil - only to end it with no actual confrontation. It pissed me off - but he does that in a number of his books. The one that stayed with me was the ending of Needful Things

    Same issue I had with the Dark Tower series. I spent hours and hours reading and then.. that's it.

    I am having too hard a time to come up with a single book. I like books with broken stories:

    Lord of the Flies
    Fahrenheit 451
    One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    etc.
  • sheltered16
    sheltered16 Posts: 478 Member
    Master at arms series
  • ourtruelovewillneverdie
    ourtruelovewillneverdie Posts: 170 Member
    I love One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

    Mrs B's Classroom is one I had to read during my freshmen year of college and it has always stuck with me. I'm currently on my way towards a Masters in Secondary Ed.

    Why We Can't Wait by MLK is great too.
  • slucki01
    slucki01 Posts: 284 Member
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    maggymae78 wrote: »
    Devil in the White City (can't remember hte author right now) OR Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

    Oh I liked DITWC...I think the author is Erik Larson.

    My favorite is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.

  • cblue315
    cblue315 Posts: 3,836 Member
    edited December 2014
    The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Amazing story of survial turning to triumph in WWII. One of those reads that truly changes you.
  • Sinistrous
    Sinistrous Posts: 5,589 Member
    Waiting for someone to say "Twilight"..
  • ElvenSorceress
    ElvenSorceress Posts: 21
    edited December 2014
    Once and Future King, or any other Arthur related books. But seriously Morgan needs more credit.
  • 4ever420
    4ever420 Posts: 4,088 Member
    Book of Awesome
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    slucki01 wrote: »
    A Prayer for Owen Meany

    One of my favorites too.

    Others include...
    The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
    The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
    The Amazing Advetures of Kavalier and Klay (Michael Chabon)
    Operating Instructions (Anne Lamott...also her Bird by Bird...my favorite book on writing)
    JItterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)

    And numerous children's and YA books.
  • TheCrawlingChaos
    TheCrawlingChaos Posts: 462 Member
    Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
  • MadeInPhilly
    MadeInPhilly Posts: 998 Member
    Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
    and A Painted House by John Grisham
  • ChaoticPotato
    ChaoticPotato Posts: 30 Member
    edited December 2014
    To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee and anything by Christoper Hitchens
  • Benjinkan
    Benjinkan Posts: 1,107 Member
    The Dresden files (particularly the later ones) by Jim Butcher
    Outpost by Adam Baker
    Desperation by Stephen King
    The Raven series by James Barclay
    Reacher series by Lee Child
    Dante Valentine series by Lillith Saint-Crow
    The Hollows Books by Kim Harrison
    Honorable mention for Kelley Armstrong's werewolf series, not tried the newer series yet

    A bit eclectic, but I'm a pretty voracious reader
  • Maaike84
    Maaike84 Posts: 211 Member
    ElvenSorceress wrote: »
    Once and Future King, or any other Arthur related books. But seriously Morgan needs more credit.

    That's one of my favourite books too!! I'm sure you already know it, but Mists of Avalon is very Morgaine centric :smile:

    I also really love anything Dickens, esp. a tale of two cities, and I guess judging by how many times I reread Pride and Prejudice, that one probably qualifies as a favourite as well. More modern stuff: I really really love Zadie Smith, esp. White Teeth and On Beauty
  • ChaoticPotato
    ChaoticPotato Posts: 30 Member
    edited December 2014
    Benjinkan wrote: »
    The Dresden files (particularly the later ones) by Jim Butcher
    Outpost by Adam Baker
    Desperation by Stephen King
    The Raven series by James Barclay
    Reacher series by Lee Child
    Dante Valentine series by Lillith Saint-Crow
    The Hollows Books by Kim Harrison
    Honorable mention for Kelley Armstrong's werewolf series, not tried the newer series yet

    A bit eclectic, but I'm a pretty voracious reader

    I have read every single one of the books you mentioned. Glad to find someone with a similar taste :)
  • Benjinkan
    Benjinkan Posts: 1,107 Member
    You clearly have a very discerning mind ;)
  • fat2strongbeth
    fat2strongbeth Posts: 735 Member
    I can't pick just one...it's like being forced to pick a favorite child.
  • RHPSgirl1984
    RHPSgirl1984 Posts: 436 Member
    edited December 2014
    I can't pick one favorite lol. Anything by Stephen King. I also like Mythology and Edgar Allan Poe.
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