Elizabeth. Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 my favorite book is, mm... i'm not sure about it but is between how to kill a rock star, twilight, romeo and juliet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOJO Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 the book that innspired the movie the ghost and the darkness no longer in print. True story: The man-eaters of Tsavo by LT. Colonel J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllisonAdler Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 For novels, a three-way tie between Tess, Persuasion, and Mrs Dalloway. And not far behind, Wuthering Heights, Possession, Between the Acts. For plays, Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Manfred, Arcadia. Poems and collections of poems, almost impossible to rank, but certainly in the top, pretty much all of Keats, pretty much all of Milton, Tennyson's In Memoriam, Beowulf, Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Lais of Marie de France, Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Hardy's Poems of the Past and Present, D.G. Rossetti's 1870 Poems, Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, Eliot's Four Quartets, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns, Coleridge's conversation poems, Hughes' Birthday Letters, Wordsworth ca. 1802-4, Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Nowhere quite to put The Mabinogion, but also a favorite book. And I'd best not even go into non-fiction or I'll be up all night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidmoon Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Not exactly original but Lord of the Rings and Dune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Twilight, New Moon and eclipse Alice in Wonderland Harry Potter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishita Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I haven't read all the books I want to read. Hence, I cannot make a list yet. Two of the good books I've read last year have to be- "Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", both by Khaled Hosseini. Right now, I'm reading "Imperial Blandings" by P.G Wodehouse, and I love it, it's hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahyoubetcha Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 LOTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzfan715 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Hammer of The Gods. Not really, probably LOTR or The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoso13zeppelin Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak and I read it a really long time ago but I remember loving it… The Wanderer - Sharon Creech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangani Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Tarzan Of The Apes/Return Of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. the book that innspired the movie the ghost and the darkness no longer in print. True story: The man-eaters of Tsavo by LT. Colonel J. H. Patterson, D.S.O. Cool. Have you read any of Jim Corbett's books? Man Eaters Of Kumaon or The Man Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Naming just one is extremely difficult! ...but my choice would be Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarlaxle 56 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 It's a draw between... 1984- George Orwell Servant of The Shard- R.A. Salvatore Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ertegun2007 Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 For novels, a three-way tie between Tess, Persuasion, and Mrs Dalloway. And not far behind, Wuthering Heights, Possession, Between the Acts. For plays, Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Manfred, Arcadia. Poems and collections of poems, almost impossible to rank, but certainly in the top, pretty much all of Keats, pretty much all of Milton, Tennyson's In Memoriam, Beowulf, Pearl and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Lais of Marie de France, Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Hardy's Poems of the Past and Present, D.G. Rossetti's 1870 Poems, Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, Eliot's Four Quartets, Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns, Coleridge's conversation poems, Hughes' Birthday Letters, Wordsworth ca. 1802-4, Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Nowhere quite to put The Mabinogion, but also a favorite book. And I'd best not even go into non-fiction or I'll be up all night. Gee Whiz, Allison... are you a literature lover? Love Sir Gawain, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and Chaucer, too! The Book Thief - Markus Zusak and I read it a really long time ago but I remember loving it… The Wanderer - Sharon Creech I LOVE The Book Thief! I'm going to see if I can get a grant to read it in my classroom when I teach the Holocaust. I've read it about four times now. It's definitely on my top twenty book list. It's one of the best I've read in the past year. It's a draw between... 1984- George Orwell Servant of The Shard- R.A. Salvatore Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency- Douglas Adams I want to read 1984. I just read Animal Farm this semester for my student teaching. I think prior to Animal Farm, I had only read a few essays by Orwell. I can't pick ONE favorite book. I'll list SOME favorites. Novels only, or we'll be here for a while. My Antonia by Willa Cather As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner McTeague by Frank Norris The Awakening by Kate Chopin Strivers Row, Sometimes You See it Coming, Paradise Alley, and Dreamland all by Keving Baker. I liked the Ya-Ya Sisterhood books...they're quite interesting because they're set in a different time period and a totally different region of the US than I know. I have some young adult books that I've read recently that I like too (have to read those if I want to be able to encourage kids to read!) Anything by Cris Krutcher. Hoot by Carl Haissen Roll of thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Speak by Lori (?) Anderson (I don't think this one is a novel) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins I loved Ann Rinaldi's books when I was a teenager. Loved them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joelmon Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I've gotta be honest....sentimental favorite. I think it was the first I read cover to cover. And this one helped me hone my most valuable skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllisonAdler Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Gee Whiz, Allison... are you a literature lover? Love Sir Gawain, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, and Chaucer, too! Natch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Natch. You forgot ~222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levee Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 It's a draw between... 1984- George Orwell That was my favorite until I started watching it happen on TV. War and Peace could be my fave, I'm not finished yet. I've been at it for 25 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadScreamingGallery Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I don't have a favorite book of all time. I don't even have a favorite author. I would be up all night, however, listing my favorite books and authors. Many books have played a role in shaping my philosophy of life. For that, the five most important authors are probably these: Camus: The Stranger Kafka: The Trial Sartre: The Age of Reason Hesse: The Glass Bead Game Onetti: The Shipyard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllisonAdler Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 You forgot ~222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 And I forgot a favorite book! (slapface smiley...oh where are you?) Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I really didn't think I was going to like it when I read it in an American Renaissance literature class last year, but I LOVE IT! I only have it in a Norton Anthology, but I've thought of buying a nice copy that I can lug around with me easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquamarine Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Moby Dick. Honest--Moby Dick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manderlyh Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 ^you'd get along well with the assoc. dean of the college of arts and sciences at my school then, Aqua. She loves Moby Dick too. I pondered dropping the class when I saw a Norton Critical Edition of Melville's short stories on the book list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyMerkin Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 For novels, a three-way tie between Tess, Persuasion, and Mrs Dalloway. And not far behind, Wuthering Heights, Possession, Between the Acts. "Possession" is in my top ten as well. Reminds me of another one of my favourite novels which is also set in the Victorian era: "The Crimson Petal and the White" by Michel Faber: Making Queen Victoria Blush Reviewed by David Abrams Imagine Charles Dickens writing pornography. Imagine Queen Victoria opening those pages, then fainting away in a dead heap. If time and circumstances had only been a little different, "Boz" might very well have written something akin to The Crimson Petal and the White. Instead, we have Michel Faber to thank for delivering the kind of novel Dickens could only dream about penning. Faber packs the pages with sex, intrigue, repressed sex, intriguing repressed sex -- the sort of things which would have made Victoria shudder on the throne. Of course, 125 years later, Faber has the freedom to put some very graphic intercourse on his pages. Put another way, if books were bosoms, this one would be heaving. The story -- which resurrects the ghosts of Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Zola and Thomas Hardy in plot as well as essence and style -- is clotted with seamy scenes of prostitution, madness, violence, poverty and religious agony and ecstasy. At 838 pages, it attempts much, and only rarely falls short. ... Faber's newest tale is easy enough to summarize; it's the breathtaking way he handles plot, character and language that might leave most readers speechless with admiration. The author says The Crimson Petal and the White was nearly 20 years in the making. The wait was worth it. The multilayered story requires plenty of time and attention to properly absorb -- not an easy task in today's short-attention-span culture. ... It's not all about sex actually. Rather it's a story about a gifted young woman trying to make her way in a paternalistic society governed by hypocrisy and double-standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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