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Your favorite book(s)....

posted 5 years ago by andreaahr (2332)
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What are some of your favorite books you read regardless of your age? When I was a pre-teen teenager, I loved to read Sweet Valley High books. I read most of them; there were so engaging at that age. I also currently love books by James Patterson; one of my favorites by him is Sunday at Tiffany's. I read that book in literally 3 days. As a kid, I loved Golden Books. One of my favorites was Barbie and the Missing Wedding Dress....

[–] keybored (2654) 5 years ago

The Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea. (All the books by Robert Anton Wilson)
The Stand - Stephen King
Ancient Origins series - Robert Storey
The Wheel Of Time series - Robert Jordan
The Payne And Jones series - Chris Kuzneski
The Enderverse series - Orson Scott Card
Momo - Michael Ende

[–] AndyKing1967 (33871) 5 years ago

Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham
1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
The Time Machine - HG Wells

[–] StoneKeeper (21187) 5 years ago

Papillon
The Pilgrimage
Shudder Island
Fear and loathing in las vegas
Dragon Lance
The Demon Cycle Series
Veronika decides to die

[–] ShogunofYonkers (71758) 5 years ago

Fear and Loathing was a fine book
Hell's Angels was also great reading

I'm not shocked be died the way he did, but Thompson was so great and original it still sort of stings:/

[–] StoneKeeper (21187) 5 years ago

A great and sick mind indeed

[–] Christina (129) 5 years ago

The Phantom of the Opera
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House Books, 1st Book)
Harry Potter 1-3
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, 1st Book)

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

Books from the ABC's of Sci-Fi: Assimov, Bradbury and Clarke.

Also the sci-fi books of Douglas Adams, Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert.
Also Bruce Catton's books on the American Civil War.

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 5 years ago

I love Asimov’s short stories.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

Excellent. What about the others?

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 5 years ago

I know the names but I don’t believe I’ve read any of their work.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

You should check them out, especially Clarke and Adams.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 5 years ago

So you like Candide, eh?

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[–] andreaahr (2332) 5 years ago

Very nice. :)

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[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken Kesey
All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Bonfire Of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

As a kid I read all the Doctor Doolittle books, by Hugh Lofting. No one thinks of them anymore other than the Eddie Murphy movie.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Lonesome Dove was great. I'm not into reading western's, but that book got me into McMurtry.

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

Yeah, it caught me a little by surprise. Don't think I've read anything else by him, but is his son a musician?
And the TV Western LD was very well done as well, at least the original.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Early Stephen King (up through Misery - he has some good books later in his carer, but nothing can touch his early stuff)
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
The World According to Garp by John Irving
October Country by Ray Bradbury
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
I Claudius by Robert Graves

are a few that come to mind

[–] snepts (11123) 5 years ago

I have a copy of Garp on my kitchen table at the moment. I was hoping a friend would borrow it, but he declined.