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sexyred1 -> RE: Favorite book? (11/3/2012 9:21:25 PM)
Oh gosh, I have been an avid reader since age 5. Way too many favorites. Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, Dark Places). Stephen King (all his short stories, IT, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, Gerald's Game, Bag of Bones, Misery, Dead Zone, Green Mile, Needful Things, Pet Sematary, Dolores Claiborne, Shawshank Redemption). Stieg Larsson trilogy. Sarah Waters. (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, Affinity). Ann Rice (Interview with the Vampire, Witching Hour Michael Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White, Under the Skin) Susanna Moore (In the Cut) Lyndall Gordon (Vindication: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft) Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart series) Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones) Thomas Harris (Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon) Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead)

Duskypearls -> RE: Favorite book? (11/4/2012 12:18:34 AM)
Oh Sexy, you like The Red Tent, too! You're the only other woman (or person) I've known who has. Wasn't that a wonderful woman's book?!!

Duskypearls -> RE: Favorite book? (11/4/2012 12:20:22 AM)
Oh yeah, Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath!

Moonhead -> RE: Favorite book? (11/4/2012 8:11:24 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: playfulotter It's a bit sad how many people don't respond because they don't have favorite books.... PS..Tom Robbins is a fav of mine..."Still Life with Woodpecker" and "Another Roadside Attraction" are great novels! I've always found Robbins a bit too cutesy and fluffy for my taste. That's why I like Brautigan so much: he has the same sort of inventive qulities, but his writing has much more of an edge to it. The missing link between Robbins and John Irving, perhaps? (Somebody else I forgot to mention is Kim Newman, the world's greatest living horror writer...)

sexyred1 -> RE: Favorite book? (11/4/2012 8:10:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls Oh Sexy, you like The Red Tent, too! You're the only other woman (or person) I've known who has. Wasn't that a wonderful woman's book?!! Yes, that book is amazing. My mother recommended it to me and I gave it to other women to read. Really a great woman's book, you are right.

Paladin9 -> RE: Favorite book? (11/7/2012 5:18:59 PM)
I read by subject matter, for example I read the complete Time Life series on the Old West. Yea, I was born about 120 years too late.

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Favorite book? (11/7/2012 5:28:27 PM)
I still can't believe no one likes my books.

Duskypearls -> RE: Favorite book? (11/7/2012 11:36:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sexyred1 quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls Oh Sexy, you like The Red Tent, too! You're the only other woman (or person) I've known who has. Wasn't that a wonderful woman's book?!! Yes, that book is amazing. My mother recommended it to me and I gave it to other women to read. Really a great woman's book, you are right. Yes, so amazing. That book touched me deeply. I always keep a spare one to give away. It's probably been over ten years since I've read it. Now I feel the urge to read it again. I imagine, being that much older now, it will mean even more to me.

masmiss -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 7:55:58 AM)
Without a doubt my favorite book, and I've read many, is A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Lots of books claim to be hilarious and maybe I get a chuckle or two out of them. This book is hilarious. I've read it three times and still laugh out loud.

Aswad -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 10:50:45 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: NoChoiceLeft And has anyone listed Memoirs of a Geisha yet No, but I'll throw an oddball out there: The Tale of Genji. Currently rereading The Wheel of Time series in preparation for the final volume of A Memory of Light, alongside Paksenarrion. Last book I read was the Gilgamesh epic (again). IWYW, — Aswad.

Moonhead -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 10:58:40 AM)
Nobody's mentioned PG Wodehouse, John Hersey, Wu Cheng'en, Oscar Wilde, E Nesbitt or Tanith Lee yet, either.

Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 11:00:34 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls Oh yeah, Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath! And Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley".

Aswad -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 11:27:25 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: playfulotter It's a bit sad how many people don't respond because they don't have favorite books.... Consider the counterpoint: it's a bit sad how many people have read so few books that they can count favorites on one hand. I take away content, not titles, so I always have a hard time trying to list sources. And for those I do remember, how to decide between (e.g.) Inferno, Little Lord, Crime and Punishment, Beyond Good and Evil, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The Wheel of Time, Dune, Art of War, The Mythical Man Month, various religious works, or any of the other worthies out there? IWYW, — Aswad.

Toysinbabeland -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 11:50:47 AM)
Zelazney The king of intrinsics

blacksword404 -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 12:03:27 PM)
Dune is my favorite. Enders game is second. The art of war is third. The dune series I'm just finishing again. I usually read it every 7 or 8 years. The art of war I read every year. I'll read a decent book once. A good book twice and superb book get many run throughs.

playfulotter -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 4:24:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2 quote: ORIGINAL: Duskypearls Oh yeah, Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath! And Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley". Wow! I forgot all about that book "Travels with Charley"...loved it! My older brother had it as a paperback and I read it a few times way back when...have to read it again.

xXsoumisXx -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 4:56:28 PM)
I love Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series!!!

Rule -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 5:23:30 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: playfulotter It's a bit sad how many people don't respond because they don't have favorite books.... I have read many books and had lots of childhood favourites. But since my reading velocity crashed when I was about seventeen, in part because I tried to improve my pronunciation of English (that pronunciation is still atrocious), reading did not become as much fun anymore and since then I have hardly ever reread a book. One person's favorite definitely is not another person's favourite. I recall a book that was recommended to me, but upon buying and reading it, I found that it was not to my liking at all.

trelaford -> RE: Favorite book? (11/8/2012 5:46:06 PM)
I've always loved Dickens, and for whatever reason Great Expectations evoked tremendously vivid imagery in my mind when I first read it as a middle schooler. Apropos to this forum, I always thought Pip was concealing something about his time at Miss Havisham's house. There has to be more to the story, I'm quite sure of that.

mistressneon -> RE: Favorite book? (11/11/2012 8:51:40 AM)
I enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies of people who have led decadent lifestyles. I've enjoyed reading about the lives of Edie Sedgewick,Nico, Marianne Faithful,etc.. Great movie from a great book is TRAINSPOTTING. I also read and reread JUNKY by William Burroughs. If you read JUNKY and enjoyed it, read LOTUS CREW by Stewart Meyer who essentially has written JUNKY for the eighties set in NYC's Lower East Side.

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