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I leave you all with my list of favorite books:
1. Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
2. The Hobbit, Tolkien
3. Chesapeake, Michener
4. In Cold Blood, Capote
5. The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
6. "All" of Shakespeare's Tragedies
7. Brave New World, Huxley
8. Nightmares and Dreamscapes, King
9. The 13th Warrior, Crichton
10. The Godfather, Puzo
The Lurker
How could I forget my childhood favorite-The Velveteen Rabbit! You remember. That's the one about the stuffed rabbit that, "When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY love you, then you become REAL."
What a great story!
Goodbye,
The Lurker
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Chesapeake by James Michener
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
The Diary of Anne Frank
Christy by Katherine Marshall
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
St. Maybe - Anne Tyler
Friendly Persuasion - Jessmyn West
Just about anything by John Jakes
Steven Birnbaum's Disney World Guide :)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
As a young girl:
Gone With the Wind
Black Stallion
absolute any Tarzan
absolute any John Carter on Mars
Then:
1984
The Alienest
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life story
Misery
The Mirror ****
Watchers, Stephen Coonts (before he became weird)
Lightning, same
Atlas Shrugged
Silence of the Lambs
Get Shorty ****
Let's see, there have been a lot of them.
David Copperfield
Tom Sawyer
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Lord of the Flies
Any book by Walter Farley
The Stand
Prophecy
Desperation
Wuthering Heights
Pet Sematary
The Mummy by Anne Rice
The Time Machine
Brave New World
Edited by - RedhorseWoman on 9 June 2000 23:15:19
Everyone here is SO well read.
I like all the classic sci-fi stuff from H.G.Welles and Jules Verne pus modern(ish) stuff by Issac Asimov.
I do like the 'classic english novels' as well though like "The Woman In White" and "Pride & Prejudice" (but shhh...don't tell my wife because I always moan when 'period dramas' are on TV)
The postman rings twice
The Awakening
The Fortress
Insomnia
(plus lots of sci-fi, horror, mystery)
Spice
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
On the Road - Jack Keruac
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Vox - Nicholson Barker
The Sun Also Rises - Earnest Hemingway
p.s-- can you tell I am an English major?
Edited by - joannadandy on 12 June 2002 16:27:41
