We've probably done this before, but swolt's post about Harry Potter made me wonder: What are some of the best books you've ever read?
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
Best books that later became a movie and totally outshined the movie:
Jurassic Park - Michael Chrichton
Kiss the Girls - James Patterson (I know he's fluff, but I really dug that series for a while before he ran it into the ground.)
From childhood:
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
Bridge to Terabithia
Just about anything Judy Blume ever wrote
Imajica by Clive Barker
The Invisibles by Grant Morrison (yeah, they're comics... but still books!)
What We Don't Know About Children by Simone Vinci
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger (I seem to remember Gamp not liking the ending to this one.)
Ishmael & Story of B by Daniel Quinn
Umm... yeah, there's tons more but those are the first that come into my head.
Oh yeah, I liked The Time Traveler's Wife. I don't think I loved that ending either.
Oh, here's one more total trash that I liked - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It actually made me cry while I was reading it.
From Childhood:
Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Quote from: Jessie on August 01, 2007, 02:20:18 PM
Oh yeah, I liked The Time Traveler's Wife. I don't think I loved that ending either.
Oh, here's one more total trash that I liked - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It actually made me cry while I was reading it.
I didn't read the book. But I hated the movie. Mostly because I think it's the most depressing movie ever and left me feeling hopeless and lonely.
Quote from: Alice on August 01, 2007, 02:22:39 PM
Quote from: Jessie on August 01, 2007, 02:20:18 PM
Oh yeah, I liked The Time Traveler's Wife. I don't think I loved that ending either.
Oh, here's one more total trash that I liked - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It actually made me cry while I was reading it.
I didn't read the book. But I hated the movie. Mostly because I think it's the most depressing movie ever and left me feeling hopeless and lonely.
The movie didn't really capture the spirt of the book. It was about love. Real, true, lifelong love. It was a beautifully tragic story. Or maybe I'm giving it too much credit because my grandma had alzheimers. I don't know.
The guy who played Noah looked really cute all scruffy, though.
Quote from: Jessie on August 01, 2007, 02:24:47 PM
It was a beautifully tragic story. Or maybe I'm giving it too much credit because my grandma had alzheimers. I don't know.
I think maybe I'm just jaded because the moment I start to lose my mind, I want to be shot. And I'd be pissed as hell if the man I loved made me go through that same realization that I've lost my marbles every day.
All The President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Quote from: Alice on August 01, 2007, 02:21:48 PM
From Childhood:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Ooh! I loved A Wrinkle in Time.
Childhood favorites:
A Wrinkle in Time
Little Women
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
All-time favorites:
The Color Purple
The Talisman
The Stand
I can't get it straight in my mind whether I've ever read The Color Purple.
The Stand was great. I can't believe how much it kept my attention as long as it was.
Do you remember sobbing? A lot? If not, either you haven't read The Color Purple or you're heartless.
Quote from: Jessie on August 01, 2007, 02:20:18 PM
Oh yeah, I liked The Time Traveler's Wife. I don't think I loved that ending either.
Oh, here's one more total trash that I liked - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. It actually made me cry while I was reading it.
I no longer love you. You're not the person I thought you were.
#1 all time favorite:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Other faves:
Killer Angels. I was reading that in the car the other day and tried to read a part out loud to the fam. I almost couldn't do it I was crying so hard.
Where the Wild Things Are. I swear- if that guy screws it up in the movie I will stab him with a fork to the eye.
Confederates in the Attic. Good book about society today and people's views on the Civil War.
Atlas Shrugged. Yeah- I know. I'm pretty much the only one who likes it.
Quote from: Gamplayerx on August 01, 2007, 02:58:10 PM
Do you remember sobbing? A lot? If not, either you haven't read The Color Purple or you're heartless.
I sob every time I watch the movie, but I just can't remember if I've ever read the book. I guess I should, just to be sure.
I remember reading something fairly recently that made me cry, but I can't remember what.
I love when books make me laugh out loud or sob. Those are the best.
OMG I totally forgot HHGTTG.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip Dick
UBIK by Phillip Dick
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert
Snow Falling on Cedars was pretty good. So was Cider House Rules.
Quote from: Jessie on August 01, 2007, 03:17:12 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on August 01, 2007, 02:58:10 PM
Do you remember sobbing? A lot? If not, either you haven't read The Color Purple or you're heartless.
I sob every time I watch the movie, but I just can't remember if I've ever read the book. I guess I should, just to be sure.
I remember reading something fairly recently that made me cry, but I can't remember what.
I love when books make me laugh out loud or sob. Those are the best.
OMG I totally forgot HHGTTG.
If you want to laugh out loud, read Janet Evanovich.
The Color Purple is written like a diary, only the letters are addressed to God.
Ok. I've never read that then. I wonder if I own it. I seem to remember picking up a used copy somewhere...
The Cider House Rules
Jim the Boy
Dune
Inca Gold
The Great and Secret Show (where's the 3rd book of the art, you assmunch)
Santa Steps Out
Any Encyclopedia Brown
Any Three Investigators
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Great Expectations
Kingdom Come (graphic novel)
The Dark Knight Returns (graphic novel)
Oh shit. I forgot Dune. Put Dune on my list too.
Watchmen (graphic novel)
The Creature - Benchley (ultimate popcorn read)
Neuromancer
I know I'm forgetting some more.
I love the Watchmen, but I have to get a new copy.
I'm sure I've loved lots of other books and just can't think of them all right now.
I read There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroomm in 5th grade, and it is still touching and relevant novel I've read. Readable throughout time and not condescending like most kids books.
Quote from: dazie on August 01, 2007, 03:13:00 PM
Where the Wild Things Are. I swear- if that guy screws it up in the movie I will stab him with a fork to the eye.
It's a 100 word book stretched out into a 1.5 hour movie, minimum. Sadly, I think it's going to be near impossible *not* to screw it up.
Neuromancer was a great story but I felt it wasn't written well.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was my favorite book growing up.
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton is also really good.
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Giving Tree (this is like top five all time favorite)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 07:36:53 AM
OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.
It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.
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Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 07:36:53 AM
OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.
It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.
what is rule 34?
Oh no. Say it ain't so.
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 10:07:30 AM
Quote from: Alice on August 03, 2007, 10:06:05 AM
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 07:36:53 AM
OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.
It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.
what is rule 34?
oh. nevermind
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 10:08:00 AM
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 10:07:30 AM
Quote from: Alice on August 03, 2007, 10:06:05 AM
Quote from: swolt on August 03, 2007, 07:36:53 AM
OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.
It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.
what is rule 34?
oh. nevermind
NSFW http://rule34.paheal.net/
I had never heard of that.
I think my life would have been OK without knowing that.
(http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2507/rule34starwarsyh6.jpg)
haha that's awesome.
Lem's Solaris and Eden.
Grown person:
Cryptonomicon-Neal Stephenson
Baghdad with out a Roadmap-Tony Horwitz
M*A*S*H-Richard Hooker
The Cold Six Thousand-James Ellroy
Any Marlowe story by Chandler
Youth:
Jungle Book-Kipling
Starship Troopers-Robert Heinlein
Life Its Ownself-Dan Jenkins
I enjoyed Starship Troopers as well, both the book and the movie. Heresy, I know. I seem to be able to judge each on it's own merits. Go figure.
I thought the movie was a different take (I know this is heresy) ala Kubrick/Clarke 2001...
No problems except that lame-e-o band in the graduation party scene...Dreck!
Quote from: ursus on August 15, 2007, 09:54:10 AM
I thought the movie was a different take (I know this is heresy) ala Kubrick/Clarke 2001...
No problems except that lame-e-o band in the graduation party scene...Dreck!
Ha! Yes, they were bad. But they were playing a Bowie tune, so I gave them a pass.
No kidding?
I thought the girl singer (the soundtrack composer's daughter-Anorexia Papada-nepotism-isis) wrote that...
Yes, it was "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" off of Bowie's album Outside.
Learn something new...
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
The Hobbit. I love the description of the roads covered in trees.
Quote from: DownSouth on August 15, 2007, 11:56:00 AM
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
The Hobbit. I love the description of the roads covered in trees.
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Actually, this thread is pretty well timed. My step-mother's vision is in question and she's looking for new things to read on tape. She loves Agatha Christie - anybody know of any authors in that vein I could point her to?
Quote from: Gamplayerx on August 15, 2007, 08:07:02 PM
Actually, this thread is pretty well timed. My step-mother's vision is in question and she's looking for new things to read on tape. She loves Agatha Christie - anybody know of any authors in that vein I could point her to?
Sue Grafton?
Good suggestion with Grafton, but she's read all of those. I offered Janet Evanovich and Jasper Fforde, but I don't know if they're on audiotape. She's probably going to lose all sight shortly - the doctors don't know for sure, but it's not looking good. She's now going to see the doctor every week.
Click on any book in this link and see what the "People who like this also like..." books are: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/enSearch/searchResults.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&N=0&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&D=Agatha+Christie&Dx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntk=S_Author&Ntt=Agatha+Christie
Quote from: BigDun on August 15, 2007, 08:23:29 PM
Click on any book in this link and see what the "People who like this also like..." books are: http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/enSearch/searchResults.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&N=0&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&D=Agatha+Christie&Dx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntk=S_Author&Ntt=Agatha+Christie
Hahaha. Each one gives me 3 other Agatha Christie books. :D