favorite book

[tklgal226]

what's ur favorite book?

lol, im bored and i need something new to start reading, so im jsut wondering what u guys have read and enjoyed.

my favorite of all times is Stephen King's The Stand....oh man,ive already read it twice....actually, anything by SK is a masterpiece, but I think that's the best out of the entire collection!!

yours?

~clair 😉

 

[Mimi]

My favorite book is a little known number titled "Next!" by Nick Sharman. It is an utterly frightening and disturbingly gory book. Right up my alley. 😀

I also love Stephen King, but my favorite by him is not a novel in it's own, rather one of the four featured in his collection "Four Seasons". It's the story titled "The Long Walk". I always felt it would make a great movie if done right.

Another I thoroughly enjoyed was Poppy Z. Brite's adaption of "The Crow" series. It's not a book that would suit many tastes, however, since it features a good deal of graphic M/M sexual activity, and severe BDSM.

My favorite author, though, is Agatha Christie. I devour her mystery novels like fine chocolate, and have read nearly every one of them at least 3-4 times. Only the Hercule Poirot novels, though. Never did get into Miss Marple much. Ironically enough, her best book, IMO, is one that featured neither Hercule Poirot nor Miss Marple. That one is titled "Ten Little Indians", or also known as "And Then There Were None". A MUST read for any mystery fan.

Good topic!

Mimi 😀

 

[MrMacphisto]

Mimi

Heh... It's funny you should mention Poppy Z. Brite... I had an ex-gf that was really into her work. My ex-gf was... interesting.... to say the least... lol

"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse and "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison are my two favorite books. "Siddhartha" is an interesting tale of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, the religious figure of Buddhism. Very thought-provoking.... "The Invisible Man" is a remarkably modern book that was written in the 1930s detailing the inherent racism and classism of American culture seen from the perspective of a black man who's just trying to fit in.

 

[dreamboy]

In hard-bound, one of the best ones out right now is The Da Vinci Code. It's an excellent mystery, plus it brings in some religion, ties ancient customs to many of today's traditions - which you can believe or not - and poses several hypotheses to make the reader question many rituals and beliefs yet adhered to today. I read it in about 4 sittings! 😀

 

[the_Baron]

dig in to SHogun by James Clavell. he paints a virtual canvas of intricate characters during feudal Japan in the late 16th century.

despite its large size, its hard to put down.

you'll love it.

sayonara.

 

[crydun]

The Love Comes Softly Series by Janette Oke
Drums of Change, The Story of Running Fawn, Janette Oke
Joshua by Joseph Cirzone
Sullivan's Island (I can't remember author's name.)
Anything by LuAnn Rice or Richard Paul Evans

 

[Roseblossom]

Hi Claire,
Here are a few writers whose stories remind me of Stephen King in some way. Also they are set in your neck of the woods.
(and Mimi, I loved Four Seasons too🙂

Tabitha King's writing is said to be similar to her husband's, though I've not read her myself yet.

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

I recommend Stephen Dobbyns The Church of Dead Girls:

One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the towns-people begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. In The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns probes the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune as old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of this seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.

Also his novel Boy in the Water.

Happy reading!

~Rose~

 

[Flatfoot]

I mostly read fantasy novels, and I'm currentyly reading the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Outside of fantasy, a buddy of mine recommended the Left Behind series. Have any of you ever heard of or read that?

 

[lite]

Heh... It's funny you should mention Poppy Z. Brite... I had an ex-gf that was really into her work. My ex-gf was... interesting.... to say the least... lol

"Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse and "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison are my two favorite books. "Siddhartha" is an interesting tale of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, the religious figure of Buddhism. Very thought-provoking.... "The Invisible Man" is a remarkably modern book that was written in the 1930s detailing the inherent racism and classism of American culture seen from the perspective of a black man who's just trying to fit in.

"Invisible Man" is one of the most memorable books I've ever read. I can't pick just one favorite book, though. Off the top of my head, here are a few books that I've also found memorable:

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" (a novel)-Jose Saramago
"Briefing for a Descent into Hell"-Doris Lessing
"The Sinai Tapestry"-Edward Whittemore

And Clair, I've also read "The Stand" a couple of times. 🙂

I should stop now, however; my "favorite" list is ever-changing. 😀

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Does T.V. Guide count as a book?

Drew

 

[Deleted member 2452]

here's two for you

battle field earth, by l. ron hubbard.
the source, by james mitchner.

battlefield earth is a future sci-fi, where earth is in the hands of an eveil alien species.

source is about religion in the middle east, starting at 9000 b.c.

both are incredible works.

steve

 

[KoocheeKoo]

"Rachel's Tear's"....the true story of Columbine H.S. student and martyr Rachel Joy Scott, written by her mom and dad. A dear friend in Texas gave me a copy of the book as a gift, and I'll treasure it forever 🙂

 

[milagros317]

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand

Runners-up, in alphabetical order by author:

The entire "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov
"A Mathematician's Apology" by G. H. Hardy
"Koufax" by Sandy Koufax
"Animal Farm" and "1984" by George Orwell
"We the Living" by Ayn Rand

 

[Knox The Hatter]

1)'The World According To Garp' - John Irving
2) 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' - John Irving
3) 'The Godfather' - Mario Puzo
4) 'The Great Gatsby' - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5) 'The Prince Of Tides' - Pat Conroy
6) 'A Confederacy of Dunces' - John Kennedy Toole
7) 'A Piece of Cake' - Derek Robinson
8) 'Angela's Ashes' - Frank McCourt
9) 'Fried Green Bananas at the Whistle Stop Cafe' - Fannie Flagg
10)'Slaughterhouse Five' - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


Just a sampling, really...I have never made a comprehensive effort to figure out just what my favorite is. These efforts are most memorable.

 

[Neutron]

Lonesome Dove...

Best character depth ever written in a book,

Followed by The Stand, IT and Swan Song.

Battlefield Earth is good too, but it's not even remotely close to a Sci Fi novel, nor did L Ron Hubbard ever intend it to be. It was his effort at a Primitive vs Modern morality play.

Tron

 

[ShadowTklr]

Here's a good read...

The Sex Life Of The Foot And Shoe
by William A. Rossi

Very interesting look into the history of sex appeal, fetishism, and fashion of feet and shoes. A really good section on tickling, too. 🙂

 

[Ticklebell]

I have three favorites. But one is just special. If you haven't actually read it, don't scoff. It's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie.

The other two are

Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis and
White Oleander, by Janet Fitch.

For plays, the ones I like to READ most are

Wit, by Margret Edson and
Angels in America, by Tony Kushner

And yes. I do actually enjoy reading Shakespeare and Euripides and all that too.

For now, excuse me whilst I get back to reading The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison. Mwah!


-Bell

 

[Ticklebell]

PS: Pay no attention to the fact that HBO happened to make movies of both of those plays. I loved 'em before that. I guess HBO just has excellent taste. Mwah!

 

[summerdaez]

Ok...
First, anything by Stephen King is ok with me 🙂 I love his work.
I'm an avid reader, I read at least one book a day (sometimes more, depending on the work I have to take home with me LOL).
For a chuckle, read Lamb by Christopher Moore. It's supposed to be the life of Jesus as seen by his best friend Biff, also known as Levi. It has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read. Also, the Da Vinci Code is phenomenal, Angela's Ashes, Memoirs of a Geisha, anything by Crichton, and of course, my all time personal hero, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien (god bless that man! 🙂 )
Classics include, my favorite, Alice in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass), the Wizard of Oz series, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler (fab book!)...oh geez, you had to get me started...!
I should seriously join a book club 🙂

 

[Mimi]

Oh man, I can't believe I forget to mention these in my list.

The autobiographical trilogy by David Pelzer. The first book is titled "A Child Called It", and is about his childhood - growing up in a home with a SEVERELY and wickedly abusive mother, 3 siblings who escaped her abuse, and a father who ignored everything that was going on. The second book is titled "The Lost Boy" and relates his teen years, where he was finally rescued from his abusive home, but then tossed around from foster home to foster home. And the third book is titled "A Man Named David" where he relates coming to terms with it all, and how it molded him into the man he now is. All three are an OUTSTANDING read, and a real heart wretching eye opener about the realities of child abuse and foster care. Highly recommended.

Mimi

 

[ticklebutton]

You can travel the world with fiction -

Stephen King & Peter Straub (in Main);

A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons (Colorado);

Purple Cane Road (or anything else) by James Lee Burke (Louisiana);

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman (Martha's Vineyard);

Shipping News bye E. Annie Proulx (Novia Scotia);

anything by Robertson Davies or Margaret Atwood (Canadians);

Lonesome Dove (Texas) yep Neutron, terrific characters;

John Irving is another New Englander for you, ty Knox;

and ohboy Rose, yes! Dobbyns' two novels are mesmerizing;

Ruth Rendell with her psychological mysteries (UK);

Pigs in Heaven & Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (Arizona)

Children of Light by Robert Stone;

Patricia Cornwell if you like forensic psychology crime novels (Virginia);

Song of Soloman (or anything else) by Toni Morrison;

Alberta trilogy by Cora Sandel (Norway & Paris at the turn of the century);

Plainsong by Kent Haruf (Colorado);

Lite, I really liked the amazing writing & south american magical realism of One Hundred Years of Solitude, but most of the characters were so primitive & unfeeling that I was uncomfortable through the whole novel.

Have you read Stones For Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (Mexico)? Very atmospheric, and the characters & dialogue are so memorable.

LOL Knox, you cutie, it's Fried Green Tomatoes. (I like Fannie Flagg, she's funny & smart. Did you know she was one of the writers on the old Dick Van Dyke show along with Carl Reiner?)
Prince of Tides was staggering, good pick.

ok ok that's it for now from Button's Book Club - ack you guys got me going! 😛

Button

 

[BigJim]

what's ur favorite book?

lol, im bored and i need something new to start reading, so im jsut wondering what u guys have read and enjoyed.

my favorite of all times is Stephen King's The Stand....oh man,ive already read it twice....actually, anything by SK is a masterpiece, but I think that's the best out of the entire collection!!

yours?

~clair 😉

I loved The Stand too. However that and the Dark Tower saga is the only work of Stephen King's which doesn't bore me to tears. The man has far too few happy endings for my taste.

My favourite book is actually 4, but they're one saga. The Hobbit, Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and Return Of The King. If I had to choose just one work of literature to keep for the rest of my days, Tolkein's saga of Middle Earth would be my choice.

 

[Flatfoot]

I recently bought the Erotic Tickling book by Michael Moran, and I found it to be quite an easy read, with a bunch of key passages I liked that kind of echo my own feelings about the subject. It was a real quick read, too (About the size of a pamphlet, and conceals easily between books on a shelf, unable to be seen from a distance, if you're shy about others knowing of your interest.). It only took me a couple hours to get through the whole thing. I highly recommend it to any of you fellow tickle-enthusiasts. It's also written in a way where anyone, tickling-enthusiast or not, can pick it up and learn about us without giving us a bad reputation.

 

[summerdaez]

Re: Re: favorite book

My favourite book is actually 4, but they're one saga. The Hobbit, Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and Return Of The King. If I had to choose just one work of literature to keep for the rest of my days, Tolkein's saga of Middle Earth would be my choice.

Ahhh, BigJim...I knew there was a reason I liked ya! I traveled all over Europe for a month, and even though my backpack had precious little space, the Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit found its way into the bag.
I was waiting in line in Florence to see Michelangelo's statue of David, and was reading The Two Towers. I wasn't paying attention, and as I was inching forward, bumped into the cutest guy I had seen in a while...and he was reading Return of the King...I guess you could say I found a new travel companion after that
Tolkien...my hero 🙂

 

[dreamboy]

And for additional variety in this excellent list, the series of stories by John Grisham often provide wide-eyed interest in, if not concern for, the sometimes-questionable workings of the legal system in the U.S.
In variation to the usual legal theme, his semi-autobiographical A PAINTED HOUSE - about a little boy growing up in the remote South - is very easy to become attached to, also. 🙂