luckyexwife
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Post by luckyexwife on Oct 18, 2018 14:30:20 GMT
There's no way I can choose just one. However, I just now put Lonesome Dove on hold at the library since I've never read it. I'm pretty sure I don't like westerns but I'll give it a try. I was thinking the same thing!
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Post by coloradocropper on Oct 18, 2018 14:38:21 GMT
Well, between this thread and the romantic book thread from last week, all I want to do is read. I might even go back and read Animal Farm which I hated in high school. It will be interesting to see if my perspective changed on this one.
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Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Oct 18, 2018 14:40:53 GMT
I loved Lonesome Dove - one of my favorites too. I was so glad that it was a long book because it kept me entertained many hours. Then the mini-series came out and I loved that too. Ann Tyler is my favorite author and I'd have to go with "The Accidental Tourist" as my favorite book. It's a quiet kind of book and I can see where someone might find it boring, but I loved the main character. I should read it again. Oh, The Accidental Tourist is one of my very favorites, too! I just re-watched the movie a few weeks ago, hadn't seen it in about 25 years. It's pretty faithful to the book, and well-acted.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Oct 18, 2018 14:52:08 GMT
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald. I recently bought a used copy and I’m rereading it now.
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Post by scrapcat on Oct 18, 2018 15:09:38 GMT
Thanks for the reminder, I want to watch that. Someone mentioned it here before (maybe you?) and I downloaded the list. I've been working my way through it, like every other book or so I choose one from it. Some I feel like I read in school but don't remember well, so trying to cover the ones I really want to read first. Then maybe I will try the rest! Lots of great suggestions in this thread too. I feel like I am not great at reading the classics/well known books. I just recently decided to read more Stephen King after listening (audiobooks) to "On Writing" and I now have "The Stand" downloaded.
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scrappyesq
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Post by scrappyesq on Oct 18, 2018 15:48:49 GMT
Ok as a total side note the author Robin Cook is here at my job just chillin' doing research for a book. I wish I read one of his book because a blast email was just sent out saying that anyone is free to say hi and ask questions.
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Post by jennyap on Oct 18, 2018 15:53:13 GMT
Ok as a total side note the author Robin Cook is here at my job just chillin' doing research for a book. I wish I read one of his book because a blast email was just sent out saying that anyone is free to say hi and ask questions. Eeeek, I love several of his books!
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Post by katiescarlett on Oct 18, 2018 16:14:16 GMT
There's no way I can choose just one. However, I just now put Lonesome Dove on hold at the library since I've never read it. I'm pretty sure I don't like westerns but I'll give it a try. I was thinking the same thing! I've only read one western in my life and it was Lonesome Dove and I loved it! Gus (played by Robert Duvall in the mini series) is one of my favorite characters ever! It's been many years since I read it but I think it took me about 100 pages to get fully involved but then I never wanted it to end!
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 18, 2018 18:14:59 GMT
Thanks for the link. I saw this somewhere and have been meaning to check it out.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 18, 2018 19:59:27 GMT
Ok as a total side note the author Robin Cook is here at my job just chillin' doing research for a book. I wish I read one of his book because a blast email was just sent out saying that anyone is free to say hi and ask questions. Ive read all his books. He is amazing in that he always chooses a current, often controversial subject in medicine to base his books around. His mind is so sharp, he explains both sides and the often unintended possibilities from new technologies, current law and policies, ect.
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Post by justkat on Oct 19, 2018 1:23:51 GMT
Pat Conroy, The Lord's of Discipline
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mimima
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Post by mimima on Oct 19, 2018 1:28:20 GMT
I was thinking the same thing! I've only read one western in my life and it was Lonesome Dove and I loved it! Gus (played by Robert Duvall in the mini series) is one of my favorite characters ever! It's been many years since I read it but I think it took me about 100 pages to get fully involved but then I never wanted it to end! I read it for the first time last year and looked up who played whom. I still haven't watched it, though.
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Post by lovemybabes on Oct 19, 2018 1:34:28 GMT
The Hobbit All the Harry Potters The Outsiders The Secret Garden The Chronicles of Narnia I am such a book lover, I have a hard time choosing. ETA: Sorry I chose more than one. LOL... If I had to pick one... it would be The Hobbit <3
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Post by scraphollie27 on Oct 19, 2018 4:21:21 GMT
I have 21 favourite books at this point (in no particular order): The Way the Crow Flies Three Cups of Tea Kiterunner Into Thin Air Timeline How to Talk So Kids will Listen The Secret in the Old Attic To Kill a Mockingbird Rudolf Nureyev’s Biography The Road Kristallnacht The Stand Booky Oryx and Crake The Handmaid’s Tale Such a Long Journey A Fine Balance Cutting for Stone Fifteen Dogs And Then There Were None The High Mountains of Portugal The Nightingale Station Eleven
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inchworm70
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Post by inchworm70 on Oct 19, 2018 7:03:57 GMT
I would have to pick a childhood favorite, and I will cheat and pick a whole series, the Betsy-Tacy books by Maud Hart Lovelace. They are so comforting and cozy, and they feel like an old friend when you reread them. Oh, I absolutely adore the Betsy-Tacy series! And so few people seem to have heard of it! I love seeing so many mentions of Gone With the Wind. I've loved it since high school. So many other great books mentioned -- Anne of Green Gables, The Road, Gatsby I could never pick just one. My top favorites are GWTW, A Little Princess (I prefer it to The Secret Garden although I love both),The Little House series, My Antonia, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Poisonwood Bible, Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bojahlian, and The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
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Post by leftturnonly on Oct 19, 2018 8:55:35 GMT
Although I read a fair bit (less these days than I used to) I'm not very good at remembering what I've read let alone any details, so I can't really pick a favourite. Me too! One of the reasons I started this thread was to get people talking and reminiscing. Hard core reader, one book a year reader or no books since second grade. It doesn't even matter. Books that have special meaning attached, like a loan from a family member or having it read to you as a child. The first book you took out from the library, or the book that got you started being a voracious reader. Or the book that was so good you never wanted to read again because nothing could ever measure up. Agatha Christie -- anything by her, and I think I read everything. Fell in love with her when I was a kid. There are just so many books that touched me deeply because of the moment in time that I read them. Sometimes, it may just have been one single line. Oh, I just thought of one that I loved --- and that I bet nearly everyone here would hate. The Magic Furnace:The search for the Origins of Atoms by Marcus Chown --- ""Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns." Thus begins The Magic Furnace, an eloquent, extraordinary account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life itself."
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Post by koontz on Oct 19, 2018 9:03:04 GMT
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
It's my "feelgood" book, I re-read it at least once a year.
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Post by AussieMeg on Oct 19, 2018 10:27:26 GMT
If I could only pick one it would have to be The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. ETA: lesley great minds!
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Post by jennyap on Oct 19, 2018 12:09:20 GMT
There are just so many books that touched me deeply because of the moment in time that I read them. Sometimes, it may just have been one single line. Ditto. Sometimes I'll snap a pic on my phone of a particular line or paragraph that really speaks to me and I think will stand alone - even years after I've probably forgotten what book it came from! Here's one (unusually long) example, which as a Brit I just love : I should confess though that I've never read The Waste Land. From the same book but much shorter, because I'm feeling mischievous:
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tanya2
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Post by tanya2 on Oct 19, 2018 12:34:53 GMT
omg to have to pick just one! so many good books to choose from
but one i can read over & over is the Harry Potter series, particularly the first one
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Post by danalz on Oct 19, 2018 12:51:54 GMT
The outsiders. I've read it so many times and loved reading it with my students when I was teaching.
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scrappyesq
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Post by scrappyesq on Oct 19, 2018 13:41:23 GMT
Wow I’m off the board to sleep and you guys get all fast and loose with the one book rule. Side eyeing you, scraphollie27. LOL. If we’re talking about one line from a book that resonated with you, mine isn’t from Lonesome Dove. Its actually from Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (a top 20 fave). “This was still the pinch point of the world, this neighborhood. Here was the World Trade Center’s flood lit cicatrix, here the gold hoard of the federal reserve, here the Tombs and the Stock Exchange and City Hall, here Morgan Stanley and the windowless monoliths of Verizon, here stirring views across the harbor toward distant Liberty in her skin of green oxide” A cicatrix is the scar of a healed wound. I don't like when most people talk about September 11th in a book because most of the time on comes across really schmaltzy; people don't get it yet they try and convey an emotion that ends up sounding really fake and hollow. However, when I read this line, I thought finally someone gets what it is like to have grown up here and know what NYC was like before September 11. It’s hard to convey that feeling that the place you’ve spent your entire life is irrevocably changed, but you know what it was before. Like a scar, you remember what your skin looked like before the wound and even though it has healed the scar itself will always be a reminder.
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Post by leftturnonly on Oct 19, 2018 15:51:03 GMT
Wow I’m off the board to sleep and you guys get all fast and loose with the one book rule. What's a rule if not something to be challenged and maybe broken? Especially when the conductor is asleep at the wheel. jennyap - That was a really interesting quote! (I must be more British than I thought. ) I'd love to hear the author's thoughts on how strangers on an Internet message board think they are skilled at deciphering another's words, because frankly, too often they suck. Sometimes, it's funny and lighthearted. Other times, the twisting becomes obscene. People ask why so many have left, and that is my top answer why. Love the idea of taking a photo of those moments that give me goosebumps because sometimes I read something that I need to apply to my life right then. I'd like to remember the quote, not necessarily the whole book.
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Post by scraphollie27 on Oct 19, 2018 16:01:00 GMT
Wow I’m off the board to sleep and you guys get all fast and loose with the one book rule. Side eyeing you, scraphollie27. LOL. If we’re talking about one line from a book that resonated with you, mine isn’t from Lonesome Dove. Its actually from Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (a top 20 fave). “This was still the pinch point of the world, this neighborhood. Here was the World Trade Center’s flood lit cicatrix, here the gold hoard of the federal reserve, here the Tombs and the Stock Exchange and City Hall, here Morgan Stanley and the windowless monoliths of Verizon, here stirring views across the harbor toward distant Liberty in her skin of green oxide” A cicatrix is the scar of a healed wound. I don't like when most people talk about September 11th in a book because most of the time on comes across really schmaltzy; people don't get it yet they try and convey an emotion that ends up sounding really fake and hollow. However, when I read this line, I thought finally someone gets what it is like to have grown up here and know what NYC was like before September 11. It’s hard to convey that feeling that the place you’ve spent your entire life is irrevocably changed, but you know what it was before. Like a scar, you remember what your skin looked like before the wound and even though it has healed the scar itself will always be a reminder. I would apologize but instead I’m going to take advice from another thread and say thank you for acknowledging my rule breaking. It would hurt my book feelings to leave any of them out.
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Post by tentoes on Oct 19, 2018 16:28:01 GMT
Lots of interesting sounding books in this thread. I think I'll look for a few of them. I've read a lot of them, and although I've enjoyed most of them, there is only one I've read over and over again. That book is Anne of Green Gables.
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Post by christinec68 on Oct 19, 2018 16:57:23 GMT
The first book that always comes to mind when I see this question is As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer. To me, it is story telling at it's best. It was the first time I was sad about finishing a book because I would miss the characters. Honorable mention goes to the Harry Potter Series and The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. This is really hard! I would say the book that has been the most memorable to me is "The Good Earth." I read it back when it was my daughter's assigned reading in high school. They hated it and complained about how boring it was but I thoroughly enjoyed it and can still remember the characters and the story (which is rare for me). I just downloaded the sample of "Lonesome Dove." That sounds good. I also loved The Good Earth! I first read The Good Earth in high school and couldn't get through it and I ended up using one of those cliff note guides. A few years later, I went back to read it and ended up loving it.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 19, 2018 22:26:26 GMT
There are just so many books that touched me deeply because of the moment in time that I read them. Sometimes, it may just have been one single line. Ditto. Sometimes I'll snap a pic on my phone of a particular line or paragraph that really speaks to me and I think will stand alone - even years after I've probably forgotten what book it came from! Here's one (unusually long) example, which as a Brit I just love : I should confess though that I've never read The Waste Land. From the same book but much shorter, because I'm feeling mischievous: Thank you. I enjoyed that. I have a notebook within which I’ve written down such quotes from my reading that goes back 25+ years. It’s a source of absolute satisfaction for me to go back and reread these. It tells me as much about where my head was at in different phases of my life, as about the books and authors I was reading. I could not recommend this practice enough.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Oct 19, 2018 22:27:58 GMT
The outsiders. I've read it so many times and loved reading it with my students when I was teaching. I read it one night as a 13 year old. Could not put it down. Recently had the pleasure of discussing the book and movie with my 15 YO granddaughter.
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Post by lodgelady on Oct 20, 2018 0:43:08 GMT
I have to go with Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
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Post by CarolT on Oct 20, 2018 2:55:51 GMT
The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy, is hands-down my favorite book, and Pat Conroy is my all-time favorite author. (The movie was awful) Funny story, I was looking at pictures of my cousin’s daughter’s wedding on Facebook. I thought one of the guests looked like Pat Conroy... then there was one with a caption, identifying the groom, his mother, and “Uncle Pat”. My cousin’s daughter is married to Pat Conroy’s nephew! Sadly he passed away a couple of years ago, and never met his nephew’s daughter, but I think it’s pretty cool that my 3rd cousin is Pat Conroy’s great niece
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