jahilia Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves House of Leaves...I forgot about that one! Sadly, I loaned my full color edition out and never saw it again Ulysses is one that I've started about 10 times but never finished. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 House of Leaves...I forgot about that one! Sadly, I loaned my full color edition out and never saw it again my mom 'misplaced' my signed first edition that i left at her house, so i wouldn't have to have it in my dorm room a couple years ago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willkoman Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany I worked with a woman who had her Masters in American Lit. We traded books back and forth for quite a while (about two years) until we no longer worked together. She was always trying to get me to read this and for some reason I was just never interested. When my TBR pile gets down a ways I think I'll look into it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Hmmph.... I am embarrassed to contribute. But... Dune --- Frank Herbert Armor --- John Steakley (where the name comes from) The Master's of Rome series --- Colleen McCulloch Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wheelco Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I worked with a woman who had her Masters in American Lit. We traded books back and forth for quite a while (about two years) until we no longer worked together. She was always trying to get me to read this and for some reason I was just never interested. When my TBR pile gets down a ways I think I'll look into it. HE SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS if I remember right; Irving novels tend to meld in my mind Quote Link to post Share on other sites
renic Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Hmmph.... Dune --- Frank Herbert The Master's of Rome series --- Colleen McCulloch yeah me too a unicorn series i have atlas shrugged the fourth k fools die any of the harry potter series Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pocahontas Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 A real big fan of John Grisham, I have read all of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 i think i like all the books ayn rand didn't write. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Animal Farm, High Fidelity, About a Boy, Catcher In The Rye, Life Of Pi, Phantom Tollbooth, anything by Bill Bryson. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pnêyu Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 My Antonia, Willa CatherFrankenstein, Mary ShelleyStranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein any and all jeeves & wooster--pg wodehouse. i read these over and over. just about every night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
awatt Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Can't get enough of that Hebrew Bible! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72--HST every time an election rolls around I think about this,the best book on a presidential campaign I've ever come across Kerouac-On the Road Abbie Hoffman-Revolution for the Hell of itAlex Haley-The Autobiography of Malcolm XGeorge Orwell-1984Alan Watts-Does it Matter? & The BookRobert Prisig-Zen & the Art of Motorcycle MaintenancePaul Watkins-My Life with Charles Mansonthat's enuff..and of course all GD-related tomes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Would the world have been a better place had Eugene McCarthy or George Mc Govern been president?? --Robert. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Would the world have been a better place had Eugene McCarthy or George Mc Govern been president??--Robert.warrantless wiretapping Damn that time seems naive now.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 warrantless wiretapping Damn that time seems naive now.. yeah....tell me about it........ -robert. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 It's nice to see so many folks appreciating the works of Steinbeck. I've read both Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row at least a baker's dozen times each. I appreciate most of Steinbeck's stuff, but these two (quick reads) always hit me a certain way that leaves me feeling nostalgic. Other favorite multi-reads: Just about all of HST's works (not a huge fan of toiling through his letters, though there are some gems), Moby Dick, To Kill A Mockingbird, Robertson Davies' Trilogy books, Don Quixote, The Rabbit Factory (Larry Brown), and pretty much anything by Flannery O'Connor. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 One not mentioned amongst my many favs listed here is Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NightOfJoy Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 (edited) [Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein I forgot about that one. My girlfriend (now wife) and I read that book out loud to each other as we rambled about the West one fine summer years ago. Edited September 29, 2006 by Paul B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 Nabokov - Strong OpinionsAnnie Dillard - Writing Life, Holy The FirmHemingway - For Whom The Bell TollsBradbury - Farenheit 451Richard Ford - Rock SpringsAndre Dubus - Adultery & Other Choices, Meditations from a Movable ChairLoren Eiseley - The Star ThrowerMelville - Moby DickUpdike - Pigeon FeathersE.B. White - Essays Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 One of my favorite books ever is Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion. It is a little weird but I have no interest in reading it again. It really reminds me of a certain place and time in my life and I think part of me worries that it is not as good as I remember it being. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 One not mentioned amongst my many favs listed here is Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Brilliant book. Actually I could have listed all his work as greats, but I stuck with Tom Sawyer. I might have gone for Mysterious Stranger too, but I'm not sure it counts as a book, more a (longer than most) short story. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sharkycharming Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Betty Smith)A Separate Peace (John Knowles)Helter Skelter (Vincent Bugliosi) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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