What is your all time favorite book?

Shelleygrl32 · Feb 07, 2009 05:57 PM

I love books and can read 3-4 at a time and I always seem to gravitate to the same authors or genre which got me to thinking, what books do I tend to read over and over? I always seem to come back to one, which is "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. I love this book so much! If you have never read it, pick it up. I have never read a book by a male author that seems to know women so much. What book do you all seem to read over and over again?

*SuesquatchRN* · Feb 07, 2009, 06:15 PM

More than one.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Tree grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
The Last of the Just, Andre Schwartz-Bart
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck

I'm sure I'll remember more.

Valerie Salva · Feb 07, 2009, 06:16 PM

"The Cider House Rules" by John Irving.

I never saw the movie, because there's no way it could ever live up to such a great book.

I've worn out three copies of it.

"Good night, you princes of Main, you kings of New England.."

**Elvish** · Feb 14, 2009, 12:34 PM

The Scarlet Letter, hands down. Love, love, love that book.
To Kill a Mockingbird runs a close second.

PS - Val, The Cider House Rules was a good movie, but I can understand the difference. Incidentally, I am about halfway through that book (started reading it months ago) and have just stopped. It just hit a point where I didn't want to go any further. Maybe I should take it up again soon.

Shelleygrl32 · Feb 14, 2009, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Elvish

The Scarlet Letter, hands down. Love, love, love that book.
To Kill a Mockingbird runs a close second.

PS - Val, The Cider House Rules was a good movie, but I can understand the difference. Incidentally, I am about halfway through that book (started reading it months ago) and have just stopped. It just hit a point where I didn't want to go any further. Maybe I should take it up again soon.

I am going to have to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Cider House Rules" next. They both have been repeatedly recommended to me and I want to read them. The Scarlet Letter, I read in high school and I thought it was okay. I think the fact that it was required reading held me back from really liking it but what do I know, I was only fifteen!

A few years ago, I got on a kick where I only wanted to read "the Classics" so .... I picked up and started to read "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. That book was so damn boring I could only make it through half of it!

**VivaLasViejas** · Feb 14, 2009, 01:37 PM

Most of my favorites are the ones I read in childhood.

"Little Women" (I've worn out several copies over the past 40 years)
"Mrs. Mike"
"The Four-Story Mistake"
"Harriet the Spy" and its follow-up, "The Long Secret"
"Black Beauty"
"Tom Sawyer"

I've also read two copies of "The Stand" (by Stephen King) into tatters; now my favorite is "The Shack" by W. Paul Young.

*llg* · Feb 14, 2009, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by VivaLasViejas

"Mrs. Mike"

Wow! I think you are probably the first person I've met who also read this book as a child. While it wasn't my favorite, it was definitely one that I read many times. Some of the passages remain quite vivid in my mind. To think that it was based on a true story!

*sharpeimom* · Feb 14, 2009, 02:13 PM

I love love love mysteries. Anne Perry, Rex Stout, Ellis Peters are three of my favorites. I'm about to begin James Rollins' Map of Bones for a bookclub I belong to. Never read anything he wrote before. We trade books and when everyone in your trade group has read each book, the last to read it may keep her book if she wants to. Then we discuss each book. My favorite Anne Perry books are those featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. I've had to replace almost all of those because I've worn them out.
My husband loves Piers Anthony who writes fantasy and science fiction. Once when I was about 9 or 10, someone saw me reading something she didn't consider to be quite appropriate and took my mom to task. My mom's answer? "At least she's reading something. We can always discuss content later." Must have worked because today I read everything from cereal boxes to best sellers to nursing journals to online news and turned out OK...

sharpeimom

**Elvish** · Feb 14, 2009, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by Shelleygrl32

I am going to have to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Cider House Rules" next. They both have been repeatedly recommended to me and I want to read them. The Scarlet Letter, I read in high school and I thought it was okay. I think the fact that it was required reading held me back from really liking it but what do I know, I was only fifteen! A few years ago, I got on a kick where I only wanted to read "the Classics" so .... I picked up and started to read "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. That book was so damn boring I could only make it through half of it!

You know, I'm w/ you on Charles Dickens. I tried to read A Tale of Two Cities, and later, Lorna Doone. I could not get through either of them. Booooooring.

Shelleygrl32 · Feb 14, 2009, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by llg

Wow! I think you are probably the first person I've met who also read this book as a child. While it wasn't my favorite, it was definitely one that I read many times. Some of the passages remain quite vivid in my mind. To think that it was based on a true story!

Is this the book based in Alaska? I think I read an article about it somewhere.

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