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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2005, 04:36:03 AM »
 ;D  The Wind Blows Backwards by Mary Downing Hahn.. its a middle school book but one I've reread over and over again... it was a book that I really connected with...
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #61 on: May 16, 2005, 08:32:31 PM »
the seventh sword and anything by Andrew Collins
as an asides how come theres twice as many hated books as loved books ??? :)
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #62 on: May 16, 2005, 10:47:47 PM »
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That book always come to mind.  A movie is reportedly in the works with 'Release Date' TBA 2006/2007.  I will have to read it again before the movie. :)
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #63 on: May 20, 2005, 03:51:26 PM »
Quote from: carolyn_b on May 16, 2005, 10:47:47 PM
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That book always come to mind.  A movie is reportedly in the works with 'Release Date' TBA 2006/2007.  I will have to read it again before the movie. :)

LOVE that book -- I'd be thrilled to see it turned into a good movie.  I sense Ben Kingsley's presence in there somewhere!
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #64 on: May 20, 2005, 03:53:31 PM »
Quote from: Lola on May 20, 2005, 03:51:26 PM
LOVE that book -- I'd be thrilled to see it turned into a good movie.  I sense Ben Kingsley's presence in there somewhere!

Oh I was thinking of someone more like Jimmy Smitts. :-*
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #65 on: May 20, 2005, 03:54:57 PM »
Yes, maybe for the younger parts.  Or Benjamin Bratt.  But Ben Kingsley's got the "exotic older gentleman" thing all wrapped up!  ;)
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« Reply #66 on: May 20, 2005, 03:55:59 PM »
Quote from: carolyn_b on May 16, 2005, 10:47:47 PM
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

That book always come to mind.  A movie is reportedly in the works with 'Release Date' TBA 2006/2007.  I will have to read it again before the movie. :)

I have it, bought on your recommendation Lola, have not read it yet.  Maybe I will wait till I know when the movie is coming out!
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #67 on: May 20, 2005, 09:42:22 PM »
Oh, Stacey, read it NOW!  It's the best love story EVER.

(and don't buy any more books!   ;))
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« Reply #68 on: May 20, 2005, 11:01:01 PM »
Quote from: Lola on May 20, 2005, 09:42:22 PM
Oh, Stacey, read it NOW!  It's the best love story EVER.

(and don't buy any more books!   ;))

OK, When I finish The Bad Mothers Handbook (Very cute)

(I have a problem Lola, seriously!  I will take a picture(s) and show you all!!!!)
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #69 on: August 28, 2005, 08:04:50 PM »
I got to say most of my favourite are children's books. 

They would be all the Winnie the Pooh Books, I appreciate them more as an adult

And most of the Roald Dahl stories.

Most of my "adult" books are so difficult to pin down a favourite, as I prefer to have favourite authors.

Joyce Carol Oates, Faye Kellerman, Mary Higgins Clark, Chaim Potok, Jane Austen being some....

the latest book I can say I enjoyed over and above my usual pile has to be My Sisters Keeper !
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #70 on: October 04, 2005, 02:23:59 AM »
Love in the time of Cholera was great. Anyone ever read Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude?
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #71 on: November 05, 2005, 04:32:19 AM »
The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Princess Bride- William Goldman
The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
The Samurai's Garden- Gail Tsukiyama
THe Bonesetter's Daughter- Amy Tan
Tuesdays with Morrie- Mitch Albom (made me cry)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom
Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden
East of Eden-John Steinbeck (made me cry)
Cry, The Beloved Country- Alan Paton (made me cry... and I am not normally a crier!)
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
The Celestine Prophecy- James Redfield
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families- Philip Gourevitch (Rwanda Genocide)
Long Walk to Freedom- Nelson Mandela
Seabiscuit: An American Tradition- Laura Hillenbrand (waaay better than the movie)
King Leopold's Ghost- Adam Hochschild (about the early colonialization of Africa)


Repeat authors I like...

Paulo Coehlo
Barbara Kingsolver
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
and my guilty pleasure... Marian Keyes
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #72 on: November 05, 2005, 08:22:35 AM »
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Anything Dr Seuss! ;D
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #73 on: November 25, 2005, 01:36:07 AM »
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain (couldn't put it down)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy (absolutely changed my life)
The Hobbit (WITHOUT the subsequent trilogy) by Tolkien (so imaginative and poetic)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (THE book of my childhood)
Sula by Toni Morrison (breathtaking!)
anything by Jules Verne (you gotta dream! :))

a few more that i can't recall...
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Re: Your Favorite Book(s) of all time
« Reply #74 on: November 25, 2005, 08:11:35 AM »
Favorite children's books:

Any of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books
Cinder-Edna
Half Magic
Little Women - which I re-read every few years and still cry when Beth dies

Adult books I re-read:

Shogun - James Clavell
Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
Hawaii - James Michener
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
All the early volumes of The Story of Civilization - Will and Ariel Durant
A Distant Mirror - Barbara Tuchman
The Merlin Trilogy - Mary Stewart
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