5 favorite all time books?

Scarlet Letter
Polar Express
Giving Tree
Neverending Story
Interview with a Vampire
 
This is a hard one to answer. So many fantastic books have shaped my life in helpful ways, gripped my emotions, enriched my imagination and made my life richer & more enjoyable. Ask me tomorrow and this list will probably be different, but these five books have made a big impact on me in different ways. They are all very different from each other.

What's So Amazing About Grace (by Philip Yancey)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (by Stephen Donaldson)
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (by Robert Pirsig)
The Code of the Woosters (by P.G.Wodehouse)
Attachment in Psychotherapy (by David J Wallin)
 
caz12 said:
i been told the Hobbit film not good
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i wont believe that for one second, someone is being an a$$hole cuz they dont like someone from NZ instead of Hollywood, who made the film...

surely book to film adaption is difficult, that the 'remark' might be refering to that...films adaptions can be subjective...as book reading relys on our imagination...not seeing what is from someone's perception of the writer's proses out as thoughts-pictures in the mind can vary person to person...then again, a dull person imagination might not get details of a the story's setting as much as some who has more imagination...or savvy to read in more , get more fiddling with in between words...blah blah

Id watch the Hobbit in a heart beat...(just waiting)...
 
This is tough one... Because I own three bookshelves of books in my little library room. Gonna need a fourth shelf.

Give me a moment to think. *sipping wine*



1. "Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, and the Breakdown" by a Polish author Leszek Kolakowski

2. "The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements" by Californian professor in psychology Kevin MacDonald

3. Shakedown Socialism: Unions, Pitchforks, Collective Greed, The Fallacy of Economic Equality, and other Optical Illusions of "Redistributive Justice" by Oleg Atbashin

4. "The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America" by Jim Marrs

5. "The Balkans Since 1453" by L.S. Stavrianos



There, this is a torture post for me.
 
AJWSmith said:
This is a hard one to answer. So many fantastic books have shaped my life in helpful ways, gripped my emotions, enriched my imagination and made my life richer & more enjoyable. Ask me tomorrow and this list will probably be different, but these five books have made a big impact on me in different ways. They are all very different from each other.

What's So Amazing About Grace (by Philip Yancey)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (by Stephen Donaldson)
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (by Robert Pirsig)
The Code of the Woosters (by P.G.Wodehouse)
Attachment in Psychotherapy (by David J Wallin)
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Ah yes I have What' So Amazing About Grace book :)
 
caz12 said:
i been told the Hobbit film not good
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You obviously haven't read the Hobbit book... It may be a children book but it's simple and great.

The Hobbit is great, saw it at a subtitled IMAX theater. Simply stunning.
 
Oh gosh. Five? I've read so many!
In no particular order

1) Matilda by Roald Dahl
2) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3) Madeline series
4) My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
5) The Giver by Lois Lowry
 
Stephen King's IT
The Book of Mormon
Stephen King's Dark Tower series (8 books)
1984
The Wheel of Time series (13 books, plus a prequel)

Honorable mention:

The Young Jedi Series
Dean Koontz's Intensity
Dean Koontz's Icebreaker
Dean Koontz's Through the Corner of His Eye
Harry Potter
 
Bottesini said:
All Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

All works by Agatha Christie

Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer

The Hobbit , by Tolkien

Harry Potter, by Rowling
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they on my list but question was 5books if she said top ten they be there
 
Cdodd said:
Stephen King's IT
The Book of Mormon
Stephen King's Dark Tower series (8 books)
1984
The Wheel of Time series (13 books, plus a prequel)

Honorable mention:

The Young Jedi Series
Dean Koontz's Intensity
Dean Koontz's Icebreaker
Dean Koontz's Through the Corner of His Eye
Harry Potter
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OH YES!!! Dark Tower series are definitely the best of Stephen King works!!!
 
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