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Post by LadyDuff on Oct 8, 2002 11:35:28 GMT -5
Well, I put this thread here because I think that books are a way to entertain yourself! I love books myself and read as much as I possibly can!
My absolute favourite book in the whole world is A prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Has anyone else ever read this book? What did you think of it?
Whats your favourite book/books?
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Post by Carolyn on Oct 8, 2002 15:53:35 GMT -5
I don't read a whole lot of fiction, mostly histories and biographies. I just finished a psychological study called "Fatal Moment", which was a study of people who became accidental killers (drunk, in a moment of rage, even inattentive drivers who killed somebody). My favorite, if I can say that, was the people who kill around Christmas time. You know, too much alcohol, too much "family", too many expectations not met, and BAM, bad combination.
My husband also turned me on to another great book called "The Way We Never Were", which discussed cultural memories and expectations brought on by the TV and advertising of the 1950s. How the TV perfect family NEVER really existed, among other things.
My favorite fiction book of all time - actually probably two are "Little Women" and "Robinson Crusoe". I'm also very fond of "Tom Sawyer".
For detective fiction, which is my favorite bubblegum for the mind, I love any of the Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters, an American writer, Nevada Barr, who has a neurotic aging heroine who's a park ranger in many of the American National Parks, and of course, the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters, an Edwardian amateur Egyptologist-liberated woman. Oh yes, Tony Hillerman, who sets his mysteries on the Indian Reservations of the Southwest, with a Navajo detective and LOTS of cultural information. (Plus I know Tony Hillerman, who used to teach journalism at my nearly alma mater, University of New Mexico!)
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Post by LadyDuff on Oct 8, 2002 17:05:08 GMT -5
That sounds very interesting!
Here are some books that you perhaps would enjoy:
Duncton Wood Series, by William Horwood
Duncton Wood
Dunton Quest
Duncton Found
Duncton Stone
Duncton Rising
Duncton Tales
These books are about moles, but you would NEVER think of the moles you meet in them as moles!! To me it was amazing how fast I forgot that they are in fact moles, I thought of them as humans and it wasnt weird at all to think of time passing as moleyears!
Dor those of you who are interested in Indians and their life and traditions, here is a great pair of authors who write about them:
The People Series by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O`Neal Gear:
People of the wolf
People of the fire
People of the earth
People of the river
Poeple of the sea
People of the lakes
People of the lightning
People of the silence
People of the Mist
People of the masks
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Carrie
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Post by Carrie on Oct 9, 2002 1:49:21 GMT -5
Reading is my favorite activity so I could go on and on about books I like. I have read I have read A Prayer for Owen Meany and really liked the first part when they were kids, but was totally uninterested in the whole Vietnam part. I actually liked the movie a whole lot better than the book, which is pretty unusual for me. I'd say the book is more "loosely based" on the book than anything. A few similiarities, but not the same story at all.
As for favorite books, I posted over at the old board that To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite book of all time. It's a great story on so many different levels. I love the characters, I love the setting, I love the themes. Honestly, I think this is one book that everyone *needs* to read.
Other than that, I read just about everything. I guess thrillers are my first love. I'm currently working through as many Jeffery Deaver books as I can get my hands on. I also love Patricia Cornwell, but I think I'm about done with all of her currently released book (including Isle of the Dogs, which totally sucked). Dean Koontz has been a fave of mine since high school, which is funny b/c I totally hate Stephen King. I've only actually read Carrie by him, so maybe that is why I hate him.
I also read a lot of fantasy, mainly b/c it is what my friends read and I like to discuss it with them. It helps that I am an avid fan of all things fairy tale related. Asian literature is another favorite, esp Amy Tan. I guess the only things that I really avoid reading are westerns and bodice rippers (though at one point a few years ago I was obsessed with Laverle Spencer).
Carrie
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Post by Dawn on Oct 9, 2002 2:27:37 GMT -5
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Post by LadyDuff on Oct 9, 2002 4:40:37 GMT -5
Oh how nice someone else has read my favourite book! I have to tell you the story of how it became my favourite! It was my hubby´s favourite at first and when we were apart ( in Canada and Sweden) we read it to each other in English and Swedísh! I totally loved Owen from the very first line in the book! In fact, when we have kids, we are going to name our son Tryfan ( from the Duncton wood series) and Owen will be his second name!
I liked the film too, but I would have lied to have seen more of the book in it though, but other than that it was a very nice film!
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Post by Carolyn on Oct 9, 2002 11:15:21 GMT -5
Of course, I'm absolutely totally absorbed in medieval history and anxiously awaiting arrival in the mail of the latest biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine which I purchased last week.
I especially read anything I can get my hands on about the social history of Elizabethan England, and costume history is also a passion.
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