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Your all time Top 11 favorite books
If RL can do music, I can do books.
1. If I Never Get Back - Darryl Brock
2. Master Of the Senate - Robert Caro
3. The First Boys of Summer - Greg Rhodes & John Erardi
4. The Hustler's Handbook - Bill Veeck & Ed Linn
5. Nice Guys Finish Last - Leo Durocher & Ed Linn
6. Big Ten Country - Bob Wood
7. Freedom - William Safire
8. The Fifties - Davd Halberstam
9. Have A Nice Day - Mankind (Mick Foley)
10. The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
11. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy - W.P. Kinsella
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you mean for readin' and stuff?
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This is incredibly hard for me as I read a lot and I've read nearly every book by the authors listed so I'll just toss out my favorites off the top of my head, knowing that I could never distill my favorites down to one list (This list is just novels)
A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
Skinny legs and All - Tom Robbins
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Skipped Parts - Tim Sandlin
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -Kurt Vonnegut
Cloudsplitter - Russell Banks
Christopher Moore - Fluke
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
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Just Fiction
Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
David Copperfield - Dickens
Gone with the Wind - Margret Mitchell
Cats Cradle - Vonnegut
The Depford Trilogy - Robertson Davies
Huckleberry Finn - Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye
Shout out to
Battle Cry - Leon Uris
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1. Penthouse
2. Playboy
3. Big uns
4. Britney Spears: My life in Pictures
5. Pimpin for Dummies
6. Fart Jokes 2007
7. The Scouting Report by Marty Brennanmen
8. The Early Years of My Life (1888-1924) by RFS62
9. A Real Man's Guide to Banana Hammocks by ChipR
10. Get Off My Lawn by Roy Tucker
11. My Son Plays Youth League Football by Red Leader
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To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
The Complete Correspondence Between Jefferson and Adams
Origins of the Bill of Rights- Levy
I'm drawing a blank- will have to post more later.
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I'm so disappointed that my biography: My Dad's a Doctor, didn't make your list, Puffy.
:cry: :cry: :cry:
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Red Leader
I'm so disappointed that my biography: My Dad's a Doctor, didn't make your list, Puffy.
:cry: :cry: :cry:
You made that a book - I just thought that was a pick up line.
Ohhhhh, a whole thread on Red Leader's pick up lines.......
:evil:
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I'm emotionally attached to all the following for one reason or another.
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (w/o a doubt my favorite, I've read it over and over)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (every time I read it, I like it better..the perfect novel)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (also read numerous times..I'll admit it, I'm in love w/ Mr. Darcy)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (I just read this 3 summers ago while house and dog sitting in Chicago for my daughter and her husband when they went to France. I had lots of time to just relax and read and enjoy. Tolstoy has no equal. I will read it again before I'm gone.)
Middlemarch - George Eliot (I just read this in the last year, and as soon as I finished, I was ready to start it again. She was so far ahead of her time. I miss the characters.)
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (this isn't great lit. or anything, but I read it twice as a girl of 12, when all around me was falling apart, and it was my refuge. I also fell in love w/ Rhett Butler.)
The World According To Garp - John Irving (My introduction to Irving, I remember laughing my way through all the craziness and heartbreak and couldn't wait for his next book.)
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (he scared the begeezus out of me..a book I couldn't put down once I started reading it.)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem or The White Album - Joan Didion (for many reasons I identify w/ her and her writing. These compilations of essays and articles are my favorites.)
Little House Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder (I'm adding these because they are some of the first (non-picture variety) books I read aloud to my children when they were very young (3 or 4 maybe)..we loved them. The children basically learned to read w/ them. Just brings back that wonderful time, doing one of my favorite things.)
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I'm a big fan of In Cold Blood and Gone with the Wind too.
Never read any Tolstoy.
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Never read any Tolstoy.
he reminds me of Tolkein, only set in the real world.
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Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (this isn't great lit. or anything, but I read it twice as a girl of 12, when all around me was falling apart, and it was my refuge. I also fell in love w/ Rhett Butler.)
Exactly why my wife loves it and why she turned me on to it.. I have a taste for the epic long ones.
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The World According To Garp - John Irving (My introduction to Irving, I remember laughing my way through all the craziness and heartbreak and couldn't wait for his next book.)
I love Irving, he was and still a big part of my life in the 80's
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Ravenlord
he reminds me of Tolkein, only set in the real world.
Very descriptive?
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Where the Red Fern Grows
A Wrinkle in Time
Charlie Mike - Leonard B Scott
Sympathy for the Devil - Kent Anderson
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancey
Red Thrust - Steven Zaloga
Mutual Contempt - Jeff Shesol
Confessional - Jack Higgens
The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins
Treasure/Iceburg/Vixen 06/Raise The Titanic - Clive Cussler
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pedro
Very descriptive?
yep. painfully even at times...at least in War and Peace. still a kick ass book though.
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pedro
Very descriptive?
Guys with hairy feet who live in huts?
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Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini (thanks to my wife for forcing me to read it -- perhaps the best piece of literature I've ever touched)
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
My Dog Skip -- Willie Morris
My Losing Season -- Pat Conroy
The Sound and the Fury -- Faulkner
Candide -- Voltaire
Russka -- Edward Rutherford
The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe
Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
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I took my favorites from different times and places...
The Rabbit trilogy (plus novella) - John Updike
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
The Stand - Stephen King
The World According To Garp - John Irving
The Killer Angels - Jeffrey Shaara
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Doestoevsky
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
The Kid from Tomkinsville - John R. Tunis (had to throw this in for my namesake)
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Read the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Anna Karenina, which is supposed to be one of the best, most true to Tolstoy. This book covers every aspect of life, and it was as meaningful to me, sitting in my daughter's back yard in Portage Park (Chicago) w/ the dogs and a cup of tea, as it would have been sitting somewhere on Levin's farm in 1877 Russia.
woy and pedro: you must read!
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dabvu2498
Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini (thanks to my wife for forcing me to read it -- perhaps the best piece of literature I've ever touched)
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
My Dog Skip -- Willie Morris
My Losing Season -- Pat Conroy
The Sound and the Fury -- Faulkner
Candide -- Voltaire
Russka -- Edward Rutherford
The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe
Gone With the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
The Kite Runner IS excellent. My son's g/f gave me her copy a while back. There's a piece in the latest TIME about the Afghanistani kite makers who are making the kites for the movie version. Can't wait to see it.
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Sweetstop
The Kite Runner IS excellent. My son's g/f gave me her copy a while back. There's a piece in the latest TIME about the Afghanistani kite makers who are making the kites for the movie version. Can't wait to see it.
Hosseini also has a new book due out this spring.
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Sweetstop
Read the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Anna Karenina, which is supposed to be one of the best, most true to Tolstoy. This book covers every aspect of life, and it was as meaningful to me, sitting in my daughter's back yard in Portage Park (Chicago) w/ the dogs and a cup of tea, as it would have been sitting somewhere on Levin's farm in 1877 Russia.
woy and pedro: you must read!
thanks for the tip. :)
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Sweetstop
The Kite Runner IS excellent. My son's g/f gave me her copy a while back. There's a piece in the latest TIME about the Afghanistani kite makers who are making the kites for the movie version. Can't wait to see it.
My wife has been lobbying me to read that... but I'm in a fiction stall right now, trying to finish Irving's newest book (which I think sad to say.. I hate.)
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Sweetstop
The Kite Runner IS excellent. My son's g/f gave me her copy a while back. There's a piece in the latest TIME about the Afghanistani kite makers who are making the kites for the movie version. Can't wait to see it.
My book club read it a couple years back. Excellent book.
It was also the Hamilton County Library 2005 reading project (city-wide book club).
I had trouble with Irving's latest as well woy.
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Top 11 All-Time Fiction:
1. A Fan's Notes, Frederick Exley
2. Middlemarch, George Eliot
3. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
5. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
6. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
7. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
8. The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
9. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Expery
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Roy Tucker
I had trouble with Irving's latest as well woy.
As much as I love Irving, I haven't even tried to read the new one after failing to finish "The Fourth Hand"
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Top 11 Non-Fiction:
1. America, Charles Kuralt
2. The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson
3. The Proud Highway, Hunter S. Thompson
4. The American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter
5. Ball Four, Jim Bouton
6. Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi
7. Lords of the Realm, John Helyar
8. The End of Faith (Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason), Sam Harris
9. From Dawn to Decadence (1500 to the Present), Jacques Barzun
10. All the President's Men, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
11. Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan
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I had trouble with Irving's latest as well woy.
Yep, it's the equivalent of my reaction to U2's Zooropa, a bit of the original vibe and a lot of other stuff I don't really find compelling.
It was the same with Bleak House by Dickens for me.
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Crash Davis
4. The American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter
I had a prof in college that made us read damn near everything that man had written.
I might have liked some of it if it hadn't been force-fed to me.
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dabvu2498
I had a prof in college that made us read damn near everything that man had written.
I might have liked some of it if it hadn't been force-fed to me.
My high school history teacher loved his work. He threw away our textbooks and gave us all a copy of Hofstadter instead. It's really too advanced for high schoolers, but it does something important that text books don't: it makes you think. I think it's a very well balanced look at American politics & history.
I've read his "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life", and I found that one to be a bit more tedious but very high quality nonetheless. I've been planning to check out a few more of his books, but I've just never gotten around to it. A new book, or music, or football game, or 6 pack of Killians always manages to trip me up instead.
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Crash Davis
My high school history teacher loved his work. He threw away our textbooks and gave us all a copy of Hofstadter instead. It's really too advanced for high schoolers, but it does something important that text books don't: it makes you think. I think it's a very well balanced look at American politics & history.
I've read his "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life", and I found that one to be a bit more tedious but very high quality nonetheless. I've been planning to check out a few more of his books, but I've just never gotten around to it. A new book, or music, or football game, or 6 pack of Killians always manages to trip me up instead.
American Violence: A Documentary History is of high quality.
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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
White Noise by DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
New York Trilogy by Auster
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Pastoralia by Saunders
Collected Fictions by Borges (this is probably cheating)
The Loser by Bernhard
Frog by Dixon
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem
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Why do I find these lists so impossible?!
These are completely random ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang -- Joyce Carol Oates
She's Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honorable mention: Gone With the Wind, and nearly anything by Dickens.
My favorite books when I was growing up were Where The Red Fern Grows and Indian in the Cupboard.
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nycredsfan
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
White Noise by DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
New York Trilogy by Auster
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Pastoralia by Saunders
Collected Fictions by Borges (this is probably cheating)
The Loser by Bernhard
Frog by Dixon
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem
Really liked Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.
Couldn't ever get through Gravity's Rainbow but I did like Vineland quite a lot.
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RosieRed
Why do I find these lists so impossible?!
These are completely random ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang -- Joyce Carol Oates
She's Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honorable mention: Gone With the Wind, and nearly anything by Dickens.
My favorite books when I was growing up were Where The Red Fern Grows and Indian in the Cupboard.
Great list Rosie :thumbup:
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nycredsfan
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
White Noise by DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
New York Trilogy by Auster
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Pastoralia by Saunders
Collected Fictions by Borges (this is probably cheating)
The Loser by Bernhard
Frog by Dixon
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem
Loved the Chabon book also. My son-in-law insisted I read White Noise (DeLillo is his favorite author), and I really liked it...almost made my top 10.
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Non Fiction
Ball Four - Jim Bouton
The Fifties - Halbersam
The Reckoning - Halberstam
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
Europe - Norman Davies
The Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell
Bill James Historical Abstract
The Joy of Cooking
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RosieRed
Why do I find these lists so impossible?!
These are completely random ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang -- Joyce Carol Oates
She's Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honorable mention: Gone With the Wind, and nearly anything by Dickens.
My favorite books when I was growing up were Where The Red Fern Grows and Indian in the Cupboard.
Poisonwood Bible, The Shipping News :thumbup:
Read Indian in the Cupboard aloud to my kids. Good book. My daughter also loved Cynthia Voigt and Madeleine L'Engle books. :)
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pedro
Really liked Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon.
Couldn't ever get through Gravity's Rainbow but I did like Vineland quite a lot.
I've been struggling with Pynchon's new one off and on for a few months now. Usually I would say that The Crying of Lot 49 is my favorite Pynchon, but I have been on a long book kick lately. It started with finally getting around to Infinite Jest.
Chabon's new one, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, comes out on May 1st and they are currently filming a movie of Mysteries of Pittsburgh, so there is lots of Chabon goodness to look forward to.
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nycredsfan
I've been struggling with Pynchon's new one off and on for a few months now. Usually I would say that The Crying of Lot 49 is my favorite Pynchon, but I have been on a long book kick lately. It started with finally getting around to Infinite Jest.
Chabon's new one, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, comes out on May 1st and they are currently filming a movie of Mysteries of Pittsburgh, so there is lots of Chabon goodness to look forward to.
Love Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Didn't know they were making a movie. That's cool. edit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768218/fullcredits#cast
looks like they cut out Arthur Lecomte. I like the casting of Peter Saarsgard as Cleveland though. My cats' name is Cleveland, partly in honor of this character.
I really liked the Crying of Lot 49 too.
Looking forward to the new Chabon.