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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pedro
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.