Favorite Books

I'm organizing my book collection and was just wondering what some of your favorite books are. Here's a few of mine:
White Fang, by Jack London
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Eyes of The Dragon, by Stephen King
Salems Lot, by Stephen King
The Mummy, by Anne Rice
All James Herriot books
The Fionavar Tapestry books (I,II,&III), by Guy Gavriel Kay: The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, & The Darkest Road
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

I could probably list many more, but these are at the top of my list. :bookdiva:

Cant tell you my favorite book unless Magazines count. I havent read a book since high school 25 years ago. I hate reading. I allways wait for the movie to come out....

But the book is always better! If I read the book before the movie I almost always hate the movie....my best friend is the same way though, hates reading......

That's why I dont read...lol I dont want to ruin the movie!

LMAO!! Hey, one of my dogs name's Sydney as well....

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LMAO!! Hey, one of my dogs name's Sydney as well....

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Sydney just became part of the family a week ago. She adopted us. Obviously she was just dumped in our little town by some one because no one knows who she belongs to. We put the word out that we had found a dog and no one has replied so I guess this animal loving person will allow it to live here. Other than being very thin she is in pretty good health. She is very easy going and very loyal to my youngest daughter. She follows her everywhere and waits for her patiently when she goes into buildings. She got a nice flea bath tonight and will be visiting the vet tomorrow for a check up. She looks like the dog Shilo of movie fame.

Sorry to get off topic... I still hate reading....LOL

No need to apologize, I always love discussing animals. Our Sydney is a boy and we adopted him. He was skinny too and had heartworms, but that was almost 3yrs. ago, he's doing great now, just a little small for a male of his breed...good luck w/the little girl, I'm glad she found a kind heart and a good home!

A few faves:
The God in Flight
The Poisonwood Bible
The Bean Trees
the Plum series by Janet Evanovich
the Southern Sisters series by Anne George
anything by John Grisham
Dragonsong, etc. by Anne McCaffrey
I Will Fear No Evil by Robert Heinlein
Cold Sassy Tree
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
The House of God
When God Was a Woman
Fast Food Nation
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
anything by Jonathan or Faye Kellerman
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

(and Caren, Jessica's all-time favorite is Watership Down ;) )

All Piers Anthony books in the Xanth series
Black Beauty
Watership Down
Animal Farm
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Wolves of Amm
A Wrinkle in Time
Many Waters
.... I know theres more....

Motherless Brooklyn
Gun, With Occasional Music
The Dancing Wu-Li Masters
The Tao of Physics
The Stand
THe Shining
Lord Foul's Bane


and on and on and on and on

In no particular order:
The Hobbit
Emma
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Catcher in the Rye
The Stranger by Albert Camus

How could I forget 'The Stand'!! I read the unabridged version, over a thousand pages...GREAT BOOK!!

Marla, tell Jessica that if I had to pick an all-time fav, it would probably be Watership Down tied w/White Fang :D

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Marla, tell Jessica that if I had to pick an all-time fav, it would probably be Watership Down tied w/White Fang :D

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Will do. She's all excited now because Netflix carries the movie, which she's never gotten to see but will be able to soon. She's also a fan of Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller, a couple more animal stories. :)

You know, I don't think I've ever read 'Where the Red Fern Grows', of course heard of it though....maybe that'll be my next book as I'm almost done w/the one I'm reading now. Isn't Netflix the best? Just got 2 new movies today!!

If you can read it and not cry, you're a robot. :) And yeah, Netflix is rockin'. :mrgreen:

Anykind of biology book or science book and greek mythology is pretty intresting too.

The Sky Road By Ken Macleod and everything else by him and netflix is the bomb I get all my indie and old movies from them.