we have a book club!!!
where have you been, my blue-eyed daughter? I missed you
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we have a book club!!!
where have you been, my blue-eyed daughter? I missed you
they have one ape
and yeh, the giver is a great book. simple but not simple. it's fucking good
Cool! I am going to check it out. I've been here just haven't logged in in a while since my Antivirus kept telling me to stay away.
I love it, they gave it to us in school. They probably don't do that anymore because of him dreaming about the girl naked.
Ok, my book list:
Tunnel in the Sky - Heinlein
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Edda
Odyssee + Ilias - Homer
The Stand - King
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
The Cask of Amontillado - Poe
Foundation Trilogy - Asimov
Musashi - Yoshikawa
Taiko - Yoshikawa
St.Pauli Night - F.Göhre
Pastime - Parker
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Yes, we have one, April!
Off topic: It's good to have you back with us. :)
I am seeing 1984 a lot and am loving it. Out of my whole list that is my fav, I can never underestimate the impact 1984 had on me.
Oh and I dont know if you guys have heard (or those of you who put it on your list) HBO is in filming right now making a show based on "A Song of Ice and Fire".
It's called "Game of Thrones" IMDB
Off Topic, I know.
It's been on my list for a while, I have to read it now though b/c I don't want to get spoiled by the show.
everybody knows that, DA. it's been in the works for years
come on ape, keep up
I've been trying but I just can't come up with only 15 books that affected my life. Maybe because I'm older, there are literally dozens of books, both fiction and non-fiction, that have affected me and my outlook on life. I give up!
John
I second that. I'm sure could give 15 major ones for each decade.
Fortunately, I've already listed many of those books that influenced me since the '70s here, and I have done a list of novels in Top Ten Non King.
So, if y'all remember about those, and that I might have to mention more later, I guess I can do this. The first 15 I think of, not counting books of the Bible and such, right?
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! -- Dr. Seuss
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten -- Robert Fulghum
- The World's Religions -- Huston Smith
- States of Grace -- Charlene Spretnak
- The Kingdom Within -- John A. Sanford
- Illusions -- Richard Bach
- Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
- The Wisdom of Insecurity -- Alan Watts
- The Celestine Propecy -- James Redfield
- Mutant Message Down Under -- Marlo Morgan
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior -- Dan Millman
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig
- Blue Highways -- William Least Heat-Moon
- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness -- Edward Abbey
- Lake Wobegon Days -- Garrison Keillor
In no order :
The Dark Tower Series ( all in the series ... so that's 7 right there )
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Path? I love these two, they'd be on a longer list if I could go on ... Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman and
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig. Or maybe, if we did a Religious / Spirituality book list.
Sincerely, I love books so much ... I think I could do a few from each year.
:lol:
Seriously? I was just coming back here to figure out how I missed To Kill A Mockingbird and then wrestle with which of the books to knock of my list so I could include it!
Updated Then :
In no order :
The Dark Tower Series ( all in the series ... but they count as one!! )
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Nine Stories - JD Salinger
Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
The Kay Scarpetta Book Series - Patricia Cornwell
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Maus - Art Spiegelman ( two in the series, graphic novel )
Deaths of Jocasta - JM Redmann
The Stand - Sai King
A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins
Off To The Races - a children's book by Frederick Phleger
seriously. :D
Please see above ... I updated! :ninja:
:thumbsup:
I still need to read the second Maus.
Yeah, I figured I could just name the first book or a favorite book of mine for each author... in most of those cases, their other work has also meant a lot to me.
:wub: These books led to my interest in Blue Highways, and to some other trips.
Oh, and I could also have mentioned
An Actor Prepares -- Constantin Stanislavski
naturally.
path - can you, just for the sake of satisfying bears' curiosity, make up a list of fiction only?