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Dec 1, 2010 1:07 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
artist21
artist21artist21east hartford, ct, Connecticut USA1 Threads 25 Posts
My favorite is Almost Heaven by Judith McNaught because it's well-written, hilarious, deep, has an interesting plot, & lovable characters that you can really feel for. It's also very different from the typical historical romance. Rather than having a male main character who was born into everything that he has (money & title) this character, rejecting his inheritance & title, works his way to being one of the richest men in England by using his genius. And the love story is soooo fantastic & has a few twists. It's laugh/tear-worthy lol. It also brings my favorite couples from her previous books together. heart beating


Best historical romance that I've ever read. Read it 8 times so far & still pick it up to read my favorite parts!
applause


What's your most favorite & why do you like it?

lips
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Dec 1, 2010 1:11 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
time4fun4u
time4fun4utime4fun4uAlicante, Valencia Spain18 Threads 1 Polls 10,066 Posts
Advanced needlework,it has me in stitches grin
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Dec 1, 2010 1:19 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
JSuburbia
JSuburbiaJSuburbiaOrbisonia, Pennsylvania USA17 Threads 2,518 Posts
My favorite book is a book I read as a child "Where the Red Fern Grows". Definitely alot of life lessons to be told in that book and it has a fantastic story as well. I definitely would love to have a 1st Edition of that book.
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Dec 1, 2010 1:21 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
leostartingover
leostartingoverleostartingoverSandton, Gauteng South Africa33 Threads 1 Polls 1,685 Posts
time4fun4u: Advanced needlework,it has me in stitches


Silly billy! rolling on the floor laughing
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Dec 1, 2010 1:21 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
time4fun4u
time4fun4utime4fun4uAlicante, Valencia Spain18 Threads 1 Polls 10,066 Posts
leostartingover: Silly billy!
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing teddybear
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Dec 1, 2010 1:22 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
DarkKnight2032
DarkKnight2032DarkKnight2032West Jordan, Utah USA14 Threads 960 Posts
Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin

This is a collection of Star Trek quotes in various chapters.

Whenever I need guidance of sorts, I can open this book and find a quote to point me in the right direction.

wine
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Dec 1, 2010 1:29 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
leostartingover
leostartingoverleostartingoverSandton, Gauteng South Africa33 Threads 1 Polls 1,685 Posts
JSuburbia: My favorite book is a book I read as a child "Where the Red Fern Grows". Definitely alot of life lessons to be told in that book and it has a fantastic story as well. I definitely would love to have a 1st Edition of that book.


JS, I will have to get hold of a copy! I love finding out about new books I haven't read that other people find meaningful...

I cannot tell you one favourite because I have MANY. Some of my favourites ever are:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Beach Music and Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Birdy, Dad and Tiger by William Wharton
Mao's Last Dance
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

All wonderful reads.... I have always loved reading! yay
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Dec 1, 2010 1:45 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
mindfful
mindffulmindffulChicago, Illinois USA235 Threads 8 Polls 18,996 Posts
shes come undone
traveling mercies (annie lamott)
snowblind
gal
junky

great gatsby
some kipling
a moveable feast
wuthering heights

the stand

all of these i have read over and over

i love books!
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Dec 1, 2010 2:04 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
lucynad
lucynadlucynadSunny city, Sicilia Italy7 Threads 2,431 Posts
that would be "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" by Giorgio Bassani

it has a nostalgic atmosphere in it...

that is very suggestive...
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Dec 1, 2010 2:12 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
mindfful
mindffulmindffulChicago, Illinois USA235 Threads 8 Polls 18,996 Posts
midnight in the garden of good and evil

dune

5 people you meet in heaven

i could go on.....smitten
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Dec 1, 2010 2:16 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
The Bible...

Why? Because it has every Answer, to Every Question, of Lifes Situations...It is the Instruction Book of Life, Love, and Understanding...

and because every Question in Life that I had found no answer in 30 or 40 years
The answer was Clearly written somewhere in those pages..

sigh
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Dec 1, 2010 2:20 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
JSuburbia
JSuburbiaJSuburbiaOrbisonia, Pennsylvania USA17 Threads 2,518 Posts
leostartingover: JS, I will have to get hold of a copy! I love finding out about new books I haven't read that other people find meaningful...

I cannot tell you one favourite because I have MANY. Some of my favourites ever are:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Beach Music and Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Birdy, Dad and Tiger by William Wharton
Mao's Last Dance
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

All wonderful reads.... I have always loved reading!




It's a tear jerker for sure of a story, although it's built around adolescence, fantastic story...One of the few times I really felt they made a fantastic adaption into film as well.

I really thought I wasn't going to like the movie, because of how much praise I had for the book, but I really thought they did a fantastic job staying absolutely true to the book with it..
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Dec 1, 2010 2:31 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
mindfful
mindffulmindffulChicago, Illinois USA235 Threads 8 Polls 18,996 Posts
leostartingover: JS, I will have to get hold of a copy! I love finding out about new books I haven't read that other people find meaningful...

I cannot tell you one favourite because I have MANY. Some of my favourites ever are:

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Beach Music and Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Birdy, Dad and Tiger by William Wharton
Mao's Last Dance
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

All wonderful reads.... I have always loved reading!


memoirs of a geisha?
thats a good one

and i loved out of africa too!

books rulehead banger

lord of the rings and lion witch and wardrobe series tooapplause
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Dec 1, 2010 7:41 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
inkognito
inkognitoinkognitos/wh between castles & ruins, Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany8 Threads 1,126 Posts
artist21:

What's your most favorite & why do you like it?


I'm just reading Pope Joan of Donna Woolfolk Cross, it's amazing!
it really makes me wow and uh oh and shock

it's a historical novel (I just love historical novels smitten ) about a legend of her
and though it's only a story, nevertheless it's reflecting the circumstances how they were been around that time 9th century
the stand of women in front of the church (you know, they were less worth than a pig you can say, well, for some men is that still the only truth wink ), the cruelty and crime of the Christianity in the name of God!!! wow wow wow

if someone is curious, little info smile

(novel)


great thread thumbs up
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Dec 1, 2010 9:35 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
wikked
wikkedwikkedAjax, Ontario Canada655 Threads 4 Polls 6,091 Posts
All the series by Wilbur Smith smitten
My first of his was "The River God"...was hooked after

Contemporary - Lisa Jackson

Excellent Canadian Story - Turtle Valley
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Dec 1, 2010 9:49 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
trish123
trish123trish123Macclesfield, Cheshire, England UK177 Threads 4 Polls 13,724 Posts
Im currently Reading The Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan

Its a very different look at the book.....

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Dec 1, 2010 9:58 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
Veritaas
VeritaasVeritaasLondon, Greater London, England UK2 Threads 5,839 Posts
mindfful: midnight in the garden of good and evil
dune

5 people you meet in heaven

i could go on.....


One of my favorites too.

Too many to mention like yourself MF, I could go on and on. But just recently have read "The Little World of Don Camillo", yet again. Has me in stitches every time I read it.thumbs up
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Dec 1, 2010 10:22 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
mnowsa
mnowsamnowsaRajshahi, Rajshahi Division Bangladesh145 Threads 3 Polls 7,536 Posts
i think the most interesting book i have read so far is "selfish gene"wave
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Dec 1, 2010 10:56 AM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
shakespeare09
shakespeare09shakespeare09New Haven, CT, Connecticut USA4 Threads 48 Posts
Fiction - Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon.

Foreign Fiction - The Master and Margarita - Evengy Bulgakov

Poetry - Derek Walcott ( at the moment)

Epic Poetry - Faust - Goethe
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Dec 9, 2010 12:57 PM CST What is you most favorite book & why?
ThornofAvalon
ThornofAvalonThornofAvalonWalton, Kentucky USA2 Threads 7 Posts
I tend to love fantasy novels, especially when they have lovable characters.

Iron Dawn by Mathew Woodring Stover
A song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin

I'll also read Xanth novels on occasion (when the mood strikes) and adore Tad Williams for his amazing writing style, I've yet to read anything by him that I have not enjoyed.

Memoirs of a Geisha was also an excellent read. It was a beautiful blend of poetry and culture. It was an experience!
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