5 favorite all time books?

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Mine are.

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Where the Red Fern Grows
Gospel Centered Discipleship
Soul Winner
The Giving Tree
 
I'm not much of a reader so I only have one favorite which is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." The main character reminds me of myself when I was in high school, I can relate to him. There will be a movie coming out soon, I'm very excited because both the director and author is the same person.
 
"The Christian Atheist"

"Gone with the Wind"

"Redeeming Love"

"What in the world is going on?"

"The Shack"
 
Chuck said:
Mine are.

If you give a Mouse a cookie
Where the Red Fern Grows
Gospel Centered Discipleship
Soul Winner
The Giving Tree
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I did read the red fern book when I was in 8th grade.

I don't know my favorites, but 5 books that I like are:

"The Extra 2%"

"Charlotte's Web"

"Marley and Me"

"Hansel and Gretel"

"Moneyball"
 
This is a hard list to make:
Chuck Paulahniuk: Survivor
Terry Pratchett: Going Postal
Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
Agatha Christie: And Then There were None
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide (series)
 
Only 5? I'll do my best..

"Quartered Safe Out Here" by George Macdonald Fraser. It's his war memoirs whilst serving in the 14th Army out in Burma at the end of WWII. Gripping stuff, and actually rather harrowing.

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. I can quote entire paragraphs from this book...

"Angry White Pyjamas" by Robert Twigger. An Oxford poet goes to train in Aikido in Japan. A lot funnier than what it sounds, it's actually as much a study of living in Japan and the lives of his friends and fellow students as it is about Martial-Arts.

"The Royal Marines" by Major-General Julian Thompson. Because I was stationed in Germany about 10 years ago, working with these guys and they told me to read it :)

"Moving Pictures" by Terry Pratchett. I could of picked any of his books to be honest, but this one, 'cos not only is it a rattling goos read, it's also great satire!
 
Not sure if these are my top five, but they are five favorites:

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (one of the four classics of Chinese literature)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

But these days I read and enjoy more YA and MG fiction.
 
Wow...just five, huh?

1. Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
2. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
3. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickins
4. Mozart, Marcia Davernport
5. The Dead, James Joyce

Laura
 
from my limited non-textbook reading experience, my best fives are;

My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews
The Collector John Fowles
Dogfight Ewan Wilson
Soldier John A. Lee
Motorcyle Road Racing Kenny Roberts
 
I don't really have a favorite book as I don't read books.

If I had to choose, I'd probably go with the 5 books I read years ago (during the time I had to read book for school)...

- Jurassic Park
- Animal Farm
- Beowulf
- Charlotte's Web
- The Great Gatsby
 
animal farm was good, it was about the russian revolution interesting and funny
 
spire william golding
room with a view e,m forester
story of pi
philip larkins poems

then read fifty shades of grey and you can then appriciate good lit which fifty shades is not
 
I love to read, always have, so I can't pick only 5 all time favorites ... maybe my 50 all time favorites would be better ha ... but 5 off the top of my head are:

The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
The Girls - Lori Lansens
The Long Walk - S Rawicz
Night - Elie Wiesel
 
All Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

All works by Agatha Christie

Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer

The Hobbit , by Tolkien

Harry Potter, by Rowling
 
I prefer series to one-offs, so here's my top five series.

1. The Kiesha'ra Series by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
2. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton
3. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
4. All the series based in the Tortall Universe by Tamora Pierce
5. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
 
Grummer said:
animal farm was good, it was about the russian revolution interesting and funny
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Yeah.

What's interesting is how a lot of books are written to reflect real live situations or other stories that people have no interest in reading or learning. That's how I gained a new perspective on a lot of things after learning what they were reflected with.

The same goes for video games. Some video games make references or reflect some point of real live mythology or situations. One game comes to mind... the Command & Conquer series. (That's another story to share in another thread.)

Same with movies.
 
There is a book that I've considered reading if I had time to... A Void. :)
 
Bottesini said:
All Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle

All works by Agatha Christie

Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer

The Hobbit , by Tolkien

Harry Potter, by Rowling
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i thought about canterbury tales on my list but have memories ofA'level english lit and 'the millers tale' one i had to study the days i could string sentence together hear and happy days....i going give katherine mansfield short stories again
 
caz12 said:
i thought about canterbury tales on my list but have memories ofA'level english lit and 'the millers tale' one i had to study the days i could string sentence together hear and happy days....i going give katherine mansfield short stories again
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My father introduced me to those as a child, and I was fascinated by the picture of life lived so long ago in the actual telling by a person living then.
 
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