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Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | (show all) whats your favorite author?       #237704 - 01/11/06 02:48 PM Edit Reply Quote Honey mix Reged: 11/16/05 Posts: 285 Loc: USA wish it was England Mine is L.M. Montgomery i absolutly love anne of green gables -------------------- Puppies Are Cute But I'm Cuter Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237712 - 01/11/06 03:43 PM Edit Reply Quote Snorkie Reged: 02/15/05 Posts: 1999 Loc: Northern Illinois, USA I have a few favorite authors. I will always love Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read all the Little House books when I was little, and I got the full set of Little House books for Christmas. I will be reading them all again soon. I also like Edward Rutherford. He writes big fat historical novels. Sarum is my favorite of his books. I could go on, but I think I'll stop with just two for now. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237723 - 01/11/06 04:32 PM Edit Reply Quote Betharoo Reged: 01/28/05 Posts: 815 Loc: Ontario, Canada Nicholas Sparks, even before all the books turned into movies. The Notebook, etc. -------------------- Microscopic Colitis, IBS-A, GERD, Hiatal Hernia Bethany, Ontario, Canada Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237791 - 01/11/06 08:09 PM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city a.s. byatt. love love love. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237795 - 01/11/06 08:30 PM Edit Reply Quote Augie Reged: 10/27/04 Posts: 5807 Loc: Illinois Believe it or not, two of the ones already mentioned! Laura Ingalls Wilder and Nicholas Sparks! Every one of his books is good, but The Notebook is my favorite. Anne of Green Gables is awesome. I own the 3 part series on VHS tape and do weekend marathons of her...but never read the books. Also, I like Elizabeth Berg. -------------------- ~ Beth Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237799 - 01/11/06 08:41 PM Edit Reply Quote ChristineM Reged: 05/31/04 Posts: 1662 Loc: soCal The two names that pop into my mind first are John Steinbeck and John Irving. Of Mice and Men should be required reading for life, and I also love The Grapes of Wrath (even the dust chapters...hee hee) and East of Eden. John Irving. I especially loved A Widow for One Year, but The Cider House Rules was really good, too. (So is everything else I've ever ready by him.) -------------------- Christine Those who can do; those who want it done better teach. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237800 - 01/11/06 08:49 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 Oh so many good ones here! I definitely grew up reading (and re-reading ) the Little House books and all the Anne of Green Gables Books. They're like "childhood" for me, right there. A.S. Bayatt and John Irving are both other favourites of mine... rather different from each other admittedly, but both fantastic in their own ways. I also really love Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale is probably one of my all-time favourites. Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Life Without Me, etc.), Gabriel Garcia Marquz, and Michael Ondaatje (he wrote the English Patient... In the Skin of the Lion though is I think my favourite of his, or Anil's Ghost is great too) are all favourites too. Oh, and Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway, another all-time favourite). And a few more Canadians: Jane Urquhart, Alice Munro... OK, I could go on, but I'll stop there. I have so much reading to do for school I hardly get to read much fiction these days (even though I'm an English student! Go figure! haha) Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237803 - 01/11/06 09:03 PM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city ah! someone else who loves a.s. byatt!! have you read the virgin in the garden foursome? i read it straight through one summer - soo good. also, if you love her, you should read margaret drabble. who happens to be her sister. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #237804 - 01/11/06 09:07 PM Edit Reply Quote dan the redneck man Reged: 07/20/04 Posts: 139 Loc: Houghton; MI i'm partial to emerson, thoreau and maclean Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     they're sisters!?       #237816 - 01/11/06 09:35 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 wow I didn't know that! i've never read any margaret drabble but she's been on my list of 'authors to check out' for ages now. of byatt I've only read possession but I loved it. I'd never heard of the virgin in the garden but i just checked it out on amazon and it looks fantastic. i will definitely keep an eye out for it ooh i just thought of another one: have you ever read any annie proulx? Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     we're practically literary soulmates!       #237817 - 01/11/06 09:38 PM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city i love annie proulx - that old ace in the hole is great! if you're going to read margaret drabble, go for the radiant way. it's a brilliant, wonderful book. only possession!? wow - so many people have so much trouble getting through that book. i'd try the virgin in the garden quartet - i adore them. so dense and engaging. her short stories are also amazing - little black book of stories is really really great. along other lines, i'd wager money on no one here having heard of this book, but super flat times by matthew derby is an amazing book, the indie rock of fiction to me. (not as in it being about indie rock, but occupying an analogous role.) gosh i love books. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: we're practically literary soulmates!       #237822 - 01/11/06 09:53 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 hehe we are! quite honestly, if it came down to my last cent and i could spend it either on food or a good book, the good book would win out every time (the IBS probably wouldn't appreciate that but... haha.) i loved that old ace in the hole. and the shipping news, too. now i must go find the short story brokeback mountain was based on... i've really been meaning to get back into a.s. byatt since i read possession quite a few years ago now and i just loved it so much but never got around to reading anything else by her (yes, admittedly, the size of her novels is a little intimidating!) short stories seem like a good easy place to start though, especially since they're easier to squeeze in between derrida and foucault i hadn't heard of matthew derby, but it looks really neat. my partner is really into weird, small-press fiction ("indie fiction", hehe I like that!) like this and he's gotten me more and more into it, too. i don't think he's heard of this one so i'm definitely going to bring it to his attention, on your recommendation! it looks really interesting! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: we're practically literary soulmates!       #237829 - 01/12/06 01:52 AM Edit Reply Quote CathUK Reged: 05/25/04 Posts: 373 Loc: Cambridge, UK I love these authors too! Have you tried Jeanette Winterson, A L Kennedy, Angela Carter and Haruki Murakami?? Also some really good new English poets are John Burnside and Alice Oswald. Catherine Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: we're practically literary soulmates!       #237894 - 01/12/06 07:17 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city so glad to be spreading the matthew derby gospel! i read him summer before my senior year of college, and i credit him for getting me out of a rut and making me able to write my thesis. (it was a fiction project, and he just kick-started my imagination.) -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #238141 - 01/12/06 08:25 PM Edit Reply Quote ChristineM Reged: 05/31/04 Posts: 1662 Loc: soCal Excellent choices, Laurel! I went through a Margaret Atwood phase in high school. I loved, loved, LOVED Cat's Eye. -------------------- Christine Those who can do; those who want it done better teach. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     margaret atwood       #238144 - 01/12/06 08:30 PM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city i've only ever read her 'weird,' sci-fi/fantasy stuff, but i *adore* it - the handmaid's tale in high school (though it's creepily relevant now - the coup that sets up the religious government, creepy), and oryx and crake is *fantastic* and i recomment to everyone. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Did you read "the Blind assassin"??--nt       #238185 - 01/13/06 06:29 AM Edit Reply Quote epa_ginger Reged: 02/23/05 Posts: 1158 Loc: Chicago, IL -------------------- Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     no....       #238203 - 01/13/06 07:17 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city i have it, and started it once but couldn't get into it at the time. i'm assuming you think i should? -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: no....       #238216 - 01/13/06 08:10 AM Edit Reply Quote epa_ginger Reged: 02/23/05 Posts: 1158 Loc: Chicago, IL Well, I really liked it, for whatever reason. It was a different kind of book. I think it gets better as you keep reading. -------------------- Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Margaret Atwood       #238231 - 01/13/06 09:01 AM Edit Reply Quote cailin Reged: 08/12/04 Posts: 3563 Loc: Dublin, Ireland I loved Handmaid's Tale and Oryx & Crake, Blind Assasin was the first one I read and I loved it at the time but there are confusing passages in it written in real scifi language that really were hard to get. That said I still went out to buy more of her books so I obviously did like something of the rest of the story. Which is the one that Zora(?) oh someone beginning with Z is in and they don't like her and one of the main characters recreates historical wars in her basement? -------------------- S. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: no....       #238236 - 01/13/06 09:17 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city i definitely plan to give it another shot at some point. i just wasn't in the right mood for it then. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: no....       #238257 - 01/13/06 10:49 AM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 re: Blind Assassin. I haven't picked that one up yet but it does look good. By far, Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake are my favourites of hers, both a bit similar in their dystopic outlook. However, Surfacing also really really sucked me in. It's another kind of weird one but really REALLY good. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: no....       #238270 - 01/13/06 11:29 AM Edit Reply Quote CathUK Reged: 05/25/04 Posts: 373 Loc: Cambridge, UK I love Surfacing. Another one that I would really recommend is Cats Eye. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Ayn Rand, I think.       #238273 - 01/13/06 11:31 AM Edit Reply Quote Wind Reged: 04/02/05 Posts: 3178 I don't know why, but I love Ayn Rand, STILL!!! Is that tacky? I still reread THE FOUNTAINHEAD! Kate. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Ayn Rand, I think.       #238275 - 01/13/06 11:34 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city not tacky at all! i really enjoy her writing. (she's what stopped me from being a total socialist - i relized i'm too much of an elitist/meritocratist ) i just always had to skip the inevitable rant at the end. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I'm totally with you on Gabriel Garcia Marquz, Laurel!       #238276 - 01/13/06 11:37 AM Edit Reply Quote Wind Reged: 04/02/05 Posts: 3178 Ah..."Love in the Time of Cholera!" I'm staring at it right now. Might have to make Marquz my bedfellow for the afternoon. I love Isabel Allende, too--"The Stories of Eva Luna" most especially. I completely agree re: "The Handmaid's Tale." Honestly, it has marked me for life! Speaking of Canadians, I find Robertson Davies a lot of fun. Okay, I think I like your library! Kate. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: whats your favorite author?       #238296 - 01/13/06 12:56 PM Edit Reply Quote Portageegal Reged: 06/28/05 Posts: 940 Loc: Massachusetts Frank X. Gaspar..... (he's my brother) -------------------- Carol nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Ayn Rand, I think.       #238301 - 01/13/06 01:24 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 ok funny story: I got sucked into Ayn Rand WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD! I know! OK, I didn't read Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged or anything as a fifth grader, just her play The Night of January 16th, which I probably read about twenty times, but since then I can't help but love her Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I WAS Laura Ingalls!       #238319 - 01/13/06 02:28 PM Edit Reply Quote poochibelly Reged: 04/27/05 Posts: 1614 I was so like the Laura who let Nelly stand in the creek just so she would get leeches on her legs...serves her right for being a prissy-pus! When Michael Landon died I felt as if I had lost my Pa! -------------------- Have a blessed day!...Rachel stable and sooooooo thankful! I have IBS but it doesn't have me! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Nuh-uh, I was Laura Ingalls!!!!       #238334 - 01/13/06 02:49 PM Edit Reply Quote ecmmbm Reged: 02/23/03 Posts: 1622 Loc: North Carolina I beat up the bullies in our neighborhood ALL the time! -------------------- Take care, Michelle ...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13) Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     C.S. Lewis and yes, I LOVE the movie Narnia!       #238335 - 01/13/06 02:50 PM Edit Reply Quote ecmmbm Reged: 02/23/03 Posts: 1622 Loc: North Carolina -------------------- Take care, Michelle ...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13) Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: I WAS Laura Ingalls!       #238346 - 01/13/06 03:42 PM Edit Reply Quote Honey mix Reged: 11/16/05 Posts: 285 Loc: USA wish it was England Itotally agree if i was Laura i would do somthing worse to Nellie Olson and her rude mother -------------------- Puppies Are Cute But I'm Cuter Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Ondaatje       #238358 - 01/13/06 04:20 PM Edit Reply Quote jrs Reged: 03/31/03 Posts: 317 Loc: Aberystwyth, Wales I unfortunately don't read that much fiction, but the one author who completely blew me away with his writing style was Michael Ondaatje. I read In the Skin of a Lion, and, after the initial 'getting used to the author's writing style' period that I always go through, it was completely mesmerizing. I would recommend it to anyone. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I am older than you...I was Laura Ingall's first!       #238363 - 01/13/06 04:37 PM Edit Reply Quote poochibelly Reged: 04/27/05 Posts: 1614 I would have been the one making friends with Indians, playing with Jack and hanging out with oh....what was that man's name? The one who waded through a cold creek to deliver Christmas presents to Laura and Mary? I couldn't stand Nelly's guts! -------------------- Have a blessed day!...Rachel stable and sooooooo thankful! I have IBS but it doesn't have me! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     On Narnia....       #238365 - 01/13/06 04:42 PM Edit Reply Quote poochibelly Reged: 04/27/05 Posts: 1614 I took the kids to see it last week and 30 minutes before the end when Aslan comes back to life...the digital program in the theater came on and superimposed the pink panther movie onto the screen! It was funny at first....20 minutes later it was still happening I became annoyed. The short version of the story is we got free passes for another time. I know I will be buying the DVD so we didn't worry about it much. My sister told me that Narnia was more impactful than the Passion of the Christ for her. My experience was opposite of hers but...both movies are awesome! -------------------- Have a blessed day!...Rachel stable and sooooooo thankful! I have IBS but it doesn't have me! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Ondaatje       #238369 - 01/13/06 05:13 PM Edit Reply Quote retrograde Reged: 04/15/04 Posts: 1569 I really like Ondaatje too. He is such a powerful writer. Have you read anything else of his? In the Skin of the Lion is definitely my favourite also, but I was also really struck by Anil's Ghost, which is Sri Lanka, where Ondaatje is from. I've also read his collection of short stories, the Cinnamon Peeler, and Coming Through the Slaughter - which was just... wow. Powerful, that's for sure. Different, definitely takes some getting useful. But definitely powerful. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Well, I ahve a few...       #238377 - 01/13/06 05:37 PM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. I love Hemingway(so factual and raw), love Atwood (yeah canadian fembots-she's got wild writing.) and my two fave books are The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Oh, Alice munro!       #238382 - 01/13/06 05:51 PM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. I can't believe I forgot her. If you want another good canuck lit story, you have to read these two: Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry (or A Fine balance) and then...The Roaring Girl by greg Hollingshead. He was a prof at the U of A I think. Nice guy. I was in my B.A of English before i branched off just a bit into B.Ed.These are both books I read in uni. and loved. -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Oh, robertson Davies!       #238384 - 01/13/06 05:58 PM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. I found him pretty good too. you know, we have some pretty kick butt writers up here, eh? -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Hey! Hey!       #238389 - 01/13/06 06:09 PM Edit Reply Quote Nelly Reged: 08/06/04 Posts: 4381 Loc: Within stray mortar fire of DC Hey! Hey!! That's Nellie, not Nelly! ~nelly~ Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Oh sorry! I wish no leeches on YOU!~nt~       #238391 - 01/13/06 06:11 PM Edit Reply Quote poochibelly Reged: 04/27/05 Posts: 1614 -------------------- Have a blessed day!...Rachel stable and sooooooo thankful! I have IBS but it doesn't have me! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I hate Nellie club!       #238392 - 01/13/06 06:11 PM Edit Reply Quote Nelly Reged: 08/06/04 Posts: 4381 Loc: Within stray mortar fire of DC Ahem! Nellie!! Not Nelly! As an aside, my first computer was called "Leach Gatherer" from an Emerson poem... Yes, I am a geek. ~nelly with a y~ Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: I have a few too!       #238419 - 01/13/06 09:27 PM Edit Reply Quote lalala Reged: 02/14/05 Posts: 2634 Yes, it's hard to narrow it down! I'll list writers I love and what I read and re-read: Aimee Bender (short stories) Isaac Babel (short stories) Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Elephant Vanishes) Dostoyevsky (The Idiot) Gogol (short stories) Octavia Butler (Lilith's Brood) Dashiell Hammett (The Continental Op) Edward Eager (He wrote a series of children's books Half Magic, and I really enjoy his writing style and story-telling voice.) C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia!) Bernardo Atxaga (Two Brothers) Edited by SPASMTASTICAL! (01/13/06 09:38 PM) Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     my favorite author       #238432 - 01/14/06 05:31 AM Edit Reply Quote Portageegal Reged: 06/28/05 Posts: 940 Loc: Massachusetts Here are some books by my (no nepotism here ..... ) favorite author. I took the author picture and got photo credit (boy was that cool) for Leaving Pico, which is about growing up in P-town. The picture was taken at the end of the town wharf. All but Pico are poetry, but he is working on a second novel. I like Stephen King and Dean Koonz, too, but I'm not related to them. -------------------- Carol nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I'm a short story girl too!       #238502 - 01/14/06 11:32 AM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. I don't really have the patience anymore to read long novels. I'm Way too immediate gratfication for me to get to the end, LOL! -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Sorry for looking like the village idiot...       #238504 - 01/14/06 11:34 AM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. but who IS he? You did say nepotism, and I am a wordsmith, so I'm on the level there...... -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     I'm starting an I LOVE Nelly with a Y club!       #238506 - 01/14/06 11:36 AM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. And hey, Anne with an E was always a fave of mine, tooLOL! -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     He be my brother, Frank       #238510 - 01/14/06 12:34 PM Edit Reply Quote Portageegal Reged: 06/28/05 Posts: 940 Loc: Massachusetts He's the one that I contacted about 10 years ago and said "Hey, you have a sister." We've been close ever since ... as if we grew up together. He looks alot like me and my father. Someday I'll write it all down. It's too long to do now. -------------------- Carol nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Margaret Atwood is my favorite too!       #238595 - 01/14/06 08:50 PM Edit Reply Quote chinagrl Reged: 12/18/03 Posts: 2439 I loved Blind Assassin... but to be honest I really didn't like Handmaid's Tale nor Alias Grace. All of her other stuff (barring the most recent, which I haven't read yet) I have loved. And I've read it all. I swear. Even all of her poetry. I met her once, and saw her talk, and got about eight of my books signed. It was very cool. I'm a big fan of unsentimental domestic fiction, which I think she specializes in... and to that end I also recommend Carol Sheilds, Marge Piercy, Anne Tyler, and Jane Smiley. I just finished Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders and loved it. I think my most favorite book ever is Horse Heaven which she wrote... I definitely recommend it. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Mine are...       #238598 - 01/14/06 09:10 PM Edit Reply Quote Lynx Reged: 04/21/05 Posts: 160 Robert T. Baker (Raptor Red), Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, etc...), and Makoto Inque and Hiromu Arakawa (Full Metal Alchemist). -------------------- Check out my gallery! http://niomie.deviantart.com/ Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Hey! Hey!       #238625 - 01/15/06 07:21 AM Edit Reply Quote Snow for Sarala Reged: 03/12/03 Posts: 5430 Loc: West Coast, USA Ya know Nelly...I didn't know who Laura Angell (sp) was and I thought they WERE talking about you and I was SO confused! Did she write Little House on the Prarie? Anyone? Nel....you're famous to me......always remember that! -------------------- Formerly known as Ruchie Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Hey! Hey!       #238655 - 01/15/06 10:01 AM Edit Reply Quote chinagrl Reged: 12/18/03 Posts: 2439 Yep, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote all of the Little House on the Prairie books, and then her daughter Rose wrote some sequels as well. Nelly Olsen was Laura's arch nemesis as a small child, she was rich and blonde and a total snot head. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Children's Books       #238657 - 01/15/06 10:10 AM Edit Reply Quote Snow for Sarala Reged: 03/12/03 Posts: 5430 Loc: West Coast, USA I think I will have to check this out! I know this played this on Nickelodeon when I was a kid but I was never interested in it. And I didn't read it as a kid either. But it wounds like I missed out...I'm def. interested now! I don't know why...but I'm totaly into children's books. (Maybe b/c I feel like I missed out on having one...) but I love em'! Any others you recommend?? It would be GREAT to have more books to keep me preoccupied as the surgery looms nearer (and for after as well...) Thanks again *hugs* P.S. HONEY MIX ! ! ! Thank you for starting this thread! -------------------- Formerly known as Ruchie Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     best children's books in the world       #238666 - 01/15/06 10:38 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city are, in my opinion, the 'wrinkle in time' books by madeline l'engle. (a wrinkle in time, a wind in the door, a swiftly tilting planet, many waters.) made me the romantic science geek i am today. also wonderful: the phantom tollbooth, a wizard of earthsea, the pistachio prescription, julie of the wolves... i read 'clan of the cavebear' when i was twelve, but that's hardly a kids thing. still great - but damn did the rest of the books in that series go downhill from there. i'll admit i was a big-time baby sitter's club devotee when i was a wee little thing. probably into older than's respectable for that. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Yes!       #238668 - 01/15/06 10:45 AM Edit Reply Quote lalala Reged: 02/14/05 Posts: 2634 I love the Wrinkle in Time books too! Exellent recommendation! Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: best children's books in the world       #238669 - 01/15/06 10:47 AM Edit Reply Quote Snow for Sarala Reged: 03/12/03 Posts: 5430 Loc: West Coast, USA Thanks Jaime!!! The Phantom Toolbooth...what a read! I also like Mrs. Frisby and the Rat's of NIMH (author...don't recall??) I too was a Babysitter's Club fan that and the twins (what were their names) of Valley High or something? I will have to check out the ones you mentioned...it's great to have a list when you go to the library! And I know I'll have some time to sit and read...and I am SO looking forward to it! (Not the pain of recovery time but the time to just sit and read...yippee!) *hugs* super thanks!! -------------------- Formerly known as Ruchie Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Yes!       #238671 - 01/15/06 10:49 AM Edit Reply Quote jaime g Reged: 07/27/05 Posts: 961 Loc: new york city they make especially good adult reads & re-reads - i re-read them in high school, and got so much more out of them. they're just so, so good. -------------------- jaime ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Has anyone read Sophie's World...       #238674 - 01/15/06 11:12 AM Edit Reply Quote Snow for Sarala Reged: 03/12/03 Posts: 5430 Loc: West Coast, USA my college proff recommended it but I forgot all about it...he gave me enough books to read! Just wondering if I should check it out, thanks!! -------------------- Formerly known as Ruchie Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Yep!       #238681 - 01/15/06 11:42 AM Edit Reply Quote chinagrl Reged: 12/18/03 Posts: 2439 I really enjoyed Sophie's World... I also liked The Solitaire Mystery and The Christmas Mystery that are by the same author. They're not at all Mysteries like the detective pot boilers, but more philosophical fairy tales. I recommend them. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Children's Books       #238715 - 01/15/06 04:00 PM Edit Reply Quote Portageegal Reged: 06/28/05 Posts: 940 Loc: Massachusetts I read a book when I was a kid (50 yrs. ago or so) that was called Beautiful Joe. It was a story told in the voice of Joe, a dog, who was the runt of a litter. He was born on a farm and the mean old farmer had just chopped his tail off (I think) and a rich kid took him away from the farmer and gave it a good home. It must have made quite an impression on me because I can remember that much. I can't even remember the title of the last book I read, let alone what it was about. I should look for a copy on Ebay. I think I found one once on Amazon or somewhere, but it was a fortune. -------------------- Carol nós somos o que nós somos e o descanso é merda Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Has anyone read Sophie's World...       #238763 - 01/15/06 09:06 PM Edit Reply Quote ChristineM Reged: 05/31/04 Posts: 1662 Loc: soCal Ugh! From what I remember from when I TRIED to read it, it was a really heavy review of philosophy. I couldn't get through it. I was in my late teens at the time, but I don't think it's the kind of book you can just devour like some of these others. -------------------- Christine Those who can do; those who want it done better teach. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Thanks for the varied opinions on Sophie's World!! I       #238769 - 01/15/06 09:27 PM Edit Reply Quote Snow for Sarala Reged: 03/12/03 Posts: 5430 Loc: West Coast, USA loved philosophy (amosted double minored in it....but the logic classes and my LD's didn't mix!) so I suppose I will enjoy the book then? I will prob check it out at the least and see if it's one to take to home! Thanks again for responding ladies *hugs* -------------------- Formerly known as Ruchie Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Thanks for the varied opinions on Sophie's World!! I       #238781 - 01/16/06 03:43 AM Edit Reply Quote chinagrl Reged: 12/18/03 Posts: 2439 If you loved Philosophy you'll probably enjoy it. The book has individual sections that explain/review the basics of a lot of the world's most famous philosophers. Sort of a cliff's notes version. I didn't think they were that dense, but I have a degree in Philo, and I guess I was older than Christine when I read it, so a lot of it was review for me. But yeah, I can see how it would take a little longer than your average novel to get through. The other two books of his that I mentioned don't have this feature, so they do read a lot faster. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Re: Thanks for the varied opinions on Sophie's World!! I       #238833 - 01/16/06 08:37 AM Edit Reply Quote ChristineM Reged: 05/31/04 Posts: 1662 Loc: soCal Yeah, for me, it wasn't the kind of book you just can't put down. I had to slow down and work a little harder, and I didn't care enough at the time to put that kind of energy into it. Ruchie, I also love The House on Mango Street. If you've never read it, you must. It's a very poetic prose style about a girl growing up in a poor Latino neighborhood in Chicago. It's wonderful! -------------------- Christine Those who can do; those who want it done better teach. Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     LOL, a story is brewing!       #239013 - 01/16/06 05:14 PM Edit Reply Quote _Willow Reged: 04/06/05 Posts: 2090 Loc: Canada. And how did you find out about him? i must have been pre-IBS when you discussed it. -------------------- Keep on keepin' on... Print     Remind Me     Notify Moderator     Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | (show all)

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