Favorite novel?

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Originally Posted by TX Girl

Higher- we need to check out each other's book cases, I bet they are very similar!
Where the Red Fern Grows was my fave book when I was young and I read it to my dau a couple yrs ago and re-loved it. And thanks to a friend who turned me onto him a few yrs ago I love Augusten Burroughs, too.

I really like Douglas Coupland and I read a lot of biographies.

A Painted House by John Grisham. Which is weird cause I don't like his other stuff.

My other fave book from when I was a kid- Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Thats a great book

Hi RebGirl :)
Yeah, I love stories where the author just tells you about a life and you can get a real feel for what it must have been like to live in those circumstances, time and place.


I don't like Sci Fi (except for To Sail Beyond The Sunset by Heinlen I read that 20 yrs ago and still think of it occasionally)

I used to read a lot of Anne Rice but I got bored with her stuff after awhile. My fave of her stuff was The Witching Hour. I remember trying to draw up a timeline and family tree to put it all in order... it was impossible!

I never liked the witch stuff she put out, im a big Vampire lestat fan

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Originally Posted by higher4hockey

suhl~ what sparked my love for reading , was when i was a small child, my mother read to me every night. ive noticed a trend that with people who had their parents read to them... they tend to read a lot as adults.
the book that did it for me was gary paulsen, the hatchet.

anyone else have their parents read to them?

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same here. i remember being read all the seuss books many times, also good night moon and of course the old standard "where the wild things are" read to your kids folks.

i dont know if anyone here has read contortionists handbook by craig clevenger, basically it is about this guy whose whole life is a lie and just him telling about it. anyhow i really enjoyed it and i just found out he wrote another book, here is the short description i read of it

"the diary of an amnesiac LSD chemist who becomes addicted to a drug which synthesizes the feeling of human touch."

i ordered it the other day, i am looking forward to it:)

TX girl~ are you a kerouac fan ?

suhl~ my favorite child-era books were 'the ghost in dobbs diner' and 'the terrible toy breakers'

Higher4, I dunno, I haven't read anything by him. Should I? Ive heard of him of course.

TX girl, this is from the dharma bums:

...a thin old little bum climbed into my gondola as we headed into a siding to give a train the right of way and looked surprised to see me there. He established himself at the other end of the gondola and lay down, facing me, with head on his own miserably small pack and said nothing. By and by they blew the highball whistle after the eastbound frieght had smashed through on the main line and we pulled out as the air got cooler and fog began to blow from the sea over the warm valleys of the coast. Both the little bum and I, after unsuccessful attempts to huddle on the cold steel in wraparounds, got up and paced back and forth and jumped and flapped arms at each our end of the gon. Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara. "Will you watch my pack while I run over there and get a bottle of wine?"
"Sure thing."
I jumped over the side and ran across Highway 101 to the store, and bought, besides wine, a litte bread and candy. I ran back to my freight train which had another fifteen minutes to wait in the now warm and sunny scene. But it was late afternoon and bound to get cold soon. The little bum was sitting crosslegged at his end before a pitiful repast of one can of sardines. I took pity on him and went over and said, "How about a little wine to warm you up?" Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with your sardines."
"Sure thing." He spoke from far away inside a little meek voice-box afraid or unwilling to assert himself. I'd bought the cheese three days ago in Mexico City before the long cheap bus trip across Zacatecas and Durango and Chihuahua two thousand long miles to the border at El Paso. He ate the cheese and bread and drank the wine with gusto and gratitude. I was pleased. I reminded myself of the line in the Diamond Sutra that says, "Practice charity without holding in mind any conceptions about charity, for charity after all is just a word."


i think you would like his books.

If you have never read a Christopher Moore book I HIGHLY reccomend them. He is my favorite author ever, hes a bad ass. Lamb, Blood sucking fiends and His newest one are my favorite.

I like Stephen Kings The Stand and The Dark Tower series. I like Choke by Chuck Pahlaniuk. The tarantula keepers guide. Panic Disorder in the medical setting. Black Dahlia avenger. The Hobbit, Lord of the rings, Hunter S. Thompsons Kingdom of Fear, Dharma Punx, I can go on and on.

To say the least, I read lots.

Anyone remember The White Mountains?

It's about this society of people, of which one boy who is about to come of age, and these tall tripod things come, and try to do something to his brain, I can't remember exactly, but it was really weird stuff.

Anyone born in the 80s remembers Goosebumps :p