Favorite novel?

[napolitana869]

I think The Sneetches by dr Seuss is one of the best childrens books. It teaches how racism is pointless and that everyone is the same on the inside. I love Dr. Seuss.

I've said this before but I love these threads about books. I think it really shows that the stereotypical view of stoners is wrong. We're smart, and we think, and thats important for people to know. Also because there are so many young people here, threads like these might encourage them to read more.

[suhl]

i too love dr seuss and will till the day i die. sneetches is great too with that message and moreover so is the lorax where the big facotry comes in and kills all the things off and leaves the lorax feeling bad. same with yerdle the turtle. i think reading dr seuss to a kid is doing him a huge favor that you and he or she will all enjoy and benefit from. it is just coming to me for some reason how all his books had good messages im normally not into messages but seuss didnt make them all in your face and was able to get them across in good books with classic rhymes

[napolitana869]

the lorax is so sad

[Purple Banana]

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...

[higher4hockey]

Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you.
-Dr. Seuss

words to live by.

[suhl]

so true. i think i donated all my dr seuss books to the library some years ago, now i want them back. what a great man, i can say that and chronicles of narnia are the foundation for me really enjoying books

[mrdevious]

I just started reading the Wheel Of Time series and it's fast becoming my favorite book.

Other than that:

- Shogun
- The Two Towers

[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?

[GHoSToKeR]

'1984' has gotta be my favourite novel so far. That and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'.

[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