Favorite Book?

[Andy Baker]

(bringing up an semi-old thread)

Summer is for hunkering down with a good book. My brother, who has a phd in literature and composition, gives me great books to read. Krakatoa was suprisingly good. If you like history, geology, biology, culture development, and the emergence of modern communication, you will like this book.

Also, my family is reading the 6th Harry Potter book, and we are enjoying it. Our copy currently has 3 bookmarks in it, since three of us are all at different points of the story.

AB

[MissInformation]

Books? Did someone say books? Those beautiful bound scaps of paper? The most recent books I've read are Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That, by Lisa Glatt, Flying in Place, by Susan Palwick, and I'm half-way through with the latest Harry Potter book, I expect I'll finish it tonight. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini will be going to IRI with me.

Heidi

[Conor Ryan]

The Latest Book I read is: Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Definetly he is my favorite author, though DaVinci Code, Angels and Deamons, and Digital Fortress are similar, the thriller aspect to it really keeps one intrested constantly. But I also really liked Deception Point, which was unlike any of the others. Well anyway I like NonFiction as the list below me describes....

Some of the Other Books I've read recently:
-America the Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction By Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Team
-John Adams by David McCullough
-Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius by Bob Iannini
-Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black
-Its Not About the Bike, Its My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
-100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) by Bernard Goldberg

And the next book I'll read:
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

[Redneck]

The (Inaccurately Named) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy by Douglas Adams, and the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Redneck

The (Inaccurately Named) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy by Douglas Adams

Maybe it is just because I'm not enough of a geek to understand that book but I thought it was one of the worst books I have ever read. I couldn't go on to finish it.

When I was younger (Middle School I think) I read a book called Don't Look Behind You. It was about the witness protection program and it was really good. Apparently some other people though it was good too because they went on to make a movie out of it.

For books they make you read in school, Catcher in the Rye and Rebecca weren't bad. I didn't like The Great Gatsby at all.

And of course the book Code Name Ginger was really good (how can anyone disagree?), but I didn't get too far in it (I don't spend much time reading books anymore). I just never really finished reading it. I really liked the part about where Dean Kamen flew across the country to install (or was it fix?) some lighting equipment for a show and he worked for so long and hard that he fell asleep under the stage. He woke up when the show was starting and found the lights to be working perfectly.

[KyleGilbert45]

Besides reading text that has been required for classes [and that hasn't happened in almost 4 years], I'd have to say one of my favorite books is John Hersey's "Hiroshima" . I almost never, ok never read books for pure entertainment purposes but for some reason this book caught my attention and once I started I couldn't stop. I ended up reading it two or three times. It's quite possibly the graphic and disturbing details that kept me from putting it down, but this also means it really not meant for a younger audience or anyone with a really weak stomach. Other than Hiroshima, I can't really think of any other book I truly enjoyed.

I'm more of a magazine guy...and even then I only read about 1/2 the articles.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by cdr1122334455

-Its Not About the Bike, Its My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong

This is quite possibly the most inspirational book ever.

[akedomakona]

i cant believe no one has mentioned Robert Jordan - the wheel of time series, best series EVER

[Aaron Lussier]

I'm gonna have to go with Who moved my Cheese By Spencer Johnson M.D

It's a very good book only takes about 30 min to read but really good.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Chris Nowak
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. There are 4 books, but there are more to come. Very well written novels, with my favorite being the last one: Wizard and Glass.

This is also another one of my favorite series... I would have a hard time choosing between Dark Tower series and Ender's Game!

Chris: Do you know when the next book in the series is due out?

- Katie

[Joe Matt]

I'm with Fluck, Catch-22 is the best book by far I have read.

[Chris Nowak]

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds


This is also another one of my favorite series... I would have a hard time choosing between Dark Tower series and Ender's Game!

Chris: Do you know when the next book in the series is due out?

- Katie

Apparently he's finished it, just hasn't been published yet. In the blurb he wrote about Sisters of Eluria in the collection of stories "Everythings Eventual", he wrote "And by the way, for you Tower junkies, DT 5 is now finished, all nine hundred pages of it. It's called Wolves of the Calla". Oh yeah, and if you havent read Sisters of Eluria that also has Roland in it.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Chris Nowak


Apparently he's finished it, just hasn't been published yet. In the blurb he wrote about Sisters of Eluria in the collection of stories "Everythings Eventual", he wrote "And by the way, for you Tower junkies, DT 5 is now finished, all nine hundred pages of it. It's called Wolves of the Calla". Oh yeah, and if you havent read Sisters of Eluria that also has Roland in it.

Yeah, he's had it mostly done for a while ... then he got in that car accident, which pushed the release date back by about a year. Now they keep pushing it back Hmmm...

/me runs to Barnes and Noble to pick up Sisters of Eluria.

- Katie

[Chris Nowak]

Oh yeah, Sisters of Eluria is just a short story in Everythings Eventual. Its not a novel(unfortunately) but it is pretty entertaining. It doesnt have much to do with the plot of the other books, however. And Everythings Eventual is a great collection of stories.

[Scorpion515]

I'd have to say The Shining by Stephen King and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.