Best books.....ever
Not an entirely accurate title line, however it will get you thinking.
I'm going to steal the Davism of doing "top 5"
Lets start out with a basic for now, and we'll develop into the brain-probing topics at a later point in time.
Top 5 books.
This covers every category, from fiction, children's, non-fiction, hell, even text-books(why would you?). Here are mine, although tomorrow they may change.
In no particular order, attempting to cover as many categories as I can....
-The Stand
-Hitchhikers Guide(I'm going to put them all in one, go ahead, bitch)
-Ciderhouse Rules!
-Chronicles of Narnia (again, all in the series)
-Harry Potter(subject to change. I hear LOTR is very good, although I've only read the Hobbit, which apparently is a children's book and in debate whether is it in fact part of the LOTR trilogy. However, Douglas Adams published a trilogy containing 5, possibly 6 books)
Other books which I've enjoyed:
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - A typical New England John Irving, but better
- The Cheese Monkeys - you may need to be an art student to appreciate it fully
- Youth In Revolt - My sides hurt from laughing
- A Walk in the Woods- or for a shorter read - I'm a stranger here myself. Bill Bryant has an incredibly humorous, informative writing style- anything by him is great.
posted by Jen @ 7:44 PM
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Say, what did you think of Tuesdays with Morrie? Ohhhh, that's right! You never finished it. It was a very taxing 100 page book. You only had a few weeks in the middle of know where with nothing to do to get it read...
alright, maybe i'm bitter.
I had more success with The Stand(~2,000pages) than Tuesdays with Morrie (192 pages).
I in fact HAVE Tuesdays with Morrie on my bookshelf, whereas I had to re-check The Stand out of the lib at least 4 times. I'm not sure why I have an aversion to the book.
Calvin and Hobbes, and John Stewart... I was debating where to put those on the list. I haven't read "America" but I'm itching... maybe the library has it.
I think my family owns every Calvin and Hobbes book ever published. I love the philosophical view on life,
the universe, and everything as told by a 6yr old.
I think the aversion comes because it reminds you somehow of John. Hell, that makes me bristle to think of Tuesdays w/ Morrie.
I think Scott Adams needs an honorable mention here. I recommend the Dilbert Future, which describes in great detail how old people who know Tai Chi plan to beat us up and take our stuff.
Weird about the C&H reference. I posted on another blog earlier today that I plan on telling my son that the world didn't always have color, just like Calvin's father. Just look at black and white movies if you need proof!
Maybe I should do a post about the greatest lies ever told to kids in cartoons...
lies build character!
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