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Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:00 am
by _Jersey Girl
Oh, you know the one. You've read it multiple times. It "calls" to you.
Titles, please?
I'll go first.
Walden by Thoreau
(I post this knowing full well that I'm possibly the only person that is beckoned yearly by a book. And that's okay with me. I like it out here on the limb. :-)
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:17 am
by _Jersey Girl
Walden - Thoreau wrote:Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay. Let the thunder rumble; what if it threaten ruin to farmers' crops? that is not its errand to thee. Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds. Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.
(It appears that he lifted the first line from the Bible :-)
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:25 am
by _Jersey Girl
Ecclesiastes 12:1 wrote: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:22 pm
by _JonasS
I am currently reading, "Anna Karenina" by Count Leo Tolstoi, Volume 2. It begin at part 5. I bought it from a Christian Bookstore, it jumped out at me. It was awarded to someone called Arthur w. Stephenson in the Academic year 1917-18 for "French". It has the school logo and motto on the front saying, "Adolescentiam Alunt Senectutem Oblicant". I don't know what that means, but it has a funny musky smell. Blah. Good story line though, but pronouncing all the russian names in my head is difficult. Clearly a romance, I found it funny that a romance novel was awarded to a male Grammar School student. Anna is divorcing her husband but kinda dating this important guy, but it is frowned upon but people pretend to understand. I was more interested in the part that had little to do with this Anna woman. I don't know what my favourite book is because I read bits and peices of different books and go back and forth. I like 'em all.
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:52 pm
by _Jersey Girl
I've never read Anna Karenina, Jonas, though of course I've heard of it. I don't know why Thoreau's Walden draws me the way it does. I think it's filled with so much wisdom and the writing style appeals to me on some level that I would be hard pressed to describe. It's a book that "speaks" to my inner self.
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:57 pm
by _SUAS
Valley of the Dolls..Shining..Green mile..misery..Sue Ann Grafton..My name is Sam..Forrest Gump..Mister Holland's Opus..Brain Surgery 101...Robin Cook..Steve Colbert..South park..John Stewart..Stephen King..Richard BAchman..Dean Koontz..Tabitha King..Johnathan Kellerman..I am And always will be a Reader..Oh yeah Reader's Digest..Teen ..John CLancy..Testament..
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:49 am
by _Gazelam
The only book I have ever read multiple times is Tolkiens "The Hobbit". It has a certain charm that I appreciate.
If you want to count "lesser" works I've read Alan Moores "V for Vendetta" and "The Watchmen" numerous times since they came out. A little darker, but very thought provoking.
Re: Your favorite book
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:05 pm
by _JonasS
I like also, Diskworld series by Terry Pratchett.
