Inspired by Favourite Books

[emmagk]

In no particular order:
Memoirs of a gaisha
LotR series
Harry Potter series
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Narnia series
I Heart NY (plus rest of series)
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Help
Great Gatsby
Snow Flow and the Secret Fan
Enders Game

kittyriot I know what you mean by the extra fluff but I absolutely loved the extents she went to to create such a rich world. I think that's why I get so completely lost in it whenever I read Harry Potter, I'm genuinely sad when it's finished. Also it took me over 2 months to get through Bilbos birthday at the start of LotR but once I was through that, couldn't put it down.

[flockofmoosen]

I haven't read much in a long time, but here are some of my old favorites:

-The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
-Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers
-The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
-Moby Dick by Herman Melville
-the Myst trilogy, particularly the second book
-The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
-The Once and Only King
-Anything by Walt Whitman

I never read the Harry Potter series. I read the first book because it was an assignment for English, and I enjoyed it but that was it. I plan to get the whole set for baby girl and we can read/discover them together.

[mamarazziof3]

Feb 4, 2015 10:32:11 GMT -5 kittyriot said:

I love all the Harry Potter's too athn64 - but am I allowed to say, so many times in the books, I felt like she put waaaaayyyyy too much unnecessary fluff in them to make herself seem intelligent? She created an incredibly complex world, but there were times when I skimmed sections just so I could get back to plot.

And I'm a bad geek. I have never managed to make it through LOTR - I have started the first book many times. Mannnny times. I have never managed to make through the first two chapters.

I feel like I might be disowned now!

It's been awhile since I read them, but like emmagk said, I was thinking that the first one starts slow.  You just have to get through the first few chapters and then they take off!  Two Towers really is the best of the three, and there is some great stuff in Return of the King that isn't really in the movies.  

I actually just bought them a couple of weeks ago with some Christmas money because I want to read them again this year. 

[ho11yday]

I forgot Howard Pyle.

[yvanehtnioj]

The Shining (I haven't read a bad SK novel but I've read this one like 10 times)
She's Come Undone
A Song of Ice And Fire series (aka Game of Thones)
Are we including nonfiction? Cause Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich cemented my views on the world.
Jackie Collins paperbacks (Hollywood Wives, Lucky series)

[kittyriot]

Non fiction always welcome! I hadn't really thought of that when I was writing my list...but I am definitely curious about people favourite non fiction.

Some of my all time non fiction favs:
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
Payback by Margaret Atwood
We Are All The Same by Jim Wooten
The Life by Steve Paikin

All of these books sorta explain who I am.

[flockofmoosen]

What's non fiction?

Jk...not my preference!

[ns1]

Feb 7, 2015 4:14:25 GMT -5 yvanehtnioj said:

The Shining (I haven't read a bad SK novel but I've read this one like 10 times)
She's Come Undone
A Song of Ice And Fire series (aka Game of Thones)
Are we including nonfiction? Cause Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich cemented my views on the world.
Jackie Collins paperbacks (Hollywood Wives, Lucky series)

I wrote a senior honors thesis that was a unit plan revolving around nickel and dimed!