Your 5 favorite books - Are you what you read?

Question

I saw this blog about a person being what he/she reads.
What 5 books you've read say the most about you? the 5 books that say who/what you are?

Answer 1

Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
Sphere (Michael Crichton)
Magician (Raymond E. Feist)
Ship of Destiny (Robin Hobb)
Krondor: The Betrayal (Raymond E. Feist)

I guess it says I prefer the fantasy life to the real world.

Answer 2

Cry to heaven by Anne Rice....Spartacus by Howard Fast(outlawed during the Mccarthy era).....The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, who also wrote the Three Musketeers & The man in the iron mask.....The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough...brilliant book.....The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (An amazing classic) & The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, lastly A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by betty Smith.
There, many classics and page turners for you!!! I have read all of these and in some cases multiple times!!! I really hope that this helps you!!! Spartacus will blow your mind. It had to be released in England as the McCarthy era had Howard fast black balled when it was written.
I hope that you read Cry to heaven by Anne Rice...it is NOT about vampires, but about the Italian Castrati, thus it is truth intermixed with fiction, rather historical fiction....
Happy reading!!!!! I gave y usome of my top faves here!!
Thanks,
Lioncourt

Answer 3

James Patterson
1 cross
2 Pop Goes The Weasel
3 3rd Degree
4 Honeymoon
5 Kiss The Girls
Not exactly just explains what some of your intrests are

Answer 4

It, The Stand, and Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Forever Odd by Dean Kootz
Beach Road by James Patterson
Good heavens, I hope not!

Answer 5

What 5 books I've read say the most about who I am...

Watchers by Dean Koontz...I love mystery, intrigue, super smart dogs and it's fun to be scared...

The Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton...supernatural happenings, vampires and other beasties...and HEAVY on the SMUTTY side too!!!

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss...It's fun to be silly!

West Virginia-A History...It's important to know where you come from.

The Holy Bible...It's important to know where you're going, too!

Answer 6

Harry Potter Series...........J K Rowling
Anne of Green Gables Series...........LM Montgomery
The Lioness Quartert.................Tamora Pierce
Gone With The Wind..........Margaret Mitchell
Pride and Prejudice..........Jane Austen


I love fantasy book, and escaping to worlds that aren't my owm, whether it be a different time or place. Also all these books, have very strong female characters. And I am a strong female,.

Answer 7

I like the "Clan of the Cave Bear" series, even if these books are fiction. Life was sometimes very brutal, but so very simple. Family groups took care of each other. Everyone ate and had clothing and shelter. Trading was the way they "bought" things they needed if they couldn't make them themselves.

Answer 8

I'm sure this is true, but I don't know what it really means. First, I am really a multitude of "me"'s — not because I am an example of multiple personality, but because my personality has many facets, and I play many roles in my life. At 70, I am continuing to develop in varioius dimensions, intellectual, physical health, attitude, friendships, etc.. Secondy, I have many mental lists (or even written lists) of favorite books. But I will choose one of them that must say something about me. These are works of fiction that I've read a number of times, and probably will read again whenever I have a yen to do so. Make of it what you can.

1. The Portable Joseph Conrad — short story collection originally published by Viking, subsequently republished by Penguin. First read in early 1950s.

2. Tolstoy - War and Peace. First heard it in the 1940s when my grandmother was reading a Yiddish translation to my 90+ year-old greatgrandmother who had read it many times, starting in the 1860s when as a young person in southern Russia she read it when it appeared serialized in a Russian magazine (she also told me that she had heard older friends of her father's reminisce about Napoleon's army which had passed through the district where her father had been born before he moved south). I first read it for myself in the mid-1950s when my parents brought back a copy of the Inner Sanctum editioin from a New York trip. I've seen the movies (American and Russian) made from the book and the BBC TV series and have reread the book a few times. Time to read it again.
(3) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Three or four times. Something new that I notice every time I read it. The movie with Greer Garson is great, too, despite the improbable age of the actress versus the character, and the shift in periodization (it's filmed as early Victorian, more or less Dickensian setting — like the 1935 David Copperfield film — and not thirty-odd years earlier, when Britain feared invasion from France, as Austen wrote it. Bonus is that Aldous Huxley was one of the scriptwriters. I've also seen a couple of TV versions. It's pure enjoyment.
(3) Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (still the great American novel that tells us what ails us and presents the kind of crazy idealism that inspires us, and leads us into trouble). A remarkable achievement for an early work by a major author, written in the 1920s. Saw the movies, too — none of them are terribly good. Haven's seen the recent opera, but heard the radio broadcast of it a couple of years ago.
(4) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage. It occurs to me that this is an accidental counterpoint to Gatsby, and maybe when I read them again, I should read and compare them. I bet I'd get something out of them that way that wouldn't occur again. I saw the 1930s movie. Nothing great about it, but Bette Davis found a great role for her histrionic performances which was somewhat different than the kind of characters she played through most of her career. Leslie Howard was his usual washed out insipid self — nothing much very good from him except his Petrified Forest role playing againmst Humphrey Bogart and his light (or gay) impersonations as the Scarlett Pimpernal in the romantic potboiler series of the 1930s and very early 1940s. But I digress ....
(5) Anything by Mark Twain — particularly Huckleberry Finn (which I persist in seeing in the context of the time as a remarkably effective assertion of the proposition that Afro-Americans were and are human beings and that American enslavement of people on the basis of race and skin color was a horrible criminal folly whose justification was hypocrisy at its very worst) — but originally, what I liked most was Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court which led me into a likiing for science fiction fantasy and the alternate-history genre.

Answer 9

Sellevison
Dry
Magical Thinking
Running with Scissors
Possible Side Effects

all by Augusten Burroughs
i'm not sure it says a lot about me,
i'm not gay and i don't live in new york..
my mother isn't bi polar,, hmm. i love those books tho!

Answer 10

i know this much is true by wally lamb (compassion for the metally ill)
honk and holler opening soon by billie letts (the traditional family is redefined)
the secret life of bees by sue monk-kidd (child abuse and racial issues)
the glass castle by jennette walls (mental illness, alcoholism, and incredbile child neglect)
my name is asher lev by chaim potok (struggling to attain a goal in life)