i'm just curious..
2007-10-10 22:23:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Terry Brooks Shannara series
2007-10-10 22:31:28 · answer #1 · answered by schtick.trogs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading W. Jackson Bate's "Samuel Johnson" published by Counterpoint; this readable biography won three prizes, that is, Winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. I missed it some 3-4 months ago in a large bookstore in Bangkok since there was sold to another reader when I would like to read it. I was disappointed and thus have kept waiting for another copy since I have my own respect and admiration to Dr Johnson as a great man of letters in the UK some two centuries ago. I saw this copy on the shelf last Saturday and bought it immediately and reading over the pages is wonderful.
2007-10-10 22:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It has magical realism which I like but is not everyone's cup of tea. It has a very long genealogy but Marquez is kind enough to print out a diagram so you don't forget who someone's grandfather was because the whole thing goes in a circle and it's just fantastic.
The Hotel New Hampshire; The World According to Garp
by John Irving
(Anything by John Irving)
Irving is hysterically funny and sad at the same time. His novels make me laugh out loud and then make me feel sad. His recurring themes deal with sexual abuse, grief & loss, relationships, both platonic and romantic and one of my best loved themes: the anti-hero
2007-10-11 05:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by tutor t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a hard question here a few of my favs
"To Kill A Mocking Bird" Harper Lee
"A Prayer for Owen Meany": John Irving
"The Amazing Adventures of Kaviler and Clay": Micheal Chabon
2007-10-11 11:06:30 · answer #4 · answered by Joe a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter
2007-10-11 12:43:37 · answer #5 · answered by Love4Hockey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood which is a horrible murder of a family and the aftermath written in novel form. It is gripping and all true not just based in fact. I still remember all of it clearly even after about 30 years. I really recommend it. Capote is an excellent writer and this is some of his best work. It is taught now in colleges and has never been out of print.
2007-10-10 22:31:29 · answer #6 · answered by hickcrazy1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can pick just one favorite book but I chose a series, the uglies series I can't wait to get the next book, extras, I am going tommorrow.
2007-10-14 20:27:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the books I've read are great, but if I had to choose one of them it would have to be The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
2007-10-11 00:15:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Indian family by Hilda Wernher.
My grandmother owned this book and my cousin and I would fight over who would own it one day, when she was gone. I won the fight by simply taking the book home with me one day and never returning it.
This is the ONLY book I've ever gotten in a fight over.
2007-10-11 02:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Snowblossom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clan of the Cave Bears Saga Series...Still waiting for the last one...
2007-10-11 09:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by oh_paleeeze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋