Favorite 3 books of all time?

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

Please list your favorite three books and authors if possible



Mine would have to be

1. Lord of the Rings (counts as one ;)) JRR Tolkien
2. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
3. Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks

[Equinox]

Birth and Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Joke by Milan Kundera
Imajica by Clive Barker

[Love2HearChristina]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
Nickel and Dimed on (Not) Getting by in America - Barbara Ehrenreich

[saruman]

Only three?? :cry:

1) I have to say "anything by JRR Tolkien" because that's like 5 books that I cannot choose from
2) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3) Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

Message in a Bottle -- good choice...I have yet to see that movie!
:hat:

[saruman]

Originally posted by LIP_smack'in_FRACK
Message in a Bottle -- good choice...I have yet to see that movie!
:hat:

I have it, and I tried to watch it, I really did...but it just isn't a good book-to-film transition. :greyno:

[Equinox]

what is it with people liking Jane Austen (mostly women of course)...what makes her stories interesting? just curious...

[saruman]

Originally posted by Equinox
what is it with people liking Jane Austen (mostly women of course)...what makes her stories interesting? just curious...

I think it's the classic romance that most women lack in their actual lives that gets them into her books. Personally, I didn't like Emma or Sense & Sensibility that much...

Plus, they're romantic, but they aren't "smut" books...You arent going to see "throbbing member" in a Jane Austen book :nc: :noway:

[Equinox]

Originally posted by saruman
I think it's the classic romance that most women lack in their actual lives that gets them into her books. Personally, I didn't like Emma or Sense & Sensibility that much...

Plus, they're romantic, but they aren't "smut" books...You arent going to see "throbbing member" in a Jane Austen book :nc: :noway:

no, but i'm sure if she was to write today, you would...

[saruman]

Originally posted by Equinox
no, but i'm sure if she was to write today, you would...

Yeah, that is probably true!

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

"throbbing member" lol

I guess its kinda like, why are any old fashioned books still popular and called classics. What makes Dicken's "Great Expectations" so great? I seriously could not see it at all... i hated that book

[SteakSauce]

wow... um...

#1 Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe
#2 The Shadow On The Stone Bench - Maria Gripe
#3 Any book by Astrid Lindgren (Most Beloved Sister, The Brothers Lionheart, Mio My Son, Ronia The Robber's Daughter)

[Equinox]

Originally posted by LIP_smack'in_FRACK
"throbbing member" lol

I guess its kinda like, why are any old fashioned books still popular and called classics. What makes Dicken's "Great Expectations" so great? I seriously could not see it at all... i hated that book

it seems that anything written long ago can be called a "classic"...but for the real terminology behind that word, classic, in my eyes, was something that was termed as being great. I'd rather call all the terrible older books, "antiques"

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

Originally posted by Equinox
it seems that anything written long ago can be called a "classic"...but for the real terminology behind that word, classic, in my eyes, was something that was termed as being great. I'd rather call all the terrible older books, "antiques"


The word "antique" fits perfectly. Although aren't antiques supposed to be highly valuable? I suppose a 1st edition of "Great Expectations" would be valuable, but the story itself? Nah.

[Miss_Sunshine]

in no particular order:

1. Flowers In The Attic by VC Andrews
2. Thief of Always by Clive Barker
3. A Time To Kill by John Grisham

[Equinox]

Originally posted by Miss_Sunshine
in no particular order:

1. Flowers In The Attic by VC Andrews
2. Thief of Always by Clive Barker
3. A Time To Kill by John Grisham

say what? you told me you thought "thief" was just ok...didn't brag about it at all, are you sure that it's one of your faves?

[Miss_Sunshine]

Originally posted by Equinox
say what? you told me you thought "thief" was just ok...didn't brag about it at all, are you sure that it's one of your faves?
yeah. read it again recently at work and it was so good. :)

[Lithium26]

My 3 Favorites:

Dancing on The Edge- Han Nolan
To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Go Ask Alice- Anonymous

[Leigh]

1. Little Women
2. 1984 (most people think I'm wierd, but I love it)
3. Atlas Shrugged

[Equinox]

Originally posted by Leigh

2. 1984 (most people think I'm wierd, but I love it)

no reason to think you're weird, it's a classic and a brilliant one.

3. Atlas Shrugged

so you read this WHOLE book? it's over 1200 pages in small print!!! glad someone could get through it, I may try again, Ayn Rand is quite interesting...

[dew]

a child called it
the lost boy
a man named dave


all by mister david pelzer

[BSBFan4Life]

Jessica by Bryce Courtenay (amazing writer!!)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (can't remember the Author)

[Queen Stephanie]

A Coldest Winter Ever: Sister Souljah

Flyy Girl: Omar Tyree

The Prince: Machiavelli

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

Originally posted by BSBFan4Life

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (can't remember the Author)

Betty Smith?

[~*OnlyNDreams*~]

1. Everything that Nicholas Sparks has written (I can't pick just one book of his)

2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven- Mitch Albom

3. High Crimes- Joseph Finder

[LIP_smack'in_FRACK]

Originally posted by ~*OnlyNDreams*~
1. Everything that Nicholas Sparks has written (I can't pick just one book of his)

2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven- Mitch Albom

3. High Crimes- Joseph Finder


I still need to read Tuesdays with Morrie, I loved FPYMIH -- as for nicholas sparks, the only books of his that i actually didn't predict the end were Message in a Bottle and The Wedding -- those are the only two of his that I liked.

[~*OnlyNDreams*~]

The Wedding was awesome! I started reading it and had to finish it that same day. I loved the twist at the end! Didn't expect it! I haven't read Tuesdays with Morrie yet either. I saw FPYMIH and it was exactly the kind of book I have been looking for. I loved it.

[Steerforth]

A book forum! With people who like books! :love:

If you only knew the den of illiterate thieves and contemptible scoundrels that Steerforth has only just recently liberated himself from, you would surely weep for him!

1. The collected works of Charles Dickens

2. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

3. Mutiny on the Bounty (Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall)

[Venisenvy]

Moby Dick
Lord of the Rings
Gods and Generals/The killer Angels(just like LOTR part of a series should count as one)

And an honorary mention to:

A Walk to remember and My Antonia when i want to read sad sappy stories not great works of literature but still rather touching.

[CokkaiNe]

1. Behold the Pale Horse
2. A Child Called It
3. The Art of War

[felizx]

Originally posted by dew
a child called it
the lost boy
a man named dave

all by mister david pelzer
I love those books, I have them all as one collective called "my story" absolutely brilliant

Pride and Prejudice

Bluest Eyes or something along those lines (read it along time ago so I can't remember)

[PuNkPrInCeSs]

1)harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban
2)harry potter and the goblet of fire
3)a walk to remember

[Aceetha]

Let's see.

Lord of the Rings (counts as one really)
Wheel of Time (all erh, 11 of them counts as one...:D )
Harry Potter (again, all 5 couts as one! )

[rachel green]

1. the Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
2. To Kill A Mockingbird Bird - Harper Lee
3. Pet Semetary - Stephen King

[V-Money]

The Catcher in the Rye
1984
Tropic of Cancer

[Equinox]

Originally posted by oxymoron
Fiction

1. Notes from the Underfround by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. The Magus by John Fowles
3. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Non-Fiction

1. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
2. I and Thou by Martin Buber
3. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

funny how we have similar tastes...I'm reading the Krakauer book now, have you read his "Under the banner of Heaven" book about the mormon society? If so, what are your thoughts, I haven't had the chance.

by the way, the Dostoyevsky narrative (notes) is an astounding great work. I need to read "the Devils (the possessed)" next. Lovely writer and I see your love of existentialism throughout both types.

[lynsbyns]

'A Child Called It' by Dave Pelzer
'Bridget Jones' Diary' by Helen Fielding
... and either 'Mystic River' by Dennis Lehane or 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen.... I couldn't choose between the two of them

[LaDyJaGs143]

1. A Walk to Remember, by Nicholas Sparks
2. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
3. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger

[Summer8522]

1)Harry Potter series-J.K Rowling
2)Lord of the Rings trilogy-J.R.R Tolkien
3) Anything by Nicholas Sparks

[Smitty162]

1. Christy
2. The Left Behind Series
3. I know why the caged bird sings

[V-Money]

Prevert

:confused:

[trupnai]

i only have two....

to kill a mockingbird
a walk to remember

[Yeseniia]

The Great Gatsby- for its brilliant writing. Fitzgerald was so poetic and romantic.
The Catcher in the Rye- for making me fall in love with Holden Caulfield and being a great representation of the tennage years
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)- spur of the moment pick, just for inspiring me

[What--Christina--Wants]

Arabat-Clive Barker- Crazy imagination. STILL waiting for the next in the series lol. It been YEARS lol. (The reason mainly because it is supposed to be the next Star Wars and they are making this book into a movie schedualed for 2005, the last I heard anyways. So it will probably be out in 2010)

The Seventh Tower series-Garth Nix- Just great reading

Everworld (the series)-K.A. Applegate- Still haven't finished this because I lost one of the books in the series and I just can't find time to ever go get the dang thing. Terrific from the books I have read so far. :sunny:

[chrisafi]

Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy

Very very very funny. Funniest books I've ever read for sure.
Looking forward to the film version out next year.

[BrokenHalo]

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned! (I couldn't narrow it to 3, though...lol)

My favorites that have already been mentioned:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Hitchhikers Guide
Harry Potter (mostly Goblet of Fire, but I like the whole series a lot...)
Lord of the Rings series (though honestly, I love the stories, but they got a bit too detailed for me in spots...lol)

That haven't been listed already:

The Stand by Stephen King (Also really like Christine, but not quite as much as The Stand...)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald(?) Dahl
the Myth Inc series by Robert Asprin (I always mess up his name,too, but I think that's right...lol)
The Wrinkle in Time series (especially the one about the twins Sandy and Dennys, but I can't for the life of me remember the title of the book at the moment...) Madeline L'Engel (L'Engle? Gads but I'm having trouble thinking of author's names today...)
and Billy by Whitley Strieber


(Could keep listing indeffinitely here...lol)