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Message board > Favorite Books Continued...
Favorite Books Continued...
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Zora
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Favorite Books Continued...
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I saw this wonderful topic that manonski had started up last night and decided to continue it since I was on my way to bed and couldn �t quite think which ones were my "favorites"...
Here �s last night �s link:
http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=8590
Now as I was considering my choices, I decided to divide them into two parts since I have always loved to read.
My favorites as a child were:
"The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe..." by CS Lewis.
"Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"Anne of Green Gables series" by Lucy Maude Montgomery
"How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell
And I loved any books written by Judy Blume
As an adult...
"The Egyptian" by Mika Waltari
"Foucault �s Pendulum" by Humberto Eco (I also liked "The Name of the Rose..."
"The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell
"The Trojan Horse" series by JJ Benitez
"The Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches" by Anne Rice (I have read the entire series about three times!!)
"The Alienist" by Caleb Carr
"Harry Potter series..." by JK Rowlings
"Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King... (love his novellas)
"Brother Odd" by Dean Koontz
.... and the list could go on and on...
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22 May 2009
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manonski (f)
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Thank you Zora for reposting on the thread. I now have great ideas for my summer reading spree.
I loved Interview With a Vampire, the book, not the movie but I never got into the Witch series of Anne Rice. In fact, the Queen of the Damned is one out of 2 books that I never finished in my life. I rarely give up on a book but this one got to me. |
22 May 2009
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Zora
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Queen of the Damned wasn �t so great, nor was Violin... I �d suggest staying away from Violin (I couldn�t finish the book which is not a good sign) .. Oh a wonderful book, and not vampire related is "Cry to Heaven" by Anne Rice... It�s totally different from what she usually writes about. Vittorio, The Vampire is also a very good book by her but it hasn �t anything to do with Lestat...
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22 May 2009
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Dalya
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hey there
yea i also read the topic manonski started
well i �m new to books to be honest with you
i started just last summer
not exactly a year ago
so if you want to advise me with some book i �ll be happy to check them out
well, I love books of self improvement and stuff but i also love novels (crime & thrillers.. sometimes fiction i don �t know)
anyways i read THE SECRET by rhonda byren
i read the novel Torch by Lin anderson << really loved it
and I read Sleeping Beauty by Phillip Margolin <<< EXTREMELY in love with it
I �m reading now Trigger by clark & Mcdwell
i have 2 more novels but i �m trying to finish Trigger first
I have a book it �s called "the Norton Introduction to Literature"
it has many short stories, plays, Poems i read from it every now and then |
22 May 2009
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Aimee/S.
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Hello dear friends,
Not easy to answer... I have a MA in French Literature, I �ve read many books in French and also in English.
A few of them: I love Jane Austen (all!) Tracy Chevalier: Girl with a pearl earring - The Lady and the Unicorn (magnificent!). "The Kite Runner" of course, so powerful!
Amos Oz � marvelous, moving autobiography: "A Tale of Love and Darkness".
In my childhood I loved Enid Blyton.
Have a great afternoon/evening,
Love,
Aimee |
22 May 2009
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Nebal
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Hi Zora,
I would like to post again here!!! I adore reading, esp. romances and dramas.
I have read many, but these came to my mind at the moment:
My favourites are:
All novels by Jane Austen
" The French Lieutenant �s Woman" by John Fowles
" Possession" by A.S. Byatt
" Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo "
Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
" The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
" Macbeth" and " Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare
Hugs,
Nebal |
22 May 2009
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serennablack
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This thread is becoming serious....I mean...it �s great that so many people like to read. So, I �m going to recommend some more books/authors:
Jostein Gaarder is wonderful (Check out: Sophie �s world or The ringmaster �s daughter)
Paulo Coelho (Veronika decides to die/ By the River Piedra I sat down and wept)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One hundred years of solitude/ Chronicle of a death foretold)
Ant�nio Lobo Antunes (Cronicles)
Michael Ondaatje (the english patient)
Classics:
Crime and Punishment (fyodor Dostoyevky)
War and Piece (it �s a big book, but it is worth it-Leon Tolstoi)
Wuthering Heights/ jane Eyre (Charlotte bronte)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Camille (Alexandre Dumas)
Poetry:
E.e.Cummings (any of his poetry is wonderful)
Fernando Pessoa (all of it)
Jos� Luis Peixoto (a child in Ruins)
and so much more....
Well, this list made me want to go back and read them all over again....Thanks. Good readings and have a wonderful day.
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22 May 2009
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serene
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Hello there,
The first that comes to my mind is a classic masterpiece: Dostoevsky �s "Crime and Punishment"
Also Irvin Yalom �s "When Nietzsche Wept"
At the moment I �m reading a Greek translation of Denis Guedj �s "Les Chevaux de Berenice"
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22 May 2009
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maripa
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Books!!!!!! you just found my soft spot!!!�If I start I won �t be able to stop. � one (to tell you the truth seven)book I never get tired of reading is the Harry Potter series(J.K.Rowling).� Jane Austen is alltime classic as well. The Children of the Earth series (J.M.Auel) The Saxon Chronicles (Bernard Cornwell) World Without End (Ken Follet) writes his second historical novel a loose sequence to the Pillars of the Earth The Lord of The Rings (Tolkien) The Name of the Rose (Eco) The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) The Teacher (Frank McCourt) �well the list could go on......
Oh I just remembered, both Victoria Hisslop �s novels The Island And The Return are great. I force myself to stop. Maripa |
22 May 2009
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pauguzman
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so many books that I haven �t read  ......yet !!! I listed all the books you mentioned, hope read some of them next holidays.... thanks all of you
warm regards, PAULA |
22 May 2009
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