Favorite Books
Post the title and author of your favorite book(s). Write a brief summary about the book and tell why you like it so much. Share the fun!
posted by Elizabeth @ 10:56 AM
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Post the title and author of your favorite book(s). Write a brief summary about the book and tell why you like it so much. Share the fun!
74 Comments:
Sloppy First, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, and Fourth Comings is a series that i have read and realy enjoyed. They follow Jessica Darling through her high school, college years, and beyond. Jessica Darling is a very intelligent, over observant, sarcastic character who constantly keeps you laughing. I'm actually in the process of reading the fourth book and so far am loving it.These books are perfect beach reads.414
Angela's Ashes and 'Tis are two books written by Frank McCourt about his experiences growing up in Ireland and the US. He was born into a poor Irish family and struggled to keep the family alive and together. The book is a bit depressing but i really enjoyed the way he wrote it in the the Irish/English language he used (ie. arse) 414
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is another book i enjoyed reading. It is about a girl who was murdered and goes to heaven where she watches her family try to figure out the mystery while her killer is trying to cover his tracks. The book is written in an interesting perspective having the nararator experiencing heaven and watching everyone she loves still living on earth. 414
100 Years of Solitude - this book is a long, strange, sometimes tedious look at the history of a family. I hated every minute of reading it and yet could not put it down. And it is one book that has stuck so firmly in my mind, a beautiful story about life, death, and generational history.
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Bookends by Jane Green, i dont think my summary will really do the book justice so heres what the back cover says.....
"Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and emotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live in London's West Hampstead along with their lifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn cild called Max and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.
All's well (sort of) until the sudden arrival of a college friend- the stunningly beautiful Portia, who's known for breaking hearts. Her reappearance son unleashes a rollicking series of events that tests the foursome's friendships to the limit. Fortunately, Cath has plenty to take her mind off Portia's schemes- like her gusty decision to fullfill her dream of opening a bookstore, and a budding romance with sexy real-estate agent James. With his irresistible smile and boyish charm, could he be the one to melt Cath's heart?
Told with Jane Green's captivating wit and flare, Bookends is above all a story about friendship-its twists, turns, and omplications- and ahow it weathers the challenges of love, ambition, marriage, and, most of all, growing up.Warm-hearted, sophisticated, and full of delicious surprises, Bookends is Jane Green's most dazzling novel yet."
I commute to school on the train and this is the perfect book because its not too serious. It lets my mind escape to another world for those 30 minutes im on the train before I have to use my brain for more important things in school. 414
Code Name:Baby, Code Name:Blondie, Code Name:Nanny, and Code Name:Princess are a series by Christina Skye. A fifth book is scheduled to come out soon and is entitled Code Name:Bakini. They are action, adventure, romance novels about top secret Navy SEALs, their missions and the women who get in their way. They are enjoyable reads with a few laughs and they are great for beach reads. 415
I have also read and somewhat enjoyed The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Although it is not the type of book I usually read I thought it was interesting and I found myself unable to put it down. If you have read and enjoyed this book or would like to know more about it, they are in the process of making it into a movie. 415
There was a book that i read in highschool that i could not put down until i was finished. It was called Go, Ask Alice and it's written by an anonymous person. It's a true story about a girl that battles with drug abuse and her twisted life revolving around drugs. The book itself kind of creeped me out because it was the real life diary of a girl that really existed and i think i tend to draw more to horrific true stories rather than fictional ones. Either way the story is great and you really feel sorry for Alice because she wanted to be clean and she wanted to be a normal person but some people just could not let her do that. 402
“The Measure of a Man“ By Sydney Poitier. The first chapter was entitled “the Idyll” and as I read it , even though Poitier’s childhood was a different time and place than my own, the experience’s and lessons he had, really struck a chord with me. It revealed to me how I thought about my own childhood, and how looking back on it now it was an idyll. The chapters that followed explained what had shaped him into the person that he is today. The book is a great story told of how a man coming from nothing has attained such success in all facets of his life, through perseverance and being gracious for every event.
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Walden, by Henry David Thoreau is just an all around enjoyable classic that makes you think about life.
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All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is an another amazing classic. It shows the human being in a different light.
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One Mans Wilderness, by Sam Keith from the journals of Richard Proenneke, is the outstanding journal of a man who retired in Alaska and built himself a cabin with tools he made. He lived self-sufficiently, for 31 years until the age of 82.
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Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer, tells the true story of a man destined for Alaska and his journey of primal calling.
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The Golden Spruce, by John Vaillant, is an incredibly historic tale of a logger turned conservationist.
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LIAR'S GAME BY ERIC JEROME DICKEY---
One of Dickey's classic stories with a plot based around love, betrayal and commitment. Tells about man that was recently divorced that ends up in a relationship with yet another woman that will bring drama to his life.
CHEATERS BY ERIC JEROME DICKEY-----
Story about main character Stephan and his past of cheating, his new girl Chante that is not into players and his best friend Darnell that turns to the cheating side in his marriage.
THE SEX CHRONICLES BY ZANE------
The book is filled of chapters that each tell an erotic stories, which some may see as trashy but I see as confidence boosters. When I started to read the book it was kind of awkward but it really helped me to be more comfortable in my own skin wen I was with my boyfriend of several years. I also passed it to my cousin who was very shy when it came to being intimate with her boyfriend and it really helped her to feel more confident also.
ADDICTED BY ZANE-------
This novel tells about a woman that suppose to have it all-- a successful career, a husband and a child, but finds herself leading a double life.
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The Note book, by Nicholas sparks
I loved this book because it shows how love endures and how love can heal... I watched the movie so many times... Love stories are the greatest. This novel is about a couple where the husband stuck by his wife's side even when she had alzheimers( i know I spelled that wrong) disease and couldn't remember him... he wrote a notebook of the love they shared in hopes that she would remember his love and devotion... he committed to her reading it daily until she finally remember on her death bed.
I love to read Ann of Green Gables, a book written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It takes place in Prince Edward Island. I believe this is one of the reasons why I love the books so much. The place is so beautifully described. When they describe the farm that little Ann was going, it seem like a place only decorated by the Heavens. My favorite character in the book was Ann Shirley of course. She was brilliant and quick, eager to please but did not like her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Since she was so imaginative, she takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. The rest of the book recounts her continued education at school, where she excels in studies very quickly, her budding literary ambitions and her friendships with people such as Diana Barry (her best friend), Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis, and her rivalry with Gilbert Blythe, who teased her about her red hair and for that acquired her hatred, although he apologized many times. They compete in class and Anne one day realizes she no longer hates Gilbert, but won't admit it. She was also very stubborn. The book also follows her misadventures in quiet, old-fashioned Avonlea. I love this book. I can read it over and over…409
This Boy's Life is a memoir by Tobias Wolff. I read this book because the Author became a professor at Syracuse University where I did my undergraduate degree. This book describes the author's adolescence as he wanders the continental United States with his mother. The first leg of their journey takes them from Florida to Utah, where Mom, fleeing an abusive partner, hopes to get rich quick, but of course that does not happen. Eventually the mother becomes involved with Dwight Hansen, he was a mean, self fish bastard, but he did not show his colors until Toby’s mother married him. They settled in Concrete, Washington, north of Seattle, a place with plenty of natural beauty and, in their case, more than its share of personal desolation. This book taught me a lessons. Lessons of life, for example, never put all your trust in a man, once he knows this, he will use it to hurt you, another would be, as a teenage, never let your parents dictate or put you down with any dream you may have, and last, at the end of the book, Toby’s mother stood up for herself. During the marriage, he was beaten, yelled at, and treated horribly. She decides that she does not need this man in her like and she realized that he needed her more. She picked up with Toby and left him. Yeah!! For her. This book was a good read. -409
Hills like White Elephants
Written by Ernest Hemingway (Fiction)
This story is about an American boy who was dating a girl named Jig. Both of them had to make a choice in their relationship. While dating Jig got pregnant and wanted to carry the baby but her boyfriend was in favor of her aborting. He wanted to be a free person to travel any where at any time without any attachement.Her boyfriend did not want to come off front to tell her to do the abortion.
Find this book and read it. 416
The Nanny Diaries by: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Krause is a book about Nanny, a young college student who takes on the job of caring for the son of the wealthy X family in NYC. She basically raises the child because the parents are too involved in their own lives to care about their only son. When the X's marriage begins to fall apart Nanny tries to balance their neverending demands with her schooling and life. This book is a great read for anyone who has been a nanny and dealt with crazy parents!! 413
"The Memory Keepers Daughter", By Kim Edwards...This was a book that I truly enjoyed...I'm a reading fanatic and this rates up there with some of the best i have read...The book is about a doctor whose wife gives birth on a snowy night in 1964 to twins, one boy and one girl who turns out to have downs syndrome...the story deals with the aftermath of the father giving up the little girl to his nurse and never telling his wife about it.. the story goes back in forth between the life of the doctor and his family and then the nurse and the little girl...its truly a wonderful book and I highly reccomend it...bring the tissues though because it has it's sad parts...
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SONG OF THE SILENT SNOW by HUBERT SELBY JR.:
This is a collection of 15 of Selby's short stories, from several decades of his work. This novel is deep, funny, and about a recognizably uncaring world. I like these stories because they move at a fast pace and are written in a poetic--sometimes convoluted style. These quick, staccato writings kept me interested and I was able to grasp the cynicism he displays towards varying parts of the American culture.
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DIARY by CHUCK PALAHNIUK:
This book is written in the form of a "coma diary," in which the main character, Misty, is supposed to describe the events of the world for her husband Peter while he is hospitalized in a coma after a failed suicide attempt. Peter was a contractor, and his customers are calling to complain that they've found the missing closets and rooms that disappeared after he worked on the house. Inside those rooms, Peter has scrawled vile and disturbing messages, some of them apparently meant for Misty. Misty gave up her dreams of being an artist and married the wealthy Peter only to end up working as a hotel maid as the family money slowly dried up. Now she's being threatened with lawsuits. 'Diary' documents her struggle to stay solvent and keep her child fed, clothed, housed and alive. I enjoy Palahhniuk's writing style and the way the story unfolds. The events are not explained chronologically and the detail creates such strong imagery. this is a good, creative book.
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FRANNY AND ZOOEY by J.D. SALINGER:
Franny and Zooey is a pair of stories, published together. Franny and Zooey are two members of the Glass family, a frequent focus of Salinger's writings. Franny is the story of Franny Glass's weekend date with her collegiate boyfriend, Lane Coutell. Zooey is a subtly moving story that paints an intimate portrait of the Glass Family. This story is a classic for me and I enjoy Salinger's deep connection with his characters.
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TRISTESSA by JACK KEROUAC:
Tristessa is a short novel by Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute. The woman's real name was Esperanza (meaning "hope" in spanish). Later, Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa ("tristeza" means sadness in Spanish). His beat style of writing has always enticed me and in this novel, it moves the reader poetically through his tumultuous, painful relationship with the prostitute. Through his writing style and detail, i could feel the pain along with the happiness throughout his account of the affair.
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MOBY DICK by HERMAN MELVILLE
I read this novel in highschool and it opened up my respect and adoration for literature. We spent weeks analyzing each page of this novel and the amount of imagery and motifs were astounding, It was through this book, that my education and analysis of Literature really took off. I was taught to read between the lines and Moby Dick was the perfect catalyst.
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Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.
Such a fantastic book. I love how Kurt Vonnegut writes about horrible things in such a matter-of-fact way, how he writes about a totally psychotic man as if he perhaps was the one that had it right. I love how he follows everything with "so it goes." Because sometimes thats all that can be said about life, so it goes. This was my first Kurt Vonnegut book, and the one that made me fall in love with him
The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
I think I read all of Hunter S. Thompson's work in the span of about 2 months - it made me feel completely crazy. But I love his writing. Most of his books are a collection of short stories that take you on a crazy ride through the mind of a brilliant man. Partly offensive, partly brilliant, and probably only partly true.
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...#408 also wrote about Slaughterhouse 5
The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
This is a crazy tale about a boy who is shipwrecked and spends 227 days lost at sea on a lifeboat with a Bengel tiger. But really, I think, it's a philosophical book. One that examines spirituality, survival, humanity. If you read it just to learn how to survive when lost at sea with a Bengel tiger, it's kind of funny. If you read it for what Yann Martel is saying about life - it's kind of brilliant.
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A Million Little Pieces by James Frye About a drug addict's conflicts with himself in the confides of rehab. 420
'Helter Skelter' A true-crime classic about the iconic 1969 Los Angeles murders of actress Sharon Tate and her friends inside her Hollywood mansion. Written by the trial prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.
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The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Awakening is about a women who is in an incredibly depressing marriage. It's not bad, but it's certainly not good. The story follows her as she falls in love with a poor man that cares for her and her husband's land, and how love awakens her emotionally and sexually.
It was considered a scandalous story for its "explicit" sex content. I think it's still scandalous today, but now because of how honestly Kate Chopin wrote, not about sex, but about love.
The Awakening
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I recently read a trilogy call In the Garden Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, Red Lily by Nora Roberts. I couldn't put these books down. The story is so amazing and it incorporates suspence, mystery, and passion. #419
The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards is a great book that is simply mesmerizing. It's a little slow towards the middle but the ending really picks up. The novel portrays how happiness isn't always what it seems. #419
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain is a book I read as a teenager. I throughly enjoyed it then and when I find the time I'd like to read it a second time. It's a tale of this 'wish giver' who indeed grants your wishes but it always back fires. Thus the saying be carfeul what you wish for. #419
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks was eventually made into a movie with the same title. I must say that the movie and the book were both incredible and emotional. I absolutely adore love stories and this somes close to my favorite.#419
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann is not a book but my favorite poem. I think it is supposed to be the 'decleration of what is essential in ones life' and I myself try to live by it and throughly enjoy reading it time and time again. #419
A child called it, by Dave Pelzer...this was a really sad and unsettling novel about a young boy who suffers severe child abuse by his mother...the story is his day to day life and what he endures until child services finally come..it's a very graphic story and really made me thankful for good parents...
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman..this book is hilarious and is all about one guys take on gen x and pop culture...funny thoughts on saved by the bell, bill clinton and others... it's a light reader and just a good book to make you laugh...
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Wives behaving badly, by Elizabth Buchanan...this is a pretty funny novel about a 40 something woman who gets her husband stolen by her young, glossy assistant than has to rethink and rebuild her life...This book has some really funny parts and also some sad ones...I read it this summer at the beach and really enjoyed it!
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Traveling Light by Katrina Kittle is a novel, I just happened to find and thought it was interesting. It was absolutely heart wrenching. The main character 'Summer', used to be a dancer, and now she's a school teacher at home, in Ohio. (It's been a while, since I read it), but I remember she wasn't truly hapy with her life. But her brother has Cancer, and she allows him and his partner to stay with her as the disease takes it's course, and brother eventually passes. However, in that time although it's devasting when he dies, seeing her brother try to remain as full as life as possible, teaches her she should try doing the same thing. Really I remember crying my eyes out lol, but it's definetly a book I would recommend as it was sad, but very uplifting. -403
Jemima J by Jane Green is truely one of my favorites! Like, read 5 times, and never get sick of it. This is about a woman of 27, who's overweight, and upset with life. When she starts living a life a little more and drops a few pounds, she decides to finally shed it all. She drops her weight, and finally 'lives life' to the fullest, only to find out, even with the perfect body, life can hand you dissapoints. And forgets the most valuable lesson she learned being overweight, that things shouldn't be taken at face value. But, there's very much a happy ending I wouldn't want to spoil.
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One of my favorite books is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, an renouned African writer.
The book portays the conflict between tradition and modernity. It is a story about Okonkwo, a man who worked hard to build a reputation for himself as a hard working, wealthy and custodian of the traditions and customs of his community.
He would rather uphold tradition and join in killing Ikemefuna, a captive boy he had grown to love who inturn called him father while in his guardianship. Shortly after killing the boy, Okonkwo's world began to unravel and 'Things' began to literally 'Fall Apart'.
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Where I'm Calling From By Rayomond Carver. I am currently reading through these selected short stories by the Carver.
This is the last story collection published during Carver's life (he died in 1988) contains most of his greatest hits from his earlier books, as well as seven stories that hadn't been collected up to that point. The breadth of the collection makes these 37 stories an extremely complete map of Carver territory, of a particular area of America and of the specific texture of the people Carver writes about their difficult attempts at survival in a world where happiness does not arrive wrapped up in neat packages but comes in far more peculiar parcels, if it comes at all. I enjoy this read because it exposes the dramatic of, "everyday people."
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Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old prep school student who has failed out of school two weeks before Christmas. Several days before he's expected home for Christmas vacation, he leaves school planning to spend some time on his own in New York City, where he lives. Though Holden is friendly with many people at school, and though he has several friends in New York, he is constantly lonesome and in need of someone who will sympathize with his feelings of alienation. The person Holden feels closest to is his ten year old sister Phoebe, but he can't call her for fear of letting his parents know he left school. He spends his time with a variety of people, but can't make meaningful contact with any of them. After a day of futility, he sneaks into his home to see Phoebe, but she disappoints him by being annoyed at his being expelled from school. Holden decides the the only solution to his overwhelming problem is to run away and establish a new identity as a deaf-mute who will not need to communicate with anyone. On the verge of nervous collapse, Holden changes his mind and decides to rejoin his family. He then enters a hospital not far from Hollywood, and he is telling us his story while in this institution. At the novel's close, Holden isn't sure whether he'll be able to handle things better when he leaves the institution, and he is sorry that he told his story at all.
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High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. This book follows the 'mid-life' crisis of Rob, a thirty-something record-store owner who must face the undeniable facts - he's growing up. In a hilarious homage to the music scene, Rob and the wacky, offbeat clerks that inhabit his store expound on the intricacies of life and song all the while trying to succeed in their adult relationships. Are they listening to pop music because they are miserable? Or are they miserable because they listen to pop music? This romantic comedy provides a touching and whimsical glimpse into the male view of the affairs of the heart.
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The Stranger by Camus. The Stranger was an immediate success and established Camus, incorrectly, as a major representative of the existentialist movement. The novel tells the story of Meursault, who kills an Arab in a reaction to the environment—the heat and glare of the sun. In the investigation, the law prosecutes Meursault for his failure to show proper feelings for his deceased mother, rather than for the crime of murder. Aghast at his apparent lack of love, they execute him. The novel, as well as the collection of essays, developed the concept of the absurd and the belief that a person can be happy in the face of the “absurd.”
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Bobby Fischer: The Wandering King by Hans Bohm. Chess devotees simply can't get enough of Bobby Fischer. Every facet of his personality and his play unfolds in this biographical study. In addition to analyzing his exceptional talent, it captures and puts into perspective his tough youth, anti-social tendencies, fights against the chess authorities, and growing mental illness. There's also extensive information from recently opened FBI files about Fischer, and a discussion of a low point: when Fischer cheered the collapse of the Twin Towers.
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I just finished reading the kite runner and i ust saw the movie. This is great book bout Afga=hanistan. the teacher
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. I enjoy it because it is a non-fiction novel. Knowing that the story is based on real events makes it even more disturbing. I also love Capote's short stories in The Grass Harp. 'Miriam' is my favorite story within this collection. 518
Ever since I had english in highschool I read more and more everyday. I remember in highschool I read this book called Flyy Girl By Omar Tyree. It was about a young teenage girl named Tracy Ellison who became motivated by the material world. She became adapted into a fast life, doing anything to get next to a man but later examines her lifestyle, her goals and also her sexuality. I also read books by Carl Weber who is a great author who wrote, The Preacher's Son, Lookin' for Luv, Married Men, Player Haters and more. I love reading his books because you never know what to expect especially during the end and you will never lose interest throughout his books. I can't pick a favorite from all his books because I love all of them.503
One of my favorite books is The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Written and set in the early 1940's,it is a story of two young architects and their buildings, ideals, loves and clients. It is a philosophy book that values individualistic integrity over the notion of a "collective soul"; told through an epic novel. It would be best explained by saying I do not want to explain it since I would not do it justice.
Last post by 501.
I read often and the question, "what is your favorite book?" is comparable to "who is your favorite band?" both almost unanswerable. Knowing this, I usually go with the first book or band that comes to mind, and in this case I would have to say, Go ask Alice, by anonymous. I read this book for the first time when I was in middle school and the effect it had on me then, which I have a feeling is the opposite of what they had intended. This book is very controversial being that it is about drug abuse The book is said to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who died of a drug overdose in the late 1960s and is presented as a lesson against drug use...hmmm...
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In highschool, we had to pick a book that had been banned in public schools and libraries and then write a paper on it. I chose a book called "The Handmaids Tale" by Margaret Atwood. It takes place when the government is taken over by a Christian army. Suddenly, everyday women like nurses and teachers, even mothers are taken away from their families and are focred to become surrogate mothers for the wifes of Commanders. When they are not trying to get pregnant, they are servants. It is told through the eyes of Offred. What she witnesses is a terrifying future when women are not in control of their lives or even bodies. 511
One of my favorite books is The Lovely Bones. It's about a young girl who was murdered and throughout the book, she watches her friends and family while she is in heaven. She sees them dealing with her death. I thought it was very interesting and a very different concept than a lot of books. I really enjoyed it. 509
Two of my favorite books are, "The Lovely Bones" and "The Notebook". The Lovely Bones was a very interesting book just because of the point of the view of telling the story. And The Notebook, well thats a good book for any hopeless romantic out there.
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My favorite book is The Holy Bible, written by various authors inspired by God. This is my favorite book because it is the word of God. It has everything you can find in other books. Poetry (Psalms), Guidance on how to conduct your life (Proverbs), stories of kings and everyday people. Stories of heros and cowards. People who were joyful and depressed. The many parables told by Jesus. It is example of a life that we try to follow. It is the story of my Lord and Savior, Jesus. It is faith (my hope). There are many stories in the Bible of people who have fallen, stories like the soap operas on TV. There is something for everyone. #520
sorry but i can't remember the last time i read a real book
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My favorite book of all times has to bee The Giver.i read this book in middle school,but i think the plot is great i cant get into detail without giving away the story but its a must read.The book takes a look at life and what it could be like if it was perfect.
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One of my favorite books is Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. I finished this book in 16 hours I couldn't put it down because I was so intrigued of how they learned from such a young childhood on how to become a high-class prostitute. The bid on these Japanese women and save their virginity for a man they barely know. This was a very interesting book could read it again.
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I would have to say my favorite book would have to be The Color Purple. It tells the story of abuse, heartache, sexuality, and resolution. The main character Ceily goes through so much turmoil from the time she is a very young girl all the way up to adulthood. She then learns how to be strong and stand up for herself and leave such a horrible situation in life. 527
"The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield is one of my all time favorites. Besides all the adventure in the story are these nine key insights into life. An explaination of the way energy is passed through living beings and the way we can control it applies to everyday life. After reading I started to notice specific things that the story points out that happen all around us that are never notice. After reading this story I felt like a new person ready to face the world and experience life the way it is set infront of me. I believe everyone should read this story, i think it would open many closed eyes.
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One of my favoraite books is called "A Child Called It" by: Dave Pelzer who was actually talking about his life and the stuggles that he went thre as a child and growing up. I think his book was amazing, very sad-very detailed; but extrodanary. He mainly talkes about how his mother was very abusive mentally and physically to him. She use to do horrible things to hime and actually never called him by his name (David or Dave). Although this book is very sad it is also powerful in helping the reader think about their obstacles that they fear to overcome. This book really moved me and I strongly reccomend it to all. #523
The name of my favorite book would have to be Charlie and the Chocolate factory. The best book of all times. Which takes place in the candy factory. And also outside of the factory, in a poor neighborhood where Charlie the little boy lives. The book is full of twists in turns that happens while taking a tour of the factory. 519
My favorite book is Coldest Winter Ever by Sista Soul-Ja. This book is about a young girl who is caught up in the life of the streets. Her father was a drug-dealer who had lots of money for all the wrong reasons.She is a very pretty girl who in the end winds up in jail for doing things she should not do. I like the book because it tells a lesson of what not to do and how to handle life in the streets.
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One of my favorite books is The Lord of the Flies, I never read this book in school but I had heard good things so i picked it up. A group of kids end up stranded on and island after a plane crash. I like this book because it shows humans in a primative way. This is what life would be like if we stuck to our roots, the only thing that matters is survival. The book shows humans evil nature, and how even the civilized can go back to their roots. 513
B-more Careful by Shannon Holmes. This book is close to my heart because it is about the streets that I grew up on. It is full of drama and real life crisis. This was not a typical 'tale of the ghetto' type story. It was uplifting in telling the audience that life is what you make it. We have the power to change the future. -502
i had a hard time deciding which is my fav. book because i dont often read other books, but i do read the bible, and it is very dear to me. This book is very uplifting, it has all the facts of life, the real history book, and the book that if read with discernment from Christ, will encourage you to believe. God's the best author, even of our faith.
I am reading P.S. I love you by Cecelia Ahern, and I absolutely love it so far. It is an easy read and it keeps your attention throughout it. This is the first book ever that I hate to put down. 510
It took me a while to decide what my favorite book was but I had to say the Secret because of the impact it had on my life. Once I finished the story I was convinced if I lived this lifestyle I could become who I want. I still have the book and movie to continue to remind myself of how happy I can be if I put my mind to it. 504
My favorite book would be Sex Chronicles by Zane. This book is filled with interesting twists and turns, that would want the reader wanting to buy more Zane books. To me it also helps the reader become more comfortable with that special someone. 519
707-Im currently reading a book called Midnight. I think its taking over my top spot (favorite book) its about a boy from Africa and how his life changes when his mother, little sister and himself move to New York after his father was robbed and killed. The book displays true love with in a family and a real relationship. The book makes me appreciate life and look foward to whats to come
My favorite books are anything by Sarah Dessen. I have her entire collection, and am eagerly awaiting her new release this August. I love her books so much because I can always somehow relate to them and see myself in the characters. She's a brilliant writer for anyone looking for a good read for a nice breezy summer day.
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My favorite book (and i dont read hardly anything, i tell people that if i didnt have to read street signs i wouldn't, thats how much a hate to read) has always been Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli. Its a book I read in around the 4th grade, but there is so much more too it than being an elementary level summer reading book. It really teaches about racism and what can be accomplished without it. There is this great connection between the main character and the people he comes across.
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I’ve always been a reader so please excuse the excessive response to this prompt. To start off, I’m a huge Shakespeare fan. I’ve read all of his plays at least once (except for “Merry Wives of Windsor” “Timon of Athens” and “Trolius and Cressida”) I went through a big Greek literature phase in high school where I read Homer and Sophocles. I loved Russian literature like Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” although I’m sure I’ll never make it all the way through Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” There are so many stories that I always forget to mention when asked my favorite book. When I go to the beach I always bring with me the latest Janet Evanovich book because I think that out of hundreds of years of writing, her characters are more alive and real to me that most authors.
Recently the movie “The Time Traveler’s Wife” based on the book by Audrey Niffenegger came out. I didn’t get a chance to see the movie but I loved the book. I am a little afraid to see the movie. No matter how awesome the movie is it is always different then the way I had things in my head. (But you know I’m going to watch it anyway.)
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