What's Your Favorite Book?

[FutureSoror]

Everyone should read the Robe. It is such an awesome book about the early times of The Church.

Edited September 7, 2004 by FutureSoror

[Colleen]

[quote name='voiciblanche' date='Sep 6 2004, 09:40 PM'] Hmm... Great Expectations has always been one of my favorite books.

The Way is one of my favorites, too. [/quote]
Me too for both.

[Guest T-Bone]

[quote name='thicke' date='Sep 6 2004, 09:02 PM'] Right now I'm reading [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060763957/qid=1094522124/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-4178328-6675015?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man[/url].


[/quote]
I saw Mr. Moore's book, Stupid White Men, thought it was an autobiography....


My favorite book's are:

The Hitchiker's Guide seris
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
and anything by Dale Brown

[White Knight]

The Bible is my favorite to read.

[Guest T-Bone]

The Bible is great, I admit, but is a hard read. I pretty much thought that the thread was about leisure reading...

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='thicke' date='Sep 6 2004, 09:02 PM'] Right now I'm reading [url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060763957/qid=1094522124/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-4178328-6675015?v=glance&s=books&n=507846"]Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man[/url].

The title is not very charitable at all, but the book is really good. [/quote]
I read that. Sometimes Michael Moore says some incredibly terrible, stupid and immature things, like suggesting something about "money you might be putting into the church collection going to a women-hating organization" (I presumed this to be his take on pro-life organizations.) :angry:

I am not entirely certain what to make of some of the facts he comes up with and if they are entirely accurate, but they are food for thought. For example, apparently manufactured cars had better gas mileage during the Reagan presidency than they did during the Clinton presidency.

Chapter 8 in that book suggests the way to achieve peace in Northern Ireland is to just convert everyone to Catholicism, and I couldn't tell if he was expressing some actual love for his Catholic background or poking fun of it. Maybe both. Apparently he's raised Catholic and was once a seminarian -- he's definitely a confused Catholic (still practices somewhat, has seen the Passion a couple of times...) Pray for Michael Moore.

With that being said....

I like "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. I enjoy dystopian novels like this because they paint a grim picture of what the world very well could become. Especially Huxley's book where society considers marriage and children born traditionally as "archaic and obscene" and everyone is obsessed with sex and genetic perfection.

Lately I've taken a shine towards some of the classics I've never gotten around to reading in the past, like Jane Eyre, Little Women, et cetera.

I like those "Chicken Soup" books too. They always make me cry.

[Guest T-Bone]

I liked 1984 better than BNW, but I also enjoy grim novels of the future...

[Azriel]

hmmm as an English Major its hard to pick!

To Kill a Mockingbird - all time best that I read as a child

Best escapist read? The Stand - Stephen King - and then the Dark Tower books.

and Harry Potter.

[theculturewarrior]

[quote name='shelly_freak' date='Sep 6 2004, 09:06 PM'] Anne McCaffery Freedom series [/quote]
I read all the Anne McCaffrey books that started with "dragon" in the title. The ones set in Pern...EXCELLENT!!!

[Guest T-Bone]

[quote]The Stand - Stephen King - and then the Dark Tower books.[/quote]


A fellow "Tower Junkie"?

Watch out for the Lobstrosities...

[traichuoi]

"Blue Fingers" a story about a kid who becomes a ninja...it's awesome!
i also love "Imitation of Christ" by Kempis
and "Testimony of Hope" by Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan

[MorphRC]

I dont like reading fiction. my favourite book would have to be "The Sword of the Prophet", by Serge Trifkovic.

[goldenchild17]

I'm just over halfway through Anne Catherine Emmerich's "Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ". Very powerful, very good.

[MorphRC]

Michael Moore Rulz.

[Azriel]

[quote name='T-Bone' date='Sep 8 2004, 01:07 AM']

A fellow "Tower Junkie"?

Watch out for the Lobstrosities... [/quote]
Yup.

I'm not the only one...Carrie and Lil Red are too ... among others ...

[BeenaBobba]

I'm a big Russian literature nerd. My favorite book is [i]The Brothers Karamazov[/i], by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

God bless,

Jen

[BeenaBobba]

I've read a few of Stephen King's works, but I've never read the [i]Dark Tower[/i] books. What are they about? Should I read 'em?

God bless,

Jen

[theculturewarrior]

PHARMER GILES OF HAM. :angry:

[Azriel]

[quote name='BeenaBobba' date='Sep 8 2004, 12:53 PM'] I've read a few of Stephen King's works, but I've never read the [i]Dark Tower[/i] books. What are they about? Should I read 'em?

God bless,

Jen [/quote]
oh you must read them.

You must!

They are about a quest.

That's all I can say!

[Colleen]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Sep 8 2004, 01:09 PM'] PHARMER GILES OF HAM. :angry: [/quote]
I love that book!