Favorite Books Ever Read....I got one... very short story behind it..

[Stuart G]

I was walking through the Chicago Public Library in early May of 1977..A new section had just opened with brand new paperback books. All were brand new... Basically, all paperbacks arranged on new shelves or stands made for them.. I looked at few, and one caught my eye..title "Star Wars" something about a movie was coming out, but a great "adventure into the unknown" or something like that. I am not much of a reader, but it looked good, and have been a Star Trek fan..for years..(and I think I was the first person who ever took that one out)
....So, before the movie came out, I read the book...On the second week the film was out, I went and it was terrific beyond what I thought it would be.........That book was "Star Wars"...but, now it is called, "Star Wars, A New Hope" I recall that I loved reading that book, and knew what was happening before it happened on the screen...Oh, I loved that movie too..

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Atlas Shrugged

Nah. I'm just messing with you.

[shenmue]

2. The Lord of the Rings

Borrowed 'The Two Towers' from my brother and was hooked. Asked for the box set for Christmas and got it. Just amazed by the richness of the characters and the world.

That was probably around 1981. I was eight.

[Glorfindel]

3. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

Even with all its absurd coincidences and mawkish sentimentality, I love every word of it. "It is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

[CatMor]

4. "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Drieser

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

5. A Prayer for Owen Meany...

...by John Irving. One of the only authors that can make me laugh out loud, recoil in horror, and cry within one paragraph.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Great book!

[WinkyDink]

6. "Kon-Tiki": I finally saw the raft in Oslo!--"Swiss Family Robinson": Escapism at its best!---And

too many more as the years went by!

Well, literature WAS my major and career!

Of all that I taught, I'd say "Wuthering Heights" was my favorite, even if the characters were not!

[ms liberty]

8. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Crocodile on the Sandbank, and all the Amelia Peabody books that followed, by Elizabeth Peters (RIP!) To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and all the subsequent books in that series by Douglas Adams. All of the Belgariad and the Mallorean by David Eddings.The Warlock in Spite of Himself, and Escape Velocity by Christopher Stasheff. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul, again by Doulas Adams (RIP!). These are some of the books i reread on a regular basis...and I could go on...