Your Favorite Book Or last Read

[bosten]

What was the last book you've read or what is your favorite book
that you could always read over & over again?

My fav book is: "The Bait Of Satan" by John Bevere. I highly reccomend the read or anything by John Bevere.
Another great read from Jon Bevere is: "Rescued".

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[coop41]

My favorite recent book was [b][i]Georgie, Portrait Of A Lost Soul[/i][/b]

[i_like_lectric_motors]

This one:

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Don't believe everything you hear.

[Frau_Blucher]

That motors, so cagey and unpredictable. He's like a fucking chameleon! [:D]

Back on topic, my favorite for both content and contextual reasons: "Twentieth-Century American Poetry", edited by Conrad Aiken. All the classics from Dickenson, Sandburg, Pound, Eliot, Cummings, Frost, etc. The cherished context part to me is that it was given to my dad by my aunt on the eve of a tour of Vietnam right before the '68 Tet Offensive with the inscription "Have a good safe tour"...and he did...until '73. The well-worn book obviously made its way back and is cherished.

[KYYX4ever]

motors,
that's awesome !!!!!![:D]

I have lots of faves, and I'm always reading when I have time, but
my ultimate total fave would be [i]One Hundred Years of Solitude[/i] by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.
[i]A Prayer For Owen Meany[/i] runs a close second.
[i]1984[/i] too.

[birdmadgirl]

I just finished re-reading "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I love that book.

Another favorite is "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry.

[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">I'm really into the classics; mainly from the 19th century up to mid-20th century. I can't get into anything new, save for a few classics from the 60s (Terry Southern, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kessey, etc).


[i]L'Etranger[/i] by Albert Camus
[i]Le Petit Prince[/i] by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[i]Great Expectations[/i] by Charles Dickens
[i]The Metamorphosis[/i] by Franz Kafka
[i]Sons And Lovers[/i] by D.H. Lawrence
[i]The Phantom Of The Opera[/i] by Gaston Leroux
[i]The Temple Of The Golden Pavillion[/i] by Mishima Yukio
[i]Anthem[/i] by Ayn Rand
[i]The Tragedy Of Macbeth[/i] by William Shakespeare
[i]Frankenstein[/i] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly


I love to re-read various passages from [i]Macbeth[/i] and [i]Julius Caesar[/i] and quote them every now and then to unknowing peeps[}:)]

"Turn, hellhound, turn..."[}:)] "Why should I play the Roman fool when the gashes do better upon them?"[}:)] Hahaha.

[wherewereuin82]

"Turn, hellhound, turn"

Perfect. I'll have to use that on my mother-in-law one day.

[rotator]

Even though Im not buying into Bosten's (Georgies) obvious "witnessing his faith" through New Wave Outpost....

I just got these books from Amazon for my upcoming vacation...

[b]Joy Division : Piece By Piece (Morely)

and

Brian Eno : The Vertical Sound Of Colour (Tamm)[/b]

[WoodlandParkPunk]

Dante's Inferno.

"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious

[Parrothead]

Last read: James Ellroy's "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand". The first two novels in his "Underworld USA" trilogy. The third part is supposedly coming out later this year. Historical fiction, Kennedy era through the eyes of three corrupt individuals. I enjoyed them. Stylistically, TCST could be a chore to read, as it runs 672 pages in what some compare to "Dick and Jane/Run Spot Run", due to the use of short sentences.

Currently reading Mart Laar's "Sinimäed 1944" (Blue Mountains 1944). It looks at battles along the Narva Front (NE Estonia) 1944.

[WolverineSyr]

[quote][i]Originally posted by rotator[/i]
<br>Even though Im not buying into Bosten's (Georgies) obvious "witnessing his faith" through New Wave Outpost....
[/quote]

I was going to say the same thing as I'm sure he has no interest in what we're reading, but to promote his fundamentalist tract.

For the rest of you, I recently read 2 books by John Muir: "My First Summer in the Sierra" and "Stickeen." Even though they were written in the late 1800's they spoke to me at such a deep level & have really transformed my perceptions of nature and preservation. I have absolutely fallen in love with his beautiful style of writing & philosophy. I recently bought a 900 page collection of his other books & essays. I suspect some of you on the West Coast would be more familiar with him than someone like me way up in NYS.

I also read Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac which I absolutely loved and was a good lead-in to Muir's work.

[shovelbum]

The Poisonwood Bible, Shadow of the Wind....

So many others, but those 2 mean a lot to me.

As for Bosten (nice spelling), I would highly recommend Darrell Fasching's "Comparative Religious Ethics"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0631201 ... eader-link


"There's safety in numbers when we learn to divide, how can we be in when there is no outside?" ~Peter Gabriel

[mhochuli]

Some favorites are ...

Atlas Shrugged, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia series, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Life and Death in Shanghai, any mystery written by P.D. James


Recently read ... two mysteries I really liked ...

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

[Max Murdoc]

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (excellent read)
The Pillars of the Earth (could have done without the romance crap but still good)
Be True to Your School (a day by day diary from 1964 I have read this many, many times)