Your 5 favorite books - Page 6

Xin Lu · 01-31-2008, 06:21 PM

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Seriously the only book I cried over
Neuromancer - really cool SciFi
Collection of Oscar Wilde stories including The Picture of Dorian Gray and some dark fairy tales
Journey to the West - read this in Chinese when I was a kid
Brave New World

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Not sure if these are my top five, but they're close. I also really liked the Ender's Game series.

Joanne · 02-03-2008, 01:37 PM

1. Peace is Every Step: Thich Nhat Hanh
2. Spiritual RX: Frederic Brussat
3. Mindful Parenting: Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn
4. Dumbing Us Down;The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling: Books: John Taylor gatto
5. The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education: Grace Llewellyn

Megan · 02-03-2008, 01:42 PM

1. Ender's Game
2. A Wrinkle in Time
3. Dragonsdawn
4. Rebecca
5. The Giving Tree

Kathryn · 02-03-2008, 06:35 PM

For better or worse, I haven't read much fiction for pleasure in a long, long time. So some of these are from a long time ago and they might not be my favorites today.

Ulysses -- Joyce
Lolita -- Nabakov
Sons and Lovers -- DH Lawrence
Slaughterhouse Five --Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison

Oh my godness, there's so much left off this list! John Cheever and Ray Carver...Pynchon...Tom Robbins...Garcia Marquez...Bill Bryson...Conrad

...yes, I was an English major! It spoiled me for literature. I have a hard time holding my focus to read "complex" lit-rah-toor any more, but I can't stomach grocery-store or "genre" fiction.

01-31-2008, 06:21 PM	#51
Xin Lu Wise Bread Blogger Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 232 Reputation: (40)	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Seriously the only book I cried over Neuromancer - really cool SciFi Collection of Oscar Wilde stories including The Picture of Dorian Gray and some dark fairy tales Journey to the West - read this in Chinese when I was a kid Brave New World ---- Not sure if these are my top five, but they're close. I also really liked the Ender's Game series. __________________ Blogs I Write: The Baglady @ http://baglady.dreamhosters.com Wise Bread @ http://wisebread.com/xin-lu

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02-03-2008, 06:35 PM	#54
Kathryn Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 103 Reputation: (17)	For better or worse, I haven't read much fiction for pleasure in a long, long time. So some of these are from a long time ago and they might not be my favorites today. Ulysses -- Joyce Lolita -- Nabakov Sons and Lovers -- DH Lawrence Slaughterhouse Five --Kurt Vonnegut Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison Oh my godness, there's so much left off this list! John Cheever and Ray Carver...Pynchon...Tom Robbins...Garcia Marquez...Bill Bryson...Conrad ...yes, I was an English major! It spoiled me for literature. I have a hard time holding my focus to read "complex" lit-rah-toor any more, but I can't stomach grocery-store or "genre" fiction.