A few of my favorite books. Anyone up for a book of the month club here at Steeple?

Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 11:13 PM by BJ not BK
I am a book lover through and through.  As a college student I used my English degree to buy me the time to read as many of the classics as I could.  I know, I know....yawn.  There are few people left who read and even fewer people left who read the classics or have read them. 

It is so frustrating to read an incredible book and to not be able to share it with anyone!

Here are a few of my all time favorites.  I would be interested in knowing how many of them you have read.

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
David Coperfield - Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Doestoevsky
The Illiad and The Odyssey - Homer
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
John Adams - McCullough
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
How Should We Then Live - Francis Schaeffer....that name has a nice ring to it don't you think?
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Portrati of Dorian Gray and the Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

I could go on and on but many of you are probably already bored to tears.

Comments

# re: A few of my favorite books. Anyone up for a book of the month club here at Steeple?

Friday, February 09, 2007 10:25 PM by scoutmom

I have read David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway can be very depressing!), Gatsby and The Portrait of Dorian Gray.  How about The Brothers Karamazov, A Tale of Two Cities, or The Adventures of Augie March or As I Lay Dying by Faulkner?

# re: A few of my favorite books. Anyone up for a book of the month club here at Steeple?

Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:31 PM by KCkrazykat

I am a bibliophile myself. I will read anything I can get my hands on, always have. I have read most of these at some point. I like CS Lewis. There was a short novel (short for him!) he wrote about a bus.. people had a choice, they could stay where they were or take the bus, never to be heard from again... and this guy takes the bus. It was a good story..

I love Stephen King. Once you have read the "Dark Tower" series (all 7 books are out!) you will understand the rest of his books because every single one that I have read has a reference to it.. and how it ends! That threw me for a loop.... I got into Robin Cook when I had cancer. A nurse turned me on to him. She said that nothing in a hospital is as scary as what he comes up with!!!!

My fave classic, "Jane Eyre". I've seen all the movies (masterpiece theater was the best one) but the book is so much better. Once you get past the English usage, you see that Jane wasn't the little mouse that she was portrayed as in the Original movie. Anne Rice has been working on some good stuff. She has a book "Lord of Lords" I think it's called.. it's kinda like her vampire stuff. She took all we know about Jesus Christ, and put in historical context.. what was life like when JC was growing up? an excellent read. So is her series "the further erotic adventures of Sleeping Beauty" not a fairy tale for kids, but still classic Rice...