Your One All-time favorite book

Karla · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject:

I know I will change my mind tomorrow because I don't have ONE favorite anything. My favorite story has always been Peter Pan but I've never read the whole book. I also really love The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I'd have to say that the most influential and often read book I own is "Franny and Zooey"...

Cheers glccafar! The Last Unicorn is an amazing book and animated movie. Did you know they were in, like pre-production for a movie version? There's a web-site...I hope they actually make it.

-Karla

glccafar · Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 60

Thanks, Karla. I was so excited when I first saw that site, but I don't think it's changed much in two years or so. Not a great sign, but I'm still hoping.

Have you seen this site, btw? http://utd500.utdallas.edu/~hairston/lastunicorn
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Lots of details and great links. Best of all, he really got how I feel about the book down in writing. I love the web!

stprcsm · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 117 Location: NoVa

My all time fave, hands down, no qualifications needed, book is

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess

I do read, I read real books, I read literature for fun.

my favorite novel...
Babbit by Sinclair Lewis

favorite short story
The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins-Gilman

haHA! couldnt get away with only one (even tho I had the best intentions of posting only one)

imogen · Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 6 Location: new zealand

echo by francesca lia block

amygdala · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 134 Location: Philadelphia

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I had to buy a new copy a few years ago because I wore out my original copy.

xuli · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 4:21 pm Post subject:

What a great thread idea. And what a cruel, cruel question.

It's been awhile since I've read it, but I think it has to be Toni Morrison's Sula. It's one of those books that I think does real work to make the world better.

brdgt · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

empressCrash · Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 78 Location: Pacific NW

Hands down Alice in Wonderland.
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moon_lemming · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 625 Location: virginia

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson.

danielepea · Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 185 Location: NOLA

Alice in Wonderland always and forever.
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moonrat · Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Chicago, IL

I'll have to go with The Little Prince by St. Exupery. So much so that i have a tattoo of the little prince on my left arm.
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sublimestitcher · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 196 Location: austin, tx

Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

Passages so beautiful they made me cry.
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jenfullmoon · Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Davis, CA

The Time Traveler's Wife.
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kazoogrrl · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 72

Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block - though Weetzie Bat was what got me started, this one is the one I read over and over.

Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject:

A Little Princess- the story of Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Just for the part where she wakes up to find the attic transformed, I am 24 and still wish I could wake up to find somebody had made my bedroom beautiful whilst I was asleep.