What's your favorite book?

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   spiderpamposted 14 years ago

   I really love to read books I want want to see what the favs are out there. I'll start besides "The Bible", I'll have to say
   "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein and a close second "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown.

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      Patty Inglish, MSposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      These are wonderful books and I like them as well.
      
      Besides the Bible in original languages, I can't choose - it would have to be a favorite BOX of books.

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   kiran8posted 14 years ago

   Hi, It changes from time to time, just now it is Leon Uris' Armageddon. I found it absolutely amazing and very touching ..

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   RooBeeposted 14 years ago

   Giving Tree is a great one - love Shel!!
   
   I love Ishmael by Daniel Quinn - read it as a teen and it made quite an impression.
   
   The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
   
   The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Leguin
   
   Patient Heal Thyself by Jordan Rubin
   
   Okay, I'll stop - there are too many to name a favorite. Maybe a top five or ten in each category lol..we could all do hubs about it..

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   cashmereposted 14 years ago

   The one book that changed me was "Discovering your erroneous zones" by Dr Wayne Dyer

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   spiderpamposted 14 years ago

   My husband fav author are David Eddings and Elizabeth Moon but his most recent fave book is "The Shack" by William P. Young.

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   spiderpamposted 14 years ago

   Just thought of another fave "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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   lxxyposted 14 years ago

   The Giving Tree was good.
   
   I dunno, call me a one track mind, but I'm way into Neuromancer by William Gibson and Snow Crash by Neil Stepheson. Mostly because what these two books represent have only become more relevant, and they've aged like fine wine.

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   Pete Maidaposted 14 years ago

   A View From the Center of the Universe
   
   It covers a full range to try to give an understanding of the universe to layman's turns and I think it is done quite well.  It covers everything from cosmology to the ancient civilazation.  It shows how many popular ideas were formed and gives insight into some of the latest discoveries.

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   lxxyposted 14 years ago

   That sounds quite interesting Pete, I'll have to add that to my list of texts to read.

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    Chris Teldenposted 14 years ago

    Hard to limit it to one...or ten...
    
    Fantasy...
    Hexwood (Jones)
    Howl's Moving Castle (Jones)
    Bridge of Birds (Hughart)
    
    Romance...
    Seize the Fire (Kinsale)
    Anyone But You (Cruisie)
    A Gentleman and a Scholar (Sellers)
    
    Time Travel...
    To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis)
    
    Science Fiction...
    William Tenn's anthology of stories
    
    Physics...
    The Dancing Wu Li Masters
    The Cosmic Code (Pagels)
    
    Social science...
    Entropy (Rifkin)
    Metaphors We Live By (Lakoff & Johnson)
    
    Philosophy...
    The Structure of Scientific Revolution (Kuhn)
    Discipline and Punish (Foucault)
    
    Humor...
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    
    And yet I haven't read a book from start to finish in way, way too long...I swore I would never become one of *those,*, but, well...Junior came along...

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