Comments on: What are some of your favorite books?

By: senia

senia — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:54:03 +0000

I’m a huge Steinbeck fan, Scott. I don’t know why that didn’t make it onto my list.
Hungry, eh? Do other books do this to you also?

Yes, Lila, thanks, I had heard of that movie.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:40:37 +0000

The Grapes of Wrath

Too old? Too “classic?” Too white guy? Too populist?

It’s easy enough, I think, to find a book that makes you angry or turns you on or makes you laugh.
This book made me hungry.

By: Lila

Lila — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:39:02 +0000

I didn’t know that, nope. But Everything is Illuminated was also made into a film, came out a year ago or so.

By: senia

senia — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:50:53 +0000

Ok, Dave, will, will! Thanks very.

Lila, I’ve read the top two – you know the first one is being made into a movie with Natalie Portman as the girl, right? I’ll want to check out the bottom three! Thanks!!!

By: Lila

Lila — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:50:26 +0000

Hard to say about “favorite” books. Here are a few of my favorites from my past few years of reading. The first three are novels, the last two are nonfiction:
_The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay_ by Michael Chabon
_Everything is Illuminated_ by Jonathan Safran Foer
_The Known World_ by Edward P. Jones
_King Leopold’s Ghost_ by Adam Hochschild
_The Great Influenza_ by John M. Barry

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:11:42 +0000

Senia, the Edwina book is TOTALLY YOU :-) You should really go and get it!

By: senia

senia — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:36:29 +0000

Hi Alvin, thanks for the rec – I’ll read the Bach book. Have read the Coelho book…I see what you mean by deeply inspiring. Did you like The Alchemist also? I liked the Alchemist a little more because it was more simple and more direct, in a child-like way.

Dave, thanks for the great list of books!!! Whoa, you’ve given me a lot that I now want to check out and read!!! I’m especially curious about Edwina! Yay, thanks.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:52:00 +0000

In no particular order, here are some formative books that are close to me for one reason or another:

The Sword in the Stone, for its silly language and underlying story of how one acquires skill and wisdom.

The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson.

Ender’s Shadow, by Orson Scott Card.

Computer Lib / Dream Machines by Ted Nelson.

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems

The Alchemist by Paulo Coello (a senia recommendation!)

The Little Prince by St. Exubery (yet another senia recommendation I really loved)

Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne.

Blue Monday by Chyna Clugston Major (graphic novel)

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayo Miyazaki (graphic novel)

Popco by Scarlett Thomas

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Sam ‘n Max by Steve Purcell (comicky book)

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:21:26 +0000

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho, both deeply inspiring.