geek love was a great book!

i like wally lamb alot too, havent read his new one, anyone read it yet?

My favourite book growing up was a little thing called "The Best Loved Doll".



I found a first edition hardcover a few years back on alibris. That made me very happy. My extremely well worn copy sits next to the first edition on my special books bookshelf.
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Ohhh ...

My favorite books as a child (not counting all Dr. Seuss) were:

The Big Tidy Up

(which is kind of funny, because being tidy was never my thing)




and

The Story of the Root Children


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Lamont the Lonely Monster was my favorite book growing up. It was a Hallmark book with doors and things to open inside as Lamont went looking for friends and was waaay out of print when I went to find one as an adult. My ex-girlfriend's mom found me a copy for Christmas one year, she was awesome (the mom, not the girlfriend).

A few of my very favorites:

Lamb
Harpo Speaks!
Last Chance to See
The Mote in God's Eye
Catch-22
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
The Right Stuff
Shogun

Many more, but these are the ones that spring to mind.
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Woof mebble morn so green the wheel
Staggaboon undie some grapeload
To get a little feel
of my own faulty bagnose.

Are we talking about just fiction, or books as a whole including non-fiction?
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I don't think I can name specific works as favorite, but I can for sure drop my favorite authors.

Classic Authors (meaning works published before 1990. I know some people who refuse to believe the world existed before then...)
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Jules Vern
HG Wells
Ayn Rand
JRR Tolkein
and Robert Lewis Stevenson

Contemporary Authors
Christopher Moore (#1. Everybody else is a tossup)
Chuck Palahniuk
Douglas Coupland
Stephen King
Max Barry
Will Christopher Baer
Christopher Buckley
Carl Hiaasen
Kristen Gore (Shut up, everybody!)
Robert Tacoma
John Swartzwelder
Vince Flynn (not the last couple of books so much, but everything before that rocks)
Michael Crichton
Tony Vigorito

There are a couple of honorable mentions, even though I have only read a one book by each of these guys, those books had enough impact on me that I will include them.

Matt Ruff (Bad Monkeys)
and Josh Bazell (Beat the Reaper)

If any of that says anything about what kind of warped worldview i have, then have at it
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Anyone here read "Mister God, This is Anna" by Fynn ?
I have read it three times (seems to be my number for re-reading for some reason) and I just love it so much!! I want the other one Fynn wrote about Anna too... If it truly is real that child was incredible!!
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sugarraydodge wrote:

Christopher Moore (#1. Everybody else is a tossup)

Don't you mean "Tosser"?

My favourites from my "young adult" literature days have to be the "Dark is Rising" series, and the books of Madeline L'Engle - and The Hobbit, of course - I read it for the first time when I was 7, and have read it at least 10 times since, including once out loud to a former step-kid.

These days? Chris (obviously!), William Gibson, and Murakami are all favourites.
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"Life's too short to get wrapped around the axle about the little things." - SK

-The First Law of Geography: Everything is Connected to Everything Else.

Favorite books as a mini-WTW

Fortunately -- Remy Charlip

Mr. Happy -- Roger Hargreaves

Magic School Bus Series -- Joanna Cole

Where the Wild Things Are -- Maurice Sendak

The Very Hungry Caterpillar -- Eric Carle

There's something inspiring about a caterpillar that does nothing but eat awesome food every day and suffers absolutely no negative consequences for its gluttony. The caterpillar turns into a butterfly at the end of the story. I'm still unsure what the take home message is here. I'm going to guess it's eating is awesome!

"Read it again! Read it again, but this time do it with the silly voices!"

vampirelover wrote:

Arioch: I really want to read Geek Love. It is on my list...... His Dark Matrerials I want to read but I refuse to buy them because he bashed Tolkein, C S Lewis, and Rowlings........I have never LoR but I know that he deserves a lot of credit for what he has contributed to the literary world!! I LOVE C S Lewis, I have read all the Narnia books and Screwtape Letters.....f*ing great!! J K Rowling well her first book was pretty poor but she obviously got better with her writing and she has truly contributed to the literary worls as well.......How dare he bash these people and be arrogant enough to say that he is better?!?! And yet, I will read them eventually...I'll try to get them from the library or something. Sorry for ranting

Hi there, I've been off the grid for awhile. Did you ever read Geek Love? If you did, what did you think? If you haven't I have a zillion copies I bought to loan out (knowing I never get them back) if you want one I'll send one your way. I've read it three times. AND You won't have to give it back!

I didn't read much as kid, that I can remember. I remember Anthology for a Young Reader or someting along those lines that I re-read several times. I haven't been able to find it online but I know I still have the book. Must have what got me started in my book collecting. I also remember reading those Flowers in the Attic books. I have a lot of books from my toddler years but I mostly created great works of art instead of actually reading them. My son actually chastised me for drawing in my books when I read them to him.
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Don't test my love
Accept my love, don't test my love
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I read my favorite Easter book from childhood last night

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes. My copy is at least 40 years old, because I took it to show and tell in Kindergarten. I did a little research today and found out that this book was written by the author of Porgy, which ultimately became Porgy and Bess. Fun fact. Great book.

Another childhood book I had forgotten about is the quite trippy Arm in Arm by Remy Charlip. Has anybody ever read this? Originally published in 1969, and it shows.
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Don Quixote - Cervantes
Candide - Voltaire
The Frogs - Aristophanes Seriously, all of his works rock. The Acharnians is hilarious too, at one point Antimachus receives a curse to mugged as he stumbles home drunk, he bends down to pick up a rock, but instead picks upa turd and throws it at his attacker, but it misses him and hits the subpar poet Cratinus. Hilarious.
Swellfoot the Tyrrant - Percy Shelley

and many others.

Also can someone remember the history or whatever it was that talked about Tiberius having little boys trained as minnows, and while he swimmed in the nude they would nibble on his nutsack? I just remember pissing myself when I read that...think it was by Sutonius or something like that. Should be read.
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I just picked up Candide by Voltaire at a thrift store a week ago. its next on my books to read book after The Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
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ok so its 7am. just finished Candide a couple minutes ago. it was ok. i just dont see how he still thought everything was for the best after everything thst happened.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time was good
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