What should I read next?: The book ending support group discussion
Do you have a favorite Book?

HOWEVER, the one that always jumps to mind first is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Un-put-down-able!


Jitterbug Perfume has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you'll have a good time.
I am new to the group...HI ALL.

And Jitterbug Perfume was the first book I'd read by Robbins. Janet, what would you suggest next?


I always say my bookshelf is like a photo album. I can pick up a book and remember at what phase in my life I was at when i read it. I switch genres according to mood.
There have been many times where Ive looked at a book in the bookstore and thought, no way would I read that, and then a year or two or maybe just 6 mnths down the road, I have come back to and bought it.
Its all in the timing.....


I was really pulled into that book, and its one of the few that remain crystal clear in my mind...



My favorite book changes with the seasons and with my experiences, but a few that I have always and will always love:
1) The Secret Garden -- I don't care if it was written for children. It's about regeneration and renewal, love and the little things that make life worth living.
2) Jane Eyre -- NOT a love story first and foremost. (Go ahead and disagree -- it's about sin, repentence, redemption, and becoming who you were meant to be in this world. Amazing, and deeper every time I pick it up.)
3) Gone With the Wind -- yes, in many ways politically incorrect. But doesn't Scarlett just rock?
(P.S. Hey everyone -- isn't my lovebird cute?!)


Gosh, isnt easy as I thought it would be choosing a favourite book hmmmmm, arghhhh, ohhhh...okay if I had to choose, I'd say The Kite Runner is now on top of my lost...that was one heavy book, had me riding on an emotional roller coaster - can't remember the last time a book had me crying soo much - memorable book with the line that I can't seem to shake away 'for you a thousand times over.'
school days fav book was 'to kill mockingbird', college it was 'notes from a samll island' and at work it became 'Life of pi'
I just seem to have a list that is endlessly growing...I have no storage space :o(
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A Soldier of the Great War was also one of my favorites! Love to see you book list!
Shannon





I'm partial to the Gunslinger Series by Stephen King as well.

Has anyone here read Angle of Repose? It's definitely one of my favorites, and is anything by Haruki Murakami. I'd seriously read his shopping lists if they were printed. My favorite is Dance, Dance, Dance (which is also on my reading list....)

Larry Kimport




I too enujoyed THE ROAD. I liked the dream-like quality of the narrative - much like we have suck little choice in our dream worlds. I felt thia after having to get by the not a single insect left, yet peoplle roam.
OUTER DARK was spooky too, in McCarthy "voice."





So DO YOU or DON"T YOU? Really re-read?





Anyway...I actually have not ever re-read a book...I guess to me a book is good that I would even consider re-reading, of which there haven't been but the two I mentioned. I guess it's just a gauge for me that will never be tested haha.
I do feel as if revisiting could somehow make a book less than how I absorbed it on the first time through...but then again, what if you hadn't read something in 10 years.
Like with both of my "favorites" I really couldn't tell you much about it except for some essential plot points.
I guess I won't know into which camp I fall until I ever DO re-read something...but that might be a long time out because there are simply too many other books I want to read :)


I usually don't re-read but probably have read Shakespeare's s various plays many times
same with a lot of poetry books


I own four bassets so i really love it.

Second place is White Oleander. I can read it a million times and never get sick of it.

But when I turned 18, someone sent me Nabokov's Ada by mail. It has been my favourite novel ever since.



Books mentioned in this topic
The Road (other topics)Gone with the Wind (other topics)
The Last Unicorn (other topics)
White Oleander (other topics)
Water for Elephants (other topics)
Now my favorite book is "Never let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro.
What is yours? Are you able to pick one out from the bunch?