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Post by jeantre16 on Sept 24, 2006 20:19:23 GMT -5
What are some of your all time favorite books that you've read?
For some reason I was thinking back to one of my favorite series today when I was on a bike/horse path. I think I read every single Black Stallion story that was written. The author was Walter Farley. Has anyone read those?
Jane Austen's books are great...my favorite is Pride and Prejudice (of course). I really don't mind those hithers and thithers! It kind of makes the reading fun.
I'm reading The Three Musketeers and I find Dumas' humor great. D'Artagnan has a way of manipulating conversations without personal fault...very witty.
How 'bout your favorites?
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Post by raven on Sept 25, 2006 18:38:52 GMT -5
Another person that liked the Black Stallion. I didn't read all the books but I now own most of them after going on Amazon and looking for them. I read any book about horses when I was younger. Black Beauty, King of the Wind, Misty of Chicotigue (sp?) to name a few that were my favorites. Now it would probably be The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hard to keep straight with all the names for everyone and every place but good books.
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Post by jeantre16 on Sept 25, 2006 19:39:34 GMT -5
Another person that liked the Black Stallion. I didn't read all the books but I now own most of them after going on Amazon and looking for them. I read any book about horses when I was younger. Black Beauty, King of the Wind, Misty of Chicotigue (sp?) to name a few that were my favorites. Now it would probably be The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Hard to keep straight with all the names for everyone and every place but good books. Very awesome about the Black Stallion series! I too have two of them now. Ok, so you own them all, but haven't read them? And I've read them all, but only own two. Something's backwards there! Black Beauty was just too sad for me. Poor horse. Misty of Chin...yeah, however you spell that...LOL, I actually lived in Virginia and learned that it was a real place and real event that still goes on today. Every so many years the wild horses are rounded up and swim across the...whatever body of water that is. This is all done in memory of what the story was based on. Interesting. Karma to whoever can spell the name of that place right first!Those books made me love horses too. I've got some horse stories, but that'll be for another thread! |
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Post by cassidinegypsy on Sept 25, 2006 20:01:15 GMT -5
Misty of Chincoteague. Yes it is official, I am a total geek now and a horrible bookworm. As to favorite series, ooh where to start. My most recent discovery is a series called once upon a time. It is a great twist on some fairy tales. The Storyteller's daughter, Sunlight and Shadow, Beauty Sleep, Snow, Midnight Pearls, Scarlett Moon, Spirited, The Night Moon are all currently published works. Due out this month is Water Song. I have had a good time reading them and collecting them!
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Post by jeantre16 on Sept 25, 2006 20:10:28 GMT -5
ChincoteagueYou have it! Ooh, and those twisted fairytales sound ineresting. We have fun making those up at home. Here's one of my favorites (in this case, nursery rhymes): Peter, Peter was a cantaloupe eater
And so was his brother John.
They’d sit by the reeds and pluck out the seeds,
And eat them clear ‘till dawn.
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Post by cassidinegypsy on Sept 25, 2006 20:36:11 GMT -5
I am soo rolling laughing. I think perhaps you are sitting on a great idea for a new game to play on the board. I also read all the Black Stallion books. the last one of the entire series was a major disappointment. The earlier ones in the series to me are the best.
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Post by jeantre16 on Nov 1, 2006 7:26:08 GMT -5
On the note of the Black Stallion series: Those of you who have smaller children (or nieces/nephews), the Cat in the Hat book club series published several of the Black Stallion stories for younger readers. The illustrations are actually quite good.  |
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Post by tpal2150 on Nov 1, 2006 14:32:37 GMT -5
I love the Black Stallion series too (though I've only read a few of the books...getting harder and harder to find them), but my all time favorite book would have to be Where the Red Fern Grows.
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Post by kristanci on Nov 1, 2006 15:27:46 GMT -5
The princess bride!!!
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Post by becca on Nov 1, 2006 15:52:13 GMT -5
The Inheritance Trilogy, Eragon and Eldest so far, by Christopher Paolini. I'm about half way thru Eldest and it's kept my interest. It's fantasy but I feel it's going to be up there with LOTR and Harry Potter.
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Post by jeantre16 on Nov 1, 2006 15:54:39 GMT -5
Is the book as good as the movie? I loved the movie. |
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Post by vigilanti on Nov 5, 2006 14:55:58 GMT -5
Is the book as good as the movie? I loved the movie. the book is hilarious... you just have to skip the intro stuff and start in the middle where the story begins. |
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Post by queengwen on Jun 7, 2007 16:53:39 GMT -5
It took me all of two days to read throug Eldest.
I've been on a 'Medieval' kick. Any English/Scottish from 1100 to 1600...
Virgina Henley, Marget Moore, Terri Brisbin... to name a few.
Anyone else like that sort of thing?
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Post by potc166 on Jun 21, 2007 13:50:25 GMT -5
my sisters keeper,dangerous girls 1&2,the story of ester
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Post by parazesis on Oct 2, 2007 10:42:33 GMT -5
I like The Forestwife, The Redwall series,and Castaways of the Flying Duchman series. The Cristy Miller siries is also wonderfull. Actuataly I give up trying to list all my favorite books, I'm so picky when I'm cheeking them out from the library that if I read it all the way through It proberbly belongs on this list . What I'm a major leage bookworm  . (My Sister's keeper I read part of that and it was really good but I never got to finish it because we were reading it as a group on a GS sailing trip.  ) |
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