All you readers out there ?

leafgirl Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:46 AM

All you readers out there ?

What are you favorite old time books? I would like to get some that are old favorites, any suggestions? Not girlie ones please

twinkletoes807 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:47 AM

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The Red Tent
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye

Snick n Nick Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:48 AM

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Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

leafgirl Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:48 AM

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Posted by twinkletoes807

The Red Tent
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye

THANK YOU.

TommysWife08 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:52 AM

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Posted by twinkletoes807

The Red Tent
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye

catcher in the rye is one of my favs too!!

roan126 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:53 AM

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Grapes of Wrath
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird

All are awesome!

CourtandJon Posted: Aug 06, 2008 10:53 AM

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hmmmm not old time... but fav books of all time are....
Running with Scissors
Dry
A million little pieces
My friend Leonard
A hand maids tale----- GREAT fiction book

None of those are girly smut novels at all- just written by amazingly talented authors!

hayleyandsteve Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:04 AM

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Lolita... amazing book, love the way it's written.

also, i just read 'the alchemist' which was fantasic.

have you looked on the NY times best seller's list? i've read many of those books and have been really pleased. i'm not into jodi picoult (don't hate me anyone!) or james patterson or those types... but i loved some of the others like..
the memory keeper's daughter
the secret life of bees
the kite runner
the glass castle

i'm in the middle of 'in the woods' and i like it so far...

twinkletoes807 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:09 AM

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The Alchemist- fantastic book as well!! Great suggestion Hayley!

Belongs2DanBuckley Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:28 AM

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I'm such a nerd :

Lord of the Rings
Go Ask Alice
Chronicles of Narnia
Flowers for Algernon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The diary of Anne Frank (still makes me cry!)
Of Mice and Men

and the more recent
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code

and of course..... HARRY POTTER

Belongs2DanBuckley Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:29 AM

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OOOO- also my friends just read The Count of MonteCristo and its on my list...I heard its AMAZING!!!

davenjess Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:30 AM

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Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy - Unabridged

I've read it like 15 times total - no kidding. It makes me laugh EVERY time.

What Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:33 AM

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Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

I'm such a nerd :

Lord of the Rings
Go Ask Alice
Chronicles of Narnia
Flowers for Algernon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The diary of Anne Frank (still makes me cry!)
Of Mice and Men

and the more recent
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code

and of course..... HARRY POTTER

Loved The Da Vinci Code... (couldnt put it down)
Angels and Demons... not so much

old timers:
Gone with the WInd
The Hobbit
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
THE OUTSIDERS!!!!! looooved that one.

gabbie83 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:41 AM

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of mice and men
the great gatsby
to kill a mockinbird
a tree grows in brooklyn
catcher in the rye

BunnyBride Posted: Aug 06, 2008 11:47 AM

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East Of Eden
Our Mutual Friend
Jane Eyre
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
To Kill A Mockingbird
The French Lieutenant's Woman

A couple of more recent good books:

Foreskins Lament - Jewish Guy is torn on wither to circumcise his son. Hysterical short stories.

The Glass Castle - Crazy Crazy family

20 Chickens For A Saddle - Story of a girl growing up in Botswana

The Sex Lives Of Cannibals -Very funny memoir about a man and his girlfriend who moved to pacific atoll Kiribati

The Places In Between - seriously amazing memoir about a guy who walked across Afghanistan right after 9/11 - If you only read one book from this list, read this one!

Just realized all the new ones are memoirs! All very very good!

PattyK Posted: Aug 06, 2008 12:21 PM

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Older Books:
Catcher In The Rye
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Jane Eyre
Dracula
Frankenstein
Pride & Prejudice

More Recent Books:
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Fight Club
American Psycho
The Lovely Bones
The Harry Potter Books

MeNBobs Posted: Aug 06, 2008 12:27 PM

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On The Road
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Recent Books
A Heartbreaking work Of Staggering Genius
High Fidelity
Me Talk Pretty One Day

Mich0621 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 12:33 PM

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Definitely Animal Farm. I also loved Catch 22

And then my Holocaust reads-Night by Elie Wiesel, Diary of Anne Frank

Colette Posted: Aug 06, 2008 12:47 PM

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Hi! Your op said old-time books, so I'm offering up:

Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and of course The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi.

My nerd brother read all of the Lord of the Rings books when he was a kid, and he also loved LORD of the Flies.

White Fang, Jack London

KIM by Rudyard Kipling - about a young kid's experiences in colonial India.

snwb08 Posted: Aug 06, 2008 12:56 PM

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i still remember the first two books i ever read:
starring sally j. freedman as herself by judy blume and Secret of the Old Clock - Nancy Drew.

some other favorites:
Wuthering Heights
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Canterbury Tales
Othello
Henry VIII

A wrinkle in time
the secret of nymh
Of mice and men
Catch 22
Go ask Alice
The Power of One
Kite Runner

so many more that I can't even think of!