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What are your favorite 2 books (non series) and your 2 favorite series?
Use any criteria you wish.
Use any criteria you wish.
What are your favorite 2 books (non series) and your 2 favorite series?
Use any criteria you wish.
Too many to recall in detail, but despite my CRS, these come to mind:
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Chesapeake - James Michener
Earth's Children (series) - Jean Auel
Bayou Breaux (series) - Tami Hoag
Hard to choose but I'll go with..
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
and..
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence
Non-series
Of Mice and Men
It
Series
The Dresden Files
Harry Potter
I am almost certain Game of Thrones would replace Dresden Files if I read the whole series. I only read the first book of GoT and it was one of the best books I have ever read. But I didn’t want to continue until the series was finished and I can’t really rate a whole series if I have only read one book of it. The two series I did list are the only non-trilogy series that I read straight through and would eagerly await any new release.
Pillars of the Earth was a slog for me. I read it in segments before bed and I would have to go back a few pages to pick up the thread. I got and watched the tv series after the book and both were worthwhile. Did you read the rest of the K Follet series? Eye of the Needle was superb as well. I am not familiar with your series......
Almost anything by Michener, except Poland, never could keep the names straight.
"It" was a very good read, didn't travel well to tv, I haven't seen the latest film. Stephen King, what an imagination. Doesn't GOT resemble about three editions of the Bible?
"It" was a very good read, didn't travel well to tv, I haven't seen the latest film. Stephen King, what an imagination. Doesn't GOT resemble about three editions of the Bible?
going all old school and stuff!
Too many to recall in detail, but despite my CRS, these come to mind:
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Chesapeake - James Michener
Earth's Children (series) - Jean Auel
Bayou Breaux (series) - Tami Hoag
What are your favorite 2 books (non series) and your 2 favorite series?
Use any criteria you wish.
I mainly read classics.
"It" was a very good read, didn't travel well to tv, I haven't seen the latest film. Stephen King, what an imagination. Doesn't GOT resemble about three editions of the Bible?
I blasted through those as a pre or early teen. "Count of Monte Cristo" was most memorable. "Lord of the Flies" had the most impact. "Moby Dick," the most enjoyable. "Animal Farm," most matching of many of today's realities. Funny thing though, my favorite book from that time period was "The French Connection." I think I read it in 1972 or 3.
I too liked It better as a book. I also preferred Jaws as a novel over the movie. Star Wars, the opposite. The first movie was epic. The book---meh.
I forgot about the Russian. Yeah. Remembering the extreme poverty described in C&P rocked my world back in '93. It convinced me I needed to divorce my spend-aholic wife. :lol:I prefer the scrawlings of 19th century Englishmen and women.
Almost all of my faves are from English writers in the 1800's. Dickens, Austen, Hardy, James, etc. I had a fetish for long winded and flowery expression. Basically the equal and opposite of Hemingway.
Should probably give a shout to Crime and Punishment by Dostoevky too. That's arguably the greatest novel ever written.
I read Lord of the Rings something like 27 times, I forget.
Most important two books.....surely one is The Essentials of Zen Buddhism D.T Suzuki
Second: Maybe Dark Eros Thomas Moore or Tao: The Watercourse Way Alan Watts
EDIT: Must mention that Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth PBS Special blew me away.
What are your favorite 2 books (non series) and your 2 favorite series?
Use any criteria you wish.