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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 9:49 am
My favorite book of all is "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry. And I don't even like westerns! My mom had given to me to read when it first came out but I left it lay around for months til she nagged me into picking it up. I was mesmerized..I could taste the dust. He won a pulitzer prize for it too. My 2nd favorite is a book called "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Burns This is the only book she wrote before she died and it is an exquisite period piece that I can read again and again. I am looking forward to hearing your favorite books of all times.
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 2:39 pm
I have read so many it is really hard to pick just one.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 12:05 pm
Lonesome Dove is my favorite, too!!! Augustus McCray (sp) is one of my all time literary characters, along with Atticus Finch, which, by the way, reminds me that To Kill a Mockingbird was my favorite book until I read LD. Back to LD, I laughed out loud several times while reading the book. That is a rarity for me. Usually, it was the result of something Gus said. Also, no other book caused me to cry more except Bridges of Madison County, another favorite, though, I must admit only because I (now this is embarrassing) I thought it was a true story. One of my favorite lines from the book, a quote I think of a lot when I'm feeling like the grass is greener elsewhere, is something Gus said to Lori after she keeps obsessing about going to San Francisco believing that her life will be so much better there. "Life in San Francisco is still just life." May not seem like such a heavy quote, but it was something I needed to hear when I first read it, and it has become one of my mottos.
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 2:34 pm
i had forgotten about To Kill a Mockingbird. I guess that is at the top of my all time favorites. I have not read Lonesome Dove, but reading how you liked TKAM Westtexan, I will read it now.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 2:43 pm
Lonesome Dove is awesome. Larry McMurtry is one of my all time favorite authors and I don't even like westerns. I can't say that I have a favorite book of all time, that's just too hard. But I'd say Lonesome Dove, and Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers would be on the list. I'll have to really think to figure out some others.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 2:57 pm
I sorta like Animal Farm myself. 
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 3:50 pm
lol max! uhuh, and is the "rabbit" your favorite character? my favorite book is "the stand" by stephen king. i've always thought his descriptors were entrancing. i can still picture the guy with his face down in his soup. i have the unabridged edition that he put out with the extra 1,000 pages. AMAZING writing.
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Newman
Member
09-25-2004
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 7:50 pm
Lonesome Dove too! I read this when I started being a mailman. I was in a bookclub back then, regular, not audio books. That's the only way I would have picked up something so thick. But it was a great read. I thought if those people could put up with the elements, like they did, back then, without a heater in a postal jeep like I had, well, then I guess I could perservere and be a mailman. Twenty years later I'm still delivering the US Mail. Curse you, Larry McMurtry! LOL
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 2:13 pm
Mine is Ride the Wind my Lucia St. Claire. Beautifully written.
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Kattatude
Member
04-28-2005
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 2:44 pm
Another Lonesome Dove fan here. That book has a little of everything in it. I've read it 3 times, and I don't usually reread a book.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 2:46 pm
I read so often and love so many books but it always comes down to "Little Women" for me. It was the first book that ever made me cry and really feel while reading it. I think it was one of the books that really added to my great love of reading.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 6:29 pm
Mamie, one of my best friend's all time favorites is Little Women. She is in her mid 50's and rereads that book every few years. Her grandkids call her Marmie. We both work in a library and she recruits a young reader every year to read and fall in love with that book. Kattatude, I read Lonesome Dove twice. I have only reread maybe four or five books twice. It was just as good the second reading. To Kill a Mockingbird I've read twice as well, but it didn't affect me as much the second time round. Bridges of Madison County was a big disappointment the second time I read it. Lost its magic.
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Mameblanche
Member
04-13-2005
| Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 9:18 am
LA PRISONNIERE /published in the States as - STOLEN LIVES: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi. A gritty, heart-tumbling, page-turner of a biography. I read it a couple of years ago and its haunted me ever since. I enjoy biographies, but this one stands alone. I went out and bought the book after seeing Malika interviewed on Oprah.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 7:50 pm
The Stand - Stephen King IT - Stephen King Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Shining - Stephen King Is it obvious I'm a bit of a King freak? lol
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 8:39 am
I've been trying to figure out the answer to this and can't. I've got to have a favorite or a couple of favorites, don't I? I remember in high school my favorite was a book called "Where She Brushed Her Hair" by Max Steele. Gee...I don't think I have read it since high school and I can't remember much about it now. I think I have a copy in a box somewhere, though...I guess I need to look for it and read it again. I do know that my mother's favorite is Little Women and my brother's favorite is Gone With the Wind (which I always thought was weird for a guy, but would you believe I have never read it myself?)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 8:58 am
You should read it, Yes. It's one of the best books.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 9:27 am
I cna't believe I haven't. OK...it is going on the list!
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Twentyfourseven
Member
09-06-2005
| Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 12:39 am
Can't go wrong with ayn rand: Fountainhead (its mentioned in Dirty Dancing) }} Atlas shrugged Also Gone with the wind Anne of Green Gables
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, September 30, 2005 - 11:12 am
My best friend has a 1st edition of Lonesome Dove - still in its wrappings - only opened to be signed by Larry McMurtrey. She will probably be buried with it in the casket! Bluejaxmom and I could probably do well together...my favorites include Holy Bible (NIV) The Stand (Stephen King) Swan Song (Robert McCammon (sp?)) Harry Potter books The Source (James Michener) Exodus (Uris?) Watchers (Dean Koontz) Swan Song is my "go to" book if there's nothing new to read at the house. And I love the extended version of The Stand.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, September 30, 2005 - 11:24 am
Roxip, I just re-read Swan Song last week. I've read it and the Stand so many times and still enjoy it. I'll still keep Gone With the Wind as my all time favorite, followed by The Stand (King), Swan Song (McCammon), Coming Home (Rosamund Pilcher), Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett), Circle of Friends (Binchy), and A Lantern in Her Hand (Bess Aldrich)
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, October 03, 2005 - 1:30 pm
Holy Bible Gone With the Wind Little Women
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Jinksy
Member
09-28-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2005 - 3:54 pm
My absolute favorite book of all times is... Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I have read it several times as well as purchased the audio version for my car. I even took a trip to Limerick, Ireland to tour the area where the story took place. It is outstanding.
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Jinksy
Member
09-28-2005
| Monday, October 03, 2005 - 4:01 pm
I also love Lonesome Dove. That was a terrific story. I never wanted it to end. The characters were so rich... Augustus, Deets, Woodrow, and Clara. To name a few. Also, The mini-series was the best ever made. I own it on DVD and have seen it over 25 times.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, October 03, 2005 - 6:22 pm
I don’t know that I’m ready to say that it is my all time favorite (I’ll have to think about it some more) but I really loved Gone With the Wind. We had a copy sitting around our house and one day I was bored and I picked it up and started reading it. I had a sort of preconception of what it would be like based on short glimpses of the movie and it was completely different than what I expected. I couldn’t believe how good it was. By the way, I have never seen the movie to this day. I’ll have to read Lonesome Dove now that I've heard so many good things about it, along with some of the other favorites that people have mentioned.
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Dee
Member
08-08-2000
| Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 6:57 pm
I don't like westerns and had no desire to read one but I did read "Lonesome Dove" and absolutely LOVED it. I think I cried when I finished because I wanted it to go on. Other favs: The Godfather The Stand Mary, Queen of Scots (Antonia Frasier) Diana Galbadon (spelling?)'s books Gone With the Wind The Covenant by James Michener Hawaii by J. Michener (The first pages got me hooked - the way he described the formation of the Islands) ... And the Ladies of the Club (Helen Hooven Santmyer) Harry Potter books Clan of the Cave Bear books (the first few were my fav) Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder Betsy, Tacy & Tib books by Maud Hart Lovelace London by Edward Rutherfurd Sarum by E. Rutherfurd Prince of Tides
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