What's on your "book Mount Rushmore"? (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

Cool thread. I'm like a lot of you guys. Read lots when I was younger. Just haven't gotten to read much in the last 20 years or so. For me, the Bible is obviously most important to me. But for purposes of this discussion, here goes.

1. LOTR
2. Call of the Wild
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Oath by Frank Peretti (Christian fantasy fiction)

Obviously not best written books of all time, but those are the ones that stand out most to me.

 

[buzd]

There are 14 Oz books

I read a bunch of them. They're pretty good.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

dang, i forgot all about McCarthy - i might have to adjust my list

Yeesh, The Road made me want to jump off a cliff.

 

[zatsnzapps]

There are 14 Oz books

You'd think with 14 books that they could've had more than 56 episodes.

I feel like we missed out on a whole lot of shankin'.

 

[zatsnzapps]

In the spirit of the thread...

I'm really not an avid reader anymore. I was when I was a kid.

I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - probably read it 5 times (and checked it out of the library each time).

I absolutely loathed being forced to read books in high school. I tried to get into the books, but it just never clicked with me, except for one: To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved that book.

 

[Sandman]

Yessir and a doggone good one at that. Dude, the Scarecrow killed crows in the book - broke their necks. I was hooked when I read that in the 4th grade.
I had to edit - it is titled: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.

That and the enchanted ax that hacks up the Tin Man. He just keeps on using it.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

In the spirit of the thread...

I'm really not an avid reader anymore. I was when I was a kid.

I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - probably read it 5 times (and checked it out of the library each time).

I absolutely loathed being forced to read books in high school. I tried to get into the books, but it just never clicked with me, except for one: To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved that book.

kid gmr mt rushmore is an interesting question

A Wrinkle in Time
where the Red Fern Grows
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Crystal Cave

 

[zatsnzapps]

kid gmr mt rushmore is an interesting question

A Wrinkle in Time
where the Red Fern Grows
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Crystal Cave

I know of one of those.

 

[buzd]

In the spirit of the thread...

I'm really not an avid reader anymore. I was when I was a kid.

I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - probably read it 5 times (and checked it out of the library each time).

I absolutely loathed being forced to read books in high school. I tried to get into the books, but it just never clicked with me, except for one: To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved that book.

TKAM is all time great.

 

[DaveXA]

kid gmr mt rushmore is an interesting question

A Wrinkle in Time
where the Red Fern Grows
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Crystal Cave

I've read Where the Red Fern Grows and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I liked those too. Tbh, I'd have to go back and read them all to judge them, but my memory is what it is, which ain't what it used to be, lol.

 

[DaveXA]

TKAM is all time great.

Indeed.

 

[Zack Lee]

The only book I remember liking of the forced reading in high school was Lords of Discipline. I’m fact I read it again not too long ago.

 

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[ilvdsnts]

I’m not one to read much, but this is what I have:
The Harry Potter series
Seabiscuit

 

[sinner mike]

One day in the life of Ivan Desinovich (Solzhenitsyn), Hitchhikers Guide, Lonesome Dove, The exorcist, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man's Search for Meaning.