Are you a bookworm too?
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Are you a bookworm too?
| Wed, 10-20-2004 - 11:17pm |
I love to read...but I dont read as fast as I wish I would. And Im always looking for something different to read. I like a wide variety.
What are you reading right now? How is it? Can you give us a small description? What is your favorite book of all time?

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My name is furry and I have bookaphilia.
I have books by my bed for late night reading (subjects range from romance to suspense) - current book is "Border Bride".
I have books in the bathroom (fun reading while you sit) - I am reading "The Portable Curmudgeon" and a wiccan poetry book
I have books galore by my computer (mostly professional books - my professional library is actually quite impressive) - the current books in process are "Descriptive Research", "Mood Disorders", "Social Equality the Challenge of Today", and 1/2 dozen others.
I have bookcases in the hallway with everything from the complete set of Encyclopedias, to all of Stephen Kings books, to all of the works of Shakespear, the Star Trek Readers to 5 different dictionaries........etc.
My daughter has a bookcase in her section of the room (full)
My son's have a bookcase (5 shelves) in their room (full).
We have tabletop books (National Geographic, Human Anatomy, Space, etc).
In the dining room, I have a book case devoted to cookbooks and related items such as the story of scent, and feng shue, and poetry
I have a bookcase near the front entry way that contains autobiographys of important political individuals such as Ghandi, Churchhill, Princess Di
Even in the car, there are books for when you get stuck behind a train - right now the book is "Sand in My Bra" by Jennifer Leo
You can almost always find someone reading in my house - my daughter is reading "The Outsiders", my son is ready "Help, I am stuck in the first day of school", and my youngest is reading "Drawing Monsters"
At work I have "She's come undone" by Wally Lamb and "The Psychology of Happiness"
I am a educational nerd - I embrace my educational nerdiness with a passion.
furry
(p.s. I read "Lovely Bones" and loved it except the part where she takes over the other girl's body just to have sex. I also read "Da Vinci Code" and have the other two books vying for my attention.)
Favorite book of all time: I loved "The Stand" by Stephen King. "The Four Agreements" is also very powerful. But the book that I love above all others has to be "The Rabbit's Wedding" - it is a children's book that has meanings for me that go beyond the simple story. I shared the memory of this book with a friend a few years back who managed to track down the publisher and get a copy of the book for me. It was the same as when I first read it 35 years ago.
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Thank you for the suggestion - I just ordered the Tao of Pooh for $1.29 and the Te of Piglet for $0.50 on Amazon.
I will let you know what I think of them in a few weeks.
furry
Based on your post, I just ordered "Celebrate Yourself" by Briggs for $0.01 on Amazon. I also ordered her other book "Your Child's Self Esteem" for $0.01
I am addicted to books. I gave up my Starbuck coffee treats to purchase a used book now and then.
furry
What a horrible book to read. I don't say that very often but the writing of this book is so seeped in pretentious egocentric machismo that I wouldn't even waste my time using it to line the walls of an outhouse.
Here is a sample of one passage
"The conversation did not stop here. The lady expostulated. Several other persons fresh from the sensation they had felt, contributed their share. Mr. Tyrrel grew more violent in his invectives, and found ease in uttering them. The persons who were able in any degree to check his vehemence were withdrawn. One speaker after another shrunk back into silence, too timid to oppose, or too indolent to contend with, the fierceness of his passion. He found the appearance of his old ascendancy; but he felt its deceitfulness and uncertainty, and was gloomily dissatisfied.
In his return from this assembly he was accompanied by a young man, whom similitude of manners had rendered one of his principal confidants, and whose road home was in part the same as his own. One might have thought that Mr. Tyrrel had sufficiently vented his spleen in the dialogue he had just been holding. But he was unable to dismiss from his recollection the anguish he had endured. "Damn Falkland!" said he. "What a pitiful scoundrel is here to make all this bussle about! But women-and fools always will be fools; there is no help for that! Those chat set them on have most to answer for; and most of all Mr. Clare. He is a man that ought to know something of the world, and past being duped by gewgaws and tinsel. He seemed too to have some notion of things: I should not have suspected him of hallooing to a cry of mongrels without honesty or reason. But the world is all alike. Those chat seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road. He deceived me for a while, but it is all out now. They are the makers of the mischief. Fools might blunder, but they would not persist, if people that ought to set them right, did not encourage them to go wrong."
Now if you want to discuss a classical book - let's pick something decent like Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
furry
I too loved the Lovely Bones.
For some reason I tend to not like Stephen King books.
I think there are some not-so-great Stephen King books - I never got into the gunslinger black tower series - but I know many who love them.
My favorites are....
The Stand (I have both versions)
Insomnia
Misery
Needful Things
Eyes of the Dragon is a fun book - a grownup's fairy tale
Four Seasons is also great for the short stories
Like Hitchcock forever changed the way I view birds sitting on wires, Stephen King forever changed fog for me. I will never ever go shopping on a foggy day again - read his short story "The Mist" - not to be confused with "The Fog".
furry
i LOVE stephen king but i never could get into the darktower series either
Fear
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