Your 10 favorite books?

[oldie51]

Here is a question my librarian friends and I used to talk about a lot. What are your 10 favorite books or your favorite authors? If you don't have 10 favorite books or authors, how about your 10 favorite movies?

My 10 favorite authors (in no particular order)

1. Janet Evanovich
2. Sue Grafton
3. Michael Connelly
4. Jodi Picoult
5. Stephen King
6. Eudora Welty
7. Kate Bigalk (Human After All)
8. Ian Rankin
9. C. S. Lewis
10. Edgar Allen Poe

Movies:

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. If Walls Could Talk 2
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Princess Bride
5. Airplane
6. Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) -makes me cry every time!
7. The Matrix
8. Jaws
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Pretty Woman

Okay, now it's up to ya'll. Are you up to the challenge?

[DGenX]

here are mine for the moment :D

authors:
patricia cornwell
stephen king
angelina jolie (yeah she wrote one book - notes from my travels)
ellen degeneres :D
shakespeare
roald dahl
enid blyton
james patterson
christopher pike
r.k. narayan

movies:
LOTR - yep i like this too
star wars ep. 4,5,6
silence of the lambs
bone collector
finding nemo:D
i am legend
indiana jones
bucket list
the brave one
the simpsons movie hahaha

[misskitty]

James Patterson
Sylvia Browne
Steven Gould
Lorna Landvik
Philip Pullman
John Grisham
Ann Holt
Nickolas Sparks
Michael Connelly
Ellen DeGeneres :)

[Stephie22]

Here is a question my librarian friends and I used to talk about a lot. What are your 10 favorite books or your favorite authors? If you don't have 10 favorite books or authors, how about your 10 favorite movies?

My 10 favorite authors (in no particular order)

1. Janet Evanovich
2. Sue Grafton
3. Michael Connelly
4. Jodi Picoult
5. Stephen King
6. Eudora Welty
7. Kate Bigalk (Human After All)
8. Ian Rankin
9. C. S. Lewis
10. Edgar Allen Poe

Movies:

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. If Walls Could Talk 2
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Princess Bride
5. Airplane
6. Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) -makes me cry every time!
7. The Matrix
8. Jaws
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Pretty Woman

Okay, now it's up to ya'll. Are you up to the challenge?


Authors :

1. Ellen Degeneres ( lol )
2. Michael Moore
3. Stephen King
4. Dean Koontz
5. R.L. Stine

I only have a top 5.....:(


Movies :

1. Saw 1-4
2.Titanic
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
5. The Green Mile
6. Schindlers List
7. Saving Privat Ryan
8.If these Walls could talk 2
9. Boys dont cry
10. Finding Nemo

[Sleepless]

My favorite books are holding up furniture in my living room lol, seriously l have not read a book for many moons, So here are my ten fave movies

1) The Notebook
2) Somewhere In Time
3) Endless love
4) The Bodyguard
5) Titanic
6) Gia
7) if These walls could talk 2
8) My Best Friends Wedding
9) The Jazz Singer
10) Fools Rush In

And here are my top 10 fave songs at the moment

1 Footprints in the sand....... Leona Lewis
2 Us againt the world..........Westlife
3 Weekend in new england... Barry Manilow
4 Eveytime we touch, candlelight mix......... Cascada
5 if your not the one...Daniel Beddingfield
6 Truely madly Deeply......Savage Garden
7 Sexy back ...........Justin Timberlake
8) Lost without you..... Delat Goodrum
9) White Flag......Dido
10) if im not in love with you..... Faith Hill
got to have 11 sorry lol
11) This l swear ..... Nick lachay

[Humanafterall]

[quote=oldie51;173102]
7. Kate Bigalk (Human After All)

AWWWWWWE :o You're sweet.

Books
1. Harry Potter series
2. Stoner McTavish series
3. Where The Wild Things Are
4. My Point...and I Do Have One
5. A Mother/Daughter Story (Betty Degeneres)

Authors

1. Dean Koontz
2. Steven King
3. Emily Dickinson
4. Nicholas Sparks
5. Me :p

Artists

1. Celeste Breton
2. Vincent Van Gogh
3. Monet
4. Contemporary artists

Performers
1. Ellen Degeneres
2. Martina McBride
3. Reba Mcintire
4. Robin Williams
5. Tim Mcgraw and Faith Hill

[reflection]

Here is a question my librarian friends and I used to talk about a lot. What are your 10 favorite books or your favorite authors? If you don't have 10 favorite books or authors, how about your 10 favorite movies?

My 10 favorite authors (in no particular order)

1. Janet Evanovich
2. Sue Grafton
3. Michael Connelly
4. Jodi Picoult
5. Stephen King
6. Eudora Welty
7. Kate Bigalk (Human After All)
8. Ian Rankin
9. C. S. Lewis
10. Edgar Allen Poe

Movies:

1. Lord of the Rings trilogy
2. If Walls Could Talk 2
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Princess Bride
5. Airplane
6. Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) -makes me cry every time!
7. The Matrix
8. Jaws
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Pretty Woman

Okay, now it's up to ya'll. Are you up to the challenge?

Well mine a bit serious. So here are my favourites

My favourite movies
1. Lord of the rings trilogy
2. Gladiator
3. Troy
4. Braveheart
5. Dragonheart
6. Gandhi
7. The Great Debaters - my favourite since I am a debater myself:cool:
8. The Last Emperor
9. Kingdom of Heavan
10. The Bridge on The River Kwai

My favourite books - anything related to politics, history & philosophy will always get my attention...among my favourites:

1. Abramovich: Billionaires from nowhere
2. Michael Jordan: A Biography
3. A memoir: Carly Fiorina - my favourite, I admired her journey in re-invent HP
4. I-con: Steve job, the greatest second act in the History of Business
4. No such things as over exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump - I love this guy!
5. The 100:A ranking of most influential persons in History
6. Two Faces by Dr Syed Husin - my favourite as well about his experience being detained without trial in my own country
7. Umar Al Khattab: The 2nd Caliph of Islam
8. World War I & II
9. Biography of most renowned world's leader i.e. Jose Rizal, Ho chin Minh, Sukarno, Aung Sun, Gandhi, Mahathir, John F Kennedy, King Mongkut, Abraham Lincoln, King Chulalongkorn, Emperor Meiji:kaffeetrinker_2:

[xmaryx]

My fave books include:

I am David by Anne Holm
The Prince by Machievelli
Jungle Books by Rudyard Kippling
The bloody Rise of the Satanic Unground by Sonderland (sp?)
Faces of Straight edge by Raymond McCrea Jones (photobook)
Women by Annie Liebovitz (of course for the fab ellen pic amongst other)
Asylums by Erving Goffman

but i dont reallly read that much. i find i read waaaay tooo much at work and so the last thing i want to do is voluntarily read some more :p

[oldie51]

Wow, I'm impressed! What a lot of smart people! I was telling a couple of friends about something I was reading that was very sad, and they said, "we're going to have to give you some romances to read." :astonished: That makes me feel like I did when I was in high school and my mom wanted to send me to a "charm" class. No way! Well, I might want to read a romance, but I don't think that the ones they read would do it for me. Sometimes I get totally off of reading and sometimes I try to read and nothing holds my interest. Thank goodness for the internet! Anyway.....

I guess my favorite performers would be:

1. Ellen (of course)
2. Aretha Franklin
3. Kathy Griffith
4. Stevie Ray Vaughn (gone but not forgotten)
5. Janis Joplin (R.I.P.)
6. Bill Cosby
7. The Beatles
8. Anne Bancroft (gbnf)
9. Justin Timberlake
10. ?

As for songs, that is really hard, because I don't really have favorites--usually what I am listening to at the time!

Artists

1. Monet
2. Van Gogh
3. Michaelangelo
4. Leonardo di Vinci
5. Caravaggio

[HeavensAngel332]

Okay Dokey,these are my top thingys:

Books (no order)

1. The Rachel Morgan Series

2. The Mask

3. V.C Andrews Collection

4. Life In The Fat Lane

5. Old Magic

6. One Child

7. Candy

8. The Resident Evil Series


Movies

1. The Notebook

2. Titanic

3. Mean Girls

4. Tuck Everlasting

5. If These Walls Could Talk 2

6. Underworld 1 and 2

7. Resident Evil 1-3

8. Ever After

9. Sirens

10.The Whole Disney Collection ^ ^


Songs

1. Snow White Queen

2. My Immortal

3. I knew I loved you before I met you

4. Ever-Ever After

5. Rockstar

6. Bring Me To Life

7. All The Disney Songs

8. Your Beautiful

9. Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman

10. Lets Make A Night To Remember


10 places I'm dying to go to

1. Australia

2. Australia

3. Australia

4. Australia

5. Australia

6. Australia

7. Australia

8. Australia

9. Australia

10. Melbourne Australia!!!

:D

[Tolaoi]

i dont read books lol i have A.D.D :P

but my favs moviesss :D
1. The Butterfly Effect
2. The Notebook (i see im not the only one who like it )
3. Titanic (yeah yeah :p)
4. 60 Seconds
5. The Bone Collector
6. Jumper
7. Taxi 1,2,3,4 :D
8. Fast and Furious , 2 Fast and 2 Furious , Tokyo Drift :)
9. The Sixth Sense
10. The Village

[suricata]

Books (no order)
1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
2. The Hotel New Hampshire / The World According to Garp / The Cider House Rules / Until I find you - John Irving
3. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
4. Popular Music from Vittula - Mikael Niemi
5. The Dark Room - Minette Walters
6. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
7. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
8. Velocity - Dean Koontz
9. Homo Faber - Max Frisch
10. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren


Movies (no order)
1. The Hotel New Hampshire
2. When Harry Met Sally
3. As good as it gets
4. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
5. Little Man Tate
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. The Cider House Rules
8. The Accused
9. Ice Age
10. The Rose
11. Police Academy
12. The Silence of the Lambs
13. The Color Purple
14. Schindler's List
15. A League of Their Own
16. The Graduate
17. The World According to Garp
18. Watch Out, We're Mad
19. Rebel Without a Cause
20. Juno

... way too many ...

[Sankofa]

Here are my ten:

1.) La Casa De Los Espiritus (House of the Spirits)- Isabel Allende
2.) Here's To You Jesusa!- Elena Piniatowska
3.) Cien Anos De Soledad (100 years of Solitide)- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4.) When Things Fall Apart- Pema Chodron
5.) Name All The Animals- Alison Smith
6.) I know Why The Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
7.) Interview With The Vampire- Anne Rice
8.) Vampire Lestat- Anne Rice
9.) Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris
10.)Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)- Laura Esquivel

[blanksheet]

cool thread!! ;)

okay... let me try...

movies (there are so many...but I'll try)


the hours
mulholland drive
if these walls could talk 2
american beauty
nell
seven
finding neverland
boys don't cry
dangerous liaisions
todo sobre mi madre
(there are so many...)authors (no particular order):


michael cunningham
virginia woolf
fernando pessoa
ines predrosa
shakespeare
oscar wilde
ellen!! :)
eça de queirós
j.m. barrie
ernest hemingway
alan ball
(10 is not enough... lol)

[oldie51]

(10 is not enough... lol)

I know what you mean Blanksheet! Sometimes we play: You are stranded on an island and you can only have 3 things for entertainment. Now that is REALLY hard.

[3llen]

i like this thread!
books/authors (some i can remember)

shakespeare
to kill a mocking bird
kit pearson
how i live now
dracula
the funny thing is
my point do i have one
a mother/daughter journey
anne frankperformers (some i can remember)

ELLEN!!
wanda sykes
robin williams
dana carvey
jay lenosingers/songs (only to mention a few.. i have LOTS more)

beatles
madonna
maroon 5
justin timberlake
my immortal (evanescance) (sp?)
low.. lol it reminds me of ellen :p
micheal jackson / jackson 5
some gwen stefani/ no doubt songs
some avril lavigne songs
barracuda
shania twain
Queen

[oldie51]

Wanda Sykes! I love her!

[3llen]

Wanda Sykes! I love her!
me too.. :p "invade west hollywood" that was priceless... ;)

[The_Oscar]

authors

Christopher Moore
Kathy Reichs
Jeff Lindsay
William Shakespeare
Jules Verne
Rainer Maria Rilke
Gottfried Benn
Truman Capote

books

Christopher Moore: A dirty job
Jeff Lindsay: Dreaming Dexter
Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a young poet
Gottfried Benn: poems
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales
Jürgen Kesting: Maria Callas (biography)
Walter Moers: The City of Dreaming Books
Scott Matthew: Victim. The Secret Tapes of Marilyn Monroe
Patrick Süskind: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

movies

The Great Bagarozy
Lars and the Real Girl
Arscenic and Old Lace
Dogville
Walk the Line
The Great Dictator
The Last King of Scotland
The Cat on a hot tin roof
Jackie Brown
Irina Palm
Some like it hot
Who´s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

singers

Maria Callas
Marianne Faithfull
Ella Fitzgerald
Edith Piaf
Ray Charles
Johnny Cash

to be continued...

[DGenX]

my top 10 food & desserts :D yeah totally out of topic
food
1. olio pasta
2. lasagna
3. double whopper
4. chicken katsu-don
5. sushi
6. curly fries with beef sauce
7. barbeque chicken
8. froot loops with/without milk - ok this is a snack
9. apple chips - snack too:D
10. anything with cheeese :D

dessert
1. cake!!!!
2. cake with ice cream !!!!!!
3. almond pudding
4. lemon cake
5. carrot cake
6. ice cream pistachio flavor !!!!!!!!!
7. brownies with ice cream
8. nachos & cheese
9. anything with cheese
10. fruits which is what i get most often :p

[oldie51]

Food--oh you are cruel! I've lost 25 pounds and want to lose a bunch more.

Foods that tempt me. mmmmmm

1. Cheetos
2. Any kind of Mexican food
3. bacon
4. chili dogs
5. baked potato with everything
6. bbq brisket sandwich
7. pancakes with lots of butter and syrup
8. bacon cheeseburger
9. cheese fries
10. fried chicken

[bellyrox]

My favourite books, in no order, are:

My Sister's Keeper (by Jodi Picoult)
Tomorrow When The War Began series (by John Marsden)
Not Without My Sister ( byKristina, Celeste and Juliana)
A Child Called It
Anna's Story
Marley and Me (by John Grogan)
Salem Falls (by Jodi Picoult)
Twilight Children (Torey Hayden)

Favourite movies:

The Lakehouse
Miss Congeniality
Finding Nemo
Anchorman
Step Up
Take The Lead
The Notebook
No Reservations
Scream trilogy
Scary Movie trilogy

TV Shows:

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (of course!!)
Prison Break
Greys Anatomy
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Charmed
Veronica Mars
Gilmore Girls
Smallville

[bludflygrl]

Thanks for posting all your fav's. There are definitely some I will check out:)
Here are my favorite movies and top ten list of favorite things to do:

1. Somewhere in Time
2. Excalibur
3. Mata Hari
4. The Holy Grail
5. Star Wars trilogy (4,5,6,) which were released 1,2,3,
6. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. Saw I,II,III...haven't seen 4 is it good??
9. Blazing Saddles
10. The Sound of Music...Never get tired of that one:)

Favorite things to do:The order really depends on the day LOL

1. Play my guitar
2. Hang out with my crazy pets
3. kissing
4. hiking/sailing..any outdoor activity
5. cooking, eating, any thing with food LOL
6. being creative..making something..redecorating
7. going for nice drives, of course where i live now....all looks the same
8. attending concerts/festivals
9. hanging out with one sweet person
10. chillin' on this forum with you all:)
and one for good luck... SHOPPING!!!!!!That's good any day:p

[lauriedundee]

My favourite books, in no order, are:

My Sister's Keeper (by Jodi Picoult)
Tomorrow When The War Began series (by John Marsden)
Not Without My Sister ( byKristina, Celeste and Juliana)
A Child Called It
Anna's Story
Marley and Me (by John Grogan)
Salem Falls (by Jodi Picoult)
Twilight Children (Torey Hayden)

Favourite movies:

The Lakehouse
Miss Congeniality
Finding Nemo
Anchorman
Step Up
Take The Lead
The Notebook
No Reservations
Scream trilogy
Scary Movie trilogy

TV Shows:

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (of course!!)
Prison Break
Greys Anatomy
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Charmed
Veronica Mars
Gilmore Girls
Smallville

is annas story the one about the little girl who has cancer?
i read a book about that and thought it was really good, and sad but i cant remember the name of it, was just wondering if tht was it?

[Stephie22]

8. Saw I,II,III...haven't seen 4 is it good??

I have seen saw 4 , and yeah its really good . If you love horror Movies like I do you must see saw 4.

[jlilest]

You see saw and it sound so nice until you see saw? :uglyconf:

We now return you to your thread already in progress...

I haven't done a lot of reading recently, but I like almost any of Arthur C. Clark's and Isaac Asimov's science fiction books.

I'm not much for the more recent science fantasy stuff though.

[Stephie22]

You see saw and it sound so nice until you see saw? :uglyconf:

We now return you to your thread already in progress...

I haven't done a lot of reading recently, but I like almost any of Arthur C. Clark's and Isaac Asimov's science fiction books.

I'm not much for the more recent science fantasy stuff though.

LOL james.....you cracked me up....:D :uglyconf:

[DGenX]

i am reading patricia cornwell's book of the dead....the first few pages are grimmmmm.

[3llen]

just finished reading flowers for algernon... AMAZING BOOK!! really sad though... :( it definately goes in my top 10.

[Stephie22]

I just read a Book which is from 1955. written by Lord Russel of Liverpool.

Its about Nazi Germany , and what the germans did with the jews in the KZ . Its a true story about the Nazi crimes.

Its called " Geisel der Menschheit " . "Hostage of the humanity".

If your interested in this subject like Iàm , than you have to read this Book.

[oldie51]

flowers for algernon... AMAZING BOOK!! really sad though... :( it definately goes in my top 10.


There is a wonderful old movie of that story called: "Charly" with Cliff Robertson in it. They did a very good job with the movie. You might like it!

[misskitty]

my favorite movies are:
1. Finding Nemo
2. Charlie and the chocolate factory
3. Beowolf
4. The lake House
5. The Night at the Museum

my favorite songs are
1.One Sweet Day
2. wide open spaces
3.hips don't lie
4.where is the love

(I like all genre of music not just one kind)

[3llen]

There is a wonderful old movie of that story called: "Charly" with Cliff Robertson in it. They did a very good job with the movie. You might like it!
yes i have heard about it.. :) thanks.:p i have to see it.. ;)

[blanksheet]

(10 is not enough... lol)

I know what you mean Blanksheet! Sometimes we play: You are stranded on an island and you can only have 3 things for entertainment. Now that is REALLY hard.

loOl, that would be hard... I'm glad it's 10, here :p

[zoeak]

Man, I've been way too busy the last few days, I've completely missed this thread.

Authors (in this order):
1. Laurie R. King
2. Marianne Greenwood
3. Radclyffe
4. Melissa Good
5. J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Patricia Cornwell
7. Elizabeth Haydon
8. Ann-Marie MacDonald
9. Sara Paretsky

Movies (no internal order):
The Hours
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Tomb Raider
The Matrix Trilogy
Bound
Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Crown Affair
Men in Tights
What's Up Doc?

TV Shows (in this order):
1. Xena Warrior Princess
2. The X-Files
3. Remington Steele
4. The West Wing
5. Arrested Development
6. Relic Hunter
7. Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman
8. Firefly
9. 30 Rock
Current Obsession Bonus: Blood Ties

Songs (no internal order):
Southland in the Springtime - Indigo Girls
Dance Without Sleeping - Melissa Etheridge
Hallelujah - k.d. lang
Ashes - KT Tunstall
Via Dolorosa - Sandi Patti
Open Your Mind - Melissa Etheridge
I Run for Life - Melissa Etheridge
She's Saving Me - Indigo Girls
Barefoot - k.d. lang

[justcarly]

10 favourite books
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Curse of Camp Coldlake
My Point and I do have one
The Funny Thing Is...
The Real Ellen Story
Witch Child
Island
Hydrofoil Mysteries
Underground Railroad
Poppy

10 favourite movies
Juno
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hairspray
Emperors New Groove
Mr.Wrong
Goodbye Lover
Hard Candy
The Ring
Saw
Finding Nemo

[3llen]

10 favourite books
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Definately agree with you on that!!! LOVE that book!!!