by watersprout 48 Replies latest jw friends
" Combatting Cult Mind Control " by Steve Hassan
" Releasing the Bonds - Empowering People to Think For Themselves " by Steve Hassan
" Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee " by Dee Brown
" Gestalt Therapy Verbatim " by Dr. Frederick Perls
" Sasquatch - Legend Meets Science " by Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Those are a few of my favorites
I know i loved ''Can you keep a secret''.. Sophie Kinsella's characters are me! Lol. Carrot loves reading them cause he said it's like reading about you! I don't know whether to be offended or not! Lol.
An old friend told me that ''Becky'' out of the shopaholic series was me. Can't say i'm a shopaholic... I'm as ditzy though.
Peace
You sure seem like a hoot, Sproutykins - if I make my way back to the UK, we're getting together for tea and tequila.
My favorite book is Captains And The Kings by Taylor Caldwell
OH OH YES, Pillars of the Earth is one of the Best books I have ever read!! World Without End is also good and follows the story in the same town/area 200 years later. Ken Follett is one of the best writers. I have read everyone of his books and they are all good. He includes a lot of history in his books and makes history come alive to you with his fictional characters.
Greg Iles is another great author and he sets his stories in the Southern East USA mostly.
The first 4 books of The Earth's Children Series by Jean M. Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of the Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, and The Plains of Passage
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls reminds me that I can see and acknowledge my father's faults without resenting the way I was raised because of them.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory MacGuire
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
I am a fan of the short stories of Poe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I'm reading The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch, and just finished The Man With the Golden Gun, Ian Fleming.
Best Book Ever - The Women's Room by Marilyn French, changed my life back in the day.
I, too, love all Sophie Kinsella's books ! Chic lit is underrated, it's great mind candy.
Starting The Idiot by Dostoyevsky - usually I steer clear of 'literature', but it's actually not a hard read.
There's new(er) books in the Bourne series, but written by Eric VanLustbader (another favorite action author), and are AWESOME. Has truly resurrected the Bourne character.
Also, F. Paul Wilson has an amazing series "Repairman Jack" (stephen king is the pres of RJ fan club lol), novels about an alternative universe/good and evil, Jack is a 'fixer' who helps out folks in trouble and, well, I'll say no more (he also wrote The Keep, which was made into a pretty good film)
David Morrell is one of my all-time favs, wrote Brotherhood of the Rose, Fraternity of the Stone, and the original First Blood (ie RAMBO), but I think his best book is Testament, written in 1975 about a journalist who exposes a paramilitary group in US, and they come after his family (that's just an intro, not a spoiler). 1975- before it was public knowledge these groups even existed.
non fiction would be Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, an examination of female arch-types (good learning for both genders, actually), anything by Gloria Steinem, and a textbook we used in phil. class called "Twenty Questions", and excellent primer for anyone interested in philosophy.
Anything by Terry MacMillan (eg How Stella Got Her Groove Back) and also Toni Morrison (sometimes I have to give them several reads).
Anyone likes 19th century naughty French (?) lit should try Guy de Maupassant, one of the 'fathers of the modern short story'.
Oh yes, for short stories, native son Alistair MacLeod writes the most poignant, beautiful stories of his childhood in Cape Breton.
The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, a lifelong favorite.
Tender is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
And, of course, Charlotte's Web.
okay,,,, loves books far too much ,,, i'll shut up now!
t
Mr Flipper you sound like a very intellectual man!
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee " by Dee Brown
Gestalt Therapy Verbatim " by Dr. Frederick Perls
Going to take a look at these two.
You sure seem like a hoot, Sproutykins - if I make my way back to the UK, we're getting together for tea and tequila
It's a deal! Although i have never tried tea and tequila together Sounds like it would be a fun experience lol.
My favorite book is Captains And The Kings by Taylor Caldwell
Going to take a look at this one two.
makes history come alive to you with his fictional characters.
I love books that come ''alive''... Makes reading even more enjoyable.
Thanks Thesilence. I will be having a look at all these books. Could be reading well into my hundreds lol.
I, too, love all Sophie Kinsella's books ! Chic lit is underrated, it's great mind candy.
It most certainly is! I could never get through ''Charlottes web''... It distressed me greatly! Lol. I am welling up now thinking of Charlotte! Lol... You can never love books too much! Babysprout has discovered her ''Love'' for reading and she's turning into a bookworm. She has all my books from when i was growing up. All my Enid blytons! It's lovely to see a child have a thirst for reading. When i met Carrot he had only read two books in his whole life. Now he hasn't got his head out of one. He loves books for xmas and b'days... I think my love of books has infected my family. Lol
There is a new library opening up and i am soo excited. Will be going in with my list of books and indulging.
Thank you to all who replied... Can't wait to get my teeth in these ''reads''.
Peace Sprout
I recently read The Glass Castle. Excellent book and its a true story. Unbelieveable what that girl and her siblings went through growing up yet they all mostly came out allright in the end. Made me think that my life growing up as a JW with no roots anywhere wasn't half bad compared to her life.
The Author wrote it truthfully but without making her parents out to be anything but human and worth forgiving. I am afraid I might not have been so kind if they were my parents lol.
Many of the books I have enjoyed recently have been at the recommendation of The Silence who has excellent taste in reading material ;-)
My two all-time favorites are Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
I also like everything that Kurt Vonnegut has written, particularly Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five.
