What are the 15 books that stick out most in your mind?
My picks:
-The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Hands down, my favorite book of all time. I've read, re-read, and re-re-read it more times than I care to count (or admit) and it holds a special place, near and dear to my heart. "A Hobbit's Tale, by Bilbo Baggins" is a scholarly gift from Tolkien that I shall cherish forever.
-The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
Yes, I do love Harry Potter. And yes, I have worn out the pages of every first edition book I waited in line for the night/morning they came out. Starting with Goblet that is - I'm to young to have camped out for the first three midnight releases. Sadly, I have probably read them all more times than you have. And if anyone actually reads this, they'll probably contest that fact. And, again, sadly, I'll probably come out on top. BTW: I hate the movies. The first one was OK, the second one was decent, the rest were awful.
-My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Every boys' dream! Quit school, leave the big city, live on your own, and get fed every day by a BA falcon?! No wonder I thought of this one...
-One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Sadly, I have only read this "book" once. And even that time I read it, I didn't read all 1001 stories. But, I have always meant to go back and re-read them all. GREAT short stories.
-Last of the Breed, Louis L'Amour
A truly impressive novel, it follows the journey of a USAF test pilot, Joe Makatozi, that is shot down in over Russia. A Souix Indian, he must break out of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia, survive the pursuit and the brutal Russian land, all the while making the journey on foot that his ancestors made, back across Asia and over to North America. For everyone who hasn't read this book (which is most of the world it seems) you are missing out.
-Without Remorse, Tom Clancy
Without Remorse is the tale of an Ex-Navy SEAL, John Kelly, during the final years of the Vietnam war. SEALs were famous in Vietnam for using any means necessary to stike absolute terror into the hearts of the North Vietnamese, amassing an epically impressive 200 to 1 kill to death ratio in the conflict. In the course of their regular operations, SEALs often broke all 10 commandments in one day. In Clancy's story, following the death of his wife and unborn son in a car accident, Kelly falls in love with a girl with a similarly "checkered past." When he is shot by druggies, and she is killed, John Patrick Kelly systematically destroys the group responsible. WARNING: NOVEL NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART - its pretty intense. He also does some work for the CIA in Vietnam, and adopts the name John Clark in order to elude prosecution the various crimes he committed taking down the drug syndicate so that he could work full time for the Agency.
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
JUST KIDDING. They should have named this thing the DEAD Pony. It dies in like the first chapter.
Mr. Coon, I hope this is enough. I shall not be in class on Friday, so I deemed it prudent to complete this blog early.
Perry
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Hazard, we have two in common, The Hobbit (do you know if Tolkien wrote that before or after he wrote his famous trilogy?) and My Side of the Mountain (I'm glad you thought of that one, a perennial favorite, especially of boys at about age, what, eight or nine?) And you raise a good question: who has read Harry Potter the most times? I think I know your answer.
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