Favorite books?

[Alice]

Where the Wild Things Are. I swear- if that guy screws it up in the movie I will stab him with a fork to the eye.

It's a 100 word book stretched out into a 1.5 hour movie, minimum.  Sadly, I think it's going to be near impossible *not* to screw it up.

[swolt]

Neuromancer was a great story but I felt it wasn't written well.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was my favorite book growing up.

Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton is also really good.

[Jessie]

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver

The Giving Tree (this is like top five all time favorite)
Where the Sidewalk Ends

Dry - Augusten Burroughs
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

[swolt]

OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.

[Alice]

OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.

It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.

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[swolt]

OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.

It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.

what is rule 34?

[Jessie]

Oh no.  Say it ain't so.

[swolt]

OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.

It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.

what is rule 34?

oh. nevermind

[sapphirehart]

OMG The Giving Tree!! I still love that book. It used to make me cry when I was a kid.

It made me cry when I realized that rule 34 of the internet really is true.

what is rule 34?

oh. nevermind

NSFW   http://rule34.paheal.net/

[dots]

I had never heard of that.

I think my life would have been OK without knowing that.

[Alice]

[Jessie]

haha that's awesome.

[Beefy]

Lem's Solaris and Eden.

[ursus]

Grown person:
Cryptonomicon-Neal Stephenson
Baghdad with out a Roadmap-Tony Horwitz
M*A*S*H-Richard Hooker
The Cold Six Thousand-James Ellroy
Any Marlowe story by Chandler

Youth:
Jungle Book-Kipling
Starship Troopers-Robert Heinlein
Life Its Ownself-Dan Jenkins

[Beefy]

I enjoyed Starship Troopers as well, both the book and the movie.  Heresy, I know.  I seem to be able to judge each on it's own merits.  Go figure.

[ursus]

I thought the movie was a different take (I know this is heresy) ala Kubrick/Clarke 2001...

No problems except that lame-e-o band in the graduation party scene...Dreck!

[Beefy]

I thought the movie was a different take (I know this is heresy) ala Kubrick/Clarke 2001...

No problems except that lame-e-o band in the graduation party scene...Dreck!

Ha!  Yes, they were bad.  But they were playing a Bowie tune, so I gave them a pass.

[ursus]

No kidding?

I thought the girl singer (the soundtrack composer's daughter-Anorexia Papada-nepotism-isis) wrote that...

[Beefy]

Yes, it was "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" off of Bowie's album Outside.

[ursus]

Learn something new...

[DownSouth]

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
The Hobbit.  I love the description of the roads covered in trees.

[ReBurn]

Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
The Hobbit.  I love the description of the roads covered in trees.

[Gamplayerx]

Actually, this thread is pretty well timed.  My step-mother's vision is in question and she's looking for new things to read on tape.  She loves Agatha Christie - anybody know of any authors in that vein I could point her to?

[Alice]

Actually, this thread is pretty well timed.  My step-mother's vision is in question and she's looking for new things to read on tape.  She loves Agatha Christie - anybody know of any authors in that vein I could point her to?

Sue Grafton?

[Gamplayerx]

Good suggestion with Grafton, but she's read all of those.  I offered Janet Evanovich and Jasper Fforde, but I don't know if they're on audiotape.  She's probably going to lose all sight shortly - the doctors don't know for sure, but it's not looking good.  She's now going to see the doctor every week.