We had to read To Kill A Mockingbird in high school lol i loved it when the class would read books. this was one of my favorites too.
One book everyone should read?
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We had to read To Kill A Mockingbird in high school lol i loved it when the class would read books. this was one of my favorites too.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. A book about "magic" and positive thinking.
The Little Prince, for two reasons:
"One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
"It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
"It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important."
I wanted to marry Atticus Finch when I read the book.We had to read To Kill A Mockingbird in high school lol i loved it when the class would read books. this was one of my favorites too.
(Then I just wanted to marry Gregory Peck, but that's a different story.)
So many great suggestions here. Hard to choose. My fravorite Steinbeck is Of Mice and Men. So I'm going with that.
'cause everyone needs to know that it's in giving that we receive."Just 'cause?"
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy by Henry Kissinger. The Cold War may be over but the proliferation of nuclear weapons is not.
Murder On the Orient Express - Classic Agatha Christie
Centennial - James Michener - The story of generations of families in a small town in Colorado.
Centennial - James Michener - The story of generations of families in a small town in Colorado.
I wanted to name our son Atticus but Mr. Gust wouldn't go for it.
Michener does a great job. Centennial, the town, was based on Greeley, just down the road from me. Rattlesnake Buttes was based on Pawnee Buttes out on the Pawnee National Grasslands. (There is now a city called Centennial, Colorado, but it's in the family of Denver Suburbia, and you really should ignore any potential connection to its literary namesake.)
Michener donated to the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, and they have the James Michener Library in his honor.
All of which leads me to: While Michener does a great job in this epic tome, he seems to always have near-impeccable research for the subject matter. Chesapeake is another example. Really good and in-depth.
For a little flavor of the college Vietnam era, I would recommend Kent State: What Happened and Why. I wish the investigative authorities had approached it with the depth and care that Michener did.
Agreed!
You can't really go wrong with Michener, he researches his subjects down to the last atom and doesn't skip any of bits in the telling, but somehow keeps it interesting.
His novel Hawaii, for instance, doesn't start when Hawaii becomes a U.S. state. It doesn't start when white missionaries start to try to "civilized the heathens" on the islands. Nor does it start when people come from Japan and China, or even when early Polynesian people come in storm-driven canoes from other islands. It doesn't even start when birds fly over and poop seeds on it and freaking plants start to grow! Because there is no island when his book starts!
I'm not kidding! He starts his book with an empty span of ocean and a rumbling of an undersea volcano. 750 million characters later, you are at least up to the time of "Book 'em, Danno," and you know more about Hawaiian history than most professors!
You can't really go wrong with Michener, he researches his subjects down to the last atom and doesn't skip any of bits in the telling, but somehow keeps it interesting.
His novel Hawaii, for instance, doesn't start when Hawaii becomes a U.S. state. It doesn't start when white missionaries start to try to "civilized the heathens" on the islands. Nor does it start when people come from Japan and China, or even when early Polynesian people come in storm-driven canoes from other islands. It doesn't even start when birds fly over and poop seeds on it and freaking plants start to grow! Because there is no island when his book starts!
I'm not kidding! He starts his book with an empty span of ocean and a rumbling of an undersea volcano. 750 million characters later, you are at least up to the time of "Book 'em, Danno," and you know more about Hawaiian history than most professors!
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I must admit I have yet to read the entire book, but I have read excerpts from it
It is so sad. But there is so much story in such a small book.
That's really great! I think it is one of the best books ever and everyone should read it, seriously. It is full of wisdom.
I would suggest John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. This ones gives good advise for the relationships of men and women, and people in general, I would say.
My first Michener book was The Source which is why it really threw me when Steve wrote the story UR. 
For those who haven't read The Source, it starts with a stone age family with the name Ur.
For those who haven't read The Source, it starts with a stone age family with the name Ur.