Ahsilet Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 I was wondering, do anyone have a book they'll keep close to them for the rest of their life. A book that where the characters still haunt your house, and you find yourself thinking about that book even when you're reading a different book? A book that you'll find yourself reading many times over. Tell us the book(s) and why. Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger I have a lot of Holden in me. I find myself thinking like him in certain situations. Many things in life are "phonie". The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnero I feel heavy for the women in this book. I related to every woman in this book. I come across women just like them in my daily life on a regular. I have never read a book without my mind coming back to this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Well, I have a lot of books I keep for other than "literary" reasons. Old books, including first editions, and then some books that I'm not too fond of but were maman's favourites, for example. As for books I keep because I liked them too much... Edith Wharton's House of Mirth comes to mind. Le Petit Prince, of course. I'm sure there's others, but I'll have to think about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 One book I find myself thinking about a lot, and at random times, is The Lord of the Rings, which is my favorite book. There's so much depth to that book, and every re-reading is different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Can't really think of anything.. but I'll want to keep most of my books to be honest. Catcher in the rye - Jd salinger. I really enjoyed that book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Probably The Time Traveler's Wife, I adore it and it's my fave book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'd say To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read it many times, and never get bored with it. I first read it when I was about 14, and loved it. My husband bought me a beautiful rare copy, which is too nice to be read (I'm worried about breaking the spine or bending the pages), but I still have the copy I had as a teenager - a lot more dogeared than it used to be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KW Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 This comment has been made in the forum before, under a different heading so check there for answers too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergran71 Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 One book which I read a long time ago The Far Pavilions by M M Kaye, I loved and would read again and again (when I get the time). The same goes for The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 (edited) The same goes for The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloch Omg! I read The Thorn Birds years ago! I forgot all about that book! Edited January 26, 2009 by Charm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple95 Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 (edited) A little different tack perhaps: My grandmother gave me a copy of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary while I was in Junior High School. That dictionary served me well all through school, college, and my professional life. Now, like me, it is mostly retired and sits in a place of honor on the table next to my favorite reading chair. Also, like me, it is somewhat worn and tattered. Even though I use the dictionary built into my iMac and computer spell checkers, there is still something special about looking up a word in that dictionary and reading all the definitions, word origins, and such. Cheers, dan Edited January 26, 2009 by purple95 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Even though I use the dictionary built into my iMac and computer spell checkers, there is still something special about looking up a word in that dictionary and reading all the definitions, word origins, and such. True that. Plus, it's absorbing. You only intend to look up one word, and half an hour later you start to wonder what the original one was, before you went flipping through the dictionary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Jacobs Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 The Good News Bible a passage is read Daily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggiesfan Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I have a boxed set of The Chronicles Of Narnia i will never let it go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I`ve got beautifully illustrated books of, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I`ll never let them go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookBee8 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman. I can't imagine ever wanting to let that series go. I love it. I haven't liked Twilight long enough to know if it will the be the same with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilde Lily Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 The Secret Garden The Mists of Avalon Jane Eyre Rebeccca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruska Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Persuasion by Jane Austen, because I identify with Anne. To The Ends of the Earth by William Golding. Beautiful, sad, funny, everything I want a book to be I found in that trilogy and I never wanted it to end. Hamlet - I studied it at school and have never lost my fascination with it. Everything you ever felt in life is there, and whenever I'm searching for an answer that's where I find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 The Characters in the Harry Potter books will stay with me forever. No, I don't have to grow up! Summer by Edith Wharton will stay with me. The 3 main characters were a mess. The woman who runs after love and loses it to a guy who is promised to another and the woman ends up with the man she never wanted to be with. What Drama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Wuthering Heights. And, funnily enough, talking about characters that stay with you - Dustfinger, from Inkheart. I know nobody likes those books, but nobody else I know whose read them has ever commented on Dustfinger, and I think he's an absolutely genius character (given his context of children's books.) The fact that he's given an opportunity to meet his author, his god - and the whimsical way in which that god mentions how he killed Dustfinger off for the sake of drama. To me, that's just, immensely deep for a children's book. Or, the implications are, anyway. That will always stay with me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Harry Potter is my life! It will probably be the books I force on my kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I will also most definitely read Harry Potter to my kids xD The book 'IT' by Stephen King is so amazing and personal to me, there's so many themes and things running throughout about the power of childhood, friendship and battles, just idk so many different things which speak to me on so many different levels. The story has a true voice and it haunts me almost daily ^-^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geebs Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 For me it would be " foundation series " by Isaac Asimov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookJumper Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 My copy of "Join Me! The True Story of a Man who started a Cult by Accident". It's accompanied me to so many joinee meets and bears the signatures, dedications, drawings of so many friends, so many memories of good times and good deeds done, that I'll never replace it. Not even when it starts truly falling apart. The copy of "The P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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