I searched through the [entertainment] forum to see if a prior thread pertaining to the aforementioned subject had been made, and didn't see any.. soo.

Personally, I'm a book-worm. Always have been since I was younger (was an avid collecter of the The Berenstain Bears' books).

List your favorite books and/or authors.

Authors:
- Richard Wright
- Alice Sebold
- Dean Koontz
- Anne Rice
- Stephen King
- Sandra Brown

Books:
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Good In Bed by Jennifer Weiner
- From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz
- The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
- White Hot by Sandra Brown

I'm not much of a reader, but I did love The Giver and The Outsiders. Haha, I had to read them for school, but I really enjoyed them.

Favorite Authors:
C.S. Lewis
Laurie Halse Anderson

Favorite Books:
The Chronicles of Narnia
Fever 1793

I am an avid reader. I read a lot. Anyway, here's my favorite authors followes by my favorite books.

FAVORITE AUTHORS:
Phillip Pullman
Michael Crichton
Piers Anthony
Augusten Burroughs
Chuck Palahniuk
Douglas Coupland
Elizabeth Wurtzel

FAVORITE BOOKS:
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
Outbreak by Micheal Crichton
Incarnations of Immortality Series by Piers Anthony
Running With Scissors and Magical Thinking : True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Generation X and All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Prozac Nation and More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Disco Bloodbath (retitled as Party Monster) by James St. James

There's my lists. I enjoy strange humor and strange chacters. If a story involves sex and drugs, then it's even better. :)

I don't really like reading, but one book that I loved was Catcher in the Rye.

I don't really have favorite authors..but I love these books:
A Cry in the Night
The Green Mile
Weep No More, My Lady

d00d!

i was thinking that no one else would say anne rice....

argh, well yes anne rice :)

i like R.L. Stine books...not Gossebumps the "aldut" and mature teens ones..
I like The Daughter of The Moon seir, The Clique seris, Gossip Girl seris...........i like reading..a lot

favortie authors:
Ann Brashares
Sarah Dessen


Favortie books:
Girls in pants (3rd summer of the sisterhood) - Ann Brashares
The truth about forever - Sarah Dessen
Harry Potter Series
The A-list series - Zoey Dean
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper lee
Gone with the wind- Margaret Mitchell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

My grandma bought me those books a few Christmas' ago.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone can stand reading them, they're written so poorly and laskdjflkajsdfklj1 aalaksdjf.

You should check out some of the Sweet Vally High Senior Year books, now those are some entertaining books ;). Haha, the author stopped writing new ones for that novel years ago I think, but you can still find them in most bookstares. I still have that entire series, books 1-45; there are more after that I think, but I haven't looked around to see.

i dont really look at the authors when i read books but my favorite book has to be the harry potter series.. j.k rowling. cause theyre fun adventurous and i can never put them down.

Fav Authors:
Tolkien-amazing writer
Nicholas Sparks-wonderful
Lemony Snickets-so creative
Rowling-writes beautifully

Fav Books:
The Hobbit
Series of Unfortunate Events Series
The NoteBook
Message In a Bottle
Lord of The Rings
A Walk To Remember
Flipped-awesome book too, forgot author tho

ooooh im a complete book worm, but unfortunately ive been slacking lately, since ive had all these books to read for school and chemistry to study for


i like anne rice :)


i didnt bother to read them, but i cant stand any of that kind of book, really. i dont mind half an hour books for entertainment, but they should at least but vaguely funny and well written. no fake drama shit for me. the left behind series was intolerably badly written as well

anyway, favorite authors:
-Tom Robbins
-Orson Scott Card
eh, i dont really have many favorite authors right now

at this point, im in a phase where ive read so many books at one time i cant keep them straight anymore, so any list i could put forth would not even begin to cover what i actually enjoyed.

i just finished the great gatsby and loved it though

my favorite book is a book called bruises about a girl that gets beat by her mom. i forgot who the author was.
and my favorite author is Rohl Dahl because i have loved all of his books since 3rd grade! XD

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
Jinx by Margaret Wilder.

For this year I decided to make a list of every book I read and/or reread, so I can see how many books I've read, and whatnot.

For school I probably read more books then I did after I was done with it. I was either bored in class, so I brought books to read, or I finished the required reading for my Lit and American Novel classes, so I just read books for enjoyment. I had this thing where I would read beyond the homework given (aka, read chapters 1-3) because well, I don't read a book, and just put it down until I have to read it again. So I always read the book the first two days I got it.

Well, except for the Scarlet Letter. The one book in my entire education thus far that I never read. I skimmed it for quizzes and such, but. yeah. Worst book, ever.

Authors-
Stephen King
Hunter S. Thompson

I don't know if I have any favorite books...yet.

thats a good idea. i started a list once, but lost it before i had a chance to write down 4

i hate the particular chapter bit too. it just about killed me during the great gatsby, because unlike the other books we read this year, i actually liked it. but i had to go at the class's rate (which was fortunately fast since it was practically an AP class) because we get incredibly hard pop quizzes that are detailed enough that i wont rememebr if i read ahead, because of the way theyre set up. i read huck finn in the first couple of days, failed half the quizzes because of it, so i had to do well this time.

i read the scarlet letter last semester. TERRIBLE. i ...kind of read it. i would try to read it, but i actually could not pay attention at all, and so not have a clue what id read anyway. it was miserable

Haha, I read Huck Fin the first day I got it. I usually just skimmed the chapters before a quiz/test so I could remember inane details. For the most part, I usually have a good memory when it comes to books, but for anything else, I usually forget (especually during my senior year, when I was in my adv math/trig class; I could never remember specific formulas no matter what.)

What year are you in highschool?

im a sophmore, but im taking the junior language arts class

i have the same problem(or luck, as it occasionally happens) but th3e details were have to know are so inane that its ridiculous. a question on todays quiz was about how wilson said one thing repeatedly- what was it? so stupid

I can't remember much of what books I read during my sophomore year. That was my year of rebelling aka dropping out of all of my honors classes to piss off my parents.

I think we read some Greek Mythology, always a favorite of mine.
Oh, it was Othello we read. I remember, I got the only A +5 ec points.
mwaha.

That, and when she played the newer version of the movie 'O', she didn't know about the newer sex scene, so of course immature comments went throughout the room. hah.

jk rowling- harry potter 4

the other boleyn girl

cleopatra

deffinitly Graham Greene.

walk two moons, even though it's below my reading level.. i still cry. i love that book.

I agree- The Scarlet Letter was a terrible book. It was the only book that I actually read through the whole way, and I didn't like it that much. And same here with the chapter thing, I usually go beyond the required reading, unless it's really boring or something.
Hah, my boyfriend and I were just having a talk similar to this earlier today on the train. Well, some of my favorite books are:
Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
Catcher in The Rye- J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men, The Pearl- John Steinbeck
Harry Potter- J.K. Rowling

Oh, I'm reading The Great Gatsby now, for an APUSH term project, and it seems interesting to far.

um.lol rl stine fear street sagas

i love mythology. last year we read the abriged oddysey and considered it the extent of our mythology lesson. i resented it immensely.

haha, we wanted to watch the crucible movie, so we did, but they cut out the nudity


i just finished it. it was great

I dont have any favorite authors but i i love reading A Series of Unfortunate Events. Even though i havent read all the books.

^i hated the way they defined words. pissed me off. i got halfway through the first one and had to stop

Aw, I loved reading the Oddysey.
Other books we read:
The Iliad
Antigone
Oedipus

I'm sure there were others; I can't remember them anymore.
That being said, I'm definitely making sure I register for either a ancient Roman Literature, or Greek Mythology Class for next semester.

ooo i would love to take classes like that. but so while i generally lile the oddyssey, the lit books version wasnt the best

Yeah, for Oedipus, we read from a book, and I believe Antigone was through the literature book.

Once you register/go to college, you'll be able to register for classes like that. :) That's the great thing about it, you can specify what you'd like to take, rather then how general highschool classes are.

i hate my high school. we only have 6 periods so i cant even take the academics i want to take, let alone electives. i really wanted to take TOK and or art history, but i cant

My favorite author is Sophie Kinsella and her book, Confessions of a Shopaholic. I'm reading the second one now. I also like The Face on the Milk Carton. That was a good book.

Wow ,how sorry is it that no one has said George Orwell's name ? ...... in my opinion Animal Farm and 1984 are the best books ever . Easy to read. Easy to understand . The symbols and theme of these 2 books come to you mind in a relaxing fashion . There pretty much the only books i have ever enjoyed reading .

oh, i love him too. i was so disappointed when i realized that 1984 and animal farm were his only books. i only didnt think to mention him, because ive read so many books that i cant keep track and even think of them at this point, because i have a really hard time picking favorites

i really dont think they are, nicki.

anyway, i have a million favorite authors, but the book which has made the bigges timperrsion on me as a person is definately 1984. stunning

Lord of the Flies was pretty powerful too, i read it in on enight because i couldnt put it down. the phrase in the index which described someone as being the king of anarcy drvoe me insane. grrr

oooo i thought of another, to kill a mockingbir, that was the last thing i read to make me cry

anyway ,other good books are the harry potters, the wheel of time, the banned and the banished, watership down, and so many others. o his dark materials

well theyre the only ones that are actually available anywhere. believe me, i checked

Laurell K. Hamillton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings amongst others
Rowling's Harry Potter Series

speaking of which, I saw the cover art for the half blood prince today!

Anything Shakespeare
Anne Sexton

I just finished reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee as a class assignment. It was actually VERY good! I loved it!

other favoted books-

+ A Time for Dancing
+ The Outsiders
+ P.S. I Love you
+ A Door Near Here
+ A Bend in the Road

Mhm.
Authors- Lurlene McDaniel, Louis Sachar(sp?)
Books- A Rose For Melinda, Telling Christina Goodbye, Gossip Girl Series, and Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series.

Andrew Clements & Louis Sachar

I just re-read Go Ask Alice by Anonymous for probably the 100th time today.

mmm

book :
roald dahl books
the kitchen god's wife - amy tan
and then there were none - agatha christie
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
confessions of a shopaholic - sophie kinsella
pippi longstocking

authors:
roald dahl
agatha christie
amy tan

currently, i'm reading lolita by vladimir nobokov (i hope i spelled it right)....adn it's really good so far

haha yea ive only read the first one but when they defined the words im like omg wtf! shutup
one author i like is Phyllis Reynolds Naylor yea ive read some of her books and my favorite is Jade green

authors:
nicholas sparks
margaret weis & tracy hickman

books:
the rescue
the guardian
harry potter series (i preorder them too )
dragon lance volumes
grapes of wrath
to kill a mockingbird

hmmm...

don't know about favorite authors, but here are some good books i've read:

When Dad Killed Mom (kinda freaky title, but really good)
Sloppy First
Second Servings ^the sequel
Sushi for Beginners
True Meaning of Cleavage

i read alot too..but i forget most of the books i read..i only remember the really good ones..=P

digital fortress----dan brown
the divide---- elizabeth kay?