what's your favorite book?

My favorite book is almost always the one I just read...

(I do a lot of reading)

I just read "My life in advertising" by Claude C. Hopkins. I'll tell you what -- it was inspiring. This was born in 1866 and practically invented half of the advertising techniques we see now. His primary message: Care about your audience...treat them with humility and love.

I also love the book "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchet. It is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking stories I have ever read.

What's your favorite book? Read any good ones lately?

Jacob

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Hello, Jacob,

For Christians, this would be the book besides the Bible. I used to read as many as 30 books a year. This year it will be 3. Can anyone tell me how to mystery shop and read? How about mystery shopping and doing housework? When I had a homebased business, I wouldn't say I was caught up on everything but I had a choice. I mostly read history because it gives insight and nothing is fake in it. I've always loved history. I read a little science. People don't often realize that they would make better decisions if they knew more history. I think I read Hopkins' book once, Jacob.

The Illustrated Da Vinca Code. It is tactile and beautiful, an easy read and interesting concepts to consider.

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Hi Jacob,

I will read and re-read the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I have gone through it 4 times in the last 10 years. It's just a good fun book.
Mike

Hi Jacob,
I just got The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes, by Lou Marinoff.
Marinoff teaches that the "ABCs"of Aristotle, Buddha and Confucius can pave the way noy just to happiness but to finding balance in an increasingly globalized world.

I read an excerpt on the web, fascinating stuff. As technology spirals ever upward, what happens to the inner being?

Less s*x, friends and TV, replaced by the internet? That was a recent headline. We are facing the fall of a civilization as profound as the Roman Empire, and there yet exists no cure.

Great choice.

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This is a good one.
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak byJean Hatzfeld.
French journalist and war correspondent Hatzfeld offers brief, pithy accounts of 14 survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Comedy at the Edge:How Stand-up in the 1970s Change America by Richard Zoglin Bloomsbury.
Zoglin Bloomsbury offers a comedy chronicle of laugh makers from the mid-1960s to the early '80s with entertaining excerpts and funny one-liners.

All time favorite "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut

Don't Laugh.....
I get caught up in real life stuff.....I got engrossed with Anna Nicole Smith and the birth of her daughter and death of her son, let alone the loss of her life......a friend gave me the book "The Untold Story of Anna Nicole Smith" for Christmas. I loved every page of it.
Guess that makes me a busy body.....LOL

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My daughter is Director for a private College, and the owner is a writer. Judith Wright's book "The One Decision", was enjoyable and meaningful to me. She also wrote "There must be more than this" about conquering your soft additions like over eating, spending, smoking, etc. that I liked...of course if my daughter says to read it, I do. I try and read books that Oprah recommends, because we all know, she is doing something right...lol. Besides reading, I love research about health related things, proactive is the way to go.

I have just finished my second book by John Edwards. I am very interested in the after life. With all of the work I have, I have little time to read but I have found books on tape to be wonderful. With all of the driving that I am doing it becomes a bit boring. Now I just put in a cd and listen. There are so many types of books now on cd so there is something for everyone. These are also great when you are out shopping all day.

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This post is about my favorite movie, as I go to movies weekly. "No Country for Old Men" which won many awards this year. Great movie, try to see it. I am trying to find "Into the wild" with Sean Penn, all my friends and the critics say it was great. Anyone see it?

I just finish : "First Steps: Conserving Our Environment" by Joe Zammit-Lucia.
In this series of stunning photographs, Brithish photographer Zammit-Lucia celebrates the successes of the environmental movement and draws attention to the conservation work that remeins.

Isabel
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I read in binges. I'll go 6months and never read anything but the news then I'll go on a binge reading everything. But I'm more of a reader for entertainment. I like mysterys, drama, anything but self help on the NY Best Sellers list. I'm especially fond of Greg Isles.

We just rented and watched "The Bucket List". Great movie.

billie, do you mind Greg Iles, the Mississippi writer?, Black Cross, Dead Sleep, The Quiet Game, Third Degree, Mortal Fear, 24 Hours.

Isabel
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Yep that's Greg Iles. And I like James Patterson.

Took a "wild hair" since I was thinking of buying the Christopher Paolini 2 books for my grandson and read Eragon. Then read the 2nd of the series (The Eldest) and plan on reading his new one coming out in October. I marvel at how such a young mind can conceive. (He was 15years old when he wrote Eragon)

I have a few standby reads I read over and over again if I run out of something to read when I'm in my binge..Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur, and anything by Steven King.

I just finished reading "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks. Excellent book; excellent author.

My reading list for the summer has been pretty long, and full of classics since I have been taking some college lit courses.

"The Great Gatsby"
"The Glass Menagerie"
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
"The Virginian"
"Love Life"

Right now I'm reading Kafka's "The Trial", which is for a lit class I start 8/26.

For fun I read "Julie and Julia" - which is being made into a movie starting Meryl Streep. It was a really good read.

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"War and Peace."

Gee, where did everyone go?

We thought you were still reading "War and Peace" and we wouldn't disturb you. Ha. I've been reading Edward Gibbons' "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" off and on for several years. I'd stop, read another book, go back to it. I'm on the last volume now. I do not recommend it for anyone who has not made a study of European history and had a lifetime of reading of Greece and Rome. I have, and he is still hard to follow. I just have to marvel at how much that man knew and how much time he spent on that project in the days of quill pens.

He spent 26% of the time dipping the pen into the ink, otherwise he would have finished sooner.
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'War and Peace" has been my favorite book for many years. I'm up to the second page today.

I'm still not in reading mode but I bought two new books recently. Two by Stephen King I must have overlooked. I'm an avid King fan!!

You gals are reading books I HAD to read. They were on my reading list for my college Lit class.

Since college I only read for fun even though I did enjoy reading every book you have mentioned.

If, and that's a big IF I run out of anything to read when I'm in reading mode I have my original copies of "Gone With the Wind" and "Roots".

I guess my all time favorite of the classics is "Ben Hur" I think I may have read Ben Hur 6 different times in my life time. 1st Junior in High School reading list, the Senior reading list then College reading list.

Took me until I was about 24-25years old to pretty much keep up with the many movements of Ben Hur. Where they were exactly.

Another great AZTEC!! Loved Aztec too.
Not long ago (last winter) read Raptor.

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