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  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    Hobbes said:

    njnancy said:

    All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.



    :-h
    I noticed your avatar and name right away when i joined..
    How is that rascal Calvin doing? And don't worry, i know you just pretend to be a stuffed animal when others are watching; only special people know the truth. :D
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    imalive said:

    Hobbes said:

    njnancy said:

    All Calvin & Hobbes compilations - yes, they are NF - don't tell me they're not real.



    :-h
    We've got them all. I'm sometimes known to quote the little guy.
    I personally love them. I read to my son since he was in the womb so when he showed more interest for encyclopedias (of any living creature) than novels or short stories when he began to read on his own; I bought a paperback compilation - hoping he'd get C&H's smart humor like I did. He did. He also reminded me of Calvin and he had a stuffed animal (orange bear), that was his buddy (no worries, orange bear lives). So, being the bibliophile that I am, I proceeded to purchase them all - got the hardcover 3 book encased set at half price one Christmas. He has ADHD, so I think novels just get away from him, unless they really, really interest him.
    Ran the Scholastic Book Fair for 8 years, so after trial and error (and a myriad of Guinness World Records, Gross Facts, etc type books) I hit with the Wimpy Kid Series; then The Last Dragon Chronicles. This is a favorite of C&H of mine (top) and is SO my son - image



  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    (I love Calvin and Hobbes so much.)

    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    Short stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
    The Cider House Rules - John Irving
    A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
    The Guns of August - Barbara Tuchman
    Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
    Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
    Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

    (I could keep going and going...)
  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Calvin: I think night time is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
    Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
    The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
    Walden - Henry David Thoreau
    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
    Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
    Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

    Subject to change, of course, but these were the first that popped into my head.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,658
    Here, here- Calvin and Hobbs saved comic strips!
    So now that I've mentioned all the literary stuff, here's a guilty pleasure (and not afraid to admit it):
    -All seven Harry Potter books.

    Yes, Henry R., CHILDRENS BOOKS!

    Henry: "Get out of the car!"

    :))


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • kein_gerede
    kein_gerede Posts: 106
    Oh that's a tough one

    Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
    Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov
    Jack Kerouac - On The Road
    David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
    Michael Ende - The Neverending Story
    Peter Ustinov - The Old Man and Mr. Smith
    Ephraim Kishon - Hairy, hell
    Jack London - White Fang
    Jack Kerouac - The Town and The City
    Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    Leathe?ma? said:



    The magus, - John Fowles




    The memory of the torture scene- (the one with the hedgeclippers)- has haunted me for 20 years.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,246
    from my buddy, who is an english professor at the university of utah:

    cormac mccarthy - the crossing
    michael oudaatje - english patient
    marquez - love in the time of cholera
    nabakov - lolita
    melville - moby dick
    faulkner - go down moses
    whitman - leaves of grass
    louise erdrick - love medicine
    roberto bolano - 2666
    rilke - the duino elegies

    high brow stuff, huh? on a couple of authors, I can 't read his spelling.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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