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October 2, 2005
Favorite Books
What is your favorite book? How a person interprets "favorite book" is up to that individual. A number of faculty members have graciously agreed to name their favorite books, and these are part of that list:
The Holy Bible
A Room of One's Own
Mysterious Island
The Human Condition
Tuesdays with Morrie
The Way of Life
The Giving Tree
Misery
The English Patient
Letters to a Young Poet
Delta Wedding
Moby Dick
Dear People: Robert Shaw
Franny and Zoey
Dhalgren
There are many more on the list. Come to the library to see the faculty favorites on display and find out what your faculty members have to say about their favorite books.
By the way, what is your favorite book?
Posted by RMLibrarians at October 2, 2005 6:37 PM
Comments
I happened to be in the library when that exhibit was going up. I enjoyed looking at it.
I would probably say I like the play Rossum's Universal Robots, which popularized the word "robot" (Czech for "worker" or "slave") in languages around the world. It's the first instance of the "robots rebel against their masters and take over the world" plot. But it's also a touching story about love and hope.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at October 2, 2005 10:30 PM
Are you kidding? Who could have just one favorite? :) The books I read over and over are "A Prayer for Owen Meany," "The Lord of the Rings," "Watership Down," "Dune," the Hitchhiker's Guide Books and a book I think is just about perfect "Six of One" by Rita Mae Brown. I also have a fondness for anything by Heinlein (but especially "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," even though the title is ridiculous) and "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. (I also pick up Dr. Arnzen's "100 Jolts" whenever I want something that will make me laugh and feel squeamish at the same.)
Posted by: Becca Baker at October 5, 2005 11:12 AM
Something classic: Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises;" something contemporary: "The Lovely Bones."
I agree with Becca--how can anyone have just -one- favorite?!
Posted by: Karissa at October 6, 2005 10:33 AM
I agree with Becca. Probably my all time favorite is "Mere Christianity". It is one of the few books that I have read multiple times alone and with others. Right now anything by Alexander McCall Smith is at the top of my list. Light reading but with some interesting insights on the human condition.
Posted by: Judith at October 6, 2005 4:44 PM
A few of my favorites in no particular order:
"Lonesome Dove" -- Larry McMurtry
"Watership Down" -- Richard Adams
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" -- Ken Kesey
"To Kill a Mockingbird" -- Harper Lee
"Into the Wild" -- Jon Krakauer
Becca's right -- it's impossible to pick just one, or three, or five, or nine....
Posted by: Tony at October 6, 2005 11:23 PM