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On the Mountain a child was crying. The Rosewood Casket-Sharyn McCrumb

Having been home-schooled, and therefore never poisoned against literature, I have to consider 'hype' as coming from people and readers, not teachers. The most over-hyped books that I can think of based on that, would have to be " Catcher in the Rye" and " Forrest Gump ".

Glad to see that someone enjoyed it. :) I would hate to see a classic go to waste. I know two other people that, like myself, absolutely adore and absorb classic novels, and both of them admitted that the only classic author to ever slow them down was James. Wings of a Dove, and The...

The only classic novel I have ever hated enough to put it down and never return, was " Portrait of a Lady".

I have to have a book. After that, anything goes. I can multi-task quite easily, so I read while watching movies, listening to conversations, playing Monopoly, listening to music, bathing, cooking, walking, standing, etc. If it is a good book then nothing can distract me. I love reading in...

Lonesome Dove-Larry McMurtry Ride the Wind-Lucia St. Clair Robson The Virginian-Owen Wister. ( one of the most famous) Anything by Zane Grey, Louis Lamour, and Max Brand are good. ( With so many, it's easy to find at least one good one.) And the Longarm books by Tabor Evans are some of...

Guilty of cramming paperbacks into jean's pockets, cargo pant pockets, or when all else fails and it is an emergency, into the waistband itself. You Know you are Addicted to Reading When: -The cat lies on top of your book pile so you will notice him. -You wonder if books make good...

I can name over ten people that I know who never read. I am not just speaking of occasionally falling behind, getting burned out, or being too busy. I mean never. I suppose that's their right as human beings, but I hate it when instead of simply saying " I don't like to read" , and being honest...

1) One Book that made you read it More Than Once: The Talisman 2) One book you would want on a desert island: I, Claudius 3) One book that made you laugh: The Naked Civil Servant 4) One book that made you cry: ???? 5) One book that made you wish you had written: Demian...

For a normal 300 pages, I would probably allow myself ten hours, that gives plenty of time to really stop and think and digest over some of the phrases. Sometimes this ten hours is spread over a couple of days, and in general, I can read nineteenth century fiction faster than modern fiction. (...

On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose colored hotel.- Tender is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Lovers By Philip Jose Farmer. I don't know if he is obscure or not. I 'inherited' several of his books in a box of sci/fi-fantasy novels, and this is the one I read first. Synopsis- A linguist, studying languages on a previously unknown alien planet, begins to suspect that humans...

Definitely the Zahn novels. 'Truce at Bakura' was okay, but it didn't have as much plot, in my opinion. I like Zahn's handling of the politics and best of all, ships. Very interesting.

Hmmm...are we talking about all books that are well known and old enough to be considered classics? Or just 'the classics', that familiar and popular set of titles such as Frankenstein, Dracula, House of the Seven Gables...? :) It's almost a draw for me. 'I, Claudius' would have to be my...

Eschew. Or sojourn. They are both very nice as words go.

Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came over to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, " Will Tweedy? Go find yore mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's and tell her I said git down here." -Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns

I thought while reading the books, that it was unfair for the Gryffindor house to be shown favoritism from the teachers. Espcially Dumbledore, who, if we was so wonderful, should have been more fair. Yes, it would be perfectly justified for the Slytherins to hate Gryffindor, and for the...

Well, I'm not generally that cold-blooded with characters, but the man bored me to tears. Maybe I missed some deeper purpose to his existance, but it seemed to me like he was pointless as well?

I think that they were realistic. Not all good guys are all good, just as not all bad guys can be all bad. Harry, in my opinion, has been much more cruel than the twins. They might have been a bit mean to Cedric, but he wasn't really a main character, but rather written just to be a friendly...

Gliding through the blackness of deep space, the Imperial Star Destroyer Chimaera pointed its mighty arrowhead shape toward the dim star if its target system, three thousandths of a light-year away. The Last Command-Timothy Zahn