[Oabs] Favorite books

[Emily Pennington]

Hi,
Well, a lot of you touched on authors and books I love. However, I'd like to
add the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin, and the Wheel of
Time series by Robert Jordan and, after he died, finished by Brandon
Sandersen. The Night Angel Trillogy and the Demon Cycle series are great,
too. If you love reading audio books, Graphic Audio is a great way to do so.
It costs a little money -- unless you have a good friend who already has the
books on an FTP or something -- and it's complete with different character
voices, sound effects, great music, etc. The books are pretty lengthy, but
that's how I read the latter two series, and I loved them. It's funny
listening to a voice actor play an aristocratic nobleman in one chapter and
switch to a down-home country bumpkin in the next. Anyway, tangent over. Is
anyone else pumped for Book 6 of Song of Ice and Fire? I've been waiting for
two and a half years for that bad-boy to come out!

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Hi all,

Just to stir up some discussion on here, and because I'm always looking for
new and interesting reads, I am wondering what your favorite books are.
There's a challenge to list them going around on facebook, but I thought
discussion of the books would be a lot more productive and a lot less
awkward.  So, I'll start with mine.  I would appreciate any suggestions or
replies with your favorites too.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Crucible by Arthur
Miller.  (I always think of these two together since they're both kind of
similar).
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  One of the best recent books I've
read.  If John Green would continue to focus on writing stuff like this, or
stuff for slightly older young adults rather than the high school stuff in
Paper Towns, he'll continue to be awesome.  I liked Paper Towns, and no
offense to you if you do more than TFIOS and think I'm crazy, but it just
didn't have depth to it, and the ending was disappointing.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  Really great if you like
mystery/suspense/thriller stuff.  The book twists and turns a lot.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.  Very good, so much better
than the movie.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman.  Another really recent book that I liked.
It's a tear-jerker though.
The Outsiders.  Made me think of stereotypes seriously for the first time.
Harry Potter, because it's Harry Potter.
Handle With Care, Sing You Home, My Sister's Keeper, or basically anything
by Jodi Picoult.  She is really good at taking really controversial issues
in society or medical ethics, bringing in a little courtroom drama, really
getting in depth about family and marital issues, and being sensitive to
multiple characters and their points of view at the same time.  Handle With
Care is one I just finished not too long ago and loved.  I'm about a third
of the way in to Sing You Home, which has a music therapist as a main
character, and I'm loving it so far.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  This is another book I started
reading, but it is a little difficult to get into.  One of my housemates
says its her favorite book though, but when you're first getting into it you
have to bear in mind that the story is being told from the point of view of
a young kid with Autism, so it seems a little disjointed until that piece of
information helps everything make sense.  It's post-9/11 fiction, and the
boy's father was killed in the World Trade Center.
Watchmen.  I read this for my English class, and though it was a graphic
novel I loved it.  Unfortunately it is not available in braille; my version
of reading it was watching the videos of the chapters of the motion comic
DVD that somebody uploaded to YouTube.
If you're bored and want something about superheros, mystery, a tale when
you don't know if the good guys are actually good, it's pretty good.  It's
also really deep if you get into the political commentary and the allegory
about the societal problems, but you guys don't have to write a paper on the
thing.
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks.  Anything by Sparks is good, but this one
is one of my favorites.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines.  Really good book.  Looks at
racial discrimination in the south around the 40s I think.  Really makes you
question what strength really is, what a real man/person is like, and
oppression.

I think this is a pretty good summation of my old and new favorite books.
Like I said, any additions to this thread would be awesome.

--
Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma

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