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#1 The Book of Romans  ;D

-Lord of the Rings trilogy
-Watership Down
-Legend of Luke
-Pearls of Lutra
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

I'm reading Dune right now, and it rocks.

"Gone WIth The Wind" is my favorite book.

I just finished Armageddon, the 11th book in the Left Behind series. It was very good.

Angie, I just bought the book yesterday.  I hope to start it tomorrow.  I know I have enjoyed all of the series so far. I am sure I will this one also..... Joy
   

I like Ian Rankin and Agatha Christie novels (I like crime stuff :) )

I really enjoy Francine Rivers books...

I've read...

The Atonement Child
The Mark of the Lion Trilogy
The Lineage of Grace series (5 books)

well i have 2 kids and they watch veggie tales all the time and um the last time i heard " i am that hero" was out of larry boys mouth LOL... wouldnt by any chance have come from there?
 ;D ;)

TL

I dont have a favorite book per say but some of my avorite authors for christian fictional romances ect are Jeanette Oke and Lori Wick...

but with 2 young boys,, u dont get much readiong done.. :)

TL

I Read a lot of Science Fiction.  A handful of them I would consider lifechanging in that they significantly changed the way I think of the World.  

George Orwell: 1984; The most important Science Fiction Novel ever Written.

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaids Tale

Dan Simmons: Hyperion Cantos

I would also Reccomend Watchmen by alan Moore purely for entertainment value.

#2 Ephesians

If you like science fiction books, Sammy, you should definitely check out Dune.

Just finished Armageddon,,,, great!  Also love the book "Heaven, My Fathers House" by Anne Grahm Lotz. It was wonderful, I highly recommend it!  
                             Joy ;D ;D

#3 Galatians  

I loved Dune (and most of its many children). I just finished reading another GREAT novel--a new fantasy epic titled Gideon's Dawn. It's author, Michael D. Warden, is new to the fantasy genre...but I think his name will be pretty well-known before long. This was the best fantasy book I've read since Tolkein. (yes, seriously)

If you like fantasy, you should check out this gem:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586607251/qid%3D1051645553/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-2743731-6183828

#4 1 Corinthians

Sammy,

If you liked 1984 then you should read Brave New World by Alduous Huxley. Probably one of the most prophetic science fiction books written.

List of my favorite books, I have read each many hundreds of times

Romans
1 and 2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 and 2 Thessalonians
1 and 2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon

  Two great books that I would recommned that will really bring your closer to God:

  Paryer - Foster
  The Purpose-Driven Life - Rick Warren

  These books are just amazing!  They are full of some of the most basic truths and simplest ideas presented in new and inspring ways.  They will change you.

Okay, I recently picked up a book called Wild at Heart by John Elderidge.  It is amazing, and it rings true for me in a lot of ways.  Anyway, to guys figuring out how to be real guys, and for women wanting to take a peek inside the masculine soul, I highly recommned this book.

Commentary on The Epistle Of Paul To The Romans.

By C.R. Stam

Hey, A4C, is it save to say your favorite book is the bible?  ;D

Your 100% Right on Tibby  ;D

As always  ;D

 ;D

Same here

Brother Love  :)

I'm quite fond of the book of Micah.  One of the sweetest passages can be found there:


We note how the lost often try and earn their salvation, yet we often try to earn God's favor.  What does God require of me?  Extreme acts of favor earning?  No.  Simply to do right, love kindness and walk humbly with Him.  That just chills me.

Thats GOOD!

Brother Love :)

 :)  God is GOOD!

DITTO ;D

The new Harry Potter book just came out, and we got it, and I can't wait to read it. I have a feeling that it'll be up on my list, too.

I wonder why?  ;D

LOL

Brother Love :)

I heard Harry Potter is the head demon.

Brother Love :)

Nah, thats just the Baptist in ya talking  ;)

Same here ;D

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques

The Xanth series by Piers Anthony

The original Net Force trilogy by Tom Clancy

Weeeelllll, Jesus was a Baptist... ;D

lol. Well, then you get right down to, Jesus wasn’t even a Christian ;) . lol, he was a Jew, never a member of the Nasserite sect ;D

But if he was, he would be Eastern Orthodox  :P ;D

Oh Boy LOL ;D

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Left Behind series of books. They have really stretched me and encouraged me to pray and share with my family and friends - I would not want anyone I know to experience any events like those found in these books.

Oh, and also, if you haven't read 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' read it right now. Immediately. Go.

Weeeelllll, Jesus was a Baptist.
By Allinall.
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I thought it was John that was a Baptist?

You are both wrong, is it JASON who is the Baptist!  ;D

All things Matthew Henry.

some of my faves....

the Anne series by LM Montgomery
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

My favorite books:

1.  The Holy Bible
2.  Alias Declassified:  The Official Companion
3.  Comic books.

Witness by Whittaker Chambers.

The book is an autobiography of a man thoroughly entrenched in the American Communist party during the Cold War who then begins a slow process of conversion leading him to a lonely but defiant stand against the most powerful people in the U.S. government. The book is not exactly an 'upper,' but tremendously moving and a reminder of what so many have faced in the name of truth and for the convictions of their faith and patriotism.

The Introduction (yes introduction) is one of the most powerful testimonies I've ever read.

who then begins a slow process of conversion leading him to a lonely but defiant stand against the most powerful people in the U.S. government.

Hmmm, hi, Corpus, why if he's coming out of the Am. Comm. Party, is he having to stand against the U.S. Gov??

Nope, standing alone is no "upper".

Symph,

It was Chambers' charge that Alger Hiss (a formidable government official who got his start with the Roosevelt administration and later was largely responsible for the shape and formation of the UN) had been a spy for the Soviet Union. Hiss was no small-time player in government having worked in a variety of capacities at the most senior levels. He'd been a close friend of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and a trusted advisor to both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Hiss was charming, charismatic and well-liked in Washington circles. Chambers was a short, plump unattractive man with rotting teeth, but an intellect that had made him a senior editor at Time magazine and senior member of the Communist Party in North America. Chamber's assertions were being poo-pooed by many in Washington until he produced the famous microfilmed documents that had been secreted away in a pumpkin on his farm. The whole incident was the career maker for then-Senator Richard Nixon (who represented Chambers) and the Watershed for the later McCarthy Hearings. Hiss ended up in prison and Chambers spent the rest of his life with his family on their small, secluded farm.

Wow, okay, thank you, Corpus.

No, I didn't know all of that.  I remember hearing that Hiss was significnat in the UN beginnings.

So it's fairly conclusive that Hiss was guilty then?

So are we saying Hiss got caught, but his brainchild, the UN, still made it through unscathed(world socialism...?) and that, possibly even, Hiss may have been part of a larger, unintentional, "conspiracy" towards socialism generally??

Just connecting the dots, maybe.

I collect older Nancy Drew and Bobbsey Twins books.

I don't think I'd go that far (and I'm no fan of the U.N.). It was affected by numerous sources in its inception and Hiss was certainly an influential part of it, but I think the body took on a life of its own shortly after it started. This was good in one sense, except the direction it's taken has at times has been cause for alarm.

The U.N. is a threat only in as much as it has a military to back it up (and the guys in powder-blue helmets don't count). I think the recent Iraq war has provided ample evidence to the ineffectiveness of the U.N.. In other words..."if it's important enough for our nation, we WILL be doing it, regardless of what the U.N. thinks." This gets off topic a bit I know, but I sometimes liken it to the situation America was in prior to 1865. We were a series of independent states that went through a horrific war permanently changing the entire framework of our nation. That can be a good or bad thing, but it is a 'thing' of some sort and given the repetitive nature of history is something we will eventually have to face. The global economy is already here, a global government is the next logical step. What shape that takes though and what steps we go through to get there will determine everything.

Yes, Corpus, I would agree with that.  The next "logical" step is global government...

(hehe...including the World Court, and most certainly, scripture as "hate speech".... World Net Daily has a story that Canada is currently voting on such...)



Hi, Moira3--thank you.  My sisters use to read those a little.  I used to have a Hardy Boys--just one, 'bout a haunted house.   :-[

I also used to love the Little House books. I have done a lot of research about Laura Ingalls Wilder. One of the books I really enjoy is called "Saving Graces; The Inspirational Writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder". It's edited by Stephen Hines who wrote at least one other book about her.....I can't recall the title... ::)

Anyone out there Max Lucado fans?  I'd like to know.
Thanks, Sissy   :)

Not me

Brother Love :)

For casual reading: I like the first LOTR book. The others seem to go downhill. I  like "Stepping Heavenward" by Elizabeth Prentiss. I also enjoy some of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.

Sapphire, are you reading "Dune"??

I CAN'T understand what people see in that book.

I was reading it in 1973, and I didn't understand it then!!



Whitehorse:  All things Matthew Henry.

hehe ;D.  I had friend--seems his book shelf was COVERED with volumes of Matthew Henry.  'Looked like a law office.  :P
 ;D

Yeah, Dune is just like… wordy. Even the movie (old and new). It is just so ssssllllloooooowwwww. I think time actually STOPPED when I was watching it when it first came out on the Sci-Fi channel. The book-a-minute wed site puts it best:

Dune
By Frank Herbert
Ultra-Condensed by Christina Carlson

Frank Herbert
I'm lots smarter than you are. I challenge you to understand even one of my paragraphs!
Reader
Gee, Frank Herbert is smart. I can't even find the plot.


THE END


Ah, I love that site. Anyways, anyone read any Dan Simmons? I saw his new book “Ilium”  in B&N yesterday, and it looked pretty good.

Redwall was cool. I haven’t read but one book a long time ago. All I remember was the flashbacks to the Rats of NIMH and The Chronicles of Narnia, and that I liked it.

I just got done reading one of my FAVORITE Books, The Book Of Romans :)

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how about Jack Hyles Books?  I have a whole bunch in storage I cannot get to.    :'( :'(

Who is he?

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A Walk to  Remember is my favorite book ;D.  I'm such a girl...  :-[

You sure are ;D



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favourite books

Almost everything by David and Leigh Eddings
Lord of the Rings
Dune Series ( both frank herbart and his sons books)
Philip pullman writes some good things
terry Prathchet books..all of them
The lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Code Book/ Fermonts last theorom by Simon Singh
1984 by Geroge Orwell is good, but....depressing
some of Issac Asmiovs stuff
The prophet - a bit weird but i suppose if you analysied it  :-\ Can't rememeber who wrote it though

hmm thats all i can remember at the moment, i read a lot don't I.

Without a doubt, my favorite book is Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

It's awesome.

List of my favorite books:

Romans
1 and 2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 and 2 Thessalonians
1 and 2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon  


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My favorite book is, the Bible. ;D

 ;D

Sapphire, are you reading "Dune"??

I'll answer this, even though it was posted over a year ago. I've got nothing better to do.

Yeah, I read that book a couple years ago, and I loved it. I didn't find it that hard to understand, and that was when I was a Freshman in high school, two years ago. I guess...yeah, I'm just smarter than you ;D. I should read it again, after I'm through with the series I'm reading now.

Just in case Symphony still cares.

I remember vaguely asking, but I don't 'member what else I said there.

It's very interesting, tho, that that book - or is it a series of books? - is still apparently popular.  I picked it up randomly to read on a trans-Pacific flight when I was 18.  And that was 1973.  

I just remember not understanding it at all.  I rarely go for those kinds of books.

The closest I probably got was Ray Bradbury, and I collected his books for a while.

Sort of like that weird 1960s tv serial with the former "Secret Agent" actor, Patrick McGoohan, "The Prisoner", as a prisoner on a weird, deserted island, or village.  It developed a peculiar cult following.

What's "Dune" about?  Have you finished it?  Does it have a point?  Is there anything to like about it?

What's "Dune" about?  Have you finished it?  Does it have a point?  Is there anything to like about it?

Hmm. I can't seem to remember any specifics, as it's been a while. I remember there being a whole lot of political intrigue and the like, mixed with a fantasy-esque plot about a boy whose been prophesied to be special in some way (honestly can't remember how). It all takes place on the planet Arrakis (a.k.a. Dune), where Houses (kind of like political parties) are at war over melange, a drug that is somehow very valuable. It's a slow plot and probably won't grab the attention of someone not familiar or interested in sci-fi.

Yes, I finished it, and loved it.

It has a point, but only if you care about the genre. It's not really a morally controversial book (at least, I don't remember ever finding anything that could be controversial about it) either.

I liked it. I immediately proclaimed it as being my all-time favorite book, and I'm sure if I re-read it, I'd like it just as much.  

hmmm