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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:10 PM Mar 2017

What book did you savor, staying up late to read, yet hoping you wouldn't reach the end?

Most recently for me...if you lived in the 60's it will take you back there - only with more clarity Excellent book !

Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett

Edge of Eternity, the sweeping, passionate conclusion to the Century trilogy, is #1 on the bestseller lists in the USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Throughout the ‘Century Trilogy’, Ken has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families — American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh — as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all, the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Presidential impeachment, revolution — and rock and roll.
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What book did you savor, staying up late to read, yet hoping you wouldn't reach the end? (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 OP
"Poisonwood Bible" and "Pillars of the Earth" ret5hd Mar 2017 #1
Oh Poisonwood Bible was a great book. mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #4
Stones From the River mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #11
Gonna get Poisonwood Bible, thanks. I absolutely love Ken Follett. Takes Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #18
The Poisonwoid preacher mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #26
A Suitable Boy elfin Mar 2017 #2
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - in fact - all three of them. pangaia Mar 2017 #3
The Kite Runner mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #5
Great book... pangaia Mar 2017 #7
Yup! Steig Larsson rules! longship Mar 2017 #10
yeah the movies were really good. pangaia Mar 2017 #12
Tom Robbins jodymarie aimee Mar 2017 #6
several gopiscrap Mar 2017 #8
ALL the Sidney Sheldon books... TheDebbieDee Mar 2017 #9
CATCH-22 pangaia Mar 2017 #13
Ahh....one of those books that you had to read and didn't read in high school. Thanks Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #21
I read it in grad school-- 1968, shortly after it came out.. pangaia Mar 2017 #25
absolutely - must have read it at least 3 times... bagelsforbreakfast Mar 2017 #30
Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #14
Kudos - perhaps my smaller brain? John LeCarre too pedantic - based on the little I have tried? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #19
'The Spy Who Came In from The Cold' kept me up all night!! pangaia Mar 2017 #36
I should try it again - think it was A Perfect Spy - just couldn't Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #39
It is probably one of the easier to follow... pangaia Mar 2017 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #43
Cutting For Stone and All The Light You Cannot See. rainy Mar 2017 #15
Wow - great quote. Perhaps it is the difference between someone who is Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #20
All the light You Cannot See mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #35
Greg Iles Natchez Burning series riverbendviewgal Mar 2017 #16
J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy ... DreamGypsy Mar 2017 #17
Have to share this with my sister in law who is a huge fan of Lord of Rings. What a great Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #23
Me too! shenmue Mar 2017 #27
Jeeze I read it in... 1966- Fifty ONE years ago. pangaia Mar 2017 #37
All the Game of Thrones Series. OregonBlue Mar 2017 #22
John la Carre charlyvi Mar 2017 #24
As an adult happy feet Mar 2017 #28
The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone. justhanginon Mar 2017 #29
No Name by Wilkie Collins... A female Count of Monte Cristo with a feminist edge...in the 1800s bagelsforbreakfast Mar 2017 #31
Dragonwatch just came out. Hugo24601 Mar 2017 #32
Stephen Kings "It", ....and most of everything else he ever wrote. Jack-o-Lantern Mar 2017 #33
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #34
good points ! What is Last Stand about? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #40
A gentle, slowly built love story... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #41
Sounds interesting. Do you like WW2 stories/drama/movies ? One of my all time favorite Laura PourMeADrink Apr 2017 #45
Two of my favorite books are Winds of War and ... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #46
WATERSHIP DOWN pangaia Mar 2017 #38
"Earth Abides"--George R. Stewart. Published 1949. In college I started it and couldn't put it raccoon Mar 2017 #44
 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
18. Gonna get Poisonwood Bible, thanks. I absolutely love Ken Follett. Takes
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:22 PM
Mar 2017

years for him to get a book out - only because he researches to the nth degree. Have read them all and loved them. He even made the building of churches interesting.

Haven't checked lately - he doesn't have a book out does he?

elfin

(6,262 posts)
2. A Suitable Boy
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:14 PM
Mar 2017

Cant remember the author. Monstrously long, but I got sucked in and then swept away. India family histories, star-crossed forbidden love between Hindi and Muslim. Lots of history experienced in personal ways from both vantage points.

longship

(40,416 posts)
10. Yup! Steig Larsson rules!
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:29 PM
Mar 2017

His character, Lisbeth Salander, is incredible.

The Swedish films were good, especially the first one. Noomi Rapace was incredible in the role.

A sample from The Girl Who Played with Fire:


pangaia

(24,324 posts)
12. yeah the movies were really good.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:35 PM
Mar 2017

Favorite scene was when Lisbeth walks into the courtroom in full goth.. with that spiked haircut..

YEAH, BABY YOU GO GIRL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


gopiscrap

(23,674 posts)
8. several
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:25 PM
Mar 2017

"The Death of a President" "Judgement at Nuremburg" "God's Long Sumer" "On Hitler's Mountain" "Down These Mean Streets"

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
9. ALL the Sidney Sheldon books...
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:25 PM
Mar 2017

Tom Clancy was a great read, too! He had a way of explaining technical gadgets and the way they work in ways that were easy for a non-technical person to understand...

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
21. Ahh....one of those books that you had to read and didn't read in high school. Thanks
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:29 PM
Mar 2017

I am putting it on my list !!!

58Sunliner

(4,339 posts)
14. Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:38 PM
Mar 2017

Other choice would have to be John LeCarre-Smiley's People, Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
39. I should try it again - think it was A Perfect Spy - just couldn't
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 03:47 PM
Mar 2017

read. Maybe my brain works better with age??

Response to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #19)

rainy

(6,083 posts)
15. Cutting For Stone and All The Light You Cannot See.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:57 PM
Mar 2017

Favorite quote from Cutting for Stone:
Abraham Verghese

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
20. Wow - great quote. Perhaps it is the difference between someone who is
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:28 PM
Mar 2017

self-absorbed and someone who is not? If you think of the people in your life who you naturally like - it is the person who is wide open, huh.

riverbendviewgal

(4,251 posts)
16. Greg Iles Natchez Burning series
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:58 PM
Mar 2017

It is a trilogy. 2nd book is The Bone Tree.
3rd one out the end of this month. Mississippi Blood.


I could not put down the books.


I also would like to add that I am a Tom Clancy fan. I think his best was In Debt's Honor. Amazing book that would make an amazing movie.

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
17. J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy ...
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:03 PM
Mar 2017

...some time ago...50 years...

I was ~15 years old, living in my parent's house in Idaho Falls; my older brother and sister were away in college or beyond.

It took me several months to get through all three volumes. The season was late fall, October or November, as I was approaching the end of the series.

I was up late, probably 10 or 11pm, when I read the last page. My parents were asleep. I was alone in the living room (our Siamese cat may have been there, but I don't remember). I closed the final page of the third book and contemplated the magical journey I had just finished. After a few minutes, I got up and walked the few steps to the front door. As I looked out into the dark night (the street light was dark) there was sudden flash of lightening to the north...then another brighter than the first...then another...

...I imagined the bright flashes of light, were the result of Gollum and the Ring, falling into the fire.

I wondered what Dark Lords I would face, and what Wizards I would meet, on the journey I would take with my ring of power...

...and I waited for that story to unfold.


It is a story which I am not yet ready to have reach the end.





 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
23. Have to share this with my sister in law who is a huge fan of Lord of Rings. What a great
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:34 PM
Mar 2017

memory and experience ! I shun anything fantasy (my brain doesn't go there) - and I know I shouldn't.

happy feet

(856 posts)
28. As an adult
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:31 PM
Mar 2017

All 3 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kite Runner, Bend don't Break...

Long ago, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (slave narrative)

justhanginon

(3,287 posts)
29. The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:34 PM
Mar 2017

Many years ago but I can still remember not being able to put it down.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
34. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:59 PM
Mar 2017

Totally charming. I have read it several times, just to savor some favorite parts again and again.

I know many people think it is a waste of time to re-read a book, but I disagree. My older son is also a re-reader, and when were were discussing this while he was still in grade school (he will be 27 in 2 days), he pointed out that people will see good movies many times, and listen to a favorite song hundreds of times, if not more, so why is it regarded as strange to re-read a book, just because you know the story?

Some authors paint such wonderful word pictures that it a delight just to roll the words around in my mind over and over.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
41. A gentle, slowly built love story...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 03:56 PM
Mar 2017

...between a retired British army officer, who is a very proper gentleman, and a woman of Pakistani heritage, who runs the convenience shop in his little village. Both widowed. They begin a tentative friendship over a love of books, and have to stand up to negativity from their respective families who do not approve of the mixing of their cultures.

I think it would be a perfect Hallmark-type movie. I picture Pierce Brosnan as the major, but haven't picked a female lead yet.

Even the cover art is charming.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
45. Sounds interesting. Do you like WW2 stories/drama/movies ? One of my all time favorite
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 12:58 AM
Apr 2017

WW2 movies is this little know - Yanks - Richard Gere.

3catwoman3

(23,820 posts)
46. Two of my favorite books are Winds of War and ...
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 01:05 AM
Apr 2017

...War and Remembrance. I've read them many times. I thought the TV series did a pretty good job except that Robert Mitchum was woefully miscast as Pug Henry. The books made frequent mention of how short Pug was, and Mitchum was certainly ot short. I would have cast Carroll O'Connor.

raccoon

(31,091 posts)
44. "Earth Abides"--George R. Stewart. Published 1949. In college I started it and couldn't put it
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 10:38 AM
Mar 2017

down. Read it all within 24 hours.

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