The Friday Question

// September 14th, 2007 // family

It’s Friday and I’m soooooooo ready for the weekend. The unfortunate thing is I believe I have a lot of homework to do, which always lessens the awesomeness of a weekend. Still, can’t wait for it to get here.

The fun Friday question, since The Road was a topic on here this week is this:

What is your favorite all-time book?

If you can’t think of just one, maybe list a few. And tell us why you liked it and what it’s about. You can be brief :)

Most of you I am sure know this, but mine is The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Why? Well, I read the book for the first time late in high school and was blown away by it. It’s actually three books and they were so long, by the time you finished it, you felt like you had been on the same journey that Frodo had. And reading them all the way through was an amazing accomplishment. That’s at least how I saw it at the time.

The funny thing is, when I got older and read them again, I realized how much my younger mind has misinterpreted things in the book. So it was almost like reading a brand new story. The writing and world Tolkien created was so amazing, I don’t know if it will ever be surpassed.

So that book has always been one of my favorites. I usually read it through every few years. I believe I’ve read it about 8 times total now?

What about you guys?

2 Responses to “The Friday Question”

  1. Horatio Schwartz, Captain of the Everglades says:
    September 14, 2007 at 8:14 am

    TGIF!! I always refresh the website in anticipation of the Friday question!

    Ok, mines abstract and a bit nerdy but, variety is the psice of life….

    Civl War, Marvel comics series made into a book. Why? Becuase it ultimately altered the Hero universe as you may think of it (well Marvel universe anyways). Its no longer Hero vs bad guy, and Hero wins the day. Instead its Hero vs Hero, several significant prominent Heros have been eliminated, the marvel universe is now this dark, bleak gloomy look of times that reflect somewhat similar to our own reality with the a big brother in control of all and selling it to the populace. its done extremly well written by an icon comic guy who made Sin City and 300…..

  2. D.L. White says:
    September 14, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    It’s hard to pick just one…but I’ve read “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens at least a dozen times or more. It’s a classic. You’ve got an orphan boy trying to make his way into the upper class of London, along with intrigue, escaped prisoners and secret benefactors, a crazy manipulative old lady who still wears her wedding dress, and Estella… who is, hands-down, one of the most interesting female characters in literature.

    Stephen King is also a favorite, and it’s hard to pick just one of his books, but I would have to say “The Stand” or “‘Salems Lot” are a couple of my favorites.

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