Home› Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

OT: Favorite Book

JaktJakt Posts: 573 ✭
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum
In the spirit of "favorite things," this seems like the next form of media.

Doesn't have to be related to sports.

Top
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
I'm building a 1968 and a 1970 Topps set. I have lots of 1970s and 1960s to offer in trade.

Comments

  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    the Bible is at the top of the list, although you couldn't tell by lack of use it's gotten lately image

    tough call after that. I've got a lot of favorite authors, but I can't say for sure what single book tops the list.

    authors I enjoy a lot: Ted Dekker, Randy Alcorn, Daniel Silva, Tolkien, Leon Uris, Brock & Bodie Thoene, Tom Clancy, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, John Grisham, Ken Follett, Robert Harris, Dan Brown, James Clavell.

    Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭
    Best recent read: The Art of Racing in the Rain

    Favorite author: Michael Crichton
    52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    I read message boards now....
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • aldridgemjaldridgemj Posts: 91
    1984
    Matt
    Looking for post-war hof rc's, raw or graded.
    Successful dealings: grote15, wilkiebaby11, BPorter26 and gregmo32.
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Alas, Babylon

    1994 Pro Line Live

    TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject

  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

    image
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • ashabbyashabby Posts: 471 ✭
    Tony dungy
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    "The Great Gatsby"

    I have about 500 copies of it.
  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭
    The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.
  • Nathaniel1960Nathaniel1960 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gravity's Rainbow - reserve about two months for that beast of a book.
    Kiss me once, shame on you.
    Kiss me twice.....let's party.
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Love a couple of authors listed above - Follet and Krakauer - and other favorites include Vonnegut, Hosseini, Steinbeck, and Cormac McCarthy

    Favorite books:
    1984
    Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    Dune

    I read it, and its 5 following books every year.
  • rabbitpunchrabbitpunch Posts: 169
    The Talisman
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hearts in Atlantis..Steven KIng
    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • SteelernationSteelernation Posts: 362 ✭
    So difficult to narrow it to one. Don't know how u guys did it.

    Question.......how many times have you read your favorite book? Can u add that?
  • or246or246 Posts: 111 ✭✭✭
    My favorite book is "The Catcher in the Rye". I usually carry two or three copies with me at all times. image
    Currently working on 1970 Topps Hockey PSA 9 set
  • UnknownUnknown
    This content has been removed.
  • dytch2220dytch2220 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭
    .
    The N8 Collection: PSA Registry Sets & Showcases
  • MikeLeamerMikeLeamer Posts: 236 ✭✭
    Wow. Another impossible one for me to answer - there are so many books I love.

    Here's a short list of my favorites thus far (in no particular order):

    The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
    The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (awaiting book #3)
    Sphere by Michael Crichton
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    The Martian Chronicles by Rad Bradbury
    The Help by Kathryn Stockett (avoid the movie)
    1984 by George Orwell
    Genesis by Bernard Beckett
    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
    Silo Series by Hugh Howey
    Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
    Think. Thank. Thunk.

    My eBay Listings
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
    The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (awaiting book #3)
    Sphere by Michael Crichton
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    The Martian Chronicles by Rad Bradbury
    The Help by Kathryn Stockett (avoid the movie)
    1984 by George Orwell
    Genesis by Bernard Beckett
    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
    Silo Series by Hugh Howey
    Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein >>



    Lord of the Flies and The Road are extremely high on my list too (and 1984, which I mentioned)
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    All Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child!

    Also just finished reading all the Longmire novels, which are even better than the TV series.

    "Molon Labe"

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps it's just my paranoia, but how many online accounts use favorite book/author as a security question?
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Perhaps it's just my paranoia, but how many online accounts use favorite book/author as a security question? >>



    Not me.
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Perhaps it's just my paranoia, but how many online accounts use favorite book/author as a security question? >>



    Not me. >>


    I've got at least one bank that does, and a couple other accounts that use movie/actor. Just food for thought when posting to a public forum, if it doesn't apply to you... move along image
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Trial by Franz Kafka

    The Stranger by Albert Camus

    Animal Farm by George Orwell


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Please excuse the mess...I've been listing books for about 9 hours straight.

    [URL=http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/mullinspw5/media/boo_zps96996208.jpg.html]image[/URL]

    [URL=http://s1378.photobucket.com/user/mullinspw5/media/boo1_zps64c9cea3.jpg.html]image[/URL]
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl >>

    I read that in college - great book!

    Probably my all time favorite? Rabbit Run by John Updyke.
    Mike
  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096


    << <i>The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (awaiting book #3) >>



    This!!
    'Sir, I realize it's been difficult for you to sleep at night without your EX/MT 1977 Topps Tom Seaver, but I swear to you that you'll get it safe and sound.'
    -CDs Nuts, 1/20/14

    *1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
    *Clemente basic set: 85.0% complete, 7.89 GPA
  • lanemyer85lanemyer85 Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭
    David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Tender Is The Night
    The Great Gatsby
    The Beautiful And Damned
    Maus: A Survivor's Tale >>



    Gatsby is fantastic.
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Tender Is The Night
    The Great Gatsby
    The Beautiful And Damned
    Maus: A Survivor's Tale >>



    Gatsby is fantastic. >>



    Too bad the movie wasn't

    1994 Pro Line Live

    TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject

  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Tender Is The Night
    The Great Gatsby
    The Beautiful And Damned
    Maus: A Survivor's Tale >>



    Gatsby is fantastic. >>



    Too bad the movie wasn't >>



    One of the biggest letdowns in my life was Baz L's Gatsby.
  • GRGR Posts: 550 ✭✭
    Ray Bradbury the Illustrated Man. I read it in High School four years ago and loved it, one of my favorite purchases so far this year was a signed first edition first printing (:
    Nathan Wagner
  • DezHoodDezHood Posts: 145 ✭
    A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Ray Bradbury the Illustrated Man. I read it in High School four years ago and loved it, one of my favorite purchases so far this year was a signed first edition first printing (: >>



    2 thoughts:
    First, Bradbury is great, Fahrenheit 451 is high on my list and I own a collection of his short stories that I really enjoyed too.
    Second, are you the youngest board member?? You just might be!
  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and other post-apocalyptic type books. We is another I read last year.

    Another couple of faves are Dracula and Frankenstein. The underlying themes in Frankenstein about human nature and how we react to strangers is powerful stuff. I'm also amazed that Mary Shelly was just 19 when she wrote it and basically did it overnight.
  • jgrigalijgrigali Posts: 364 ✭✭
    Fiction: anything Kurt Vonnegut
    Non-Fiction: Gladwell's books
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Kudos to the Vonnegut guys! My all time favorite.
  • GRGR Posts: 550 ✭✭
    2 thoughts:
    First, Bradbury is great, Fahrenheit 451 is high on my list and I own a collection of his short stories that I really enjoyed too.
    Second, are you the youngest board member?? You just might be!

    Theres a chance, i started posting in 2011 on the Nfl hall of fame forum, Im 21 years old now. I have about one friend who understands the hobby and comes to get autographs with me. Its a shame its a fun hobby, one thing you learn in school is if you say you collect cards your a weirdo, but if you say you collect autographs its less stigmatized so I've stuck with autographs and even when family members think i'm nuts for spending money on signatures no other hobby gives me more in return (:
    Nathan Wagner
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Glad to have you. It's a great hobby. I don't have any adult friends or family who collect, and these forums are invaluable to people like us.
  • BostonAmericansBostonAmericans Posts: 434 ✭✭
    Ball Four
    Paper Lion
    The Game
    Tai-Pan
    Huck Finn
    Call of the Wild
    East of Eden
    The Good Earth
    I Robot

    Collecting Topps Baseball: 1966-present base sets
    Topps/OPC Hockey 1966-Present base sets
  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    Man, those are all great books, gents.

    The Outsiders
    Lords of Discipline
    Red Dragon
    King Rat
    Sympathy for the Devil

    Bobby
  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Having given it more thought, here is my top 5, in no particular order:

    1984
    Slaughterhouse five
    Sometimes a great notion, Kesey
    Grapes of wrath
    The road, McCarthy
Sign In or Register to comment.