Your Top 5 List is...

[MindYaBitness]

I think mine is nostalgic, mostly. The book can definitely be tedious... But I do love that there's more detail about her life. It also awoke my feminist mind for the first time. I was young when I read it so developmentally I think it affected me more. I also fell in love with the story while I read it aloud to my younger sisters and now it's something we all share. I love the movie too though.

One year my New Years resolution was to read less smut and more classics. Jane Austin is talented at putting humor to a page. Dickens is detailed & has rich descriptions. Victor Hugo, Dumás, even Steinbeck...I made it through them all. Then I read Jane Eyre, and thought Mr Fairfax was a deceptive dick. I read WutheringvHeights after that, and just came to the conclusion that the Bronte sisters were too well acquainted with misey for my taste! I soon went back to smut.

 

[MindYaBitness]

Well I just relate a lot to Jane. She's seen as ordinary and unassuming. Grew up feeling alone and is just trying to make the best of things. Rochester is a dick but he sees her for more than her simple and quiet appearance. And, by the end of the book, she is empowered and he is humbled and they make a good match on her terms.

I could see that. Especially her feelings of empowerment. Have you seen the film The Wide Barbosa Sea? It's from the point of view of Mr. Rochester wife & takes place in Barbados. It's an interesting angle

 

[Amanda330]

One year my New Years resolution was to read less smut and more classics. Jane Austin is talented at putting humor to a page. Dickens is detailed & has rich descriptions. Victor Hugo, Dumás, even Steinbeck...I made it through them all. Then I read Jane Eyre, and thought Mr Fairfax was a deceptive dick. I read WutheringvHeights after that, and just came to the conclusion that the Bronte sisters were too well acquainted with misey for my taste! I soon went back to smut.

I don't blame you for going back to smut... Smut has its place in my bookshelf for sure. Lol. It's much more fun to read and even gives fabulous ideas to try out in the bedroom. Or private time. Whatever lol.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

I could see that. Especially her feelings of empowerment. Have you seen the film The Wide Barbosa Sea? It's from the point of view of Mr. Rochester wife & takes place in Barbados. It's an interesting angle

I haven't actually. I've heard of it but didn't know if it was any good

 

[Saltfountain]

Top 5 books as of this time...

• Sacred Art of Stealing - Christopher Brookmyre
• Sandman - Neil Gaiman
• The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
• Impro - Keith Johnstone
• Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The fourth book on that unordered list is the only textbook I read properly for my degree, but fuck, I read it a lot. And it changed my world...

 

[Yesok1]

1. Tommy's Diary
2. A catcher in the Rye
3. Shutter Island (better than the film)
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Any diary book/front line first would war experiences

So 5 is a bit of a cop out. I'm fascinated by how people coped fighting is such Conditions on the front in the first world war. It was barbaric. I read history books, Charles 1st/2nd, Cromwell and I'm fascinated by the Tudor Dynasty.

So if I'm not working or having sex, I might be looking at a history book.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
3. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
4. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
5. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I saw this mural today and thought of you

 

[Indie]

I saw this mural today and thought of you

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I love this so much!

 

[morelikeasong]

This is HARD.
I narrowed it down for myself by my favorite books I read a long time ago that have stuck with me and informed my view of life or myself. All of these books were read for the first time as a teenager or younger.

1. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
3. Slaughterhouse Five
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Girl, Interrupted

 

[barefootgirl69]

Five of my favorite True Crime novels

Helter Skelter
If You Tell
Lost Girls
Small Sacrifices
Fatal Vision

 

[13Fantasies]

Five of my favorite True Crime novels

Helter Skelter
If You Tell
Lost Girls
Small Sacrifices
Fatal Vision

I pictured you for an IN COLD BLOOD fan.

 

[barefootgirl69]

I pictured you for an IN COLD BLOOD fan.

Wasn't that the book that caused him and Harper Lee to have a falling out?

Might have to add to my TBR.

 

[morelikeasong]

Oh Shit! How did I forget Slaughterhouse V!

Oh yeah, wine. Nvm.

So it goes

 

[morelikeasong]

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The audiobook for this one is so good. They have a different reader for each person.

 

[ctarrantella]

Top 5 Books
1. Band of Brothers
2. Losing The Edge (the rise and fall of the Stanley Cup Champion NY Rangers)
3. Bad as I Wanna Be (Dennis Rodman’s Biography)
4. Shift Work (Tie Domi’s Biography)
5. Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons, the modern fundamentals of golf

 

[UnquietDreams]

Top 5 Books? … oh … thank a toughie.

1. Phantom by Susan Kay
2. The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
3. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
4. Fear Street by R.L. Stein
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Oh, CrazyChemGirl, stop making me fall in love with you! Phantom is such a banger, and criminally underated.

 

[DickandDoof]

It seems that most people here primarily read fiction. I’m the exact opposite, so here are my five favourite non-fiction books:

* The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 911 by Lawrence Wright
* Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
* Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
* The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
* Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Haperin

Sometimes the best stories are the true ones.

 

[UnquietDreams]

This is HARD.
I narrowed it down for myself by my favorite books I read a long time ago that have stuck with me and informed my view of life or myself. All of these books were read for the first time as a teenager or younger.

1. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
3. Slaughterhouse Five
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
5. Girl, Interrupted

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is such a solid book. I loved that one. My elementary school didn't quite know where to put it, so they stuck it in the picture book section. The librarian suggested it for me. Loved her.

 

[SherlockianMan]

Top 5 Books? … oh … thank a toughie.

1. Phantom by Susan Kay
2. The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
3. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
4. Fear Street by R.L. Stein
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Leave it to you to have Phantom on the list

 

[crazychemgirl]

Leave it to you to have Phantom on the list

I knew you’d appreciate

 

[SherlockianMan]

New topic for this week:

Your Top 5 Albums that Defined Your Teenage Years

 

[SherlockianMan]

5. Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
4.Ten by Pearl Jam
3. Pinkerton by Weezer
2. Core by Stone Temple Pilots
1. The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails

 

[Indie]

1. Jewel - Pieces of You
2. Backstreet Boys - Millennium
3. Pink - Missundaztood
4. Spice Girls - Spice
5. The Beatles - Let It Be

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

1. Jewel - Pieces of You
2. Backstreet Boys - Millennium
3. Pink - Missundaztood
4. Spice Girls - Spice
5. The Beatles - Let It Be

If I didn’t already think you were the best. I’ll tell you want I want what I really really want.

 

[Indie]

If I didn’t already think you were the best. I’ll tell you want I want what I really really want.

So tell me what you want, what you really, really want