What Are Your Top 5 All-time Novels?

calfoxwc

so, my brotherinlaw printed me three copies of my novel. Two friends have read it - they really liked it -

had all sorts of notes, per my request, reported on it. lol.

some mistakes here and there, etc, a word here and there, maybe three run-on-sentences...

but i've fixed those.

Now, to get a formal copyright and an ISBN number. Then I'll sell it to a movie producer for millions ,and we're set.

But I have to go work out on the farm today, I've been installing lights and painting edges of walls for a couple of days - got half of today off.

mjp28

@calfoxwc said:

so, my brotherinlaw printed me three copies of my novel. Two friends have read it - they really liked it -

had all sorts of notes, per my request, reported on it. lol.

some mistakes here and there, etc, a word here and there, maybe three run-on-sentences...

but i've fixed those.

Now, to get a formal copyright and an ISBN number. Then I'll sell it to a movie producer for millions ,and we're set.

But I have to go work out on the farm today, I've been installing lights and painting edges of walls for a couple of days - got half of today off.

Used to be a big and somewhat expensive deal getting anything published now with today's software you can publish one book......if you want.

Now making a movie is another $$$$$ story.

calfoxwc

sure - they have to buy the rights to my adventure novel - and my brotherinlaw can make me plenty of copies to get started.

Ghoolie

The Bible

Morrison and Boyd's Organic Chemistry

Fundamentals of Physics (Hadley, Resnick and Walker)

Make Money With Your Studio, Tom Volinchak - Hal Leonard

Fart Proudly - Benjamin Franklin

Axe

Too many to list only 5.. The one that sticks out because it's a recent read is "Wool"

Well, I guess that is three

Dude is my fav author as of late.. Many good books..

mjp28

@axe said:

Too many to list only 5.. The one that sticks out because it's a recent read i is "Wool".........

Well, I guess that is three

Dude is my fav author as of late.. Many good books..

Agreed. They want to list America's favorite read when it would be hard to list 20 or even 10 but you try to get some manageable list of 5 here. I've never even heard of many of the top 100 but it is an interesting PBS program.

I read a LOT in junior high and high school, tapered off in college might try to read more but sports, movies mainly old movies and lately online stuff are taking more time. My wife and her 94 year old mother are voracious readers.

Meanwhile carry on, good reading.

The Gipper

Now for the five books that you read that you hated the most: great expectations by Dickens, had to read that in ninth grade and hated it. Wuthering Heights Just a stupid romance novel pretending to be a classic. And I will think of more as I go along

mjp28

@the-gipper said:

Now for the five books that you read that you hated the most: great expectations by Dickens, had to read that in ninth grade and hated it. Wuthering Heights Just a stupid romance novel pretending to be a classic. And I will think of more as I go along

That's true. Some Dickens I liked, some eh. For authors particularily in school I loved every Ian Fleming James Bond 007 novel bought them back in the paperbacks for about 35 cents each. I loved the classic WWII novels and autobiographical books, sports stories and biographies even the Biography TV series with Peter Graves. I read whole shevles of books in our school library and my place the McKinley Memorial Library a block from my junior high school.

In college I liked F. Scott Fitzerald, didn't really like English Lit, loved ancient history and the Civil War books. On it goes, in that PBS eight part series you sure see a varierty of books alright!

And now I'm hanging around Sports Boards.

TexasAg1969

@mjp28 said:

And now I'm hanging around Sports Boards.

Where the prose is ah..............................inventive!!???

TexasAg1969

@the-gipper said:

Now for the five books that you read that you hated the most: great expectations by Dickens, had to read that in ninth grade and hated it. Wuthering Heights Just a stupid romance novel pretending to be a classic. And I will think of more as I go along

I read Great Expectations for the first time just a few years ago and just enjoyed the prose more than anything about it. Gave me a better understanding about where "The French Lieutenant's Woman" grew from, another where the prose alone made it worth the read.

mjp28

@texasag1969 said:

Where the prose is ah..............................inventive!!???

Yeah I'm going down the river, probably will end up living in a van. A big pile of unread books rotting away,