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busty wrote:Hmmm. I wasn't so wild about Beloved when I read it in high school. Or Faulkner's books. Kate Chopin and Jane Austen were good tho.

A book has got to make one especially happy to be a great experience when you're forced to read it with a test to follow.

I'm moving really slow through The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Part of the reason is a cool new one (for me) about Grimms' fairy tales. By Maria Tatar called The Hard Facts about the Grimm Tales (or something close). Written sans the technical artsy-fartsy jargon. Did you know a French Little Red Riding Hood did a strip tease for the wolf?

ZSpider

Zspider wrote: A book has got to make one especially happy to be a great experience when you're forced to read it with a test to follow.

ZSpider

So true. Of course, the greatest book I've ever read was a forced read for school (once in HS and once in college).......To Kill a Mockingbird.

True that, Busty! When I want to laugh my arse off and cry my eyes out, I pick up To Kill a Mockingbird! Have you seen the movie? Did you know it was Robert Duval's first movie? He played Boo Radley!

Yes, I love the movie too. Especially the big paper mache pice of meat Scout wears at the end. Its one of the few movies that is probably as good as the book or at least almost as good as the book. The first couple of paragraphs are the best when she describes the town. I may have to get that out and read it again.

The Color Purple is a wonderful book and movie too. I could talk about books endlessly.... Thank goodness I live near Joseph-Beth.

I love the last paragraph. Not having one of those fathers made me love Atticus all the more. Also the fact that Gregory Peck played him in the movie....yum! Almost incestuous!

I love JoBeth!

I spend a lot of time at Joseph-Beth as well. Actually used to teach Martail Arts to Neil, the owner many years ago. Even remember going there when they were located on the end of the shopping center. Spent many rest days in various book stores around the country.

No matter where I go, I find a bookstore. I remember the old JoBeth location where CompUsa is now. I thought I had found the motherlode of bookstores....and then they made it even bigger and better.

The Mockingbird DVD has a neat "making of" extra. Gregory Peck used to deliver groceries to my uncle's home in southwest Virginia when he worked at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon. Kinda neat.

Anyone know the name of the used book store owned by a HS teacher in Lexington? It is supposed to be super awesome! Other good used boook stores?

Not here in Lex, but if you pass through Knoxville or Chattanooga, you should check out McKay's. Its a really good used bookstore.

Added to the list:

1. 1776 by David McCullough
2. You: The Owner's Manual by Michael Roizen
3. The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman
and
4. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (just coz I enjoyed the movie, surprisingly)