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Actually, for the past year +, nothing but lutherie books. For the 5 years prior to that, nothing but religious books. I'm not a religious nut, but when I have an interest, I pursue it with fervor. Read the Bible through completely 5 (five) times in that time (three of those being King James Version), along with half dozen related books.

Getting ready to start the Da Vinci Code, and I love books by Dave Barry.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Any book that has the first letter in each paragraph oversized and starts with the phrase "Once upon a time"
with a picture on every page.

Mike
White Oak, Texas

The first books that got me excited in grade school were the Tom Swift and Tom Swift Jr. tales, ergo...

Science fiction for imagination; Non-fiction for knowledge (and imagination)--fine arts, woodworking, guitar building, crafts and science (currently trying to get a grasp on astrophysics--right now I'm still reaching for the bottom rung of that ladder).

[QUOTE=Steve Kinnaird] For my last birthday, my wife got me the entire series of James Herriot's books: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Wise and Wonderful, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and The Lord God Made Them All.
I simply couldn't put them down, and read them through maybe three times. Then I ordered James Herriot's Yorkshire, which is a beauty.

I've been an Anglophile of late.

Steve[/QUOTE]

When my kids were younger, we drove from Michigan to Alabama to see family 2 times a year...12-16 hours depending on which parents...got "Cat Stories" by James Herriot on audio books for one of these trips and the girls were actually sad that we got to Alabama before we finished them! They couldn't wait to leave for Michigan so we could hear them again!

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I am not much of a novel type reader, the only book I read on a regular basis is my Bible.

Mike
White Oak, Texas

Any Orson Scott Card - especially the series about Ender Wiggins. Also "Where The Wild Things Are", by Maurice Sendak - good stuff.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

"The Comic Mark Twain Reader," Doubleday 1977, Ed. Charles Neider. "At ere's funny, I don't care who you are!" Any Civil War( The War Between the States) historical work and semi- historical, "The Killer Angels." Any/all Of Raymond Chandler's work. My vote for finest spy novel; "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,"- followed closely by "Smiley's People" by Mr. LeCarre

There are some good ones out there. My favorite? The one I'm writting of course!! But then it is a weakness of mine to fall in love with my own stuff.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Books, thems those paper things, right?

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo

I'm not much of a reader per se, but I really liked John Jakes "California Gold". An insight to much of how California was built...a great read! Also, not into Sci-Fi either, but 'Dune' was totally entertaining...way back then!

RB

being from the south i dont read much books if they dont have pictures.

The Robe, The Dead Zone, Letters From A Skeptic, Wild At Heart, The Bourne Identity-

My favorite kids books - Green Eggs and Ham - All the Secrets of the World.

Currently reading - A Severe Mercy.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.