CatNipped
2007-06-15 01:54:53 UTC
Just to show I'm not a total couch potato (or theater seat potato), I read a
lot too. So here are my favorites (again heavily weighted towards sci-fi
which DH and I love)...
"Black Beauty" (first read it when I was 4 and still read it occasionally,
it still makes me cry) - Anna Sewell
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - Betty Smith
"The Captains and the Kings" - Taylor Caldwell
[Then at age 5 I discovered the world of science fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
"Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert Heinlein*
All of the "Foundation" novels by Isaac Asimov* (and, come to think about
it, just about all of Asimov's novels)
"Ringworld" - Larry Niven* (the sequels weren't nearly as good)
The early "Pern" novels by Anne McCaffrey (she just didn't know when to quit
and now her son has taken over the franchise)
[And speaking of sons taking over the franchise] "Dune" - Frank Hebert*
(again, the sequels weren't as good, but surprisingly some of Brian's
"prequels" were OK - although that may have been more due to Kevin J.
Anderson then to Brian)
"Stardance" - Spider Robinson* (and all of the "Callahan's Saloon" novels by
him)
"Rendezvous With Rama" - Arthur C. Clark*
Robert L. Forward's* "Rocheworld" series
"Brightness Falls From the Air" - "James Tiptree Jr."* (and every other word
she has ever written under her own name or her pseudonyms)
The "Ender" series - Orson Scott Card
OK, I could keep this up all night, but you get the idea. What's your
favorites?
* Authors whose every book I have read along with: Ben Bova, Dean Ing,
David Brin, and a few others.
lot too. So here are my favorites (again heavily weighted towards sci-fi
which DH and I love)...
"Black Beauty" (first read it when I was 4 and still read it occasionally,
it still makes me cry) - Anna Sewell
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" - Betty Smith
"The Captains and the Kings" - Taylor Caldwell
[Then at age 5 I discovered the world of science fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
"Stranger in a Strange Land" - Robert Heinlein*
All of the "Foundation" novels by Isaac Asimov* (and, come to think about
it, just about all of Asimov's novels)
"Ringworld" - Larry Niven* (the sequels weren't nearly as good)
The early "Pern" novels by Anne McCaffrey (she just didn't know when to quit
and now her son has taken over the franchise)
[And speaking of sons taking over the franchise] "Dune" - Frank Hebert*
(again, the sequels weren't as good, but surprisingly some of Brian's
"prequels" were OK - although that may have been more due to Kevin J.
Anderson then to Brian)
"Stardance" - Spider Robinson* (and all of the "Callahan's Saloon" novels by
him)
"Rendezvous With Rama" - Arthur C. Clark*
Robert L. Forward's* "Rocheworld" series
"Brightness Falls From the Air" - "James Tiptree Jr."* (and every other word
she has ever written under her own name or her pseudonyms)
The "Ender" series - Orson Scott Card
OK, I could keep this up all night, but you get the idea. What's your
favorites?
* Authors whose every book I have read along with: Ben Bova, Dean Ing,
David Brin, and a few others.
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Hugs,
CatNipped
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Hugs,
CatNipped
See all my masters here: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/