Favorite Book that's MOVING

[lebby64]

What is you favorite book that is "moving" or inspirational?

please answer with TITLE and AUTHOR.

[Riesa]

good lord! ow ow ow ow.

I'd have to say The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff.

[ElizabethSewall]

Oh my! Blue ink is really agressive to human eyes. :lol:

My favourite book is La Nuit Des Temps (aka "The Ice People") by René Barjavel.

[toddhill]

A few that come first to mind:

Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag--had quite a haunting effect on me.

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston--loved the characters...their outcoming was heart wrenching.

The Bear by Faulkner--hit some deep primal chord with me. Hard to describe.

Todd

[woeful painter]

Hey, I happen to like the color...it's the font size that's a little off for me :lol:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach

[Virgil]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston--loved the characters...their outcoming was heart wrenching.


I've been meaning to read that for the longest time. I wish the Book Forum would select it.


There are probably lots of books, let's see which come to mind:

Light In August - William Faulkner
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James
Kim - Rudyard Kipling

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I've never read a good book that wasn't moving. And seldom a bad one that didn't try to be too moving!

[Ryduce]

Curious George really moved me.

[Grongle]

Margaret Craven's exquisite thin novel called I Heard the Owl Call My Name is definitely moving; highly recommended to anyone here (age 13 to 113).

Warning: If you don't know the story, definitely don't ask anyone anything about it, because the joy in this book is in your own discovery of what happens. Here's a URL that doesn't say too much (and what it does say is mostly wrong, so it won't spoil it for you):
http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/p/13967/mcms.html

[EAP]

You can start with A Bridge to Terabithia by Catherine Paterson.

[toddhill]

Virgil, if you have a couple hours pick up Their Eyes Were Watching God. It's a quick read and I'm sure you will love it. It'll take you through all kinds of emotions. Lots of hard laughing; some crying. I think she's a phenomenal writer. I also read a short story of hers called "Sweat" that was pretty powerful. She is a master of writing in dialect. Fun to read. I want to find more of her stuff. Todd

[swanee]

I find Jackie Kay's "Trumpet" extremely moving. It made me quite melancholy, maybe because I was reading it in november when it was rainy and grey, but it's one of my all-time-favourites and absolutely worth reading.

[cateye515]

stravaganza series by Mary Hoffman. It is soooooo good!!! ;)

[Pensive]

You can start with A Bridge to Terabithia by Catherine Paterson.

Yep, I agree with you. A Bridge To Terabithia is a moving book and really good one and i agree with Xamonous that I always find a good book moving. Those books which are not moving are extremely boring to me so they deteriorate the pleasure of reading. That's why I love moving books. :D

These are the few "moving" novels of which I can think right now:

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Pride And Prejudice
A Bridge To Terabithia
Dark Secrets
Mill On The Floss

[Bastet]

Time to Kill, by John Grisham