Favorite book?

[Derek Reese 29]

As a kid My Side of the Mountain was my favorite book, so that's what I say it is.

I don't have a favorite book as an adult, even though I used to read quite a lot, all non fiction. I just can't enjoy reading with glasses now.

Great book! Kinda had forgotten that one…

 

[Foggy47]

I was really into Boy Scouts as a kid. I read Boy's Life cover to cover and about anything with camping or outdoors.....later came hot rods and cars. My first big book read was Swiss Family Robinson......and I could read a chapter or two each night. Huge book at our library.....and I think I checked it out multiple times.

I did read our family's full set of "world book" encyclopedias from A to Z in about 6th and 7th grades. Inquiring minds need to know...lol.

 

[Telemark]

Brian's Winter. The follow up to The Hatchet.

Still read it every year during hunting season at some point.

I forgot about The Hatchet. I really enjoyed that book when I was about 12. I read The River as the sequel and was unimpressed. I never knew about the Brian sequels.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Hatchet and Far Side of the Mountain should be required reading for any American male by age 13

 

[Da U.P. 'eh]

Mine are easy: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry THE BEST!
Also, James Michener's Centennial and Chesapeake Both very enjoyable reads!

 

[Turkish]

So there is an off-chance I might be teaching English this fall, so I am putting this thread out there for suggestions for kids who may not have yet learned to love to read. I am an avid reader and have been since my parents smartly put a few copies of Field and Stream and Outdoor Life in my grubby little hands when I was about 5.
As for me, my favorites are Reilly’s Luck by Louis L’Amour and Without Remorse by Tom Clancy.

The only book I was ever forced to read and that I actually enjoyed was All the Pretty Horses. Same author as No Country for Old Men, I believe.

 

[Derek Reese 29]

Hatchet and Far Side of the Mountain should be required reading for any American male by age 13

Preach it! And if there is no stirring of emotion or eminent desire to head out in the wilderness there..I would have significant questions.

 

[T-Max]

I was gonna say “My Side of the Mountain.” Prequel to the above? And Old Yeller and of course Summer and Shiner were good reads too.


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