*nod*

Another book I feel that way about is 1984. I notice something different in that one each time I read it.

I haven't found a lot of non-fiction I'm into, either, unless it's a memoir or biography or something. I guess I prefer my reading to be about people rather than concepts.

Exactly. I actually liked that I found him unlikable, if that makes sense. I thought it was a testament to John Irving's skill as a writer that I still wanted to know what happened to Garp, despite my feelings about him as a person. So I was really surprised, when I read it again earlier this year, to find that I…

Yes! The Phantom Tollbooth is one I still break out and re-read from time to time. And I loved Nancy Drew :D

Are you depressed or especially stressed out? I know I kind of lost my attention span for it for a while when things were going crazy in my life.

I'm with you. I do read some more serious stuff, but I love me some Scottish lords (lairds?) and sassy heroines. ALSO, I've learned a ton about history from well-written historical romances, so, there.

Oh, Prydain Chronicles! I didn't read those until I was an adult, because I didn't know about them when I was a kid. I'd have read them sooner if I had :D

I do that a lot, too. I like to balance my serious books with fun books in-between.

I just picked up The BFG from Goodwill for a DIME. I haven't read it yet.

What genres do you like best? I may have a couple recommendations, depending.

God, I never get tired of Alice in Wonderland. And my love for Mark Twain knows no bounds.

Sadly, I've lost my copy of Jane Eyre somewhere. I've been wanting to re-read it.

I have a copy of Bleak House, but haven't read it yet. I do enjoy Dickens, though.

Looove Cider House Rules, Owen Meany, and Garp (When I first read Garp, as a teenager, I didn't like the character much. I find I understand him much better as an adult). I haven't read A Widow For One Year or Hotel New Hampshire yet, but I have them around here somewhere.

One of his more recent ones I read was Until…

I love the way Irving tells stories. He's insightful and observant, so there are all of these odd little real, human moments even in his most outrageous plots.

A book I recommend to pretty much everyone is Robert McCammon's "Boy's Life". It has fantasy, crime, and thriller elements, but is overall...I don't even know what to call it. It's a wonderful book though, and deserves to be much better known than it is.

I just re-read A Prayer For Owen Meany (I first read it when I was about fourteen, too), and loved it just as much the second time around. I've enjoyed most Irving I've read, but he can get a little repetitive with his New England/wrestling/boarding school/sexually aggressive older female schtick.

Yay! :D

LUCKY.

Someone already did pop up in the comments here and spout some crap about it absolving women of the responsibility of being courteous and respectful of men >.<

I don't know why, but that Riker gif just seriously cracked me up.