SecretLove69
Oh, the humanity.
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I don't know if this has been done before or not but, I was thinking - - we’ve had favorite music, song, lyric threads and we’ve had favorite movie threads – so how about (since we are on Literotica) a favorite book thread?
We can even expand it from just books to poems, any other literary styles, writing styles, genres, and authors thread. Or if you don’t want to or can’t just pick one favorite – we could also include the last book, poem – whatever you’ve read.
AND, this is mainly for Joey3308
because I know he’ll go there – although it is sometimes pretty good literature – let’s try to avoid your favorite thing you’ve written or read off the bathroom wall. 
So what do you think?
I’ll start (I have a bunch but I’ll pick just two for now)
Myths To Live By by Joseph Campbell. Based on a series of lectures made decades ago, the book samples the broad variety of Campbell's ideas about mythology. Synopsis: Campbell was a “generalizer”, and as such, he did his best work when examining similarities between the ritual elements of different cultures. Sometimes he goes too far, making condescending statements about "primitive" culture or making simplistic distinctions between "East and West". However, it is important to recognize how far ahead of his times Campbell was. Campbell laid the foundation for the widespread recognition that the traditions of all cultures have some degree of validity and significant meaning. It’s a fascinating, very personal work.
and
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, City of Night. A powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
Synopsis: They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created–and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios–once Frankenstein–can stop the engineered killers he’s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
Ok - anyone else a reader and not just a breeder?
We can even expand it from just books to poems, any other literary styles, writing styles, genres, and authors thread. Or if you don’t want to or can’t just pick one favorite – we could also include the last book, poem – whatever you’ve read.
AND, this is mainly for Joey3308
because I know he’ll go there – although it is sometimes pretty good literature – let’s try to avoid your favorite thing you’ve written or read off the bathroom wall. So what do you think?
I’ll start (I have a bunch but I’ll pick just two for now)
Myths To Live By by Joseph Campbell. Based on a series of lectures made decades ago, the book samples the broad variety of Campbell's ideas about mythology. Synopsis: Campbell was a “generalizer”, and as such, he did his best work when examining similarities between the ritual elements of different cultures. Sometimes he goes too far, making condescending statements about "primitive" culture or making simplistic distinctions between "East and West". However, it is important to recognize how far ahead of his times Campbell was. Campbell laid the foundation for the widespread recognition that the traditions of all cultures have some degree of validity and significant meaning. It’s a fascinating, very personal work.
and
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, City of Night. A powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time.
Synopsis: They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created–and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios–once Frankenstein–can stop the engineered killers he’s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us.
Ok - anyone else a reader and not just a breeder?
