Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.
"What book did you always love?" What a great question! Let's take a look at 32 well-known people and the books they "always loved."
Charlie Chaplin: Oliver Twist
Mel Brooks: Crime and Punishment
Barack Obama: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Steven Spielberg: Treasure Island and The Last of the Mohicans
Madonna: Gone With The Wind
John F. Kennedy: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, From Russia with Love, and John Quincy Adams
Dean Martin: Black Beauty (Dean only read one book in his life)
Morgan Freeman: Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp
Magic Johnson: Jack and the Beanstalk
Gloria Steinem: Little Women
Groucho Marx: Charlotte's Web
General Norman Schwarzkopf: White Fang
Elvis Presley: The Impersonal Life by Joseph Bennen, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, and The Bible
Angelina Jolie: In Search of the Real Dracula
Ted Kennedy: Lad, a Dog
Sammy Davis, Jr.: Wuthering Heights
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Breyer: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Willard Scott: The Little Engine That Could
Stephen King: Lord of the Flies
Larry King: Lou Gehrig, a Quiet Hero
Ronald Reagan: The Bible
Jim Carrey: Dr. Seuss books
Bill Clinton: The Dick and Jane readers and The Silver Chalice
Darryl Hannah: Horton Hears a Who
Tom Hanks: Crime and Punishment, all the books of Leon Uris, read The Hobbit in fifth grade (but not the LOTR trilogy)
Tim Allen: Curious George
John Lennon: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Wind in the Willows
Will Smith: The Alchemist
Hilary Clinton: Goodnight Moon
James Earl Jones: The Cat in the Hat
Lily Tomlin: The Shipping News
James Dean: The Little Prince
Okay, now it's your turn. What book have YOU "always loved?"
This is actually a fanfiction based on the anime series "Saber Marionette J," but is really well written. Another fanfic, based on the Ranma 1/2 anime and the Battletech universe is "The Saotome Gambit." The original website host is no longer online, but it can be found at the Vanished Fanfic Archive (scroll down to the story link on this page).
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