Top 3 Books and Movies

Updated on April 27, 2013
S.J. asks from Cherryville, MO
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What are your top 3 books and top 3 movies - EVER!

Mine are probably:
Pursuit of Happyness
The Green Mile
The Matrix

Books:
Go ask Alice, Anonymous (ooold book, fav as a teen)
(I read a lot and I am at a loss here!)
Maybe The Millionaire Next Door and Gone Girl. I hear the Shack is good but haven't read it yet.

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I must add two movies - Flight and Instinct. Flight is newer, Instinct (Cuba Gooding Jr) is a little older.

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M.G.

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I have a very difficult time pinning down all time favorites but I'll give a few my likes nonetheless.

Books:
Fahrenheit 451
A Child Called It
The Count of Monte Cristo

Movies:
Full Metal Jacket
Pulp Fiction
Schindler's List

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Movies:
Life is Beautiful (italian w/subtitles version)
Field of Dreams
Miracle on 34th Street (original version)

Books:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Bell Jar
The Book Thief

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Movies,
The Princess Bride
Ever After
The 1st Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella

Books
Gone with the Wind
1776
Too many others??

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B.C.

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3 movies:
Miracle on 34th Street. (Original version)
Its a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (The one with Alistair Sims)
(Then, The Quiet Man, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Music Man.)
[I haven't seen a movie in the last decade that I thought was exceptional enough to make the top 3.]

3 Books
My Holy Scriptures
The Firm
Clan of the Cave Bear

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B.B.

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Books:
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Movies:
(this is harder)
The Goodby Girl (the original from the late seventies)
About a Boy
I can't think of a third, I will have to come back to it.

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G.R.

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Loved the book Go Ask Alice. I had it but it got ruined because my basement flooded. I have been wanting to get this book again. The movie was good also.

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M.T.

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What a great question!

Movies:
The Haunting of Hill House (the original from the 1960s)
Dead Again
Monty Python's The Holy Grail

Books:
Sunshine by Norma Klein
Song For Sarah by Paula D'Arcy
Still Alice by Lisa Genova

I haven't read Go Ask Alice, but I just requested it from the library today because that's what my book club is reading for May. I just got the Promise of Stardust and I suspect that'll be up there on my favorites list.

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M.R.

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movies:

The Princess Bride
Courageous
The Artist

books:

The Emperor of all Maladies: An Autobiography of Cancer
Tuesday's with Morrie
The Glass Castle

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L.L.

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Books:

The Dark Tower/Gunslinger series (I'll count that as one, even though it's 8 books. Love love love.)

The Shopaholic series (again, lots of books, counting it as one choice. Only books that have ever made me laugh out loud...again and again.)

You know what? I'll let my third be Go Ask Alice, too, because it's a great book and there are just too many to list. I love sci-fi, horror, mystery, in general, but Go Ask Alice was really poignant and meant something in my life.

Movies:

Castaway on the Moon

Lord of the Rings

Indiana Jones

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S.S.

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Hmmm...here's mine:

Movies....
Gone with the Wind
The Notebook
Goodfellas

Books.....
Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul
Marley and Me
Any Alex Cross book by James Patterson

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