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?"
Non Fiction: The origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley