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Do you own any books on film? If so-what are your favorites?
I have LOTS. 7 on Lugosi alone! (And here I go doing what I don't like reading-long lists... :lookingup:)

. Cinema of the Fantastic-Steinbrunner and Goldblatt

. the Three Stooges-Micheal Fleming

. Bela Lugosi-Midnight Marquee

. Lugosi- Gary Don Rhodes

. the Complete Films of Bela Lugosi- Richard Bojarski

. Lugosi:the Man Behind the Cape- Richard Cremer

. Bela Lugosi in Person-Gary Don Rhodes

. Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares- Gary Don Rhodes

. No Traveler Returns : the Lost Years of Bela Lugosi- Gary Don Rhodes

. the Illustrated History of Horror Films- Carlos Claren

. Karloff- Denis Gifford

. Mad,Bad, and Dangerous- Christopher Frayling

. Tod Browning's Dracula- Gary Don Rhodes

. the House Of Hammer : the History of Hammer Films- various

. Heros of the Horrors- Calvin T. Beck

. the Films of Tod Browning- Bernard Herzoganrath

. Shlock-O-Rama: the Films of Al Adamson- David Konow

. A Pictorial History of Horror Movies- Denis Gifford

. Horror Movies- Alan Frank

. Fabulous Fantasy Films- Jeff Rovin

. the Bad Guys- William K. Everson

. Classics of the Horror Film- William K. Everson

. More Classics of the Horror Film- William K. EVerson

. the Films of Boris Karloff- Richard Bojarski

. Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film- Midnight Marquee

. Movie Fantastic- David Annan

. the Psychotronic Video Guide- Micheal Weldon

. the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film- Micheal Weldon

. Night of the Living Dead- Joe Kane

. Karloff- Peter Underwood

. Horror Film Stars- Micheal Pitts

. Forgotten Horrors- Turner and Price

. Psycho- Richard J. Anobile

. Divine Exploitation- Doug Waltz

. Sleaze Creatures- D. Earl Worth

. To Be Continued: the Serials- Weiss and Goodgold

. the Frankenscience Monster- Forrest J Ackerman

. Silent Movies- Peter Kobel

Whew!
If you want a recommendation or want to know about any of these books-ask me. I read them all. Over and over!

Yes, but recalling the titles may be difficult.

Mr. laurel and Mr. Hardy was a good read. Has some nice bits of history, not just of the comic duo, but also of films in general. There's a letter from Hardy's wife, giving the author permission to publish interviews with Hardy after he died. That's sad; you can tell she loved him.

Also have some Star Wars books with good coverage of the FX process; always interesting. Also have one on Jurassic Park.

The MGM Story; a 70's history of the venerable studio, listing and reviewing all their movies. Haven't read it all.

A few more, but these come to mind.

That sound interesting. I like books on old time movies and stars. I had a books on Harold Llyod and the Marx Bros. back in the 70's-but they're long gone.

Danny Peary's Cult Movie series and Michael J. Weldon's Psychotronic guides are the two book series that formed my movie tastes in the days before the Internet. Also, "ReSearch Incredibly Strange Films," which is so old they interviewed Frank Henenlotter as an up and coming director.

The Art of Walt Disney - Two versions, actually. One's cut down. Has a history of the studio, an overview of their animation process, etc. The longer version has some extra stuff about Epcot, what they were planning when it was written.

Walt Disney: An American Original - Biography. A bit hard to follow.

The Creation of Dino DeLuaren's King Kong - Some interesting tidbits, but mostly dull. Forgive me if I misspelled Dino's name.

It Came From Bob's Basement - Wrote about this before. Bob Burns collected props from Sci-Fi films; this book is a biography with lots of pictures of his collection. He crossed paths with Paul Bladsil and others. Really interesting. Forgive me for spelling Bladsil's name wrong.

Scene Design and Stage Lighting - Old college text book I picked up a few years ago. (No, not from when I went to school.)

The Fault in Our Stars
The Notebook
The Hunger Games
Fifty Shades of Grey
Twilight
Harry Potter

Bob Burns always fascinated me. Such a collection! Gave Forry Ackerman a run for his money.

I used to have a good one on Stanley Kubrick in which he gave an interview about each of his films, but I sold it to Half-Price Books when I was broke years ago. I think the bloodsucking hippies there gave me thirty-five cents.  :bluesad:

If that counts I've got some Star Wars and Indiana Jones adaptions. Also an adaption of Disney's The Black Hole, and comic book versions of Dragonslayer, The Land Unknown, and Irwin Allen's The Lost World.

I wrote one on the South African film industry's history: it's called Riding The High Wind. Still to be published.

That would be cool!  :thumbup:

It would be: those who read it find out much more than they actually want to know about our industry.  :teddyr:

The Medved Brothers tetralogy, consisting of Fifty Worst Films, The Golden Turkey Awards, Son of the Golden Turkey Awards, and The Hollywood Hall of Shame.

I don't care for the Medveds. Something about them rubs me the wrong way.

I used to have lots of those BIG picture books like TALKIES ... and that BIG green Horror movie book.  The only one I've looked at in decades is 1000 Movies To See Before You Die (or something like that). 

You mean this one-? (Thats me holding it in 1974)

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This is my all-time favorite (and is directly responsible for many of the movies I have purchased). I'm on my second copy. I read my first copy so many times it split in half along the spine. So I bought another one.

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Honorable mention goes to:

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Me too! I had to buy second copies for the same reason!  :bouncegiggle:

I knew you knew it!