Penn's Top 5 Beach Reads

5. Ready Player One, by Earnest Cline (If you're a child of the 70s or 80s, this recent novel rings all the bells)

4. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett (Historical soap opera at its finest)

3. The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (The Lord of the Rings done in Star Wars dress? Yes, please!)

2. Watership Down, by Richard Adams (The Lord of the Rings done well with rabbits? Yes, please!)

1. The Stand, by Stephen King (The storytelling master must be acknowledged, and The Stand (preferably the uncut version) is his finest single novel)

(Penn Perry is Trinity Center's Executive Director. His passions are movies, literature, and poetry; in fact, in his prior life he was an Instructor for the English Department of the University of Georgia.)

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