Definitely President Hinckley for me.

1. SWK
2. GBH
3. DOM

I was only alive for two of them.

Dan - Repent! Prince’s book is more valuable than any number of hours on the ‘nacle (except Ardis’ blog).

I would have to go with the same Big 3. Hinckley, McKay and Kimball. I have thoroughly enjoyed both the McKay and Kimball biographies and am hoping for something of a similar mold and quality to be written about President Hinckley.

Sorry, Devyn, to disappoint. I could have gone with JFS(ii) or HWH, or HBL, but I wouldn’t have much to provide in the way of reasons. Does anyone pine for the JT days? How about LS?

Really, if you took a sample of any three “favorite” prophets from the current mix, what would the likely cover set be?

Probably SWK, GBH, DOM, JS, BY, TSM, and maybe ETB (for the stridently Republican voter). Maybe HJG or JFS(i). Do they offer that much modern currency to justify “favorite”?

Initials are annoying.

The Lion of the Lord, becuase he was straight up.

On a side note, I hate those Facebook groups where people become “fans” of things or people. They have groups for “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” “Gordon B. Hinckley,” “Thomas S. Monson,” etc. When you join one of these groups, it puts a notice on your mini-news feed (or whatever it’s called) that broadcasts to your friends that “So-and-so became a fan of Thomas S. Monson.”

Now, this irritates/amuses me in a number of ways. First, putting a date and time to such a thing makes me think of those cards that Born-Agains have that state the date that they accepted Christ as their savior (”I became a fan of TSM and accepted him as my personal prophet on ____________”).

Second, the pop-culture overtones of both Facebook and these fan clubs get on my nerves anyway - I feel like they’re a hallmark of the OMG demographic - so, fine, become a fan of Beyoncé, but GBH? It makes me think of throngs of screaming tweens hyperventilating over his latest Ensign article or fawning over the tie he wore to conference and exclaiming, “he’s so HOT!” I haven’t seen a Jesus fan club yet, but I imagine that it’s only a matter of time.

Third, it just strikes me as one of those things that people do to make themselves look spiritual (I’m obviously generalizing here - I doubt most people really give becoming a fan of the prophet a second thought). It reminds me of the pre-missionary tactic of using your mission call to heighten your perceived spirituality in order to get a few more conquests before you head to the MTC. (Although that probably only annoys me because I never thought to try it myself.)

Fourth, suppose you just want to clean out your profile, or keep people from spamming you through these groups - you’re stuck! Who wants to tell their friends that they stopped being a fan of GBH?

Orwell - I did not know that was a new trend - that is hilarious

lorenhops - fair - he certainly did not mince words regardless of how crazy they may sound

Orwell, no one knows (I don’t think) that you’ve removed yourself from a group. They don’t get contacted when you’re no longer a friend, for instance.

Sam - that is what I loved about GBH as well - a witty guy…

Orwell - apparently you need to spend more time on Facebook

I’m a friend of Pablo Neruda. He seems like such a nice fellow.