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Saoirse
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- #101
- Posted: 02/18/2013 00:28
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| revolver94 wrote: | My top 3
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Currently reading Wuthering Heights, I like it very well so far. |
Excellent. Anne Bronte's works are worth an attentive read too, definitely underrated (or overshadowed).
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- #102
- Posted: 02/18/2013 01:47
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Oh hard... I have heaps of favourite books. I have genre based lists and everything!
Anyway these are the favourites that came to me in an instant (sorry for all the hundreds I have missed)
'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Bronte
'The Magus' - John Fowles
'A Prayer for Owen Meany' - John Irving
'The Maribou Stork Nightmares' - Irvine Welsh
'The Handmaid's Tale' - Margaret Atwood
'The Buddenbrooks' - Thomas Mann
'Perfume' - Patrick Suskind
'Half Of A Yellow Sun' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'Disgrace' - J.M. Coetzee
'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Under The Skin' - Michel Faber
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' - Johann von Goethe
'Dead Souls' - Nikolai Gogol
'The Color Purple' - Alice Walker
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' - Thomas Hardy
'A Kestrel for a Knave' - Barry Hines
'A Picture of Dorian Gray' - Oscar Wilde
'To Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee
'We Need to Talk about Kevin' - Lionel Shriver
'The Glass Room' - Simon Mawer
'Animal Farm' - George Orwell
'Doctor Zhivago' - Boris Pasternak
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MrFrogger
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- #103
- Posted: 02/18/2013 03:07
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To keep it short I'l just keep it to my Top 3
On The Road
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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JMan
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- #104
- Posted: 02/18/2013 17:55
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I have now added The Hunger Games to my favorite books. I saw the movie yesterday, too.
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MrFrogger
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- #105
- Posted: 02/18/2013 20:10
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| JMan wrote: | | I have now added The Hunger Games to my favorite books. I saw the movie yesterday, too. |
I also read those books, they were pretty good, not great, but then I saw the movie which was absolutely atrocious.
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- #106
- Posted: 02/22/2013 06:06
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I'll just throw in a random few that I love. Not necessarily my top whatever.
The Lord of the Rings (any one of the trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglass Adams
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1984 - George Orwell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
I.Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbot
Harry Potter (any one, though my favorite would either be sorcerer's stone or deathly hallows) - J.K. Rowling
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
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Happymeal
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- #107
- Posted: 02/22/2013 08:01
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My top 3 books are the following:
1. The Catcher in the rye
2. The Absolutely true diary of a part time indian
3. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
I don't read a lot.
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Silver
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- #108
- Posted: 02/22/2013 08:06
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I haven't read for pleasure in ages. Favorite books of all time are the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card. I like science fiction a great deal.
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- #109
- Posted: 02/22/2013 08:24
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| SilverWalrus wrote: | | I haven't read for pleasure in ages. Favorite books of all time are the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card. I like science fiction a great deal. |
Dune = Greatest sci-fi epic ever written. Also I prefer Ender's Game to Speaker for the Dead, but honestly I'm cool with it as long as it's not Xenocide. Seriously, fuck Xenocide
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Silver
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- #110
- Posted: 02/22/2013 09:03
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| dividesbyzero wrote: | | Dune = Greatest sci-fi epic ever written. Also I prefer Ender's Game to Speaker for the Dead, but honestly I'm cool with it as long as it's not Xenocide. Seriously, fuck Xenocide |
I like Xenocide and Children Of The Mind despite who convoluted and fucked they get. I grew up with the series so it's hard to look at any of them as bad.
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