02-08-2009, 02:56 PM
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Dont' read that much but....
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and The Sea
To Have and Have Not
...anything by Hemingway, I guess.....
Great Gatsby...
Tender is the NIght...beautiful book...
...anything by Fitgerald, too...
One Flew Over the Coocoos Nest
Can we include plays?...
CAt
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." Gandhi.
War is a racket. The few profit. The many suffer. --Major General Smedley Butler. 2 time congressional Medal of Honor winner.
"The greater the sensibility, the greater the suffering...much suffering." Leonardo da Vinci.
Everybody drank the Kool-Aid.
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02-08-2009, 03:03 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Still waiting for the Great Pumpkin, and I'll wait...
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Dont' read that much but....
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and The Sea
To Have and Have Not
...anything by Hemingway, I guess.....
Great Gatsby...
Tender is the NIght...beautiful book...
...anything by Fitzgerald, too...
One Flew Over the Coocoos Nest
Can we include plays?...
Cat on a hot Tin Roof
East of Eden
Streetcar Named Desire...
..Tennessee Williams was great to read, not just see...
The Rabbit series by John Updike
The Hobbit, yes,
A Clockwork Orange
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel G. Marquez, very poetic.
Huckleberry Finn,
Tom Sawyer,
Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn by Henry MIller.
...well, I guess I could go on, that must be ten, so I wont.
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." Gandhi.
War is a racket. The few profit. The many suffer. --Major General Smedley Butler. 2 time congressional Medal of Honor winner.
"The greater the sensibility, the greater the suffering...much suffering." Leonardo da Vinci.
Everybody drank the Kool-Aid.
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02-08-2009, 04:21 PM
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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The Twilight series (seeing as I'm reading the second one now)
All Xanth novels by Piers Anthony (anyone who's into fantasy you really can't go past these books...he's an absolutely brilliant writer)
umm...well the last one in itself is a mountain of novels and the first is 4 I think....so I've kind of gone a bit over...but they're all good ;)
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02-09-2009, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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In no particular order...
Blind Faith by Ben Elton
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Men in Love by Nancy Friday
Girl With A One Track Mind by Abby Lee
The Northen Lights Trilogy by Philip Pullman
Love Lessons by David Belbin
The Mighty Book of Boosh by Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt
The Harry Potter Series
The Goblin Companion by Brian Froud and Terry Jones
...in fact any book by these authors and hundreds more too, v hard to pick just 10 books!
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03-06-2009, 08:09 AM
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Pwincess Emily, i loved 'Bloody Foreigners' too! Raved to my friends about it but as yet never came across anyone else who'd read it...
In no particular order, and there are many more:
1. 100 Years of Solitude (GG Marquez)
2. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
3. The Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
4. IT (Stephen King)
5. High Fidelity (Nick Hornby)
6. The Time-Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
7. Macbeth (can we list plays?)
8. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
9. Asta's Book (Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine)
10. Walking on Glass (Iain Banks)
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03-06-2009, 04:39 PM
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Here are mine also in no order:
(some parts of the) Holy Bible inspired by God
The Fiery Cross Wyn Craig Wade
Under the hood: Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan Worth H Weller
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Sign of the Beaver
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My antonia
New Age: Tower of Babel David Cloud
and...
um i guess
The Hobbit
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03-10-2009, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wisconsin
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Voidfarer by Sean McMullen - I just couldn't put it down, it's the third in a series of fantasy novels. A few weeks ago I finally got the first two and the fourth one just came out. I can't wait to dig in!
Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson - another I couldn't put down.
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04-03-2009, 04:59 PM
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Just scanning the bookshelf :
The Plague, Camus
War with the Newts, Capek
In Cold Blood, Capote
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Capote
Where I'm Calling From (shorts collection), Carver
The Lover of Horses (shorts collection), Tess Gallagher
The Red Hourglass (essays), Gorden Grice
The Jungle Books/Just So Stories, Kipling
Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez
The Magician, Maughm
The Violent Bear It Away, O'Connor
Equus (drama), Schaffer
Man and Superman (drama), Shaw
Frankenstein, Shelley
Uncle Shelby's ABZ book, Silverstein
War and Peace, Tolstoy
...guess I went over. I could go on for days, though, not to mention the other shelves...
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04-04-2009, 07:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pwincess Emily
Oh! DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterly's Lover. I love that book (cos its dirty lol).
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 gotta love the classic porn
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04-08-2009, 02:26 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: The Underworld in Another Dimension on Another planet
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Mine are always changing.
The Black Jewels Trilogy/Dreams made Flesh (First time I've ever found an Author who has a similar style/worlds that are close to mine and actually PUBLISHED XD...)
The Secret Life of Bees (This book helped me get through feeling 'lost' stage esp. when you grow up without a real mother figure/and the sort...May was my fave, she resembled me the most)
Fried Green Tomatoes (I love this book, better than the movie, which changed stuff around, and took things out between the characters that were...shall we say important changes, but still the movie managed to get the idea across somewhat)
The 13th Tale (Love this book..I'm gonna quote it. "All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind, and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story." -Vida Winter. And that Vida Winter changed my life too, yet another character I've connected with.
Poison (I love how it turns out to be the 'writer' who is in control of the story and becomes one of the characters, lol there's another book I was told about where the author is a main character, but in this book she goes on this whole journey only to find out that there's someone writing her story and passing her the quill, and he's going on about the person whose probably writing him lol...yeah I just gave it away I didn't know when I read it, that was a pleasant surprise. Sorry I'm not very good with not giving spoilers >,<)
Wicked
Anna karenina (well it used to be not so much now)
Walking Naked (It's about these teens, ones popular, one's the 'loser' and the girl in the popular group secretly becomes friends with her and well...to be popular again...anyway it's about suicide and wrestling with popularity over real friendship and by the time she realizes it...her friend kills herself. Sad book, hard to explain. But I liked it. It had a serious message, and dealt with what people are going through in school.)
The Tortall Series (can't go on explaining)
The night I disapeared (my hand hurts but I love this book too)
When She was good (by Norma Fox mazer) (Love that book)
Pirates (Celia Reese) (Love it too)
Speak (Idk, I only listed it here, because it was the first book that helped me to come to terms with what happened to me, wrote it in the cover of the book and well scribbled it out, but it did help me 'Speak' out so to speak.)
OH CRAP, I just remembered one of my good books is still half way across the country and not on my shelf...grr....I bought that book twice and can't remember the title:(.
(and so on)
Okay I've overstepped the number of 10 but I'll name one book not the last book in my mind but "The Little Witch" and "The boy who wanted a Dog", But Little witch is an out of print book that was the first book ever that inspired me to turn the world inside my head that I experienced, into a world that others could experience. It was a pivotal book for me when I was very very young. Always special. I forgot the title of that book several times throughout my life and ended up having to search for it by explaining what I could remember about it. It's out of print, very expensive/hard to find, but I managed to get a new edition for cheap after buying the WRONG one but getting a discount on it for...one of my long stories (smirks)
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