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Choose TWO books as your all time favourites........ ONLY TWO!
heres what springs to my mind immediatly
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my all time fave...i still regularly read it and carry it about with me.
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Charles bukowski reader........after reading this book of highlights i devoured the entire lot.
awwww bugger one more then
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The Magic Faraway Tree and The Hobbit. | |
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My favorite is "Brave New World".
And for some reason I can't shake "Atlas Shrugged". Whatever your beliefs it's "bravura"!
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they are utter classics........i LOVE THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND oops shouting and the magic faraway tree?
dame slap? silky? dick and fanny? moonface? love it!! | |
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The Farewell Symphony by Edmund White...and The Color Purple by Alice Walker....I also like the stuff David Sedaris has written... If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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Tennessee Williams: Plays, 1937-1955 and Interview with the Vampire
(the first one is more a collection of plays though, if that counts) If you will, so will I | |
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Middlemarch by George Eliot and Persuasion by Jane Austen. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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peter pan
memnoch the devil i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... 
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE... | |
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Love that novel; I reread it ever couple of years.
My two all time favoirtes? I can't, too many books to narrow it down to just two.
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"Fledgling" - Octavia Butler
"Carrie" - Stephen King 비 | |
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I think maybe kids books really are the ones that have meant the most to me over the years.
The Hobbit The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe
My Legacy
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NDRU said: I think maybe kids books really are the ones that have meant the most to me over the years.
The Hobbit The Lion The Witch & the Wardrobe
I'm with you on that one. It's nice to be taken somewhere with happy endings. I thought Harry Potter was something else. | |
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I haven't read nearly enough books. But two that spring to mind - [img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/TimeTravellersWife.jpg/200px-TimeTravellersWife.jpg[/img:$uid] [img:$uid]http://www.mustlovebooks.co.za/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/OnceJamesHerbert319_f.jpg[/img:$uid] | |
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My wife read TTW and really enjoyed it. I watched the film. She didn't think much of the film.
I'll tell you what I did really like was Memoirs of a Geisha. Liked the film aswell.
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Yeah, I didn't think much of the film either. Though I was crying within the first ten minutes - I knew what was coming!!
I haven't read/seen Memoirs of a Geisha. I will have to remember to look out for that one. Thanks | |
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 [Edited 5/9/12 6:29am] [Edited 5/9/12 6:31am] small circles, big wheels!
I've got a pretty firm grip on the obvious! | |
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The first time I read Middlemarch, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get through it. The first 100 pages or so (out of over a thousand, total) are very hard. Lots of exposition - not much happens. But after that - holy cow, what a page-turner! It totally sucks you in.
I have read all the novels of Jane Austen - and agree that Persuasion is her finest. I just love that story. I think it's the "quietest" of her novels. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I can't...
too many books that give me pleasure, including fiction and non-fiction...
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This is really hard. I will name 2, but I wish you had've asked for top 5
Love in the Time of Cholera Sophie's Choice
right behind are:
The Color Purple The Sun Also Rises Roots
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The Talisman & Blackhouse by Stephen King (i've read most of his books & enjoyed them all but these 2 are prob my fave). The Temple of my familiar by Alice Walker (magical!!). Anything by Barbara G Walker & Clarissa Pinkola Estes but esp The womens encyclopedia of myths & secrets & Women who run with the wolves. The beauty myth by Niomi Wolf. As a kid (aprox 12) i loved Rosa Guy's book's but esp The Friends , Edith Jackson & Ruby. It was really hard 4 me to narrow down my favourite bks to two! Sorry bout that! I'm what stephen king calls a constant reader & i read a broad range of subjects/genre's so even getting the list this short was challenging!"We just let people talk & say whatever they want 2 say. 9 times out of 10, trust me, what's out there now, I wouldn't give nary one of these folks the time of day. That's why I don't say anything back, because there's so much that's wrong" - P, Dec '15 | |
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Siddhartha - Herman Hesse Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac | |
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Anna Karenina and Wuthering Heights. | |
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Oooooh...those are good. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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It by Stephen King....I hope they remake the movie and make it true to the book.
Lord Of The Flies by William Golding.........first read it in school and I go back and re read it again every few years or so. Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
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I liked your picks too.
Middlemarch was the favorite book of one of my most-loved English professors in college, so I like it for obvious reasons and for sentimental ones. | |
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The Wanderers Last Exit to Brooklyn “If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” | |
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Empress said: This is really hard. I will name 2, but I wish you had've asked for top 5
Love in the Time of Cholera Sophie's Choice
right behind are:
The Color Purple The Sun Also Rises Roots
If u like the color purple check out Possessing the secret of joy & The temple of my familiar as they are kind of a trilogy. "We just let people talk & say whatever they want 2 say. 9 times out of 10, trust me, what's out there now, I wouldn't give nary one of these folks the time of day. That's why I don't say anything back, because there's so much that's wrong" - P, Dec '15 | |
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muirdo said: It by Stephen King....I hope they remake the movie and make it true to the book.
Lord Of The Flies by William Golding.....first read it in school and I go back and re read it again every few years or so. 'It' was the book that turned me onto s.k in the first place! Love that book but the film sucked. Wonder if there's any dark tower fans on the org. "We just let people talk & say whatever they want 2 say. 9 times out of 10, trust me, what's out there now, I wouldn't give nary one of these folks the time of day. That's why I don't say anything back, because there's so much that's wrong" - P, Dec '15 | |
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