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A STORY CALLED ...A TALE OF TWO CITIES...BY CHARLES DICKINSON

Catcher in the Rye

A Clockwork Orange

Fightclub

Notes from Underground

1984



Oh jeez I could go on forever!

lace17 said:

That's a cool book ... I have trouble reading Dickens but I love dramatisations.

Sweeny79 said:

Catcher In the Rye ... um isn't this the one that most psychopaths have read?

Raspberry said:

I'm naming my first born son Holden and ain't no one gonna stop me!

I'm a Lord of the Rings girl myself, although Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh was fascinating to me, as is anything that's biographical, autobiographical or where the subject is English history.

I have many!

But I can read and re-read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

On The Road - Jack Kerouac
The Unlimited Dream Company - J.G.Ballard
Anna Kakrenina - Tolstoy
Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevski
The Shadow Out Of Time - H.P.Lovecraft
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell
Without Feathers - Woody Allen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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the ciderhouse rules - john irving

Sylvia - Howard Fast http://www.trussel.com/hf...s/t184.htm
My Dog Stupid - John Fante in West Of Rome amazon link
Ubik Philip K Dick
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
Love in the Time of Cholera & One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Watchmen - Alan Moore
Leviathan - Paul Auster
Immortality + The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Mirror + The Manitou by Graham Masterton
Mirror
One of Masterton's best, March 9, 2002
Reviewer: gothamguardian (see more about me) from Huntsville, AL United States
Mirror, a horror novel originally published in the late 80s, is one of Masterton's finest. The story is top notch, well-crafted, and well-delivered. When TOR was publishing horror novels on a monthly basis, you could always look forward to a new Masterton title at least once a year.

The story centers around an fan obsessed with a child star who was murdered fifty years in the past, at the age of eight. The fan was so devoted to keeping the memory of the child star alive that he writes a musical based on the child's life. However, Hollywood has no takers for filming it.

The fan later discovers that some of items belonging to the child are available for sale. He purchases a mirror, later discovering that the child is still "alive" in the mirror. Later, when things take a turn for the worse, the fan discovers the truth behind the child's presence in the mirror. Then the real terror begins...

The Manitou: Karen Tandy visits her old boyfriend Harry Erskine, occult mavin and low-budget tarot reader to wealthy old ladies, because of a unique problem she's developed - a tumor on her neck, which to all intents and purposes appears to be a fetus. The doctors seem unable to remove it, and Harry starts experiencing paranormal disturbances after Karen comes to him for help. He, and a few initially skeptical doctors, reluctantly come to the conclusion that Karen Tandy is harboring the fetus of a powerful centuries-old medicine man about to be reborn - whose birth would first claim the life of Karen, and after, the entire white race, with his vengeful sorcery. What's modern science to do, against such a supernatural adversary? Why, fight fire with fire, of course - get another medicine man.
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The Top three books Ive read are:
3: Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
(Just an amazing piece of work u can totally lose yourself in.
One of those rare books u can pick up again and again, and it will still work its magic)

There are a number of other books in the series, all very good, but the 1st is a richly detailed world - with at times, a distinct Indian sub-continetal flavour. Quite different 4 a 'fantasy' novel. I think people would be pleasantly surprised by it.

2: 'The Dark Tower' series by Stephen King
Not a big fan of His stuff, but my cousin introduced me 2 the 1st novel of the series - 'The Gunslinger':

...and it was amazing. REALLY different 4 King.
If I HAD 2 pick one of the books as a favourite, I think Id go with 'Wizard & Glass'...
I cant wait 2 get my hands on the final few books next year before He retires...
(The first of the final few novels ('The Wolves of The Calla') gets released next month if anyone is interested):

4 more info on this amazing story, click here:
www.stephenking.com/DarkT...ndex2.html


1: The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
THE best book Ive ever read (and I've read a lot!)
I got SO wrapped up in this book, that I couldnt WAIT 4 my working day 2 end so I could go home and go 2 bed early 2 read it! In fact, it was THAT good that I when I neared the end, I didnt wanna read the last chapter, cuz I knew that would be IT. When I finished it, I cried. No book has ever affected me so much - but it isnt without hope. There is much 2 find within its pages. What is amazing about the whole book is the way it is constructed, u start out reading what u THINK is the story, then it begins 2 twist and turn. BY three quarters of the way through, u will suddenly realise that there are a number of different ways 2 read the book (or rather read IN2 the book) and this throws the story's dynamic off in2 wild territories 4 your mind 2 ponder on.

It's truly great stuff from a writer at His prime. Im glad I found this little gem, and I'd recommend this book 2 anyone who appreciates a good story.

It's AWESOME and I defy u not 2 engage with it.
(AnX, Blue & Stymie - I think u guys would really dig this book...)




Here's a brief synopsis:
The narrator of The Night Listener is Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller who has risen to national fame in San Francisco. Having just separated from his husband of ten years, Noone is adrift in pain and confusion when he receives unexpected comfort from a thirteen-year-old fan - Pete Lomax - in Wisconsin. He learns of Pete's existence when a publisher sends him a book the child has written about the unimaginable sexual abuse he has suffered, his consequent struggle with HIV infection and his new life with a psychologist named Donna, who has become his foster mother. Deserted by his lover and companion of ten years, Noone is now at a strangely vulnerable point in his life. Pete, wise beyond his thriteen years, becomes a sort of surrogate son to the storyteller through a series of long distance phone calls. But, just as the clouds begin to part for Gabriel, a question arises that casts doubt upon the very existence this miracle child. Desperate for the truth, Gabriel begins an odyssey that will throw his own stormy relationships - familial, romantic and erotic - into sharp perspective. A personal saga that turns into a mystery that turns back into a personal saga again, The Night Listener keeps us guessing as it as it keeps us reading. Along the way Maupin brilliantly explores the question of how we tell stories, and to whom, and why...

ANYONE ELSE READ THIS?
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Now I love you Banana because you are a Stephen King fan too.

Wait a minute, you just pulled your response from a similar thread a long time ago. And I said the same thing to you then.
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the Bible

Stephen King is my very favorite..droolin for his next book!!

minneapolisgenius said:

What? U think I was gonna type all that shit up again?!? U MAD?

PS: GOOD memory - impressed!

bluesbaby said:

Me too. I read everything he's ever written at least four times. Except Cujo.

"Skinny Legs and All" by Tom Robbins is my all time favorite book

after that I really like his other stuff such as "Jitterbug Perfume" and "Still Life With Woodpecker"


honorable mentions go to:
"A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
"Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
and
"The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Cbhosky
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien
Shock Value by John Waters


Many, many more...Im a certified bookworm.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah, my all time fav of his is THE STAND. But all his others, especially Dark Tower series, and his book on the art of writing are good

bluesbaby said:

I think mine are The Stand and It.

BOOK, people BOOK. Not bookS.

Can't you guys read?!



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minneapolisgenius said:

I HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET HIM AND DIDN'T TAKE IT!

Natsume said:

Knock it off!

Hi hun! How are you.

sag10 said:

I am good, sag! Just woke up from a three hour nap! Plus it is Thursday and I don't have any classes tomorrow!

How are you?

Natsume said:

I am stressed. But strong...

Have some fun tomorrow..do something for you..

sag10 said:

Stressed?! My poor sag! You should take your own advice and have some sex! ()

I am going shopping tomorrow. Not for anything cool, just food, and bobby pins and Draino because my sink is clogged.

Natsume said:

I have plenty of sex... If I have anymore my, oh nevermind.

Have fun honey, and be safe.

sag10 said:

sag! You naughty thing you!!

Have a great weekend (with lotsa sex! )
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A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY John Irving
LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY Felice Picano