Favorite book of all time
Apr 20th, 2008, 06:50 AM
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Have to add one more - rare to see that anyone even knows who Rumer Godden is. I read 'The River' about once a year. Wonderful.
Oh no. There's two more: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
I better go before I think of 10 others.
Oh no. There's two more: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
I better go before I think of 10 others.
Apr 20th, 2008, 09:21 AM
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Rumer Godden's books may be making a comeback--I just saw one listed in the "Bas Bleu" catalogue.
I especially love her autobiographies about her life in India with her sister, Jon, also a fine writer.
I especially love her autobiographies about her life in India with her sister, Jon, also a fine writer.
Apr 20th, 2008, 03:26 PM
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Top 10, in no particular order:
1 Edith Wharton, House of Mirth
2 Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein
3 Henry James, The Other House
4 Jane Austen, Emma
5 Gabriel Gracia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
6 Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
7 Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
8 Michel Houellebecq, Atomised
9 Mikhail Bulgarkov, The Master and Marguerita
10 Patrick White, The Tree of Man
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Apr 20th, 2008, 04:30 PM
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Can't possibly limit it to one!
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard -- glad to see so many other folks enjoy them just as much!
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Stand -- Stephen King (the only Stephen King book I really like)
The Shell Seekers -- Rosamunde Pilcher
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
Colony -- Anne Rivers Siddons
A Bed by the Window -- M. Scott Peck
I love lists like this!
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard -- glad to see so many other folks enjoy them just as much!
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Stand -- Stephen King (the only Stephen King book I really like)
The Shell Seekers -- Rosamunde Pilcher
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- John Irving
Colony -- Anne Rivers Siddons
A Bed by the Window -- M. Scott Peck
I love lists like this!
Apr 20th, 2008, 04:53 PM
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Was surprised to see Lad,a Dog by Terhune! Read and loved the whole series as a kid, never heard it mentioned by anyone else.
Have to second To Kill a Mockingbird
To escape: The Dragonriders of Pern by McCaffery
Have to second To Kill a Mockingbird
To escape: The Dragonriders of Pern by McCaffery
Apr 20th, 2008, 05:30 PM
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Sorry, can't name just one. In no particular order:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett
Macbeth, Wm. Shakespeare
The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Collected works of George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett
Macbeth, Wm. Shakespeare
The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Collected works of George Gordon, Lord Byron
Apr 20th, 2008, 06:26 PM
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I'm glad to see Dejais and annettetx list The Stand which is also one of my favorites. annette, have you ever read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon or Misery by King? Like The Stand, they're not in the same vein as his horror novels. Say what you want about his literary reputation, but few can tell a story in as spellbinding a manor as Stephen King.
Apr 20th, 2008, 10:02 PM
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
I adore this diary with a passion so great I travelled to the other side of the world to walk where Sam walked, to see the actual diary and the church where he is buried.
Love it!!!
I adore this diary with a passion so great I travelled to the other side of the world to walk where Sam walked, to see the actual diary and the church where he is buried.
Love it!!!
Apr 21st, 2008, 02:25 AM
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guns germs and steel
i know it's had some controversial reviews and not everyone agrees with the theories but i felt like i got a few things in perspective after reading it
i also liked sophies world by jostein gaarder - read it about a decade ago
i know it's had some controversial reviews and not everyone agrees with the theories but i felt like i got a few things in perspective after reading it
i also liked sophies world by jostein gaarder - read it about a decade ago
