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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
01-24-2007, 08:42 PM
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The Once and Future King. I thought it was very interesting and I couldn't put it down. Of course, I finally got A Tale of Two Cities and Les Miserables, so we'll ahve to see how this works out.
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If you put a dehydrated watermelon into a shoe, then add water, it will cause a rift in the space-time continuum.
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01-25-2007, 05:46 AM
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My favourite book has to be 'The Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey N.
Great idea, well written and the first book that made me cry.
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01-25-2007, 06:11 AM
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Shakespeare is a very intriguing man. I really, truly enjoyed 'Future Eden' and 'Space the Final Frontier' (in that order) by Colin Thompson. Never underestimate a chicken. As a kid I enjoyed them and I don't mind them that much now either.
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01-25-2007, 01:43 PM
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American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis.
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01-25-2007, 04:55 PM
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Not fiction, but it would have to be The Way of Zen by Alan Watts. It tied my brain in knots.
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01-25-2007, 05:00 PM
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"Hamlet"... the Dover Thrift Edition (I think it was from the Cambridge Library). The prose is spectacular and Hamlet, himself, is to die for. (no pun intended)
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01-25-2007, 07:45 PM
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In all the years of my reading, there has been only one book that made me laugh, cry, love, cheer, rage, and shed passionate tears while trying to read it to my six-year-old son.
The characters: Hazel. Fiver. Pipkin. Bigwig. The book: Watership Down, by Richard Adams.
To this day, just thinking about the beauty of that novel gives me goosebumps. If only I could aspire to such writing!
Cheers,
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01-25-2007, 08:50 PM
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The only book I ever cried over was A Darkling Plain, which was the fourth and final book in the Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve.
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01-26-2007, 12:13 AM
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Ah, I actually cried in His Dark Materials...the second book actually O.o But yeah...
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02-01-2007, 08:15 AM
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For me it'd have to be the Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore.
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02-01-2007, 09:23 AM
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the dice man - luke rhinehart.
its a good old yarn
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02-01-2007, 09:57 AM
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It's pulp and has no literary credibility but James Clavelle's Shogun is the book I've read more times then any other - 6, the second time starting the moment I finished the last page.
If you're going on pure literary quality then The Divine Comedy.
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02-01-2007, 10:09 AM
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I don't know about the best book, but the three books I've read the most were "1984" by Orwell, "Clockwork Orange" by Burgess, and "On Writing" by King. Like I said, I don't think they are the best books I've ever read, but there must be some reason I've re-read them so many times.
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02-01-2007, 12:19 PM
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Argh! I hate this question there are about three or four authors that come to mind immediatly(sp?) Christoper Paolini (Eragon, Eldest), Tamora Pierce (Tortall Books), Philips Pullman (His dark materials) and Garth Nix(Abhorsen). For the longest time my favorite book was "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. Then I read Eragona and it immeadiately(I hate spelling this word) became my favorite book. However, I just read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy and that might be even better *shudders*. But of course I can't ignore "Illusions" by Richard Bach. That book changed my life. So in conclusion, the answer to the question is I have no idea.
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02-02-2007, 09:22 PM
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In all the years of my reading, there has been only one book that made me laugh, cry, love, cheer, rage, and shudder with relief and sudden laughter when the protagonists actually survived.
The characters: Cadman Weyland versus the Grendle...and a multitude of characters. The book: The Legacy of Heorot, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes.
To this day, just thinking about the beauty of that novel gives me goosebumps. If only I could aspire to such writing!
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