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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
02-03-2007, 10:14 PM
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Favourite book EVER? Gotta be "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris.
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02-05-2007, 12:25 PM
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John Updike
The Rabbit Novels:
Rabbit Run
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit is Rich
Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit Remembered
All are collected in one monster volume called "Rabbit Angstrom".
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02-06-2007, 12:35 AM
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Meep! Hmm. Can't choose between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and The Phantom of the Opera. Both own my soul, though they have very... different... styles. XD
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02-06-2007, 03:32 PM
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favorite-est ever
My favorite book would have to be The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. Every time I read it, I find new depths, and it always manages to be touching and intense.
Coming a close second would be Garth Nix's Sabriel and I will always have a special place in my heart for Tamora Pierce's Tortall series (I think that it was mentioned before). I remember devouring anything Tamora Pierce wrote when I was younger. It's funny, but I think most of the books that have impacted me completely I found when I was in my early teens.
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02-06-2007, 11:37 PM
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And, what, nobody in here has mentioned Grendel yet? What's the matter with you all? 
My favorite book of all time is The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein.
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02-07-2007, 09:21 AM
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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, though it was close betweent that and a few other books.
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02-07-2007, 11:55 AM
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"Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
If I like you enough, I'll recommend it.
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02-07-2007, 10:23 PM
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I thought Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk was the best one that I have ever read. It is the first book I read that really got me into reading and other books and things like that.
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02-10-2007, 08:45 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 scalding tears of empathy for the protagonist.
The characters: Ender Wiggin. Peter Wiggin. Valentine Wiggin. And, of course, the Buggers. The book: Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.
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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02-10-2007, 09:25 PM
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"Scarecrow" by matthew Reily
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02-10-2007, 11:00 PM
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Yeesh... that depends on whatever I've read most recently. I love every Dean Koontz novel, with From the Corner of His Eye ranking number one, but whenever I read Phantom by Susan Kay, it ranks up there at number one.
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02-11-2007, 01:14 AM
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Mine is probably Inkheart, or The dream Merchant.
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02-11-2007, 01:43 PM
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Well I really haven't read that many books only 10 in total that wasn't assigned by a teacher. I do read frequently but it's only the same 6 ones I own. My favorite is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling.
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02-17-2007, 06:09 PM
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Paradise Lost and the Iliad are probably my favourite works, though obviously the latter is a translation. Both are absolutely fantastic though. Virgil, sadly, should be dug up and shot.
Out of books written in the last few centuries, I have to say Shogun, His Dark Materials and The Mote in God's Eye stand out for me.
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02-17-2007, 11:18 PM
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Mine would be the Twilight and New Moon series. Awesome books, man!
TBW
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