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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
08-12-2007, 04:17 AM
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Scribe
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: The Onyx Prep School for Crappy Writers
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In no particular order
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce
The Executioners Song by Norman Mailer
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
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08-12-2007, 12:52 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere special...just...bird watching...yeah, sure...bird watching...
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My view on life and history has changed so my list has to be done again. sorry 
1/ The Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell)
2/ The Dark Half (George Stark is just kick ass!)
3/ 1984 (Eric Blair ( he used a pen name for those who didn't know))
4/ Of Mice and Men (best ending EVER!)
5/ The Last Kingdom ( great book about a saxon boy growing to love the Dane who saved him on a battlefield but then being driven to the last Saxon kingdom in Britian because of his Danish family is killed. He is then forced by King Alfred the Great to fight the Danes) |
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08-16-2007, 09:44 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: San Pedro, California
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My current favorites in no particular order:
1. Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes
2. The Stand - Stephen King
3. Faith of the Fallen - Terry Goodkind (book 6 of the Sword of Truth series. The one that every critic on the face of the planet ripped to shreds. The ending made my eyes water, cant remember the last time that a fantasy book accomplished that for me. Thus the spot on my fave's list.)
4. It - Stephen King
5. Elf Stones of Shanarra - Terry Brooks
Last edited by SFeigley : 08-16-2007 at 10:12 PM.
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09-17-2007, 01:05 AM
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Scribe
Join Date: Sep 2007
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This is just for fiction, right? In no particular order (except the first one):
1. "The Lord of the Rings", J.R.R. Tolkien
2. "To Kill A Mockingbird", Harper Lee
3. "The Mists of Avalon", Marion Zimmer Bradley
4. "The Dragon and the Unicorn", A.A. Attanasio
5. "The Last Unicorn", Peter S. Beagle
Though it is so hard to choose just five!
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09-18-2007, 10:13 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ohio
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sorry i dont know the authors but my top 5 favorite books are
1. (inheredence series)
2. to kill a mocking bird
3. under a war torn sky
4. (the halo books)
5. i havent read enough to have a fifth 
feel dumb now
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09-18-2007, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Western Australia
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five favourite books???? how can i narrow it down to five??? oh well, i'll give it a go.... these are not in order - they are all equally good
1. "Does My Head Look Big In This?" by Randa Abdel-Fattah
2. Any book by Melina Marchetta
3. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak (I think that's how you spell it...)
4. Inheritance Series by Christopher Paolini
5. All Harry Potter Books by J. K. Rowling
6. The Scarecrow books by Matthew Reilley
Sorry, I had to add a sixth one 
And I have, like, a gazillion others...
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Last edited by Nillani : 09-18-2007 at 11:10 PM.
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09-18-2007, 11:57 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: At the base of the Crystal Mountain range
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Is it fair to cheat?
The Earthsea Trilogy * Ursula K LeGuin
Alice in Wonderland * Lewis Carroll
Watership Down * Richard Adams
Dictionary * Funk & Wagnalls
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton * Anne Sexton
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09-19-2007, 11:24 AM
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Writer
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Europe
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1. Hyperion (+ everything else) by Friedrich Hölderlin
2. Death and the Dervish by Meša Selimović
3. Amerika (+ everything else) by Franz Kafka
4. Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
5. Jamilya by Chinghiz Aitmatov
The list changes from time to time, but I have loved all those books for several years now, so I think I can estimate that they will remain amongst my favourites for years, regardless of what I will discover in the future...
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09-19-2007, 06:56 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Birmingham, England
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The Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell
Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Gertrude - Herman Hesse
The Rest Cure - Aldous Huxley
And what great prose they are folks! I'd love to have met some of these writers. I night with Hesse, you'd be contemplating the trigger staring down a barel of steel by the end of it, but what a great deal you'd learn!
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09-21-2007, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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This list changes all the time, but here are my current top 5
1) A Disaffection - James Kelman
2) 1982, Janine - Alasdair Gray
3) Matilda - Roald Dahl
4) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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09-21-2007, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Texas
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Ecstasy of Gold is a song by Ennio Morricone, isn't it?
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09-22-2007, 03:21 AM
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Location: Western Australia
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what the hell???
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09-22-2007, 12:49 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Sep 2007
Gender: Female
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Top five, as of now... this is going to be tough
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
4. The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
3. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
2. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
1. The Giver (Lois Lowry)
A runner up is:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
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09-22-2007, 02:09 PM
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Random order:
Time for the stars (Heinlein)
Songmaster (Orson Card)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
The dead zone (Stephen King)
The dark is rising (Susan Cooper)
Bah, that was hard >.<'
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09-22-2007, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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These are probably really childish but all the same
1- Harry Potter (just counting them as one!)
2- Pendragon (again 1) series by DJ MacHale
3- Charlie Bone
4- His Dark Materials Trilogy
5- To Kill a Mockingbird
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