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03-12-2008, 07:58 PM
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'Dawn', and the following 4 books of the series by Virginia Andrews.
'Heaven and Dark Angel', also both by Virginia Andrews.
'Flowers in the Attic', again, Virginia Andrews.
'Shoppaholic & Baby', Sophie Kinsela.
'A boy called IT', can't remember his name, was so long ago.
'Drowning Ruth', again can't remember the authour.
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03-21-2008, 02:32 PM
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The Banned and the Banished (a series of five made up of Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Storm, Wit'ch War, Wit'ch Gate and Wit'ch Star) is the best series I've ever read. They're written by James Clemens and I couldn't recomend anything more.
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03-21-2008, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by kingajcice
Using this calculation, you can't find a single thing on Earth over 6000 years old.
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Oh my God, that is the biggest load of crap I have ever read anywhere! So the bones of dinosaurs were planted by some guy who overdid the whole 'April Fools' thing and decided to play a massive prank on everyone? Oh yeah, you've got a brilliant point there. I'm not being mean, but wise up. The earth has existed for aeons. And for someone to say that the Bible is a work of non-fiction obviously hasn't seen all the glaring mistakes in it.
Oh, I would post my favourite book, but I already did. I just had to address this issue.
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03-22-2008, 12:00 AM
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My favorite fiction book is A Tale of Two Cities.
My favorite nonfiction book is The Art of War.
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03-22-2008, 05:17 PM
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Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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03-22-2008, 06:04 PM
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sense and sensibility - my comfort read that I will NEVER tire of.
Colonel Brandon *SWOON*
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03-22-2008, 09:01 PM
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Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder
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03-23-2008, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ieuan
The Bible is the most popular book ever, it is non-fiction it's about real people in nreal time over the eons. To get a charter to prinmt a Bible is like getting a charter to print money, it's a goldmine. Guarranteed to sell. There have been billions of Bibles printed and billions of homes have one, can you say that about any other book? I think not.
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The phone book?
I've recently read The Catcher in the Rye, I'd recommend it to everyone. I've never seen a book written in the manner that it was, where it does not skip around in time and such. It is the events of about 48 hours in the life of Holden Caulfield. I could akin it to the show 24 (although I wouldn't want to) in such that it does not skip ahead to "later that day..." or "3 days later" or any such thing.
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03-23-2008, 05:02 PM
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Wuthering Hights - Charlotte Bronte
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03-23-2008, 08:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ieuan
The Bible is the most popular book ever, it is non-fiction it's about real people in nreal time over the eons. To get a charter to prinmt a Bible is like getting a charter to print money, it's a goldmine. Guarranteed to sell. There have been billions of Bibles printed and billions of homes have one, can you say that about any other book? I think not.
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Mao-Tse-Tung's Quotations from Chairman Mao has sold over a billion copies. It may not be in every home, but it is the second best-selling book behind the Bible.
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03-24-2008, 02:56 PM
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The Brother's Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Only wish Ivan was not so ill fated.
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04-02-2008, 01:16 PM
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Easy first: To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Runners-up:
* She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
* The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
* The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Tully, Paullina Simons
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04-11-2008, 03:04 AM
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ALL of Jasper Fforde's books, especially the Thursday Next series.
Thursday Next Series:
-The Eyre Affair
-Lost in a Good Book
-The Well of Lost Plots
-Something Rotten
-First Among Sequels
Nursery Crime Series:
-The Big Over Easy
-The Fourth Bear
A very close second is the Monkeewrench series by P.J. Tracy. My favorite novel in that series is definitely the first one (for which the series is named): Monkeewrench
Racheal
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05-25-2008, 01:48 PM
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The Eyre Affair is great. I've bought "Lost in a good book" and intend to read that. But, th big over easy, and the fourth bear are much much better. The fourth bear actually is incredibly good.
Thief of time by terry Pratchett is a better, and very good book.
The best piece of non-fiction is "The Lion and the Unicorn" by Richard Aldous, about two Victorian British premiers, Gladstone and Disreali. It's amazing how he made what you may think is a dry topic so interesting.
The God Delusion and "Medieval Lives - Terry Jones" are pretty well written non-fiction.
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