Thread: Answer this Question: What is the one Book you *HAD* to have for your Kindle?
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Old 11-21-2010, 11:47 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm View Post
Anyway to get back to the OP's question ...

I had to have The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien.

I'm not a huge fantasy reader (I read lots of different genres) but it is a set of books which I've been reading again and again since I was about 12. I like the fact that they take me a very long time to read and because they are so long and descriptive it feels like I'm almost reading them anew every couple of years.

A close second would be Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne as I've always liked adventure books. A short read but exciting in my opinion.
Likewise, also Dune by Frank Herbert, Anne Mc Caffrey and her dragons, Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson, English Classics from the Brontefamily, Russian Classics like War and Peace, Anna Karenina. But, not available for some reason, the works of Marguerite Yourcenar in French, also Victor Hugo and the works of Dürrenmatt in German.
BTW What happened to your avatar Kindleworm?
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