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Some recent books (not classics) I've liked:
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth Small World - David Lodge A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson |
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Lolita - Nabokov
and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami avoided Lolita for years due to inverted snobbery.... and some weird anti-Sting/Police thing. Oh - if you like 'Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy', you must get Douglas Adams' 'Dirk Gently' books. 2 of them, and his best character creation of all. http://www.amazon.com/Dirk-Gentlys-H.../dp/0671746723 http://www.amazon.com/Long-Dark-Tea-..._bxgy_b_text_b Long dark tea-time of the soul..... genius, i tell you. |
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Watership Down by Richard Adams has been my favorite book since I was ten - read it 4 times so far.
followed closely by Neverness by David Zindell Michael |
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Lord of the Rings
L'Assommoir (Emile Zola) |
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Tough question. I can't really choose one, but the top contenders would be:
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen Interview With a Vampire - Anne Rice Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope (or He Knew He Was Right, or The Prime Minister) West With the Night - Beryl Markham |
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Its hard to select one but if I have to I would say GODFATHER by Mario Puzo. I don't know why but I really enjoy reading this book. I guess I am intrigued by the character of the godfather and how he manages/manipulates people.
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I would have said that my currently recollected favourite was Bliss by Peter Carey, though the posts of others have reminded me of books like Neverness and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Then I'm reminded of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Under Milk Wood. An Imaginary Life was/is a book I loved from when I first was forced to read it at high school...
...but I probably come back to Bliss, even if I haven't been enamored with others of Carey's books I've read. Cheers, Marc |
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Wow... Read all the replies so far and saw a lot of books that would be up there, but for me it would probably be:
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard (don't judge the book by the movie, if Dianetics has a hell, John Travolta is going to its deepest darkest corner for what he did with that movie ![]() All the rest of the close contenders would be: Almost anything written by Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, or Card. My favorite Heinlein book would be a tie between Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Number of the Beast, and The Past through Tomorrow. Asimov, of course the foundation series. Herbert, the Dune series, including the later ones his son participated in authoring. Card, the Ender series, and his Eden books too were a pretty darn good romp. |
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One of my other favorite books is "Catcher In The Rye" because this is the bookthat turned me onto reading. (Please put it in e-book format)
I went to a Catholic school and our seventh grade teacher, Mrs. Masek---great teacher, had the guts to assign it to us. Of course the sh*t hit the fan but it gave us kids the more emphasis to read the book. |
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Really hard, and I couldn't pick just one:
Any list would have to include the following, though: LOTR, Red Storm Rising, Alas, Babylon (Pat Frank). |
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Legend by David Gemmell
The Belgariad by David Eddings The Riftwar series by Raymond E Feist Wonderful books that transformed my reading from an occasional pastime to a lifelong passion. |
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Naming just one is so cruel, but here goes: THE TOMORROW FILE by Lawrence Sanders, a terrific futuristic thriller from my all-time favorite author.
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