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Old 09-23-2010, 04:15 AM   #46
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But be prepared for some surprises! When asked what to read after Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, top of the list of suggestions was RAMONA QUIMBY AGE 8 by Beverly Cleary.
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Old 09-23-2010, 06:45 AM   #47
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Little, Big John Crowley
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell Susanna Clarke
The Summer Tree (first of the Fionvar trilogy) Guy Gavriel Kay
Only Forward Michael Marshall Smith
Night Watch Terry Pratchett

If I could get "Little, Big" in eBook format I'd die a happy camper but at least I'm starting to see some of my other favourites beginning to appear in eformat.
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Old 09-23-2010, 08:24 AM   #48
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Some mix of:

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (#1 for sure)
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong
Congo - Michael Crichton
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
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Old 09-23-2010, 12:46 PM   #49
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The Bluest Eye
Beloved (both by Toni Morrison of course)
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Old 09-25-2010, 05:53 PM   #50
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Don Quixote - Cervantes
Dune - Frank Herbert
Day of the Jackel - Fredrick Forsyth
The Covenant - James Michener
QB-VII - Leon Uris
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Old 09-25-2010, 09:00 PM   #51
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YES!How could I have forgotten?
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Old 09-26-2010, 01:21 PM   #52
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1. Nightfall - Isaac Asimov
2. Kiss Me Deadly - Mickey Spillane
3. A Long Way Home From Troy - Donia Mills (I read this in high school and it's stuck with me all these years. lol)
4. The Other Side of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
5. The Lonely Lady - Harold Robbins

These are my top 5. My tastes in reading are as eclectic as my tastes in writing :-)

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Old 09-27-2010, 06:04 AM   #53
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1. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
2. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
3. Inverted World - Christopher Priest
4. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
5. This Sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith
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Old 09-27-2010, 03:09 PM   #54
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I'm sure there are some of you who have been reading a lot longer than me and I've been reading novels for about 23 years. I have no idea how you can come up with a list of 5. For every great book I remember, I'm sure I've forgotten 3 other great books.

I do remember really liking "Snow Crash".
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Old 09-27-2010, 04:34 PM   #55
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  1. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
  2. Brain Wave by Poul Anderson
  3. The Prodigal Sun by Philip E. High
  4. The Last Planet (aka Star Rangers) by Andre Norton
  5. The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson
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Old 09-28-2010, 04:34 PM   #56
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I couldn't warm up to the Lymond Chronicles at all but loved The House of Niccolo series; have all of those. Neither series is available on Kindle, alas. They're big books and it would nice to have them neatly contained on your e-reader.

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Looks like both of her series, Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo became available as ebooks in various formats in August 2010.
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Old 09-29-2010, 07:45 PM   #57
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
The Mad Toy - Roberto Arlt
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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Iliad/Odyssey by Homer
Candide by Voltaire
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Aneid by Virgil
A Canticle For Lebowitz
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It would be such a joy
To sit on infinity's vast shore
Without having to be shy or coy
About reading any book from a library
filled with the world's vast literary lore
Where about what you read none would criticize or annoy
Whether it be something new or what you have read before
Reading those pages woulod be like playing with your favorite toy
For to be able to read what ever you want is something we
should all strive to get the world to adore
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Awesome. And it looks like it functions as a flashlight, too!
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