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Old 05-15-2010, 04:00 PM   #46
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If you don't mind I would propose

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

The novel is currently enjoying popularity as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane, published in 2007 in The Top Ten, which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".
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Old 05-15-2010, 04:15 PM   #47
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Have you read and enjoyed it? If so, it seems an excellent start.
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Old 05-15-2010, 05:29 PM   #48
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Have you read and enjoyed it? If so, it seems an excellent start.
Many times, since I was 14. The beginning chapters of part III, where Levin describes the works in the country still give me the deepest emotions, the same that I had the first time I read them and still always new and fresh. There is a musical quality, like one finds in Richard Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, atonal, almost arythmic, of great peace and communion with earth at large. IMHO, among the highest pages ever written. Of course I read it in translation.
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Old 05-15-2010, 08:04 PM   #49
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Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman - 1st of the Coldfire Trilogy - "Hauntingly memorable protagonists, high drama, and vivid world-building mark the beginning of what promises to be a magnum opus of the imagination."

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Old 05-15-2010, 10:49 PM   #50
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Old 05-16-2010, 02:38 AM   #51
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Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. I just recently re-read it (first read was many years ago) and still enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Old 05-16-2010, 05:51 AM   #52
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Old 05-16-2010, 07:36 AM   #53
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'Fattypuffs and thinnifers' by Andre Maurois

A children's book, but a classic, and a good read for adults too. Just re-read it the other day after many years, and was pleased to find it's as good as I remembered.
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:18 AM   #54
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:55 AM   #55
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Old 09-29-2010, 11:24 PM   #56
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Old 09-30-2010, 03:32 AM   #57
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Welcome to Mobileread Lvov. Thanks for reviving this thread, but you'll have to keep We for later on. It looks like we got up to H in the second round of Alphabetical good reads before the thread went dormant.

So we need an "I". Any takers? We want a book beginning with "I" that is a favourite, an enjoyable read and re-read.
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Old 09-30-2010, 05:39 AM   #58
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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Read it as a kid, cried.

Saw the movie with Elizabeth Taylor, cried.

Loved it.

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