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Favorite book? - 3/21/2005 7:32:27 PM   
knees2you


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Status: offline 		I feel that everybody has a Favorite Book or series!
I really don't like to read, but when I did,
I loved the Hardy boy Books, exspecially the T.V. series~

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/21/2005 7:53:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		my favorite series are the heralds of valdemar series, by mercedes lackey; the black jewels books, by anne bishop; and kushiel's dart, kushiel's chosen, and kushiel's avatar, by jacqueline carey. the following quote is one of my favorites and comes from one of the kushiel books. i can't remember which one, though...

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/21/2005 10:51:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I loved Valdemar, but as far as epic stories go, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan rocks. On a lighter note, Piers Anthony's Xanth series is great, especially for teens. David Eddings' Belgariad was another great series with lots of magic and great characters. jeez, i could go on and on, lol.
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RE: Favorite book? - 3/21/2005 10:54:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		This may seem really strange, but my all time favorite book is called "Modoc". It's the true story of an elephant and had me in tears.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 2:54:34 AM   
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The Secret Garden has been a favorite since childhood, i still read it.

Scarlett the sequel to Gone With The Wind.

Happy Tuesday y'all...

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 5:40:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		my favourite books as a child were "The Magic Faraway Tree" ones, and "The Wishing Chair"

Now im all grown up, i enjoy true crime novels.


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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 6:50:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lord of the Rings. I read the series (including The Hobbit) every few years. The theme is simple (good vs. evil) and Tolkien has a beautiful way of allowing you to immerse yourself into his world.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 7:15:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I loved Nancy Drew books when I was a kid! As a preteen, however, I found smut novels and have read them ever since. My two favorite authors in that genre are Kathleen Woodiwiss and Judith McNaught.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 3:19:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's kinda hard to pick just one, so I'll just toss out the first ones that come to mind right now (and I'll resist the urge to add to the list later when I remember others):

entertaiing reads:
The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy
The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger
The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
just about anything by Isaac Asimov

and the "best" book I've ever read is:
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Paul Kennedy
and I call it the "best" in terms of being a well researched, well written, thought provoking and informative history of epic proportions.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 3:44:25 PM   
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The Chronicals of the Deryni and the Enchanted Forest books are nifty too. So is Tamora Peirce.

Read way to much to have a single fav book... though of all my top faves, I tend to quote from "Starship Troopers" and LKH more then anything else.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/22/2005 8:39:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yay for Starship Troopers. I like Heinlen well enough, and some of his stuff is a plesant kinda retro-scifi.

I love Cantcile for Leibowitz, Blackhawk Down (I read it long before there was a movie), 1984, Animal Farm (I tend to quote those two books at random, although my roomate still hasn't caught onto why I ask him what 2+2 equals), Heart of Darkness (which is an example of why you never loan books to people you hardly know, as my copy is now in parts unknown), Catch 22, Slaugther House 5 and jebus there's tons of others, but those are the ones on my shelf/on the top of my head right now.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/23/2005 10:04:29 PM   
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RE: Favorite book? - 3/24/2005 2:20:10 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Atavist

Lord of the Rings. I read the series (including The Hobbit) every few years. The theme is simple (good vs. evil) and Tolkien has a beautiful way of allowing you to immerse yourself into his world.


I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS! I'm a lotr nerd if there ever was one. Read the trilogy and the hobbit twice, plus the Silmarillion and just started on the Lost Tales. I can quote the movies and even speak a little elvish. How geeky is that? lol.... wow... i need to get a life haha

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/24/2005 6:50:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		my favorite book growing book was "the outsiders" ... pony boy and soda pop just did it for me! ~grins~

as an adult, favorite book by far is memoirs of a geisha,

now reading diaries of anais nin, i'll keep ya posted on that one...so far so good.






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RE: Favorite book? - 3/24/2005 7:54:10 AM   
Guest
 This is as impossible a task as asking my favorite band/musician, my favorite food or favorite sexual position. There are too many to pick just one.

a list of favorites then which may change depending on mood/memory, and in no particular order (except the first - the most brilliant series ever written IMO)

LOTR - JRR Tolkien
NAKED LUNCH - William S Burroughs
BRAVE NEW WORLD - Aldous Huxley
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut
DUNE -Frank Herbert
BATTLEFIELD EARTH - L Ron Hubbard
BELGARIAD - David Eddings
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Anthony Burgess
1984 - George Orwell
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS - HP Lovecraft
THE STAND - Stephen King
LOLITA - Vladimir Nabakov
HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY - Douglas Adams
FARENHEIT 451 - Ray Bradbury
LORD OF THE FLIES - William Golding
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN - James Baldwin
A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway

Damn, I think it's time to read a book....

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/24/2005 8:08:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		All the above stated books are awsome choices. I'm a big fan of horror, thriller , and true crime, but my all time favorite at this point in my life has to be the Austra series by Elaine Bergstrom. If you are a fan of Anne Rice then You'll love these as well if not more.
Always looking for new recomended reading, my list from here is growing every day, counting on a few to lend me their copies *wink*, before I go and buy out the nearest bookstores.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/24/2005 6:31:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mercedes Lackey....The Heralds of Valdemar are at the top of my list as well :) I'm an avid reader though, so I have a lot of favorites.



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RE: Favorite book? - 3/25/2005 10:01:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Definately the Ender Wiggin series by Orson Scott Card. Last time I checked there were 5 books begining with Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow and a few others. Great series for sci-fi fans, without all the sci-fi baggage and cliche.

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/25/2005 10:38:06 AM   
Guest
 oh, true crime.. that reminds me of another all time favorite:

IN COLD BLOOD -Truman Capote

Magnificently written and chilling....

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RE: Favorite book? - 3/25/2005 5:06:14 PM   
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ORIGINAL: knees2you

I feel that everybody has a Favorite Book or series!


I don't. I read, on average, 2 or 3 books/week in a wide variety of genres. I can't come up with any particular book or series that I would dub my "favourite" though. I like different books at different times for different reasons.

Best book I've read so far this year? The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith was also wonderful, as was The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman. I also adored the 4 Christopher Moore books that I've read this year (thanks Lawrence!!!) However, I'll read another 50 - 100 books before the year is up and if you asked me again in a month the list would probably change.

Best books from last year? Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand and The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold are what really stand out in my mind, but I could list dozens of others that were equally wonderful.

Nope, I don't have a favourite book.

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