05-16-2010, 10:57 AM | #1 |
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Your all time favorite book is....
So, what is your favorite book?
Mine is Trinity by Leon Uris (must be my Irish Catholic upbringing), followed closely by The Hobbit. |
05-16-2010, 11:15 AM | #2 |
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Though Godel, Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter is another favourite |
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05-16-2010, 11:25 AM | #3 |
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I can't list just one, but I can list two:
Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy Engine Summer by John Crowley |
05-16-2010, 11:34 AM | #4 |
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Oh God, no! Don't force me to decide!
In no particular order of preference: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Probability Broach - L Neil Smith Conflict of Honors - Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Red Thunder - John Varley Mutineer's Moon trilogy - David Weber Honor Harrington series - David Weber If I were stuck on a desert islan with these books, I'd survive! Derek |
05-16-2010, 12:06 PM | #5 |
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Love the Hobbit, it's certainly a very strong contender,
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Harry Potter by JK Rowling, The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Naming an absolute favourite is impossible, and lots of the books by Authors hanging around MR also rate very very highly, Executive Lunch by Maria E Schneider, Rottwieller Rescue by Ellen O'Connell, And although not finished reading yet, Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley, All of which I will keep forever and read many many times, |
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I'm not sure how you could have a favourite book, but the ones I have read the most often are A Clockwork Orange and Fluke (James Herbert). Both get read once a year, usually in summer.
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So many to choose from......
...I'll name two then; one non-fiction, one fiction: History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck |
05-16-2010, 03:36 PM | #8 |
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05-16-2010, 04:34 PM | #9 |
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The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
I credit this as the book that really turned me on to reading as a child. |
05-16-2010, 04:47 PM | #10 |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John MacDonald....not that great a book but it's the one that got me hopelessly hooked on reading |
05-16-2010, 05:07 PM | #11 |
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Probably James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, but that might change on different days.
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05-16-2010, 07:56 PM | #12 |
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Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles." I also re-read it at least once every year.
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05-16-2010, 09:53 PM | #13 |
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House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
and The Magician by Raymond Feist Those 2 are the ones I re-read more often than others. |
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Oh, can't do it!
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