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Post by lindapaloma on May 9, 2005 19:19:53 GMT -5
So, I am wondering what kind of books you have read and which have left an impression on you?
I think my favorite all time book is by Robert McCammon's Swan Song. An end of the world, good and evil type of book with great imagery and characters. Second place probably goes to Chuck Pahlaniuk's Lullaby. which to me is about how power can corrupt. Third place is back to McCammon with Boy's Life...a coming of age story about an 11 year old boy living in Zephyr Alabama. This intro alone is magical. Your turn...
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Post by orkad on May 9, 2005 19:44:31 GMT -5
The Bonestter's Daughter - Amy Tan, her best, imho
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb, still son't know how a man could write such a great female protagonist.
Lord of the Rings - J.R. Tolkein, the greatest books ever written, read them at least once a year.
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot, a great period piece.
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott, this book changed my life, it made me a lifetime reader. You should see my copy . . . it's all tethered and worn-out, like a well-loved baseball glove.
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Post by Cameron on May 9, 2005 20:48:51 GMT -5
Read anything by Raymond E. Fiest
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Post by gretchen on May 9, 2005 21:18:57 GMT -5
omigoodness.
she's come undone. loved it.
i'd also have to say watership down, the dark tower 4: wizard and glass... eh. can't think of anything else right now.
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Post by ProvidencePortal on May 9, 2005 21:24:10 GMT -5
I'm sitting here with that feeling you get when something you thought was lost turns up under the couch cushions. I never thought I'd come across another person who ranked a Robert R. McCammon book in their favorites. Swan Song is one of my all-timers, no question whatsoever. And his short story "Pin" is one I still tell people about.
What a nice surprise to have encountered someone who also likes McCammon's stuff!
Other favorites of mine:
Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves
Alices Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
The Dark Tower series (of course)
Terry Brook's Shannara series
Several "complete collections," including: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's collected works and Edgar Allen Poe's poems, letters and stories.
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Post by MoonageDaydream on May 10, 2005 0:21:40 GMT -5
I've always been a fan of Carl Sagan's Contact, myself.
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Post by lindapaloma on May 10, 2005 0:33:44 GMT -5
What a nice surprise to have encountered someone who also likes McCammon's stuff! I am also having that whoa feeling, although I do think that this might be a place to find someone else who has read his stuff. Very Cool. Pin is very freaky but I am partial to his short story Chico; about the little boy who had serious mental problems and who lived with his mom and a creep in an apt filled with roaches. :-) I wasn't able to get into The Dark Tower series but I would say my favorite of King is The Dead Zone. I think I am going to have to put She's Come Undone on my' to read' list! Thanks everyone! Cameron, Can you tell us about Raymond Fiest and how you came to find him? I should read Carl Sagan. He was brilliant....
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Post by Cameron on May 10, 2005 3:07:52 GMT -5
My dad gave me a Fiest book: 'The Magician'... I loved it and I realised that there was a series... since then ive read 7 more and don't plan to stop... FYI hes been writing since 1984
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Post by lindapaloma on May 10, 2005 11:08:50 GMT -5
Cameron, Is he an Australian author? I just saw that you are from Australia. I wonder if you know of Paul Jennings? He has to be my all time favorite children's author, well along with Roald Dahl and EB White.
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Canuckfcuk
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Post by Canuckfcuk on May 10, 2005 11:24:21 GMT -5
Favourite Books:
The Eyre Affaire -- Jasper Fforde
The Pool in the Desert - Sara Jeanette Duncan
The Dark Matters Trilogy - Philip Pullman
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
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Post by greedy on May 10, 2005 12:05:18 GMT -5
1984
druids
the dragonstone i love anything by Dennis L. Mckiernnan
and anything by steven king
cold springs
the Eve Duncan series
and all of the Bill Orielly books
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Post by KISMET on May 10, 2005 18:05:51 GMT -5
Some of my fav's are:
Memiors of a Geisha- (insight in the life of a geisha) To Kill a Mockingbird- (classic) The Davinci Code-(good mystery novel) Tale of Two cities ( another classic)
I highly recommend Memoirs of a Geisha!
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Post by KISMET on May 10, 2005 18:08:41 GMT -5
You should see my copy . . . it's all tethered and worn-out, like a well-loved baseball glove.
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I all my book's are like that too! I also always mark and highlight and make notes on the side of the pages!
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Post by Cameron on May 10, 2005 19:55:59 GMT -5
Cameron, Is he an Australian author? I just saw that you are from Australia. I wonder if you know of Paul Jennings? He has to be my all time favorite children's author, well along with Roald Dahl and EB White. Nah... Fiest is from California... and yes actually i do no Jenmnings... not very well but my parents use to live nextdoor to him!
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Post by Bigboy on May 10, 2005 20:19:02 GMT -5
Most Steven King, but the Dark Tower series especially. The works of JRR Tolkien. The Silmarillion is hard work though! I've read every word written by Terry Pratchett - can't get enough of Discworld! Quite a fan of scifi too. I've read alot of Arthur C Clarke, Issac Assimov (The Foundation series is awsome), Steven Baxter (Read 'Time' for it's sheer scope. The Xeelee sequence is great too), Greg Bear etc.
As a young teenager I was a big fan of "The Dark is Rising" sequence by Susan Cooper. Aparrently they are about to be made into movies, so I'll probably track down my old copies and have a re-read!
One of my favourite books I read while at school was To Kill A Mocking Bird. Still a fan to this day.
I highly recommend the K-Pax trilogy too.
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