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My all time fave book has to be THE KITE RUNNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):)
 

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I'm reading Catcher In The Rye now for some Classics Unit, but I can't really "get into it".
My favourite book would have to be The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carre.
 

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I am the cheese- forgot name of author but an awesome book
Memoirs of a Geisha-??
Great Gatsby-Scott Fitzgerald
The God of Small things-Arundhati Roy
Princess of Saudi Arabia-Jean Sasson
Pygmalion- the only play I really enjoyed-Bernard Shaw
and how could I forget the Harry Potter series!!
 

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List your all time favorite books!

So I'm trying to find some good books to read..

Please list here books that have been your all time favorites! Ones that have left you with that "wow" feeling! :D

I'll start a few popular ones;

The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons - Dan Brown!
 

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Re: List your all time favorite books!

lolita, utopia, great expectations, pride and prejudice, count of monte cristo and crime and punishment.

you should read them all, very similar to da vinci code
 

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Da Vinci Code, Tomorrow Series, To Kill a Mockingbird, LOTR books.

I've just started reading Bryce Courtenay books. I'm loving the Power of One!
 

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Re: List your all time favorite books!

The Old Man and the Sea. I'm surprised that you've got the Da Vinci Code there. I didn't think it was that great (twist was unexpected tho), but then, I'm not a fan of Brown.
 
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Magician, by Raymond E. Feist.

ftw.
 

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To Kill A Mockingbird
Lord of the flies
 

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I love reading........
Vanity Fair- Thackery
Madame Bovary-?
Anna Karenina- Tolstoy
The Yellow Wallpaper- ?
LOTR- Tolkein
The Messenger- Marcus Zusak
The Bookthief- Marcus Zusak

Well, anything really (though not horror or crime)
 

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Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Animan Farm - George Orwell
 

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Take My Word For it - John Marsden
The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie - Jaclyn Moriarty
 

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Most of the obvious choices have been listed already so instead of rattling off another list of 'penguin classics' i'll list some that haven't:

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson, took me ages to get through but loved every minute of it.

HMS Ulysses - Alistair MacLean, one of the best war novels ever in my opinion.

The Outsiders -S.E.Hinton, surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet.

I'll also second Heart of Darkness and especially Watership Down, no other book has come as close to making me tear up as this, and I've no idea why, I mean it's about rabbits....RABBITS.

Oh, and I see your various childhood relics and raise you a BIGGLES. Hmm?? Anyone???
 

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"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. That one's about materialism and unrequieted love....

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. That one's a story about a world that's supposed to be a utopia... really good one!

"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler. This one is about three siblings and their lives... another great one!!
 

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King Lear ........................................... lol no >_< Shakespeare makes me rofl
 
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pzb23 said:
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. That one's about materialism and unrequieted love....

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. That one's a story about a world that's supposed to be a utopia... really good one!

"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" by Anne Tyler. This one is about three siblings and their lives... another great one!!
did you study all of those in senior english? i studied the first two...
 

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my favourites are:
-catcher in the rye
-the great gatsby
-king dork
-LOTR
-saving francesa
-high fidelity
-the tomorrow series
 

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Stone of Tears; the second book in the Sword of Truth series. (i recommend this series to anyone who reads fantasy, the first book is called Wizards first rule).
 

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