What is your all time favourite book? (1 Viewer)

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pride and prejudice
the bornze horsemen series
winter
the tomorrow series and the ellie chronicles
anna karenina (lots of complicated russian names though)
the english patient (the most beautiful and well-written book i have ever read)
the constant gardner
briar rose
plain truth
the narnia chronicles
the madonnas of lenin
pink balloons
when hitler stole....
all margaret atwood things


and heaps more i cant think of lol

i love reading but have a particular kind of book i like
 

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The Silmarillion. Easily the book i've read most. And each time i read it i appreciate it more and more.
 

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Siddhartha, By Hermann Hesse

It's a great book about a man's journey into the unknown, self control, greed, endulgence, and eventually, spiritual enlightenment.
If you are going to read anything in your life, this is it.
 

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I don't know about all-time favourite...I don't have one of those. Hell, I can't even pick just one all-time favourite author :p
Plus, most of the stuff I read is in a series.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a very good book though.
 

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I agree with emma....cant pick on but some real ggod ones were

To kill a mockingbird
The lovely bones
1984
The 5 people you meet in heaven

list could go on
 

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the messenger by markus zuzak (or something to that effect)

i read shakespeare all the time lol. so read some shakespeare- othello is my fave

um also great expectations by dickens - love that book

oh and excel modern history and excel advanced engish can't forget those i've been reading enough of them lately lol.

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dion7789 said:
To kill a mockingbird
The lovely bones
1984
The 5 people you meet in heaven
That's pretty much my list.

Also:
Pride And Predjudice
The English Patient
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Madame Bovary
 

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Don't really have a FAVOURITE book. However I recently read
'Kafka On the Shore' and
'The Five People You meet in Heaven'
and was totally absorbed in them both.
The kind of books which you are still pondering several months after you have read them.
 

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The five people you meet in heaven and memoirs of a geisha have to be two of the best books ever
 

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Hard to choose between Origin Of A Species by Charles Darwin and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
 

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1- Terry Brooks - The Shanara series is awsome
2- J.K rowling - Harry Potter series
3- Tolkein - Lord of the rings series
4- Anne McAffrey. the Dragonriders series was excellent
5- Lemony snicket - a series of unfortunate events
 

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Tomorrow's Sphinx by Clare Bell. It took me ten long years to find, but oh was it worth it.


Other books that have knocked me off my feet, but I couldn't label my favourites:
Dune - Frank Herbert
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Ratha Series - Clare Bell
The Jaguar Princess - Clare Bell
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
Winterdance - Gary Paulsen


god I could go on..
 

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Artemis Fowl Series ( got into it young, can't get out of it!)

Ender's game + whole series that follows (my fave is Speaker for the dead)

yeah...
 

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Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen would probably be on the top (I have definately read it more than 5 times this year)

I quite enjoy John Grisham's novels, also Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller
 

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findaway said:
Artemis Fowl Series ( got into it young, can't get out of it!)

Ender's game + whole series that follows (my fave is Speaker for the dead)

yeah...
God yes - they were uneven but awesome. Xenocide just blew me right away.
 

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