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OH and how could I forget Victor Hugo?!?!!
also Ray Bradbury and Plato
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Posted: 2004-09-03 01:35:00
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"Where's Waldo?" LMFAO
J/k.. I like this book called "Black Boy" - Richard Wright.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 01:53:30
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thats the book with the story of the kid in it right: he has to go to the market to buy food but then these bullies won't let him go and take his money, and his mom gives him a stick to defend himself...
right?
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Posted: 2004-09-03 02:16:00
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I would find it difficult to name one book as my all time favourite as there are so many to choose from, but some of my favourites, in no particular order, are;
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Call of Cthulhu (and various other stories by H.P. Lovecraft)
Various collected stories by P.G. Woodehouse (especially the Jeeves ones)
Churchill (the Roy Jenkins biography)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colunus, Antigone (Sophocles))
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Brothers Menaechmus (Plautus)
The Brothers (Terence)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Song of Roland (although this is a poem, I include it for its literary value (anonymous))
Consolation Philosophiae (Boethius)
Canzoniere (Petrarch)
The Pedestrian (Ray Bradbury)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln)
I know I have included a rather long list, but hopefully this will mean that more people get to hear of books (and poems) I consider to be excellent reading material and perhaps read some of them themselves.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 03:21:26
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@scotsboyuk, you really love classical literature, congratulations..... Have you ever read latin american writers like Jorge L. Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Marquez?
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Posted: 2004-09-03 03:38:31
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On 2004-09-02 09:12:54, masseur wrote:
@plasmadog, I have to agree... the 4 books in the Douglas Adams trilogy
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Restaurant at the end of the universe
Life, the universe and everything
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So long, and thanks for all the fish
never read any of his detective ones though
looking forward to the HHGTTG movie next year
you forgot the fifth book - "Mostly Harmless"
Adams' Dirk Gently novels aren't bad, but definitely an acquired taste.
other than HHTGTTG books, my other faves would be:
any Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett (but specifically Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Sourcery, Men at Arms, Small Gods, Maskerade, Thief of Time)
The Belgariad (set of five) - David Eddings
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov with Robert Silverburg (the novel, not the short story)
1984 - George Orwell
and too many others to name. i used to say my favourite book was the one i'm reading now.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 05:37:45
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well,
u can make it 6 if u include: young zaphod plays it safe.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 05:52:48
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Posted: 2004-09-03 05:53:46
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The Holy Bible
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Posted: 2004-09-03 10:28:00
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@Kimchee: That's right... he gets punked by some kids so his mom tells him to beat them with a stick. His dad tells him to kill that damn cat.. LOL.. crazy ish...
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Posted: 2004-09-03 17:30:39
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