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I forgot to mention 'Brave New World' (Huxley), '1984' (Orwell), and 'Animal Farm' (Orwell); all of which are great books.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 19:11:11
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On 2004-09-03 19:11:11, scotsboyuk wrote:
I forgot to mention 'Brave New World' (Huxley), '1984' (Orwell), and 'Animal Farm' (Orwell); all of which are great books.
YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!
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Posted: 2004-09-03 19:13:20
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jonathon livingston seagull and clockwork orange.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 19:44:06
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1984 or Lord of the Rings... a tie.
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Posted: 2004-09-03 23:54:10
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@Asterix
I am not familiar with the works of Latin American authors, but any titles you would like to recommend would be very welcomed.
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Posted: 2004-09-04 00:48:12
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@scotsboyuk, you can start with One Hundred Years of Solitude or Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez (a Nobel Price Winner), and The Feast of the Goat or Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, they're incredibly good books.
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Posted: 2004-09-04 04:30:01
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Animal Farm was OK, but 1984 was much better.
i neglected to mention a few earlier (i expect this will be a recurring theme):
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathon Swift
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Scarlett Pimpernell - Baroness Orczy
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
(aka "The Secret of NIMH")
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde (yeah, i know it's a play)
Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy
this is essentially the biography of a notorious Australian crime boss from the early to mid 20th century,
very thinly disguised as a work of fiction - so thinly disguised that the only head-fake in the direction of fiction is that the major characters' names are only slightly altered (while still having the same initials). Hardy's life was threatened several times while researching the book, and he had to pay for the publishing himself because many legitimate publishers were too scared to touch the manuscript. after publication Hardy was taken to court, but got out of it by arguing that the characters could only be identified as real people by their actions in the "novel", so any claim of defamation was therefore a de-facto admission of guilt for their crimes. for this reason, the principle "character" did everything he could to publicly distance himself from the lawsuits.
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Posted: 2004-09-05 11:36:45
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I, robot, and the Foundation series by Asimov - utter brilliance.
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Posted: 2004-09-05 13:25:32
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One of the best books i think it was a phone manual. lol :-D
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Posted: 2004-09-06 03:29:08
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