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What is your favorite book or author for all you readers out there. No cereal boxes or magazines!!! My favorite author is by far Mark Twain he rox0rs muh s0x like no other his sense of humor is great and his candid and genuine writing style is unequaled!
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The Sirens of Titan by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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catcher in the rye!!!
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Sep 13, 2003, 1:22 PM
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Not one but two:
1) The Bible - God
2) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Puzzle that one out . . .
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Sep 13, 2003, 4:07 PM
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Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose.
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Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Mourning Becomes Electra by Tennesse Williams (even though it's technically a play)
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Sep 13, 2003, 4:49 PM
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In reply to: Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose.
I'll definitely second that - an excellent read.
I could get lengthy, but I'll keep it to just two:
• I've always liked Silas Marner by George Eliot for its amazing plotting.
• But the book really that got the 20th century novel rolling - arguably the greatest novel of the 20th century - is The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford.
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Sep 13, 2003, 8:29 PM
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God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago.
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Sep 14, 2003, 5:26 PM
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In reply to: God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago.
God didn't physically write it, but He gave the 'actual' authors (John, Mark, and all them) the inspiration to write.
my fave-
The Great Train Robbery Micheal Crighton crime fiction at its best.
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thomasribiere
Sep 14, 2003, 5:31 PM
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Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
and my English-French dictionary... :lol:
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Curious George.
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Sep 14, 2003, 10:34 PM
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Edward Abbey:
Monkey Wrench Gang
Fools Progress
One Life at a Time, Please
Desert Solitare
Enjoy!!!
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pehperboy
Sep 14, 2003, 10:40 PM
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A Confederacy of Dunces
- John Kennedy Toole
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Sep 14, 2003, 10:43 PM
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The Stand - Stephen King
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
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Sep 15, 2003, 1:22 AM
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The Dharma Bums, Kerouac
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Sep 15, 2003, 2:49 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago. God didn't physically write it, but He gave the 'actual' authors (John, Mark, and all them) the inspiration to write.
huh huh. suckahz.
You're only getting your revelation indirectly. God wrote the Qur'an all by himself. and in arabic. put THAT in your water pipe and smoke it!
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pehperboy
Sep 15, 2003, 2:57 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago. God didn't physically write it, but He gave the 'actual' authors (John, Mark, and all them) the inspiration to write. huh huh. suckahz. You're only getting your revelation indirectly. God wrote the Qur'an all by himself. and in arabic. put THAT in your water pipe and smoke it!
Yes, God wrote the Glorious Qur'an, but it was physically written by the scribe Salman.
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Sep 15, 2003, 4:56 PM
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though i will agree with you about twain i don't understand how one may have just one favorite book. i have many favorites... all from different genre's and style's of writing.
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Sep 15, 2003, 4:59 PM
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In reply to: Not one but two: 1) The Bible - God 2) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Puzzle that one out . . .
Ayn Rand is also one of my favorite authors. I am curious - what is it that you like about her?
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Sep 15, 2003, 5:22 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago. God didn't physically write it, but He gave the 'actual' authors (John, Mark, and all them) the inspiration to write. my fave- The Great Train Robbery Micheal Crighton crime fiction at its best.
Ditto...whats your favorite book(s) in the bible?
Mine are the 4 gospels
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debsanders
Sep 15, 2003, 6:20 PM
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Ayn Rand is also one of my favorite authors. I am curious - what is it that you like about her?
Would you believe I had this really good list of why I adore Ayn Rand's works. But blew them away in preview.
Here is the abbreviated version:
1) Capitalist
2) Free will
3) Free thinker
4) Against the "lowest common denominator theory"
5) Woman way before her time
6) My husband and I have bonded through the many late night discussions concerning the issues addressed in her works.
Deb
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:26 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: Ayn Rand is also one of my favorite authors. I am curious - what is it that you like about her? Would you believe I had this really good list of why I adore Ayn Rand's works. But blew them away in preview. Here is the abbreviated version: 1) Capitalist 2) Free will 3) Free thinker 4) Against the "lowest common denominator theory" 5) Woman way before her time 6) My husband and I have bonded through the many late night discussions concerning the issues addressed in her works. Deb
How do you reconcile her thinking with the Bible? (I am puzzling).
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:26 PM
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In reply to: In reply to: In reply to: God didn't write the Bible. I've been waiting to say this: Do a search! This exact topic was done less than a month ago. God didn't physically write it, but He gave the 'actual' authors (John, Mark, and all them) the inspiration to write. my fave- The Great Train Robbery Micheal Crighton crime fiction at its best. Ditto...whats your favorite book(s) in the bible? Mine are the 4 gospels
HMMMM, that is tough, tough, tough,
I'll go with beginning, middle, new beginning, end (the real beginning)
1) Genesis
2) Proverbs
3) Luke
4) Revelation
5) although not in the bible Mary is worth reading
Deb,
and yes I teach sunday school . . . teenages . . . scream a minute
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:27 PM
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Ishmeal--Daniel Quinn
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:29 PM
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Song For Arbonne: Guy Gavriel Kay.
Canadian Author so I would be suprised if many of you heard of him.
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:30 PM
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I love just about everything by Rohld Dahl (sp?) and Charles Dickens.
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:34 PM
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Watership Down.
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:36 PM
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In reply to: Song For Arbonne: Guy Gavriel Kay. Canadian Author so I would be suprised if many of you heard of him.
Read a trilogy of his; one of the books was The Darkest Road, or something like that. Very good.
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Sep 15, 2003, 6:55 PM
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Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
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In reply to: A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
oh, right! Good choice pehperdude! I love this book! I should try to read it in English once.
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In reply to: Read a trilogy of his; one of the books was The Darkest Road, or something like that. Very good. T
I read those. My guiltiest pleasure is reading a big fat fantasy book. Preferably a neverending series of fantasy books. I go through them too quickly. But one of my favorite authors ever is Charles DeLint. He's a Canuck as well, I believe. I writes urban fantasy-mythos stuff. Very Cool.
I do read other stuff as well (I used to be quite a prolific reader, until I got a real job). Favorite recent read is 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. Fantastic book, quite unique stream-of-conscious narration. Also very cool.
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Well, I can't say I have a favorite, but here is a short list of a few I have read in the last little while, all of which were very different from each other, but I enjoyed each of them for different reasons.
Paddle to the Amazon by Don Starkell
Backpack or Baggage by Emily Barr
4000 days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Van by Roddy Doyle
Enjoy!!!
Nathalie :roll:
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i just finished "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky for the second time. it's one of the best novels i've ever read.
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I've got two:
Bible
Any Sherlock Holmes novel/novella
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I want to be the last person to respond to every thread on this page. I think I can do it.... !!!
What a waste of life!
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Ayn Rand is pretty good i have read Anthem, Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged I would say Atlas Shrugged is the best but at the end when John Galt gives that 50 page speech that is harsh! I think Mark Twain is possible one of the best writers ever and I do enjoy other authors and other styles but I believe his is unrivaled and I read a lot so it is not a premature assumption, even though I have not read everyone. And climber49er what's more a waste of life, what life I wasted or what life you wasted on my wasting? Funny though!
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100 Years of Solitude, by Gabrielle Marquez Garcia
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Two of my favorites are:
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm
(I agree Ayn Rand is the best!)
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author: Raymond E. Feist
book other than R.E. feist: LOTR
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Here's a couple of them:
Catch-22 - J. Heller
Basin and Range - J. McPhee (I'm a geologist, thus the choice) and
The Survival of the Birch Bark Canoe - J. McPhee
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In reply to: What is your favorite book or author for all you readers out there. No cereal boxes or magazines!!! My favorite author is by far Mark Twain
My favorite novel is probably Stardust by Neil Gaiman.
David
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confederacy of dunces is awesome. the best part of it is the language, so you definitely have to try it in english thomas. i like neil gaiman too - especially good omens and american gods.
desert solitaire by abbey, player piano by vonnegut, cryptonomicon by stephenson, les miserables by hugo, cannery row by steinbeck, on the road by kerouac, and too many others to list.
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Favorite book . . .
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
and another favorite, though it's a play . . .
Hamlet by Shakespeare
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i've heard raves of ayn rand but havent had a chance to read her yet ..
blood music by greg bear was fun
also enjoyed beloved, the aeneid, woman warrior, heart of darkness, burmese days and a bunch of spiritual/hippy books. had fun writing a paper about gender roles and the use of sexuality in bram stoker's dracula. and absolutely LOVED hamlet .. have read it and re-read it .. midsummer nights dream is also fun.
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In reply to: confederacy of dunces is awesome. the best part of it is the language, so you definitely have to try it in english thomas. i like neil gaiman too - especially good omens and american gods.
From reading the "Warning for Travellers" at the beginning of American Gods, or reading the beginning of Stardust, you get the impression that Gaiman likes rock (the kind we climb).
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In reply to: desert solitaire by abbey, player piano by vonnegut, cryptonomicon by stephenson, les miserables by hugo, cannery row by steinbeck, on the road by kerouac, and too many others to list. |
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It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong/Sally Jenkins
Lance's got another book coming out this fall. It's called Every Second Counts. I've already read the first chapter, and it's awesome.
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Just one? Impossible.
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1) Desert Solitaire...Abbey
2) Poisonwood Bible.. Kingsolver
3) Henderson the Rain King..Bellow
4) Labyrinths...Borges
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