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5 Favourite Books

Well, no ..

.. but will that make a difference?

Cheers, Martin
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Squire Jons said:
Current Top 5...

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Journey to the End of the Night - Celine
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
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Do you really prefer "Tropic of Cancer" over "Tropic of Capricorn"?

BTW nice list, or at least after you dumped Celine.
 
The Talisman - Stephen King+Peter Straub
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Aurelia - Gerard De Nerval
It - Stephen King
The Hobbit - Tolkien
 
SPEEDY_PARKER said:
The Talisman - Stephen King+Peter Straub
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
Aurelia - Gerard De Nerval
It - Stephen King
The Hobbit - Tolkien
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Oh wow, Peter Straub. There's an author I hadn't thought about in years! I'm not much into horror, but I loved Straub's Ghost Story, and enjoyed Shadowland. Dang. Thanks for the reminder, sp!
 
cancer vs. capricorn

I love both The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn...almost equally. However, I love the energy and almost the sensation of movement that Miller conveys in his writing and I felt that in Capricorn his philosophical ramblings kind of ruined the pace of the novel and made it a little bit less lively. Regardless, Capricorn is still one of my favorite books.
 
Faves

In no particular order:

Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
The Siege - Helen Dunmore
Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
 
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Brothers Kazmarov- Dostoyevsky
The Sun Also Rises- Hemmingway
Siddhartha- Hesse
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Wilde
 
Mile-O-Phile said:
[*]Labyrinths by Jorges Luis Borges
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Definately a good read!!! It's hard to believe how unnoticed this man's writing goes. For those of you that love Eco, Marquez, or Rushdie and have never read Borges I strongly urge you to give it a try!! You will be pleased!

Good List!! :)
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Hmm...I'm joining in...5 books...err...

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Harry Potter Series
 
My 5 most favourite books would be:
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The Sketchbook, by Washington Irving
Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
A Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan

And this leaves out so many others...sigh!
 
I'm sure this list will change in about six months once I've read more stuff, but for the moment let's pretend my five favorite books are:

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Lavondyss - Robert Holdstock
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
 
5 Favourite books for now.

Animal Farm - George Orwell
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Stand - Stephen King
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
 
I have just one favorite book ...

who moved my cheese?, by spencer johnson and kenneth h. blanchard (I think the "h" stands for "hard-knock").
 
My five favorite books

The Great Gatsby - Fiztgerald
Oliver Twist - Dickens
Fightclub - Pahlaniuk
Oedipus - Sophocles
Lolita - Nabokov
 
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