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lucifers angel
11-01-07, 12:14 PM
What is your most favourate book?

Mine has got to be Bram Stokers: Dracula!!!

Not all the girlie vampire novels they have now like:

Interview with a vampire: Ann Rice
the Vampire Armand: Ann Rice

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so what is your favourate book/s??

Orleander
11-01-07, 12:16 PM
Swan Song (http://www.robertmccammon.com/novels/swan_song.html)
I've lost count of how many times I've read it.

Strap_ON
11-01-07, 12:16 PM
The Rats by James Herbett
Cujo by Stephen King
Do you remember your first time by Jenny Colgan (I cringe at mine)

Orleander
11-01-07, 12:19 PM
Oh, dang, I forgot The Road. It won a pulitzer. That damn booked haunted me.

Strap_ON
11-01-07, 12:20 PM
Oh, dang, I forgot The Road. It won a pulitzer. That damn booked haunted me.

Who wrote the The Road? Is it horror? :)

Orleander
11-01-07, 12:28 PM
The Road (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0307387895&bnit=H&bnrefer=CR) is an end of the world book (kinda like The Stand) but more realistic and horrifying. Its a man trying to save his son and its....wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time.

I-Am-Invisible
11-01-07, 12:30 PM
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy "the trilogy of five" all by douglas adams

Strap_ON
11-01-07, 12:31 PM
Oooooh fogot 48' also by James Herbet!

maxg
11-01-07, 12:56 PM
What is your most favourate book?

Mine has got to be Bram Stokers: Dracula!!!
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so what is your favourate book/s??

I'll say Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov but my favorite author is Dickens.

Dracula is an interesting choice. Great story but Stoker writing at times seems to slip into unintentional parody. I've read it quite a few times though since my Ph.D. dissertation is on late-Victorian horror fiction.

maxg
11-01-07, 12:59 PM
If you like Dracula you should try to find a copy of Richard Marsh's The Beetle--it was a horror novel written around the same time that uses a similar approach to storytelling and has similar feeling to it. There's a story that Marsh and Stoker had a bet going that they would each write a horror novel and see which one sold better--at the time it was the Beetle.

maxg
11-01-07, 01:01 PM
Oh, dang, I forgot The Road. It won a pulitzer. That damn booked haunted me.

That's on my to read list. I just finished Blood Meridian and I'd say its the best American novel written in the past 50 years. Now I need to read some more Cormac McCarthy.

Bradley364
11-01-07, 02:43 PM
BEST BOOK EVER!

DUNE

Need I say more?

Bradley364
11-01-07, 02:46 PM
In a close second is All Quiet On The Western Front

spuriousmonkey
11-01-07, 03:16 PM
post office
charles bukowski

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shichimenshyo
11-01-07, 03:49 PM
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy "the trilogy of five" all by douglas adams

I <3 those books!


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cosmictraveler
11-01-07, 04:09 PM
Johnathan Living Seagull.

This is an amazing book.
A simple story ; on the surface .
A lesson in how to really 'be'
when you get into the story and pick up the real meaning .

Jonathan is a real seagull; living with a group of other
gulls . As time goes on; he begins to wonder if there is not more to
life than fighting for fish .

Voicing his feelings brings scorn to him. Over time , he begins to
practice the art of flight.

This brings increasing scorn upon him. He is not acting as a gull; not
fighting over his share of fish.Spending more and more time flying and less working about getting a lot of fish.

Eventually he is taken before the Authorities .He is warned ; shape up ; act as a gull , or become an outcast .

His mother is worried , he must be himself. He must learn to fly
to the best of the ability of a seagull.

He tries and fails to conform to the orders to fall in with gull behavior.

More time is spent flying in as many ways as he feels important.

Again he is brought before the Head seagull. Now he is " outcast " , no decent gull may again associate with him.

He continues his flight . His best friend warning him against it.


What happens next ; I am leaving out . To include would ruin this wonderful

book for those who may really get the depth of lessons from it.

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pjdude1219
11-01-07, 05:26 PM
there and back again aka the hobbit

Exhumed
11-01-07, 05:42 PM
E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India"

Nikelodeon
11-01-07, 06:14 PM
Bible

Steve100
11-09-07, 03:25 PM
Got to be The Hobbit for a simple reason.

Only full length fiction book I've ever finished.

Sock Puppy
11-09-07, 03:41 PM
The Road was good in a suicidal kind of way.

peta9
11-09-07, 04:40 PM
I like that momma bunny. She's a good mommy frying an egg for junior for breakfast.

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peta9
11-09-07, 04:47 PM
Anyone ever read this? It's not the best ever but it's amazing. Busy, busy town. lol

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quadraphonics
11-09-07, 05:52 PM
Gravity's Rainbow for the win!

Orleander
11-09-07, 08:55 PM
peta, those books were the best. There was so much packed into every page that there was always something new to see. And lowly worm, he's my favorite!!