Favorite book

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  1. eincloud Banned Banned

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    That’s right all you intellectuals out there lets pick each other’s brains and tell what our favorite books are
     
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  3. eincloud Banned Banned

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    One of mine has to be Animal Farm I think George Orwell is a great writer and very smart
     
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  5. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    dune, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
     
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  7. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    w00t animal farm that was such a great book
     
  8. rGEMINI Fallen Entity Registered Senior Member

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    =Z you didnt post yours
     
  9. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    Umberto Eco: The name of the rose
     
  10. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Ham on rye

    charles bukowski.
     
  11. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    Dune, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    I'm so original.
     
  12. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    Second, and An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth. Also Captain Correlli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres), and Possession, by AS Byatt. Hmm. there must be more...
    *System overload*

    I'm such a romantic.
     
  13. path Militant wiseguy Registered Senior Member

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    Umberto Eco: Foucaults Pendulem, loved Baudolino too.
     
  14. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    • Clive Barker, Weaveworld
    • Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
    • Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity
    • Jack Cady, The Off-Season and The Jonah Watch
    • Lovecraft, H.P., The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Other Stories
    • J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beams Carpenters, and Seymour

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    • Jack Cady, The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind
    • Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
    • Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate and Doors of Perception
    • H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    • Martin Riesebrodt, Pious Passions
    • Ranier M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    • Shah, Idries, The Dervish Tales and Sufi Thought and Action
     
  15. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    Does Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird still count? They were good books.
     
  16. StarOfEight A Man of Taste and Decency Registered Senior Member

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    Good call.

    I'd toss in any collection of Roald Dahl that has "Royal Jelly" & "Genesis & Destruction."
     
  17. eincloud Banned Banned

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    Roald Dahl is a fantastic writer and I read BFG in the 6th grade and loved it
     
  18. antisipatience waiting for something Registered Senior Member

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    Behold! A Pale Horse - by William Cooper

    it will open your mind to the true reality of our corrupted nation and world.
     
  19. Christmas 1996 Registered Senior Member

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    Some could justifiably mistake this book for a childrens book. ... .
     
  20. eincloud Banned Banned

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    Yes and many do mistake that for a childrens book when it is not at all, valid point you have there
     
  21. eincloud Banned Banned

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    ah yes another one, Brian Jacques, The Bellmaker
    read that in 6th grade but is still great
     
  22. Thersites Registered Senior Member

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    Fiction: William Gaddis: JR
    Poetry: Jonne Donne
    History: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    Philosophy: The open Society and its Enemies
    oddball: William Empson: Milton's God
     
  23. Rappaccini Redoubtable Registered Senior Member

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    Faust, Goethe

    Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell

    Colonel Chabert, Balzac

    Begrudgingly...

    Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
     
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