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Subject: What's your favorite book?
I just finished reading the first two books in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, and I am really enjoying it so far.
My favorite book so far is Swan Song by Robert. R McCammon.
I also really enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, my favorite is the Pit And The Pendulum.
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
I thoroughly enjoyed Othello by Shakespeare. Nobody can read it without hating Iago afterwards :)
I also like the novels by Michael Crichton and John Grisham. I guess I'm a sheep ::)
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"A Painted House" by John Grisham is my favorite.
"Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham is probably my 2nd.
"Congo" by Michael Crichton and "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee are a couple that stand out on my bookshelf...
Harry Potter series is pretty good... I found the 4th one boring though...
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I read alot of True Crime books so my favorite book would probably be "The Zodiac Killer" by Robert Graysmith.
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
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Memoirs of a Geisha -Arthur Golden
For some reason, I can read this book over and over again and not get tired of it.
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"The Jewish War (Bellum Iudacium)" - Flavius Josephus
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Too many to mention, but here's the short list:
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
The Temple Of The Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Blind Owl and various short stories by Sadegh Hedayat
Macbeth and Julius Caesar by W. Shakespeare
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
Redburn by Herman Melville
Bonjour Tristesse by F. Sagan
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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I think I've done this before.... :)
Not in any particular order:
Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Hawkline Monster -- Richard Brautigan
Paradise Falls -- Don Robertson
The Gildenford series -- Valerie Anand
To Kill A Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess
Fatal Vision -- Joe McGuinness
The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell
In This Sign -- Johanne Greenberg
Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austin
The Daughter of Time -- Josephine Tey
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
My current favorite, which I've read for the third time since I bought it only four months ago is:
Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
And I will never, ever get tired of reading (and re-reading) the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
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Does TV Guide count? :P
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Hound of the Baskervilles - Conan Doyle,actually I like any Sherlock Holmes really.
Any Jane Austin !
Scarlet Pimpernell - Baroness Orczey
Last chance saloon - Marian Keyes
My minds gone blank now(well it is monday morning!)
When I'm ill I revert to childhood and lie in bed reading Enid Blyton Famous Five books :)
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
I also wanted to add that I can read anything by Charles Bukowski over & over and never get tired of it.
Oh, and I forgot this one: "On the Road" - Jack Kerouac
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
Just about any of the discworld books by terry pratchett. right now my 2 favorite are Jingo and Small Gods and i might get new favorites when i read more or re-read ones that i'll understand better after reading other books in the series
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I have three favorite books. One fantasy, one historical fiction, and one comedy.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Grapes of Wrath
Catch-22
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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I thoroughly enjoyed Othello by Shakespeare. Nobody can read it without hating Iago afterwards :)End Quote
Iago is de Vere's most misunderstood character...
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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The Grapes of WrathEnd Quote
I had to read this in highschool, and was shocked that I actually enjoyed it.
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Usually my favorite book is the one I'm reading, which at the moment happens to be Gateway, by Frederick Pohl.
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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Iago is de Vere's most misunderstood character...
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Why do you say misunderstood? He is manipulating, decietful and betrays everyone he comes into contact with. He is only 'honest' Iago to the audience, which is perhaps the most ironic point of the play.
Yet I do love the way that he uses words to maniplate everyone, yet at the end says, 'What you know, you know, from this time forth, I never will speak word,' keeping his power of words, regradless of the fact his plan hasn't worked.
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The Story of "O"
The Joy Of Sex
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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I just finished reading the first two books in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, and I am really enjoying it so far.
My favorite book so far is Swan Song by Robert. R McCammon.
I also really enjoy Edgar Allen Poe, my favorite is the Pit And The Pendulum.
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In 1986 (when I was 16) the Twilight Zone magazine ran an excerpt from Swan Song, it was the part where the bombs go off and Sister Creep is stuck in the subway tunnel. I liked it so much, I bought the book right away. I read the whole thing in 2 and a half hours (okay, I'm a speed reader, but I don't skim, I read every word. At that time I was reading on average 17 books a week every week) while babysitting on a beach trip to Ocean City, Maryland. This book is also the reason I started reading T.S. Eliot's poetry. I still think it's a bit of a copy of The Stand by Stephen King, but I liked it a lot better. I haven't liked Cameron's other books nearly as much as I liked Swan Song.
I don't have a favorite book, I love too many. I actually have a list on my web page: http://www.factorfantasy.com/favoritelbooks.html
I could easily add another 50 books or so. Two books I've enjoyed most recently are Stephen King's "Everything's Eventual" and Ray Bradbury's "One for the Road" both are short story collections and surprisingly good (I've sort of been disappointed by these writers as of late).
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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Iago is de Vere's most misunderstood character...
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I can empathize with him.
In a Hemingway-esque point of view, there's a part of the story that even the audience is not in on... It's always like that. Even Iago knows what to tell and what not to tell. Kind of like what Shaw made his Joan Of Arc state to her Inquisitors: If we tell everything, then we have nothing left to ourselves.
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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I love that book.
"The Sun Also Rises" by Hemmingway is another favorite of mine.
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Ahhh... and so the pro- and anti-Iago factions form....
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I think one of the most horrifying ones I've read lately are the books by Dave Pelzer: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and A Man Named Dave. On the lighter side, any Jackie Collins novel for some good mystery smut ;D
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
I like most books but here are a couple of my favorites:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Stand-Stephen King
The Monkeywrench Gang
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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I read the whole thing in 2 and a half hours...
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Holy cow!!! The book is over 1000 pages!
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Holy cow!!! The book is over 1000 pages!
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:) I think the paperback copy I had was 800 and some pages. I read fast. Very fast. And I read everything, I don't skim or skip. Of course, with work, the computer, the robot team, and my writing and photography, I only read 5 books a week now.
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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Just about any of the discworld books by terry pratchett. right now my 2 favorite are Jingo and Small Gods and i might get new favorites when i read more or re-read ones that i'll understand better after reading other books in the series
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Great choice of author, TD :-) Jingo especially seems appropriate at the moment, and I love the basic premise of Small Gods (that gods come into being because of their worshippers, and have power depending on the strength of belief). I've just finished "Thief of Time" by TP, which has a whole bundle of insights - definitely one that'll bear re-reading.
My favourite, though is probably "Good Omens" by Pratchett with Neil Gaiman.
Phil
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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:) I think the paperback copy I had was 800 and some pages. I read fast. Very fast. And I read everything, I don't skim or skip. Of course, with work, the computer, the robot team, and my writing and photography, I only read 5 books a week now.
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I'm envious: although I'm a quick reader, too (about half your speed, and I consider that quick), with work, the computer and four children, most days it's reading or sleep so I'm down to one (or two if I'm lucky) book per week :-(
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John Steinbeck's "Of Mouse and Men"
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
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Ahhh... and so the pro- and anti-Iago factions form....
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I'm actually studying Othello at the moment in my A-Level English class. Just had to write a lovely essay on Iago's language changes between the people he talks to. Highly interesting :] (hint of sarcasm)
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
I have 3:
"Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orckzy
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
"My Enemy the Queen" by Victoria Holt
Subject: Re: What's your favorite book?
Bookwise, I have no idea, but I do love Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories...and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (nice name), it's so girly it's got me giggling like a schoolgirl http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung/lachen/laughing-smiley-004.gif. Wait I am a schoolgirl. Oy.