Can't forget Huckleberry Finn.
I always like anything by T.H. White.
anything by herman hesse and roald dahl
I'm starting Huck Finn today. I already think it's very funny and humorous.
Salvatore
Anything written by R A Salvatore is godly. He even wrote a series about a cleric and two dwarven cooks, and it was amazing.
Well I haven't read everything yet, but I do have favorites:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Nana by E. Zola
Cousin Bette by Balzac
Gone With The Wind - by M. Mitchell
Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier (sp?)
I have never been able to finish anything by James Joyce.
Nice choice, Green Witch
But,
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That would be such an odyssey!
The Good Earth? I'm not sure if I liked that one as much, what part did you like the most? I liked the idea behind the whole thing, but sometimes I had trouble keeping interested.
I really tried to think of something but I have not been reding fiction for so long that i can't remember what i really liked anymore...
Yup, The Good Earth is one of those love it or leave it books. I have a thing for pre- Communist China so that helped, plus I do small scale farming so I could relate on that level. IMHO it's the only Pearl S. Buck book worth reading.
I should add to my list "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck.
I also keep a notebook of what I read and make a few notations as to what I thought about a book (I've been doing this since the 4th grade after a teacher suggested it). Every year or so I go back through my notebooks and chose a favorite to re-read. Sometimes my opinion will change based on more life experience or just having read a similar book that was better crafted.
JOHN 1:12 by Arnold English. I was engulfed by this book!
One of three. "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, "1984" by George Orwell (scary, scary novel), or "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal". Hilarious, yet poignant and relevant.
My favourite book is Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody. It is a true story and is one of the most heart-felt novels I've ever read
I'm conflicted. There are 3 books which are competing for my vote, "Pride and Prejudice", "The Fountainhead", and "Anna Karenina". I suppose I would vote for "Anna Karenina" though because it examines so much about the world. There are so many themes in it, marriage, suicide, love, parenthood, society, family, etc.
There are many wonderful choices already named. Others to consider would be Faust, Tropic of Capricorn, more than one Shakespeare, Moby Dick, The Grapes of Wrath.
Some named I don't like are the ones by Ayn Rand and Don Quixote.
Why don't you like Ayn Rand edgarblythe?
Poorly written, taken literally by many readers.
Literally how? I know that the major thing that bothered me about "The Fountainhead" was that at times it seemed like little more than a vehicle for her philosophy. I enjoyed it over all but there were moments when I felt like she was trying to impose objectivism upon the reader.
Literally by thinking the book message is somehow to be taken seriously.
Lord of The rings - JRR Tolkien and also the silmarillion.
I was reading this when i was in NZ. it totally blew my mind...the depiction of the lands of Mid-Earth and its history..was totally astounding....i was totally transported every time i flip the pages.
well..gonna strt on Crime & Punishment next.
