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What is your favorite book?

 
 
Wed 7 Jun, 2017 08:18 am
Any suggestions? What authors do you read?
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Sturgis
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 12:12 pm
@Alice Wonderland,
There are so many to choose from as far as a favorite. I go through phases with many authors and devour everything I can locate from them.

Through the years there was the Ed McBain phase, the Samuel Butler time, a brief visit with John Lescroart, an on and off trip to Ernest Hemingway and am now in the midst of a Joseph Roth vacation.

I'll possibly take a journey to science fiction soon, it's been too long a while since I've been there.

Favorite books would include Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
ossobucotemp
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 01:34 pm
@Sturgis,
Mine has been Primo Levi's The Reawakening.
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centrox
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 02:20 pm
Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
ossobucotemp
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 02:34 pm
@centrox,
Apparently The Reawakening by Primo Levi was also titled The Truce:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truce
centrox
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 02:59 pm
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:
Primo Levi

I very much enjoyed The Periodic Table recently.
ossobucotemp
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 03:19 pm
@centrox,
Panzade picked up on this and read all of Levi. Not to take credit.

Panz is a treasure.
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edgarblythe
 
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 03:30 pm
I am picking Ulysses by Joyce, but there are many I like just as much.
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Mhm
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Wed 7 Jun, 2017 06:09 pm
@Alice Wonderland,
I absolutely LOVE The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Neilson. The first book in the series is called The False Prince.
Alice Wonderland
 
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Thu 8 Jun, 2017 04:49 am
@Mhm,
Thank you for advice I will definitely read this book
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Kaitholik
 
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Thu 8 Jun, 2017 07:37 am
@Alice Wonderland,
Hi Alice Wonderland,
Currently it has to be The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's a sad story, but a very well crafted work. I read it years ago, and its been running through my head lately. It'll be a different book running through my head tomorrow, though. Smile

I'm always looking for suggestions, too. Sometime I just Google "good books" to see if something catches my eye.

What do you recommend?
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Roberta
 
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Thu 8 Jun, 2017 09:29 pm
I don't know if it's possible for me to single out one favorite. But two that pop instantly to mind are Light in August (Faulkner) and The Brothers Karamozov (sp?) (Dostoevsky).
chirchri
 
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Mon 12 Jun, 2017 08:05 pm
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
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eve55
 
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Tue 13 Jun, 2017 01:38 am
@Alice Wonderland,
Gone with the wind.
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Brianguo
 
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Tue 13 Jun, 2017 02:12 am
@Alice Wonderland,
My favorite book is Al- Quran.
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VirginiaGaston
 
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Tue 25 Jul, 2017 04:14 am
@Alice Wonderland,
Three Comrades, Erich Maria Remarque
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Victoria2018
 
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Fri 1 Jun, 2018 11:13 am
My top 5
1. Harry Potter.
2. The Sword оf Truth
3. A song of Ice and Fire
4. Finding Yourself in the Town of Geniuses
5. Twilight
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RendyB
 
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Wed 19 Feb, 2020 01:55 pm
Martin Eden by Jack London
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JayR
 
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Sun 3 May, 2020 07:00 pm
@Roberta,
I've once heard a joke that Russian literature is all about suffering - either for a hero or for the author or at least for a reader Smile But Dostoevsky is still a great choice
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kuriisenbo
 
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Wed 1 Jul, 2020 04:48 am
@Alice Wonderland,
You have to understand that books are not only read and forgotten, they have their place not only on the shelves but also in our hearts and mind.
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