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name 5 books you really enjoyed reading.

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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Fri 9 Sep, 2005 08:35 am
Chai Tea wrote:

Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi


I truly loved this book too.
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kcheney
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 12:30 pm
the alchemist - Paulo Coelho
illusions - richard bach
steppenwolf - herman hesse
of mice and men - john steinbeck
roots - alex haley
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brahmin
 
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Reply Wed 21 Sep, 2005 11:16 pm
woops !!!

i hear ya on 2 and 5..... though i also read 1 too.

roots was very good.

oh well - we magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in thought - so what the fcuk !!

haha
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tonyf
 
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Reply Wed 28 Sep, 2005 12:56 pm
here's 5 in no particular order
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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tonyf
 
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Reply Wed 28 Sep, 2005 11:45 pm
here's my five
Herzog - Saul Bellow
Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

And currently reading (amongst others):
Chronicles - Bob Dylan
Love Me - Garrison Keiller
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sakhi
 
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Reply Thu 29 Sep, 2005 12:19 am
Thanks for reminding me about Herzog. I'll go re-read it today. ...I like "Mr Sammler's Planet" too..
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tonyf
 
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Reply Thu 29 Sep, 2005 03:45 am
Herzog
Herzog's a seminal book for me.....I go back and re-read it every couple of years and get more out of it every time
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Krekel
 
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Reply Thu 29 Sep, 2005 05:46 am
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov
De Joodse Messias (The Jewish Messiah) - Arnon Grunberg
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Perfume - Patrick Süskind

These are five novels I really enjoyed, not necessarily the five I enjoyed most.
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brahmin
 
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Reply Thu 29 Sep, 2005 08:48 pm
er... would someone please tell me what Herzog's book is about ?
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sakhi
 
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Reply Thu 29 Sep, 2005 10:16 pm
Re: Herzog
tonyf wrote:
Herzog's a seminal book for me.....I go back and re-read it every couple of years and get more out of it every time


quite true for me too. I've already read it twice.

brahmin wrote:

er... would someone please tell me what Herzog's book is about ?


"Herzog" - by the Nobel prize winning author, Saul Bellow .
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/herzog.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28230-2005Apr5.html
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brahmin
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 04:39 am
thanks.
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 07:00 am
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood

The Raj Quartet - Paul Scott

Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
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Modest Man
 
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Reply Fri 30 Sep, 2005 10:45 pm
"Infinite Jest" - David Foster Wallace
"The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Adventures of Augie March" - Saul Bellow
"The Tin Drum" - Gunter Grass
"White Noise" - Don DeLillo
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sakhi
 
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Reply Mon 3 Oct, 2005 09:41 pm
msolga wrote:

The Raj Quartet - Paul Scott


What's this book about, msolga?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 3 Oct, 2005 09:57 pm
1. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
2. The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
3. The James Bond Series by Ian Fleming
4. Series by James Clavell including Noble House, Sai Pan, Whirlwind, and Gaijing.
5. Series by Gail Tsukiyama including The Language of Threads, The Samurai's Garden, and Dreaming Water.
6. my autobiography
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 5 Oct, 2005 01:13 am
chinmayee_s wrote:
msolga wrote:

The Raj Quartet - Paul Scott


What's this book about, msolga?


Be back later, chinmayee!
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viva chiapas
 
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Reply Thu 6 Oct, 2005 06:05 am
unfortunately 3 of mine are already on other peoples lists but here goes:

Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
The Alchemist
Our Word Is Our Weapon- this is a collection of writings by subcomandante marcos of the EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army). ok so it isn't a novel but i enjoyed reading the various essays and stories in here far more than most books i have read.
The God Of Small Things- Arundhati Roy
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Boephe
 
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Reply Thu 6 Oct, 2005 07:47 am
Quote:
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams


you rock bottom, i love Douglas Adams

first would be
Byzantium - Stephen Lawhead
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Empyrion - Stephen Lawhead
With My Knife - Andrew Lansdown
And then any book by Terry Pratchett, maybe Thief of Time as the best
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amos5t
 
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Reply Thu 6 Oct, 2005 08:08 pm
to name five books is difficult because my appreciation was influenced by what I was going through when i read the book. however the following five books did stir me when I read them:

alice in wonderland: lewis carol
Of Human Bondage: Somerset Maugham
For whom the bell tolls: Earnest Hemingway
Portnoy's complaint: Philip roth
The Glass Palace: Amitav Ghosh
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dancingnancy
 
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Reply Fri 7 Oct, 2005 02:35 pm
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Gold
This Much I Know Is True - Wally Lamb
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Harry Potter books
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

A lot of those are recent ones but are top-of-mind for me:-)
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