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LearningAsIGo
Jan 28, 2009, 01:46 PM
You must limit yourself to only ONE and... maybe... a runner up. ;)

LearningAsIGo
Jan 28, 2009, 01:47 PM
Favorite: Gone with the Wind

This book is a must. Its very different from the movie - I couldn't put it down!

Runner Up: Jude the Obscure
I adore this book - it really makes you think and the ending is quiet surprising.

Nestorian
Jan 28, 2009, 01:58 PM
I like fantacy, and I've only just started to explor my reading ability, but...

First: Harry Potter book 6. (yes yes I know.)
I like to learn about past events that effect now, and this book was very much like that. Also, harry's potions book was super cool.

Second: Children of Hurin. J.R.R. Tolkin
I just liked the character Turin, very well made, and awsome story. Though it does go all over in the beginning.

jrk
Jan 28, 2009, 02:59 PM
The portrait of the atrist as a young man by James Joyce
And
The stranger by Albert Camus

Jeremy

HistorianChick
Jan 29, 2009, 07:06 AM
The Scarlet Pimpernel :)

earl237
Feb 5, 2009, 12:52 PM
My all time favorite is On The Road by Jack Kerouac. George Orwell's Animal Farm is a close second.

spitvenom
Feb 5, 2009, 12:58 PM
The Art of War.

Emland
Feb 5, 2009, 02:19 PM
Favorite: Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

Runner up: Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey

jjwoodhull
Feb 5, 2009, 09:19 PM
Pride and Prejudice

MarkwithaK
Feb 5, 2009, 09:23 PM
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Runner Up: American Gods.

Synnen
Feb 5, 2009, 09:54 PM
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is number one, hands down.

I prefer to read series rather than just stand-alone books, though---so it's hard to narrow down what a runner up would be. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about "Foucault's Pendulum" lately, if that counts.

Wondergirl
Feb 5, 2009, 10:29 PM
Current favorite: The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton (true story -- NYC woman moves to Wyoming and is given an orphaned coyote pup to raise)

LearningAsIGo
Feb 13, 2009, 02:07 PM
Pride and Prejudice

I love this one!

artlady
Feb 13, 2009, 02:56 PM
Memoirs of a Geisha.

It almost feels like you are reading poetry.

Runner up... Angelas Ashes.. so very real and intense.

And you?

frangipanis
Feb 14, 2009, 07:00 AM
Memoirs of a Geisha is a good one.

Sorry, can't choose between:

'Palm of the Hand Stories' by Yasunari Kawabata
Or
'An Imaginary Life' by David Malouf
Or
'Iron Earth, Copper Sky' by Yashar Kemal
Or
Any of Anita Desai's stories
Anita Desai - Google Image Search (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=Puf&q=Anita+Desai&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ic2WSeS0J9XLkAW-q9ieCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title)

J_9
Feb 14, 2009, 07:22 AM
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Can't think of a runner up right now.

verbattered52
Feb 14, 2009, 06:40 PM
Light in August by William Faulkner, and runner up would be Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

neverme
Feb 17, 2009, 11:29 PM
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is an amazing book,

Anyone read it?

rippedinside
Feb 17, 2009, 11:46 PM
Favorite: Bless Me Ultima

Runner Up: Wuthering Heights

myx10x
Feb 19, 2009, 03:34 AM
My favorite: Dinana Gabaldon - Outlander

frangipanis
Feb 19, 2009, 04:30 AM
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is an amazing book,

anyone read it?

No, but it sounds like a great read:
The Shadow of the Wind -- book review (http://www.curledup.com/shadwind.htm)

warda syed
Feb 19, 2009, 03:17 PM
My fav book is don quixote

TitaniumG
Feb 22, 2009, 06:40 PM
Timeline by Michael Crichton.This book covers the areas that I love such as History,Science,Mystery and most of all nonstop action

LearningAsIGo
Feb 27, 2009, 12:17 PM
Admins - could this become a sticky post at the top? :)

LearningAsIGo
Sep 4, 2009, 12:44 PM
One of my recent reads has become a favorite:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck :)

Bob327
Sep 4, 2009, 09:29 PM
The Shell
Seekers

Bob327
Sep 4, 2009, 09:29 PM
The shell seekers

Bob327
Sep 4, 2009, 09:31 PM
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Bob327
Sep 4, 2009, 09:39 PM
The shell seekers

bellabelle3
Sep 8, 2009, 03:26 PM
My favorite book is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I love this book! The characters, the settings, the theme of friendship and love! It's GREAT! It is certainly a heart- warming and motivating MUST READ!!

kaalvoetkind
Sep 11, 2009, 03:15 AM
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - for today anyway...

The love... the tragedy...

Hardy23
Nov 20, 2009, 06:30 AM
Mine favorite book is The Merchant of venice. This is a beautiful story.

earl237
Nov 23, 2009, 06:46 PM
I'm reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. An excellent true story about growing up poor in Ireland.

Elektra_
Dec 8, 2009, 01:32 PM
I've read so many books, that I can't remember their titles :-D

But! May be Angels and Demons were my favorite 2-3 years ago... For now... I really don't know :)

nikkicute
Dec 14, 2009, 02:39 AM
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
The first book to almost make me cry.

amicon
Dec 19, 2009, 12:32 PM
Green Darkness by Anya Seton.
Intriguing!

dreamerjay
Dec 21, 2009, 12:10 PM
Bodega Dreams

Runner Up:The Crush

nikkicute
Dec 21, 2009, 04:47 PM
Bodega Dreams
Runner Up:The Crush

Who's the author of The Crush?

confuzed1978
Dec 24, 2009, 12:01 PM
Dracula and Wuthering Heights

Scat Goodman
Dec 31, 2009, 02:59 AM
To me is very dificult to point out one but the innocence of father brown by c. k. cherston is one as well as the golden spiders by rex stout

Kitkat22
Jan 14, 2010, 03:28 PM
"To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee. Runner-up, "Brave New World".

chocodrip
Jan 26, 2010, 03:44 AM
I started reading books when I was three, now twenty years later I must have read at least two thousand books.:o Out of that there were four books that were "unputdownable", I'm going to list only two.

1. Harry Potter and the deathly hallows - for the way it ties all the loose ends together and ends perfectly.
2. The Temple by Matthew Reily. - try it. Start reading it in the morning so you'll be able to finish it by mid night.

nikkicute
Jan 26, 2010, 06:20 AM
LOL!
I Google Temple, by Matthew Reilly the third search results down is titled:
The Worst Book I Have Ever Read – Temple, by Matthew Reilly:p
Oh well... either you hate it or you don't! I'll put it on my Amazon wish list to read in the future.

Kitkat22
Jan 26, 2010, 11:50 AM
My least favorite book of all time is, "The Jester", by James Patterson. Also "Message in a Bottle". What a horrible ending.

Kohoutek
Jan 27, 2010, 08:39 AM
My favourite book of all time, it's a bit of a cheat I know, is the Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's just perfection to me - the short stories fly by, and there's just enough of a long running story arc (the relationship between Holmes and Watson) that you can really get your teeth into them. I think it's the literary equivalent of having a cup of tea and putting your slippers on. I find it so comforting, I take it on holiday with me so I don't get homesick! :D

nikkicute
Jan 27, 2010, 10:00 AM
My favourite book of all time, it's a bit of a cheat I know, is the Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's just perfection to me - the short stories fly by, and there's just enough of a long running story arc (the relationship between Holmes and Watson) that you can really get your teeth into them. I think it's the literary equivalent of having a cup of tea and putting your slippers on. I find it so comforting, I take it on holiday with me so I don't get homesick! :D

Awwww how cute:p
The Complete Sherlock Holmes is all the Sherlock books together right?

Kohoutek
Jan 27, 2010, 11:31 AM
Awwww how cute:p
The Complete Sherlock Holmes is all the Sherlock books together right?

Heh, thanks! Yeah, the Complete Sherlock Holmes is the four 'novels' and 57 short stories. I say novels, but they're more like 'novellas'. :)

Kitkat22
Jan 27, 2010, 01:19 PM
Heh, thanks! Yeah, the Complete Sherlock Holmes is the four 'novels' and 57 short stories. I say novels, but they're more like 'novellas'. :) "Truth burns up error.. Sojurner Truth.:)

Goldenwolf
Jan 28, 2010, 04:20 PM
The Shack

Runner up: Angels and Demons

Janeyfrance
Feb 4, 2010, 02:44 AM
Probably "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Jane

wendylady7
Feb 14, 2010, 10:24 PM
I have so many! Gone with the wind, Outlander, saywer, Dewey the library cat, Interview with the vampire, Wuthering heights

Goldenwolf
Feb 15, 2010, 03:24 PM
Lets change what I said,
Favourite book is now definitely The Lost Symbol (although I haven't finished it yet!)
But the runner-up is still Angels and Demons

Kitkat22
Feb 15, 2010, 04:44 PM
The Lion, The Witch. The Wardrobe.
The "Left Behind Series".