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ooooh ender's game smile.gif just finished it last night . . . ending was SO intense.

gibson's neuromancer was a great novel. i LOVED All Tomorrow's Party's.

and great gatsby- only book i read 5 times.

wuthering heights smile.gif great novel- great movie "we love laurence olivier!" :P

can't pick just one. top five:

Paul Auster's Leviathon

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Voltaire's Candide

Herman Hesse's Siddhartha

Stephen King's Different Seasons

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Couldn't ignore this thread one more second.

Shakespeare's works are UNPARALLELED. No other western fiction writer or philospher wrote about the human disposition as well as he did. Having said that... Goethe's Faust (part uno) is my all time fave, it has life-changing qualities and 'ol that. Not only is it one of the brightest puzzle pieces in the literary universe... it's hilarious as shit.

Faust = QUALITY

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Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper

The Funhouse and Intensity by Dean Koontz

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

Clash By Night by Chet Williamson

#1 on my list:

The Lord Of The Rings

The whole book is bigger than the bible. Three books in one. The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return Of The King

All three are being made into movies. I CAN'T WAIT!!! They better not fawk it up. cwm12.gifcwm41.gif

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in no particular order... because i can't choose only one. all of these (and many more,) have shaped my thoughts and opinions in some way.

East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

The Songlines - Bruces Chatwin

Candide - Voltaire

The Plague - Albert Camus

i see a ton of really great books on this thread, it's nice to see that people are still interested in educating themselves.

be cool,

stephen

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ok i gotta stick Eric Maria Remark in this thread

this man can color the hardest emotions to decribe cwm15.gif

people keep posting - damn some good books mentioned here i just wish i could read faster

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memoirs of a geisha-arthur golden-very good!

to kill a mockingbird is also one of my favs, anything by patricia cornwell, also a fav. poetry book of mine is the Illuminated Rumi.

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Originally posted by Unbound:

ok i gotta stick Eric Maria Remark in this thread

this man can color the hardest emotions to decribe cwm15.gif

people keep posting - damn some good books mentioned here i just wish i could read faster

read " all quiet on a western front"

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can't pick just one... i have too many favorites...

a tree grows in brooklyn

catcher...

little alters everywhere

she's come undone

the belljar

hamlet, macbeth

oh god... i could go on forever...~

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Originally posted by PFloyd40:

surprised there haven't been more outsiders fans

I loved The Outsiders!! (you are talking about the S.E. Hinton book right?...) I read that book so many time the pages started to fall out.

This topic is hard - too difficult to pick just one...anyway, my picks...

(from my youth)

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

Where the Sidewalk Ends & A Light in the Attic- Shel Silverstein

Harold and the Purple Crayon - ?

The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee Harper

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

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