06-26-2004, 03:38 AM | #41 |
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Here they are...
1. J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 2. Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice 3. Roger Lancelyn Green's King Arthur And His Knights of the Round Table 4. Ludovic Kennedy's Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismark 5. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books 6. A R Lloyd's Kine 7. Jack London's The Call of the Wild 8. George Macdonald-Fraser's The Pyrates 9. Anton Myrer's The Last Convertible 10. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Other nominees: Kenneth Graham's The Wind In the Willows Peter Benchley's Jaws Frances H Burnett's A Little Princess FHB's The Secret Garden Tom Clancy's The Hunt For Red October Astrid Lindgren's Ronia - the Robber's Daughter AL's Mio, my Mio James A Michener's Centennial Rosamund Pilcher's The Shellseekers Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe Although I've numbered the first 10, doesn't mean that any book is less liked than the other. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 06-26-2004 at 03:57 AM. |
07-22-2004, 09:42 PM | #42 |
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1. The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Alice & Through the Looking Glass C.S. Lewis 3. The Beach Alex Garland 4. 1984 George Orwell 5. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 6. Lord of the Flies William Gerald Golding 7. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 8. Watchers Dean R Koontz I can't really think of 9-10 and beyond, there are so many books I love! Those I have already writen are as I thought of them, not in any particular order, although The Lord of the Rings is my number one book! |
07-23-2004, 02:51 PM | #43 |
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Piers Anthony's
INCOIM-1: ON A PALE HORSE INCOIM-2: BEARING AN HOURGLASS INCOIM-3: WITH A TANGLED SKEIN INCOIM-4: WIELDING A RED SWORD INCOIM-5: BEING A GREEN MOTHER INCOIM-6: FOR THE LOVE OF EVIL INCOIM-7: AND ETERNITY Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 07-23-2004 at 02:56 PM. |
07-23-2004, 03:01 PM | #44 |
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Clive Cussler's (he being my favourite thriller author)
01. PACIFIC VORTEX 02. MAYDAY 03. ICEBERG 04. RAISE THE TITANIC 05. VIXEN 03 06. NIGHT PROBE 07. DEEP SIX 08. CYCLOPS 09. TREASURE 10. DRAGON 11. SAHARA 12. INCA GOLD 13. SHOCKWAVE 14. FLOOD TIDE 15. ATLANTIS FOUND 16. VALHALLA RISING 17. TROYAN ODYSSEY |
07-23-2004, 03:02 PM | #45 |
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Peter O'Donnell's
MODESTY BLAISE SABRETOOTH I, LUCIFER A TASTE FOR DEATH LAST DAY IN LIMBO PIECES OF MODESTY (ANTHOLOGY) THE SILVER MISTRESS THE IMPOSSIBLE VIRGIN DRAGON'S CLAW THE XANADU TALISMAN THE NIGHT OF THE MORNINGSTAR DEAD MAN'S HANDLE THE COBRA TRAP (ANTHOLOGY) |
08-14-2004, 09:03 AM | #46 |
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1. The Lord of the Rings - my absolute all-time favourite book
2. All other books by JRR Tolkien (If I wrote them all it would be more than 10) 3. All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot 4. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell 5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis 6. The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper 7. The Jolly Christmas Postman - Janet and Alan Ahlberg 8. The Reader's Digest World Atlas - I LOVE maps 9. Treasury of Poetry - Hilda Boswell 10. All in the Blue Unclouded Weather - Robin Klein
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
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08-26-2004, 02:47 PM | #48 |
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You know, I'm fairly sure he was kidding about that
My own list: Persuasion – Jane Austen Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Middlemarch – George Eliot The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis (yes it’s one book ) Bleak House – Charles Dickens LOTR Vanity Fair – Thackeray The Mayor of Casterbridge/Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy The End of the Affair – Graham Greene The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte M. Yonge
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 08-26-2004 at 02:49 PM. |
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