04-01-2004, 09:09 PM | #1 |
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Books, books, books
what is your favourite book of all time?
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04-02-2004, 12:27 AM | #2 |
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Dune.
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04-02-2004, 12:35 AM | #3 |
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Tie Between-The Brothers Karamazov and Lord of the Rings and David Copperfield
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04-02-2004, 10:22 AM | #4 |
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very tough...
i've reread the silmarillion and lotr more than any other, so they'd have to be up top but i have a few others that i revisit very often (three or more times ) various short stories by oscar wilde, poe and lovecraft roger zelazny's lord of light and jack of shadows stephen king's pet sematary jd salinger's catcher in the rye anthony burgess' a clockwork orange to kill a mockingbird by harper lee currently i'm reading the dune books again and enjoying them very much told ya it was tough
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04-02-2004, 10:25 AM | #5 |
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how about
The Lost World & Other Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? obviously any by JRRT rank high of course |
04-02-2004, 11:13 AM | #6 |
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Pride and Prejudice
or possibly The Go-Between, or possibly Brideshead Revisited.
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04-05-2004, 11:02 PM | #7 |
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omg, that's a loaded question...
um, besides tolkien's works, i'd say: any of Tamora Pierce's books Jennifer Roberson's Sword Dancer books King of the Wind by Margaret Henry and Black Beauty by....someone...
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04-16-2004, 07:27 PM | #9 |
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Suilad, mellon,
It's probably a tie between the Bible and the Lord of the Rings. Probably. Doesn't mean it is, just probably. B/C, really, the Bible is much more encouraging and is much richer than Lord of the Rings, but not by much. So therefore, having gone and said this, wasted your precioussss time, I like both Lord of the Rings and the Bible, Bible being first and Lord of the Rings being second. Namarie, --Nimbrennil
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Lord of the Rings it is followed closely by A Game of Thrones
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*Agrees with Millane* I'm not sure whether to rank Tolkien or Martin nr 1, so who's on the top varies.
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