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Elven Warrior
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Your 10 Favourite Books
What are your 10 favourite books ever?
My list is 1. The Lord of The Rings. Tolkien 2. Catch-22. Heller 3. If on a winter's night a traveller. Calvino. 4. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez 5. The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky 6. Don Quixote. Cervantes 7. The Trial. Kafka 8. The Outsider. Camus 9. 1984. Orwell 10. Fathers and Sons. Turgenev. |
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05-06-2004, 02:08 PM
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Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs
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This is bound to change much in the near future, but this is my current list:
1. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin 2. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien 3. The Iliad - Homer 4. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Adams 5. Call of the Wild - Jack London 6. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 7. The Silmarillion - Tolkien 8. American Gods - Neil Gaiman 9. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie 10. Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb Perhaps not what most people would consider Great Works of Art, but...
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05-06-2004, 10:48 PM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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At this minute (in no order--it's hard enough thinking of only ten, let alone ranking them):
The Lord of the Rings Perdido Street Station - China Mieville Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick Catch-22 - Joseph Heller Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 1984 - George Orwell White Noise - Don Delillo Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem
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05-13-2004, 03:25 AM
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Hobbit
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Green Bay
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Also Sprach Zarathrustra-Nietzsche
The Silmarillion After Many a Summer Dies The Swan-Huxley Garden of Pomegranates-Regardie Anything by Aleister Crowley The Shining-SK The Hobbit All Quiet on The Western Front-Remarque Mushrooms Demystified-Arora Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow-Huxley Or something like that |
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05-13-2004, 09:04 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2003
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1. The Silmarillion - Tolkien
2. To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, & Thorn book 3) - Tad Williams 3. Stone of Farewell (M,S,& T book 2)- Tad Williams 4. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien 5. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire book 3)- George RR Martin 6. The Dragonbone Chair (M,S,&, T book 1) - Tad Williams 7. Mortals (Demon Wars Saga book 4)- RA Salvatore 8. The Hobbit - Tolkien 9. A Clash of Kings (ASoIaF book 1) - George RR Martin 10. Wizard's First Rule (The Sword of Truth book 1) - Terry Goodkind Atleast this is my list for today.
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05-17-2004, 05:44 AM
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Enting
Join Date: Apr 2003
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1. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov. [A]
2. Heidi --- Jonathan Sypri [A+] 3. Tom Jones -- Henry Fielding or Animal Farm -- George Orwell [A] 4. Song of Fire and Ice Saga Book 3 --- George R.R. Martin [A] 5. The Middle-earth Saga --- Tolkien [A] 6. To Kill a Mockingbird --- Harper Lee [A+] 7. To Green Angel Tower [Part 2] -- Tad Williams. [A] 8. Hearts in Atlantis -- Stephen King or Lord of the Flies -- William Golding [A+] 9. It --- Stephen King [A+] 10. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulks. [A]
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05-20-2004, 10:01 PM
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i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask
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The Lord of the Rings
Empress of the World Geography Club Where the Red Fern Grows The body of Christopher Creed Staying Fat for Sarah Burns Enders Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Eragon
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'The coming of dawn is ever the hope to the heart of men' -Aragorn 'Then I will die as one of them' -Aragorn TTT movie “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” - Benjamin Franklin arms are made for hugging avatar from the avatar shop! made by Eowyn, Lady of Rohan |
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05-21-2004, 07:44 AM
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Well, heres mine, books and works, in no particular order.
A Farwell to Arms - Hemmingway The Divine Comedy - Dante The Illiad - Homer War and Peace - Tolstoy LOTR/Silmarillion - Tolkien Huck Finn - Twain Malone Dies - Beckett Three Musketeers - Dumas Meditations - Aurelius (if you can call it a book) Time Machine - Wells I actually really dont like modern fiction. Always figured that if it was still in print after fifty years, it must have something. Cheers 
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Audaces fortuna juvat Last edited by Fenir_LacDanan : 05-21-2004 at 07:45 AM. |
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05-21-2004, 11:30 AM
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Enting
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I don't think that I know what my actually ten favorite books are, but these are ten of the books I've enjoyed most, and which have shaped my own writing.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... - Italo Calvino Life of Pi - Yann Martell Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series - Tad Williams As I Lay Dying - William Faulker The Once and Future King - T H White The Alice Books - Lewis Carroll The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter Pentamerone - Giambatista Basile Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander Complete Works of Shakespeare I'd also add the Complete Short Stories of Lord Dunsany if such a book existed. Sadly it does not exist, which means that a person has to dig through every used book store in the country to get them all. |
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05-21-2004, 02:15 PM
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Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008
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Its hard to say my favorites, I have so many....
1. The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoyevsky 2. Crime & Punishment-Dostoyevsky 3. The Hobbit-Tolkien 4. The Lord of the Rings-Tolkien 5. Animal Farm-Orwell 6. War and Peace 7. Hatchet-Paulsen (yes, I know its a kids book  ...but still...)8. The Lord of the Rings-Tolkien 9. David Copperfield-Dickens 10. Great Expectations-Dickens
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05-21-2004, 03:27 PM
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Elven Warrior
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Hey!
Everyone careful to stand in justified awe of our prez as he walks past, with golden shoes... Dickens, Hector, nice, He's one I gave no justice.
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05-21-2004, 11:56 PM
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Yes, and believe it or not, those two (besides "Christmas Carol"
 ) are the only works by him that I've read...though Nicholas Nickelby and Oliver Twist are waiting in line
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05-22-2004, 03:38 PM
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Hobbit
Join Date: May 2004
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The Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter: Priziner of Azcaban Harry Potter: Order of The Poenix Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets Harry Potter: Sorceres Stone A Series of Unfortonant Events: The Slipery Slope A Series of Unfortonant Events: The Wide Window Where the Red Fern Grows I'm a series person. I read all types of books. Last edited by Farimir : 05-22-2004 at 03:39 PM. |
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05-23-2004, 04:46 PM
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Elven Warrior
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Beleg-Tom Jones is better then LoTR? Well...I as much as I admire Fielding's book, it is no where near as good as LoTr....never mind, different people different opinions.
I also see some Calvino, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy fans here....great! |
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05-23-2004, 07:49 PM
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Hobbit
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Who were you talking to?
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05-23-2004, 08:08 PM
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Quote:
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Re: Your 10 Favourite Books
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I'm in the process of reading Don Quixote, btw. And 1984 is on my list!
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05-23-2004, 11:59 PM
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the Shrike
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In no particular order:
Honourable mentions:
Incidentally, you can read quite a few classics online here.
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05-24-2004, 03:08 PM
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Hobbit
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
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1. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien (german)
2. Harry Potter 3 and 5 - J.K. Rowling (english) 3. Silmarillion - Tolkien (german) 4. Harry Potter 3 and 5 - Rowling (german) 5. Harry Potter 1, 2 and 4 - Rowling (german) 6. Books like the Silmarillion (Sorry I don't know the english name) 7. Armande the vampir - Anne Rice (english) 8. Darren Shan - don't know (german)9. Dreamcatcher - steohen king (english) 10. Fear Street (german) The english HP books are very better than the german books!!
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05-24-2004, 03:31 PM
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i don't know what i am talking about either, so don't ask
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whats the difference between the english and german version of the HP books?
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