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What kind of book do you read?


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persephone

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pride and prejudice hands down.
although ulysses is starting to intrigue me
 

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boz-foogle said:
Nietzsche is awesome beyond comprehension (occasionally literally).
Mr EaZy sounds like a moron.
Nietzsche is such a great writer and I'm sure that I can only understand a small proportion of his ideas - if I could u nderstand all of his ideas he would seem even greater. I would've put your quote to replace Mr EaZy (aka 'moron') but with the new forum there's a maximum of 500 characters...
 

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I actually enjoyed the Gay Science, thus spake, human all too human, and the antichrist :)
 

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Enders Game.
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For love of Evil - Piers Anthony. (5th i think in the Immortals series.)

and coming in behind is...

In the presence of horses - barbara dimmick
enemy mine - barry b longyear
The series by jean m auel, i can't remember the name.. but one of the books is "The plains of passage"..
Isobelle carmody series.. the one with the really long and annoying name that is illuding me right now...

and then further down the list is David eddings, Katherine Kerr and Raymond E Fiest
 

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hellooo....
hundred years of solitude!
and Anna Karenina...hehe intensity wise.
 

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withoutaface said:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. 'nuff said.
YES!! The Castle by Kafka is also pretty good.

And guy above me...sweetie....it's spelt Harper.
 

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bas lag series by china mieville- absolutely fantastic
followed closely by the assasin & tawny man trilogies by robin hobb
pretty boy by lauren henderson
american gods by neil gaiman
malazan series by steven erikson
 

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i havent read enough books to determine which is the greatest, however woolf and joyce interest me currently
 

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I love The Tomorrow Series - John Marsden :uhhuh:
 

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Personally my favourite novel is Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. However, I think that probably in terms of 'brilliant' writing, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisionwood Bible is the cream of the crop. The characterisation is amazing.

Oh, it terms of humourous writing, I can't go past Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Love it!!
 

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Harry Potter!

Well, it isn't really but I love it.

All Quite on the Western Front and Animal Farm are my 'Best Evers', and The Power of One.
 

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