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03-17-2010, 04:37 AM
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- Candide by Voltaire. - A Separate Peace by John Knowles. - The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck A Separate Peace, especially, was a book I read sophomore year of high school (approximately 16 years old for the non-US folks). I didn't get it at the time and I remember being bored with it. When I read it again about eight years later, just after having graduated college, I enjoyed it and understood it a lot more. It's now become one of my more favorite pieces of literature. 
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03-17-2010, 10:14 AM
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My favorite book really isn't a book... does Homer's The Odyssey count?
 That was the most epic story I ever read; more epic (IMO) than LotR. Of course, LotR as movies seem more lively than the books.
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03-17-2010, 12:09 PM
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And you are correct when you say that LOTR books are more vivid and lively than the movies: the scenes of the story just keep flowing into your mind as you read, and they make you feel as you're right there, with all the other characters and feeling what they are feeling.
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03-17-2010, 07:20 PM
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Mostly I read Egyptian, Mythology, and Historical Fantasy
My #1 is - Kushiel's Legacy series - Jacqueline Carey Other favorites are Dragons of Pern - anything by Anne McCaffrey; Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley; and Child of the Morning - Pauline Gedge
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03-18-2010, 03:51 AM
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I love it! I'm going to read all of these. If my library don't have it, I'm going to hunt them down
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03-18-2010, 01:59 PM
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03-21-2010, 09:54 AM
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Avatar survival guide (I imagine Harper from the avatar pc game scrawling in the notes in the sides
 )Oliver Twist by charles Dickens is one of my favourites. Fagin is such a memorable character.
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04-06-2010, 03:27 AM
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Anything by Tolkien!
I read LOTR, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion every year.
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04-07-2010, 01:40 PM
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I too read LotR, Hobbit and Silmarillion once a year (every year).
I also love Arthur C. Clarke (Rama especially), Asimov (various robots books were interesting as was Magic), Lois McMaster Bujold (all hail Vorkosigan) and have a very special place in my heart for the Roads of Heaven series by Melissa Scott. I've done some technical consulting (having trained as a spce physicist) for a couple of SF books whose authors wanted to keep them as "hard" as possible which has given me a taste for the harder stuff myself. Fantasy wise... hmm... apart from Tolkien (obviously) I really enjoy Pratchett (the man is as wonderful as his books), Modessitt (I would recommended the Spellsong and Recluce sagas to anyone) and I often return to Terry Brooks' Shannara books when I want something a little easier on the brain. As far as conventional fiction goes I enjoy most things that my better read friends throw my way (because they are usually sure I will enjoy them). Currently battling my way through Catch-22, which is a surreal experience. I have a fondness for Christie's Poirot and the occasional Sherlock Holmes tale... ...and this post is already twice as long as I planned it to be so I shall shut up for now.
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04-16-2010, 02:54 PM
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Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
Trudi Canavan's series' as I mentioned in the other thread in this forum  I also have an interest in Thomas Hardy, my favourite books of his so far; Jude the Obscure and Return of the Native. But I have also read Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge. I studied Return of the Native and Tess of the d'Urbervilles for my advanced English class and also wrote a dissertation on Dracula (Bram Stoker) and Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) and the roles of women, theological symbolism and something else which I have forgotten The intricacy of Hardy's novels is astounding! I recommend them to anyone who wants a good read.
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04-17-2010, 11:24 PM
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Glad to see The Dark Tower being mentioned, here! My absolute favourite book series ever.
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04-17-2010, 11:56 PM
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I prefer non-fiction to fiction. I don't consider scientific articles to be books (unless they are gathered and published as a book on a particular subject - ie. Economics of Information Security); otherwise, I would have a relatively long list.
Some of my favorite books are: Security Engineering - Ross Anderson The Lucifer Effect - Philip Zimbardo Any book by Jared Diamond and Carl Sagan Einstein by Walter Isaacson The Essential John Nash - Harold Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar Relativity - Albert Einstein The Age of Everything by Matthew Hedman Four Laws - Peter Atkins Godel's Proof - Nagel and Newman
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04-18-2010, 07:45 PM
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I actually prefer the Illiad myself. Apparently by the same author, although the styles are so different.
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