What are your "MUST READ" books? - Page 4

twilight fairy · 15-12-2005

Yes, I am repetetive but my favourite book is The Catcher in the Rye. It's helped me quite a bit - read it especially if you're a teenager.

Read Russian literature! It's beautiful!

Most of it, anyhow..

cheiby11 · 15-12-2005

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Originally Posted by faust

You are joking, right?

No! Maybe the translation is better than original...

But I like another of his novels - The Joke

Shevchenko1 · 15-12-2005

From Russian literature...softly-softly and easily...Evgeniy Grishkovec "shirt "

faust · 15-12-2005

Even though we have a thread like this I'll post again, just because i love literature

The Little Prince - Exupery
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
The Fall - Camus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
Immortality - Kundera
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

These are the absolute faves, tier 2 is much bigger

twilight fairy · 15-12-2005

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Originally Posted by Shevchenko1

From Russian literature...softly-softly and easily...Evgeniy Grishkovec "shirt "

I've never read this..Actually I've never read any Grishkovec, ahh, shame on me. But I'll improve!

Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is absolutely brilliant. I don't understand how some people find it really difficult to read though.

I've got to add Burgees' A Clockwork Orange for the quirky style of writing..

eternitygoddess · 15-12-2005

By Judith McNaught (must reads for all romance fans):

Paradise
Something Wonderful

cheiby11 · 15-12-2005

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

tiffany · 15-12-2005

- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Haroon and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Tushka_BeLLa · 15-12-2005

The Millionaire Code

green.tea · 15-12-2005

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Originally Posted by tvsnow

The Catcher in the Rye
Mrs. Dalloway
House of Leaves
Anna Karenina
Pride & Prejudice
Lord of the Flies

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

what a great taste in books!

katy · 15-12-2005

"Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer - its an account of the May 1996 or 1997 ( cant remember offhand!) disaster on Everest when a massive storm hit the top of the mountain and at least eight people were killed on the same day. Sounds a little gloomy perhaps but it is an amazing account and deals a lot with the ethics of mountain climbing and what drives people to climb mountains and go into the "death zone".

I also really liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Perfrect Storm by Sebastian Junger - much better that the George Clooney film honest.

LoveMyBoots · 15-12-2005

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Originally Posted by katy

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I also really liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Perfrect Storm by Sebastian Junger - much better that the George Clooney film honest.

I found that book a bit overrated. I could go on and on about how intially I thought the book was good/average and came to loathe it, but I won't. :innnocent:

Brazilian Girl · 15-12-2005

- "The Lord of The Rings" trilogy - by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Animal Liberation" - by Peter Singer
- "Rachel's Holiday" - by Marian Keys
- "Stargirl" - by Jerry Spinelli
- "Angels and Demons" - by Dan Brown
- "The Hobbit" - by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "100 years of Solitude" - Gabriel García Marquez
- "The Hours" - Michael Cunningham
- and the "Harry Potter" series cause they're so much fun

cheiby11 · 16-12-2005

Virginia Woolf

CharlottefromCA · 16-12-2005

Some of my Favorite Books..

- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Great Gatsby
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Sula
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
- Wuthering Heights
- Pride & Prejudice
- Harry Potter Series

And the books my friend keeps telling me to read that I will when I have time... DaVinci Code, Kiterunner

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katy scenester Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: london Gender: femme Posts: 69	"Into Thin Air" by John Krakauer - its an account of the May 1996 or 1997 ( cant remember offhand!) disaster on Everest when a massive storm hit the top of the mountain and at least eight people were killed on the same day. Sounds a little gloomy perhaps but it is an amazing account and deals a lot with the ethics of mountain climbing and what drives people to climb mountains and go into the "death zone". I also really liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Perfrect Storm by Sebastian Junger - much better that the George Clooney film honest.

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