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Old 06-09-2006, 01:09 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Disgrace - J.M Coatzee.

Absolutely brilliant writer. Very much deserving of the Nobel Prize he won.




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The Life of Pi - Yann Martel

This book will make you believe in or question your belief in God.




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Collected Stories - John McGahern

This guy has mastered the tradition of Irish short story




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The Dubliners - James Joyce

an absolute classic




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A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

"Owen Meany" is my favorite but he wrote these more famous novels as well:
The World According to Garp
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Cider House Rules




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Old 06-09-2006, 01:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Very few books that I own that I've read more than once. However, among them are:

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (was my favorite book as a kid... read it so many times that the pages are falling out now)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Time of the Dragons by Alice Ekert-Rotholz
Follow the Seventh Man by Robert Standish
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby


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Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens
Cantebury Tales--Geoffrey Chaucer
Lord of the Rings Trilogy---J.R.R. Tolkien
Sword of Truth Series--Terry Goodkind
Frankenstein--Mary Shelly
Dracula--Bram Stoker
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The Dubliners - James Joyce

an absolute classic
I would agree with you on that one....Joyce is a prime example of the epiphanal moment in literature.
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sad to say i have read most of my books more than once... but there are far too many to list here, suffice to say there are the S King, D Koontz, D Simmons and some Clive Barkers, plus a shite load of FantFict including the Wheel of Time series, and the Pern series also...

nothing deep loke you guys read, i like my books to take me too a happy place where i dont have to think too much...
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Most the discworlds.
Silence of the lanbs
Some Sin City books (but then they don't take that long to get through)

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I would agree with you on that one....Joyce is a prime example of the epiphanal moment in literature.
Well said. For you kids, Dave is saying that James Joyce was the Kurt Cobain of literature




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Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

If you want to understand Russian history and society, this book is a great place to start




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Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

If you want to understand Russian history and society, this book is a great place to start

I should read that, or at a minimun get the Audio Book...



I suppose I should throw 365 Tao on here. Only read it like.... well, a lot.


Also, the Book of Five Rings by Miyomoto Musashi.
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