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What are your favorite books of ALL TIME?

  
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Kingsley

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Daddy Long-legs, Lord of the Rings, anything by Bill Bryson, anything by Betty MacDonald, especially The Plague and I.
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Kingsley

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Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. This is a book that will change your life!
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Bisco

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Gone With the Wind, Les miserables, The Harry Potter series are the most fun books to read, I enjoy books by Jeff Shaara. I also highly recommend The Road
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Miss Mittens- (Angel DG- #14)

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Purred: Fri Sep 14, '07 10:08pm PST 
The Lord of the Rings (the one book that I never want to end),
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (fascinating, altho' I still don't understand it),
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen,
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers,
anything by Georgette Heyer, big grin
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Rusty

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Purred: Sun Sep 16, '07 5:26am PST 
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Watchers - Dean Koontz
all the Harry Potter books - JK Rowling
any book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

ishtar- *proud- wobnapt*

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Purred: Thu Jan 3, '08 9:31am PST 
Will I be repulsed when I admit my all time favorite is

J.W. Goethe: Faust [Part I]

It's a play but it's absolutely timeless. Human loves quotes from it and has one even as screensaver...

We also love anything by
- John Irving
- Ambrose Bierce and
- Walter Moers (German author, partly available as translations).
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Luna

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Purred: Thu Jan 3, '08 11:25am PST 
Our German favorite is Der Besuch der Alten Dame by Duerrenmatt. (The Visit of the Old Woman). New red shoes! Also like Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) by Thomas Mann. And Mother Courage by Brecht. It's been so long since we've read these things!

Ambrose Bierce is one of our favorites too--The Devil's Dictionary:

CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be
kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Well, we kind of take offense at THAT, but we do like Ambrose Bierce!

Thanks for sharing!

Luna & Kingsley
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ishtar- *proud- wobnapt*

monday-again!
 
 
Purred: Thu Jan 3, '08 11:08pm PST 
Durrenmatt doesn't count - he was Swiss wink
[Sorry, that is because human does not like Durrenmatt too much...]

But yes, Brecht is great, many of his plays. Especially ThreePennyOpera. Human thinks he should be read more often. One should learn about wars from his Mother Courage - not from the news...

Do you know Bierce' 'A Cargo of Cat'? That is even meaner than the quote from what human calls "her bible"...
[Human is a bit strange - I guess there's not many people who would choose the word "enjoyable" to describe a Kafka-reading? Or "relaxing" for a weekend with E.A. Poe?]
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Kingsley

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Purred: Fri Jan 4, '08 10:46am PST 
Oh, yeah, I forgot he was Swiss. I think that Besuch was the only thing we read by him, but I liked it because it was funny in an ironic sort of way. What about Max Frisch? Was he Swiss too? I remember I kind of liked him, but I don't remember what I read. If "read" is the right word for slogging through with the aid of a German/English dictionary. laugh out loud Magic Mountain and Tin Drum I read in English, I'm afraid. I saw Wedekind's Die Junge Welt on stage--now there's a strange one for you! Asterix & Obelix were more my style.

Don't think I've read any Ambrose Bierce except The Devil's Dictionary. TIME! I NEED more reading time! shock

Kingsley
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ishtar- *proud- wobnapt*

monday-again!
 
 
Purred: Sat Jan 5, '08 5:57am PST 
Human saw "Die Physiker" (Durrenmatt) as play and had to fight the sleep from the beginning. Same problem with a Thomas Bernhard (Austrian author) play of which she even forgot the name. Once this happens you don't want to see or read anything from these people. So as white flag: we blame the director/s! And: we have no prejudices against writers from Alpin countries! Complete incident! Frisch (yes, Swiss) is valued by friends of us who quite often have the same view on things that we have / human has. We'll read him once. Promised!

You mentioned "Magic Mountain". Hmmm, the Manns never really crossed our way. Klaus Mann ("Mephisto" about German actor Gustav Gründgens and his collaborations in the 1930s/40s) as school reading but none of the others. Way too "epic" for an everyday reading. And Grass ("Tin Drum"?) is not "my" language. Once read - same moment forgotten. [Errrr, does that make sense?] It's a problem I have with many German writers who are " well known". Among others that's the reason I've found John Irving and Philipp Roth.

Who said something against Asterix and Obelix? I better don't tell what I'd do to him / her - as long as children could be present wink [Kidding!] Hmmmm, generally: does reading classicals exclude loving comics? That'd be awful as there's no one who would want to inherit my English editions of Calvin and Hobbes...[hmmm, they are a bit special, too, but...]

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