What is your all time favorite book that you would recommend that everyone else read too?
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Quote - - In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.
- Moist Von Lipwig in Going Postal
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Many of my other favorites are part of a series, such as the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, and the Song of Fire and Ice series by George R .R. Martin.
If you'd like a challenge, I enjoyed reading The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. It was a Nobel prize winner, and a bit difficult to read, but an interesting story.
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"Some 20,000 years in the future, the human race has scattered throughout the known universe and populated countless planetary systems, which are ruled by aristocratic royal houses who in turn answer to the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Science and technology have evolved far beyond that of our own time despite the prohibition of computers and artificial intelligence..."
Read it and if you think that it is not a worthy novel I'll tip you M$ 50. :D
Vlad
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--Quote-- The novella received the Pulitzer Prize in May, 1952, and was specifically cited when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The success of The Old Man and the Sea made Hemingway an international celebrity. The Old Man and the Sea is taught at schools around the world and continues to earn foreign royalties.--EndQuote---
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This book never ceases to give me additional insights into life and living every time I pick it up.
It is a collection of 26 short essays dealing with just about every fact of living with thoughtful and meaningful passages throughout despite the book being written in 1923 the messages are timeless.
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Definitive explanation of our generation. And very very cool. Did I mention this was taught in class at college?
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http://mitchalbom.com/books
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So there's no way I can pick just one, but I would have to make a little favourites list:
- Earthsea Quartet & Tales (or is it chronicles?) from Earthsea: Ursula Le Guin
- Obernewtyn series: Isobelle Carmody ( I found it interesting that she started the series as a young teenager - good stuff!)
- Castle In the Air: Diana Wynne Jones
- Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre - I can never remember which Bronte sister did which, but great stories.
- Pride and Prejudice was for me the most enjoyable offering from Jane Austen.
I've also enjoyed stuff by David Gemell, Terry Goodkind, David Eddings, Asimov, and plenty of other stuff that I won't remember at this moment.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of five" is good fun too, but not everyone's cup of tea.
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The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao but Junot Diaz is another great read. It's about a boy who never fits in and is from the Dominican Republic.
This is my latest and greatest find by Stieg Larsson's books are some of the best overall written books I've read in awhile (exclusing thos listed above). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire I sat down and read each in a day because I could not put them down. Plus the author does a nice job of wrapping up all the loose ends of the stories. You do not finish the book and feel like you have no ida what happens to the characters.
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M$Chaterburry's Lover D.H. Lawrence
Beowulf
The lighthouse
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Besides that, I read a really fascinating book on the history of the English language (I'm a linguistics nut, so it's fun reading during my lunch hour for me, but homework for others). If you're at all interested, he wrote the book in a very "laymans" way, no previous knowledge of linguistics required.
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Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: language. "Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish "sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz" ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings. As entertaining as it is erudite, The Unfolding of Language moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.
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I didn't mention Lord of the Rings myself as I assumed everyone's already heard of it. But it has been one of my long-time favorites, and I also re-read it every once in a while, including last year.