topr8
msg:3801917 | 11:24 am on Dec 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
impossible choice, but: Heartsong by James Welch ... it's a novel, very unusual story, powerful book.
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SarK0Y
msg:3802143 | 11:03 pm on Dec 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Vesta & Satan's Sorrow.
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wyweb
msg:3802150 | 11:15 pm on Dec 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Probably a cookbook of some sort.
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Old_Honky
msg:3802236 | 1:16 am on Dec 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Riverworld
by Philip Jose Farmer
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menton
msg:3802459 | 11:05 am on Dec 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Quadrille
msg:3802469 | 11:42 am on Dec 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller [The Theoretical Underpinning of Murphy's Law With Examples] ;)
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sonjay
msg:3802502 | 12:42 pm on Dec 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Anyango
msg:3802511 | 12:59 pm on Dec 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
And What biggest lesson have you taken/learnt from your Most Favorite book ? Has it changed something big inside you ? And please also mention 1 small reason for liking the book so much [edited by: Anyango at 1:02 pm (utc) on Dec. 8, 2008]
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topr8
msg:3804206 | 12:56 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
>>And please also mention 1 small reason for liking the book so much ok, edit-> Heartsong by James Welch one man's struggle to make the most of his life, from an incredibly difficult starting position, he gets dealt a bad lot several times but is resilient - extremely hearwarming.
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Syzygy
msg:3804237 | 1:42 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. It completely altered my understanding of humans and human behaviour. Never been able to look at Homo Sapiens in the same way since.
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Rugles
msg:3804275 | 2:43 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Rivethead by Ben Hamper Funniest book I ever read, he is the "Keith Richards" of the UAW.
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coaster01
msg:3804284 | 2:54 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The Bible. I keep finding something new in it every time I re-read it.
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Old_Honky
msg:3804340 | 3:59 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The Southampton Telephone directory, The plot's a bit thin but there are hundreds of new characters on every page.
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Quadrille
msg:3804377 | 4:29 pm on Dec 10, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I use the London phone book as my address book - I just went through and crossed out everybody I didn't know. Bit heavy - but I never get that problem where you think a three might be an eight. Or vice versa.
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Anyango
msg:3804895 | 5:14 am on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Coool, very broad range. Keep em coming! Think i am going to get "Heartsong by James Welch " Today ;)
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Essex_boy
msg:3805266 | 4:46 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I was there - Hans Peter Richter. The full version not the abridged shorter one. Autobiography of a teenager growing up under Hitler in the 1930s who then joins the SS, a most moving book.
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grelmar
msg:3805440 | 7:56 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The Hobbit... Our family was living in eastern Canada when I started grade school, so my first few years of school where entirely in French. When we moved back out west, I started taking school in English, and I baffled my teachers, because I'm an Anglo kid, who could speak, read and write in French perfectly, but was totally illiterate in my native tongue. One of my teachers solved this by giving me "The Hobbit". I learned to read in my own language for the first time using that book, in the 3rd grade.
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Lovejoy
msg:3805442 | 8:04 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Swallows & Amazons, I re -read it every five years or so to remind me of what it was like to to be eight years old, and see the world once more through the eyes of a innocent child ;~) Lovejoy
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Anyango
msg:3805472 | 8:25 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Great new entries, love the "real life" touch in grelmar's fav book
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nomis5
msg:3805522 | 9:13 pm on Dec 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Catch-22 as has already been mentioned.
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Anyango
msg:3813278 | 10:32 am on Dec 23, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Anyone else would like to share too ? :)
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trillianjedi
msg:3813280 | 10:42 am on Dec 23, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Great thread. Hard choice to call out one. I think the one that probably had the biggest effect on me (because it encouraged me to read more as a child) was Roald Dahls "Danny the Champion of the World".
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Habtom
msg:3813281 | 10:45 am on Dec 23, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I was introduced by a friend to the self-help books world, and I would pick "the 7 Habits of highly effective people" as the one which made a difference in my life. So, 7 Habits it is.
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Yoshimi
msg:3813284 | 11:17 am on Dec 23, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The counte of monte cristo Absolutely inspiring book, I keep meaning to read it in it's native french one day, but never quite get round to it.
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Anyango
msg:3814259 | 11:15 am on Dec 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
From your favorite books any lines that you love most ? Any quote, any one liner, any word of wisdom.
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grandpa
msg:3815148 | 5:10 pm on Dec 28, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Alice in Wonderland I'm still chasing that rabbit. There are so many quotable quotes, as well as at least one great song inspired from this story. It is much more than a child's tale. The Duchess
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. |
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Alice
Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin; but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever say in my life! |
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Alice
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. |
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One thing that has made this book my all time favorite was that is was also the very first 'real' book that I owned, a paperback version given to me on my 6th birthday. I still have it, from 1959. And no, I don't read it anymore, the pages are far too brittle. Curiouser and curiouser! [edited by: grandpa at 5:21 pm (utc) on Dec. 28, 2008]
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pontifex
msg:3815150 | 5:17 pm on Dec 28, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Snow Crash - Stephenson!
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vik_c
msg:3816253 | 2:35 pm on Dec 30, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hard to pick one. Here're three. A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins. The early books of Harold Robbins are very sensitively written. This one is out-of-print I believe. Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer - Archer's best ever, rated one of the 100 best books of all time by BBC. Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - A very inspirational book.
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Green_Grass
msg:3816354 | 5:16 pm on Dec 30, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I really thought about this.. Thought and thought. Finally I have a winner.. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran Every page is unique and has deep wisdom. You can preview it on books.google.com
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