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Best Books You've Ever Read

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by gifford1967, Mar 14, 2005.

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  1. Fatty FatBastard

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    "One Night in Paris"

    The book is far more entertaining than the movie.
     
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    "Illusions" by Richard Bach changed my life.

    I regularly purchase several copies at Half Price Books, read one, then give them all away.
     
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    Love in the time of Cholera
    Pride and Prejudice
    High Fidelity
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    Lolita
    A River Runs Through it
     
  4. Rocketman95

    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    I've read that book and I think I understood it. It's about girls, right?

    :D
     
  5. gifford1967

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    The Good War by Studs Terkel. It is awesome.
     
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    Aztec by Gary Jennings (if you read only one book....)
    Julian by Gore Vidal
    Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
    Titan by John Varley
    Diary of an RnR Star by Ian Hunter
    The Pillars of Earth by Ken Follet
    Raptor by Gary Jennings
     
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    A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire series) by George Martin

    Lord of the Rings by Tolkein

    Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

    Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

    Night by Elie Wiesel

    Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    The Wizard of Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin

    The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

    All of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Books by Stephen Donaldson (excellent anti-hero)

    The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis

    Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

    The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

    There's so many more books I love, I can't list them all.
     
  8. thegary

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    don quijote is the best book ever written. yes, it's very long but it's a monument to humanity.
     
  9. Kilgore Trout

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    Catch 22 - Heller
    Dune - Hebert
    Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
    Atlas Shrugged - Ann Rand
    King Rat - Clavell
     
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    Mick Foley's first book was a blast to read.
     
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    The Odyssey and The Iliad. I had to read them for a Greek mythology class and I was very happy that I did.
     
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    The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask(Only if you have read all 4 of the other D'Artagnan novels), Chicot the Jester, Marguerite de Valois, The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

    The Beautiful and Damned, This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Don Quixote - Miguel Cervantes

    On the Road - Jack Kerouac (It is sad the book has become so cliche I feel a little bad about listing it. But I have to be honest.)

    Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

    One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    A Catcher in the Rye (same not as applies for On the Road)

    Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck

    The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway

    A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

    NON - FICTION
    My Wicked Wicked Ways - Errol Flynn(This book is really part fiction or at least exaggeration, but it's great. The best parts all happened prior to his arrival in Hollywood.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X w/ Alex Haley

    I will probably think of more to add later.
     
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    Some good ones I've read recently...

    Friday Night Lights - HG Bissinger
    Splinter Cell - Tom Clancy
    Deception Point - Dan Brown
    One Heartbeat - Mack Brown ;)
     
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    Too many to list, but I just finished reading all 4 of the Lonesome Dove books and they rocked.

    Books I have read multiple times:

    Hyperion
    Enders Game
    LOTR
    The Stand
    Count of Monte Crisco
    Life of Pi
    Lamb, or the Gospel of Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
     
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    Fahrenheit 451
    Tale of Two Cities
    EAST OF EDEN
    Burning Bright
    Screwtape Letters
    Cup of Gold
    Les Miserables
     
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    Animal Farm
    and all books by Dan Brown
     
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    One important one I forgot was 'Down and Out In Paris and London' by George Orwell.
     
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    The Grapes of Wrath...what a book.
     
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    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The DaVinci Code
    American Psycho
    Yao: A Life in Two Words
     
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    Oh yea forgot about that one, pretty good, thats right up there with Of Mice and Men for me.
     

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