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question: favourive book? (merged)

The Count of Monte Cristo....this book is my favourite..by Alexandre Dumas...I love the characters in it. A great insight into 18th century life in Paris. Has a romantic, vengeful, aristocratic feel to it....sort of a dream being realised from a nightmare.

Tarzan of the Apes...Edgar Rice Burroughs. Great read smaller book easy to finish but I really enjoy this :)...goes through the story of a captain and wife shipwrecked where tarzan is born into the jungle...adopted by apes, he grows to be the leader.

Those are my two favourites!!!
 
Right now I'm reading: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins. This is my first Tom Robbins book and I really like it so far. He's very descriptive and his writing style is amazing!
 
anonymousjoe said:
Isn't the 2nd book "The Tenth Insight"?
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no the second one is called "an experimental guide" ....there are five books in total in the series and thats one of the ones later down the track :)
 
TOM ROBBINS
-anything by Tom Robbins will get you laughing and thinking at the same time....usually the first of his that you read ends up being your favorite

"CELESTINE PROPHECY"
-the first one helped me see things a bit more clearly, generally the second one read is "the Tenth Insight" but I found it started to get more on the preachy side and the plot started to thin

"ISHMAEL"--Daniel Quinn
 
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"ISHMAEL" Daniel Quinn
-a gorilla tells a man the secret to saving mankind and our world....once again the second in the series, "My Ishmael" is good, but not quite as good

"NATURE'S NUMBERS"
-explores mathematical theories and their relationships with and foundations in nature....very intersesting

"THE JOY OF PI"-David Blatner
-I've only started reading it, but it delves into the enigmatic number, it's history, and theories behind it



of course there's more....but I can't list all of them
 
I've only started it but American Gods - Neil Gaiman - incredible writer and story teller, unlike anything else I've read :)
 
Timeline - Michael Crichton was one of the best reads I've had for a while.
 
currently reading part 5 of dark tower series

ditto to palahniuk
ditto to crichton

all aliester crowley.
steppenwolf by herman hesse
all vonnegut
mr. leary and mr. kesey
 
Has to be mentioned - The Dune Series by Frank Herbert

Terry Pratchett - The colour of magic.
Barve new world - Aldus Huxley.
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (Awesome fantasy)
1984 - George Orwell.
Generation X - Douglas Coupland (all about the fallout of the yuppie culture)

I'm quite enjoying some Wilbur Smith Books at the moment, read and enjoyed the celestine phrophecies.
 
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killarava2day said:
Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond. It's a short history of everybody over the last 13,000 years and asks why it is that history evolved at different rates in different parts of the world. A fascinating read which completely dispels any notions that racial differences can explain it...
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I read this book when I was a freshmen at school and now four years later I often find myself thinking back to it in the midst of conversation or politically oriented classes.... I highly recommend it.

Also, whoever wrote about "Ender's Shadow" what is up with that one? I read the other books in the series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, etc.) but I never heard of that one... how is it?
 
The entire Discworld series by Terry Pratchett got me through some tough times when I was abroad. I now own the entire collection of stories (not the additions, though).

Tom Robbins is excellent! When I get a chance to read for pleasure again (damn you uni!) I will be picking up more of his works. I read Even Cowgirls Get the Blues last semester and thought it was great satire.

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler is an absolutely amazing read. It's the story of the development of suburb culture and how awful it is. Kunstler's style is great, funny and simple yet still quite powerful. It totally changed the way I view the world around me. I cannot help but cringe driving by strip-malls now.
 
i can't believe i forgot to mention salman rushdie. especially The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, A Moor's Last Sigh.
 
The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald, one of the few books I enjpyed at high school's required reading, oh and Great Expectations.
 
I'm reading 'Thank You and OK: An American Zen Failure In Japan' by David Chadwick at the moment and loving it. A very pleasant book.

The last book before that was 'Dead Air' by Iain Banks. I'd highly recommend it - a well written thriller with a fantasticly vocal lefty liberal shockjock as the main character. Nice post Sept 11th thing going on in it too.
 
FAST FOOD NATION

comparable to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in the way it takes a stomach-turning look at the inside of the fast food business. It traces the start of fast food, what goes on inside the factories (surprisingly little has gotten better since Sinclair's times), etc etc. Really good read if you wanna go on a diet. You'll never look at a Big Mac with cheese and your fries the same way again.
 
kiwikr720 said:


"CELESTINE PROPHECY"
-the first one helped me see things a bit more clearly, generally the second one read is "the Tenth Insight" but I found it started to get more on the preachy side and the plot started to thin
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Are you sure that's the second one because i went to the bookshop and looked on the inside cover of the last one to see which one was the second one and it said that "The experimental" guide was the one following the celestine prophecy and that one came later. And in the preface of the "experimental guide" it thanks everyone for reading the first one and hopes this one will add to their knowledge etc. I hate reading books in the wrong order :(
 
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