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  1. 06-27-2005, 11:56 PM #1
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    Default Your top 10 books

    Post your all time top 10 books.


    I used to read roughly 2 books per week.
    These are fantasy & science fiction classics.

    My top 10 is:

    1.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0553573403/qid=1119928396/sr=8-2/ref=pd_csp_2?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846]A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin[/ame]
    2.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0553579908/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2?v=glance%26s=books]A Clash of Kings by George R R Martin[/ame]
    3.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/055357342X/ref=pd_sbs_b_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8%26v=glance]A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin[/ame]
    4.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=ASIN/0618517650/qid=1119928870/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1]Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien[/ame]
    5.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=ASIN/0553380958/qid=1119928976/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1]Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson[/ame]
    6.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=ASIN/0441569595/qid=1119929288/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2]Neuromancer by William Gibson[/ame]
    7.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0441117732/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1]Count Zero by William Gibson[/ame]
    8.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=ASIN/0553566067/qid%3D1119929770]Virtual Light by William Gibson[/ame]
    9.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0425158640/qid=1119930044/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846]Idoru by William Gibson [/ame]
    10.[ame=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=usave2daycom&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/0425190447/qid=1119930125/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1?v=glance%26s=books]All Tomorrow's parties by William Gibson[/ame]
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  2. 06-27-2005, 11:59 PM #2
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    I notice that you're so diverse.
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  3. 06-28-2005, 12:00 AM #3
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    You know I read other types of books.
    I put my favorites up there wench.
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  4. 06-28-2005, 12:02 AM #4
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  5. 06-28-2005, 01:57 AM #5
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    sit down in front!

    This list probably reveals a lot about me. some are fiction, some non-fiction. My fav of all time are:

    Ulysses - James Joyce
    The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
    The Duino Elegies - Ranier Maria Rilke
    The Women's Room - Marilyn French
    Beyond Good and Evil - Frederich Nietzsche
    A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
    Kelly + Victor - Niall Griffiths
    The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
    The Simple Living Guide - Janet Luhrs
    The Mad Woman's Underclothes - Germaine Greer
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  6. 06-28-2005, 08:17 AM #6
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    I am obviously much more shallow than y'all are! There are too many to list individually (besides I am old and can't remember them all) but here goes

    Anne of Green Gables and the rest of the series
    Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum Novels
    Sisterchicks series by Robin Jones Gunn
    Hinds Feet on High Places
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  7. 06-28-2005, 08:25 AM #7
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    I'll add as I think of them...in no particular order:

    1. Firefly Summer Maeve Binchy
    2. What We Keep Elizabeth Berg
    3. The Shunning Beverly Lewis
    4. Small Sacrifices Ann Rule
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  8. 06-28-2005, 08:53 AM #8
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    If your favourite books say something about yourself then I dread to think what this says about me...

    1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
    2. London Fields - Martin Amis
    3. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
    4. The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
    5. The Fall - Albert Camus
    6. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
    7. Puckoon - Spike Milligan
    8. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    9. Completely Unexpected Tales - Roald Dahl
    10. Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
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  9. 06-28-2005, 09:20 AM #9
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    Some pretty interesting reading you guys!
    Here are my favs:
    1. Little Women By Louisa Mae Alcott
    2. Walking through the fire by Laurel Lee
    3. Signs of Spring by Laurel Lee
    4. No Holly for Miss Quinn by Miss Read
    5. The Lion the witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
    6. Mrs. Mike (I can't remember the author)
    7.The Christmas Mouse by Miss Read
    8. Dancing into the light (can't remember the author)
    9.The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
    10. The betrayal by Beverly Lewis

    I love all of the books by Miss Read, but I only put down 2......
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  10. 06-28-2005, 09:34 AM #10
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    Hmmmmmmmmmmm....... here's what comes to mind in no particular order.

    - The Bible
    - Beach Music by Pat Conroy
    - Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
    - Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard
    - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    - Hawaiian Sunrise by Lauraine Snelling
    - This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti
    - Piercing The Darkness by Frank Peretti
    - Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
    - Left Behind series by LaHaye & Jenkins
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  11. 06-28-2005, 01:08 PM #11
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    My sister's keeper - best book ever
    Gone with the Wind - love this book still
    Crimson Petal and the White - unlike any book I have ever read
    Ya-Ya's - makes me miss my friends so much
    Middlesex - interesting, mostly because I'm new to Detroit and I like to see it's history
    Sue Grafton's books - all of them lol
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  12. 06-28-2005, 11:28 PM #12
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    In no particular order, I would have to list:

    ~To Kill A Mockingbird
    ~Little Women
    ~Left Behind series
    ~Harry Potter series
    ~Angels & Demons
    ~The DaVinci Code
    ~A Time To Kill
    ~Lemony Snickets Seris of Unfortunate Events (series)
    ~Big Stone Gap series by Adriana Trigiani (last August Book Club selection)
    ~Flowers for Algernon
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    Kathryn, I saw the movie of the book Flowers for Algeron. It was called Charly and it came out in the late 60s.
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    Originally posted by forestdale
    Kathryn, I saw the movie of the book Flowers for Algeron. It was called Charly and it came out in the late 60s.
    When I was in the 8th grade that was one of the books we had to read. Afterwards we got to watch the original movie. Back in the summer of 2000 there was a remake with Matthew Modine as Charlie. I taped it and still watch it and cry.....lol
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    I also meant to list LOTR & The Hobbit.

    I found my library card so I hope to get back into reading a lot
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