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boto43
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Joseph Heller - Catch 22.I've read this book in Slovak,Czech and English.And maybe 1000 times.Be sure today I'm reading this book as well. 
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Asterix
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Tlon, Ukbar & Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges
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vckay
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I have not seen any hitch hiker' episodes yet. Hope they are as good as the book. Oh and I think that Terry Pratchett's discworld series is really good. Everyone should read them!
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o44wen
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"the life of pi" by Yann Martel
And "the lord of the flies" by William Golding.
And "the girl who loved tom gordon" by Steven King
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plasmadog
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life of pi is another great book... yeah
i've been to pondicherry, and there are some places there that u know yann martel has written about... like some corner of that town has come to life after he wrote it.!!
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marik
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All 5 of the harry potter books. And the whole animorph series. Great books
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soichiro
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From: Cucumberland
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to kill a mocking bird by harper lee. and that was years ago! 
still a classic, tho i've never seen the movie version of it.
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Gigs
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Ack 1fave book.. I'd probably have to roll it down to Anne Rice's The Mummy. Great entertainment.
other honorable mentions though inclue Stephen Kings Misery (OMG so much nastier than the movie lol) and the Armageddon trilogy by Robert Rankin. (such a laugh!)
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Lynx69
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I cant remember what it was called, i read it about 4 years ago.
I think it was called Phoenix, ill have a look on the net and see if i can find out what its called and whos the author.
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kristaga
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I read a lot! At least compaired to my friends, the reason might be that I am a bachelor and have plenty of time by myself.
It is difficult to choose a single book, and usually the ones you have read the last year is stronges in your mind. Most of my reading material is Science Fiction. I like to dream myself away to a remote future, to a remote planet, to a distant past or to a galaxy far, far away.
I have written down the books I have read the last years on this page: http://folk.uio.no/kristaga/bok.html
Some authors/series I will recommend (in random order):
C. J. Cherryh: Foreigner series
Orson Scott Card: Ender series
Isaac Asimov: Foundation universe
Larry Niven: Known space universe
James P. Hogan: Giants series
Zenna Henderson: The people short stories
C. S. Lewis: Narnia series
Frank Herbert: Dune series
Julian May: The Milieu universe
J. R. R. Tolkien: Middle Earth universe
Alexandre Dumas: The musketeers series
Some single books (still in random order):
Englar alheimsins, by Einar Már Guðmundsson (eng. translation title: Angels of the Universe)
The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Rediscovery of man, by Cordwainer Smith
Gateway, by Frederick Pohl
And a lot more. Ask me...
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kimcheeboi
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From: Abducted by hot blondes to Les
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OH and how could I forget Victor Hugo?!?!!
also Ray Bradbury and Plato 
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RichLok
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"Where's Waldo?" LMFAO
J/k.. I like this book called "Black Boy" - Richard Wright. |
kimcheeboi
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thats the book with the story of the kid in it right: he has to go to the market to buy food but then these bullies won't let him go and take his money, and his mom gives him a stick to defend himself...
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scotsboyuk
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I would find it difficult to name one book as my all time favourite as there are so many to choose from, but some of my favourites, in no particular order, are;
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Call of Cthulhu (and various other stories by H.P. Lovecraft)
Various collected stories by P.G. Woodehouse (especially the Jeeves ones)
Churchill (the Roy Jenkins biography)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colunus, Antigone (Sophocles))
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Brothers Menaechmus (Plautus)
The Brothers (Terence)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Song of Roland (although this is a poem, I include it for its literary value (anonymous))
Consolation Philosophiae (Boethius)
Canzoniere (Petrarch)
The Pedestrian (Ray Bradbury)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln)
I know I have included a rather long list, but hopefully this will mean that more people get to hear of books (and poems) I consider to be excellent reading material and perhaps read some of them themselves.
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Asterix
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@scotsboyuk, you really love classical literature, congratulations..... Have you ever read latin american writers like Jorge L. Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Marquez?
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