ladypenelope
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Post by ladypenelope on Nov 11, 2005 8:19:35 GMT -5
Mine is Anne of Green Gables. It's a kids book about this orphan in Canada. I know it's not very high-brow but I always go back to it when I'm upset or home sick.
Does anyone else have something really pants for their favourite or are yours by literary greats lol? xxxx
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Post by leo on Nov 11, 2005 23:20:21 GMT -5
i love anne of green gables (okay i've never read it but i loved the movie w/ meagan fellows). lets see. maurice, the beautiful and damned, the possessed, and just about any anne rice book to name a few.
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Post by leo on Dec 6, 2005 15:50:35 GMT -5
expat. its a collection of essays by women who have lived or are living abroad. very eye opening and fascinating, often quite funny. and bill bryson is always fun to read. we need a 'what are you reading thread' i think.
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ladypenelope
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Post by ladypenelope on Dec 8, 2005 9:21:07 GMT -5
Oh I like Bill Bryson, we did him at school. He's very amusing
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Post by leo on Dec 8, 2005 17:09:54 GMT -5
nice one! the only one i've read so far is notes from a small island. i really want to read i'm a stranger here myself next.
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Post by ladypenelope on Dec 9, 2005 8:19:05 GMT -5
I like the British one, it's interesting to see home through the eyes of someone else.
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Post by floridalouisfan on Dec 19, 2005 19:13:40 GMT -5
I work at Barnes and Noble, and I'm an absolute book junkie. Here are a few of my favorite books:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - gorgeous, heartbreaking. This book was so lovely and poignant, I felt bad closing the book on the little boy the story is about when it was over.
Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger - classic. Everyone loves this book. I love it because the author provides such a real adolescent voice to the main character. All of us have felt hapless and hopeless at one point or another and can relate to Holden Cauffield.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - it's strange and frightening how prophetic Huxley was...
Cash by Johnny Cash - one of my FAVORITE autobiographies. He was a very easygoing and colorful writer. The tale he tells about all of his songwriter friends sitting around in a circle debuting songs (one of them being "Lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan, the very first time he every played that song for anyone) gives me goosebumps. If you love music, even if it's not country music, the book is utterly fascinating.
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ladypenelope
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Post by ladypenelope on Dec 20, 2005 8:26:10 GMT -5
Good good. Just finished reading Nick Drake's biog. It's really boring.
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Post by leo on Dec 20, 2005 22:32:56 GMT -5
i have the cash autobiography but haven't had time to read it yet. i just got les enfants terribles by cocteau; i've been trying to track down the english translation for ages and finaly found it on the amazon canadian. ywwha!
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Post by willer32890 on Feb 7, 2008 23:10:54 GMT -5
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Post by xxiolla on Aug 26, 2008 14:23:52 GMT -5
a 1,000 splendid suns great book...
Another really interesting book I read was a child called it..amazing story of this mans journey through abuse at the hands of his mother..heartwrenching story !
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Post by kitkat on Aug 30, 2008 0:19:10 GMT -5
alright so...To Kill a mockingbird...the good earth...but far and wide most of all The Perks of Being a Wallflower! i'm kinda young ish but i think it's the most amazing thing ever written...it's beautiful...highly recommended to anyone..the smiths* are mentioned it that means anything to you.... it is to literature as some certain band is to music  |
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