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Topic: Which ones can you not get enough of?
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zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 401
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted April 20, 2006 05:03 PM
 
I just finished Charlotte Bronte's Villette. It is now one of my all time favorites. I've already started to reread it. There are a few books i own that i cant help but read over and over again. some beingPride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Gooberz
Hardcore Zen
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
East of Eden
The Great Gatsby
Harry Potter series Ive read all of these at least 4 times through, some more. not to mention just browsing through. What books do you keep coming back to time and time again? IP: Logged |
Azalaksh
Knowflake Posts: 6485
From: New Brighton, MN, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted April 20, 2006 05:16 PM
My top list of "old friends"  --Earth's Children series - Jean Auel
The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
"Merlin trilogy" - Mary Stewart
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2001, 2010, 2061 - Arthur C Clarke
Dirk Pitt novels - Clive Cussler
The Dragonriders of Pern series - Anne McCaffrey IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted April 20, 2006 06:37 PM
Zenwarner......Pride and Predjudice ......for me too... have read it at least three or four times....can't rememeber... ....and also like you..... Jane Eyre twice Gooberz twice and a half.... Others to which I have returned.....and what a joy to make return visits to these other worlds... David Copperfield
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
Islandia
Lady
The Wings of the Morning (three times)
The Ultimate Frontier
Dear and Glorious Physician
Devil Water
Gone With The Wind (three times, love the movie too)
Forever Amber
I Capture the Castle
TRANCE Formation of America
Access Denied
Brief Gaudy Hour (about Anne Boleyn) There's probably more that I can't think of right now...but I really do love going back to read books that I've enjoyed in the past... The Ultimate Frontier, TRANCE Formation of America, and Access Denied...are not exactly books to "enjoy" but are books filled with important information which is hard to digest in JUST ONE reading.... I am currently reading TRANCE Formation of America for the THIRD time...
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zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 401
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted April 20, 2006 06:44 PM
Rainbow,I also loved
David Copperfield
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
Gone With The Wind
though i havnt read any of them twice. ive never heard of alot of your books. ill be sure to look into it  I need something new IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted April 20, 2006 07:07 PM
I think there are two Islandias so make sure you get the one I'm talking about.....My author is......Austin Tappan Wright Must tell you a little story about The Wings Of The Morning too.... I totally fell into that book...I WAS THERE... It was written by a former actor (new deceased) the handsome Thomas Tryon... I knew he was writing a sequel, as it was mentioned in the book...and I searched on the internet for it, only to find that he was never able to do it as he passed away before he could get to it...and needless to say I was keenly disappointed, not to mention sad over his passing. *sigh* But guess what? On another search...I found that he had indeed written that sequel and called it In The Fire of Spring. Well like after about nine years I was finally able to order and read the sequel....also excellent..... ......and then I started a movie in my mind....and decided the two stars of the movie THE WINGS OF THE MORNING would be Johnny Depp as Captain Sinjin Grimes, and Renee Zellweger as Georgiana Ross...
They would be perfect for the parts if a movie was ever made of it...*sigh*
Just felt like sharing that with you... IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted April 20, 2006 07:34 PM
PS....Thomas Tryon also wrote Lady which I came upon by accident and is entirely different from his other books...I also read All That Glitters also by him and it too, was coincidence as well as different...a good writer.... IP: Logged |
Rainbow~
Knowflake Posts: 5927
From: The Little River Indian Reservation
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted April 21, 2006 02:50 PM
Zen...ISLANDIA was given to me by my son years ago, and I read it so much, it started falling apart...(it's a BIG BOOK like GOOBERZ)I'm kinda rough on books, anyway..*sigh*...but I was able to get another copy online...(I just love this internet stuff!  ) 
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zenwarner
Knowflake Posts: 401
From: tx, usa
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted April 21, 2006 05:27 PM
i looked into some of your list. Im going bookshopping this weekend. cant wait. Ill let you know if i come across any of them IP: Logged |
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