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What are the 10 books you've read and loved and would highly recommend for others to read ?
 

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Dunno about ultimate favs but some of the ones I've really like are:
Chinese cinderella - can't remember author
Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (+ rest of Millenium series) - Steig Larsson
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (classic)
Harry Potter!!! - J K Rowling
Dan Brown
+ a whole heaps of others that I can't think of right now.
What are yours?
 

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Dunno about ultimate favs but some of the ones I've really like are:
Chinese cinderella - can't remember author
Hunger Games series - Suzanne Collins
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (+ rest of Millenium series) - Steig Larsson
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (classic)
Harry Potter!!! - J K Rowling
Dan Brown
+ a whole heaps of others that I can't think of right now.
What are yours?
Mine (not in any specific order) would be:
1. Harry Potter series for sure ! glad to see ur a fan too
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
3. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
4. If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon
5. Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby
6. Trashed - Alison Gaylin
7. Vampire Academy
8. Wuthering Heights
9. Dracula
10. Lolita

But I'd like to start reading more of the classics now and the Hunger Games, barely read any books this year :S
 

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My books are mainly based on how interesting the plot was rather than whether it was actually a *good* book.
Don't Call Me Ishmael Series - Michael G.B
Shug - Jenny Han
Henderson Boys - ?
CHERUB - ?
Alpha Force - Chris Ryan
Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
anything by Agatha Christie
...And others, that I've forgotten...

I wanna read the Hunger Games too! But not with the amount of assessments that I have :(
 
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1. Alex Rider Series (Read these when I was in year 6, LOVE THEM XD)
2. Catcher in the Rye
3. The Tomorrow Series
4. A Wrinkle in Time
 

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1. Catch 22-Joseph Heller
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
3. Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte
4. The Liar-Stephen Fry
5. Harry Potter no6.-JK Rowling
6. Animal Farm-George Orwell
7. Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
8. The Once and Future King T.H. White
9.The Boy in the Dress-David Walliams
10. HP no.3-Rowling
 

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My books are mainly based on how interesting the plot was rather than whether it was actually a *good* book.
Don't Call Me Ishmael Series - Michael G.B
Shug - Jenny Han
Henderson Boys - ?
CHERUB - ?
Alpha Force - Chris Ryan
Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
anything by Agatha Christie
...And others, that I've forgotten...

I wanna read the Hunger Games too! But not with the amount of assessments that I have :(
+1 for Inheritance Cycle and Alpha Force!!! You and I are friends now.
 

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Uhh... in no particular order:

Jennifer Government - Max Barry
Syrup - Max Barry
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Quantum of Solace (a James Bond short story compilation) - Ian Fleming
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Pretty varied stuff, methinks.
 

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Uhh... in no particular order:

Jennifer Government - Max Barry
Syrup - Max Barry
Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby, Jr.
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Quantum of Solace (a James Bond short story compilation) - Ian Fleming
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Pretty varied stuff, methinks.
You do not
 

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You do not
I liked it. Well, in hindsight, probably not my favourite book - but it did open my eyes to a whole new way of writing.

Though after I did stop at page 65 and started again, it became a bit more... interesting.
 

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I liked it. Well, in hindsight, probably not my favourite book - but it did open my eyes to a whole new way of writing.

Though after I did stop at page 65 and started again, it became a bit more... interesting.
Mrs Dalloway for most people (someone like Michael Kirby probably enjoys it) is one of those things that you appreciate the quality and value of reading it etc but you push yourself all the way through reading it. Sort of like exercise. It is not a read of leisure.
 

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Mrs Dalloway for most people (someone like Michael Kirby probably enjoys it) is one of those things that you appreciate the quality and value of reading it etc but you push yourself all the way through reading it. Sort of like exercise. It is not a read of leisure.
Michael Cunningham, you mean?
 

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Not in any particular order,
Harry potter series
Arther Conan Doyle Classics (Sherlock Holmes)
Inheritance series
Catch 22
and some others i forgot
 

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I've read like 10 books. Lol
Hence your astonishing vocabulary:uhoh:

Here is my favorite selection
Lord of the Rings - including all the appendices and miscellaneous books - i.e. Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, Children of Hurin
Inheritance Series
Bitterbynde Trilogy
Warrior of Rome
Chronicles of Narnia
Agincourt
Conqueror Series (about Genghis Khan)
The Histories (Herodotus) - Ancient Writer
The Illiad and Odessy
Random Star Wars extended universe books
The obligatory Potter series

As you can see my love for history extends to historical fiction. I also have a deep love for fantasy, especially Tolkeinesque fantasy. I'm an utter and unrepentant geek when it comes to Lord of the Rings.
 

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could do with some improvement

you mainly just focus on unnecessary punctuation and shit fixin up pplz mistakes on these forums (lol who even bothers with that)
 

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As you can see my love for history extends to historical fiction. I also have a deep love for fantasy, especially Tolkeinesque fantasy. I'm an utter and unrepentant geek when it comes to Lord of the Rings.
i would like you so much right now if you didn't come across as such an arse. i can't be bothered to make that sound less offensive, so let's just add a 'lol'... there, that should do it.
 

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