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Notorious Funnt
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« Thread started on: Nov 17th, 2004, 10:03pm » |
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As an avid reader, I'll start this. A list of some of my favorite books, wondering if any of you have read any of them:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon
Wit'ch Fire by James Clemens
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Myst: The Book of Atrus (forget the authors)
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Phantom by Susan Kay
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Re: Favorites and such
« Reply #1 on: Nov 17th, 2004, 10:33pm » |
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hm, i haven't read any from your list, but i think i'll check some of them out! anyway, these are some of my favorite books:
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leorux
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Notre dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Arundel - Kenneth Roberts
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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« Reply #2 on: Nov 18th, 2004, 4:08pm » |
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From your lists I have read:
Les Miserables
Notre Dame de Paris (for my French class, it was a pain).
I don't actually have many favorite books so far...
(Ontdekking van de Hemel)Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch (Dutch writer)
Les Miserables
Harry Potter (mostly the fifth book... Snape... Drool...)
Some books of Nicci French
The Witches - Roald Dahl
And that's about it actually... I don't know why I have so few... I like reading... I just never have the time. And when I do, I need to read it for my school... Argh.
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« Reply #3 on: Nov 18th, 2004, 4:12pm » |
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Lets play the how-much-can-my-book-list-and-rainycrystal's-match game 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Notre Dame De Paris - Victor Hugo
Toilers of The Sea - Victor Hugo
Conversations With Eternity - Victor Hugo
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Lesbian Vampire Erotica: An Anthology - various authors (yes... I know...).
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
The Autobiography of My Mother - Jamaica Kincaid
The Phantom Of The opera - Gaston Leroux
Phantom - Susan Kay
Aspects of Immortality series - Piers Anthony
Harry Potter series - becuase I'm a super dork
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« Reply #4 on: Nov 18th, 2004, 9:03pm » |
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Goodness, you all read a lot of the old classics. I'm getting into that, though I'm more of a fantasy person myself. Yes, I love Harry Potter too, forgot to mention that. Don't worry, I'm a dork, too...there was a guy in the musical I was just in who looked so much like Harry Potter, it was very scary.
SK's Phantom is wonderful, but it has some definite inconsitencies. Nadir and Giovanni's part were wonderful, but the ending was just...blech. Not right at all.
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« Reply #5 on: Nov 18th, 2004, 10:34pm » |
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on Nov 18th, 2004, 9:03pm, NotoriousFunnt wrote:Goodness, you all read a lot of the old classics. I'm getting into that, though I'm more of a fantasy person myself. Yes, I love Harry Potter too, forgot to mention that. Don't worry, I'm a dork, too...there was a guy in the musical I was just in who looked so much like Harry Potter, it was very scary.
SK's Phantom is wonderful, but it has some definite inconsitencies. Nadir and Giovanni's part were wonderful, but the ending was just...blech. Not right at all. |
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I used to be such an utter fantasy fiend... and then I just sort of slowly switched over to classics.
SK's Phantom has definate bad romance novel undertones... but it's still lovely to read.
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 4th, 2004, 11:09am » |
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Current favourite is Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, recommend watching the tv adaptation on BBC1 sunday nights.
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 4th, 2004, 2:38pm » |
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Hello
I tried to hide my age, but it was bound to come out  .
At 33, i feel slightly out of place. You guys are SO much younger than me, and i feel old here. .
Anyway, I am a bookholic. So, i have read quite a lot by now. From the ones you mentioned i read:
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre-Damme ( i LOVE Asmeralda)
Gone with the Wind ( for long time my favourite novel, but the more i got older, the less i like it. )
Hamlet. Well, i read pretty much all Shakespeare, but his tragedies are the ones that stand out for me.
I read pretty much everything. There are two geners that i don't like however: Supernaturals, and Romances.
I am not big fan of fantasies either. Harry Potter and LOTR never interested me.
In general my favourites are "social" novels. However, i do also like to read humour, and mysteries.
From my recent reads, i liked very much:
Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (If you love detailed character descriptions, and what they go through READ IT )
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry ( Excellent novel)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
.....and for humour, especially if you are British:A Starter for Ten by David Nicholls. It may appeal to those who are just starting University as well.
Of course there are lots of wonderful books, but maybe some other time.
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« Reply #8 on: Dec 4th, 2004, 5:21pm » |
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on Dec 4th, 2004, 2:38pm, LesMisForever wrote:At 33, i feel slightly out of place. You guys are SO much younger than me, and i feel old here.
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I had no idea- I thought you were about 25! (we ought to have a 'post your age' thread!
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« Reply #9 on: Dec 8th, 2004, 6:39pm » |
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I've been meaning to get around to almost all of the classic fore-mentioned books...Count of Monte Cristo, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, etc, but I just don't seem to have the time! I'm so busy anymore...hardly have time to sleep -_- But anyway, my favorite books...off the top of my head:
The Firm
Lord of the Flies
Watership Down
The Crystal Cave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment
His Dark Materials series
LotR series
The Silmarillion
Harry Potter series
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« Reply #10 on: Dec 10th, 2004, 10:49pm » |
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Yes, the last part of SK's Phantom was just...gah, I can NEVER read it now. Twice was more than enough...now I just stop at the very end where Erik says, "Whatever dark and shadowed path this may lead, we were both condemned to follow it to the bitter end" or something like that, I don't have it right in front of me.
Okay, I do have a question...what's so sexy about Snape from Harry Potter? I've never seen it. I'd love for an explanation...
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« Reply #11 on: Feb 10th, 2005, 11:29am » |
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I have to reincarnate an abandonned topic...
I feel pretty dumb right now. I either haven't heard of most of these books or tried to read them and gave up. I think this is because I'm a little younger than some people here. (I just turned 14) Anyway, here are some my favorites.
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee (If you haven't read this, take it out of the library. now.)
The Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank
The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton
Ella Enchanted- Gail Carson Levine (Another book Disney Killed...)
The Adventures of Tom Saywer- Mark Twain
And then there's the Scarlet Pimpernel. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying it.
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« Reply #12 on: Feb 12th, 2005, 05:02am » |
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So you are interested in our (I'm Dutch) Anne Frank? Did you ever see the House? (I'm not sure what it is called exactly in English) I did visit it one and a half year ago, it is bound to make you sad.
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« Reply #13 on: Feb 12th, 2005, 9:22pm » |
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on Feb 12th, 2005, 05:02am, Fantine wrote:| So you are interested in our (I'm Dutch) Anne Frank? Did you ever see the House? (I'm not sure what it is called exactly in English) I did visit it one and a half year ago, it is bound to make you sad. |
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Anne Frank is amazing. I think I've read her diary twice and I've read a few other books about her. I've never visted her house, but my parents did when they were in the Netherlands. They showed me a couple of pamphlets they got there. One day I'd like to visit it.
In English, it's just called "The Anne Frank Museum" or the Anne Frank House. (At least that's what I've been told...) So you were right.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 13th, 2005, 10:41am » |
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on Feb 12th, 2005, 9:22pm, r0seinmisery wrote:Anne Frank is amazing. I think I've read her diary twice and I've read a few other books about her. I've never visted her house, but my parents did when they were in the Netherlands. They showed me a couple of pamphlets they got there. One day I'd like to visit it.
In English, it's just called "The Anne Frank Museum" or the Anne Frank House. (At least that's what I've been told...) So you were right. |
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