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What are your favorite books?
Mine:
in no specific order
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Canterbury Tales(Chaucer)
Candide (Voltaire)
walden (Thoreau)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Moby Dick (Melville)
among others....
I love Homer, also. Both of the ones you named. Like the Greek tragedy, too. Also, Metamorphoses by Ovid. Dante's The Divine Comedy. Catcher in the Rye. To Kill a Mockingbird. The Once and Future King. Too late, can't think, I'll come back later and add more.
The Cat in the Hat and Where the Wild Things Are-Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Candide and The Canterbury Tales are on my list of books to read.
Last edited by bellringer; 05-15-2009 at 01:05 AM..
My all-time favorite book is The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
Also:
If I Never Get Back by Daryl Brock All the Rage by Ian "Mac" McLagan The Children's War by J.N. Stroyer
Those are the books I read over and over, for various reasons. Sometimes I'll just pick one up and read part of it. I also actually own these books, which is unusual for me - I'm a big ol' library freak.
Walden - Thoreau... I couldn't put it down
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
To kill a Mockingbird - Lee
Vanity Fair - Thackeray
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The Portrait of a Lady - James
Main Street - Lewis
Swann's Way - Proust
Okay... I'll stop now, but there are a few more... so many books to love!
"The Iliad" by Homer is by far my most favorite book, I could read every translation/interpretation and never get bored.
"Tale of Two Cities" is also right up there for me.
"Phantoms"--Dean Koontz
"The book of lists"
"The language police"--Diane Ravitch
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