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  1. DrLudicrous

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    The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas

    Those are my two favorites, others that I like but not as much would be LOTR, Ender's Game and sequals, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and most of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books.
     
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    "Nine and a Half Weeks : A Memoir of a Love Affair" by Elizabeth McNeill

    Only book I've ever read that I couldn't put down.
     
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    "Rochelle, Rochelle: A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk" was good. Much better than the movie (or musical).
     
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  4. davo

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    Its far too difficult to name my best book ever. The best books I have read recently are:-

    Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
    Pompei - Robert Harris
    Ghost Wars - Steve Coll
     
    #44 davo, Mar 29, 2006
  5. Mr. Brightside

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    Siddhartha- Hesse
    Psycho Cybernetics- Maltz
     
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    Friday Night Lights

    I've read it 3 times. Is that weird?
     
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    <insert>= token RC Cola thread joke <end>
     
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  8. Drizno

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    Ok...

    The Godfather by Mario Puzo

    Super System By The Great Doyle Brunson

    Oh yeah can't forget...

    The Art of War by Sun Tzu...

    When Paulie Walnuts quotes a book, its a damn god book!
     
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  9. rezdawg

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    The Kite Runner was a good one.
     
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    The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
     
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    Angela's Ashes

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    not great literarture but the book that I have the hardest time getting out of my head is A Boy Called It
     
    #51 Cesar^Geronimo, Mar 29, 2006
  12. Rocketman95

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    Just off the top of my head:

    Alas Babylon-Pat Frank (probably not that great, but that's the only book I've ever read cover to cover in one sitting...this was back in 8th grade)
    The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal-Christopher Moore
    American Tabloid/The Cold Six Thousand-James Ellroy (two books...the second is the sequel)
    High Fidelity-Nick Hornby
     
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  13. Manny Ramirez

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    I'm not much of a reader but a long time ago, I used to have to read so many books a summer (it was a way my father tried to instill culture into me).

    Out of those books, I read I liked:

    "Call of the Wild" by Jack London
    "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

    I am actually reading right now, "Shakey: Neil Young's Biography" by Jimmy McDonough. Great stuff - just got done reading about the breakup of Buffalo Springfield.
     
    #53 Manny Ramirez, Mar 29, 2006
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    The Gay Science - Nietzsche
    Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Pirsig
    Winesburg, Ohio - Anderson
     
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    wuthering heights
     
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    The entire 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin. It's so good that I couldn't read anything else for a year or so because it all just paled in comparison.
     
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    1 Moby Dick
    2 Crime and Punishment
    3 Old Man and the Sea
    4 100 Years of Solitude
    5 Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)

    Not a book, technically, but checkov short stories are high up there for me.

    Hey Kam, did you really read War and Peace? I started it last week and am having a tough time penetrating the first 30 pages. The first couple of chpaters are so thick with Russian-history-politics, and I don't know squat about that time period. Does it get more accessible?
     
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    "Band of Brothers" - Stephen Ambrose
     
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    I second that! I wrote to him in English class and he actually responded to me like a couple months after though...that really showed a first person view to actually be in the ghetto during Holocaust..
     
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    It's sitting on my side table as my next book to read after Team of Rivals.
     
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