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    Posted: June 18 2007 at 18:10
Michael Moorcock's the eternal champion series (Elric, Erekose, Hawkmoon etc). I read them as often as i can, good sci fi-fantasy stuff.
 
Probably read the phone book or yellow pages more thoughWink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2007 at 15:33
More than one:
E.T.A. Hoffman "The Princess Brambilla"
H.P. Lovecraft "The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House"
J.W. von Goethe "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" (sorry, I don't know the English translation to this title)
S. Lem "Solaris"
H. James "The Turn of the Screw"
Snorri "Edda"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2007 at 15:13
Well, i read Lord of the rings now and again, and then there is this one book i just keep under my pillow like a bible and re-read certain pages from now and again, i just love it.
the book in question is "Norwegian Wood" By Haruki Murakami.
I have also read another book by Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the shore", but it didn't grab me like Norwegian Wood did.
I can definitely recommend him for fans of Wong kar-wai (the film director), as their works tend to have certain similarities.

(oh, and if anyone has read Norwegian wood, do say so, i'ts always good to know you have allies, haha..)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2007 at 07:55
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I've read Tolkien's Silmarillion several times


And it's about tuime you gave it back -

Yours sincerely,

The Tolkein Estate

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Stephen Donaldsons Thomas Covenant chronicles (1st, 2nd and the 1st book in the last chronicles, eagerly awaiting the second book out this year)


Definitely with you on that one my copies of the 1st & 2nd chronicles are distinctly dog-eared now & I too am eagerly awaiting the 2nd in the new series...

Incidentally, as one Covenant officianado to another...

NOM



Another couple of books I find myself re-reading time & again:

Clive Barker - Weaveworld

John Steinbeck - The Grapes Of Wrath

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:37
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

I only read books once... the only case of double-reading is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I have read four times... (I'm a fan of the Count...TongueEmbarrassed)..... Movies, on the other hand.... Good idea for a new thread!


heard some story that Bram Stoker steal Dracula from some chick when they have been together on some art colony in Greece!Confused

great book -as much as legend

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:33
I've read Tolkiens Silmarillian several times, as well as Stephan Donaldsons Thomas Covenant chronicles (1st, 2nd and the 1st book in the last chronicles, eagerly awaiting the second book out this year) and Anne Macaffreys Dragonflight.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:29
I've read Watership Down many times. Couldn't get enough of it.
 
The James Herriot series I've also read about 5 or 6 times the whole lot of them.
 
William series I've read over and over again (when I was a child of course, but I still dip in)
 
PG wodehouses Jeeves books I like to reread also.
 
Asimov also.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2007 at 19:20
I only read books once... the only case of double-reading is Bram Stoker's Dracula, which I have read four times... (I'm a fan of the Count...TongueEmbarrassed)..... Movies, on the other hand.... Good idea for a new thread!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2007 at 18:44

[/QUOTE]

Literature is quickly become some sort of antique item.[/QUOTE]

Yes!!! And maybe it is better to stay that way because than Hollywood people can't find it and ruined it in so many ways!!!!!!!

hate hollywood crapAngry

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:46
Personally, I think literature will always be around for those who take art seriously. Reading may be something fewer and fewer people do in their leisure time, but there will always be people who are turned on by great literature. I mean, in what other art form are you confronted so intimately and so completely with someone else's imagination? It's a form of magic, really.

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"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:39
Originally posted by bluetailfly bluetailfly wrote:

^ Well, I think it's morphing into other art forms---screenplays, video games, etc.


Still, this times are much to functional in terms of art development...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:37
^ Well, I think it's morphing into other art forms---screenplays, video games, etc.
"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 23:23
Originally posted by Komodo dragon Komodo dragon wrote:


Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall.
Ok ! Than you must trust me ....  or we can make some poll ?

<p ="Msonormal">But I don’t think that is going to be a popular one Cry





Literature is quickly become some sort of antique item.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 21:29
The first three Dune books - I've read those several times over.
What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 17:04
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall.

Ok ! Than you must trust me ....  or we can make some poll ?

But I don’t think that is going to be a popular one Cry


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:56
^I wouldn't know, as I've only read The Stranger and The Fall.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:49
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Now I remember, I've read that Camus one twice too.

Sure you are ! it is  THE BEST Camus  work  !!! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:28
Now I remember, I've read that Camus one twice too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:25
Albert Camus L'etranger (The Stranger) & Gilbert Adairs Innocents Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2007 at 16:23
Unless poetry counts I can only think of two books I've read more than once: Orwell's 1984 and Kafka's Castle.
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