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Favorite books?

qalbesaleem

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Hmm. Watership Down, Brave New Word, Les Miserables, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
 

Polaris

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1984 - George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
It - Stephen King
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
 

Mole

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1984 - George Orwell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
Crime and Punishment -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Gormeghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
It - Stephen King
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Just imagine, all of this is in your mind, you walk around the place with kafkaesque thoughts. Cliches and archetypes jostle for space. Reality is coated with a patina of imagination. I find it hard enough to walk and chew gum, never mind carry your load of metaphor and tropes and walk a straight line.
 

cafe

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My top five, as in books I'd take with me if I could only choose five series with which to be stranded with on a desert island:
LOTR
Chronicles of Narnia
Outlander/Lord John Grey series
Kushiel's Legacy first two trilogies, though I wouldn't throw the third trilogy in the fire unless I was desparate for kindling.
Farseer/Tawny Man trilogies
 
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