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What is your favorite book?

TheCustomer99

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Just out of curiosity, and because I like to talk about books, what is your favorite book?

Mine is 1984 by George Orwell, but Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a close second.
 
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Lord of the Flies, hands down... The original one.. "Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Spill her blood!"
 
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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
World According To Garp by Irving
 
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my dad had that book in his house the whole time i was growing up. i think i read it every time he took me for a weekend.

as an adult, when i remembered it at some point, i had to buy it for myself.

my kid is just about the age where i'm going to start reading it to him.
 
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Bruchko by Bruce Olson (little known missionary book about a man who was used by God to completely change a nation).
 
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anything by Clive Clussler. Awesome author.
 
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"Sixguns" by Elmer Keith.
 
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American Psycho
 
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great gatsby.....

wind and the willow........ <----- i like the toad!

josh
 
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Me too, customer. 1984 by George Orwell.

I'll give honourable mention to "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski, if you like something a little different (Ok, a lot different) then this is the one. Then again, the 1st page reads simply "this is not for you" and it may be correct...
 
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StretchR said:
anything by Clive Clussler. Awesome author.
Click to expand...

My high school American Government teacher was such a huge Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy fan that if we read any of either of their books he'd give us 100 points extra credit.
 
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Perhaps low brow, but Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

At a more serious level (I know, I am cheating - entering two books!), I would have to vote for "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. An excellent and inspirational book.
 
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I'm not very big into reading for whatever reason, but the only book in high school that I actually read the whole way through and enjoyed was To Kill a Mockingbird.
 
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Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.

And for rolling on the floor laughs, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner.
 
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I really liked State of Fear by Michael Chrichton(sp?) it was good.

Right now I am reading The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
 
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mac57 said:
Perhaps low brow, but Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy!

At a more serious level (I know, I am cheating - entering two books!), I would have to vote for "The Road Less Traveled" by M. Scott Peck. An excellent and inspirational book.
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I love The Hitchhiker's Guide :p
 

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