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Books you can't live without

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:42 PM

In the spirit of the DVD thread, here's one about books you can't live without...

-Icefire (Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens, great sci-fi writers, DAMN good thriller)
-Tom Sawyer (all time favorite)
-Harry Potter series
-The Indoor Grilling Bible

I'm sure there's others...

--Jefé The Hat

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:52 PM

Bible
Steven Lawhead - The Song of Albion

Walk On - The Spiritual Journey of U2

Chronicles of Narnia (as they were originally released out of "chronological order")

Lord of the Rings

Paul Reiser - Couplehood & Babyhood (even better on audio book)

Jesse Duplaints - Close Encounters of the God kind

The Unforgettabel Fire - Definitive Biography of U2

Make It So - Leadership Lessons from Star Trek the Next Generation

Not really a big "reader" myself.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:03 PM

Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck

The Shining - Mr. King

All I can think of right now...



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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:24 PM

-Bruce Campbell's book, If Chins Could Kill
-Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
-Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
-The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
-Night, by Elie Wiesel
-Bleak House, by Charles Dickens

Okay, there's way too many. Can I count every Shakespeare play ever except The Merry Wives of Windsor? Plays aren't really novels, but still. I don't think I could live without Hamlet or The Tempest.

Without books I would definitely curl up into a tiny ball and waste away to nothing, especially without Siddhartha.



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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:48 PM

Lord of The Rings
Glory Road & Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Trout Fishing in the Shenandoah National Park - Harry Murray
Helms repair manual for the 1988 Honda CRX
Rand-McNally Road Atlas

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:55 PM

Killer Angels
Grapes of Wrath
Anyone found a Good Bible?

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:07 PM

EVERYTHING WRITTEN BY ERIC BOGOSIAN(PLAYWRITER)
BROOKLYN DREAMS
THE SERENITY NOVELS
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
ISHMAEL


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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:22 PM

Since my entire house is filled with books, I'm not sure I'll be able to narrow it down too much. There aren't too many titles I can live without - I live to read! Here goes:

anything by Anne McCaffrey and Laurell Hamilton
Lord of the Rings (both books by Tolkien and DVDs by Jackson)
Harry Potter, etc.
Folly by Laurie King (and most of her other books!)
The Clairvoyant Countess by Dorothy Gilmore
early Patricia Cornwell
the Bookman series (and the author's name escapes me! aarrgh!)
Susan Grafton's alphabet series
J.D. Robb's series featuring Eve Dallas (I know, I know, it's really Nora Roberts, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for science fiction romantic mysteries!)

And I could go on, and on, and on, and on. In fact, I did! Oops!

I can see I will definitely have to check out the sci-fi/fantasy section of my library - and soon. The mysteries are taking over!

Happy Holidays, my fellow Browncoats!
—Jean

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:23 PM

my most favoritest book is The Little Prince.

I know some folks consider it a children's book, but it really is a story for adults. I can't count the number of time I've read it. I only took French in high school so I could translate it myself.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:19 PM

Jefe,

If my house were burning down, I'd save my son, my dog and The Stand by Stephen King.

Others I'd try to get are:

King:
The Shining
'Salem's Lot

James Thurber:
The Thurber Carnival

Any and all Dave Barry

and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The rest would have to burn because The Stand--Complete and Uncut weighs a ton.

And if you were spending the night I'd save you too!

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

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