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I read one trilogy by Mercedes Lackey some years ago-- Magic's Pawn, etc.-- and that was enough for me. Too much weeping and throwing arms around horses' necks from what I remember.

I think my favorite source of trashy fantasy would either be Tanith Lee or Lin Carter...
 
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I have never read that trilogy, but all the other stuff of hers I have read didn't have to much that stuff, that stuff being melodrama. But then I have never read one of her books that she has written herself, I've only read the books in which she co-authored with some one.

I've run out of books to read and my budget won't let me buy any new ones ...I need to go to the Library.

HURRAY LIBRARY
 
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bytheway said:
The Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
His Dark Marerial
Jane Eyre
1984
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Harry Potter
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Flies
Of mice and men
Watership Down
Narnia
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Nienor said:
^You have excellent taste in literature
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I echo Nienor
 
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My favorite book is White Oleander by Janet Finch... it's really good... and if you have seen the movie.... it's about 10 times better and more detailed.

Right now I'm reading Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (he also wrote the book Wicked, which is extremely good as well). It's very inetersting because he twists around the original story of "Snow White" and adds so much more, such as politics and religion and different ideas. If you like a book that makes you think... I highly reccomend ANY of his books.
 
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Frankenstein is definitely in my top five or so favorite books, no question. Absolutely love it.

My favorite, at least at this point, has to be War and Peace. True, it's long and incredibly tedious at some points...but no book is a better examination of human nature, the lack of control we have over our lives, and the notion that one must lose one's self in order to find one's self. Which, I know, sounds like a completely nebulous statement, but just read the darn book; it's well worth setting aside all other reading for a couple months. But get the Cliff's Notes to it.
 
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My favourite book to date would have to be....

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken. I truly believe that everyone, Christian or not, male or female, needs to read this book. It's the most amazing peice of literature I have ever read.

Others I enjoy:

~ The Lord of the Rings

~ Cathcher in the Rye

~ To Kill a Monkingbird

~ The Mists of Avalon

 
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HaNotsri said:
I am reading The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
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They are good books, but take it slowly...I tried to read the first 9 all at once and I burned out in number 5...the story is a good story, but there are just to many books to read at once...12 and the 13th will be the last of the series.
 
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