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The best book you have Never read.

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Kovalis Darkfire, Aug 6, 2003.

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    [​IMG] What do you think is the best book that you have not read but you wish to read.

    For me it is LoTR, never read that one, but if it's as good as the movies, I'll have to get around to it.
     
    Kovalis Darkfire, Aug 6, 2003
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    Probably a tie between Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. I have meant to read them for some time but I have just never gotten around to locating a copy.
     
    JSBB, Aug 6, 2003
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    they are good books, archaic but good. mine would be the dunes series
     
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    For literature, I'd have to say James Joyce's ulysses. Strictly in the realm of fantasy, probably Eddings' Belgariad, although y'all are piquing my interest in Martin's stuff.
     
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    I think that it is Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. I've heard lots of good things about that book.
     
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    Probably Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Its the one book that I really want to read but for some reason haven't got round to it yet.

    Rallymama: If you're talking about George RR Martin then go for it. I can't wait until the next in the series comes out.
     
    monkey, Aug 7, 2003
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    Harkle, you haven't read them before :eek:
    Go down to the nearest book store and buy them now . You don't know what you have missed out on.

    The book I've resently really wanted to read is The Iliad. It just sounds an interesting book. I've been meaning to read it for a while now but my friend's just started reading the Odyssey, which reminded me I wanted to read the Iliad.
     
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    To Kill a Mockingbird, everyone lavishes praise on that one. I need to get around to read one of these days.
     
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    no...don't read To Kill a Mockingbird....i hated it....but that's just me...

    Im a dune nut...so the best book ive never read is THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD.
     
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    Don't believe him, Joac, it's brilliant. A stunning book.
     
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    maybe i have a morality problem :D .
     
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    WOW, I didn't know people actually read stuff that is not fantasy.

    I found to kill a mocking bird a bit dry, but it was ok here and there. Suprisingly because normally a book like that would bore me to death, even beyond death!
     
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    For me probably the iliad. oh and IMO To Kill A Mockingbird is not a bad book as long as you don't have to wrap your head around what some less than stellar intelect language teacher wants you to get out of it.
     
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    For me that would also be LOTR trilogy. Just have never gotten around to it. BTW the George R. Martin books are very good and fast paced despite the lenght. Tried the Wheel of Time series but they are so overly drawn out and boring that I just can't continue with the series which basically has a good story. Its just that there are chapters upon chapters in which nothing happens at all.
     
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    The Crucible sounds like an interesting piece of work.

    Yeah, it's a non-fantasy book. I really feel like I don't want to read that stuff anymore.
     
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    the bible
     
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    Probably The Count of Monte Christo, it's just so... huge.
     
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    Does my sister's diary count? :D
    Got to be The Star Trek Voyager Conpanion. Don't you dare laugh. >.<
     
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    War and Peace.
    And half of the FR books. I've only read Exile Sojourn and the other one.
     
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    Leo Tolstoy's - War and Peace
     
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