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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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    I was tempted to say War and Peace, I have a copy and started reading it once but after fifty or so pages I got really bored and went on to something else.

    I can only imagine that it gets better once the actual story starts but page after page of briefly introducing a seemingly endless list of characters really turned me off.
     
    JSBB, Aug 11, 2003
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    It's not for nothing that about ten times more people have War and Peace on the bookshelf than have actually read it. ;)

    Personally - There are a number of classics that I feel I should have read but haven't. To single out one is tough, so I'm working my way through the BBC's big read list. I've probably read about a third of the books on there already, and I'm probably not going to read the kids stuff that I haven't read already, so about 30-40 books on there I suppose.

    If you haven't already looked at the Big Read top 100 books you'll get plenty inspiration for books to read.
     
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    Charles Darwin's "On the origin of the species by means of natural selection". An eye-opener at the time, but Darwin was surely a better scientist than a writer.
     
    Kralizek, Aug 13, 2003
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    This present darkness. Peretti
    Piercing the darkness. Peretti.

    The Visit - Adrian Plass

    Lessons of the disciple: A Compilation of Sermons - Mathetais

    And perhaps I will read something of C.S.Lewis.
    If I ever read... :rolleyes:
     
    Master of Nuhn, Aug 13, 2003
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    The Silmarillion. I try. I do try. So hard. :(
     
    Yerril, Aug 13, 2003
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    War and Peace - it's just so damned big! :bang:
     
    Falstaff, Aug 14, 2003
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    It seems that I am the only one here, who has read War and Peace :D . As for the best book I have never read, this is Baudolino by Umberto Eco.
     
    BOC, Aug 14, 2003
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    Hitchikers guide to the galaxy, never managed to get my hands on this and i feel very sorry for this. But i hope i will make up sometime
     
    Mithrantir, Aug 14, 2003
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    dude....do you want your computer to commit suicide?

    read the book before its too late....
     
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    I have to say that the best book I've never read would be Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, but dear God in Heaven, who has time to read over 1,000 pages of Jean ValJean?
     
    DarkGoddess, Aug 15, 2003
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    Also, I must end up getting Dracula.
     
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    Dave Pelzer's "trilogy" from A Child called It to A Man Named Dave. I saw him discussing it on TV once about 2 years ago and decided I had to track it down. IMHO The Iliad and The Odyssey were hard to get my head around at first but after a bit of perseverence I loved them both.
     
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    Hmmmmm.... well I think it mostly comes down to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. I've been meaning to read it for 2 years now and I've never once gotten around to it. But I'm much more into fantasy than sci-fi so it keeps getting superceded. Other than that I keep trying to finish LOTR but I get bored by the middle of the 3rd book, I'm hoping that once I get older I'll have an even longer attention span or something. I suppose if I forced myself I could read it though, else I'd never have gotten through Catcher in the Rye.

    On a side note, I liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I was certain I'd detest it but I loathed Catcher in the Rye... that was a god-awful book IMHO.
     
    Silverwolf86, Aug 18, 2003
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    I'd say "the hobbit" but I'm about to start reading it tonight, so the Silmarilion (sp?). I did start it, but that whole "The universe is made from music" idea at the beginning really confused me and never really got past it...
     
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    If you accept what "they" say (as far as how good a book is) I'd go with James Joyce's Ulysses. Can't stand Joyce and, as I'm long past any school and ancillary reading lists, I can firmly say that I am never going to read it.

    As far as books that I hear are good from reliable sources that I just haven't gotten to: probably Bonfire of the Vanities.
     
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    "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Lo Kuan-Chung (Luo Guanzhong).
     
    nior, Sep 8, 2003
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    There's a lot, but for fantasy, I'd say Donaldson's 6 Thomas Covenant series.
     
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