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Elizabeth Wrote:I'm going to look into reading G.K. Chesterton in the near future. I read but one chapter from The Man Who Was Thursday, and it was most intruiging.
Elizabeth, you need to read Chesterton's
Orthodoxy! 
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I've heard that George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are really good. I want to read those soon!
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Levi_1989 Wrote:I've heard that George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are really good. I want to read those soon!
Those are both on my reading list for the fall!
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Levi_1989 Wrote:I've heard that George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are really good. I want to read those soon!
I can vouch for
Animal Farm. It is a masterful picture of the evils of communism. Orwell did a splendid job on it, plus it's a relatively brief read, which is rarely a bad thing.
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Ruddigore Wrote:I can vouch for Animal Farm. It is a masterful picture of the evils of communism. Orwell did a splendid job on it, plus it's a relatively brief read, which is rarely a bad thing.
Bummer. I like longer books!
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nick94 Wrote:Bummer. I like longer books!
Oh, they're good too, despite that brevity is the soul of wit.
If you want a long book, pull out Edmund Spenser's
The Fairy Queen. That will keep you occupied.
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Ruddigore Wrote:Oh, they're good too, despite that brevity is the soul of wit.
If you want a long book, pull out Edmund Spenser's The Fairy Queen. That will keep you occupied.
I read an excerpt of that in high school in English Lit. I can't imagine reading the whole thing.
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Hm, there's too many...here's some favorites though: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Emma, the Chronicles of Narnia, The Fallen series by Thomas Sniegoski, This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen, Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier, Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and the Guardians of Time trilogy by Marianne Curley.
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Wow. This post sure has some dust on it! Since I've returned to the forum now I thought I might add a new favorite book of mine.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
It's a lengthy, but good, read!
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My favorite work of all time would be Animal Farm. I even own a first edition.
Chesterton
St Francis de Sales
C.S. Lewis
Twain
Vonnegut
Jacques
Weiss (dragon lance series anyone?)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy (get your towel!)
Fall of the Roman Empire
I have a home library full of books, but it's too early and the kids are fighting over the breakfast table. :nopity:
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