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#92727 - 07/01/03 06:39 PM
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MagicBanker, I too love John Jakes & James Michner. The first "grown up" book I read was The Bastard and it got me hooked.
My son swears by the Redwall books. (That's what I'll move onto after HP.) I am getting the Harry Potter this weekend & will probably have it finished in a day. I read anything I get my hands on but mostly fluff. Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, etc. (I have to think to much at work.)
A new author I've discovered is Susan Brockman. She writes mystery, intrigue, etc. and her stories span over the books. Great series!!!
I have a few friends and between yard sales, library sales & the thrift market we keep each other in books.
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#92729 - 07/01/03 06:45 PM
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I would heartily and unequivocably recommend J.R.R. Tolkien's writings to anyone: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion. As good as the first two installments of LOTR are, the books are far, far better.
I just finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy (for the first time), and would echo the endorsement...waiting eagerly now for The Return of the King movie. John Bunyan's puritan classic Pilgrim's Progress (written by him in an English prison) is, perhaps, my favorite. Here's his opening paragraph:
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where there was a den; and I laid down in that place to sleep: and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and, behold, I saw a man dressed in rags, standing with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden on his back. I looked, and saw him open the book; and as he read, he wept and trembled; then he broke out with a lamentable cry, saying, “What shall I do?”
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#92730 - 07/01/03 07:14 PM
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#92733 - 07/01/03 08:06 PM
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#92735 - 07/01/03 08:27 PM
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I would heartily and unequivocably recommend J.R.R. Tolkien's writings to anyone: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion. As good as the first two installments of LOTR are, the books are far, far better.
My brother read these to me when I was very young. I now have a set of my very own and will treasure them but the memories of his reading them to me are far more valuable and will be with me forever.
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#92738 - 07/01/03 11:30 PM
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I also read the new Harry Potter in less than 2 days. I love the writers mind. I wish I could write like that.
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#92741 - 07/02/03 04:01 PM
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I also read the new Harry Potter in less than 2 days. I love the writers mind. I wish I could write like that.
Did you know that she considered breaking her arm so she could stop writing? I love writing but would never do so if I felt that type of pressure.
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#92742 - 07/11/03 08:06 PM
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If you could have only one single book, other than a Bible, to read as often as you like what would it be?
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#92743 - 07/11/03 08:15 PM
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Siddharta by Herman Hesse (I lent out my copy and have not got it back  )
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#92744 - 07/11/03 08:30 PM
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Dune... unless you'd let me have all the harry potter books in one bound copy or lord of the rings
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#92746 - 07/11/03 08:44 PM
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Dune... unless you'd let me have all the harry potter books in one bound copy or lord of the rings
I have LOTR in one BIG book. My husband is reading it.
I would go for the HP series in one bound copy as well. It would be one huge book! 
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#92747 - 07/11/03 08:44 PM
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If you could have only one single book, other than a Bible, to read as often as you like what would it be?
God's Debris by Scott Adams
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#92748 - 07/11/03 08:58 PM
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It would be a tossup between C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity and Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest.
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#92750 - 07/11/03 11:36 PM
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I have read The Screwtape Letters - I really like it.
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#92751 - 07/12/03 01:14 PM
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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.
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