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rilke
29-Sep-06, 10:39

Favorite Books
Name some of your favorite books you have enjoyed reading?
It can be:

Literature
Essays
History
Philosophy
Psychology
Biography
Cooking
Sports
Film
Poetry
Photography
etc,etc.
-zoe-
29-Sep-06, 14:17

I like to read Biographies, expecially about famous musicians, Poetry (mostly croatian writers), SF - i enjoy this theme a lot, and National Geographic Magazine  
rilke
30-Sep-06, 00:28

books
Literature:

The Divine Comedy (Dante)
The Stranger (Camus)
Anna Karenin (Tolstoy)
The Trial (Kafka)
The Metamorphoses (Kafka)
Candide (Voltaire)
Moby Dick (Melville)
Walden (Thoreau)
Demien (Hesse)
Siddartha (Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hesse)
Faust (Marlowe)
The Old Man and the Sea (Heminway)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The death of ivan Ilyich (Tolstoy)
Crime and Punishment (Dostovesky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostovesky)

rilke
17-Oct-06, 03:43

Essays
Self Reliance and Other Essays ( Emerson )
Writings and Essays ( Kierkegaard )
rilke
26-Oct-06, 14:51

St. Augustine
City of God ( St. Augustine )
rilke
01-Nov-06, 09:01

Plutarch
Selected Lives and Essays (Plutarch)
amitanandan
05-Nov-06, 01:32

Extract from 'the Mahabharata
Draupadi's Marriage

The story of Draupadi's marriage, from the Hindu epic of Mahabharata is like none other. Draupadi (a.k.a. Drowpadi and Panchali) may be the only celebrated bride among all the classics of the world to have multiple husbands simultaneously. Yes. Five of them!

rilke
06-Nov-06, 09:36

Milton
Paradise Lost ( Milton)
rilke
08-Nov-06, 14:19

Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death ( Soren Kierkegaard )
slyfox4323
09-Nov-06, 05:22

A couple of my favorites
The Belgariad (David Eddings)

The Mallorean (David Eddings)

These 10 books actually make up one story.A very entertaining set. I have read them all 3 times already and i'm sure I will read them again in a couple years : ) I will be happy to give anyone the list of books if they like fantasy novels and are interested


slyfox4323
09-Nov-06, 05:27

Silver Wolf, Black Falcon (Dennis Mckiernan)

This is the finale to his Mithgar books. If you're not familiar with him most of his books tie in together giving you almost a complete history of his fantasy world. This is what makes him one of my favorite authors. If you're interested in venturing to Mithgar his first book is "The Dragonstone"
gusr
17-Nov-06, 19:51

Books!
****Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
****Anything For Billy (Larry McMurtry)
***Silas Marner
****Rebecca (Daphne Dumarier)
Mutiny on the Bounty
*****The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
THe Phantom of the Opera (Leroux)
*****Phantom (Susan Kay)
***Little Women (Alcott)
***Little Men (ALcott)
****Polly (Alcott)
Ann of Green Gables
Pygmalion (I know its a play, but I like the story...)
THe Metamorphisis (Kafka)
James and the Giant Peach

I read a few books a week, but those are some of my favorites. More stars means I especially liked it : )
amitanandan
17-Nov-06, 20:38

R> L> Stevenson
treasure island. this has got to be my all time favourite
lamb_burger
17-Nov-06, 20:51

Favorites, that I remember.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemmingway)
The Sun Also Rises(Hemmingway);often boring, then, abruptly, the ending makes it all brilliant.
The Brothers Karamazov (Dosteovsky)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
The Centaur (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
Women (Charles Bukowski); another one in which the ending shines retrospective brilliance.
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Tristesse (Jack Karouac)

I haven't read a book for a period of months now, the longest in over a decade. Writing this
short list has had a woeful effect on me.
amitanandan
18-Nov-06, 03:37

A passage to India...the co existence of multiple realities
It took me time to realize that my India is similar to the human body with its seats of power and intellect and various indriyas. At times the body is guided by reason, and at other times by mere emotion. It might feel rigid in the morning, elastic by day time, overexcited by evening, and frustrated by night. It fights its ups and downs, tides and ebbs, low and high spirits. It looks different if observed from various angles: familiar yet mysterious, gorgeous yet shabby, pure yet impure. I have visited many other countries, but I reserve this complex metaphor of the body for India .

A. M. Kadakin
rilke
19-Dec-06, 00:32

The Power of Myth
The Power Of Myth........ Joseph Campbell and discussion with Bill Moyers.
chessbeatswork
08-Jan-07, 08:09

Reading is fundamental...
East of Eden By John Steinbeck (in truth, anything by Steinbeck. But this was my fave)

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Prince by Machiavelli (regardless of literary merit, this book should be required reading in any school curriculum)

Many more, but these are the three that I can pick up at any time and read to the exclusion of all other activity.
rilke
20-Apr-07, 12:57

Don Quijote de La Mancha
It is a classic! I read it in spanish and english.This book brought Cervantes to his peak in Literature!

Miguel de Cervantes was born in Spain and fouth in the Spanish Armada during the late 16th century.
zombigar
27-Apr-07, 04:35

Paradise Lost -Milton
Ireland - Frank Delaney
Trinity - Leon Uris
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemmingway
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Pirsig
The Posionwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
East of Eden- Steinbeck
Wicked- Maguire
spygirl
27-Apr-07, 06:12

zombigar
I also am a huge fan of The Poisonwood Bible -- excellent book!
-zoe-
27-Apr-07, 10:44

Umberto Eco
Im huge fan of Umberto Eco's books for years, i could read his books over and over again
spygirl
27-Apr-07, 11:50

Umberto Eco
Is there one of his books that, in particular, you like more than others, Zrinka? I have never read him and am always looking for a good book to read.
-zoe-
28-Apr-07, 04:13

Eco
"The name of the Rose" is one of the best, you probably heard about that title, or saw movie... and book "Baudolino" - this one really made me laugh a lot  ))
i found his humor very inteligent and i really enjoy reading it.
the other two books are: "Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Island of the Day Before"....

im sorry im not able to read this novels in originals, he is italian...

if you decide to read some of them i hope you will enjoy as much as i did  

zombigar
28-Apr-07, 17:42

others came to mind...
The Great Santini - Pat Conroy
5 people you meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Cat's Cradle- Vonnegut
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
rilke
29-Apr-07, 08:52

The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
spygirl
29-Apr-07, 13:01

thanks, Zrinka...
I will check them out and let you know what I think  
rilke
05-May-07, 13:26

The Republic
Plato.
rilke
12-May-07, 08:04

The Dialogues of Plato
Plato.
wynternite
16-May-07, 20:00

My List
The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
The Confessions of St. Augustine, by none othe than
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
The Heads of Cerberus, by Francis Stevens
The Complete Book Of Swords, by Fred Saberhagen
The Decameron of Boccaccio
The Name Of The Rose, by Umberto Eco
Necronomicon, by H.P. Lovecraft
The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi

To name a few...  
ribbleton
20-May-07, 11:03

Books
Philosopher a kind of life, Ted Honderich
An Inspector calls, J.B. Priestly
Major Barbera GB. Shaw
Homage to Catalonia G. Orwell
The Once and Future King,TH, White
A Family Romance, Sigmund Freud
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