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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #180 on: March 26, 2009, 03:57:54 PM »
Quote from: mtbikemom on March 26, 2009, 06:13:32 AM
Goes on too long and the cover art sucks... where have I heard that before??? 

heh.

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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #181 on: March 28, 2009, 09:45:22 PM »
you mean there is a "best"??? anyways my favorite series have to be WoT, Mistborn, and Amber (Rodger Zelazany) and my favorite stand alone books are Stranger in a Strange Land, To Kill a Mockingbird, and This Immortal (Zelazany again and a Hugo winner) those are what come to mind anyways... ;D
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #182 on: April 21, 2009, 03:34:31 PM »
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Is his first published book (to be part of a trilogy), expecting the next book out either late this year or early 2010.

DAW president Elizabeth Wollheim called it "the most brilliant first fantasy novel I have read in over 30 years as an editor."
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #183 on: April 22, 2009, 01:08:31 AM »
I've started it. It is great. (So far.  :P )
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #184 on: April 22, 2009, 03:21:12 AM »
I can't imagine having a favorite.  Every novelist has such different thingsto say, how do you decide on one favorite?
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #185 on: April 22, 2009, 03:22:12 AM »
I've just been putting the books I really really like on this thread.
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #186 on: April 22, 2009, 06:22:25 AM »
Le petit prince is my favorite because it's charming, heavily philosophical (in the most delightful ways), highly accessible (technically a children's book), has moments of absolute beauty, practical, still has high intellectual and aesthetic value over multiple reads (I rarely reread books), and sad.  All of these in one little book (I can't vouch for it being the same in English—I haven't read it in English since I was a small child, and I didn't nearly like it so much then).  I've never read another book like it.
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #187 on: April 22, 2009, 08:44:42 AM »
One of the best books I've read is The Dispossessed by l'Engle.
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Re: Best book you've ever read...
« Reply #188 on: April 22, 2009, 09:08:56 PM »
Quote from: The Jade Knight on April 22, 2009, 06:22:25 AM
Le petit prince is my favorite because it's charming, heavily philosophical (in the most delightful ways), highly accessible (technically a children's book), has moments of absolute beauty, practical, still has high intellectual and aesthetic value over multiple reads (I rarely reread books), and sad.  All of these in one little book (I can't vouch for it being the same in English—I haven't read it in English since I was a small child, and I didn't nearly like it so much then).  I've never read another book like it.

I agree completely.  "Dessine-moi un mouton, s'il te plait."  "Je suis responsable de ma rose."  I love that book.
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