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  • holliebevineau
    holliebevineau Posts: 441 Member
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    Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice


    And Taltos by Anne Rice
    And all of the Vampire Cronicles by Anne Rice

    I like Anne Rice!!
  • Nightterror218
    Nightterror218 Posts: 375 Member
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    Gunslinger- Stephen King
  • dorianaldyn
    dorianaldyn Posts: 611 Member
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    The Shadow of the Wind was great.

    My all time favorite book is the unabridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Love it!!
  • TangledUp_InBlue
    TangledUp_InBlue Posts: 397 Member
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    “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?” or “The Last Catholic in America” …both really describe growing up Catholic in the close knit Irish neighborhood I grew up in on the south side of Chicago.
  • fannyfrost
    fannyfrost Posts: 756 Member
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    I love reading and have a very wide range of tastes, anything from biographies to true crimes, murder mystery to chick lit, depending on my mood, but I suppose the first book to ever make a real impression on me was Wuthering Heights which I studied in school. Have read that so many times and even have a leather bound copy of the book and the original film on DVD

    Mood definitely plays into my choice at the time.

    I left out:

    Agatha Christie
    Sherlock Holmes
    Janet Evanovich's books
    Kathy Reich's Bones series

    All mysteries, why did I forget them, because right now I am in the Scifi mood. I had been in a mystery mood these would have been first (well with Asimov and Anne Rice)
  • Nessiechickie
    Nessiechickie Posts: 1,392 Member
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    Stephen King.. Black House
    SK.... Duma Key

    I don't have a favorite book FYI.

    I also like to dabble in the corny Maggie Shayne :blushing:
  • mfrkorey
    mfrkorey Posts: 176 Member
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    My first "grownup" book that I fell in love with (sometime in 6th or 7th grade) was Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

    Yes! Summer after 7th grade I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and A Raisin in the Sun. both good

    Then after 8th grade I read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Still love that book, not so much the movie.

    Of course I also loved To Kill a Mocking Bird. Godfather. Great Gatsby...and I did fall in love with this little group of wizards and witches that went to Hogwarts. It's true.

    There are a ton of "classics" that suck though. Anything Charles ****ens. I would rather poke my own eyeballs out than be forced to Read Great Expectations again.


    eta: You have got to be kidding. It edited Charles last name.
  • missybct
    missybct Posts: 321 Member
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    Brilliant choices - can't wait to have a proper read through them.

    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    This was the first adult book I really adored - we did it at school and I genuinely loved it so much I have read it countless times and watched all adaptations.

    Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Copeland
    The end was a bit shammy, but I loved the rest of it.

    Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Enough said, really!

    Hannibal Trilogy - Tom Harris
    First real go as a 15 year old into adult fiction (other than above).
  • binabinapink
    binabinapink Posts: 5 Member
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    Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • mfrkorey
    mfrkorey Posts: 176 Member
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    My favorite book is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

    I like Wally Lamb. I first read I Know This Much Is True
  • emstethem
    emstethem Posts: 263 Member
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    The Count of Monte Cristo! LOVED IT! :D
  • QueenE_
    QueenE_ Posts: 522 Member
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    I love to read so I couldn't pick just one.
  • nytius
    nytius Posts: 173 Member
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    Anything by Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman.

    I'm a big horror fan so Clive is on my list as well. I also like guys like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene...ect.

    Brian Keene is so under rated!! Love him.

    You have to love Dark Hollow! Strange, weird, creepy but awesome.

    Especially creepy!!
  • Pelly57
    Pelly57 Posts: 169 Member
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    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. Was a fan when it was really his only book out, and long before the musical. I have given many copies of it away. And replaced a few copies when I lent it out and lost track of it.
  • TallGlassOfQuirky
    TallGlassOfQuirky Posts: 282 Member
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    Two books, because they go together:
    The Winds of War and War & Remembrance by Herman Wouk.
    Amazing books - historically accurate, emotionally gripping, and just incredibly well written.

    I have also read She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb at least a dozen times.
  • GnomeLove
    GnomeLove Posts: 379
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    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Just. Awesome.

    Another vote for this
  • MarianneC93
    MarianneC93 Posts: 60 Member
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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (subtitled: A Pure Woman) by Thomas Hardy. Amazing.
  • armywf07
    armywf07 Posts: 245 Member
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    The help
    Ya-Ya sisterhood
    Sookie stackhouse novels
    Tree grows in Brooklyn
    Writing on my forehead-very awesome read
    Anne of Green Gables (all the books)
    Harry Potter (1-7)
    For me anything historical fiction
    anything Karen Essex writes

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