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    Yes, I stole this from facebook. But I think it's cool and will arouse thy readers, so voila!

    Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books or stories you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. And a series of books counts as one book. And feel free to discuss!

    Here are mine...may change it eventually.

    1. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
    2. A Song Of Ice And Fire - GRR Martin
    3. Harry Potter - J.K Rowling (shut up)
    4. The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
    5. The Stand - S. King
    6. Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen Cook
    7. The Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss (only the first one has been released, but I am 100% positive I will enjoy the rest.
    8. The Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind
    9. Black Friday - James Patterson (haven't read it in years, but I am pretty sure it's still fantastic)
    10. The Runner - Christopher Reich (idk why, I just love this book)
    11. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    12. 1984 - George Orwell
    13. The Pendergast Novels - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
    14. The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
    15. Rats Saw God - Rob Thomas

    The last two books are young adult novels, but I thoroughly enjoyed them. Also, "The Body of Christopher Creed" is another pretty good young adult book. Not as memorable though. Any questions?
    I have many leather bound books.
    I'm kind of a big deal.


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    Awesome idea!

    Here are mine (no special order)
    1. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
    2. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
    3. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
    4. 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
    5. The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
    6. King Raven Trilogy (Robin Hood) - Stephen R. Lawhead
    7. Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
    8. A Song of Ice and Fire - George R.R. Martin
    9. Go Dogs Go - Dr. Seuss ()
    10. Pickman's Models - H.P Lovecraft
    11. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
    12. A Seperate Peace - John Knowles
    13. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    14. The Belgariad - David Eddings
    15. Tears of Artamon - Sarah Ash

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    i was gonna put the belgariad, but decided against it. it is a fantastic series though

    and nice dresden file listing!
    I have many leather bound books.
    I'm kind of a big deal.


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    so in the order I thought of them:

    The Dark Tower - King
    Golden Apples of the Sun- Bradbury
    Farenheit 451 - Bradbury
    It - King
    The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
    Boy's Life - Robert McCammon
    War against the Chtorr - David Gerrold
    Stranger in a Strangeland - Heinlein
    His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
    Hearts in Atlantis - King
    Magician - Raymond E. Feist
    Harry Potter - Rowling
    Lotr - Tolkein
    A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
    Day of the Triffids - Wyndham

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    1.The Dark Tower - King
    2.It-King
    3.The Stand - King
    4.The Servants of Twighlight - Koontz (I don't want to hear it)
    5.The Black Cat - Poe
    6. Lord of the Flies - Golding
    7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey
    8. 20,000 Leaques Under the Sea - Verne
    9. The Mouse and the Motorcycle - Cleary (What?)
    10. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
    11. The Da Vinci Code - Brown (Again...What?)
    12. Jurassic Park - Crichton
    13. Huckleberry Finn - Twain
    14. A Christmas Carol - Dickens
    15. Dracula - Stoker
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    i have to say brownings childe...your books fit almost everyones list. spice it up a little! haha, i keed of course
    I have many leather bound books.
    I'm kind of a big deal.


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    Quote Originally Posted by IWasSentWest View Post
    i have to say brownings childe...your books fit almost everyones list. spice it up a little! haha, i keed of course
    ???

    Only like 4 of the books I listed are on anyone else's list.
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    i mean they are almost all literary classics except for a few, so they are on most peoples "all time greatest" lists
    I have many leather bound books.
    I'm kind of a big deal.


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    well, we have this thread, but since the present one is for both King and non-King, probably the two may be allowed to coexist...

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    1. The Dark Tower, Stephen King (especially Wizard and Glass)
    2. The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
    3. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
    4. IT, Stephen King
    5. Pet Sematary, Stephen King
    6. Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
    7. The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
    8. The Shinning, Stephen King
    9. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
    10. Hell House, Richard Matheson
    11. Interview With the Vampire, Ann Rice
    12. The Stand, Stephen King
    13. Dreamcatcher, Stephen King
    14. The Mask, Dean Koontz
    15. Door to December, Dean Koontz

    I wanted to list mine before reading the others so that I wasn't influenced in my thought process in any way. Not listed in any order really. Just the first books that came to my head. There are many that will stick with me forever. Good thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    well, we have this thread, but since the present one is for both King and non-King, probably the two may be allowed to coexist...
    Went back and found my post from that thread, it was pretty much the same. Couple that I thought about putting on this list were on the other one.
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    Here are mine:

    1 1984 - Geroge Orwell
    2 The ragger trousserd Philanphtopists - Rpbert Tressell
    3 Coming up for air - George Orwell
    4 Tinity Leon Uris
    5 The House of the Dead - Dostoevsky
    6 The cathcer in the ry - Sallenger
    7 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
    8 - Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
    9 - The DArk Tower Series - of course
    10 - Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
    11 - How the dead live - Will Self
    12 - No Logo - Naomi Klein
    13 - Hidden Agendas - John Pilger
    14 - Northanger Abbey - Austen
    15 - Hearts in Atlantis - King

    I did it off the top of my head and W/O reading th others, otherwise I would be here all day.

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    Copied from my notes on fb:

    1. The Hobbit ~ JRR Tolkien
    Actually, I think I always put The Hobbit first in these lists, because I read it when I was really young and felt as if it had been written especially for me. It was the first book that I felt a really profound connection to.

    2. A Prayer For Owen Meany ~ John Irving

    3. American Gods ~ Neil Gaiman

    4. Jeeves and Wooster ~ PG Wodehouse
    I'm cheating a bit because this really covers the whole collection of books and short stories about Jeeves and Wooster. The stereotyped upper class English genmtleman is so overdone in books and film, but Wodehouse is the original master. His books are sheer perfection.

    5. Norwegian Wood ~ Haruki Murakami

    6. Dracula ~ Bram Stoker

    7. Last Call ~ Tim Powers
    This is actually the first book in a trilogy, Tim Powers is on another level of sci-fi/fantasy writing.

    8. Black House ~ Stephen King & Peter Straub

    9. The Drawing Of The Three ~ Stephen King

    10. The Crow Road ~ Iain Banks

    11. The Pilo Family Circus ~ Will Elliot

    12. The Beach ~ Alex Garland

    13. Monsignor Quixote ~ Graham Greene

    14. The Naming Of The Beasts ~ Mike Carey
    If you like Gaiman, you'll love Carey.

    15. Watership Down ~ Richard Adams

    I'm a huge Dresden and Potter fan, but I think of them more as easy reading and I was trying to be more selective in an attempt to narrow down the hundreds of books I could have picked into 15

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    1. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    2. Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird
    3. Kingsley Amis. Lucky Jim
    4. G.K.Chesterton. Father Brown Stories
    5. Леонид Соловьев. Повесть о Ходже Насреддине [Leonid Soloviov. The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin]
    6. Братья Стругацкие. Трудно быть Богом [The Strugazky Brothers. It's Hard to Be God]

    7. Charles Dickens. Nicholas Nickleby
    8. Stephen King. It
    9. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre
    10. Дмитрий Быков. Орфография [Dmitry Bykov. Orthography]
    11. Александр Куприн. Поединок [Alexander Kuprin. The Duel]
    12. Аркадий Гайдар. Судьба барабанщика [Arkadiy Gaidar. A Drummer's Destiny]

    13. Jaroslav Hašek. The Good Soldier Švejk
    14. Федор Достоевский Братья Карамазовы [Fedor Dostoyevsky. The Karamazov Brothers]
    15. Михаил Булгаков. Театральный роман [Mikhail Bulgakov A Theatrical Novel (aka A Dead Man's Memoir)


    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
    4. Jeeves and Wooster ~ PG Wodehouse
    I'm cheating a bit because this really covers the whole collection of books and short stories about Jeeves and Wooster. The stereotyped upper class English genmtleman is so overdone in books and film, but Wodehouse is the original master. His books are sheer perfection.
    grrrrrrrr I didn't have a slot for him! I so need this one little tiny extra slot!.......

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    That's how I felt about making the list! Mine should have had To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre and It on it too.

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    sweetheart, did you ever read Lucky Jim? It seems like nobody did, except Fruno who did on my advice and loved it immensely

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    1. Rosemary's Baby-Ira Levin
    2. The Exorcist-William Peter Blatty
    3. The Monk-M. G. Lewis
    4. Deathbird Stories-Harlan Ellison
    5. Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury
    6. Imagica-Clive Barker
    7. The Dark Tower
    8. The Books Of Blood-Clive Barker
    9. The Great And Secret Show-Clive Barker
    10. A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
    11. The Shining
    12. H. P Lovecraft Complete & Unabridged (yes, I'm cheating here, but fuck it)
    13. It
    12. Psycho-Robert Bloch
    13. The Silmarillion-Tolkien
    14. Pet Sematary
    15. Carmilla-Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
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    1.IT-Stephen King

    2.The Dark Tower-Stephen King

    3.ISMAEL-Daniel Quinn

    4.A Wrinkle In Time-Madeleine L'Engle

    5.Deception Point-Dan Brown

    6.Through The Looking Glass-Lewis Carrol(Charles Dodgson)

    7.The Da Vinchi Code-Dan Brown

    8.Where The Red Fern Grows-Wilson Rawls

    9.Hearts In Atlantis-Stephen King

    10.Chariots Of The Gods-Erich von Daniken(intense shit)

    11.Of Mice And Men-John Steinbeck

    12.The Story Of B-Daniel Quinn(sequel to ISHMAEL)

    13.Garcia-Blair Jackson

    14.The Lord Of The Rings(including The Hobbit)-J.R.R Tolkein

    15.The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer/The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn -Mark Twain(Samuel Clemens)

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    The stand
    It
    The Giver-Louis Lowry
    The Dark Tower
    Middlesex-Jeffrey Eugenides
    It's a Good Life-Jerome Bixby
    The Road-Cormac McCarty
    Breakfast at Tiffany's(every story in the book) truman capote
    The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton
    1984 -Orson Wells
    On the Road (in high school obviously)
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand (my grandmother gave it me when I was like 10)
    Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk (even though I can't stand his writing anymore, this belongs on my list)

    Wow, I'll have to give the last few some thought. These are just what came to
    mind because I have read them all 5+ times.
    I've probably read The Stand and The Giver more than 10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    sweetheart, did you ever read Lucky Jim? It seems like nobody did, except Fruno who did on my advice and loved it immensely
    No, but I shall on your recommendation

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    sweetheart, did you ever read Lucky Jim? It seems like nobody did, except Fruno who did on my advice and loved it immensely
    No, but I shall on your recommendation
    if possible... notify me when you start, ok? I feel like it's time for me to re-read it (I normally do once three years); last time I did, it was at the same time as Fruno was reading, and it's a miraculous feeling, knowing that you're going through the same pages, passages, and lines. It's like our minds touching.

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    *goes to get a copy of Lucky Jim*

    The answer is within

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    PLEASE DO IT NOW

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    sweetheart, did you ever read Lucky Jim? It seems like nobody did, except Fruno who did on my advice and loved it immensely
    No, but I shall on your recommendation
    if possible... notify me when you start, ok? I feel like it's time for me to re-read it (I normally do once three years); last time I did, it was at the same time as Fruno was reading, and it's a miraculous feeling, knowing that you're going through the same pages, passages, and lines. It's like our minds touching.

    Has anyone ever tried to start a book club on this site? I think even if you have read something a lot it's really cool to read along with someone else. It gives you a fresh look at it. Just like showing someone a movie you love.

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