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the lord of the flies is a very good novelDEMA wrote:hi Arale.
This is the first post for me .am really happy :D .
As for me .i like reading novels .so my favourite novel is
The Lord of The Flies by William Golding.
i couldn't choose a favourite book :?
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i like serious book with philosophic and psychologic problems. that's why my favorite books are Dostoevskye 'Idiot' and Hesse 'Stepenwolf'.
And i like Tolkien very much espesially 'Lord of the rings'. Its my favorite fantazy writer. his heroes ase always noble and courageous, they doesnt afraid of evil and death.
i like serious book with philosophic and psychologic problems. that's why my favorite books are Dostoevskye 'Idiot' and Hesse 'Stepenwolf'.
And i like Tolkien very much espesially 'Lord of the rings'. Its my favorite fantazy writer. his heroes ase always noble and courageous, they doesnt afraid of evil and death.
Fight 4 your L!
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It's difficult enough to name some exact favourite authors and their books... You know, all those Russian with their classics, some English, French, German, American.... I love a lot of books... I don't have 1 favourite book... It can change every time I read something new and unknown! The last book I like very VERY much was if I am right Ien Benks "Street of Despair" I may give the wrong title, i read it in Russian, but I liked it... I simply like all his books very much ))
Hi, I'm new to this forum!
Hmm, I'm happy that I can see so many people who like books! Very good!!
I like russian authors, as well! I've just read Crime and Punishment, it was not bad, however I didn't expect such ending..
Do you like horrors? I like Stephen King's books, however I think sometimes he exaggerates..
The best books ever are Birdy by William Wharton and Behind the Glass Wall by Robert Merle.
Hmm, I'm happy that I can see so many people who like books! Very good!!
I like russian authors, as well! I've just read Crime and Punishment, it was not bad, however I didn't expect such ending..
Do you like horrors? I like Stephen King's books, however I think sometimes he exaggerates..
The best books ever are Birdy by William Wharton and Behind the Glass Wall by Robert Merle.
Hi LittleA. I is so nice to find a twin soul so far. When I read "Crime and Punishment" I had a disappointment. too. But not only in the ending, I felt in the middle of the book that the history was turning bored.LittleA wrote: I like russian authors, as well! I've just read Crime and Punishment, it was not bad, however I didn't expect such ending..
Do you like horrors? I like Stephen King's books, however I think sometimes he exaggerates..
The best books ever are Birdy by William Wharton and Behind the Glass Wall by Robert Merle.
I love Stephen King. The last book of him I read was:
"The Long Walk".
I am going to read the books you recommended.
My prefer books is: "Ensayo sobre la ceguera" by Saramago.
Hi,
Yes, you also felt that feeling in the end? It was too nice, too stereotyped!! Or if he really wanted to finish like this, he shouldn't have it explained in so many words (ok, it wasn't SO many, but it was too much), he should have only referred that maybe they will realize that they love each other.
Oh, it's so nice, that you want to read what I liked! :) It's worth to read them, especially the Birdy.
Is Saramago spanish?
Yes, you also felt that feeling in the end? It was too nice, too stereotyped!! Or if he really wanted to finish like this, he shouldn't have it explained in so many words (ok, it wasn't SO many, but it was too much), he should have only referred that maybe they will realize that they love each other.
Oh, it's so nice, that you want to read what I liked! :) It's worth to read them, especially the Birdy.
Is Saramago spanish?
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OMG! In 1998, he won the Nobel prize. That year, I started college, and in a subject called "Literary Theory" (such a bore, actually) I had to read one of his novels! It was sooooooooooo dull... I haven't read any other of his books...Silvita wrote:No, Saramago is from Portugal. I read the book in Spanish, and is a very good novel. Saramago is a Novel award, so I think you can find the novel in your mother language.
Ok, thanks for the informations! I like to read foreign authors' writings. Their words (even if I read it translated) have other kind of taste.. very interesting thing.
I know, that nobody knows this writer because he is hungarian, but he is very, very good, his name is Karinthy, and he could write SO funny novels :D When I'm sad, I just have to read one of his stories, and I will be on the ground because of laughing on his jokes.
I know, that nobody knows this writer because he is hungarian, but he is very, very good, his name is Karinthy, and he could write SO funny novels :D When I'm sad, I just have to read one of his stories, and I will be on the ground because of laughing on his jokes.
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Alex Robira? Where is he from?tamukenn wrote:My favorite book is [Good Luck ]written by Alex Robira.
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You mean "Chicken soups for soul"?bacteria wrote:I like reading "The Chicken Soups"... Okie. That stories is very sensative. Sometimes, I feel to lost believe in human. I read them again, again... Sometimes, I think I can change my mind. I became loving ...
Many short stories, but very interesting.
They are bout lives, belief....
it seems very interesting. i love reading essays about philosophy in tv shows cuz you realise that you can find influences of philosophy in everything or, at least, you see things about your favourite characters that you hadn't seen before.guigamf11 wrote:I am reading a book very good... "The Simspons and Philosophy", or something like that... ( i am brazilian, so i tried to translate to english the book title. Any word wrong, plz, say. ) This book talks about philosophers, like Nietzche, Aristoteles, and others, comparing their ideals with the characters of "The Simspons", like Bart Simpson with Friedrich Nietzche. Good book...
I would like to recomend -I hope my translation be goog-
The evangely acording to Jesuschrist, of Saramago, is excelent.
The evangely acording to Jesuschrist, of Saramago, is excelent.
Could you tell me if at Internet I could find any book of Karinthy. I would like to reat him/her.littleA wrote:I know, that nobody knows this writer because he is hungarian, but he is very, very good, his name is Karinthy, and he could write SO funny novels When I'm sad, I just have to read one of his stories, and I will be on the ground because of laughing on his jokes.
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I'm going to go mainstream here. I've never read an entire book twice becasue of one fundamental belief of mine: life is short and books abound. However, I've read 'Jurassic Park' (Michael Crichton) twice and seen the movie more times than I'd like to acknowledge
Maybe it's the dinosaurs that do it for me, maybe it was John Williams scores for the movie that made it unforgettable but I just love that book.
*loosy*
Maybe it's the dinosaurs that do it for me, maybe it was John Williams scores for the movie that made it unforgettable but I just love that book.
*loosy*
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Do you mind my participation?Cypress wrote:Have you seen the Master and Margaret TV series? I think it’s awesome. It is exactly as I imagined it when I read the book.Ksju wrote:Master and Margaret!
(Bulgakov).
One of the best books in the world literature to my mind!
I have seen: from one hand i was happy finally to be able to watch, not only to read, on the other hand the movie looked cheap, like the Satana's ball and Margarita's flight abobe Moscow and so on. It could be better i suppose, but i liked the main characters and i guess the cat was terrific! the exact cat! also Master is boring, Voland unattractive (i was about to fall in love while reading...

Anyhow i've bought dvds...

The cat was cute; I had a strong desire to pet it or hug itTora wrote:
i guess the cat was terrific! the exact cat!

Of course, he is a sick man, he can’t be thrilling or excitingalso Master is boring

He is Devil after all, that’s what he should be likeVoland unattractive

Anyway I enjoyed it :D
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I'm sorry :DCypress wrote: Instead of making fun you mean girl, why don't you explain why it's wrong to say it that way?
Well, maybe I'm wrong, but your post just reminded me of one specific day in my first college year... A professor told us that desire and wish had completely different meanings in English... You know... like desire implied sexual connotations. When you said you had a strong desire to hug it I just couldn't help it... sorry again :D
Please somebody correct me if I am wrong!!!
Well, maybe you are not that mean after all. Thanks for the explanation :D :D :DDixie wrote:I'm sorry :DCypress wrote: Instead of making fun you mean girl, why don't you explain why it's wrong to say it that way?
Well, maybe I'm wrong, but your post just reminded me of one specific day in my first college year... A professor told us that desire and wish had completely different meanings in English... You know... like desire implied sexual connotations. When you said you had a strong desire to hug it I just couldn't help it... sorry again :D
Please somebody correct me if I am wrong!!!
You're lucky. You've seen the film.Tora wrote:Do you mind my participation?Cypress wrote:Have you seen the Master and Margaret TV series? I think it’s awesome. It is exactly as I imagined it when I read the book.Ksju wrote:Master and Margaret!
(Bulgakov).
One of the best books in the world literature to my mind!![]()
I have seen: from one hand i was happy finally to be able to watch, not only to read, on the other hand the movie looked cheap, like the Satana's ball and Margarita's flight abobe Moscow and so on. It could be better i suppose, but i liked the main characters and i guess the cat was terrific! the exact cat! also Master is boring, Voland unattractive (i was about to fall in love while reading...)
Anyhow i've bought dvds...
I want to watch it too as it's one of my favourite books. And, yes, I think it's almost impossible to act this book. Extremely difficult!

So that's why maybe we shouldn't be too stern?!
No, you're right! We should be very stern!!! 8)
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hello:)))
Hi!
have you ever tried to read cookery books as your favourite ones?
below you have a wonderful link that can inspire you to follow this new way of your life and never go astride it:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvG ... pet%20Show
ps. by the way - I would like to know bit more about Swedish kitchen. Really:)
have you ever tried to read cookery books as your favourite ones?
below you have a wonderful link that can inspire you to follow this new way of your life and never go astride it:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvG ... pet%20Show
ps. by the way - I would like to know bit more about Swedish kitchen. Really:)
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my favourit story is The Happy Prince
i looooooooooooooove this story .. to be honest .. i like most of Oscar wild's stories
http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
btw, this is my first post .. i'm a new member here and i would like to improve my english like the rest
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i looooooooooooooove this story .. to be honest .. i like most of Oscar wild's stories
http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
btw, this is my first post .. i'm a new member here and i would like to improve my english like the rest
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Soraya wrote:my favourit story is The Happy Prince
i looooooooooooooove this story .. to be honest .. i like most of Oscar wild's stories
http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/
btw, this is my first post .. i'm a new member here and i would like to improve my english like the rest
:)
Wow, cool link!
Thanks a lot!!!
I'm keen on Wilde...
So big thanks once again :D :D
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lindalyl wrote:My favourites books are "The forest woman" by Theresa Tomlinson (I don't remember very good her name) and "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden, very famous by the film, but I prefer the book. And the Harry Potter series ^^
I started reading Memoirs of a Geisha just last night! It's pretty interesting so far. I haven't seen the movie, though. I always prefer to read the book first.
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Your Favorite book of 2007?
What has been your favorite book for 2007 .Mine was HP and the deathly hallows
The Secret wasn't bad as well I could put it in a second rank
The Secret wasn't bad as well I could put it in a second rank
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Re: Your Favorite book of 2007?
PAULO KOELO-ALCHEMIST
SIDNEY SHELDON-RAGE OF ANGELS
SIDNEY SHELDON-RAGE OF ANGELS
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Re: What is your favourite book?
My favorite book is English book and comics.....I don't like literature book very much, but I read some in my leisure time........ :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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- Mine is Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows it was like the climax for Potter's books and it was an amazing book indeed.
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I've read it once, but when I read again, It's too bored....Although I like Potter very much, I have nothing to read(I remember all)
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I didn't like the last book in the Harry potter serie. It was good, but I had expected more.
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Hello. My favorite author is Paulo Cohelo. He has a great books. I have almost all the books that he had written.
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I love his work as well. I don't have all his books but I am collecting them 8) I've only got 5 or 6.logitech wrote:Hello. My favorite author is Paulo Cohelo. He has a great books. I have almost all the books that he had written.
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Really. What is your favorite book? I think the books are very interesting.
Dixie wrote:I love his work as well. I don't have all his books but I am collecting them 8) I've only got 5 or 6.logitech wrote:Hello. My favorite author is Paulo Cohelo. He has a great books. I have almost all the books that he had written.
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My favorite book by Coelho is The Alchemist , as you might have figured 8) But I always enjoy reading his books. I can't do it without a pencil on the other hand. There are so many interesting quotes in all his work.logitech wrote:Really. What is your favorite book? I think the books are very interesting.
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You are right, the alchemist book is son interesting and my particualar case I like very much. Also the Fifth mountain is a very good book.
Dixie wrote:My favorite book by Coelho is The Alchemist , as you might have figured 8) But I always enjoy reading his books. I can't do it without a pencil on the other hand. There are so many interesting quotes in all his work.logitech wrote:Really. What is your favorite book? I think the books are very interesting.
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Do you like to read the Paulo Cohelo Books?
ozlemysticgirl wrote:I have several favorite booksLet me range them!Here is my top 5
1-The miserables-Victor Hugo
2-A tale of two cities-Charles Dickens
3-The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown
4-Harry Potter series-J.K Rowling
5-Ramses-Christian Jacq
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They are two books:
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
The Alchamist
those were the kind of books that gives you a pleasant feelings when you remember the time you read them. Well, at least for me .
They are the best for me ( maybe because of the twists sometimes in the plot)
Also, there is something about these two: It made me have like " aha, so that what the author meant , that was smart" kinda thinking. I like it when an author provokes the reader towards anticipating and thinking and having a positive role.
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
The Alchamist
those were the kind of books that gives you a pleasant feelings when you remember the time you read them. Well, at least for me .
They are the best for me ( maybe because of the twists sometimes in the plot)
Also, there is something about these two: It made me have like " aha, so that what the author meant , that was smart" kinda thinking. I like it when an author provokes the reader towards anticipating and thinking and having a positive role.
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These are a great books, specialy the Harry Potter series.
logitech wrote:Do you like to read the Paulo Cohelo Books?
ozlemysticgirl wrote:I have several favorite booksLet me range them!Here is my top 5
1-The miserables-Victor Hugo
2-A tale of two cities-Charles Dickens
3-The Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown
4-Harry Potter series-J.K Rowling
5-Ramses-Christian Jacq
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Hello how are you?
My favorite author is Paulo Cohelo. He has a great books. I have almost all the books that he had written. Do you like to read this author?
My favorite author is Paulo Cohelo. He has a great books. I have almost all the books that he had written. Do you like to read this author?
krisi wrote::D Let me restate my reply.
I like science fiction before but now my favourite has shifted to inspirational books. Books for self-improvement.
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My favorite is Harry Potter. I also like fairy tales of the Grimm.
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I enjoy reading short stories. My favorite author of these is Saki (H.H. Munro). They are masterpieces of dry humor.
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I like reading a lot.My favorite books r ''Sikur t`Isha Djale'' by Haki Stermilli,''Pere Goriot'' by Honore De Balzac,''Romeo nd Juliet'',''Hamlet'' by William Shakespeare,''The Da Vinci Code'' by Dan Brown nd a lot of other books.
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I like Haruki Murakami,most of his novels...
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Re: What is your favourite book?
This is a really difficult question, but I'll say The Catcher in the Rye, if only for sentimental value. This is a book that I read first when I was 19, after having hearing some people saying how good it was, how the book changed their lives, etc. I think the book also changed my life, and at the moment of reading it I considered it the best I'd ever read. But hence I've read a lot of other books that arguably I could consider better, maybe some by Stephen King, others by Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz or Brian Keene, even the Harry Potter series. But in this case the heart wins over the brain and I give my kudos to Sailinger.
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hi everybody,,
my favourite book is (Tuesday with Morrie)).
It is realistic nonfiction novel..
it is the best book i has ever read..it has many rule in our life,thus its changed my life.
I advise you to read.It is really wonderfull book..

my favourite book is (Tuesday with Morrie)).
It is realistic nonfiction novel..
it is the best book i has ever read..it has many rule in our life,thus its changed my life.
I advise you to read.It is really wonderfull book..

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hi everybody, this is my first post here, so concerning my favoured book , I will say Emma by Jane Austen. By the way " Lord of the Flies " by William Golding depicts the life of a group if children after the crash of their plane in an unknown island. The main character is Ralph, also Piggy ,Jack and Simon (i've just get across one of your replies that you ask about this novel ) , bay 

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I really love the Harry Potter series as well as Dan Brown's books. They stir my curiosity and get the juices in my brain working!
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I like the book called " My sister's keeper".
It's really a special story plot I have ever seen.
And I also like reading " Harry Potter" series books.
It's really a special story plot I have ever seen.
And I also like reading " Harry Potter" series books.
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my favourite is <the diary of Anne>
my tears comes out everytime I read it
It's abt War II
my tears comes out everytime I read it
It's abt War II
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I would say "Wuthering Heights" :))) I love Heathcliff :)
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My favourite book is Harry Potter.
Harry Potter was written by J.K.Rowling.
The content stimulates splendidly very much.
Harry Potter was written by J.K.Rowling.
The content stimulates splendidly very much.
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My favorite book is "kokoro" written by Natume souseki is a Japanese writer.
It is book that a man proposes to a girl that his friend loves.
I learned that people are egoistic.
It is book that a man proposes to a girl that his friend loves.
I learned that people are egoistic.