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BW2/3  +  380715 Sun, 17 Jun 07 03:58 PM

What are your Must-Read books?

I have a few but I have never completely read them:

The Bible (so far neither religious nor spirtual)

The whole work of William Shakespeare. ( I love it! no time to read and too darn difficult for me, though I read a few in my native language but lost in translation.)

The Dream of Red Chamber, The Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, Tale of Water Margin and others. (of course in my native language)

The Classic such as Odyssey, Homer, the Republic  (never read them but I will eventually)

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Avvaron  +  380822 Sun, 17 Jun 07 11:11 PM
Well...
1. The Bible (no comments)
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (it's our history, by the way)
3. The poems by Ch.Bodler (in French)
4. Numerous dictionaries (a part of my job)
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The17pointscale  +  380871 Mon, 18 Jun 07 01:02 AM
1. the brothers karamazov (about family, philosophy, religion)
2. the brothers k (about family, baseball, philosophy, religion)
3. cormac mccarthy's border trilogy or the road

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1. Terry Pratched
2. Terry Pratched
3. Terry Pratched

and nothing else.
Timbo20  +  412282 Fri, 31 Aug 07 06:46 PM
the books i think everyone should read once in his life:


1984 (that is a real must´ve-read, always up to date)

something from shakespear (NOT EVERYTHING!!!)

harry potter (whatever you think of it, don´t judge without reading it)

lord of the rings (at least everyone who likes fantasie)

some sherlock holmes stories (didn´t do that so far)

treasure island (i love that one)

well, and maybe frankenstein because it is so classic. none of the books (exept hp) are really new, but if you want to read some more up to date books, i recommend some books of micheal crichton, john grisham and for the fun of it terry pratchett
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BW2/3  +  413158 Sun, 02 Sep 07 05:23 PM

I read 1984 a year ago. I cannot forget the last part of the book about torture.

Frankenstein  is one of my favorite books.

I just finished A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Timbo20, 2 yr 82 days ago
seems you´re proceeding rather good, BW2/3. with my help, you could get the best Big Smile [:D]
BW2/3  +  413363 Mon, 03 Sep 07 12:13 AM

 Timbo20 wrote:
seems you´re proceeding rather good, BW2/3. with my help, you could get the best Big Smile [:D]

?

Muslimah  +  413403 Mon, 03 Sep 07 02:11 AM

Hi, nice topic...

1. The Holy Quran, the holy book for Muslims, we read some of it in our prayer daily..

2. novels !

i like novels alot, but i read them once, i can't read any of them more than one time, from my favorites: Perfume for Patrek Zuskend, Deception Point for Dan Brown, the novels written by Ahlam Mesteganmi (Algerian woman author), Nageb Mahfoz's (Egyptian author had the Nobel's prize)...

i want to ask if 1984 a religion book or a historic one ?

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