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@Spaceboy The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier feature the most mature use of language I have seen in any context. Also, my favorite series would probably be The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, a children's series in disguise (and not in a sinister way). I'm reading Lord of the Flies for a Lang Arts project and even though I've just started it, it's already a candidate for my favorite books ever list.
@Oddy: glad to see the new addition. it's a worthy one. also, you may want to consider Slaughterhouse 5 if you haven't already read it. like i said earlier, one of my favorites, and it also is loaded with language, but it is used to make a point, and is often EXTREMELY comical, and is similar thematically to Lord of the Flies, in the depravity of human nature department.
Favorite books: Red Dragon The Shining Jaws The Narrows The Once & Future King Kidnapped Treasure Island Geralds Game (sick and twisted? Maybe. but still a great book)
I love to read
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By Kobo Abe: The Woman in the Dunes, The Ark Sakura, The Box Man By Cormac McCarthy: The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road By Orhan Pamuk: Snow, The Black Book By Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children By Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities By Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency By Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Fall, Caligula (play) By Frank Herbert: Dune, God Emperor of Dune
Reading is fun. If anyone is interested, there is a cool site called Librarything that is basically the Backloggery of books. My profile is here if anyone wants to add me or just see an example page. It's need for keeping track of stuff, writing reviews, and finding recommendations based on similar libraries. The two friends of mine who joined don't use it anymore, so I've lost interest a bit myself but still use it to write down my thoughts whenever I finish a book. Fun times.
6. The Giver by Lois Lowry
5. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Alice in Wonderland by Charles Dodgson
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
I'm not exactly comfortable with putting Lord of the Flies (Lord of the Flies has some interesting ideas and believable characters and situations, but overall I'm not so sure I liked its excecution. I think I liked the book more for what it represents rather than for what it is) and The Giver on there (don't remember thing one about The Giver other than I liked it when I was 12...). I haven't really read books much in the last 8 years, though, so I don't have much of a choice until I amend that...I still have a bunch of H.G. Wells and Isaac Asimov books to read, too...
I won't lie I'm not a big Reader and 99.9% of the books I read it was because I was forced to because of school(no wonder I used to completely hate books when I was younger)
so, maybe "O Alquimista" from Paulo Coelho
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Just started reading A Song of Ice and Fire and so far, I'm loving it.
During middle school, I was engrossed in the Redwall series, and read most, if not all, of them.
In high school I got into the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, etc.), to the point I read through the first two books three times each. I haven't yet read the 4th, though.
Also in high school, I liked the Bear & the Dragon, End War, The Hobbit, Jurassic Park, and the Wizard of Oz.
Haven't read much since, though.
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Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
and I also read a lot of biography stuff, history stuff and graphic novels... but I don't think I'll list any of those.
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