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15.10.2009, 17:38 quote

julianb66

I'll start off (in no particular order):-


complete works....shakespeare.
brideshead revisited....evelyn waugh.
middlemarch....george eliott.
any viz annual.
1984....george orwell.
the inimitable jeeves....p.g.wodehouse.
the republic....plato.
complete works....philip larkin.
lord of the flies....william golding.
treatise....david hume

 

15.10.2009, 20:39 quote

grooveme
grooveme Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 1532 Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Glasgow
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This is quite hard, but here goes

The Outsiders - S E Hinton
Emma and Me - Elizabeth Flock
Landscape of Love - Sally Beuaman
The Truth At Last - Christine Keeler
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Rebeccas Tale - Sally Beauman
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Man who Kept Secrets - James Spada
Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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I'm a humble person...I'm really much greater than I think I am!

 

15.10.2009, 23:30 quote

oakman
Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 1467 Location: United Kingdom, England, Surrey
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Patrick O'Brian - The Aubrey/Maturin series (20 books but as I'm only allowed 10 on the list I'll go for book 1 - Master and Commander.)
Tim Moore - French Revolutions
Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Waspot
Tim Willocks - Green River Rising
Gary Jennings - The Journeyer
Michael Connelly - The Poet
Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
Fergus Fleming - Barrow's Boys
Henri Charriere - Papillon
Raymond E. Feist - Magician

 

21.10.2009, 20:06 quote

corazones2rotos

For my first list it would have to be...

1. Pride and Prejudice ~*~ Jane Austen
2. Twilight ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
6. Where the Red Fern Grows ~*~ Wilson Rawls
7. Little Women ~*~ Louisa May Alcott
8. The Scarlet Letter ~*~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Sense and Sensibility ~*~ Jane Austen
10. Last of the Mohicans ~*~ James Fenimore Cooper

More to follow as I love to read and can't decide between some of my favs!

 

21.10.2009, 20:17 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3714 Location: United Kingdom, England, Essex
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Ten books only on a desert island? I'd hang myself with a palm leaf.
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Vidi Vici Veni

I got in touch with my feminine side. She emailed me back saying if I ever contacted her again she'd call the police.

 

21.10.2009, 20:20 quote

corazones2rotos

List Two....

1. Gone with the Wind ~*~ Margaret Mitchell
2. Breakfast at Tiffany's ~*~ Truman Capote
3. Jane Eyre ~*~ Charlette Bronte
4. Wuthering Heights ~*~ Emily Bronte
5. Northanger Abby ~*~ Jane Austen
6. Persuasion ~*~ Jane Austen
7. Emma ~*~ Jane Austen
8. Mansfield Park ~*~ Jane Austen
9. The Color Purple ~*~ Alice Walker
10. To Kill a Mockingbird ~*~ Harper Lee

Still more!! Very Happy

 

02.12.2009, 07:08 quote

whysoserious1983
whysoserious1983 Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3714 Location: United Kingdom, England, Essex
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corazones2rotos wrote:


1. Pride and Prejudice ~*~ Jane Austen
2. Twilight ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
3. New Moon ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
4. Eclipse ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
5. Breaking Dawn ~*~ Stephenie Meyer
9. Sense and Sensibility ~*~ Jane Austen


Those would all be amazing in getting the fire started!

So I decided I'd have a crack.

1. Watership Down - Richard Adams
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
4. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
5. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
6. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. The Picture of Dorien Gray - Oscar Wilde
9. The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
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Vidi Vici Veni

I got in touch with my feminine side. She emailed me back saying if I ever contacted her again she'd call the police.

 

14.01.2011, 10:41 quote

complicatedm

1. Revolutionary Road
2. Merchant of Venice
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Never Let Me Go
5. Twilight Saga Embarassed
6. The Good School
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
9. Paradise Lost
10.The Shawshank Redemption

Rolling Eyes

 

14.01.2011, 17:40 quote

swanseaguy
Joined: 12 Jan 2011 Posts: 4 Location: United Kingdom, Wales, West Glamorgan
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if i was stuck on a desert island id only take two books with me, the first would be a big plastic inflatable book and the other would be "how to make oars out of sand " !! Smile

 
 
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