Your favorite book(s) of all time

[nytemare]

Mine would include Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.

I have many others, but I am fishing for good books I may not know about, and figured you folks might know some.

:)

[JimmyJazz]

1. The Three Muskateers. Hands down . The best. Evah.

[nytemare]

5. You go Dartagnon, or however it was spelled!

:)

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I want to read that, it's on my list.

My VERY big list of books. :7

[JimmyJazz]

8. It is the only book in the history of all the books I have read

(that's a lot - FTR) where, at the end, I was sad that the story was over! It was that stinkin' good!

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Oooh good stuff.

I wish I was a speed reader, but I don't think that leaves much time for digesting(so to speak) what you've just read. hehe

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Let's see..... Lord of the Rings, Catch-22, The Count of Monte Cristo..

Ella Enchanted, Harry Potter, The Mists of Avalon, A Tale of Two Cities, The Princess Bride, Song of the Lioness quartet, Um.... I love books! :7

[nytemare]

3. A reader of classics!

I have this problem of sometimes reading 5 different books at once, depending on my mood. Sometimes I never finish good books because of it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

4. hahaha tell me about it! Right now I'm reading America (the book) and

The Chronicles of Narnia. :crazy:

[nytemare]

7. I remember the Chronicles of Narnia

You might like Frank Peretti books if you like CS Lewis, it goes into "spiritual warfare" which I don't believe in, but damn the one book I read by him was well written. I think it was called "Piercing the Darkness"

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. I think I've heard of that, it sounds familiar.

:shrug:

[nytemare]

14. He wrote a series of books, I think there were 3 or 4 of them

The stories really were engaging.

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. Neat, I'll have to check them out.

Oh! I just thought of more books I love. His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass. :)

[nytemare]

24. Those I didn't read

The darkness series or whatever it was called was pretty cool.

[LynzM]

31. Ooh, I was going to post those!

Along with George R.R. Martin's 'Song of Ice and Fire' trilogy. What else... The Language Instinct was fascinating, though non-fiction. Cryptonomicon I just finished, and that was really neat.

[2bfree]

44. Aren't the Frank Peretti just a bunch of religious propaganda?

If I remember correctly one of them was about the evils of teaching visualization in elementary school. Those were some wacko books.

[hfojvt]

64. Perhaps, in some ways, but the one I read was entertaining

I did not read any more because I did not care for the theology in them. It was about these demons trying to take over a town and a group of angels who are trying to stop them, and on the earthly side of it, there was this reporter and/or detective investigating some crooked business and/or local politician. I cannot remember it that well. It was an entertaining story, but the part that bothered me is that there are too many people who think it describes how the world actually works.

[thecai]

63. Frank Peretti

Before I read these posts, I listed "Piercing The Darkness" and "This Present Darkness" by Peretti. They are fiction, about spiritual warfare, but are VERY realistic. I'd love to see them made into movies.

[intrepid_wanderer]

129. The Chronicles of Narnia were my favorite for many years

loved them... the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe... and so

on


:bounce:

[Ediacara]

10. Stranger in a Strange Land

[Kazak]

26. Loved that one...

Valentine Michael Smith as I recall...

[ImpeachBush]

102. Liked that one too ....

Wish I could find it!

[NightTrain]

11. Of Human Bondage, The Brothers Karamazov, Tropic of Capricorn...

...The Last Temptation of Christ, 1984, Animal Farm, The Razor's Edge, Jane Eyre, Last Exit To Brooklyn, City of Night, Naked Lunch, On The Road, Desolation Angels, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Native Son....

Shall I go on? :)

[jpgray]

12. The Brothers Karamazov kicks my ass every time I read it

I know those people so well.

[Tafiti]

81. Is the whole book good?

All I've read is "The Grand Inquisitor", which was made into its own little book that I read for a philosophy class my freshman year of college. I absolutely loved it, but I didn't know if I should read the whole thing or not. Is it worth reading the rest (I've seen how large the book is, and I'm not a particularly fast reader)?

[whirlygigspin]

16. My Pet Goat

I could just sit there for hours reading it.

[JimmyJazz]

17. HaH! Have you read the "Brothers Karamazov" in Russian?

Russian lit is great when explored in it's original language!

[NightTrain]

22. I'm a product of the U.S. educational system. As such, I'm lucky...

...to know proper English, let alone Russian!

[JimmyJazz]

27. Russian is a beautiful language -

I love being able to read the cyrillic alphabet - and here you thought I was just another lizard :silly:

[UncleSepp]

126. I have - thanks public school and state university!

No seriously! :-)

[seemunkee]

15. The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses

[Kazak]

18. Tie: The Sirens of Titan/Slaughterhouse-5

Vonnegut rules.

[hfojvt]

65. those two are not among my favorite Vonnegut's

"Sirens" was the first Vonnegut I read, because he was in the sci-fi section of the University Library. As a sci-fi book, it really sucks. Later, after I graduated college, I was browsing through it, just cracking up at the philosophy in it. So I read every Vonnegut book in the library in Layton, Utah. "Mother Night", "Jailbird", and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" would be my favorites, but I was loving them all.
Finally, I re-read "Sirens of Titan" and somehow my brain switched into science-fiction mode, and I still thought it kinda sucked. It struck me as a bad science fiction story.

[Kazak]

84. Okay...

:shrug:

[FrankBooth]

106. I loved Sirens

FWIW - I thought it was the funniest of his novels besides "Breakfast of Champions," and one of the most pleasurable to read.

[Kazak]

130. Probably my favorite thing about that book...

is the sublte jabs he throws in there toward theism, which I think probably goes straight over most people's heads (at least upon first reading); like for instance his references to the "Church of God the Utterly Indifferent", and thier slogan (my sig) "Take care of the people, and God almighty will take care of himself".

[Catch22Dem]

19. Catch-22

In case you couldn't tell. :D

[Kazak]

20. I'm reading that now...

It's hilarious!!

[LiberallyInclined]

35. same here.

i've read it about a dozen times.

[zann725]

40. Me too! Amazing book! And Nichols did a good job with the movie.

n/t

[hfojvt]

66. I found it kinda tough to get into

Also, I could not believe it when he died and they said "Something Happened" was his 2nd best. I totally loved "Picture This", but I hated "Something Happened" and "Good as Gold". I liked "God Knows" but quit reading it, because I could not be sure about its Biblical accuracy. Not that I care all that much about Biblical accuracy, but I was afraid that in an argument with a fundy I would end up talking about things from the book "God Knows" and would be proven wrong by the Bible.

[Aristus]

23. Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison.

I've got a mint-condition autographed first edition. My pride and joy. B-)

Second choice: The Seed and the Sower, by Sir Laurence Van Der Post. Breathtakingly beautiful, sad, and uplifting book.

[Radio_Lady]

25. Call of the Wild

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. Peter Pan

followed by Tom Sawyer (I always liked Tom a lot better than Huck Finn-- I always thought he had more spirit, and his story was just more adventurous to me.

[Bok_Tukalo]

29. Dune, Catch-22, and Slaughterhouse 5

"Fear is the mind killer"

[yellowdogintexas]

30. To Kill a Mockingbird..which everyone should read

Gone With the Wind
The Godfather
Jane Eyre
The Joyous Season by Patrick Dennis (hilarious)
Auntie Mame (same author)
Shogun
A Song of Ice and Fire (series by George R R Martin)
Life Among the Savages (Shirley Jackson ..hilarious)
Cry, the Beloved Country
Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction..two series...many books
Shakespeare
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
yeah, I know, drama but wow it's great reading

[Carla in Ca]

99. Yes, To Kill A Mockingbird

is my favorite book of all time. I have a copy signed by Harper Lee that I will cherish forever.

[ImpeachBush]

103. Another of my favorites

[Pendrench]

32. Fiction: Of Mice and Men

Although I read more non-fiction than fiction, I absolutely love John Steinbeck (and this is my favorite).

Non-fiction....I guess I would have to say "With Malice Towards None" (Lincoln biography)...but I'll probably change my mind before I finish posting.

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[nytemare]

116. Grovelbot, what is your favorite book???

:)

[hfojvt]

118. duh

"I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Nothing like the Will Smith movie which ripped off its name.

[nytemare]

122. LOL

I thought it might have been "Pinnochio" or something.

[hfojvt]

123. I should not presume

after all the computer in "Last Exit to Babylon" was a fan of Walt Whitman.
For all I know, Grovelbot's favorite could be "Money: Whence it came, whither it went" by John Kenneth Galbraith.

[Shredr]

34. JOHN ADAMS by David McCullough

Although that's a really tough question.

[InvisibleTouch]

36. The Immense Journey, by Loren Eiseley

Almost anything by Loren Eiseley, really (very poetically written nature essays and philosophy), but "The Immense Journey" is my favorite, with "The Star Thrower" as a close second.

And as a very interesting "spiritual" perspective on the world, not one that I necessarily completely agree with, but definitely a whole new mindset, I recommend Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now."

In terms of fiction, any of Vonda N. McIntyre's earlier works, including her Star Trek books. My favorite there would have to be "The Exile Waiting," with "Dreamsnake" as a close second, being set in the same universe, though with different characters.

Some links:

The Immense Journey:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394701577/qid=1108699886/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-5242283-6263913

The Power of Now:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1577311523/104-5242283-6263913?v=glance&ref=ed_oe_h&st=*

The Exile Waiting:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812545524/qid=1108700254/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5242283-6263913?v=glance&s=books

You can find more of the same authors' works from there.

Enjoy!

[saltpoint]

43. You said a mouthful on Loren Eiseley.

Just a terrific writer.

[CubsFan1982]

37. Truman, by David McCullough.

I also love his bio of John Adams. Lincoln, by David Donald is very good, too.

[Va Lefty]

38. The Stand and Catch-22

[kiraboo]

39. Probably "Vanity Fair" by Thackeray. Or, along the same lines,

"Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe.

[InvisibleTouch]

41. Oooh, thought of another one: Tailchaser's Song

By Tad Williams. If you've read the ubiquitous "Watership Down," this is the feline version, and even better, IMO. "Tailchaser's Song" and the previously mentioned "Exile Waiting" are two of the few books that ever inspired me to continue writing (and to some extent, re-writing) the story of my own accord after I finished reading the book. I'm usually only inspired to write fanfic by tv shows.

Anyway, check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0886779537/qid=1108701023/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5242283-6263913?v=glance&s=books

[saltpoint]

42. In no particular order, I'm still in love with --

-- Joan Didion's SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM,

Gore Vidal's JULIAN,

Mary Renault's THE MASK OF APOLLO,

Robert Bly's LEAPING POETRY,

Edmund White's NOCTURNES FOR THE KING OF NAPLES,

Reynolds Price's THE TONGUES OF ANGELS,

and

Mary Renault's FIRE FROM HEAVEN.

These are some of the titles that have kept me in the ballgame.

[cornfedyank]

45. harold and the purple crayon..or

the 500 hats of bartholomew cubbins

[Merope215]

46. Here's some of mine

The Winshaw Legacy by Jonathan Coe (a very relevant political message, and very funny in a dark sort of way...everybody should read this!)
Last Orders by Graham Swift
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Four Quartets and Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
...and, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[MrSlayer]

47. LOTR, Dragonlance, Steven King's "IT"

Many others.

[NYsocialworker]

70. I loved "IT"

Until the end when you find out what "IT" actually is. That book scared the crap out of me until the last 100 pages. I was bummed by the ending.

[WindRavenX]

48. The Great Gatsby, Contact, Their Eyes Were Watching God...

...LoTR trilogy, Otherland series...
His Dark Material Trilogy...Slaughter-House 5..
And far too many others.

[begin_within]

59. Did you know "Their Eyes...." will be shown as a TV movie March 6th?

[kskiska]

49. Nabokov's "Lolita"

Very erotic black comedy without a dirty word.

[sir_captain]

50. The Moviegoer and/or The Great Gatsby

similar themes you could say, I guess.

[Technowitch]

51. The whole Dark Tower series, by Stephen King

I know, it's seven volumes, but it's actually all one story.

[Mojambo]

52. Fifty some posts and NO People's History of the United States?

For shame!
;-)

Best and most influential book I've ever read. By FAR.

[hfojvt]

67. might also mention that the DU book club

is currently reading "Running on Empty" which I just started.
At the same time I am reading "The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor.
Other books along that line would be "Small is Beautiful" and "Food First" and "The Unsettling of America". Also, I was blown away by Daniel Quinn's books.

[enigmatic]

53. My trinity:

"The Razor's Edge" by Somerset Maughm

"Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson

""Post Office"- by Bukowski

honorable mentions:

"Big Sur" by Kerouac

"The Knockout Artist" by Harry Crews

"The Music Of Chance" by Paul Auster

[mr fry]

54. a 4 decade view

the da vinci code (the importances of women)

agony and ecstacy (the importance of art)

the fountainhead (the importance of the individual)

[mr fry]

55. or

1984

brave new world

so long and thanks for all the fish

[Book Lover]

56. Well, let's see...

Tonight this is how I feel: "Doorways in the Sand" by Roger Zelazny & "Once and Future King" by TH White.

on edit: Jesus! How could I forget the Hithhiker's Guide trilogy!?!

[hfojvt]

68. as long as you remembered your towel

I will lend you my copy of the Hitchhiker's guide.
and I am glad that you remembered to mention Article 7224 Section C. It is a fun book, but I am not sure if DUers will appreciate the villain. Their snark is a boojum.

[Book Lover]

96. You are the first person here

to know about our part in the galactic kula chain. Glad to know someone else knows about that gigantic reversing thing.

[mr fry]

57. if you want to cry

the five people you meet in heaven

[kittycat1164]

133. GREAT BOOK! But not sad it's insightful.

Mitch Albom was the key-note speaker at last years ALA meeting (American Library Association)in Toronto. My boss got me a personalized signed copy as a gift because he knows how much I love the book. I have given The Five People You Meet In Heaven as gifts to so many people. I love it!

[begin_within]

58. On the Road (Kerouac) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)

[Seabiscuit]

75. Ditto. Plus "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Trip"

[Joe Power]

86. Count me in. Add "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "Steppenwolf", and...

...the Bible. Didn't see that one coming, did you? :evilgrin:

[begin_within]

113. Yes, that's the best of Tom Wolfe's books, in my opinion

[Seabiscuit]

131. 'Scuse me: "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe

[libodem]

60. Pillars of the earth

by Ken Follett, for light fun reading Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is cute as hell...I liked the DaVinci Code and now I'm reading Another Roadside Attraction

[fleabert]

61. the list is too long. but Uncle Whiskers is up there...

along with

any Oscar Wilde
johnathan livingston seagull
siddhartha
culture of fear
why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?
and many more....

[thecai]

62. Piercing the Darkness, and This Present Darkness

By Frank Peretti. I wish he's make them into movies. They're fiction but very realistic, IMO.
Actually, my MOST favorite book is The Bible, but the other two listed are my second and third favorites.

[NYsocialworker]

69. I love to read.

The Stand, Swan Song (similiar to The Stand), Boy's Life

[flygal]

71. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[montana_hazeleyes]

72. "To Kill A Mockingbird," and

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"
AS a kid I just loved the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries,even well into adulthood.

Now it's mostly true crime such as Ann Rule.

[Mr Bojangles]

73. The Dark Tower series

I'm just sad that it's over :(

The Stand is really good, too. Scares the shit out of me every time I read it.

[silverpatronus]

74. the chrysalids by john wyndham

love love LOVE that book.

[Seabiscuit]

76. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

77. Hard to say

Fiction: Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz
Non-fiction: Food of Italy, Waverly Root

[flordehinojos]

78. Yellow Raft on Blue Water and its follow-up Cloud Chamber

[bif]

89. Great books.

Hard to believe they were written by a man, too.

[sniffa]

79. "have a nice day" by mick foLey

[sendero]

80. Kurt Vonnegut....

... pick almost any of his earlier books, all wonderful.

[greendog]

97. I'm rereading "Cat's Cradle" now...

...I'll second your vote for Vonnegut.

[Richardo]

82. Catch-22, Huckleberry Finn, 2001: A Space Odyssey, All the Presidents Men

just off the top of my head.

[livinginphotographs]

83. Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Al Gore may have invented the internet, but William Gibson invented the word "cyberspace."

[Hans Delbrook]

136. A classic!

Too bad none of his others ever measured up.

[bif]

85. Catcher In The Rye, Time & Again, My Pamet, Music & Silence

Are among my faves

[Zuni]

87. The Gulag Archipelago, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, With the Old Breed on Pelielu and Okinawa, Lenin's Tomb, First day on the Somme, All Quiet on the Western front
There are so many

[x-g.o.p.er]

88. The Stand, by Stephen King

[AllegroRondo]

90. The Long Walk, Replay, The Man who Folded Himself

The Long Walk - Stephen King, probably the only book by him I really liked (except for the Dark Tower series). How long could you keep walking if you knew you would die when you stopped?

Replay - by an author I cant remember. A man relives the last 20 years of his life. again, and again, and again........


The Man who Folded Himself - again, an author I cant remember. Sci-Fi look at the effects of time travel. How many times can you meet yourself? Which version of the histories you remember is correct?

[RedSpartan]

91. The Princess Bride

By William Goldman (no, there is no such person as S. Morgenstern).

Even better than the movie.

[redqueen]

92. Star Beast by Heinlein

Purely for sentimental reasons. :)

Other than that, perhaps The Stand by SK. I hate picking favorites.

[Lautremont]

93. Under the Volcano might be my all-time favourite.

Like so many here I'm a Catch-22 fan also.

And then there's:

The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever
V. by Thomas Pynchon
The Dream Life by J. Hoberman
All I Need is Love by Klaus Kinski
The Ghastly One by Jimmy McDonough

So many books, so little time...

[GOPBasher]

94. Just fiction novels? Mine is Orwell's 1984, but if you include

non-fiction, then there are way too many to name.

[AllegroRondo]

95. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

Probably the best Sci Fi book ever. Seriously.

A man raised by martians visits earth for the first time. A great look at humanity from the outside.

[FrankBooth]

98. Some of my faves

Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," and "Breakfast of Champions."

"The World According to Garp," and "The Hotel New Hampshire" by John Irving.

Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer."
"Naked Lunch," William S. Burroughs.
"The Pugilist at Rest," Thom Jones
"Franny and Zooey," JD Salinger
Tolkien's Trilogy.
"The Stranger," and "The Plague" - Albert Camus
"Dune" Frank Herbert.
"The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night" - Fitzgerald

[ImpeachBush]

100. Man's search for meaning ... great book

Very disturbing, but also meaningful

[MissMillie]

101. John Irving

"A Prayer for Owen Meany"

[dean_dem]

108. The World According to Garp was great!

First read it when I was eleven. Yeah, most of it went over my head I think.

[ImpeachBush]

104. Favorite kids' book - The Stinky Cheese Man

Very fun read, for adult and child alike.

[4_Legs_Good]

105. Moby Dick, Animal Farm, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, 1984

Though not necessarily in that order...

david

[Kathy in Cambridge]

107. "Master and Margarita", "Darkness at Noon"

[Merrick]

117. As someone who was just about to write Master & Margarita

I'll have to check out this Darkness at Noon book. looks interesting.

[yellowdogintexas]

127. I read that book years ago. I think I need to read it again.

I recently acquired a new copy at a used book sale, so I can read it. My old beat up one disappeared somehow

[dean_dem]

109. Steppenwolf- Hermann Hesse

And maybe Rabbit Run by John Updike

[foxy]

110. I like fantasy books mostly by Piers Anthony

There is a character called nitemare in his books also. Nitemare goes around at night and makes people sleep unrestful and full if scary images.

I also named my daughter after a character in his book "Golem in the Gears" Ivey was the name of a little girl princess that had the power of being able to make your feeling enhance when you were around her. So if you were in a bad mood this is not where you would want to be. She actually does this in real life so I guess I named her right.

[hfojvt]

115. I love Piers

the Stile series, the Incarnations of Immortality series, the Isle of Woman series, Through the Ice. He has actually written back to me - twice.

Yeah, twice, that's the ticket, and I saw him at a party, yeah, a party, with, with Mick Jagger, yeah. (Not really ..... acting!)

[ladeuxiemevoiture]

135. When I was 10, I loved "A Spell for Chameleon" - zipped through it several

times. I liked the two sequels, also. After puberty, I guess I thought that he was just for kids. Now that I'm mostly past needing to feel "cool", I'm feeling like I want to re-read them. LOL

[Atlas Mugged]

111. A Confederacy of Dunces n/t

[alittlelark]

132. One of the best books I ever read...

So few people seem to know of it... sigh.

[MsAnthropy]

112. Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

114. The Little Prince...Saint Exupery

But Man's Search For Meaning is right up there...The Little Prince was one of the first books I read in french and in english...loved the movie too..

[Joe Chi Minh]

121. Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22,

The First Circle, A Soldier's Song, In Pharaoah's Army, The Last of the Just, Good As Gold, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Cannery Row, The Perennial Philosophy, Watership Down, most of John Grisham books and a few others.

[blindpig]

119. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom

by T.E. Lawrence.

Too many others I like equally well to mention.

[Merrick]

120. Master and Margarita, Dead Souls, Confederacy of Dunces,Crime & Punishment

Notes from the Underground, Brothers Karamozov, Fear and Loathing in LV, Clockwork Orange, 1984, 100 Years of Solitude, Jitterbug Perfume etc.

[Sugar Smack]

124. As a child, "Pippi Longstocking"-

Which I still love today. I also love all of the following to the point that I can't pick one favorite:

"Class" by Paul Fussell

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"-HS Thompson

"Switch Bitch" by Roald Dahl

"The Monkeywrench Gang" by Edward Abbey

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte

"The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe

"House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus 111

"Thirtynothing" by Lisa Jewell

"Alive" by Piers Paul Read

"The Bone People" by Kari Hulme

and "On Writing", "Misery", "Different Seasons", all by Stephen King!! -and also "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris.

Despite the fact that some of my friends accuse me of being a little too in touch with my "dark side" at times, this thread is making me want to go teach freshman English!!

[trof]

125. Exodus. I wanted to be a jew.

Seriously.

[yellowdogintexas]

128. I did too after I read that book. Did you read "Mila 18" which

is the prequel? It is about how Dov Landau got out of Warsaw in the first place, and the whole Warsaw uprising generally


I wanted to be a Jew after I read Michener's The Source, too.

[bikebloke]

134. Most of John Fowles' works

I'm a voracious reader, but his writing has always clicked with me. Unfortunately, his writing career has ended. After a quadruple by-pass, he had a stroke. Now he's unable to read. His wife reads to him. The first volume of his journals has been published. I'm waiting for a less expensive version to come out. Thirty quid is too dear.