Wanting to read a book

POLKOHOLIC
POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
edited April 2007 in The Clubhouse
If you had to recommend 5 novels to read before you die what would they be.
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited April 2007
    Not sure about the other four...but would start with "War and Peace"...very slowly. :)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2007
    Two GREAT autobiographies - Chuck Yeager and AJ Foyt. You don't need to be a racing or aeronautical nut to enjoy either.

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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited April 2007
    Dr. Seuss - Green eggs and Ham. (not exactly a novel, but worth reading. If you still base opinions on what others say or think as opposed to what you experience, read it again.)

    Can't come up with 4 others that are in the same league.

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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited April 2007
    lmao that used to be my favorite book when i was 6. and then i grew up and read big kid books.
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited April 2007
    meh....autobiographies arn't my thing. did i mention...novels?

    war and peace sounds like a good read. will definately check that out at my college library.

    i mostly like classics. some of my favorite include:

    1984, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird
    They Cage the Animals At Night (really awesome)

    some of the more recently published books would have to be:

    DaVinci Code
    Digital Fortress

    and the occasional nicholas sparks is ok (a walk to remember, the notebook)

    edit:
    also, not to sound racist, but 'mein kampf' was nice as well. shows you exactly what was going through hitlers mind before he massacred the jews.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited April 2007
    Boy, this was tough...

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian
    Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited April 2007
    Hmmmm..... Probally something written in blackfoot that was a large book. It is the hardest language to learn. Then another one in greek. then 3 I really like. I figure this way I will have to live for a couple hundred years before im done.:p

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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited April 2007
    "Under the Banner of Heaven" can't remember the author. It's a book about the Mormon religion and how jacked up it is!

    Chuck Palahnick's (author of Fight Club) "Haunted." SERIOUSLY jacked up!!! Great book though.
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  • ledhed
    ledhed Posts: 1,088
    edited April 2007
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I'd recommend all 5 books in the trilogy)
    Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

    Velocity - Dean Koontz
    It isn't a great work or anything but it sure is suspenseful!
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited April 2007
    1)The Stand
    2-5)Any Nelson Demille Books
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited April 2007
    avelanchefan wrote: »
    1)The Stand
    2-5)Any Nelson Demille Books
    The Stand was Stephen Kings best work as far as im concerned. I read the first one which was 900 pages or so then he came out with the extended version which was 1100 pages or so I believe.

    Another great one was by Arthur Hailey. Airport. also Hotel was a favorite of mine.

    Sydney sheldon had some great novels too.

    David Baldacci with Absolute power and The Winner were great reads.

    Pretty much anything by Tom Clancy.

    Irwin Shaw. Rich man Poor man

    It would be easier to figure out what genre of books you like, then give you ideas.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,571
    edited April 2007
    How To Win Friends and Influence People :);)

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,668
    edited April 2007
    Not in any particular order:

    1. "Atlas Shrugged"
    by Ayn Rand.

    2. "The Grapes of Wrath"
    by John Steinbeck.

    3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
    by Nelle Harper Lee.

    4. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" & "Stranger in a Strange Land"
    by Robert Heinlein. (I know, that's two, but they're both good).

    5. ""The Jungle"
    by Upton Sinclair.

    Good reads, one and all.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited April 2007
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Not in any particular order:

    1. "Atlas Shrugged"
    by Ayn Rand.

    2. "The Grapes of Wrath"
    by John Steinbeck.

    3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
    by Nelle Harper Lee.

    4. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" & "Stranger in a Strange Land"
    by Robert Heinlein. (I know, that's two, but they're both good).

    5. ""The Jungle"
    by Upton Sinclair.

    Good reads, one and all.

    I've read all of these...very good choices.

    Because they all have large bodies of work, I'm going to recommend authors that I like and tell you to pick one from each. Nothing heavy or historic, just stuff I enjoy and most anything they have done is good, IMO.

    Agatha Christie
    Michael Crichton
    H.G. Wells
    David Brin
    Jules Verne
    Sam Venable (A local writer/humorist)
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  • Lsi9
    Lsi9 Posts: 616
    edited April 2007
    If you have not read Lord of The Rings, then you should, great books...
    If you like swords & sorcery then Elric Of Melnibone (Michael Moorcock) and its associated sequels are a must...perhaps even better than LOTR.

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  • JimBRICK
    JimBRICK Posts: 1,543
    edited April 2007
    of mice and men is a fav of mine.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited April 2007
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    How To Win Friends and Influence People :);)

    I found that book in a used store for $0.25 on vacation and read it and liked it a great deal about 8 years ago. I then reread it about a year ago and it made even more sense. I have bought about 10 Win Friends books used and give them to friends. Many writers copy one chapter Dales ideas and write a book based on just that. The book has helped me at work and relationships from shooting from the hip.

    Great pick IMHO
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited April 2007
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    Not in any particular order:

    1. "Atlas Shrugged"
    by Ayn Rand.

    2. "The Grapes of Wrath"
    by John Steinbeck.

    3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
    by Nelle Harper Lee.

    4. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" & "Stranger in a Strange Land"
    by Robert Heinlein. (I know, that's two, but they're both good).

    5. ""The Jungle"
    by Upton Sinclair.

    Good reads, one and all.

    I agree totally with your selections.

    I would add Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainatance.

    It defined the word quality and its persuit in life.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited April 2007
    Many books by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    A few to start with:

    1) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    2) The Gulag Archipelago
    3) First Circle
    4) Cancer Ward

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

    Black On Red - Robert Robinson

    The list goes on & on!
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited April 2007
    Fun thread. After much whittling down I just couldn't cut any more.

    1776 - David McCollough
    Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
    Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
    Centennial - James Mitchener
    The World According to Garp - John Irving
    A Painted House- John Grisham
    Dammi La Mano (Lend Me Your Hand) - Bambina Venetucci
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited April 2007
    I'm not a big reader, but the jungle and 1984 are among my favorites.
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  • POLKOHOLIC
    POLKOHOLIC Posts: 407
    edited April 2007
    thanks alot guys for all the input. i put the grapes of wrath, How To Win Friends and Influence People, and war and peace on hold at my university library. will pick them up tomorrow.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,679
    edited April 2007
    (at least) one Thomas Pynchon: I'd recommend "Gravity's Rainbow", but you might well prefer "The Crying of Lot 49" or even "V". "Gravity's Rainbow" is not for the faint of heart or the impatient of page-turning.

    "Slaughterhouse Five" or "Cat's Cradle"

    "The Catcher in the Rye"

    and two personal favorites... hardly Pulitzer material, but books that made indelible impressions on me...
    "On the Beach" (Nevil Shute)
    "Childhood's End" (Arthur C. Clarke's first novel)
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  • TennesseeOutlaw
    TennesseeOutlaw Posts: 414
    edited April 2007
    The Da Vinci Code, any of the Left Behind series(not too sure how many, but there are several), oldie but goodie - To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, and I'll leave the last one for you to decide.

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  • MSALLA
    MSALLA Posts: 1,602
    edited April 2007
    I think Slaughterhouse 5 is my next read. Reading gives me something to do while listening to music.
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  • JimBRICK
    JimBRICK Posts: 1,543
    edited April 2007
    "The Catcher in the Rye"
    "of mice and men"
    "animal Farm"
    books everyone should read
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,679
    edited April 2007
    oh, yeah, "Animal Farm". Definitely.

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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited April 2007
    ledhed wrote: »
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I'd recommend all 5 books in the trilogy)
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

    Two excellent suggestions...
    I actually spent an entire day at a bookstore reading Ender's Game in its entirety. Picked it up to read the first page and couldn't put it down until I was finished.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited April 2007
    As suggested earlier, the Dan Brown novels are good reads (DaVinci, Angels & Demons), I read a lot of Jack Higgins books cuz they are fast paced and action packed. Used to read all Grisham's books.

    My brother just gave me: Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and some others for summer reading.
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited April 2007
    I would also like to second One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (I never felt so cold reading a book in my entire life even considering Jack London) and add American Gods by Neil Gaimen.
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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