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thepixieinside

BBC.com Top 200 books...

Jan 09, 2007 19:21

I have marked through the books that I have already read and bolded the ones that I want to read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper ( Read more... )

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one last suggestion..........I promise black_raven135 January 10 2007, 06:09:00 UTC

I see you have not read A Tale of Two Cities, Sophie's World, War and Peace, His Dark Materials (trilogy), and The Count of Monte Cristo......
Would ((((((highly))))))) recommend them all.

Re: one last suggestion..........I promise thepixieinside January 10 2007, 23:10:12 UTC

I am not a huge Dickens fan. He is too tedious for me. I need to try again though.

Re: one last suggestion..........I promise black_raven135 January 10 2007, 23:14:44 UTC

oh my, is that Danny Craig in your icon??
Oh sorry, I momentarily lost my train of thought.....
Where were we??
Dickens....
Yes he is very very thorough in his narrative etc. but A Tale of Two Cities is
wonderful.....
It is a tale of ultimate sacrifice....

christinemozart January 10 2007, 11:26:36 UTC

Awsome list, I also plan on reading The Hobbit sometime

I'm glad you don't have HDM on your list because I can't stand Phillip Pullman

thepixieinside January 10 2007, 23:03:38 UTC

Me too! (for both!) I tried reading the first in the Pullman series but he is SO BORING!!! I want to see the movie, purely because of Daniel Craig. ;)

jaded_fae January 10 2007, 19:37:59 UTC

You've got some great books on your list. Have fun reading!

thepixieinside January 10 2007, 23:04:17 UTC

Thank you! :D

BTW, what are you currently reading?

jaded_fae January 11 2007, 21:48:31 UTC

I just brought the third book in Rebbecca Wells' series about the Ya-Yas. :) It's called Ya-Yas in Bloom. I love the other two books and this one is excellent so far. I recommend them!

yourshrubbery January 10 2007, 21:04:15 UTC

Watership Down, HitchHikers Guide, and Alice's Adventures are all very good reads. Although Watership Down freaked me out a little bit. I couldn't read it before bed sometimes. But I am a bit of a baby and I have an overactive imagination. =D

__concubine__ January 10 2007, 21:49:23 UTC

~Anything by Terry Pratchett is good. You listed my two favorites- Wyrd Sisters and Thief of Time (yay!). I recommend you read Wyrd Sisters first because it's a good introduction into the Discworld series. It's also really fun because it makes fun of Shakespeare in so many ways:)

~The Hobbit is one of my favorite books. The first 100 pages are like pulling your teeth out one by one but then the story kicks off and it gets really good.

~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is definitely one of my favorite books. It's very funny in a silly philosophic way. I recommend reading it twice.

~Brave New World is a really good utopia book. Apparently it's like 1984 but I haven't read that yet and I remember you put that down. But it's a good book to read when you think the world is bad because it provides insight about what a "perfect" society would be like.

~House of Leave is a trippy book. I got it for my birthday and haven't really read it yet but a periodically read bits of it. It's reaaaalllllyy weird. My friends Patrick and Sam are ( ... )