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Old 08-21-2004, 03:11 PM   #1
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Your 5 Favorite Books
What are your five favorite books? Mine are,

1. The Bible
2. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
3. The Oddessy - Homer
4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Brothers Karmakov - Fyodor Dyosovesky(sp?)
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Old 08-21-2004, 04:02 PM   #2
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I'm gonna cheat...

1. Bible
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (it was all meant to be one book)
3. Macbeth
4. The Taming of the Shrew
5. Left Behind Series
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ummm....
the bible, harry potter and the ordrer of the pheonix, changing Jareth, the barbarian, ella enchanted.
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Old 08-21-2004, 11:59 PM   #4
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Top Five Secular Books

1. John Steinbeck- "The Winter of our Discontent"
2. James Joyce- "Ulysses"
3. Alain de Botton- "On Love"
4. Ernest Hemingway- "A Farewell to Arms"
5. Marcel Proust- "In Search of Lost Time"

Top Five Spiritual Books

1. The Bible
2. Oswald Chambers- "My Utmost For His Highest"
3. A.W. Tozer- "On Worship and Entertainment"
4. David Dark- "Everyday Apocalypse"
5. Kenneth Gentry- God Gave Wine"
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Old 08-22-2004, 12:12 AM   #5
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3. Macbeth
4. The Taming of the Shrew
Ohh you like shakespeare!!! You're awesome

Mine are:

1. The Bible
2. The Screwtape Letters- C.S Lewis
3. Hamlet- William Shakespeare
4. The Theif of Time- Terry Pratchet
5. The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" - Douglas Adams


ohh and an extra, can I do that? "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.
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Old 08-22-2004, 12:19 AM   #6
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Besides the Bible:
1. LOTR
2. His Dark Material
3. Artemis Fowl
4. The Chronicles of Narnia
5. Anything by Frank Perretti
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Old 08-22-2004, 12:37 AM   #7
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also aside from the bible:

in no particular order
  • The Divine Comedy
  • the Harry Potter series
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Dragonlance chronicles
  • Hamlet (or any Shakespeare really)
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Old 08-22-2004, 05:58 PM   #8
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Ohh you like shakespeare!!! You're awesome

Yes. I love Shakespeare. It's awesome how several of Disney's movies are so Shakespeare plots, yet noi one really knows about it. Take The Lion King for example. That is so Macbeth plot. Ten things I hate about you is a slightly altered Taming of the Shrew plot.
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Old 08-24-2004, 02:50 AM   #9
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Yes. I love Shakespeare. It's awesome how several of Disney's movies are so Shakespeare plots, yet noi one really knows about it. Take The Lion King for example. That is so Macbeth plot. Ten things I hate about you is a slightly altered Taming of the Shrew plot.
*possible spoilers but you should have seen The Lion King by now. If not go and watch it. Go. Now.*

I always thought Lion King was Hamlet. You know, uncle kills his brother to take the throne, tries to do away with nephew to keep the throne, nephew challeges uncle to avenge father and take his rightful place.
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Old 08-24-2004, 04:57 PM   #10
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Harry Potter
Phantom of the Opera
Ombria in Shadow
Lord of the Rings
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Old 08-24-2004, 05:03 PM   #11
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Mine 5 favorite books are:

-The Holy Bible by God
-Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
-The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-The Ishbane Conspiracy by Randy Alcorn
-Safely Home by Randy Alcorn

I'm currently reading Prophet by Frank E. Peretti and loving it, BTW.
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THE BIBLE IS INFINANTLY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER BOOK
Besides the Bible

1-My Book (Ha ha!)
2-LotR (yeah Kkid!)
3-Dune (sci-fi/fantasy, always entertaining)
4-Dragonlance Chronicles
5-King Arthur or Beowulf, can't decide.

Also, The Lion King is a Macbeth story, (bad guy kills king/ rules for a while/ son of king comes and kills him) In Hamlet, everyone dies, so it can't be Hamlet.
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ok, I'm splitting off the Lion King discussion into a new thread. any further responses here will be edited/deleted.
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Old 08-26-2004, 09:57 PM   #14
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The Bible falls into its own category simply because it's divinely inspired. That said...

Fiction:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (the whole trilogy is excellent, but this is my favorite one)
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
5. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Non-fiction:
1. Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
2. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
3. What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey
4. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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1. Ernest Hemmingway - A Farewell to Arms
2. Frank Norris - The Octopus
3. Ray Bradburry - The Illustrated Man
4. Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (Titus Groan/Gormenghast)
5. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
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