I can't choose one: I love the books of Gerald Durrell, the Harry Potter series and the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. What are your faves?
What is your favourite novel?
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My Top Five:
1. The Killer Angels (especially the sections focused on Maine’s Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain). The Lost Cause-ism? I disagree. The Union is clearly presented in the better light. The confederates in folly, failure, regret, and ultimately…defeat.
2. Lonesome Dove. The trick is seeing Call and Gus as the same person.
3. Early From the Dance. Fairly hard to find. First Read, I identified with A. Second Read, a few years later with Cary. Beautiful. Then Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Very true to life.
4. The Sun Also Rises. In my very early twenties I read without understanding. I tried to live this story. It did not work, but it was pretty to think so.
5. Looking For Rachel Wallace. Just one of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. Dr. Parker’s early Spenser’s were awesome. They got a little thin as he aged. After Parker’s death, I thought it was all over. Surprisingly a new author, named Ace Atkins, with the blessing of the creator’s estate found Parker’s early voice and made the character his own.
honorable mention:
Seveneves. I really liked this one. A whole new world to explore and a neat sentence or two on canid specialization.
1. The Killer Angels (especially the sections focused on Maine’s Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain). The Lost Cause-ism? I disagree. The Union is clearly presented in the better light. The confederates in folly, failure, regret, and ultimately…defeat.
2. Lonesome Dove. The trick is seeing Call and Gus as the same person.
3. Early From the Dance. Fairly hard to find. First Read, I identified with A. Second Read, a few years later with Cary. Beautiful. Then Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Very true to life.
4. The Sun Also Rises. In my very early twenties I read without understanding. I tried to live this story. It did not work, but it was pretty to think so.
5. Looking For Rachel Wallace. Just one of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. Dr. Parker’s early Spenser’s were awesome. They got a little thin as he aged. After Parker’s death, I thought it was all over. Surprisingly a new author, named Ace Atkins, with the blessing of the creator’s estate found Parker’s early voice and made the character his own.
honorable mention:
Seveneves. I really liked this one. A whole new world to explore and a neat sentence or two on canid specialization.
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
Jambi
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I prefer short story collections to full novels. At the moment I'm reading two, a collection if Ghost Stories by early 20th Century horror writer M.R. James, and the other is a book of H.P Lovecraft stories that includes The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness
ZooTripper365
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Animal Farm by George Orwell! Such a powerful story and one that truly resonates today!
Wisp O' Mist
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My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara!
Prochilodus246
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The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell
I can relate to the novels so much and feel a great deal of nostalgia reading them. A book that I would happily read non-stop.
I can relate to the novels so much and feel a great deal of nostalgia reading them. A book that I would happily read non-stop.
Haliaeetus
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I love Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, a French modern adaptation of Robinson Crusoe.
