What are your most favourite books ever?

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Most anything by Ann Rule or Grisham, novels by Michael O’Brien (e.g. Father Elijah), Tolstoy.
 
Rome Sweet Home, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Story of a Soul and Harry Potter.
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Count of Montecristo
Les Miserables
Robinson Crusoe
Catch-22
1984
Lord of the Flies
Prophet
A Tale of Two Cities
 
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I could not stand AQOTWF when we read it in school. What do you like so much about it?
 
nfinke said:
I could not stand AQOTWF when we read it in school. What do you like so much about it?
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I served in the military so I can sympathize with the characters very closely. Even after all these years between Remarque and I, nothing really changes in the nature of warfare. Plus it is a magnificent literary achievement, and one of the most potent anti-war books ever written. If you haven’t read it since high school, it might be worth a re-read. Speaking of which, if I have to name a poem, I would say:

Dulce Et Decorum Est
 
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Maybe I will revisit it. But I remember it was the only book we read in HS that I couldn’t make it through. I can understand how being in the military would make it more relatable (or maybe I don’t).
 
Haha I asked because all the books we’ve both read are among my favorites besides that one. So you clearly have good taste 😉 I was hoping I had missed something.
 
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Haha I asked because all the books we’ve both read are among my favorites besides that one. So you clearly have good taste 😉 I was hoping I had missed something.
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You may have missed something. That is why I recommend a re-read. But I understand if a war novel doesn’t quite connect with someone the way it did me (in high school) and again when I read it as a soldier.
 
I have to add 1984 to my list. That hit me hard when I was in high school
 
I read “Voyage to Alpha Centauri” by Michael D. O’Brien and was fascinated by it! I like most of his books. What a great imagination the author has.

I very much liked “Kristen Lavransdatter” by Sigrid Undset. I imagined they could make a movie of it, but it would be so elaborate to do it well.
 
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I very much liked “Kristen Lavransdatter” by Sigrid Undset. I imagined they could make a movie of it, but it would be so elaborate to do it well.
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I have tried and tried, even bought the Audible version of three books, just cannot get into it.
 
I’m a fan of Kristin Lavransdatter as well. A very good movie starring Liv Uhlman was made based on book 1.
I’m a literature teacher. Probably my favorite works, those I would take if I were stranded on a desert island, are: Divine Comedy, Bleak House, Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, Brideshead Revisited, East of Eden, Walden, the poetry of T.S.Eliot and Hopkins, The Ambassadors, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch. To name just a few!
 
I didn’t know there was a movie made of Book 1…interesting. But I am sure the book was better! 😀
 
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the poetry of T.S.Eliot and Hopkins
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I left poetry off my list, but I spend as much time reading poetry as fiction.

Hopkins is my second favorite, after Shakespeare. Among Australian poets I like Les Murray, Dorothy MacKeller, Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson. Among the English, apart from Hopkins and Shakespeare, there’s Coleridge, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare’s contemporaries, the writers of the great English hymns (Wesley, Littledale, etc), and, of course, the KJV Bible and Book of Common Prayer.

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Dead Poets Society is one of my all time favorite movies. I liked the fragments of American poetry we got in that.
 
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Limoncello4021:
the poetry of T.S.Eliot and Hopkins
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I left poetry off my list, but I spend as much time reading poetry as fiction.

Hopkins is my second favorite, after Shakespeare. Among Australian poets I like Les Murray, Dorothy MacKeller, Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson. Among the English, apart from Hopkins and Shakespeare, there’s Coleridge, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare’s contemporaries, the writers of the great English hymns (Wesley, Littledale, etc), and, of course, the KJV Bible and Book of Common Prayer.

https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/catholic/original/1X/13a9c9241ebf87182368380e6c1a50d8c710be49.gif

Dead Poets Society is one of my all time favorite movies. I liked the fragments of American poetry we got in that.
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Wow! One for later this evening, when I can appreciate it properly 🙂
 
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I very much liked “Kristen Lavransdatter” by Sigrid Undset. I imagined they could make a movie of it, but it would be so elaborate to do it well.
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I had the same problem. I definitely did not appreciate when I was young why the heroine had to pay for disobeying God and her dad by being miserable her whole life. I’ve wondered whether to give it a try again now that I’m old.
I also heard there’s a new translation of it.
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