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My favorite Classics have and always will be David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 🙂


Modern favorites have been Clancy's Rainbow Six, Salvatore's Forgotten Realms Series, and The Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King 🙂
 
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young

Infinitely better than the movie. "Black Hawk Down" pales in comparison to this.
 
Originally posted by: TheNemesis
I'm reading The Power of One right now, It's very good.
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Good book. 🙂 Read it last year for English..

Reading The Godfather right now.. required for my Crim class.. I could watch the movie, but reading is fun at times.. 😛😉😀
 
Originally posted by: numark
Originally posted by: flavio
What didn't you like about Brave New World? They're really only similar in their view of the future.
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I disagree. 1984 is a reverse utopia, one where everything is tightly controlled and the people are generally oppressed. Brave New World is a straight-up utopia, where people are controlled by happiness (through the soma). They're in fact pretty much polar opposites when it comes to their predictions of the future.

Edit: Can't spell worth anything at 12:30 AM at night 🙁
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Well, I wouldn't really call any two worlds where the people are controlled to this degree polar opposites. Sure, their method differs quite a bit.

 
How about some scifi?

Glen Cook - The Dragon Never Sleeps
Daniel Keyes Moran - The Long Run
Peter F. Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction
Robert Heinlein - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

And any number of other amazing SF books...
 
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. Dont get hooked though, that is only book 1 of the series. Next thing you know wou will be reading thousands of pages if not in the tens of thousands because the whole series rocks.

Overall though, I just pick up any book from a store while buying groceries. I have read thousands of books and a lot were good, a lot were bad. All you have to do is pick one up.

Then there is The Borribles. I could not get myself to read it because... well... the name sounds borrible.
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