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    guys if ur really into chattin bout books check out shelfari.com - i absolutely LOVE it! nd ul find loadsa people into the same books as u

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    the harry potter series of books are quite good
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taelas View Post
    G.R.RM is on my top list for authors as well. I'm currently reading through the Ice n Fire series for a 2nd time.

    I have so many favorite books I don't think I can pick.

    Other authors I like are: Francine Rivers, Sherrilyn Kenyon, R.A. Salvatore, Robert Jordon, Scott Olson Card, ect.
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    Anything by Jodi Picoult or Alice Sebold.
    Although both of those authors have shown signs of selling out. **sigh**
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    my favorite book is Halo

    my favorite author is J.R.R Tolkien

    and my favorite series is definately lord of the rings and the hobbit
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    The best series of all time would have to be the Sword of Truth series, by Terry GoodKind. There are defiantly slow points and slow books but there are tons of memorable characters which you fall in love with, many turns to the plot that you never saw coming, and times where you're yelling at the book trying to help the characters. The biggest downfall to the books is it seemed the plot was wrapped up too quickly in the last 100 or 50 pages. Still, they are my favorite books.

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    Default [My Book Collection]

    Here is a selection of books, philosophical dialogues, texts, treatises, manuals, essays, discourses, aesthetical letters, poems, literary analyses and dramatic/tragic works that are in my book collection:

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    Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire;

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Fine Art [Aesthetics];

    Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason;

    Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, The History of Florence, Letter to Francesco Vettori, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, The Art of War;

    Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War;

    Percy Bysshe Shelley's On the Defence of Poetry, Prometheus Unbound, Mask of Anarchy, The Triumph of Life, On Love, On Life, The Cenci [A Tragedy in Five Acts];

    Plutarch's Parallel Lives/Lives of the Eminent and Venerable Greeks and Romans [Volume I];

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Confessions, Social Contract, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Discourses on the Origins of Inequality;

    Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan;

    Aristotle's On Poetics and Rhetoric;

    Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars;

    Carl von Clausewitz's On War;

    George Ostrogorsky's History of the Byzantine State;

    Edgar Allan Poe's The Poetic Principle and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque;

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus' De Antiquis Oratoribus;

    Lodovico Castelvetro's Poetics;

    Thomas Love Peacock's The Four Ages of Poetry;

    Friedrich Schiller's On Simple and Sentimental Poetry, The Use of Chorus in Tragedy;

    Pierre Corneille's A Discourse on Tragedy, A Discourse on the Three Unities;

    Frederick W. Kagan's Napoleon and Europe, The End of the Old Order: 1801-1805;

    Plato's Euthyphro [First part of the tetralogy], Apology [Second part of the tetralogy], Crito [Third part of the tetralogy], Phaedo [Fourth part of the tetralogy], Symposium [On love, friendship, human relationships], The Republic [On political theory; the utopian state], Menexenus [On sophistry and oratory];

    Marcus Tullius Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, On the Orator, Laelius: On Friendship, Dream of Scipio, On the Laws;

    Joseph Addison's The Tragedy of Marcus Portius Cato Uticensis;

    John Milton's Paradise Lost;

    Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey;

    Virgil's Aeneid;

    Desiderius Erasmus' Ciceronianus or, On the Ideal Latin Style of Marcus Tullius Cicero;

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther;

    Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War and Commentaries on the Roman Civil War [With the added commentaries of The Alexandrian War, The African War and The Spanish War]
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    the wheel of time series kicks ass

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    Books that contain a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poems (especially The Raven [it was the one which inspired Ravenwings a long long time ago lol] and Annabel Lee).
    Poe's Tales
    Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood
    Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of Seven Gables
    Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper, On the Decay of the Art of Lying
    Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
    Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto (Haven't gotten around to finishing it lol)
    John Milton: Paradise Lost
    Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
    William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet
    Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
    Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
    Charles D!ckens (sorry, Charles, they *'d part of your surname when I type it out correctly. :/): Oliver Swift, A Tale of Two Cities

    ... and books by contemporary authors like Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham, James Patterson, and Thomas Harris, among others.

    Mythology & [a bit of] History books as well.

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    I am a book nerd I usually prefer Fantasy, but one of my favorites is the Alex Rider series. More of mine are:

    Eragon Cycle
    Pendragon Series
    Inkheart Series
    The Hobbit (And LoTR books)
    Harry Potter
    Percy Jackson Series (Greek Mythology intrigues me)

    There are a lot more... xD

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