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Books that have stayed with you

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    #92
    fichillie
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    1984 - George Orwell
    The Road - Cormac McCarthy (The most moving book Ive ever read)
    The diving bell and the butterfly - Jean Dominique Bauby
    The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom
    The book of lost things - John Connolly
    Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
    The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas


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    #93
    ZorbaTehZ
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    The brothers Karamazov - Dostoevski
    Walden - Thoreau

    The two that I have probably gone back to most.


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    #94
    emeraldstar
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    cameilla13 wrote: »
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Interesting. I finished this last week but wasn't overly impressed. I don't know, I thought the premise should have offered a much stronger story and I found I didn't care about any of the characters.


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    #95
    problemchimp
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    The Other Hand-Chris Cleave
    Birdsong-Sebastian Faulks
    That they may face the rising sun-John McGahern


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    #96
    problemchimp
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    Quality wrote: »
    It has to be

    The Road..

    Oh I read that book when I was heavily pregnant and I remember crying and the fear in me of it!!

    Also, a thousand splendid suns and Amongst Women, I still think of the father in that book with such pity.
    A thousand splendid suns broke my heart, so sad. Beautifully written.


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    #97
    cameilla13
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    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Interesting. I finished this last week but wasn't overly impressed. I don't know, I thought the premise should have offered a much stronger story and I found I didn't care about any of the characters.

    I think it is a love/hate book. I loved that it was subtle almost vague on details about the situation. I felt the opposite about the characters, I wanted to re-read it hoping that things would turn out different for them.


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    #98
    Namlub
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    The Outsider-Albert Camus


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    #99
    calex71
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    3 by McCarthy

    The Road for the same reasons as others , Child of God , and Blood Meridian, the ending in contrast to all that had gone before was truly disturbing
    in that I wasn;t spelled out as graphically chilled me to the bone

    Others Catch 22, the dark tower books, and the wasp factory for it's wft at the end especially :D


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    #100
    coffeespoons
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    The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy is probably the most beautiful book ever.
    I second the Book of Lost Things, lovely read.
    Wuthering Heights - I've been reading it nearly every year for the past ten year.
    The Wayward Bus - Steinbeck, definitely one of his lesser known masterpieces. I think its what Steinbeck is all about, perfectly crafted characters.
    The Life of Pi
    The Three Day Road
    The Book Thief
    I think my holiday read of choice would be The Shadow of the Wind!


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