1. Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (i've read this book soooo many times but still trying to understand it! This book is kind of simple but fool of mystery.)
2.Perfume by Patrick Suskind
3. Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
4. Three comrades by E.M. Remarque
5. The agony and the ecstasy by Irving Stone

I don't know if I can choose just five but I'm try my best....

-Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespear {Though all Shakespear really}
-Great Expections By Dickens
-The Complete Novels of Jane Austen {I just love them all}
-Audrey Rose By Frank De Felitta {My teen scare}
-Broken Music By Sting {I just loved it}

I'm going to go over I can feel it......

-A Royal Duty By Paul Burrell {It was touch and eye opening}
-Sweet Caroline Last Child Of Camelot By Christopher Andersen {I can't read it without crying}
-And To Think That I Saw It In Mulverry Street By Dr.Seuss {It's my favorite read read to my girls}

I better stop there. I'm thinking of more as I write this even. lol

I don't think I could whittle my list down to a top 5 favorite books so I will just list 5 favorite books.

1) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2) Persuasion by Jane Austen
3) The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
4) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
5) The Once and Future King by T.H. White

I saw you posted that you are struggling with Ulysses, but you like the Canterbury Tales!? I'm quite the opposite! I read the Canterbury Tales for a class once, and I had no trouble reading it but was more or less wondering why I should have to! I guess it's different for everyone though, I've been struggling to get into some Irish lit, I am starting out with some James Joyce, I feel like it's a good jumping off point.


Also, To whomever it was that mentioned the Master and Margarita: I have heard that the book is absolutely wonderful, so you would highly recommend it?

I read Master and Margarita. My general impression of it was so so. It has a lot of dead spots in the book that are impossibly boring and the ending gets absolutely absurd and a little hard to follow. It deals a lot with the devil - devil comes to Russia and plays around. It has some serious spots that are very interesting! The beginning of the book is amazing and it has that Russian humor which pokes fun at people in a lighthearted way - revealing weakness and greed. It's worth reading if you're a reader that's able to get past the dull spots without trouble.

The top 5...

1- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
2- The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
3- The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
4- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
5- The Enders series by Orson Scott Card

OMG! That was alot harder than i thought it would b. Still m not comfortable it is right, but top 10 would have been SSSOOO much easier.

thomaspatrick wrote:The top 5...

1- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
2- The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
3- The Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz
4- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
5- The Enders series by Orson Scott Card

OMG! That was alot harder than i thought it would b. Still m not comfortable it is right, but top 10 would have been SSSOOO much easier.

I never finished this series, but Speaker for the Dead was my favorite out of all of his books. Did you read the Homecoming series? I really liked the first few of those, but the last ones seemed to fall short for me. Admittedly I read those in junior high so I'd be hardpressed to remember any details, but I remember spending a week over the summer reading all five of them (I banged out one a day, as I recall, because I had nothing else to do and am a fast reader ).

wilde wrote:Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Resident Evil Extinction - Keith R.A. DeCandido (Call me crazy!)
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke


....in no particular order.

Okay, I have decided to change mine

Blindness - Jose Saramago
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Last Ship - William Brinkley

The Stand - Stephen King
Stephanie Plum series - Janet Evanovich (can't pick just one)
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
True Blood series - Chalaine Harris

My answers will vary from month to month. I love series though. I go thru books to quick to really just pick one.

Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowlings
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Encore Provence by Peter Mayle

But there are so many that I truly love.