<p>Yo guys post your fav books of all time . Well mine is dorky but it is Old curiosity shop. A dickens book</p>
<p>I read something in my local newspaper about how Old Curiosity Shop's popularity during its time of publication is similar to the current popularity of Harry Potter.</p>
<p>My two favorite authors are George Orwell and Mark Haddon. My favorite books by George Orwell are Animal Farm or 1984, and my favorite book my Mark Haddon is A Spot of Bother. My favorite French author is Victor Hugo. The translations of any of his books are nothing like the originals.</p>
<p>holocaust books.</p>
<p>Victor Hugo I think I have heard of him . Was he the author of Les miserables.</p>
<p>^ Are you Jewish? Not that you need to be Jewish to like Holocaust books, but...</p>
<p>Yeah. The English translation is nothing like the original. It's the same thing with Voltaire. The wittiness of the story is lost in the translation.</p>
<p>Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Native Speaker - Chang Rae Lee
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Farhenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury</p>
<p>(sorry I know that's way more than one :)</p>
<p>and andreaa I beleive u crave attention and I dont want any jews hating to start on this thread.</p>
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<p>no, im not jewish. i would sooner be jewish than be christian though. but right now im not anything.</p>
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<p>oh, i love that movie! its my favorite chick flick. and i have heard that the book is a lot better. is that true? i bought the book at goodwill, but i havent found the time to read it yet.</p>
<p>She doesn't crave attention. What does it matter if she likes Holocaust books? That doesn't, in any way, imply that she hates Jews.</p>
<p>Yo JohnC613 I have read Fahrenheit 451 before and it was really interesting</p>
<p>jew hating? i dont hate jews. quite the opposite...</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451 is really good. I read it in one of my English classes a few years ago.</p>
<p>The Diaries of Anais Nin</p>
<p>I might be in a minorty, but I really liked Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad).
But I don't truly have a "favorite" book or author.</p>
<p>Oh and 1984.</p>
<p>I've a couple.</p>
<p>Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living.
E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime, City of God.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise.</p>
<p>It's all such elegant writing.</p>
<p>Consilience - E.O. Wilson
Quark and Jaguar - Murray Gell-Mann
Selfish Gene + Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Daniel Dennett
Scientific Genius - Dean Simonton</p>
<p>I really like E.O. Wilson. I've only read excerpts of his work, but once I stop having a bajillion hours of homework every night, I'm going to read some of his works.</p>
<p>Catch 22 - Joseph Heller</p>
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<p>Haha, which books of his do you plan on reading?</p>
<p>Btw, the "Inquiline" part of my name came from E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology book (other organisms living in ant nests).</p>
<p>I do want to read Consilience, but I also want to read the Diversity of Life, because I think that it's especially relevant now.
Ah, so you're a parrot that lives commensally in the nest of another organism? ...if you say so =)</p>