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This isn't a top ten because, frankly, how could on epossibly read all the books eligible for the best ever? With my knowledge, here are some ones I've gotten a lot out of.

RAND -- The...

[QUOTE=star blue] no one has ever made me feel so good about living such a shi:tty existence.
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That's it. That's it 100%. I love Vonnegut cuz he just gets life. It's not melodrama like...

God bless Vonnegut

How could one possibly beat that?

I may have many miles to go before I teach, but one day I hope to be a high school English teacher. I have had a lot of bad experiences with horrible English teachers that have left me anxiously...

I doubt I'll be any help, but perhaps "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways." It's all about Lucy's simplicity.

Simple... he's a dude feeling insecure. Imagine that, an insecure teenager. Freud might say a simple security blanket complex. Red hat = feel more stable sexually. It's like that in all he does. ...

Finally some people who get me. I've got a stack of books I bought and haven't gotten to yet and I'm feeling... well... all those things you said. And while I'm at it, does anyone else hate...

I recently saved a sole copy of Slaughterhouse Five from a pile of grotesque romance novels at my local church rummage sale, despite the fact that I own it already. After I donated it to a friend, I...

So I read another of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's works for a Modern Lit class, and I wasn't impressed in the slightest. I've heard good things about One Hundred Years of Solitude, not to mention it won...

This is for anyone who's succumbed to reading Dan Brown's Da Vinci code. Let me pose a few questions.

1. Does anyone else think it reads like one of those "choose your own endings" books? ...

My group of friends is passing this book around, and I'm wondering if I should read it. See, one of my friends shoved it in another's mailbox and since then a circle of Ender's Game-ness hath begun....

I loved a lot of the books mentioned here. For example: Wurthering Heights, Portrait of an Artist, A Doll's House. I hated Moby Dick, though. Hate Hate Hated it. Okay, I lie. I hated the first...

Okay, so I lied. e e cumming's Since Feeling is First is my fav poem. I'll share:

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly...

I'm a big Donne fan... Valediction: Forbidding Mourning being my favorite. It's a little hard to grasp at first, but the more you read it the more awesome it becomes. But the best part is the story...

I was a little impatient with this book in the beginning, too, but the end makes it worthwhile. After reading it twice, it's now one of my favorite books... who could have guessed?