Which book(s) has been your favorite in 2005 and why? Please share your thoughts and comments on the books the Book Club read last year here.
You can vote for more than one book!
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'Lord of the Flies'
'Orlando'
'Brave New World'
'The Crucible'
'Seize the Day'
'Hyperion' and 'The Fall of Hyperion'
'Crime and Punishment'
'Rebecca'
'The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time'
'Three Men in a Boat' and 'Three Men on the Bummel'
'Northanger Abbey'
'The Return of the Native'
'Love in the Time of Cholera'
'The French Lieutenant's Woman'
'Hogfather'
'Someplace to be Flying'
Which book(s) has been your favorite in 2005 and why? Please share your thoughts and comments on the books the Book Club read last year here.
You can vote for more than one book!
Book Club Procedures
Last edited by Scheherazade; 01-03-2006 at 01:39 PM.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I think I'll wait until I finish Hogfather.
It's hard to believe I've read 8 of those books this year. Can we also have a poll for the worst?? I would put Orlando at the top of that one...
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I was planning to do that as well but didn't have time earlier.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I've only read four of these and only two of those with the club. I chose Lord of the Flies for it's depth. Though I didn't read this one with the club, I just read it a couple weeks ago and would like to read through the discussion when I get the chance. There are so many ways of looking at that one, that I very much hope that I get the chance to teach it.
I also chose Someplace to be Flying simply because it was intriguing and fun. I usually don't explore recent publications because I'm often disappointed, but I liked this one.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
HaHa I just realized I didn't vote, I picked the curious incident of the dog in the night and Someplace to be flying.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
i think rebecca is one of the best books that ever was. after reading it, i moved about dazed for a week. also, irving stone's 'lust for life 'and'the agony and the ecstasy ' were great reads. i am currently reading salman rushdie's ' the ground beneath her feet.' i find it mersmerising...
Last edited by anne1987; 07-08-2006 at 09:57 AM.
there is first the literature ofknowledge and secondly,the literature of power. the function of the first is to teach- the second is to move.Originally Posted by anne1987
three men in a boat is hilarious, especially the butter episode. montgomery is irritatingly funny...... inspite of a hell lot of confusion, the three still seem to be having a ball all the time.
''beauty is eloquent, even when it is silent.''
I hadn't participated in the Book Club but I have read some of the above mentioned books. Of them I would judge Rebecca to be the best.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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