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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Humm this is a toughy!
    Persuasion- Jane Austen
    North and South- Elizabeth Gaskell
    The Caucasian Chalk Circle- Bertholt Brecht
    Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
    east of Eden- John Stienbeck
    Of all the great Irish writers you dont even pick one?
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    The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
    As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
    Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder


    These are good representatives of my favorite books. There are several more I want to put on there, but I guess if it means that much to me I could just start a new account and post different books that way.
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    Okay, I guess I have to decide well. this is very tough.. Hmmp
    Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
    Pride and Prejudice_ Austen
    The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
    War and Peace- Tolstoy
    Anna Karenina- Tolstoy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    Of all the great Irish writers you dont even pick one?
    I know, but excluding J.M.Synge and his plays, its Irish Poets i love the most! Yeats, Kinsella, Kavanagh, Colum, Heaney, Durkin, Clarke, Moore...
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    I know, but excluding J.M.Synge and his plays, its Irish Poets i love the most! Yeats, Kinsella, Kavanagh, Colum, Heaney, Durkin, Clarke, Moore...
    Niamh please tell me you don't mean Thomas Kinsella?

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    I like some of his poems. There is nothing wrong with that. He is a good poet.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    I like some of his poems. There is nothing wrong with that. He is a good poet.
    You misjudged my question. I know Thomas Kinsella, and it caught me by surprise that a fan would link him with Yeats.

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    Well it was only a list of Irish poets i like. There are a lot more than just them. And i didnt put them into any order. Truth be told i wouldnt consider him as highly as Yeats, but he is a good Irish poet. There are some unkown poets like Caprini and Anette Kinsella that i would like maybe a little bit more.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

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    5 is very less! Please increase at least to 10. So we have more precise list.
    I will think on my list btw.
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    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    The Importance of being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich-Maria Remarque
    The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
    There are just to name a few. There are other authors that I like, but if I have to choose only five, I think I'll go for the ones above
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    Night by Elie Wiesel
    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Anthem by Ayn Rand
    Kiss and cry/you are my/natural high

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    Les Misérables
    A Tale of Two Cities
    Light in August
    Invisible Cities
    The Little Prince
    I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...

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    The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
    On the Road by Jack Kerouac
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    The Stranger by Albert Camus
    Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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    The Stranger - Camus
    Midnight's Children - Rushdie
    Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
    Herzog - Bellow
    Deptford Trilogy - Davies

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