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⌈ Secret Post #3979 ⌋

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Inspired by 1

[(Anonymous)]

What is your favorite book of all time and what makes it great?

Re: Inspired by 1

[rosehiptea]

Pride and Prejudice because I love the characters so much, and it's put together so cleverly.

(A close second is The Little Prince, because it too me to another world when I was a kid.)

Re: Inspired by 1

[comma_chameleon]

High five for Pride and Prejudice love~~.

Second is probably Good Omens for me.

Re: Inspired by 1

[kaijinscendre]

Hrm. Maybe The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier? It is probably the best book by my favorite author.

Re: Inspired by 1

[(Anonymous)]

Probably Alas, Babylon. I'm a sucker for post - apocalyptic fiction that ends at least on a somewhat hopeful note.

Re: Inspired by 1

[(Anonymous)]

Silmarillion

I love the Elves and the history and the geography and the language. I also love the epicness of it, which is why it edges out LOTR and Hobbit.

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[mimi_sardinia]

I agree on the Silmarillion. I always say it has a bit of the feel of reading the Bible and I actually like that quite a bit. (Side effect of those times as a teen when I'd go read the story parts of Genesis.)

Re: Inspired by 1

[(Anonymous)]

There's a bunch, but if I had to pick one, it'd be Born Confused. It was the first book that made me feel like I wasn't a freaking idiot for going through some identity issues and I still read it about once a year.

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[(Anonymous)]

Little, Big by John Crowley. Really well written, really fascinating, really great aesthetic, clever ideas and a really nuanced treatment of mortality and love, just a lot of really cool tragic and beautiful shit basically

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[sparrow_lately]

Catch-22 forever

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[(Anonymous)]

Good pick!

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[hamimi_fk]

Lord of the Flies! Kids fighting for survival? Border insanity? Close male relationships? Kids taking care of kids? Yes to all of those!!! =D

This was probably where my deep love of survival stories came from tbh. Irony is that I had to read it for summer school one year in high school (for the first time ever) and I ended up loving it so much I kept the (school's) book. xD

Re: Inspired by 1

[philstar22]

The Silmarillion. I love how huge and complex the world is. I love how many great characters there are.

Re: Inspired by 1

[mimi_sardinia]

^_^

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[(Anonymous)]

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. It's intelligently written, profound, poetic and tender. An academic sort of book, but deeply moving and not at all dry.

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt. It's complex, massive, and magnificently detailed. It makes you work for it, but it's tremendously worth the work. The writing is immensely academic, but slowly and deeply sensitive.

The Grapes of Wrath. Because. It's the Grapes of Wrath. Something about this book feels almost sacred (and I'm an atheist).

Re: Inspired by 1

[(Anonymous)]

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. I think it takes all the elements that Murakami is best at writing (parallel storytelling, interesting characters that feel like confused souls only tangentially floating through each others' lives, the supernatural) and distills them down to their most focused forms, resulting in a story that's incredibly satisfying to read. It's hard to put down once you get into it.

A Wild Sheep Chase/Dance, Dance, Dance are very close seconds of his, but they may tip a bit too far into the completely bizarre.

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[bur]

The Last Unicorn. It leaves me breathless.

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[mimi_sardinia]

I saw the cartoon movie first, but the book was great as well. The movie actually managed to get most of it, but those bits it didn't filled in the holes I didn't fully know the movie had.