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Spacey wrote:
TitaniaX wrote:10. Heart of Darkness

It's a great choice, and I was thinking of including it myself, but isn't it a short story?

My Choices(right now):
The Arden Shakespeare's Hamlet
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Mossflower - Brian Jacques
The Harry Potter series(specifically from Prisoner of Azkaban to Order of Phoenix)


nope. It is shorter than the books i typically read (I think my copy is 80 pages or so). But it is not short enough to be considered a "short story".

Stories that are too long to be considered a short story and too short to be considered a proper novel are called novellas.

http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Darkness-Jo ... 60?ie=UTF8
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TitaniaX wrote:...nope.

Ok. I though I remembered teachers/librarians(years and years ago) refering to it as a short story, but I'm mistaken then.
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Spacey wrote:
TitaniaX wrote:...nope.

Ok. I though I remembered teachers/librarians(years and years ago) refering to it as a short story, but I'm mistaken then.


you should read it if you havent done so already :)
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1. wheel of time series (all 11 of em, with last one on the way)
2. lord of the rings
3. most bernard cornwall books

If u liked Lord of the rings, wheel of time is a great read. Highly recommend it
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tom twin wrote:1. wheel of time series (all 11 of em, with last one on the way)
2. lord of the rings
3. most bernard cornwall books

If u liked Lord of the rings, wheel of time is a great read. Highly recommend it


Bernard Cornwell! How could I forget? - have read all of the 'Sharpe' books - terrific!

(I've never quite seen the appeal with Harry Potter - I've read the first one, and part of the second - and they are pants! And why is it that the main character is such a numpty? He doesn't solve anything himself - his mates do it for him! He just faffs around.)
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you hit the head on the nail wolf
i only read them so i can take harry being killed in context
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Wolf359 wrote:
tom twin wrote:1. wheel of time series (all 11 of em, with last one on the way)
2. lord of the rings
3. most bernard cornwall books

If u liked Lord of the rings, wheel of time is a great read. Highly recommend it


Bernard Cornwell! How could I forget? - have read all of the 'Sharpe' books - terrific!

(I've never quite seen the appeal with Harry Potter - I've read the first one, and part of the second - and they are pants! And why is it that the main character is such a numpty? He doesn't solve anything himself - his mates do it for him! He just faffs around.)


Sharpe, great books :) always in a fight kicking someones ass who is trying to kill him
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tom twin wrote:
Wolf359 wrote:
tom twin wrote:1. wheel of time series (all 11 of em, with last one on the way)
2. lord of the rings
3. most bernard cornwall books

If u liked Lord of the rings, wheel of time is a great read. Highly recommend it


Bernard Cornwell! How could I forget? - have read all of the 'Sharpe' books - terrific!

(I've never quite seen the appeal with Harry Potter - I've read the first one, and part of the second - and they are pants! And why is it that the main character is such a numpty? He doesn't solve anything himself - his mates do it for him! He just faffs around.)


Sharpe, great books :) always in a fight kicking someones ass who is trying to kill him


I should read those. Ive seen the movies on BBC America and they are pretty good, but im sure they dont do justice to the books (as is usually the case)
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indeed. the books are very good
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TitaniaX wrote:you should read it if you havent done so already :)

Already done. Read it maybe seven years ago.
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i dont mind the inheritance trilogy (first two out)

he is a bit repetitive, but thats undersatndable since he started writting the first when he was 15.
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I think my favorite "book" is actually more of a short story my H.P Lovecraft and its Beyond the Mountains of Madness.

Although a close second would have to be Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund.
Followed by a very close third being The Time of the Twins books in the Dragon Lance series.
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Definitely the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker.
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