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Italian poets such as Dante or Petrarca are absoltely among my favourites.

It were not supposed to be a blockbuster. It's more a sort of documentary about the Camorra (which is another kind of Mafia). May I ask why you don't like it?

May I ask you why you haven't enjoyed Gomorrah?

It's what I tried to paraphrase on the previous page. I don't remember from where the quote is, can you tell me if you know ?

Hello PandaGirl, welcome to the forum!

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I do. It's like, just remaining in the same metaphor, going further in a new direction and finding detours for places you already knew or for other you don't know yet. It's how it works for me. I can just guess a couple of book I will be reading in the near future, but then who knows where they can lead me. It's not always so fashinating. Sometimes you and up in a dead way or in a boring place. But that's too part of the game

what about a cover with: author's name and title? I like them much. I don't choose. I let books drive me in a particular direction. Libraries grow as living beings, in this I agree with Borges. I wander in a path which every new book ses in front of me.

Absolutely unabridged. I'm like RoxiS.C., when I have the possibility I tend to choose the unabridged version. But I can understand Janet's point, and it's fair someone who's for example learning a foreing language have the chance to read something abridged of some great book, before him being able to read it properly.

Here are some of my favourites: films which have make me laugh, cry, desperate or dream, which have helped me out of a bad period or that have just struck me. There are a lot which are not mentioned. The Godfather (only I and II) The Usual Suspects A Bronx Tale Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind (Kate Winslet should have won the oscar for this) Before Sunrise (more than the other) Before Sunset Edward Scissorhands Forrest Gump Cast Away ("Wilsoooon!", three hours and he's alone with a ball, isn't he a great actor? ) Star Wars Dead Poet's Society ("O captain, my captain", what do I need to say more ?) When Harry Met Sally (you never get tired of this romantic comedy) Tim Burton's Batmans (creepy Danny Elfman music) The dark knight Young Frankenstein Monty Python's Life of Brian Wallace and Gromit (all) The Nightmare Before Christmas Twelve Monkeys X-man the last stand (all three were good but that's the one I prefer) The Fifth Element The Green Mile What Dreams May Come Life is Beautiful (La vita

In good literature it may happen to the reader to come across something which is not rationally explicable, but I find it essential to the plot, to the novel as the real characters themselves. Imaginary things are important even in life. I'm not saying I believe in supernatural things, only you have to trust sometimes unexplicable things as a mean to a deeper understanding of the nature of things themselves. in mathematics we use imaginary numbers and they helps us to solve a lot of problems without us being bothered by their unreality. So if even a mathematician can believe in unreal things, why can't we who sail in the world of immagination?

It is a good book. You can almost read it in real time as the story develops from afternoon to evening. It's like being the american listener who's being told the story.

Welcome to the forum.

I can't recall it happening with books, but absolutely it happened with films. specially those whose have horrible trailers.

As fiction I read only one at a time, but as non fiction I can read even two at a time. That makes 3 at a time (1 F+ 2 NF). So I answered 2: usually I carry 1 fiction and 1 non fiction.

It was C.S. Lewis that said (I'm paraphrasing) a book is a good book when you can pick it up in different stages of your life and find there every time something new, a different perspective you hadn't noticed. So one should read anything any time he or she wants.

That's true to me too. Everything else starts after you've read the book: the curiosity to find out more, the willingness to know better the author or the story itself, etc.

Welcome Ali558 ! Primo Levi's If this is a man is a great book. There are a lot of works borne from the horrors of the past century. Even if the subject is harsh, if you look for further readings something you can't miss is Elie Wiesel's The Night.

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