Novels
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07/02/05 11:45 AM
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In the same spirit as the "poetry" topic, let's post our favorite novels.
Mine would be (in order): Ulysses by James Joyce In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
...yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Re: Novels
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07/02/05 12:22 PM
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Mike Furches
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Call me a simple man and not in order but here goes:
1st novel I read that I loved and still do. Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls
Intensity by Dean Koontz
The Day of the Triffids By John Wyndham
Three By Ted Dekker
The Chronicles of Narnia (entire series as 1) By C.S. Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
A Man Called Simple By Langston Hughes
Native Son By Richard Wright
Deliverance By James Dickey
The Silence of the Lambs By Thomas Harris
Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
There are so many others that could be listed, but off the top of my head this is a good start.
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Re: Novels
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07/02/05 09:54 PM
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AfternoonDelight
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wow i have only read 3 novels if they are even novels and it was for english so it d have to be like this
Summer of My German Soldier
Animal Farm
Shakespeare
You must be a magician cuz ur nuttin but a trick.
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07/02/05 10:34 PM
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billy_mcjackson_ripjc
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I'm not totally sure about this one, but I think Shakespeare is a person.
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07/02/05 10:41 PM
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Dean Welsh
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"The Pearl" by John Steinbeck ("Grapes" was good also -just soooooooooo long.)
"Who Moved my Cheese?" Spencer Johnson
Ecclesiastes by King Solomon
"The Carrot Seed"
"Zen Shorts"
All "Curious George" books (Fav is George goes fishing...)
This is George. He was a good little monkey and always very curious . . .
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D. Dean Welsh, Junction City ***Dean plays well with others!!! ;-)
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07/03/05 01:08 AM
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GregMann
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1. The Grapes of Wrath
2. Rag Time
3. All Quiet on the Western Front &
4. The Red Badge of Courage
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. 1984
7. Helter Skelter (not fiction, I know, but a powerful and riveting read). 8. The Reason Why (another non-fiction book about why the Light Brigade made its famous charge during the Crimean War.
Greg Mann Manhattan, KS
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07/03/05 01:22 AM
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chewie
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A few of my faves not in any particular order
Catcher in the Rye American Psycho Last Exit to Brooklyn Lord of the Rings series The Hobbit Starship Troopers
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Re: Novels
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07/03/05 03:46 AM
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ulysses#11
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a couple of favorites in no order
I wuv ebonics
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07/03/05 03:55 AM
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sorry i didnt mean to post... anyway
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge all Christopher Moore all Chuck Palahnuik Ishmael and My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The Flashman journals by Harry Flashman and editted by George Macdonald Frasier most Michael Chrichton (dont know how to spell) 1984 and Animal Farm
and thats all I can think of right now
I wuv ebonics
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07/03/05 05:11 AM
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chewbacca
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i might as well put in my two cents worth
A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway
anything by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Less than Zero)
Antigone - Sophocles
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Puppet Masters - Robert Heinlein
Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
Maybe you're not an ugly human, but a good looking ape.....with exceptional verbal skills.
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07/03/05 11:42 AM
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Dan the Man
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Here is what I think is scary is that I have read most of the books listed in the above posts.Here are some of my favorites.
The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
Team Yankee by Harold Coyle
Quag Keep by Andre Norton
The Choir Boys by Joseph Wambaugh
East of Eden by James Steinbeck
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Inferno by Dante
any of the books Elmore Leonard has written but look at Get Shorty, BE Cool, and Rum Punch. all have been made into movies but the plot twists better in the books.
The Light at the End by John Skipp & Craig Spector One of the best horror/vampire novels ever written. Puts Salem's Lot to shame.
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
The Odyssey & The Illiad by Homer
Anything by Joe R Lansdale take a look at A Fine Dark Line and any of the Hap & Leonard adventures
If you get a chance read some of Andrew Vachss' Burke novels. Blossom is the first of many. He has a new book out now Two Trains Running and it is a great book.
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller I know this is a graphic novel but seeing Batman beat up on Superman is classic
A must read by all wrestlers. Vision Quest by Terry Davis Read this in high school a few years before the movie came out. I remember living on Nutrament during wrestling season.
I could list books all day. Two years ago I started a journal of all the books I read. Yes I read that much.
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07/03/05 10:32 PM
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Computerized Shoes
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Fahrenheit 451 Brave New World To Kill a Mockinbird
...plus any of the Bearenstein BEARS.
Taggin' for Tyler
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Re: Novels
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07/04/05 11:29 PM
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Bobby Bovaird
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Wow... not a single mention out there of John Irving.
Anyone heard of him? Wrote books like The World According to Garp (movie starring Robin Williams), The Cider House Rules (the movie version won him an Oscar for best screenplay), A Prayer for Owen Meaney (the movie Simon Birch was based on this book), and The Hotel New Hampshire? Here's a title that might intrigue some of you: The 158-Pound Marriage? (one of the main characters was a wrestler at Iowa)
John Irving also wrestled for Exeter Academy under coaches Cliff Gallagher and Ted Seabrooke. He has been a wrestling coach throughout the years, but I think he's taken a break from that. You'll find wrestling talk in almost all his novels. He's got a collection of short stories and memoirs called Trying to Save Piggy Snead that's pretty good. There's a picture in that book of Irving getting tripped by Dan Gable at wrestling practice (Irving was a professor at Iowa's Writer's Workshop M.F.A. program when Gable was coaching, and he occasionally worked out at practices).
In short, he's a good novelist with some strong ties to wrestling. FYI.
Gifted Teacher Head Wrestling Coach, Louisburg High School Director of Coaches Development, USAWKS
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07/04/05 11:32 PM
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Bobby Bovaird
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Also --
Only a few people mentioned Hemingway! I've taught his novels in my English class and the guys tend to love his writing -- we're talking about a man who added a little masculinity to the world of literature. Drinking, brawling, womanizing, more brawling, wars, hunting, fishing, going on safaris, you name it. Good stuff.
Gifted Teacher Head Wrestling Coach, Louisburg High School Director of Coaches Development, USAWKS
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07/05/05 01:02 AM
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Not to mention The Old Man and the Sea is the easiest book report you can get away with doing in AP English, solely because Hemingway wrote it.
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07/07/05 06:31 PM
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I never learned to read!!!!!! I have someone type this stuff.
Actually I don't know why but I did like the old man and the sea. I don't remember some of the others cause it has been so long.
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my reading material consists of pictures of beatuiful women wearing little or no clothing.
You must be a magician cuz ur nuttin but a trick.
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07/07/05 07:16 PM
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07/07/05 07:24 PM
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i like to read t heir articles to see if i have a chance
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Re: Novels
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07/07/05 07:26 PM
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our young AfternoonDelight is embarking on the magical journey to adulthood.
these kids grow up so fast
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