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If you were going to recommend one classic book for someone to read. What would it be? And why?
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat?
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Maybe not a 'classic' yet.... should be required reading for 4th grade on up. The Four Agreements by DON Miguel Ruiz - everyone should read it, could actually improve your life.
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Edited by
ArtGurl
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Mon 08/02/10 05:16 PM
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat? before Green Eggs and Ham?????   As A Man Thinketh by James Allen published in 1902 Why? We become what we think about...that hasn't changed in all this time... |
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat? Hopefully they have all had the pleasure already. 
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Maybe not a 'classic' yet.... should be required reading for 4th grade on up. The Four Agreements by DON Miguel Ruiz - everyone should read it, could actually improve your life. Putting it on my list. 
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War and Peace......That will cure you........
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John Updike's "Rabbit" series. OK, it's more than one book. But it's the best writing I've ever seen....
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat? before Green Eggs and Ham????? As A Man Thinketh by James Allen published in 1902 Why? We become what we think about...that hasn't changed in all this time... Art  So good to see you. And that is going on my list too. |
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat? before Green Eggs and Ham????? As A Man Thinketh by James Allen published in 1902 Why? We become what we think about...that hasn't changed in all this time... Art So good to see you. And that is going on my list too. Great to see you too Dragoness The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran |
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uuummmm.. The Cat in the Hat? Hopefully they have all had the pleasure already. You never know. 
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Edited by
Dragoness
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Mon 08/02/10 05:18 PM
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My must read book list is growing.
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dreams of my father,,,,although not classic YET
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Edited by
red_lace
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Tue 08/03/10 08:30 AM
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Er, I can't stop with just one...
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Little Women (Louisa M Alcott) War and Peace (Tolstoy) One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love In The Time Of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) 1984 (George Orwell) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) The Trial (Franz Kafka) The Confessions (Augustine) The Complete Essays (Michel de Montaigne) Meditations on First Philosophy (Rene Descartes) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) City of God (Augustine) The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) Utopia (Sir Thomas More) The Social Contract (Jean Jaques Rousseau) The Birds (Aristophanes) Poetics (Aristotle) Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) Lord of the Flies (William Golding) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare) Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Inferno (Dante Alighieri) The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) Paradise Lost (John Milton) ...um, if you want more, just tell me. Don't let me explain why, one by one, though. It's going to take me forever. 
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To Kill A Mockingbird. Why? I think everyone should read it.
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A Tale of Two Cities - if you haven't yet, you must, must, must read this one.
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To Kill A Mockingbird. Why? I think everyone should read it. I second that. |
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Er, I can't stop with just one... Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) Little Women (Louisa M Alcott) War and Peace (Tolstoy) One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love In The Time Of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) 1984 (George Orwell) Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust) The Trial (Franz Kafka) The Confessions (Augustine) The Complete Essays (Michel de Montaigne) Meditations on First Philosophy (Rene Descartes) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) City of God (Augustine) The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) Utopia (Sir Thomas More) The Social Contract (Jean Jaques Rousseau) The Birds (Aristophanes) Poetics (Aristotle) Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) Lord of the Flies (William Golding) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare) Hamlet (William Shakespeare) Inferno (Dante Alighieri) The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) Paradise Lost (John Milton) ...um, if you want more, just tell me. Don't let me explain why, one by one, though. It's going to take me forever. ditto |
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Edited by
plastic_pancakes
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Tue 08/03/10 09:07 AM
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 Because people should know that they can decide what happiness is for themselves. |
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I vote catcher in the rye.
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