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The Most Memorable Book You Read by quiet(f): 12:10pm On Oct 12, 2006
Geez!
When i remember Danielle Steel's ZOYA,goshhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
i go speechless,what a Novel! it was soooo real,u could almost picture yourself in it, with the way the lines are relayed in the book,gives you a clear cut picture,a sharp image of what is actually being talked of.
The story line in itself was great,.it was all about a girl named Zoya.
Damn,after i read that book,i went Phew! was this a book or a film,it was sooooo detailed.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Bolarge(m): 2:36pm On Oct 12, 2006
The bestseller of all times;"THE BOOK".

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by neelsel(f): 6:30pm On Oct 12, 2006
The Holy Bible is paramount, however " A Time to Kill" by John Grisham, "A year in San Fernando and "Green Days by the River" by Michael Antonthy. And "A death in Vienna" by Daniel Silva" just to name a few, are all novels that continue to impact my life significantly.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by somegirl(f): 7:37pm On Oct 12, 2006
Since we are in the romantic section: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Oracle(m): 7:13pm On Nov 03, 2007

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by bebe2007(m): 12:00pm On Nov 06, 2007
The Left Behind Series (1-12)

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Eddie4real(m): 3:57pm On Nov 06, 2007
aside The Bible (no disputing) the most memorable was d Knight Of The Word (fiction), a Best seller. gr8t, suspence-filled book.
Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by olanajim(m): 4:07pm On Nov 06, 2007
48 laws of power, by Robert Greene

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Joey82(m): 4:18pm On Nov 06, 2007
most memorable is The Heir

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by mikebuddy(m): 4:19pm On Nov 06, 2007
With all respect to the holy bible,The iliad is a nice book.Followed by Odessey

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by inze(m): 4:37pm On Nov 06, 2007
The right way to eat spaghetti

Might sound funny but it sure is cool.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by iice(f): 11:39am On Nov 07, 2007
Quite a few. . .but a memorable and favorite of mine are the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by mamaput(f): 11:42am On Nov 07, 2007
greenmile
no things fall apart

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by tkb417(m): 12:01pm On Nov 07, 2007
i think ill go with CAIN and ABEL
ill read it a billion times

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Bolarge(m): 12:12pm On Nov 07, 2007
. . . . then Mila 18.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by btayo1(m): 1:28pm On Nov 07, 2007
The Drummer Boy and Without A Silver Spoon, I read countless times when i was younger and funny enough have reread them 15 years later and still loved them.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by mamaput(f): 1:42pm On Nov 07, 2007
just remembered.
roots
Queen
the colour puple
these 3 books got under my skin

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by cblow(m): 1:47pm On Nov 07, 2007
the Bible, and I always go back to it everyday grin, just cant let go,

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by olanajim(m): 1:54pm On Nov 07, 2007
The lion and the jewel, by Wole Soyinka.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Gwazah(m): 2:03pm On Nov 07, 2007
"Tess of the Dur'bervilles' by Thomas Hardy
"Murder in the cathedral" by T.S Eliot
"The Beautiful one are not yet born" by AYIKWE Amah of Ghana
"two look at Two"
"A year in san fernado"
"Black hermit" by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
there are combination of both Genres of literature
read them so sweet!

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by ThePrince2: 2:23am On Nov 23, 2007
I am a keen reader. compulsive almost.

However the I could never narrow the Books down to just one. Also any one who simply mentions the bible needs to go to a good book shop.
I will list the following as highly influencial you can google them if you have time:

The Trilogy of Henry Miller's:   The Rosy Crucifixion
George Orwell's                      1984
Aldous Huxley's                       A Brave New World
Ayn Rands                               The Fountainhead
Ayn Rands                               The Atlas Shrugged
Somerset Maguams               Of Human Bondage
The Reverend Johnson's        The Yoruba - Their History

A Henry Miller Readers own comments: "This is one of the first books I really read. Perhaps the one that started me on the path of really reading and contemplating. Or as Henry put it - "It was there like a rusty nail in a log thrown up on a deserted beach during a wintry storm. I can't express it better. You walk along the beach, the air is tangy, your spirits are high, you think clearly -- not always brilliantly -- but clearly. Then the log, a phenomenal part of the substantial world: it lies there, full of experience, full of mystery. Some man hammered that nail in somewhere, sometime, somehow. There was a reason for doing it. He was making a ship for other men to sail in. Building ships was his life-work -- and his own destiny as well as the destiny of his children went into every stroke of the hammer. Now the log lies there, and the nail is rusty, but Christ, it's more than just a rusty nail -- or else everything is crazy and meaningless, "  Sort of makes you think doe'snt it,

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by PTBNaija(f): 2:46am On Nov 23, 2007
Memorable books. . . .as of recently

These books made me cry (don't laugh, I'm a little sensitive):

~Purple Hibiscus
~My Sister's Keeper
~Man of the People
~The Famished Road

These books just stuck with me somehow. . .

~Things Fall Apart
~Ender's Game
~Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Pain(m): 7:19am On Nov 23, 2007
"Back to the Creator". Dont Go Looking for It. Because theres only One Copy Left and It Belongs to Me.
Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by yimiton(f): 7:42am On Nov 23, 2007
If tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by illusion2: 6:21pm On Nov 28, 2007
I'm really into espionage,military kinda novels.

So most books by Ludlum,Forsyth,Le Carre,Fleming are in, ICARUS AGENDA is definitely up there.

However my most memorable,I read many years back in secondary school, it was among the Pacesetters series,it was actually my first Nigerian espionage novels , I can't remember the name now, I think it involved some triplets & I keep remembering something like Debunmi Davies or something like dat,I remember I was so excited I didn't want finish in a rush.

Boy, what would I do to lay my hands on that book,

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by uchetobi(f): 10:10am On Dec 04, 2007
Scruples – Judith Krantz

absolutely spell binding
Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by angelempy(f): 6:04pm On Dec 05, 2007
the most memorable book i've read is links of a chain by a kenyan author. it was da bum.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by palma(f): 2:50pm On Dec 10, 2007
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][font=Lucida Sans Unicode]I once read a book called the "scarlet pimpernel" can't remember who the author is though. Its a book that i read about 7 years ago and i could still remember whats its all about. It's really a book that made me believe with love most things are possible. You could protect and even kill for love. I will never forget the book for as long as i live. Another one is by shakespear "much ado about nothing" if you have read it before you will see its a memorable novel.[/font][/font]

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Nobody: 5:03am On Dec 11, 2007
My first real novel was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I liked the characters because it reminded me of my sisters and I. And I assumed the position of Jo because I am the second born.

Another book that is memorable to me is Treasure Island. This book scared the hell out of me. I could not sleep in the night to the extent at 1am in the morning I picked up my agricultural science book and started cramming what Soil was-note- I do not read in the nights. I couldn't just understand how a guy with one leg (Silva) could kill able bodied men!!!

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Nobody: 5:20am On Dec 11, 2007
Most memorable books till date - Enid Blyton's St Claire's and Mallory Towers series.
I just couldnt get enough of those books. The day i got the last series for Mallory towers was a saturday, my dad had to beg everyone else to just let me be, i didnt sleep all night, i read the book everywhere . . . in the bathroom, while eating, doing the dishes.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Nobody: 5:23am On Dec 11, 2007
Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey.
It set me on a path to financial freedom.
Great book! read it 8 years ago when I had nothing .
glad I did.

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Re: The Most Memorable Book You Read by Nobody: 5:26am On Dec 11, 2007
secondly "things fall apart".
I'm reading it over right now

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