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@Funti, Abi?i came here thinking it was Archie and them o, lol,

@Poster, i think you meant "Sweet Valley High", that one has twin girls in it, Elizabeth and Jessica if i remember correctly,

nooooo! i'll fight somebody here o! LOL, I like Robinson Crusoeeeeee!, it's not as heartbreaking as all those "tess de Uberville-ish" type things , i would have picked Robinson Crusoe mehn

I love christian Fiction books!! it started with the whole Left Behind series (which is just awesome!), and then Ted Dekker, wow! he is just brilliant!

Someone suggested "this present darkness" by Frank Peretti for beginners, but mehn, i actually bought that book, my first F.P book, and lordy! i cannot read it!, is something wrong with me? so many people seem to like him, and i just don't get it, guess i'll have to give the book a second try,

ooh, and the Christy Miller and 'Nama beach high series are also really good, mostly for younger/teenage readers, really inspirational, because they can see christianity in an environment and situations they can relate to

aww, Ted Dekker is really really good! picked up "Black" one day because i was out of what to read and it just caught my eye in the bookstore, was there the nest day to get red, and begged and pleaded wiv the owner to get white asap! lol, it was so bad that they sent me an sms the moment they got it! my all time favourite, though, is Blink, out of the ones i've read that is.the circle trilogy is amazing too, wasn't really taken with obsessed, it was a good read, but felt a little far fetched, lol

Can somebody help me understand this Frank Peretti thing? i don't send the dude at all, or maybe i just picked up the wrong book, the one i got is "this present darkness", and Lord knows i've tried to get past the first chapter,

"anything you say will be misquoted and used against you"

that one^^ makes "silence is Golden" all the more plausible!

nuttyproff:
get a life russian books i've read are messed up amature writtings; try some good old forsythe, or king or even daniel steele if u must though i wuld not recomend him

rotflmao, gosh i can't stand when people open their mouths and ignorance pours out, King as in Stephen? Danielle Steele? if you don't know what people are talking about, respect yourself, keep quiet and move on!, and if you thought the Russian Lit you read was messed up and amature? you've only managed to insult yourself and declare to the world your inability to grasp the concept of what was written, lol, Stephen King, Like comparing Archie Comics to Shakespeare,

On the issue of Russian Lit though, i'm currently reading "The Idiot" by Dostoyevski, and have crime and punishment lined up, and have read some of Chehov's work too, deep ish o! them Russians, all psychological and ish

HP fan here! except that i do not paticularly "send" Harry , i cried when i read the last book mehn, it was like, nothing to look foward too *sigh*, still read them over periodically, nearly had heartbreak when Sirius died, i was like WTF? they JUST MET!, but the thing that keeps making the deaths not seem so tragic is the fact that you can talk to the people in portraits :d lol,

biggest personal joy? Snape was good afterall! ha! i used to tell people oh, no one believed me, i liked Snape for the longest time, don't even ask me why!, and Dobby? kai, that thing used to upset me, what with banging his head at every interval, lol, then the people she killed off, another sad thing, az in. why couldn't Pery die, ehn?! mchuu

Forgive me, but i cannot narrow it down to one! and i don't think i've even read a tenth of the books that will leave a lasting impression on me, but here goes,

Angelique, Marquise of the angels, this book is that BOMB!it's by Serge and Anne Golon
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Godfather by Mario Puzo, is perfection!
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, could read it over and over without taking breaks
Journey to the centre of the earth, Brilliant!
"The Idiot" by Fyodr Dostoyevski, wow
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, words cannot describe! it was the first "serious" book i read
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, too much of a classic to overlook!

Then theres this trilogy that breaks my heart,the books are
A boy called it
The lost boy
A man called Dave

i swear, you cannot read that and remain the same person.

and Maniac McGee, cannot remember who wrote that one, but the way it talks about innocence and racism is just remarkable

and another trilogy, the His Dark Matters trilogy
The golden compass (this is the new name)
The amber spyglass
The subtle Knife.

that trilogy helped me appreciate the whole fantasy genre

and then there's Ted Dekkers "the circle" trilogy. Black, Red and White, and Blink By ted Dekker too

I'm sure i've left out a book or two, but all the above, brilliant stuff, brilliant!, i know it looks like a lot o.but they are all dear to me mehn!

whoa! look at me getting all teary eyed because of this thread! love would be an understatement if i said i love Enid Blyton's books. I lived in those books mehn, used to go to sleep replaying the plots in my head, used to read like one of the "collection of stories" books every day. Used to JUMP up and down whenever i got a new E.B book, Vowed to read them even when i was 30, mallory Towers- i was in love with! The enchanted chair, the magic faraway tree, the famous 5 ( the tv adaptation wasn't half bad either!), the secret 7,

It should be made mandatory that children read Enid Blytons books in their childhood, because they are special, no lie! my children are SO going to have an Enid Blyton Library!

Enstrangement, by Elechi Amadi
Anthills of the Savannah
The Joys of Motherhood
The Gods are not to blame
Half of a Yellow Sun
Ake; the years of childhood (does this one count?)
Things Fall apart (d'uh!)
and Similia and the prisoners of Jero (not too sure bout the name anymore),and Soza Boy by Ken Saro Wiwa
The Beautiful ones are not yet born
Wizard of the Crow by Nguigi Wa Thiongo

LOL! secondary school ish, good memories though, i liked Silas Marner, i remember i did at least, read it and felt incredibly sad for some reason, the man was so, good.

Sizwe Bansi was ayt too, switching Id'z, good times sha

hm, before i go into this, no be Plays Shakespeare dey write? ,

My all time favourite is the Merchant of Venice, nobody seems to have mentioned it, it's brilliant!, and i like Hamlet, and A Midsummers Night dream and twelfth Night and, lemme shut up before i get carried away, LOL!, Romeo and Juliet is nice, that's undisputable, but i stubbornly refuse to mention it, because it's too cheesy!

"don't take life too seriously-you won't come out alive anyway"  don't know the source

can't seem to remember all the quotes i routinely hoard, forgive me, i'll try and be back!