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Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli

Master of the game by Sidney Sheldon

[quote author=Juliearth post=131599865][/quote]yep but their update is slow

Paentera:
The Count of Monte Cristo.

980 pages of pure fantasy writing!

you will also like the scarlet pimpernel,biack ships,the generals,sword and scimitar,a crowning mercy,captain blood,etc,they are set in the same time period,after reading hundreds if not thousands of novels my personal best will always be the novel from the African readers library,eze goes to school,one week one trouble an African night entertainment,tales of nso,the rainmaker,double trouble,etc these books bring back happy memories of when we are young boys carefree and truly happy

soojar:
Difficult to pick out
A few of James Hardly Chase like "Who wants to stay alive?", The four Mark Girland series, etc.
A few from Jeffery Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, etc.

But if you push me to pick one by force, I will go for "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet

A notable mention is this Yoruba Classic "Atoto Arere" By Oladejo Okediji


We learn every day.

Nice pick. Have you read the "Key to Rebecca" by Ken follet? It was also adapted into a movie.

abuhlawal:
Without a silver spoon

I really felt for Ure Chokwe!

There are some novels I read as a kid whose front and title pages were already torn so I didn't know their title but were so interesting. Many years after I still have that longing to finally know them.

One of them was an Egyptian setting. The main character was mostly in migration mode with some of his tribesmen through the desert region and encountered several epic challenges. One of such was that he was captured and thrown into a pit that contained a massive crocodile/s that had never been defeated, but he was able to kill the crocodile and come out of the pit.

There was a lot of mention of the sun god Ra in that book. Abeg who can remember the title?

Kemistri3:
I have this book. But haven't really had the interest in reading it

Maybe I should start

Due to its volume, I accompanied it with an audio version of 52 hours.

linkin8k:
The Famished Road by Ben Okri

No disrespect, and I don't want to discredit anyone's work, especially a globally respected author, but that book is $#!π

Deadly messaiah
Bottled leopard
Expo '77
And all James Hadley chase novel

Juliearth:
All of James Hadley Chase's series and recently, I am more invested in reading novels by Nigerians.


PS you can download any and every book from ocean of pdf.

Ocean of pdf?

I'm still searching for Hendu by Yerima Parker though.

Natbrowny:
👍 Aiit Miss. I heard there is a place in lagos where i can get stacks of old books, novels, textbooks and at a cheap rate.

it depends though..I collect books anywhere and anytime.most times,it's the least expected stores that have bestsellers at discounted prices..One can't say keep for me because you might never see those books there again.

sageb:
Yes, go and read Elechi Amadi's "Sunset in Biafra ".

The late Elechi Amadi is from Ikwerre tribe In Rivers State.

thanks a lot, im planning on writing a civil war novel as wel, i hv my story put together, i just need more infos on hw things were then. Ive read There was a country and other memoirs tho

noob03saibot:
I remember it. Never read the book, but saw the movie many many years ago on VHS. Lovely story. It had two female twins later on it, Alex and Eve I think.

Trust me, you will love the book even more than the movie.

ThierryJay:
Nice pick. Have you read the "Key to Rebecca" by Ken follet? It was also adapted into a movie.

Yeah, another masterpiece. Never watched the movie though. Now that you mentioned it I think I will check it out. Just that it's difficult for me to watch those old movies adapted from books. I will still check it out though. But there is this thing about "Pillars of the Earth" that stands it out for me.

I forgot to mention "nothing lasts forever" by Sidney Sheldon, It should be at the top of the shelf too.

soojar:
Yeah, another masterpiece. Never watched the movie though. Now that you mentioned it I think I will check it out. Just that it's difficult for me to watch those old movies adapted from books. I will still check it out though. But there is this thing about "Pillars of the Earth" that stands it out for me.

I forgot to mention "nothing lasts forever" by Sidney Sheldon, It should be at the top of the shelf too.

If you've read Key to Rebecca, then you dont really need to watch the movie as in most cases movie adaptations are a significant drop off from the entertainment value you got in print.

Every output from Sheldon deserves to be at the top of the shelf.

franchasofficia:
The Man of The People by Prof Chinua Achebe

Chike and The River by Prof Chinua Achebe


Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Please do you have the soft copy of the last two books here? I've been searching for them

amidel:
Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli

Wow!!..wow!!..wow!!.. can't believe Iv finally met someone who read that book.

Also my all time favorite. Read it when I was just 16. Gave me some goosebumps, but I refused to quit

Did u get to read Soul of Lilith by the same author?

mostob:
Please do you have the soft copy of the last two books here? I've been searching for them

No, I have the physical copies bought some years back

Kemistri3:
"His Excellency The honourable, high chief Nanga"😂

What is crazy is how real that book is.

In that book, the political system was ended by a coup

In last than two years, the then first Republic was also ended in a bloody coup

It was alleged that the novel inspired the January 1966 coup

Marie Corelli
- Sorrows of Satan
- Soul of Lilith

Sir Author Conan Doyle
- All Sherlock Holmes collections

JK Rowling
- Harry Potter 1-7

John Gresham
- The Firm (can never forget "judge Hugo"
- The Partner
- The Last Testament
- The Time to kill.
- Runaway Jury
- The client

Michael Crichton
- Timeline

Stephen King
- (forgetten their titles)

Charles Dickens
- Tale of Two Cities

Hardly Chase novels
- Ring of Borgia

Harlequin novels
Mills and Boom
Things fall Apart
Half of the Yellow Sun
Dan Brown novels.
-Da Vinci code
- Angels and Demons
- Deception Point
Edgar Allan Poe novels
All Shakespeare collections
48 Laws of Power
Art of Seduction
Art of War
The Last Real Gambado



Just the few I can remember

36STATES:
It is very interesting that nobody has mentioned any Wole Soyinka book.
Terrible writer, hate every of his book. Too much unnecessary English.

I think Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon can write a better book than him.

And u think he needs your validation??

How many people mentioned Mark Twain,Ralph Emerson, Paulo Coehlo and even Robinson Crusoe



And who are you?


Guy, u all in this thread will die and be forgotten but he will remain on Nobel Prize Hall of Fame forever

None mentioned Williams Shakespeare....does it change his greatness? Low IQ individual

U be igbo...the hate is real, Emeka

ThierryJay:
I don't even know the new generation of foreign authors again that took over from dem Sheldon, Grisham, Ludlum's set. Na only few local authors I still sabi. Times have indeed changed.

Did you ever read 'The Matarese Circle' by Robert Ludlum?

pyyxxaro:
College Days of John Ojo

One Eyed Sunday

Weep Not child

Gulliver Travels

Princess Esilokun

I read An African Night Entertainment in Primary 5...I'm still looking for it in book stores as an adult to no avail .. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, king Solomon's mines by Jack Ryder Haggard, Macbeth,Romeo and Juliet, ... Shakespeare. Ngugi Wa Thiong o' The Black Hermit, The Trial of Brother Jethro, Wole Sotinka THE ROAD....

Kemistri3:
I still want to know what happened to Kainene my love

She was never found sadly

Read Power, Politics and death and thank me later

halogate:
Marie Corelli
- Sorrows of Satan
- Soul of Lilith

Sir Author Conan Doyle
- All Sherlock Holmes collections

JK Rowland
- Harry Potter 1-7

John Gresham
- The Firm
- The Partner
- The Last Testament
- The Time to kill.
- Runaway Jury
- The client

Michael Crichton
- Timeline

Stephen King
- (forgetten their titles)

Charles Dickens
- Tale of Two Cities

Hardly Chase novels
- Ring of Borgia

Harlequin novels
Mills and Boom
Things fall Apart
Dan Brown novels.
Edgar Allan Poe novels


Just the few I can remember

you're vast and well read

Mom007:
Did you ever read 'The Matarese Circle' by Robert Ludlum?

Yeah, I did back when I was serving NYSC. Had the intense Americo-Russian CIA-KGB plot intrigues.

The Scarlatti Inheritance was the first Ludlum book I read but The Bourne series were the ones I enjoyed most.

halogate:
Marie Corelli
- Sorrows of Satan
- Soul of Lilith

Sir Author Conan Doyle
- All Sherlock Holmes collections

JK Rowland
- Harry Potter 1-7

John Gresham
- The Firm (can never forget "judge Hugo"
- The Partner
- The Last Testament
- The Time to kill.
- Runaway Jury
- The client

Michael Crichton
- Timeline

Stephen King
- (forgetten their titles)

Charles Dickens
- Tale of Two Cities

Hardly Chase novels
- Ring of Borgia

Harlequin novels
Mills and Boom
Things fall Apart
Dan Brown novels.
Edgar Allan Poe novels
All Shakespeare collections



Just the few I can remember

Great choices. I see you read a wide genre.

Timeline was my best Micheal Crichton book even more than Jurassic park. It's one of my all time bests.

I also loved the Woolsworth classics set - Ivanhoe, Tale of 2 cities, Treasure Island and co.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures is a literary hall-of-famer. Edgan Allan Poe is also one of the Goats.

Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte is also an all time favorite of many.

There was this book about Chess pieces and its historical implications in discovering immortality. The Eight by Katherine Neville. It's an epic tale of adventure, history, time travel and some intriguing theories.

Zayttoven:
Sometimes I wonder how I fell in love with reading novels. I presume it was out of sheer curiosity. Although I no longer read novels, I can't help but reminisce on the good ol' days.

I've read a lot of novels from authors such as Dante Alighieri, Leo Tolstoy, George R.R. Martin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie, J.K. Rowling, Mario Puzo, Robert Ludlum, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sidney Sheldon, George Orwell, Tom Clancy, James Patterson and our very own Chinua Achebe just to mention a few.

My personal favourite would be Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

What's yours?

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell, because it a realistic story of present Nigeria under apc.

2. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, because it made me understand Islam and muhammed.

3. There was a country, by Chinua Achebe because it touched some truth some Nigerians shy away from.

ThierryJay:
Great choices. I see you read a wide genre.

Timeline was my best Micheal Crichton book even more than Jurassic park. It's one of my all time bests.

I also loved the Woolsworth classics set - Ivanhoe, Tale of 2 cities, Treasure Island and co.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures is a literary hall-of-famer. Edgan Allan Poe is also one of the Goats.

Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte is also an all time favorite of many.

There was this book about Chess pieces and its historical implications in discovering immortality. The Eight by Katherine Neville. It's an epic tale of adventure, history, time travel and some intriguing theories.

Thanks bro...True, I have no specific genre. I read whichever book I can lay my hands on. Though I naturally prefer British authors author due to their use of English words, but A Tale of Two Cities was a big challenge!!

I'll be sure to look up the books n authors you've mentioned. Thanks