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Delli 
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:01pm |
I'm a BIG book reader. Could read books all night and all day if you let me and often dream of being a proof reader for a publisher or one of those people that write the blurbs on the back of books  . So, always interested to hear what other peoples absolute favourite book is. Everyone has ones they can recommend but I want to know the one you love above all others.
Mine is "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card.
Has been my favourite book for years and years. Read it countless times. Favourite genre is Sci Fi/Fantasy.
ETA - sorry, that should be "What's your favourite book?" in the title (not "Whats"). How lame to have a mistake like that in a post about books. Ugh, you wouldn't believe how many times I've had to come back and edit this post for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors etc and I bet there are still some there. Probably some in the ETA bit too.  . Perhaps I should follow my brain to bed.....
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:08pm |
Tully by Paulina Simmons. I love that book and can read it over and over again and still cry in the same bits
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:09pm |
My fave book of all time is PS I love You by Cecelia Ahern, I love her books (and not just cause she's Irish ) and I've read it countless times, love it and will read it again soon I think!
HATED the movie though.. couldn't watch after the first 15 mins.
Favourite genre, chick lit
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:22pm |
 MrsEmma wrote:
My fave book of all time is PS I love You by Cecelia Ahern, I love her books (and not just cause she's Irish ) and I've read it countless times, love it and will read it again soon I think!
HATED the movie though.. couldn't watch after the first 15 mins.
Favourite genre, chick lit |
But the best looking man in the world is in that movie how could you not watch it. I have been told that the book isn't that great and the movie is so much better. I must go and find it to read.
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:29pm |
Oh I bawled my eyes out through the whole movie! But agree the book was better.
Tully is a long time favourite of mine!
The one series of books I can read over and over and over - Harry Potter 
I'm not sure I can choose ONE book...!
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 10:40pm |
mummy_becks wrote:
Tully by Paulina Simmons. I love that book and can read it over and over again and still cry in the same bits |
I agree, its been my fave for years. Most of hers are good except the Bronze Horseman and the sequel
Oooh and anything Stephen King.
I love horror and thrillers
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 11:06pm |
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I love Diana Gabaldon, all of the Jamie & Claire series & the Lord John Grey ones- A Breath of Snow & Ashes would be my favourite. Sherlock Holmes too. Dickens, Enid Blyton. Individual book would be Whale Road by Robert Low. Favourite genre is definitely historical, hand to hand combat, swordfights etc. Mysteries. I like books full stop!
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 11:41pm |
Favourite book is waaaay to hard...some of my favourites are
Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
I know this much is true - Wally Lamb
Birdsong -Sebastian Faulks
Krakatoa-simon Winchester (plus his other nerdy geology books)
and lots of the classics like
Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights and most Jane Austen novels
So many books...so little time...sigh!
ETA: I always find that watching a movie after reading a book never lives up to expectations..probably coz I have invented in my head what things look like and it is disappointing if the movie doesn't match 
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Posted: 30 July 2010 at 11:42pm |
Tully yes!!
I actually liked The Pact by Jodi Pilcoult (sp?) sorry always forget her last name! kinda depressing but was really gripping.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 12:59am |
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My fave book ,no question about it , To Kill a mockingbird
beautiful , I would marry Atticus Finch if he was like, real , and I wasn't married to Phil
I can read the book over and over, and when I don't ,...then I go and google To Kill a Mockingbird quotes ,such beauty, such wisdom .
Im gonna go start reading it again now .
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:10am |
TheKelly wrote:
My fave book ,no question about it , To Kill a mockingbird
beautiful , I would marry Atticus Finch if he was like, real , and I wasn't married to Phil
I can read the book over and over, and when I don't ,...then I go and google To Kill a Mockingbird quotes ,such beauty, such wisdom .
Im gonna go start reading it again now . |
Same here- fav of ALL TIME 
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:10am |
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My fav is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. I havent read it for awhile, so might just have to get it off the bookcase this weekend.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:17am |
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Ooh I know this much is true! Definitely a good, good read!!
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:18am |
TaliP wrote:
I always find that watching a movie after reading a book never lives up to expectations..probably coz I have invented in my head what things look like and it is disappointing if the movie doesn't match |
So true! Always happens.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:19am |
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I love historical fiction - Philippa Gregory, Christina Dickason and Diana Gabaldon books. Everything seems far more sexy when corsets and dashing men were involved.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 8:21am |
caliandjack wrote:
I love historical fiction - Philippa Gregory, Christina Dickason and Diana Gabaldon books. Everything seems far more sexy when corsets and dashing men were involved. |
Omg definitely! I wonder why it's like that though...
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 9:12am |
mummy_becks wrote:
MrsEmma wrote:
My fave book of all time is PS I love You by Cecelia Ahern, I love her books (and not just cause she's Irish <IMG border=0 src="smileys/smiley2.gif"> ) and I've read it countless times, love it and will read it again soon I think!
HATED the movie though.. couldn't watch after the first 15 mins.
Favourite genre, chick lit |
But the best looking man in the world is in that movie how could you not watch it. I have been told that the book isn't that great and the movie is so much better. I must go and find it to read. |
Not even he could save it for me!! It was truly awful, plus I'm really not a Hilary Swank fan.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 10:10am |
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Oh man - I only get to pick one?
If so, it would have to be The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. I normally read it about once a year. SO good.
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 11:20am |
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only one??
My favourite of all time is The Drifter by James A Michener...I dont even own a copy at the moment...It cemented my desire to travel around europe
Others include the Janet Evanovich series, currently re-reading them for the umpteenth time!!!
My favourite genre would be a mix I guess..some action/adventure/mystery and sometimes some chick lit thrown in there...I tend to follow authors...
Lee Child
Matthew Reilly
Derek Hansen
Janet Evanovich
also a huge fan of the Twilight series...not so much the movies though
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Posted: 31 July 2010 at 12:08pm |
i have read the clan of the cave bear series by jean auel i dont know how many times. every time a new one was released i would re read the rest.
Delli the only problem about being a proof reader is that you dont actually get to really read as you are too busy checking for errors. 
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