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Books that have stayed with you

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  • #92
    fichillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭fichillie


    1984 - George Orwell
    The Road - Cormac McCarthy (The most moving book Ive ever read)
    The diving bell and the butterfly - Jean Dominique Bauby
    The five people you meet in heaven - Mitch Albom
    The book of lost things - John Connolly
    Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
    The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas


  • #93
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    The brothers Karamazov - Dostoevski
    Walden - Thoreau

    The two that I have probably gone back to most.


  • #94
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    cameilla13 wrote: »
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Interesting. I finished this last week but wasn't overly impressed. I don't know, I thought the premise should have offered a much stronger story and I found I didn't care about any of the characters.


  • #95
    problemchimp
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    The Other Hand-Chris Cleave
    Birdsong-Sebastian Faulks
    That they may face the rising sun-John McGahern


  • #96
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Quality wrote: »
    It has to be

    The Road..

    Oh I read that book when I was heavily pregnant and I remember crying and the fear in me of it!!

    Also, a thousand splendid suns and Amongst Women, I still think of the father in that book with such pity.
    A thousand splendid suns broke my heart, so sad. Beautifully written.


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  • #97
    cameilla13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭cameilla13


    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Interesting. I finished this last week but wasn't overly impressed. I don't know, I thought the premise should have offered a much stronger story and I found I didn't care about any of the characters.

    I think it is a love/hate book. I loved that it was subtle almost vague on details about the situation. I felt the opposite about the characters, I wanted to re-read it hoping that things would turn out different for them.


  • #98
    Namlub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    The Outsider-Albert Camus


  • #99
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    3 by McCarthy

    The Road for the same reasons as others , Child of God , and Blood Meridian, the ending in contrast to all that had gone before was truly disturbing
    in that I wasn;t spelled out as graphically chilled me to the bone

    Others Catch 22, the dark tower books, and the wasp factory for it's wft at the end especially :D


  • #100
    coffeespoons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭coffeespoons


    The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy is probably the most beautiful book ever.
    I second the Book of Lost Things, lovely read.
    Wuthering Heights - I've been reading it nearly every year for the past ten year.
    The Wayward Bus - Steinbeck, definitely one of his lesser known masterpieces. I think its what Steinbeck is all about, perfectly crafted characters.
    The Life of Pi
    The Three Day Road
    The Book Thief
    I think my holiday read of choice would be The Shadow of the Wind!


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