Calypso7
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Re: Favorite Book
In no particular order except random remembrance:
Everything by Australian writers Patrick White and Peter Carey, but especially Voss and Illywhacker, respectively. Voss is the only novel I ever started over again and re-read straight through immediately after reading it the first time.
The Idiot, Dostoevsky
Cheri, Colette
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (a recent addition to my list, and added only with some misgivings)
Everything by Nathanael Hawthorne, but especially The Marble Faun
Everything by Virginia Woolf, especially The Waves
Everything by Javier Marias, especially Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Mysteries by P.D. James and Elizabeth George
ABSOLUTELY everything by Orhan Pamuk, but especially Snow and My Name is Red, my all-time favorite book.
That's enough for now. 
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Kash Pigeon
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The book, before the 2004 ALW's Phantom of the Opera came out could be picked up for about $5 at any used bookstore, or even online (unless it was a 1st edition hardback) Then the movie hit. Prices for used paperback editions skyrocketed--I saw them go for $300-$400 on Ebay. The book was out of print, and everyone wanted to read it.
I remember that very well. I've been dying for a copy of Kay's Phantom years before the movie but could never find it in local used bookstores, and when the prices started soaring I was devastated. I remember thinking: "Now, I'll never get it!" However, I was fortunate enough to find a perfectly good paperback version for $4 at a used bookstore in a tiny town I was vacationing in. Huzzah! I love that book. It gets me everytime and is definetly one of my favorites.
Some other favorites:
The Phantom of the Opera, Leroux
The Harry Potter series.
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Laurie King's Holmes pastiche series of mysteries
Yes! I love those. But my favorite has to be the first book in the series, The Beekeeper's Apprentice. This has to be my favorite non-Doyle Holmes story ever.
I think that's it for me.
Kash
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7/2/2006, 3:07 pm
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Renilly
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Re: Favorite Book
My favourite book is Cross Stitch (aka Outlander - it's only called Cross Stitch in the UK) by Diana Gabaldon, there's actually a whole series but the first one is my absolute favourite book ever.
I also like Jane Eyre and Atlas Shrugged.
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9/21/2008, 7:36 pm
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, was "And I thought I was bad about collecting books!"
about V.