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No...its a great book, but it doesn't deserve to be number three. I just can't think of a better one right now.
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1. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien -- Yes, I'm counting the three books as one because they were split for publishing reasons.
2. Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
3. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin.
Of course, I am only thinking about fiction -- if I were to consider non-fiction as well, I'm not sure if I could so easily pick my top 3 favorite/most-influential.
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A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin Shogun, by James Clavell Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
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Ooh! I haven't read this yet, but I just found a nice hardback copy the other day at a discount book store for only $4.
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If someone were to put a gun to my head and demand that I name my three favorite books, I'm afraid I would not be long for this world.
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1. Stephen King's "The Stand" 2. John Irving's "The World According to Garp" 3. Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth"
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I feel the same way. What's a favorite? Every time I see a new brilliant film, it is my favorite. Every time I hear a new great tune (or happen upon an old great tune) on the radio. That's my favorite.
Favorite is a hard thing to clarify on a timeless objectivist scale.
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PS my favorite color is green.
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Me, too, Tom. What I decided was, OK, I will just write the three that come first and strongest to mind. A ton came. For instance, I JUST finished "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn." And how about C.J. Cherryh's "Fortress" series? Cruel!
Tom, if you used D.D. Shade's list of speculative fiction subgenres, could you choose three of each of those?
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1. Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. 2. Speaker for the Dead 3. Lord of the Rings
I have to consider one and three as a series. Sorry, but that's just the way I read them, and it's hard for me to remember exactly what parts are in which books. I read the Ender series together too, but they were all different enough that I can remember my feeling of each of them.
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