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    Quote Originally Posted by Linet View Post
    Amber Chronicles?
    The witcher?
    ....why i dont know those books ? I suppose they are fantasy books?
    Yes, fantasy, but an adult version, with excellent humour and serious philosophy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hochmeister View Post
    Yes, fantasy, but an adult version, with excellent humour and serious philosophy.
    I am an adult

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    The book which saved my life:

    I'm a peaceful warrior.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linet View Post
    I am an adult
    I don't mean you
    I'd say, the Lord of Rings isn't "adult" book, it's too romantic and childish; probably I wouldn't give Sapkowski and Zelazny to the teens under 18 YO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hochmeister View Post
    I don't mean you
    I'd say, the Lord of Rings isn't "adult" book, it's too romantic and childish; probably I wouldn't give Sapkowski and Zelazny to the teens under 18 YO.
    I feel the need to defend philosophy of Tolkien
    書堂개 삼 년에 풍월 읊는다

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    I like the dystopian worlds created in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, but Orwell's allegorical work Animal Farm is also one of my favorites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scholarios Chiotis View Post
    I feel the need to defend philosophy of Tolkien
    Well, Tolkien encoded a lot of massages into his works, using Medieval symbolism of Europe. That's an epic and very beautifully masterpiece, inherent in the classical literature by a British gentleman. That's a great book, overwhelmed with a pure nobility.
    The Tolkien's hero is a chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.

    On the other hand, there is severe life in the books by Zelazny/ Sapkowski, that is a serious fantasy. The romantic knights turn cynical playboys, fair princesses turn depraved loose women and effulgent Camelot becomes a gray and merciless Big Apple.

    Tolkien creates cloud castles, while Zelazny and Sapkowski ruin them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexandraD View Post
    i've been meaning to read more of his stuff, if i recall when i was much younger i read a book... oh gosh, i think it was about two lovers and their suicide? or something to do with suicide. it was very good but im sure i would 'understand' his stuff better now at my age.
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    Definitely my favorite book is



    I´ve read it more than a dozen times.

    Few of them more:


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    ''Call of the wild'' by Jack London.

    Also ''Tom Sawyer'' isn't far behind.

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    This was a classic. I read it when I was 11 or 12, years before I ever saw the movie. The book is cool compared to the movie because it describes the mental patients hallucinations and freak outs and so on like vivid acid trips. Well, I guess that would be cool to an 11 or 12 year old.




    I read this when I was probably 7-9. Id, Ego and Super-ego It was my favorite for a long time when I was little. I saw both the movies afterwards and liked them.




    Also Call of the Wild. That was a classic as well. I had a fancy illustrated version of that book as well as well as Moby Dick when I was just a kid (never finished Moby Dick).

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