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To: jocon307

I have Read 1984, Atlas Shrugged, Les Miserables, and Moby Dick (from the list).

Not on the list, but I have read:
War And Peace
And Quiet Flows the Don
The Bridge on the Drina
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
The Fountainhead
Crime and Punishment
Captain Bligh’s Personal Journals
Dr. Zhivago
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Brave New World
Ben Hur
and Many Non-Fiction History Books.

Never liked Dickens, Austin, or the Brontes, but I have no “guilt’ about not having read them so I won’t lie! LOL!


62 posted on 02/03/2014 2:59:52 PM PST by left that other site
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“Dr. Zhivago”

I loved that book. I really felt I understood the Russians a little better after reading it too. They went through 3 huge wars right in a row. love the movie too, so romantic!


81 posted on 02/03/2014 3:10:19 PM PST by jocon307
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Captain Bligh’s Personal Journals

Never knew they existed. Was he really involved in three mutinies?

"A Fatal Shore" details some of his problems dealing with the corrupt officers in Oz when he was the Governor General or the like.

93 posted on 02/03/2014 3:15:13 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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Don't care for Dickens either, but if you give "Persuasion" a try, I think you'll like it.

Ben-Hur is a sleeper. I really enjoyed it despite Lew Wallace's tendency to over-write and the fact that he spent a good deal of time shooting at some of my relatives.

108 posted on 02/03/2014 3:26:25 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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