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Divergent!!
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Stephen King - I still remember receiving the hard cover copy of Salem's Lot from the Publisher's Clearinghouse Book Club in the 70's and discovering the magic. Kurt Vonnegut, too!

And as for series, it would have to be Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Talk about magic!
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Post by cherrymw-uk »

ooo definitely A little princess, the secret garden and the septimus heap series
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Harry Potter, and The Boxcar Children are the two I can think of right now. They're just such great books, and perhaps I'll go hunt down Boxcar Children again. I remember reading and enjoying it immensely, but I can't remember much beyond that!
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Graverobber wrote:And have any book/series to read again and experience anew, what would it be?

(Note: I'm not talking about "rereading", I mean reading for the first time, even though you've read it before, that's where the magic wand comes in :lol: )

I've always thought Harry Potter would be fun to re experience 8)
Probably Harry Potter for me too or the Secret Garden... that book was magical the first time I read it in grade school with my mom.
Also side note, Graverobber, I love your quote about books not being threatened by Kindle as stairs are not threatened by elevators. Awesome! Did you come up with that or did you find it somewhere?
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J.k. Rowling's Harry Potter or Darynda Jones' Grave series
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Post by Vanessa_J25 »

yikes! i've never read the harry potter series (i know, i know i'll probably barrow them from my friend) and my favorite series is the artemis fowl series. so yeah...i would choose artemis fowl :wink:
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cmp librarian wrote:Also side note, Graverobber, I love your quote about books not being threatened by Kindle as stairs are not threatened by elevators. Awesome! Did you come up with that or did you find it somewhere?

I went searching for a good quote for my signature and found the best one ever :mrgreen:
I would've used it regardless of who said it but the fact that it's a Stephen Fry quote just made it better.
There's so much around here about e-books and about them being the future!
All I have to say is people have started buying records again 8)
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston is a book I'd love to be able to read for the first time again. It is a go-to recommendation whenever a friend asks what they should be reading. The book was sometimes magical, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking. However, I completely trusted the writer to take me somewhere that would not only explore the character Maxine's identity, but make me think about my own as well. I still think about this book a lot and I suppose in a way, I'm still reading it.
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Run Baby Run! It was the first novel I ever read, and it turned me on to reading for the first time in my life. I was probably 14 or 15 at the time. Before that, I never knew reading could take you into someone else's life and make you experience what they were experiencing. I wonder if it would still have the same impact now as it did then.
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Dark Tower series by Stephen King for sure. I was soyoung when I read it that I am sure to be mixing up events!
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Harry Potter for me as well. One of my favourites!
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A couple novels by Dickens come to mind - David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities
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Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" Series. But I would want all of them to read one after another.
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Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose".
I thoroughly enjoyed it the first time. I tried re-reading it years later and couldn't do it!
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