The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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What's your all time best novel that you can repeatedly read ?
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I was thinking that too! It's refreshing. I need something with more depth and scope to it than Harry Potter. Lovecraft is excellent. I've a mind to re-read some Voltaire this summer too.






Can't wait to see the movie!

Can't wait to see the movie!"
I wonder if that book is destined to be a modern classic. We shall see in thirty years or so.

Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings series and The Hobbit"
I was always surprised that Lucifer's Hammer was not made into a movie.

Alright Jeeves, PG Wodehouse
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett

"Tales from Margaritaville" by Jimmy Buffet
"The Gold Coast" by Nelson Demille
I know they probably meant just one novel, but I had to list several , and still did not name all my favorites.

Lord of the Rings when I was a teenager.
The Belgariad is my real comfort book. Another teenage hangover.
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch.
Down and Out In Paris and London
A homage to Catalonia
The Girl with All the Gifts
Let the Right one In is amazing.
Good Omens
Hitchhikers

Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke.
Harry Potter by JK Rowling.
Of course, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are my favourites too, by JRR Tolkien.

Dune
The Hobbit
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The short stories of Ray Bradbury
Call Me by Your Name

The Hobbit
Hogfather
Neverwhere
The Long Earth
The Box of Delights


More recently, I also have to say that Meriln the Lost Years (the 5 books) by T.A. Barron is a must for readers of Fantasy, you will not regret it!

Can't wait to see what the movie will look like. Good luck to make this logical. Even the novel you have to read some parts a few times, it is so complex!

I have read Dune a few times as well and having read the above comments fancy doing so again.

Can't wait to see what the movie will look like. Good luck to make this logical. Even the novel you have to read some parts a few times, it is so complex!"
It is pretty complex, I agree. I didn't know they were planning on making a movie out of it; sounds like a hell of a task.
Still waiting for a movie adaptation of the Edda, though :)


Breaking Out by Derek Maitland.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
And of course, The Hobbit.

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