What are your favourite books?

Beskrivning
I have a tag - "favourites" - which number around 40. What are your favourites? Feel free to add books, to thumb down books you didn't like, and to add comments.
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5,431 medlemmar
146 recensioner
½ 4.3
Global rankning 2
2 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963
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220 medlemmar
4 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 13
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aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith: This book explained so many things that happened to me and my friends. A brilliant analysis of how humans create new ideas
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4,295 medlemmar
103 recensioner
4
Global rankning 21
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aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith: I swore off middle-aged academic angst novels after Herzog, but I couldn't put this one down and thought it was spectacular at the end.
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9,464 medlemmar
99 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 3
2 Members
ahef1963, bluepiano,aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith : All the Freudian undertone really turned me off to his and Lawrence in general.
ahef1963: So evocative that I can see England, smell it, almost touch it.
bluepiano: Not in my top 500 but listing it because other comments have made me want to read it again. Evokes socially-striving working class in the north of England, invites a Freudian approach, explains Lawrence's twerpiness.
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80,220 medlemmar
1,364 recensioner
½ 4.4
Global rankning 104
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ahef1963,aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith : I really dislike the Bennetts.
ahef1963: My absolute favourite for many years. First read when I was 16. I had no idea until that point that classic fiction could be funny.
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42,077 medlemmar
1,134 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 112
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ahef1963,dara85 ,aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith : I found the allegory too over-the-top to enjoy this one.
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38,853 medlemmar
657 recensioner
3.9
Global rankning 107
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ahef1963,aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith : Didn't age well for me. I now find it misogynist and sentimental.
ahef1963: I had no idea that a book could make me cry that hard, twice. Brilliant and heartbreaking story.
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36,380 medlemmar
371 recensioner
½ 3.4
Global rankning 109
Member
ahef1963,aulsmith
Förklaringar
aulsmith : I find most of Hawthorne tough going. Too much character and too little action.