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718 voters
Listopia > JAMES AKER's votes on the list Books that Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About (30 Books)
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The Lord of the Rings
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"An epic adventure with characters of great depth."
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Les Misérables
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"You begin to read, an eternity passes, and you find your self at the end."
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The Great Gatsby
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"The Great American Novel."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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"Pulitzer prize winner. The one and only from Haper Leee."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Grapes of Wrath
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"True American heroism."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Holy Bible: English Standard Version
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"Best Seller."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Great Expectations
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"One of Chas Dickens great books."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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A Tale of Two Cities
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"The other great book from Dickens"
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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The Iliad
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"Prototype epic tale that takes place over the wine dark sea."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Of Mice and Men
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"Who can forget Lenny and George."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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"The first great American Novel."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Old Man and the Sea
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"My favorite Hemingway Novella."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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1984
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"Prototype dystopian lit."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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"Great Hard Boiled detective fiction."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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"More great Hemingway."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Silas Marner
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" I know many don't like this book because they were forced to read it in High School. But I find this story of true self-sacrificing love an inspirational tale."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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"Truly a great story of the best revenge of all."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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"The characters of Gus and Call, Deats and Laurie, Newt, and the rest lived for me. They came off the page and into my heart and mind and truly lived. "
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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"The contemplative person's handbook."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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"One of the great poetic stories of all time."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Flyfishing, Trout & Old Men (The Pruett Series)
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"Great stories from a great writer."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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Rivers of Memory (The Pruett Series)
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"More poetic prose from a truly great writer taken from us much too soon."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Haunting of Hill House
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"Truly one of the most frightening stories of all time. "
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Skull Beneath The Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)
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"One of a series of very cereberal mysteries by the Baroness James staring her ace detective Commander Adam Dalglish."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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"Quintessential Christie"
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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A Christmas Carol
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"The perennial Christmas tale. It loses notheing in the telling year after year."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Name of the Rose
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"A great dark ages mystery."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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Lord Jim
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"A study of cowards and heroes and the difference between them. A thought provoking story of ordinary men reacting in extraordinary circumstances."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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The Odyssey
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"Another great adventure of epic proportions."
JAMES
rated it 5 stars
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The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing
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"Great work from the pen of another grreat writer."
JAMES
rated it 4 stars
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