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Puck of Pook's Hill by Kipling - actually, almost anything by Kipling.
Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
The Mummies of Urumchiand Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
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The Mummies of Urumchi and Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber I second that. Also, Dr Barber's Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean is a great read, too. I heard her lecture a few times at UCLA IE Linguistics and Archeology conferences, and she is an elegant speaker. Her husband, Paul Barber, is no slouch either. He has written a great book called Vampires, Burial, and Death.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
LOTR by J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
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The Mummies of Urumchi and Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
I second that. Also, Dr Barber's Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with special reference to the Aegean is a great read, too. I heard her lecture a few times at UCLA IE Linguistics and Archeology conferences, and she is an elegant speaker. Her husband, Paul Barber, is no slouch either. He has written a great book called Vampires, Burial, and Death.
Where do those two find time to sleep? I received for Christmas their book "When They Severed Earth From Sky - How the Human Mind Creates Myth"
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Ha! Favorite books, eh? Don't be silly, books can't be "favorite"; girlfriends and automobiles are favorites, they can be used over and over again until their familiarity blends into the backdrop of everyday existence and you become accustomed to their...uh...face. Books are different. You read them and you learn...or you don't learn. The learning, you see, is all that books contain. So the question, better put, is...What books have brought new information into your life that otherwise would have left you dull? Today I am not dull because I have read... The Open and Closed Mind. The Pleasure and Pain Principal. The King James Bible. The Song of Zarathustra. And most of the works of Plato, John Lee Hooker, and John Sturart Mills, and Kant and Zen. And Wittgenstein. And today, I am widely known as an alpha man because of it. 
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Where do those two find time to sleep?
They're academics; it's in their job description to read and write books.
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zm: My reaction too
However, I have to admit that I read only during the commercials
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Back when I was in high-school, I used to skip school in the rainy wintertimes just to sit huddled inside of a small children slide-house so I could read Lord of the Rings... good times. I can't get myself to read another epic-medieval-fantasy though.
themilum, it sounds to me that all you read is philosophy... no wonder that's your take on books.
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I'll read almost anything. Even the fine print... 
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Books, like people can be favorites. Sometimes I read to learn; sometimes I just enjoy spending time with the author or characters. Reading on computer will never replace books because it lacks the tactile pleasure of the physical object especially of books 70 or more years old with thick silk-like pages and linen or leather covers.
I don't read books in which I don't like the characters, or the author's style: why voluntarily spend that much time with people I don't like? If I want to learn about dark underbellies and gritty realities I'll come to work.
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