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I've read On the Road by Jack Kerouac 3 times and A Confederacy of Dunces by Johnathon Kennedy Toole twice. I think they are the only books i've ever re-read

Dear God! I was about to start a Hemingway thread on this subject. Thought Farewell to Arms was excellent. Couldn't even bring myself past the halfway mark in For whom the Bell Tolls. So so boring I found it. Did they ever blow up that damn bridge? I have not read any other Hemingway.

My dad got it for christmas - i'm about a hundred pages in. Its about as good as you could hope a book about astronomy, physics and chemistry(so far) to be. Some of the stories about the scientests eccentric ways are pretty cool. Its pretty easy to follow considering its subject matter. As...

Possibly. I do remember she hadn't started school though so I'd guess closer to 5.

I recently read Papillion by Henri Charierre which is autobiographical and therefore classed as non-fiction. A while back I read On The Road by Jack Kerouac which I understood to also be more or less autobiographical but it is classed as fiction? Does anybody know how much a story must...

I just read Papillion and Banco. They are brilliant, especially Papillion. If anyone like adventure stories.....well you could do a lot worse than these 2.

Its a great book alright - though i found it a bit hard to swallow that the kid Scout had such a handle on prose. What age was she - around 5?