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12 Oct 2007, 11:02 am

Dick and Jane (the easy reader books i learned on, since they have a dog named SPOT, and in MacBeth she says-- out out damn SPOT)

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12 Oct 2007, 11:27 am

[Dick and Jane (the easy reader books i learned on, since they have a dog named SPOT, and in MacBeth she says-- out out damn SPOT)]

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (sp?) has the character Jane Eyre in it.

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12 Oct 2007, 12:01 pm

Jasonw wrote:

so the connection is people named Jane?

k... Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (also has a Jane Eyre in it

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12 Oct 2007, 5:44 pm

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (another Bronte)

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12 Oct 2007, 7:16 pm

The complete poems of Emily dickenson....also an Emily.

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12 Oct 2007, 7:37 pm

Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner (because of the emily dickenson poem that says, "i'm nobody. who are you. are you a nobody too?"

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12 Oct 2007, 7:47 pm

i_Am_andaJoy wrote:

Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner (because of the emily dickenson poem that says, "i'm nobody. who are you. are you a nobody too?"

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne (because Captain Nemo's name means 'no-one' or 'nobody' in Latin. If this included video games, I would have mentioned Kingdom Hearts II....)

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12 Oct 2007, 7:53 pm

Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Written in the same period, also involves sea exploration and the unknown.

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12 Oct 2007, 7:56 pm

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by the same author.

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12 Oct 2007, 7:58 pm

Treasure Island (author)

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12 Oct 2007, 8:02 pm

King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard. Also an adventure story.

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12 Oct 2007, 8:14 pm

master of the Game by sidney sheldon (has diamonds and theft)

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12 Oct 2007, 8:25 pm

i_Am_andaJoy wrote:

master of the Game by sidney sheldon (has diamonds and theft)

Diamonds are Forever, by Ian Fleming.

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12 Oct 2007, 8:37 pm

Love You Until... by Lisa McCourt and William Haines (forever)

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13 Oct 2007, 5:30 am

love and death in the time of cholera

By Marquez (love and all....)

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13 Oct 2007, 5:33 am

Abhorsen by Garth Nix (lots of death and dead things)

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