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Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on May-30-2003 14:18:

ive never been able to finish a book. i just hate reading i guess. i always get to like 50 pages and give up. apart from the adrian mole books

Posted by Orbax on May-30-2003 14:33:

lol i was calling the author of sophies world a dick martian

and I know all about RJ I have his compendium also. hes my favorite author. Its weak in a sense of not as intense as Lord of Chaos, or have quite the feeling of shadow rising.

But you cant have those again, because their lives are different. You admitted its "not weak if you know what hes doing" but that just means he has an excellent excuse for it being weak.

Its still amazing writing, but he has to get some story lines in place which creates a sense of dull technicality behind it

all i was sayin

cheers

Posted by whiskers on May-30-2003 16:00:

not really a traveling book, but the amazing Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk was the book that lead me into reading The Beach... also, Chuck's Survivor is very good.

Posted by rollypoles on May-30-2003 18:09:

fight club is awesome.....definitely a short read though.

dont read A Prayer For Owen Meany, it sucks ass, seriously.

also, a good author that i found is greg iles. he writes more along the lines of an "action" novel, but they['re good. i've read "the quiet game", "Spandau phoenix" and "Black cross"....the last two are about Nazis, but all three are very good if you're looking for a "action" book.

Posted by Z1D on May-30-2003 18:18:

quote:
Originally posted by mikefasssy
Guys, if you actually follow up on Robert Jordan, the 10th installment did exactly what it was supposed to do. Jordan layed out his plan for each book about 15 years ago, so this was all expected. It's annoying to see so many people criticize his work of late without getting to know him or the story behind the story more.

He layed out a plan that nothing would happen in book 10? I'm sorry but a book with no plot is just not good in my books. My largest pet peeve with Jordan is his tendency to introduce a zillion characters with little or no importance (ie, several of his books have 100 page introductions which introduce 20 or more characters). Honestly, I truly believe that if I skipped book 10 and went straight to book 11 when it comes out, I would not have missed a damn thing.

Posted by NRGME on May-30-2003 19:08:

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Probably the single greatest book I have ever read. Everytime I need a good kick in the ass I give it a read. Can be read in less than a day, but the lessons you learn from it last a lifetime.

Posted by amit on May-30-2003 22:07:

if your looking for a non fiction book grab this

"into thin air" by jon krakauer. its about his adventure on mt. everst. its a really fucked up story. it was new york times # 1 seller and won some awards

Posted by DiS on May-31-2003 05:59:

Best books I've read:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One hundered years of Solitude" <-- Buenandia Family will always be dear to me.
Vladimir Nabakov "LOLITA" <-- Super!
K. Vonnegut "Cat's Cradle" (I've read almost everything by him.)
Alexander Dumas "Count of Monte Christo"
Ops!
Oscar Wilde "Picture Of Dorian Gray" (almost forgot..great book!)

To get into the groove:
- Aldous Huxley (um..spelling) "Brave New World"
(and also "Brave New World Revisited" gives you further insight. Read it before an actuall book. You'll understand WHY a lot of things occur.)
- F.Scott Fitcherald "The Great Gatsby" <-- romantic
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess <--you need to analyze it in depth before fully understanding it.

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernli...bestnovels.html
A link to the list of 100 best books ever written.

p.s. it still escapes me how Salinger got on that list.

Posted by daydreamer on May-31-2003 06:41:

quote:
Originally posted by NRGME
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Probably the single greatest book I have ever read. Everytime I need a good kick in the ass I give it a read. Can be read in less than a day, but the lessons you learn from it last a lifetime.

LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!

have been meaning to get my own personal copy.
really great book.

also, did anyone else get into the vampire chronicles by Anne Rice like i did. read most of them already.

Posted by mikefasssy on May-31-2003 07:23:

quote:
Z1D: He layed out a plan that nothing would happen in book 10? I'm sorry but a book with no plot is just not good in my books. My largest pet peeve with Jordan is his tendency to introduce a zillion characters with little or no importance (ie, several of his books have 100 page introductions which introduce 20 or more characters). Honestly, I truly believe that if I skipped book 10 and went straight to book 11 when it comes out, I would not have missed a damn thing.

Your loss...

Posted by Paula on May-31-2003 12:45:

The Bourne Identity , by Robert Ludlum
*The movie was based on the book and the movie was good. However the BOOK kicks the crap out of the movie. There's more sotry, more detail, more action, everything is better. Then if you really love the book , there's 2 sequels (The Bourne SUpremacy, and the Bourne Utimatum)

Posted by brunette on May-31-2003 15:03:

Maugham 'Far Eastern tales'
Ondaatje 'The English Patient'
Palin 'Sahara'
Golden 'Memoirs of geisha'
by the same author of 'The Beach' - 'The Tesseract'
Saramago 'Blindness'
Hermann Hesse 'Siddhartha'
Camus 'The Fall' ("have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell?")
Eco 'The name of the rose'
Coupland 'Microserfs'
Symmes 'Chasing Che'
Cunninghame 'Mogreb-el-Acksa'

(not all travel books)... I can't think of any more at the moment

Posted by klingklang77 on May-31-2003 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by DiS

p.s. it still escapes me how Salinger got on that list.

how could you say that^^^^?

Posted by Eu4ea on May-31-2003 20:59:

hey ya

thanks heaps everybody, though I've read most of these I have a good list of things to get from border tonight. But damn I wish books weren't so expensive! Please keep more coming.

Esp. anything written by british authors.

Posted by davinox on May-31-2003 22:37:

Posted by fitom tiel on May-31-2003 22:48:

By a British author, although already mentioned before:
'Point Counter Point' by Aldous Huxley,
even more sadisitic than 'Brave New World', if that's possible
'Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid', by Tibor Fischer

otherwise, if you like their style:
'Lullaby', 'Choke', 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahniuk (author of 'Fight Club')

other favorites:
'Prozac Nation' by Elizabeth Wurtzel (made into a movie this year)
It's like an extreme, modern-day J.D. Sallinger novel, with a lot more technicality to it-
'Requiem for a Dream' by Hubert Selby Jr. - tragedy at its best.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The matriarchal section of Latin American culture, amongst other customs, portrayed in a pessimistic, tragic manner.
Also, anything that relates to forensic medicine; Patricia Cornwell, Jeffrey Deaver.

I dig pessimism.

Posted by fitom tiel on May-31-2003 23:49:

davinox, those are a bunch of classics...
including american literature, and just plain historical classics

nice selections, i would recommend those reads, although not all amongst my favorites.

Posted by Ortemy on Jun-08-2003 01:00:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Perfume by Patrick S�skind
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
Everything is quiet on Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Alchemist - by Paulo Cuelho
Clock Work Orange - Anthony Berdges

Posted by djSlain on Jun-08-2003 01:40:

clockwork orange. SCARY

Posted by The Highroller on Jun-08-2003 02:06:

quote:
Originally posted by djnaeblis
YAH! SERIOUSLY! WOW! Not only the best book. But the best movie ever................

did you read the book cause i know the movie sucked but the book was damn good

Posted by DJ Chrono on Jun-08-2003 03:08:

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

not a bad book. a little crazy, very short, but worth a read.

Posted by Endlesswave on Jun-08-2003 03:53:

Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance Chronicles Series (First 3)

Click HERE for information (keep in mind look at the Chronicles Trilogy ONLY as some of the other numerous books are good, just not in the same calibre IMO)

Posted by Ortemy on Jun-08-2003 17:03:

quote:
Originally posted by djSlain
clockwork orange. SCARY

The movie "Natural Born Killers" is also scary, nevertheless it's really good. Same goes for Clock Work Orange (both movie and the book).

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