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Posted by goose_wh on Dec-21-2003 22:29:

What are your favourite books?

Well?

I am reading 1984 at the moment and i really like it.

my favourite book is Death & the Penguin by Andre Kurkov. its about a russian man who gets a job writing obituaries for a newspaper to be stored for when the person who has been obituarised actually dies, and he gets tangled up with the mafia. It also has a penguin called Misha in it which is ace.

Posted by moncster on Dec-21-2003 22:39:

Summer of Night.
Its "in your face" terror will keep you up for nights. Stephen King's subtle style is for whimps.

Posted by squirrelly on Dec-21-2003 22:48:

Anything by Robyn Mckinley; Fav by her though is either "deerskin" or "the hero and the crown"

I enjoy Dean Koontz (I have almost every book)

Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley

The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Killing me Softly by Nicci French

I tend to read a lot of Nietzsche when I can.

More often than not lately though, I've been reading several different newspapers everyday as reading, since I don't have time to go out and purchase a new novel.

Posted by displaced on Dec-21-2003 22:59:

brave new world by aldous huxley. makes you wonder if we are really making progress for the humanity.

i think my favorite book is catcher in the rye, probably cuz i could relate so well with holden caulfield...

Posted by Tranc3 on Dec-21-2003 23:35:

-Brave New World
-The Sword of Truth Series
-Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory series
-A People's History of the United States
-Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them
-Ender's Game series
-Neuromancer series
-I, Robot series
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
-Lord of the Flies

Posted by arctic on Dec-22-2003 00:21:

I actually like all the Tolkein books; Roverandom (Sp, gah), The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Lord Of The Rings and so on.

Posted by torontotrance on Dec-22-2003 00:25:

errrr besides the bible (which I read more than anything)

chronicles of narnia (always loved that series)
actually anything by c.s lewis i like
john grisham (more of his old stuff..not the new stuff as much)
I've read just about all the classics...

Posted by goose_wh on Dec-22-2003 00:33:

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
I actually like all the Tolkein books; Roverandom (Sp, gah), The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Lord Of The Rings and so on.

Ive only read the Hobbit (and that was at school), ive put off watching the LOTR films until i have read the books so i really ought to get cracking soon.

Posted by You aint Ninja on Dec-22-2003 00:45:

Slaughterhouse V

Posted by arctic on Dec-22-2003 00:47:

quote:
Originally posted by goose_wh
Ive only read the Hobbit (and that was at school), ive put off watching the LOTR films until i have read the books so i really ought to get cracking soon.

heh, i read the Hobbit when I was 10 or so, then naturally moved on to LOTR and then the Silmarillion.

Get reading eh?

Posted by _Nut_ on Dec-22-2003 01:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
-Ender's Game series

Excellent excellent excellent. my choice as well

Posted by dvuble on Dec-22-2003 01:14:

A Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
His Dark Materials (Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman

Posted by BTG on Dec-22-2003 01:14:

Rainbow6
Sphere
1984
Hobbit
Baldurs Gate

i dont read much. so thats all i can remember.

Posted by squirrelly on Dec-22-2003 01:15:

I forgot to mention tolkein... I suppose I thought it was a given that everyone knew I was a LOTR geek from birth

Posted by Virus on Dec-22-2003 01:31:

1984 - George Orwell (the best of the best)
The Idiot, Tales From The Underground, The Double - Fjodor Dostojevskij
For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Mr Nice - Howard Marks
Some stuff by Charles Bukowsky
Almost all the books by Mario Puzo

etc etc

I enjoy a good book a hundred times more than a film

Posted by SuperFarStucker on Dec-22-2003 01:49:

I couldn't stand 1984, terrible book in my opinion. Seems like all it does is chalk one up for the conspiracy theorists. I read about a "page" of it before I decided it was ass though.. Didn't like the style or the subject, although one day I suppose I'll force myself to drudge through it.

I take a particular liking to The Great Gatsby.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning -- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Raisin in the Sun (it's actually a play) is also ace.

I don't read much but I have been meaning to read Adam Douglas' works which I have high expectations for. (in contrast to most fantasy drivel which I spent much of my early teens reading. It's all the same -- shit)

Posted by TwoPlow on Dec-22-2003 02:31:

1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Slaughterhouse 5 - (Don't Remember)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradberry
Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Sallinger
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wizard Of Earthsea Series - Ursula K. Le Guin
Hyperion Series - Dan Simmons
Illium & Olympos - Dan Simmons
Prayers To Broken Stones - Dan Simmons
Lovedeath - Dan Simmons
Enders Game Series - Orson Scott Card
Dune - Frank Herbert
Snowcrash - (Don't Remember)
Shogun - James Clavelle
Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
Hitchhiker's Guide Series - Douglas Adams

Those are what comes to mind. I read a lot. Sorry I missed a few authors, can't remember them all.

My dad has a huge room full of books, so I whore stuff from him. Good times.

Posted by BTG on Dec-22-2003 02:43:

oh yah.

the stinky cheese man.

Posted by zarathustra on Dec-22-2003 18:45:

quote:
Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
I couldn't stand 1984, terrible book in my opinion. Seems like all it does is chalk one up for the conspiracy theorists. I read about a "page" of it before I decided it was ass though.

Which page was it?

Posted by smokeape on Dec-22-2003 21:25:

Moby Dick! Arrrrrrr!

{{{smoke}}}

Posted by Spin Doctor on Dec-22-2003 23:19:

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller. Catch 22 it's self is actually in a way quite similar to double think, so you might want to check that out.

Currently Reading: Burning Chrome & Other Stories - William Gibson.
Just Finished: Father Land - Robert Harris.

Posted by Nosmo on Dec-23-2003 01:15:

The Civil War - Shelby Foote (all 3 volumes are great)
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Damaged - Josephine Hart
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Posted by Omegasox on Dec-23-2003 01:30:

Freedom from the Known - J. Krishnamurti
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
The Selected Writings of D.T. Suzuki
Timeline, Sphere, Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Abduction - Robin Cook
The Ending of Time - David Bohm & J. Krishnamurti
Wholeness and the Implicate Order - David Bohm
A Mind So Rare - Merlin Donald
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
The Physics of Conciousness - Evan Harris
Many Lives, Many Masters - Brian Weiss
Ethics for the New Millenium - Dalai Lama

Have to agree with all those who said the Enders game series! One of the few works of fiction that I've read more than once.

Posted by goose_wh on Dec-23-2003 01:59:

loads of suggestions here to keep me entertained for ages, thanks!

Posted by davinox on Dec-23-2003 02:26:

currently reading: For Whom the Bell Tolls

My favorite books:

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Nabokov - Lolita