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

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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

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)

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

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.

oh yah.

the stinky cheese man.

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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?

Moby Dick! Arrrrrrr!

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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.

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

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.

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

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