invisibleairwaves Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 What are your absolute favorite books? For me it's anything by Douglas Adams or Tolkien (except for the Silmarillion) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweezil Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Free ones. Dumpster diving has it's dividends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Man Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 The Dark Tower series - Stephen King The Stand - Stephen King The Lord of the Rings Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 The Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian (naturally). The Horatio Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester. The Richard Bolitho novels by Alexander Kent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaine mac Roth Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Hmm, let me see now: The Belgariad/Mallorean by David Eddings The Elenium/Tamuli by David Eddings The Middle Earth Books by JRRT The Pern books by Anne McCaffrey The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O'Shea The Cthulhu Mythos by H P Lovecraft The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy The Biggles stories by Cpt W E Johns The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill Tijana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Dragonlance Chronicles/Legends by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Thats about all I can think of for the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpeart_gal Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Hands down. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibleairwaves Posted April 9, 2005 Author Share Posted April 9, 2005 Oops! Forgot the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 It - Stephen King The Talisman - Stephen King/Peter Straub Desperation - Stephen King The Regulators (sort of the same story) - Richard Bachman The Dead Zone - Stephen King The Stand - Stephen King The Season Of Passage - Christopher Pike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Special books for me are The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien The Redemption of Althalus - David Edding Raven - Richard Kirk The winter of the world - Micheal Scott Rohan Shadowlegue - Maggie Furey and most of the other David Eddings wrote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madra sneachta Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainance - Robert M.Pirsig We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (Similar to 1984, Anthem) This Perfect Day - Ira Levin (Similar dystopic themes to the above) The Wheel Of Time series - Robert Jordan (Finish it Robert, please) The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams (A trilogy in 5 parts) The Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre (Genius black comedy) Divorcing Jack - Colin Bateman (First of the Dan Starkey novels, brilliant) The Stand - Stephen King (his best by a country mile IMO) The Five Find Outers series - Enid Blython (Got me into reading when I was 7/8. I never looked back) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huck Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 One Door Away From Heaven - Dean Koontz Dreamcatcher - Stephen King Lord Of The Rings - Tolkien Wheels Of Terror - Sven Hassel The Day After Tomorrow - Allan Follsom Papillon - Henri Charriere Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson Otherland - Tad Williams The Hobbit - Tolkien Rommel? Gunner Who? - Spike Milligan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Sawyer Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Bible Ghost Rider Into Thin Air Traveling Music Jurassic Park Jaws Sarah T: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Contents Under Pressure 30 years of Rush home and away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastille Night Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Catch 22 is the best book of all time, and you can't go wrong with any book by Kurt Vonnegut. Many of the one's mentioned above are excellent too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huck Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 QUOTE (Bastille Night @ Apr 10 2005, 01:33 AM) Catch 22 is the best book of all time, and you can't go wrong with any book by Kurt Vonnegut. Many of the one's mentioned above are excellent too. I forgot that one, read it years ago and it cracked me up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physics23 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 (edited) I have three favorites: Perfidy by Ben Hecht The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell. [Edited for spelling.] Edited April 16, 2005 by physics23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 The Sun Also Rises - Hemmingway The World According to Garp - John Irving The Talisman - Steven King... and some other guy Hemmingway wrote as one would tell you a story in person. Like having him right there in front of you. Awesome. Incredible. Excruciatingly personal. Beautiful. Wonderful. John Irving's writing is epic and involving. His characters are detailed, delicate, and put forth in a way that no matter how bizzare or immoral they are, the reader can relate and empithize. Steven King in this book (and I feel like a jerk not knowing the guy he collaborated with on this) takes the reader into this young boy's hopeful ability to save his mother from the darkness of life and death. Amazing. Descriptive. Envokes mental images that pull you in and don't let you go. Amazing. A real "Whoa!" reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 King co-wrote The Talisman with Peter Straub One of my favs as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 God, yes. Peter Straub. Thanks. Awsome book. I haven't been able to find it anywhere around here. Bunch a pesants round these parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 Ohhhhh. Catcher In the Rye! Freaked me out at 13-years-old. My dad gave me this book and said, "You'll understand a lot more after you read this book." I was kinda like "Understand what?" The "Huh?" factor went away at 14. Icky boys weren't such a mystery to me. I got it. Way to go, Dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaWanna Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 "Desperation" & "Needful Things"& "Misery" byStephen King The Incredible Journey....by Sheila Burnford My Side of the Mountain..dont know author A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess and My Dreamers Dictionarys..I have a few of these books by differant authors Oh yea and my Sopranos family Cookbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 Donna, I have that Sopranos cookbook. I love page 58 with Meadow's email on "Food and Weight." Try the Chicken Francese on page 91. It's so easy and yummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war2112 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker The Talisman - Stephen King & Peter Strauss The Black House - King & Strauss Rendevous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke The Damnation Game - Clive Barker A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard P. Feynman Cosmos - Carl Sagan just to name a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladirushfan80 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 (edited) leave the editing feature open for more of my favorites will come to mind as the day progresses.... some books, stay with you your whole life... some of the books i read as a kid that have stayed with me are : Black beauty Sam and the Tiger Mandy Are you there God , it's me margaret (females will know.... ) Charlettes Web As a teenager and young adult... the few favorites that i read that i can still recall the whole story are: Atlas Shrugged (when i picked this one up, my dad was thoroughly impressed....) In Cold Blood by Turman Capote... wow... long read, but amazing And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Buliosi (sp?)...another one of those great true crime books... No One here gets out Alive The Bachman books Misery...(can you paulie...can you??) and now some of the books i've read over the past few years that have stayed with me, and i love reading over again: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradubury all of Neil's books (like DUH...) White Oleander The ya ya sisterhood and the divine secrets... I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Skinny Legs and all by Tom Robbins You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again by Julia Phillips (great hollywood tell all ) ack... i could go on and on... these books represent some of the most memoriable ones in my life... where i can think back on them, and remember almost the whole book... there are some i know i'm forgetting, but these are some that maybe someone else would like to try.... and some that some of you may have read, and do /did enjoy..... maybe we should try a book club..... Edited April 16, 2005 by ladirushfan80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
physics23 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Apr 16 2005, 08:07 AM) leave the editing feature open for more of my favorites will come to mind as the day progresses.... some books, stay with you your whole life... some of the books i read as a kid that have stayed with me are : Black beauty Sam and the Tiger Mandy Are you there God , it's me margaret (females will know.... ) Charlettes Web As a teenager and young adult... the few favorites that i read that i can still recall the whole story are: Atlas Shrugged (when i picked this one up, my dad was thoroughly impressed....) In Cold Blood by Turman Capote... wow... long read, but amazing And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Buliosi (sp?)...another one of those great true crime books... No One here gets out Alive The Bachman books Misery...(can you paulie...can you??) and now some of the books i've read over the past few years that have stayed with me, and i love reading over again: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradubury all of Neil's books (like DUH...) White Oleander The ya ya sisterhood and the divine secrets... I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb Skinny Legs and all by Tom Robbins You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again by Julia Phillips (great hollywood tell all ) ack... i could go on and on... these books represent some of the most memoriable ones in my life... where i can think back on them, and remember almost the whole book... there are some i know i'm forgetting, but these are some that maybe someone else would like to try.... and some that some of you may have read, and do /did enjoy..... maybe we should try a book club..... I encourage you to (start a book club, that is). I made just such an attempt some months ago where I live, but then life got crazy and there was no time to pursue it further. All that has survived is this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sullysue Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 OK, ladirush, if you start the thread I'm in. What book would you start with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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