Fridge Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 As with some of the above, i have been a big fan of all things Tolkien.Terry Pratchett - Discworld series ...... these books make me laugh out loud!Stephen R Donaldson - The Cronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever ...... same genre as Tolkien although darker I like Donaldson but he does subscribe to the "why use one word when a thousand will do" school of thought.... Oh, god, yes Donaldson does. In fact, I sometimes use his sentences to explain to my students what not to do. "Unambergrised" and "condign" are fun, but not even Evil Time Lords could speak that way with a straight face. I also wanted Covenant to be less mopey and pull himself together, but he's more of a Hamlet type, I suppose. The Giants were cool. One of my favourites was " the colour of chrysophrase and Daphins Eyes"...why not just say Green you berk lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 mostly The Hobbit and TLOTR... I am not a huge fan of books, books are for nerds! :smoke: But you're a t**t so what would you know? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 As with some of the above, i have been a big fan of all things Tolkien.Terry Pratchett - Discworld series ...... these books make me laugh out loud!Stephen R Donaldson - The Cronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever ...... same genre as Tolkien although darkerI would have thought you'd have gone for Hammer of the Gods... ;)hehehe yeah, that and 'Led Zeppelin the Concert File' .... essential reading for all Zepp-nerds!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 As with some of the above, i have been a big fan of all things Tolkien.Terry Pratchett - Discworld series ...... these books make me laugh out loud!Stephen R Donaldson - The Cronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever ...... same genre as Tolkien although darker I like Donaldson but he does subscribe to the "why use one word when a thousand will do" school of thought.... Oh, god, yes Donaldson does. In fact, I sometimes use his sentences to explain to my students what not to do. "Unambergrised" and "condign" are fun, but not even Evil Time Lords could speak that way with a straight face. I also wanted Covenant to be less mopey and pull himself together, but he's more of a Hamlet type, I suppose. The Giants were cool. One of my favourites was " the colour of chrysophrase and Daphins Eyes"...why not just say Green you berk lolhehehe ... doesn't quite have the same ring to it.How about this one? ....Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief -- tense and uneasy with accumulated woe -- and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears.......Instead of ....... It was a dull sort of a night 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 The Magus by John Fowles, which I fell in love with at Uni and have no reason to reject it now. It`s the greatest in terms of total pages too :) For comedy - Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome. Over 130 years old but I`ve never laughed out loud so much as when reading this. For general awesomeness, Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mujurus Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorraine Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Gone With The Wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Interesting question. Here are three of my favorite books (of literary consequence, anyway)... One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Roughing It - Mark Twain 1001 Arabian Nights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova Carmina Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Interesting question. Here are three of my favorite books (of literary consequence, anyway)... One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Roughing It - Mark Twain 1001 Arabian Nights All four of your top three are great picks! Don Quijote is so great -- so much more than charging windmills, and the sheer scale of storytelling in the 1001 Nights makes that a desert island book for me, surely. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Bill James Baseball Abstract 1984. Revolutionized the way I see the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Interesting question. Here are three of my favorite books (of literary consequence, anyway)... One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Roughing It - Mark Twain 1001 Arabian Nights All four of your top three are great picks! Limiting my top three to four was a challenge in itself! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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