Favorite Books thread

[Judo]

I'm suprised no one has started a favorite book thread yet (I searched but could not find) so here's a thread to let others know of your favorite books.

Here are some of mine.
No particular order.
-Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
-Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance by Robert M Pirsig
-1984 by George Orwell
-2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
-The Lorax by Dr Seuss
-Any of Micheal Leunig books
-Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
-Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Just a few for starters.

Anyone else have similar reading tastes who can point me to some other authors I might like?

[scem0]

Isle Witch' by Terry Brooks
Antrax by Terry Brooks
Morgawr by Terry Brooks
The Heritage of Shannara Series by Terry Brooks
The History of Shannara by Terry Brooks

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn

His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman

what am I missing................
ummmmm........
can't think of anything......
but I know I will be back.....
:::wicked laughing :D :::

[King Cobra]

I don't like reading in general. So of all the forced books I've had to read for English, I like

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I don't like reading in general. So of all the forced books I've had to read for English, I like

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

I never like those since I was 'supposed' to read them.

I used to read much more than I do now, too much going on to take the time to read. But lately I've been reading a chapter or so before going to bed. I don't think I have any great favorites, it sort of has to do with what I like at the moment.

I've read Tolkien's works more than once - loved them when I was in Junior High.

D

[diorio]

Lord of the Rings- J.R Tolkein
Star Wars Triliogy- 3 different authors (don't know them)
Harry Potter- Rowlings
Planet of the Apes- Don't know author

Hmm, I know there are more, so I'll be back later.

[funkywhat2]

1984 was good.

1984- Orwell
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Night - Wiesel
Insanely Great - Levy (gotta have a mac book in there, right?)
The Hobbit - Tolkein

There are others, but I mostly read magazines. Wired's my favorite.

[sparkleytone]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

read it if you havent...now. (a.ka. Cien anos de soledad)

1984 is second on my list.

[Thanatoast]

1984 - George Orwell (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451524934/qid=1039468657/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-1017834-2356138) - excellent book

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929871/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/102-1017834-2356138?v=glance&s=books) - even better (i'll even go so far as to say i have a favorite chapter. chapter 3. if you make it that far you'll be hooked.)

Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345342968/qid=1039468843/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-1017834-2356138) - everyone should read this

Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (triology) - Kim Stanley Robinson (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553560735/qid=1039469049/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-1017834-2356138) - very inspiring

and i'll read anything by Harry Turtledove, master of alternate history.

there's just so many, gotta pare them down to the bare essentials. i think these'll do.

can i add a second question to the thread? what book are you currently reading? i'm reading "Ruled Britannia" by Harry Turtledove

edit - i forgot one. Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlen.

[funkywhat2]

Farenheit 451 - thats the other one I was thnking of! Thanks for the reminder!

[job]

Anthem
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
(Any book by Ayn Rand, really; see above ;))
1984
(But then again, anything by Orwell)
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-5
Three Soldiers
The Red Badge of Courage
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Turn of the Screw
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Ivanhoe
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[whocares]

No particular order

'Candide' by Voltaire (very amusing)
Short stories by Maupassant
'Old man and the sea' by Heminway
'The pearl' by steinbeck
'All quiet on the west front' by Remarque

[job]

Originally posted by whocares
'Candide' by Voltaire (very amusing)

Yes!

That was a great book.

Thanks for reminding me. :cool:

[beez7777]

1984
Fahrenheit 451
A Clockwork Orange
Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin
Animal Farm was alright, it probably would have
been better if i didnt have to read it for
school
and i just started Crime and Punishment, from what i hear its a good book

[Pismo]

Microserfs by Doug Coupland

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

Basically all books by Coupland are great!!!

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

[3rdpath]

funniest book i ever read: " a walk in the woods" by bill bryson
and all his other ones are funny too--" a stranger here myself", "in a sunburned country", "notes from a small isalnd".....he's an american travel writer who lived in england for many years and recently moved back to the states. quite a bit of usefull environmental info also.

economic/finance books: "the overspent american" & " affluenza"...these will blow your mind.

" the mind on fire" bio of ralph waldo emerson...amazing. and anything by ralph waldo himself...timeless essays on man and his mortal coil.

and the latest bio of charles lindburg called, funny enough, "lindburg".

and if you have a kid: robert louis stevenson's " a child's garden of verses".

[sparkleytone]

has no one here read one hundred years of solitude...or did it just not make your lists?

i find the latter hard to believe.

[vniow]

120 days of Sodomy

Marquis de Sade

[3rdpath]

oops, i forgot

"the story of O"

;)

[scem0]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
has no one here read one hundred years of solitude...or did it just not make your lists?

i find the latter hard to believe.

My sister has read a lot of Marquez, but she has not read One
Hundred years of Solitude yet. I told her to read it. ;)

[dreamlance]

Yay! Another Coupland fan! Good choice Pismo :)

Farenheit 451 (duh)
Jungle Books (Kipling)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden)
LOTR (Tolkein)
Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
Wayfarer Redemption trilogy (Sara Douglass)
Generation X (Coupland)
Dragonriders of Pern series (Anne McCaffery)

[sparkleytone]

Originally posted by scem0


My sister has read a lot of Marquez, but she has not read One
Hundred years of Solitude yet. I told her to read it. ;)

actually...not to be nitpicky...but it would be more proper to call him Garcia...not Marquez.

Garcia Marquez is best tho.

[Judo]

Originally posted by beez7777

and i just started Crime and Punishment, from what i hear its a good book

Good choice beez. Not the easiest book to get through but the classic are all usually worth reading.

Also, Poe has got some excelent short stories. Has anyone read Angle of Odd? I might have a copy of it around somewhere I could email, if anyone's interested. It's not very long, and is definetly worth the read. even on a computer screen.
Anyone read Don Quixote?? It got voted best book of the century in a poll taken by top Authors of today.

OOo soo many books to read. I've got a $50 book voucher to use aswell :)
I think I might go for A Brave New World, Napalm and Silly putty (didn't know George Carlin had any books) and maybe Farenheit 451.

[job]

Hey Judo, have you read any Ayn Rand?

[Judo]

Ayn Rand??
Haven't heard of him.
What books has he written.
I'll check him out next time I'm in a book store.

[superkatalog]

i like many books

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (douglas adams)
the martian chronicles (ray bradbury)
lolita (vladimir nabokov)
books from max frisch, friedrich dürrenmatt (swiss authors, anyone knows??)
all of h.g. wells
all of stanislav lem (great pretentious science fiction)

and many many more

[drastik]

Too Many to list, better do this by Author (If I list an author here, take it to mean I love all of there books)

Vonnegut
Rand
Salinger
Hemmingway
Faulkner
Neal Pollack (www.nealpollack.com)
Claire Zulkey's Blog (www.zulkey.com)
Donna Tartt (Actually, I am reading here new one The Little Friend and it may be one of my all time great favorites. Waited ten years for this book, and it was worth every minute.)
John D. MacDonald
Gregory MacDonald
Robert Parker
Dave Eggers (A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius; also editor of McSweenys (www.Mcsweenys.com)
Garcia Marques
Rushdie
Beckett
Sam Shepard
David Mamet (met him once, drunk on a Beacon Hill street, I slipped and fell on the ice, and he gave me a hand up)

This list just goes on and on, I read too much, I guess.

[scem0]

the martian chronicles (ray bradbury)

I read that a while ago, and if I said that I thought it was a really
good book I would be lying. It was just to weird. And not very....
well, connected.

[Spike Spiegel]

Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451- " "
Hitchiker's trilogy- Douglas Adams
Dragonlance chronicles, legends, summer flame- ,margaret weis/tracy hickman
American Gods- Neil Gaiman
The Moon's revenge- ??
Lord of the Rings- Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye- Salinger
His dark materials- Philip Pullman(hey Scem0,what did you think of the last book)
Harry Potter-wow, mind blank...itll come back to me
Penny Arcade:Year One-Gabe & Tycho

[medea]

recently I would recommend 'the age of wire and string' by ben marcus,
I would also recommend anything by italo calvino.