What's your Favorite Book/Books?

[parrothead]

There are a lot of threads about movies here so I thought it would be fun to see what everyone likes to read!

Some of my favorites:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Mutiny On the Bounty Trilogy
The Stand
Carl Hiassen Books
Jurassic Park
Red Storm Rising
John D. MacDonald - Travis McGee Series
The Count of Monte Cristo
Mila 18 - Leon Uris
Battle Cry - Leon Uris

to name a few...

[blackfox]

anything by Robert Kaplan
anything by Samuel Huntington
anything by Fritjof Capra
anything by Italo Calvino
ART AND PHYSICS by Leonard Shlain
THE ALPHABET VS THE GODDESS by Leonard Shlain
anything by Jerry Mander
anything by Jeremy Rifkin
THE ARROGANCE OF HUMANISM by David Ehrenfeld
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL by EF Schumacher
anything by Heidegger
THE STRANGER by Camus
existentialist philosophy (other than above)

[Royal Pineapple]

iBook 14"
pBook 12"
iBook 12"

oh books, books

well, lets see:
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk (buy this book)
hitch-hikers guide to the universe trillogy (all 5 books) by douglas adams

[latergator116]

The Hot Zone, The Da Vinci Code, anything by John Steinbeck.

[MongoTheGeek]

The Bible
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
An Oblique Approach by David Drake,
Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo

[musicpyrite]

The Elegant Universe - Brian Green
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
Blind Man's Bluff - Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
Saton X - Michael Smith

I like books about history, war, physics, and PowerBooks.

[telecomm]

Notes from the Underground and The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Magic Mountain - Mann
Remembrance of Things Past - Proust
The Stranger - Camus
Subterraneans - Kerouac

[iBook]

No. 1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Names - Don DeLillo
White Noise - Don DeLillo
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
Don Quixote - Cervantes

Maximum Bob - Elmore Leonard

[pinto32]

LIES and the lying liars who tell them
Bushwacked: Life in George Bush's America
Rush Limbaugh is a Big fat idiot
Rifles for Watie
whatever is in my bathroom when the time comes....

[Westside guy]

Anything by Ernest Hemingway.

I think my favorite Hemingway novel is actually Islands in the Stream, which wasn't really well received. No, I take that back - #1 would be The Old Man and the Sea. I also really loved the Nick Adams stories, at least in part for their quasi-autobiographical peeks into Hemingway's early life.

[labrat]

Robert J. Sawyer is a really good Canadian author ... Neal Stephenson books are awesome too.

Just recently i discovered Alastair Reynolds ... reading Chasm City right now. He writes so well - definately look him up !

happy reading,
j

[Jovian9]

The Bible - King James Version
The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis
2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To Technology - Neil Postman

[Mike Teezie]

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light
The Lord of the Rings
Frankenstien
Jurassic Park*
The Lost World*

Fnishing up the Beckham biography, about to start The DaVinci Code

*one of my favorite thigns about these books is how the whole Dinosaur thing is really just a model for Chaos Theory. Very, very, very interestin - it made me think about the world around me for days. I think its uber lame in the movie how Chaos is touched on - only it comes out of left field and isnt relevant to the story. They took a killer conept and turned it into a stupid action movie. I enjoyed it though. :rolleyes:

[wwidgirl]

I capture the castle- I love the world that is created. I love the characters. Makes me think about life, love and loss

A Fine Balance- a little glimpse into a different culture..... a comment on futility?

Ender's Game- fun sci-fi book.

Da Vinci Code- because it makes me think even if it is all just speculation and invention

[wwidgirl]

Technopoly: The Surrender Of Culture To Technology - Neil Postman

I love media theorists, especially Postman. You should check out No Logo by Naomi Klein. It's a quick and interesting read.

[Neserk]

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (maybe one "t")

[jared_kipe]

Farewell To Arms man

[Mudbug]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Stephen King's The Green Mile in chapterbook form, 1 month apart from each other as they were released.

Nobody's mentioned these so far: Harry Potter & the __________ series - I love these, and am really enjoying reading them to my son (and my daughter again when she's old enough).

[alxths]

I don't read a lot, but Brave New World is probably my favorite... I also really enjoyed The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, by M. Richler, for the sake of naming one that many people may not have heard of...

Oh, and The Stand, because it was a great book and for a time was my only form of entertainment..

[KingSleaze]

Peter Hamilton's Reality Disfunction series
Spider Robinson's Calahan's bar books
Isaac Asimov's Robot novels
Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Glory Road, and Stranger in a strange land.
Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt and NUMA files novels
Tom Clancy's novels before the divorce
Dale Brown's Dreamland novels

[scem0]

The Shannara Series by Terry Brooks
The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
The Dragon Prince series by Melanie Rawn
Wraeththu by Storm Constantine

Those are some of my most favorite books.

scem0

[Savage Henry]

It depends on my mood, but those that approach the top of my list are:

Animal Farm - George Orwell
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

[virividox]

100 years of solitude
solitaire mystery
girl with a pearl earing
a clockwork orange
pride and prejudice
lord of the rings all except the hobbit
memoirs of a geisha
like water for chocolate
heart of darkness
ssn
green eggs and ham
Belgarion series

[sosumi]

1. On The Road - Kerouac
2. 1984 - Orwell
3. Inside Macintosh vol. 1-3

[vollspacken]

my favorite 'book is my Titanium Powerbook ;)

vSpacken

[virividox]

1. On The Road - Kerouac
2. 1984 - Orwell
3. Inside Macintosh vol. 1-3

i really liked on teh road; i cant believe he wrote it as a single block paragraph!!!

[mcadam]

Yeah, I liked "on the road" a lot to. Funny thing is that you seem to read it like he wrote - very fastly, from one end to the other...

But my favorites would be:

"Seven Gothic Tales" - by Isak Dinesen (a.k.a Karen Blixen, a.k.a. Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa"), allmost anything by her!

And any of Kafkas collections of shortstories.
Check out some of them here: http://family.knick.net/thecastle/ktexts.htm

[ecche]

Currently it is 'V For Vendetta (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0930289528/qid=1085742991/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-5198115-6196040?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)'

[iGav]

Process; A Tomato Project
Tycho's Nova – A Tomato Project
Out Of Control, Ray Gun
Two Times Intro: On The Road With Patti Smith
Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface
Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography

[rosalindavenue]

Gatsby, Catch 22, All the King's Men, Burr and Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Sophie's Choice by Wm. Styron, anything by Neal Stephenson (nonfiction--) Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis, Titan by Ron Chernow (Rockefeller Sr. biography), Brooklyn Bridge by McCullough. Of course, you could ask me this afternoon and I'd probably give you a different list.... :cool:

[takao]

burgess - clockwork orange
crichton - dino park, the lost world, timeline
tolkien - lord of the rings
umberto eco - the name of the rose
arthur c. clarke - 2001 a space odyssey
sedaris - me talk pretty one day
Perez-Reverte - The Club Dumas
Goethe - Faust : Der Tragödie erster Teil
and yeah and i like brave new world too

[question fear]

in addition to whats already been mentioned, Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" is absolutely brilliant.
Brilliant, I tell you.
and of course, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series.

[parrothead]

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (maybe one "t")


That was a great book. A good look into life in the Middle ages. You got the spelling right. ;)

[caveman_uk]

I don't read a lot, but Brave New World is probably my favorite...
I found that quite hard work. Maybe it's just me but I enjoyed 1984 a lot more. Each to his own I guess :)