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Ha ha, yes! I love Richard Scarry! What kid didn't grow up reading his books?

I barely remember it, but my mom tells me that TAoFJ was the first book I ever "read" (I had her read it to me so much that I ended up memorizing it). Now, I've read it to my daughter almost every night since she was born almost a year ago. For the last several months, as soon as she sees the last page, she knows the line "Goodbye, Farmer Jones" is coming, and she waves and says "bye-bye." It is one of the most endearing things she does.
 
1. Richard Adams - Watership Down (perfectly formative for a middle-school mind)
2. Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (favorite author overall, and favorite book by him, intensely recommended for a mind that can handle the surreal)
3. David Brin - Earth (great author in the sci-fi realm, and well, I'm a geologist)
4. Robert Greenleaf - The Servant as Leader (best business-related book, at least most philosophical approach to being a leader in a capitalist country)
5. Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree (enough said)
 
Good Omes - Terry Pratchett
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Black jewels Trilogy - Anne Bishop
Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon
The Watch Trilogy - Sergei Lukyanenko
 
Okay, you're right, what's the point? It just kills me that he got away with it, though - perhaps the greatest fraud in sporting history?

well no one knows if he really took anything or not.

but i do know that his running performance isn't anywhere near what i thought it would be, considering how well he did on the bike.
 
-Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card
-The Shadow Saga (story of Bean): Orson Scott Card
-The Worthing Saga: Orson Scott Card
-Eragon and Eldest
-Harry Potter, of course.
-iRobot: Forget the movie, this is the real deal
-State of Fear: Crichton
-Digital Fortress: Dan Brown I think?

About to start the Foundation series. I know, I know, that was about 20 books, I couldn't help myself.

You are in for a treat.
I can remember the first time I read the complete foundation series.
What a treat... Awesome :)
 
alright! another Eragon fan. looking forward to the next one this year.

I'm so excited. Not only that, there are actually two more books, Paoli decided to split the last chunk of the story into two books because he felt there was too much material (and too much money on the table) to just do one.
 
I'm so excited. Not only that, there are actually two more books, Paoli decided to split the last chunk of the story into two books because he felt there was too much material (and too much money on the table) to just do one.

yeah i read that. too bad he didn't keep it going with the names starting with an "E" and being 6 letters. i guess it was just a rumor that he'd continue that. the next book is called "Brisingr"
 
(in no particular order, and I'm cheating with sequels, but who cares?)

Dune (plus 5 sequels) - Frank Herbert -- The biggest and best SF epic of all time

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -- what more needs to be said?

The Eyre Affair (and sequels) - Jasper Fforde -- If there were such a thing as the "Second Coming of Douglas Adams," he'd be it

Doomsday Book/To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis -- were there ever two books set in the same universe more different in tonality?

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris -- sorry Silence of the Lambs, this one is way better
 
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
Book of Dave, Will Self
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
Any one of Kafka's books
Any one of Bukowski's books
 
I read the Hitch Hikers Guide trilogy every year so that could account for all 5.

But then there's:

the Dirk Gently books
Chuck Palahniuk
Douglas Coupland
 
Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time Series - Fantastic!
Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - and all his other books.
Douglas Adams - All the Hitchhikers books
Katsuhiro Otomo - Akira (yes its Manga i Know :p)
Lois Lowry - The Giver - One of the best reads of my childhood!
 
iWoz -Steve Wozniak (a must for any iGeek!)
Dirty Angels - Abdrew Clover
All theHarry Potters - JKR
 
The Kid Stays in the Picture - Robert Evans
My Life in Action - Jackie Chan
What's it all About? - Michael Caine
Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman
The Slacker Confessions :cool:
 
3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

5. 1984 - George Orwell

Ha ha, yes! I love Richard Scarry! What kid didn't grow up reading his books?

My list, also in no particular order:
  • Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

1. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Something Happened, Joseph Heller

some of mine as well...
add to that "catch 22" by heller
 
My all time favorite book... Catcher in the Rye!

In fact, it about time for me to read it again. Got to read it once every couple of years. :eek::p

Also, The Great Gatsby is another good one.
 
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden - Eleanor Perenyi

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Collected Poems and a Play - Wallace Stevens

Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance - Richard Powers

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The Powers novel is about WW I's upheavals of ordinary lives everywhere. Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge are my all time Hardy faves. The Perenyi book (past dogeared and coming unbound!) got me through many a February in the 80s when around here we had summer droughts but winter nights with routine drops to -25ºF.
 
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
 
The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter
Eragon series
the World book Encyclopedia
 
It was hard to think of 5 "favorites", but here goes:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • The BFG (what can I say? I'm a kid at heart :p)
  • And Then There Were None (AKA 10 Little Indians)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Gideon's Trumpet

A few honorable mentions:

The Witches

Harry Potter

Catcher in the Rye

Macbeth

Murder on the Orient Express
 
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