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Okay, prolly been done, but what the hey......let's do it again...
What are your favorite books, and/or prefence of reading material to peruse? Mine: Wheel of Time series Dragonlance series Sword of Truth series Tiger and Del series The Poetic Edda Celtic poems and essays and more.... (I practically have my own library in the office at home) :D [ 04-27-2002, 12:57 AM: Message edited by: TAOWolf ] |
I have to say The Wheel of Time Series. But the Dragonlance series brings back wonderful memories!!
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I'd say some of my favorite books include:
Franny and Zooey- JD Salinger Siddhartha- Herman Hesse The Prophet- Khalil Gibran Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte several poems from Edwin Arlington Robinson Gnosis- a poem by Christopher Cranch Darkness- a poem by Lord Byron and, many others I forgot to mention, I'm sure. I don't care for fantasy books much. The genre tends to be really poorly written for some reason. The Silmarillion was a good book in that genre, though. The Vampire Lestat was also a good read. |
1) Flashman series, by George MacDonald Fraser
2) Virtually anything written by the late Roger Zelazny 3) Virtually anything written by the late Bob Heinlein 4) Virtually anything written by the still-living Glen Cook 5) Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigen series. The list could go on. Catch-22 , Up the Down Staircase , and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series are high on my non-fantasy/sf list. Most current fantasy, I think, is both puerile and rather poorly written, including Mr Jordan's massive money-making machine. It's unfortunate that classic fantasy, such as E. R. Eddison's, is virtually unknown, now. Da gustabus non est disputandum. Malthaussen [ 04-27-2002, 01:47 AM: Message edited by: Malthaussen ] |
<font color="lightgreen">Animorphs (KA Applegate), Secret Seven, Famous Five, Adventurous Four (all Enid Blyton), Lord of the Rings (if you dont know who thats by, youve been around less than me [img]tongue.gif[/img] ), Anything by Roald Dahl, Anything by Agatha Christie, and more that I cant think of off the top of my head... </font>
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The Discworld series written by Terry Pratchett. The most original series of books I have ever read.
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Good choice of Brontë, Katherine. Wuthering Heights is wonderful! [img]smile.gif[/img]
I tend to agree with you about fantasy - there's a difference between a well-written fantasy novel and truly great literature. I do read lots of fantasy though, as a means of relaxation. There are notable exceptions to the 'badly written' rules: I really enjoyed Robin Hobb's books, also Tad Williams' Otherland series. And of course Pratchett is fantastic! But as for my favourite books apart from that - there are SO many of them! A short selection of things that left a big impression: Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers A.S. Byatt - Possession; Angels & Insects; Babel Tower Iain Banks - everything he's ever done, whether fiction or SF Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 Shakespeare, Marlowe - everything either of them has ever written Milton's Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes and Lycidas Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead Samuel Beckett - Waiting For Godot Nietzsche's complete oeuvre Süskind - Das Parfum Hesse - Demian Oscar Wilde's complete oeuvre Umberto Eco - The Name Of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum Vestdijk's De Kellner en de Levenden (had to include the only Dutch novel to touch me so profoundly - though I really should mention Komrij's Dit Helse Moeras and Dorrestein's Buitenstaanders as well then [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) Sartre's Huis Clos De Beauvoir - probably called No One Is Immortal or somesuch in English... oh - I shouldn't forget Will Self and especially Ian McEwan - great authors!! As for poetry, oh my... I adore Donne's work, also Yeats, Milton, Keats, Blake, Frost, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Edwin Morgan, Craig Raine, Shelley, George Herbert, Spenser, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Wilde, so many many more.... my hands hurt now.... :D |
Where, oh where to begin.
1) Anything written by Robert Heinlein (In particular Job:a Comedy of Justice and Number of the Beast) 2) Most anything written by Douglas Adams (Especially Dirk Gently and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul) 3) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 4) Discworld series by Terry Pratchett 5) American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Can we see that these two are under appreciated??) 6) almost everything by Tolkien (Newbies beware I know what J.R.R. stands for. Do you? Frodo lives!) |
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (of course)
The Deathgate cycle and many single fantasy titles...whose names elude me. |
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Some of The books I have particularly enjoyed would be:
Lenin- Two Steps Forward, One step Back (Not that I actually agreed with all of what he said) Solzhenitsyn- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago Sholokhov- Tales from the Don (Blatant Soviet Propaganda, but very powerfully written) Hasek- The Good Soldier Schweik Chekov- Early Stories Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front Pasternak- Dr.Zhivago Khrushchev- Khrushchev Remembers Marlowe- Dr.Faustus Marx - The German Ideology, Capital, Communist manifesto Weis & Hickman- Dragonlance Chronicles Homer- The Iliad, The Odyssey Wolfe- The Right Stuff Tressel- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Jordan- Wheel of Time Series Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse 9, Cats Cradle Diaz- The Conquest of New Spain Conrad- Nostromo, Heart of Darkness Mailer- The Naked And The Dead Graves- Count Belisarius, I Claudius, Claudius the God Hemmingway- For Whom The Bell Tolls Eco- The Name Of The Rose Herodotus- The Histories Terry Pratchett- All of them And many things by Iain M. Banks, Frank Herbert & Michael Moorcock As for comic books I quite liked: Vetrone and Bianca- Sleepers Rennie and Macneil- Bloodquest & Bloodquest II: Into The Eye Of Terror Abnett and Williams and Lanning - Titan & Titan II: Vivaporius Some person whose name I can’t remember- Sandman Shirow- Ghost In The Shell Another person whose name I can’t Remember- Watchmen Sheldon- The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers |
enemy at the gates (i love that sniperstuff), and everything about michael jordan (rebound, hangtime, etc.)
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Everything by Terry Pratchett
Everything by Robert A. Heinlein Nearly Everything by Michael Moorcock And naturally Everything by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (yes I know what J.R.R. stands for) |
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Darn... Ar-Cunin beat me to it :D
Here's some stuff I enjoy. Robin Hobb's farseer Set LoTR of course J.V.Jones the barbed coil The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Tamuli and the Elenium by David Eddings J.Meade.Falkner- Moonfleet Krondor the Betrayal et al. Anything by Terry Pratchett Any greek mythology, including one of my favourites the Hounds of Actaeon. Bad Omens by Pratchett and Gainman. These are just the first things I could think, but there is also assorted poems and prose, and other books I can't be bothered to mention. [ 04-27-2002, 11:58 AM: Message edited by: Talthyr Malkaviel ] |
Hmmm, having more than 10,000 books of all genre in my home library, I would still have to stick with these (no particular order)
The Lord of the Rings (including the Hobbit) Wheel of Time series (up to book 5... a bit dissapointing after that) The Sword of Truth series The Republic Art of War Les Trois Mousquetaires, Vingt ans après and Le Vicomte de Bragelone La Divine Comédie Germinal Keeping the Faith (if memory serves... Carter's Presidential Memoires) The Prince Le Petit Prince Other Light Reading Material: Philosophical work by Plato, Socrates, DesCartes, Nieche (sp) ... Jules Vernes, Balzac, Molière and Shakespeare stuff... Heavy duty stuff: The entire work of the Marquis the Sade (warning: not for the faint of heart, not recommended for anybody younger than 18 or the legal age in your country!) |
L.E. Modesitt's Recluse series
Dennis L. McKiernan's books, can't remember the setting's name Tolkien [img]smile.gif[/img] Belgariad/Malorian (Eddings) Sword of Truth series (Terry Goodkind) Lot of others I can't remember the names/authors of... Basically, I read mainly fantasy books... ah, and of course Terry Pratchett is great, just remembered him... |
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The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale Trilogies by R.A Salvatore easily the best books i have ever read and when I get a job I will add Legacy of the Drow to my collection
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(In no particular order)
Black Cauldron series - Lloyd Alexander Proven Innocent - Gerry Conlon The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Jane Austen All books by James Herriot The Gnole - Alan Aldridge Anne of Green Gables series - L.M. Montgomery Under the Eye of the Clock - Christopher Nolan The Diary of A Young Girl - Anne Frank All books by C.S. Lewis |
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I own every Forgotten Realms book aver written, so that is an obvious choice. Other than that, the Anne Rice Vampire books are cool.</font> |
Well now... I literaly have a library at my house. Eight shelves (i mean the big ones that cover a wall, or part of a wall) and there are more in the closets. Anyway I couldn't list all of my favorites, but I will list some.
Dragonlance books Forgotton Realm books Wheel of Time LOTR THE BELGARIAD!!!! Malloreon ect. Lets make this /|\ easier-----David Eddings ;) and uh... most of Terry Pratchett and I like shakespear (sounds corny I know, but I do!) |
Oh, I forgot to add my favorite author:
Aeschylus- the whole Orestia, but especially Libation Bearers The Bhagavad Gita is also one of my favorite books, but of course, that's a religious text, not a novel. |
Anything from Feist'll do for me ;)
currently reading gemmell |
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Not a Penny more, Not a penny less Kane + Abel The Prodigal Daughter By Jeffery Archer and the exorcist by ? |
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Melusine, may I say, a very literate list. Has anyone ever figured out why women like Wuthering Heights and men don't? Attalus loathes it, saying that everybody in it needs drastically to be kicked, starting with Heathcliff, whom I think is dreamy. My favorite book of all time is (predictably) The Lord of the Rings. After that, the Divine Comedy, almost all of Shakespeare, The Hunting of the Snark, Zelazny's Dilvish the Damned, Heinlein's Starship Troopers and The Glory Road, Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster Trilogy, and many, many more.
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Cool topic! I'll move it over to the Books/TV Shows and Movies forum so you guys can check out the other cool topics that are there. :D
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The Death Gate Cycle and the Dragon Lance Chronicles. I could read those books over and over and never get sick of 'em. Which reminds me, I haven't read them in awhile...
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Oh, did anyone see Quills? Was quite disappoiting. Ryanamur, Nietzsche is spelled thus - it's spelled wrong about 70% of the time, so don't worry about it ;) Galadria - I know quite a few guys who LOVED Wuthering Heights (among them my literature professors ;) ). It was ME who was sceptical before I read it, precisely because of the 'girly' Jane Austen image it has. Well, in some ways this is one of the most grim novels I've read. And Heathcliff is far from dreamy. The way Bronte manages to constantly shift your sympathy from tyrant to tyrannised is splendid, and a sign of great literature. I once wrote an essay about precisely that subject, in fact. [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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As for books I like myself I have to start with Rankin. Robert Rankin's Armaggedon Trilogy and Brentford Trilogy are both amazingly funny. I also agree with a lot that has gone before in putting Pratchett up there in a close second. I also really liked the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. Actually, anyone read any Robert Llewelyn?. He is famous for playing Kryten in Red Dwarf but he is a very good novelist and playwright as well. The Man on Platform Five is particularly good. Gaaaah! Too many good books around... |
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BOOKS: the forgotten realms series the dragonlance series the greyhawk series(ones by Kidd) the lord of the rings series COMIC BOOKS: I really liked the Weapon Zero series(*sniff* it died way too early...) and also the ultimate series (by marvel) |
Sauceman,
I also have the Weapon Zero series including the T- editions. They were fantastic! I also had all the Cyberforce, Witchblade etc. I don't read comics anymore, but I still have them all. Aviendha. |
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Mel, I mean it was more graphic than he expected. Which I thought was rather amusing really and wondered what he had expected.
I see what you mean about the over the top story when you explained it. I still liked it though and personally thought the Abbey (sp? Gaaargh...) in particular was portrayed extremely well. The film made me think and had several memorable moments. For me that made it a good film, but I see what you mean on reflection. But anyway, while I remember it has anyone read any Tom Holt? He is a really good author in my opinion but he has gone downhill recently. Faust Among Equals was extremely amusing in particular. [ 05-01-2002, 05:43 AM: Message edited by: Barry the Sprout ] |
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Michael Moorcock-anything and everything, particularly the Eternal Champpion series
Tiger & Del series-which has a new book out! The Morgaine series by C.J. Cherryh Marian Zimmer Bradley - jsut about anything The Fig Eater by Jody Shields - Very weird book about a girl who was studied by Frued... |
Favorite Books...where to begin?
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton Watchers - Dean Koontz Hobbit/LoTR - J.R. Tolkien My Sweet Audrina - VC Andrews Elfstones of Shannara series (and the Knight of the Word series)- Terry Brooks Anything by Douglas Adams Ender series and Lost Boys - Orson Scott Card all I can think of right now..but I know I have more. [img]smile.gif[/img] |
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