What are your favorite books (single or series)

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

[johnny]

enemy at the gates (i love that sniperstuff), and everything about michael jordan (rebound, hangtime, etc.)

[Ar-Cunin]

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)

[johnny]

Originally posted by Melusine: 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....

you forgot the suske en wiske series lol

[Talthyr Malkaviel]

Darn... Ar-Cunin beat me to it
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 ]

[Ryanamur]

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!)

[Encard]

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...

[Sir Goulum]

Only 1. The Lord of the Rings. Sir Goulum has the precious. Yessssss. Look in ssssssssssssig. Ssssssssir Goulum hasssss the presssssssssssssssious!

Originally posted by Ryanamur: *snip* 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!)

I always found those to be rather boring & overated, it’s just the same thing (namely sex) Repeated over and over and over until your eyes melt and your brain leaks out your ears. After about 12 minutes I got bored of that kind of thing.

[Daniel]

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