Poll: Your Favorite Books

[TheQuirk]

Seeing as how we have a movie poll, I might as well ask people as to what books they like (no limit!). I will start off with three great books I read:

1) Ender's Game
2) Ender's Shadow
3) To Say Nothing of the Dog

[xyle_one]

dune. all 6 of them (not including the new ones)
chronicles of amber- all 10 novels (not including the novellas and new books)
shogun by james clavell
most larry niven novels and short stories (bordered in black was rad     )
cats cradle by kurt vonegut
this book im reading right now about the "theater of the absurd". its like a history and a who's who of the theater of the absurd.
the last temptation of christ by nikos kazantzakis (spelling?)
catcher in the rye. and i have no idea why i liked it   :confused:  
so far i like tai pan, another novel by james clavell. i havent gotten very far into it yet. (yes, im reading multiple books right now   :cool:  

i have yet to read enders game, though it is on the list of books i want to read. i have quite a stack i am going through right now     (my father gives me like 5 books everytime i go home on the weekends     )

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[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: ecsyle:951 ]

[xyle_one]

i can see this thread going places  :rolleyes:

[Fett101]

Well... here's some of the ones that happen to be on my shelf.

Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the series.
Star Wars novels are dandy. So is the Harry Potter series.
Lord of the Rings
Alice In Wonderland
1984
Snow Crash
American Psycho
Tom Sawyer
and lest I forget, Hop on Pop.

[jasonlane]

Jail Bird (kurt vauneger)
Crime and Punishment
MR Jones (Phillip K Dick)
1984
Brave New World
Tender is the night
We can build you
Song lines (Chatwin)
Utz (Chatwin)
Foundation (asimov)
The Robots of Dawn
Tortillia Flat (Steinbeck)
Cannery Row
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
King Lear
Less than Zero (Ellis)
On the Road (Kerouac)

[ July 20, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by ecsyle:951:
i can see this thread going places   :rolleyes:  

Unfortunately, not many people read books these days. =\ A real pity.

[Faust]

The obvious one: Faust!
And:
Solzenhitsyns (spelling?) first circle,
George Orwells animal farm and 1984,
(all) Terry Pratchett books and my little viking Nietzsche library.

[Pissed_Macman]

-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
-Dirk Gently Series
-Pretty much anything else by Douglas Adams
-Star Wars books, particularly the Thrawn Trilogy, the X-Wing series, the Hand of Thrawn Trilogy, the New Jedi Order series, and a handful of other great books (I've read close to fifty SW books and I've still got a little ways to go)
-Any of the Year's Best Science Fiction books
-Chindi
-Deepsix

There are many more good books I've read, but unfortunately they aren't coming to mind at the moment.

[NikS]

lots of Russian writers.
sorry for any misprints.

* "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" (all of 'em)

* (mmm... don't know how their name is written in English correctly) Everything by Strugatsky brothers

* "The Firm" (the movie sucks)

* (Almost) everything by Sergey Lukjanenko

* "Adventures of smart(or howzit in English?) soldier Shweik" (damn it rocks   )

* Alexander Bushkov's "Svarog"

* Everything by Boris Akunin

and lots of other really good books I can't remember now  

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:


Unfortunately, not many people read books these days. =\ A real pity.

yeah. its depressing, like when i went camping with the "crew". it was mid afternoon, i was sitting back in my chair, in the shade, reading. The looks i got from my freinds was hilarious. Then they would come over and ask what i was doing, like they have never seen anyone read before. I would say, "i'm reading." and they would shake their head and say something like-"how strange" or something just as stupid.

oh yeah, Douglas Adams rocks. So does Hunter S. Thompson. Everything i have read by Asimov has been rad too. There was this book i read a long time ago, i think it was called "A Canticle for Leibowitz", i really enjoyed that one. It was dark & depressing.

[ July 21, 2003: Message edited by: ecsyle:951 ]

[jasonlane]

Vurt

is a great book, cyberpunk......hmmmmmm cyberpunk

Also anyone read "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland, a must read!!!!

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[TheQuirk]

[xyle_one]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
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fucking awesome  

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[Pissed_Macman]

Anyone read the Salmon of Doubt? Too bad Douglas Adams is dead.  

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Macman: pimpin da streets o seattle:
Anyone read the Salmon of Doubt? Too bad Douglas Adams is dead.    

No. What is it about??? (in no less than 200 words)