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Re: Favourite Books

Facetious — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:31:05 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 02/22/2013 16:31

Animal Farm
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
The Westing Game
1984
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Little Prince
Pippi Longstocking
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Long Way from Chicago (actually starting to like this more than Holes)
The Hobbit
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell nowadays, pretty good so far.

Re: Favourite Books

Defago — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:12:33 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 02/22/2013 16:12

The Shadow series by Card isn't bad either. Except the last book. That one sucks.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:03:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2013 09:03

dividesbyzero wrote:

Dune = Greatest sci-fi epic ever written. Also I prefer Ender's Game to Speaker for the Dead, but honestly I'm cool with it as long as it's not Xenocide. Seriously, fuck Xenocide

I like Xenocide and Children Of The Mind despite who convoluted and fucked they get. I grew up with the series so it's hard to look at any of them as bad.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:24:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2013 08:24

SilverWalrus wrote:

I haven't read for pleasure in ages. Favorite books of all time are the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card. I like science fiction a great deal.

Dune = Greatest sci-fi epic ever written. Also I prefer Ender's Game to Speaker for the Dead, but honestly I'm cool with it as long as it's not Xenocide. Seriously, fuck Xenocide

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:06:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2013 08:06

I haven't read for pleasure in ages. Favorite books of all time are the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card. I like science fiction a great deal.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:01:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2013 08:01

My top 3 books are the following:

1. The Catcher in the rye
2. The Absolutely true diary of a part time indian
3. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I don't read a lot.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:06:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2013 06:06

I'll just throw in a random few that I love. Not necessarily my top whatever.

The Lord of the Rings (any one of the trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglass Adams
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
1984 - George Orwell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
I.Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger In a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbot
Harry Potter (any one, though my favorite would either be sorcerer's stone or deathly hallows) - J.K. Rowling
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Re: Favourite Books

MrFrogger — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:10:41 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 02/18/2013 20:10

JMan wrote:

I have now added The Hunger Games to my favorite books. I saw the movie yesterday, too.

I also read those books, they were pretty good, not great, but then I saw the movie which was absolutely atrocious.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:55:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/18/2013 17:55

I have now added The Hunger Games to my favorite books. I saw the movie yesterday, too.

Re: Favourite Books

MrFrogger — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:07:05 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 02/18/2013 03:07

To keep it short I'l just keep it to my Top 3
On The Road
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:47:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/18/2013 01:47

Oh hard... I have heaps of favourite books. I have genre based lists and everything!

Anyway these are the favourites that came to me in an instant (sorry for all the hundreds I have missed)

'Wuthering Heights' - Emily Bronte
'The Magus' - John Fowles
'A Prayer for Owen Meany' - John Irving
'The Maribou Stork Nightmares' - Irvine Welsh
'The Handmaid's Tale' - Margaret Atwood
'The Buddenbrooks' - Thomas Mann
'Perfume' - Patrick Suskind
'Half Of A Yellow Sun' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'Disgrace' - J.M. Coetzee
'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Under The Skin' - Michel Faber
'The Sorrows of Young Werther' - Johann von Goethe
'Dead Souls' - Nikolai Gogol
'The Color Purple' - Alice Walker
'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' - Thomas Hardy
'A Kestrel for a Knave' - Barry Hines
'A Picture of Dorian Gray' - Oscar Wilde
'To Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee
'We Need to Talk about Kevin' - Lionel Shriver
'The Glass Room' - Simon Mawer
'Animal Farm' - George Orwell
'Doctor Zhivago' - Boris Pasternak

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:28:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/18/2013 00:28

revolver94 wrote:

My top 3

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Currently reading Wuthering Heights, I like it very well so far.

Excellent. Anne Bronte's works are worth an attentive read too, definitely underrated (or overshadowed).

Re: Favourite Books

Defago — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:20:44 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 02/18/2013 00:20

Just finished the Silmarillion again, so now I must read the LotR trilogy, the Hobbit, watch the movies, read the wikias. That books gets me so hyped with Tolkien's legendarium it's unhealthy.

Re: Favourite Books

revolver94 — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:57:44 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 02/17/2013 21:57

My top 3

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
2. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
3. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Currently reading Wuthering Heights, I like it very well so far.

Re: Favourite Books

Jackwc — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:44:44 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 02/17/2013 20:44

JMan wrote:

What's it matter what edition? The story's freaking awesome!

Tarzan is NOT a children's book. Disney just made a kiddie version out of it, screwing up the story at the same time. Tarzan of the Apes is actually kinda violent, including baths of blood in the beginning and a split open head. Need I mention the language?

Listen to this major flaw in the book: As a kid, Tarzan found the cabin his parents built after they were marooned, though he didn't know it was HIS parents' cabin.

Tarzan found children's books with words and pictures, so he taught himself how to read and write English over the next couple decades starting with the children's books by linking the words with the pictures, and then moving on to other books. But, he could not learn how to PRONOUNCE English, because there was no way for him to know that B made the b sound, d made the d sound, etc.

The only language he could speak was the ape language, Mangani. Tarzan means "White-Skin."

As an adult, while he still didn't know how to pronounce letters, he wrote a letter to Jane. The letter read "I am Tarzan of the apes."

Inaccuracy: How could Tarzan write his own name in the Mangani translation if he didn't know how to pronounce English letters at the time?

1. The edition matters big time. I mean, for starters, if it was only the story that mattered then a brief summary would be as good if not better than the whole novel. Secondofall, the two Frankenstein editions are completely different stories.

2. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote pulp that, for the most part, was very popular among children, namely young boys. So, in a way, yeah. Violence or not - I mean, Indiana Jones and Star Wars are more or less for children too and they're both pretty violent.

3. Well, I guess you've got Edgar on that one. Keep in mind that this is the same man who wrote about magical cave portals to Mars.

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:25:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/17/2013 20:25

Jackwc wrote:

Now, when you say Frankenstein, you're being kinda vague - do you mean the 1818 edition or the 1823 edition? Or is it, like, an abridged version or rewrite?

Also, three out of your four books are children's books - do you just happen to have a general preference for children's books?

Re: Favourite Books

Jackwc — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:19:22 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 02/17/2013 20:19

Lemme educate you bitches:

Breakfast Of Champions
Blood Meridian
Generation X
The Old Man And The Sea
A Canticle For Leibowitz
House Of Leaves

Best books. Right there.

Re: Favourite Books

Jackwc — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:15:49 GMT

Author: Jackwc

Posted: 02/17/2013 20:15

JMan wrote:

Tarzan of the Apes
Catherine, Called Birdy
Frankenstein

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:15:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/17/2013 20:15

Ham on Rye
Sentimental Education
Anything by the Bronte Sisters (especially Vilette, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights)
The Beggar Maid
The Tin Drum
Lolita
The Piano Teacher
The Butcher Boy
Huckleberry Finn

...and probably some other books too

Re: Favourite Books

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:39:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/17/2013 19:39

I won't get fooled to waste an hour on this; no way man.