Favorite Books

[methylatedghosts]

I probably don't read enough. But I am enjoying a series by Bryce Courtnay that ends with the book "Tommo and Hawk". I think they're a great read and lightly educational on 1800's Australia and New Zealand.

A favourite "religious" book is Conversations with God. (Damn. Just forgot the Author's name. I think his last name is Walsch)

So many more I need to read though

 

[Yes Man]

-Prey by Michael Chrichton
-American Gods by Neil Gaiman

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The Republic - Plato
Art of War - Sun Tzu
Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft
The Other Gods - H.P. Lovecraft
Interview with a Vampire - Ann Rice
'Salems Lot - Stephen King

 

[Diogenes]

Too many to list. The Nexus trilogy by Henry Miller. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Phillip K. Dick. Right now I'm reading To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellows. Soon I'll be back to Lolita, if I find the time.

 

[ChristineES]

Fiction:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Piercing the Darkness by Frank E. Peretti

Religious:
The Bible

Nonfiction
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Just Another Kid by Torey Hayden (Along with all of her other books)

 

[ALifetimeToWaitFor....]

Top five are easy -

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

Other than that everything I've ever read. I haven't read much of anything written past the 1970s because everytime I do the prose is just boring and the ideas regurgatated.

 

[Mathematician]

Fiction:

Hyperion by Dan Simmons
A Game of Thrones/A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1984 by George Orwell
Tale of the Dying Sun by Gene Wolfe
That Was Then; This is Now by S.E. Hinton
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
V for Vendetta (graphic novel) by Alan Moore

Non-fiction:

The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'amato
The Tao Te Ching by Laozi (?)
People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Women and Socialism: Essays on Women's Liberation by Sharon Smith

 

[zookeeper]

Best book in the whole world...well, my world, is The Education of Little Tree. I believe its by Forest Carter. I'm in the mood for another good read so I'll try one that's recommended here. Thanks!

 

[Vasilisa Jade]

The Scarlet Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorn

Rose Madder -Stephen King (My fav out of all his)

Any Fogotten Realms book

Jewel -Danielle Steel (My fav from her)

The PoisonWood Bible -don't remember

There are more, I just can't think of them all.

 

[Magic Man]

My three favorites-
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Shike: Time of the Dragons and Shike: Last of the Zinja By Robert O'Shea (Really one book split into two, the copy I have is the two combined)
The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Just a perfect escapist read. It has it all, the greatest swordsman in the land, plenty of fighting, war, betrayal, love, all by the master of action/adventure books. Not a great piece of literature like Crime and Punishment, but a lot more fun.)

 

[Melancholy]

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte. (My all time favourite)
Pride and prejudice- Jane Austin
Insomnia and The Stand- Stephen King
The Midwich Cuckoos- John Wyndam (You may know the film better as Children of the dammned)

 

[yossarian22]

The Stars my Desination
Alfred Bester
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick
The Hounds of Baskerville
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Steal This Book!
Abbie Hoffman
Ringworld
Larry Niven
A Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The Stand
Stephen King
I have a few more, I just don't remember them off the top of my head.

 

[Smoke]

Just Another Kid by Torey Hayden (Along with all of her other books)

You're the first person I've ever run into who's read Torey Hayden. I wrote her a letter many years ago (I was about 20 or 21) and told her how much I liked Somebody Else's Kids, and she wrote me a very nice reply.

 

[rhys]

I think this book is horrifying. Karen Armstrong says he probably didn't really mean it, he just wanted to get people thinking. Maybe. But a lot of what Plato wrote horrifies me. I just don't like the man.

I once wrote a dissertation for an MA in which I argued that Platonism was the great enemy of humanistic psychology and student-centred education. It seems to me that the whole production is based on an escape from the real world into a series of abstractions ('ideas') on which basis he proceeds to propose what is in effect a police state. Koestler points out that those who, like Plato, profit from a slave society live in dread of change, which may produce revolt, and never get their hands dirty with real experiment. I am no philosopher, however. I was told it was a study for old men, and I ain't got there yet!

 

[Phasmid]

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
Sorcery - Terry Pratchett
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett

Seeing a pattern?

 

[Father Heathen]

I recently read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Good book.

 

[Yes Man]

In no particular order:

The Scar- China Mieville
Perdido Street Station- China Mieville
The Dune Series- Frank Herbert
Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
Xenocide- Orson Scott Card
American Gods- Neil Gaiman
God's Debris- Scott Adams
Prey- Michael Crichton
Jennifer Government- Max Barry
The Long Walk- Stephen King
Angels & Demons- Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell- Tucker Max
Trapped- James Alan Gardner

 

[meee223]

This is easy..my all-time favourite reads:

Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Aztec - Gary Jennings
The North and South Trilogy - John Jakes (series of 3 books)
The Kent Family Chronicles - John Jakes (series of 8 books)
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Sarum - Edward Ruthurfurd
London - Edward Ruthurfurd
The Source - James Michenor
The Covenant - James Michenor
Roots - Alex Haley

And horrible books, some I just couldn't finish:

The Other Boleyn Girl
Poland - James Michenor
Russka - Edward Ruthurfurd

Strange how some authors can write great books and also some terrible ones!

 

[Eidolon]

Islands in the Stream- Ernest Hemmingway
The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
The Wasteland and other poems- T.S. Eliot
Shogun- James Clavelle
The Keys to the Kingdom- A. J. Cronin
Hamlet- Shakespeare

 

[gnostic]

Homer- The Odyssey
Homer - The Iliad
Euripides - Medea
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Volsunga Sagas
Táin Bó Cúalnge
Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Raymond Feist - Magician
Margaret Weis & Tracey Hickman - all the books from the DragonLance Chronicles & DragonLance Legends series.
Robert Jordan - only the 1st 5 books of his Wheel of Time series.