Favortie Books

[Mandy]

So what are your favorite books? Favorite Series? Authors?


Here's my list:


Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

The Twilight Saga - Stephanie Meyers

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Girl Interupted - Susanna Kaysen

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Harry Potter Series - J.K Rowling

The Shining - Stephen King

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

Thumbsucker - Walter Kim

And I read alot of scripts..... maybe I shall make that a seperate thread :]
And i just now ralized that I spelled 'Favorite' wrong. Don't judge me!

 

[harris]

Howl and Other Peoms-Allen Ginsberg
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
The Adventures of Auggie March-Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Huck Finn-Mark Twain
The Iliad-Homer
The Aeneid-Virgil
The Epic of Gilgamesh-auhtor unknown
Tao Te Ching-Lao Tzu
The Theban Plays-Sophocles
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic-Paul Fussel
Across the Wide Missouri-Bernard DeVoto
Goodbye, Darkness-William Manchester
The Long Road of War-James W. Johnston
Catch-22-Joseph Heller
The Leatherstocking Tales-James Fenimore Cooper

 

[Hex]

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More coming tomorow

EDIT:

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (especially Sourcery and Reaper Man)
Anything by Arthur C. Clarke
Jonathon Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
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[dinorider]

A book that'll always be a favorite of mine is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. It's a classic, despite the author being pretty much an asshole outside of his works.

I can't really think of any others right now, except for HHGTTG which Dreamaker was nice enough to remind me of.

Oh, and for all the Twilight fans; Try Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite that I just read. Not a favorite per say, but worth a read. It's basically a big mix of violence, drugs, angst, sex (of the non christian variety) and goth music. Also, it's about vampires doing those things. In other words, it's about real vampires

EDIT: Forgot about Harry Potter. My bad.

 

[Hans]

H2G2
The Vampire Chronicles
Martyn Pig
The Gospel According to Larry

I don't read nearly as much as I should.. but doing the theatre major, I do go through alot of plays and other scripts.

 

[Lowie]

The Golden Leg: And Other Ghostly Campfire Tales - Dale Jarvis

Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador - Dale Jarvis

Wonderful Strange: Ghosts, Fairies, and Fabulous Beasties - Dale Jarvis

Silverwing - Kenneth Oppel

Sunwing - Kenneth Oppel

Firewing - Kenneth Oppel

Darkwing - Kenneth Oppel

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton

Holes - Louis Sachar

Christine - Stephen King

Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard and Florence Atwater

 

[Mesmerale]

Hmm...

Ender's Game and the entire series - Orson Scott Card.

Harry Potter Series - You know her name already.

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Read it!)

So You Want to be a Wizard series - Someone...

Midnighters - Scott Westerfeld

Peeps duet (so far) - Scott Westerfeld, I think.

Bartimaeus (sp?) Trilogy - Someone else...

Children of the Lamp duet, series, whatever - Someone else else..

Kitty and the Midnight Hour Series - Carrie Vaughn (Sp?)

Darren Shan Saga - Someone else else else...

And quite a few others that I'll add when I remember them.

 

[Hans]

Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard and Florence Atwater

ah, good memories.

 

[Fire2box]

1.The Chronicles of Narnia
2.The Artemis Fowl books
3. The Harry Potter books
4. Fight Club
5. Dexter
6. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
7. Bringing Down The House Aka "21, Bringing Down The House".
8. Apt Pupil
9. Coraline

 

[link]

Blarg told me about Enders game. It sounds like such a cool book.

My personal favorites are:

Legend of Drizzt series - R.A. Salvatore

The Death Gate Cycle - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

"His Dark Materials" isn't as good as a story as the first two I listed, but it's the first book that I actually enjoyed reading, and it's the book that got me into reading more books. It has more sentamental value than anything.

 

[Nam Repaid]

I read a lot of textbooks, no I’m not in school or taking any courses. I just like to learn stuff, lots of different stuff. I get collage texts at tag sales and have a collection ranging from 1800s steam engines to nuclear physics and psychology to law. For fiction I’m a big Tom Clancy fan, Red October being my favorite. Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimove and H. G. Wells are up there too.

I have a library card and use it.

Nam

Edit; Whoo Hoo 400th post!

 

[Emileigh]

My favorite books/book series are:

~ twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
~ Vampire kisses series by Ellen Schreiber
~ generation dead by Daniel Waters
~5150: the one who flew into the cuckoos nest by Kathi Stringer
~Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan
~Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine

And tons more...but don't have enough time to type them all up

 

[Bambusa]

Best book ever: To Kill a Mockingbird. No contest.

 

[Valentine]

The Honor Harrington Series (and associated books) by David Weber.
The Vlad Taltos Series by Steven Brust
The Valdemar Series by Mercedes Lackey
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
The New Heroes (Quantum Prophecy) by Michael Carroll

and more...

 

[Nicky]

I dont really read that much but.....


The Things They Carried
The Hobbit
The Road

 

[Mink]

Slaughterhouse 5 and 1984 are hands down the best books ever, IMHO.

 

[dogboy]

Oh, and for all the Twilight fans; Try Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite that I just read. Not a favorite per say, but worth a read. It's basically a big mix of violence, drugs, angst, sex (of the non christian variety) and goth music. Also, it's about vampires doing those things. In other words, it's about real vampires

EDIT: Forgot about Harry Potter. My bad.

I'm glad you said Lost Soul's or I would have forgotten about that one. You're right, probably not great literature, but a great read. I still have it on my shelf.

I'm just finishing "Girl Interrupted", a great read. I'm also finishing Stephen King's "On Writing". I enjoyed "Salem's Lot", "The Green Mile", "It", "Desperation", to name a few. I love "Catcher in the Rye" and "Lord of the Flies". They tell me things about myself. I also love "Portrait of an Artist" by James Joyce. I'm big into poetry, and Artur Rimbaud is my god.

I almost forgot: The Tolkein trilogy and The Hobbit, and Terry Brooks Shanarra series.

 

[Mandy]

Good Golly Stephen King has to be my favorite author! "The Green Mile" is amazing!

 

[spacemanBEN]

OK, well here are some of my favourites:
Harry Potter (duh)
Anything by Tolkien
Anything by Douglas Coupland
High Fidelity
And for the sake of my childhood, the Phantom Tollbooth

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[mizzycub]

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R Tolkein

Hitchhickers Series - Douglas Adams

Most of the Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett


I have also really enjoyed His Dark Materials and the Bartimeus Trilogy, but not as much as the ones above. I have also liked Terry Pratchetts books for younger people, but not as much as that world upon the back of four elephants upon the great A'tuin, him (or her) being a giant space turtle.