Books

[SRevol]

Tell me your favorite books

 

 

My list:

 

Ian McEwan:Atonement,The Cement Garden

Stephen King:Hearts in Atlantis

Jeffrey Eugenides:The virgin suicides

Nabokov Vladimir:Lolita

Rosamunde Pilcher:The shell seekers

Judith Krantz:Spring Collection

Eladia Gonzalez:Mi nombre es Eva(My name is Eva)

Raquel Heredia:La agenda de los amigos muertos(The dead friends notebook)

Helen Fielding:Bridget Jones

[JamesSavik]

My Library

[Graeme]

My list is constantly changing. Sometimes I feel like re-reading some old novels, like I did recently with Harry Turtledove's Misplaced Legion series.

 

Mainly Science Fiction and Fantasy (heavy on the fantasy), I think most novels by James Hogan, L.E.Modesitt Jr, Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Janny Wurts and would qualify

[David McLeod]

...Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein...

 

I was heavily influenced by the habit of buying books from used-book stores, and many of my favorites are ancient. McCaffrey, Asimov, and Heinlein, to be sure. I would add Mark Twain and (if you can find them) "The Lensman" series by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Arthur C. Clarke (pre-2001), of course. David Eddings' first series. Shakespeare's English kings (especially Richard III with its hidden messages which prove that Richard III did not murder his nephews). Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael" series.

 

I know, you wanted "books," but my list of authors is shorter than my list of books.

[Dolores Esteban]

I like

 

Eliot Pattison (his thrillers set in Tibet)

 

Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf, Demian, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha etc.)

 

Orlando by Virgina Woolf

 

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

 

Dan Brown

 

J.R.R Tolkien

 

The Dark Tower books by Stephen King

 

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

 

Hard to be a God by Arkady Strugatzky

 

etc. etc.

[Sir Galahad]

That's a really tough one, have so many that stimulate in different ways.

 

If I'm pushed, then it would have to be Lord Of The Rings. IMHO, it's the nearest you can get to a true masterpiece, & the films do not do it justice.

[KJames]

My Library

 

 

Algebra for Dummies?

 

I'd never list any of the "for Dummies" titles...despite the humor in the books..especially after having placed in algebra 3 times...

[SRevol]

Hermann Hesse Demian

 

Dan Brown

 

J.R.R Tolkien

 

The Dark Tower books by Stephen King

 

Nice ones !!

[Tim1001]

the Belgariad, the Mallorean, the Elenium and the Tamuli (series) by David Eddings

the Sword of Truth (series) by Terry Goodkind

the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

the Shanara series by Terry Brooks

[JamesSavik]

Algebra for Dummies?

 

I'd never list any of the "for Dummies" titles...despite the humor in the books..especially after having placed in algebra 3 times...

 

 

for dummies books are a good cheap tutorial or review on a number of topics. They are one of the most cost-effective series there is when you are dealing with technology.

 

Books on Math or tech start at ~$40 (if you're lucky). For Dummies books cost ~$20.

 

Instead of calling them For Dummies books, they should call them For Smart People Who Want Results and Don't Want To Pay TOO Much.

[Jack Frost]

So I spent hours doing this...

[jdmotion]

I read a lot and I can't remember a lot of the names but here are my favorites.

 

American Gods

Neverwhere

I Love You Beth Cooper (Funniest book I've ever read)

Send Me

Hero (Which Everyone here that is remotely into comics must read.)

The F#@k Up

Hairstyles of the Damned

We Disappear

Mysterious Skin

 

I have plenty more but I can't remember the titles.

Edited March 3, 2009 by Jonathan Diaz

[Verm]

R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms series

 

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet

 

Tolkien's series

 

A few older Stephen King and Micheal Crichton titles

 

Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series

[myself_i_must_remake]

So I spent hours doing this...

[myself_i_must_remake]

coetzee - age of iron, disgrace, diary of a bad year

conrad - the secret agent

flaubert - madame bovary

joyce - dubliners

macdonald - fall on your knees, the way the crow flies

morrison - sula, song of solomon, beloved

nabokov - lolita, pale fire

roy - the god of small things

saramago - the double, death with interruptions

vonnegut - cat's cradle

[Sir Galahad]

Confessions of a Male porn star, seriously, it's a very stimulating read!

[Caipirinha]

I have an exceptionally random list of favorite books:

 

The book that started it all, that really sparked my love for reading, and which I sill consider to be one of my favorite books: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Life of Pi by Yaan Martel

Giraffe: A Novel by J.M. Ledgard

Dry: A memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Are You There Vodka? It's me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank: and Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom by Celia Rivenbark

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read

I have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton Jackson

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Night by Elie Wiesel

 

The list goes on and on and on...

Edited March 3, 2009 by Caipirinha

[corvus]

Dan Brown

boo!

 

J.R.R Tolkien

yay!

 

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Wow, I thought I and ____ were the only people who read this.

 

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet

They're exceptionally beautiful. People who snort at scifi should this, really.

 

saramago - the double, death with interruptions

Wow, is Death with Interruptions a new book? Didn't Seeing just hit the market? He's a busy old man, he is.

 

Are You There Vodka? It's me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Haven't read this, but the title is hilarious...

 

My list, with the caveat that not all these books are *still* my favorites, nor were they necessarily ever *the* favorite, and not all of them have I read completely (sounds illegitimate... but yeah). In chronological order:

 

The Giver, Lois Lowry

The Journey to the West (Xi You Ji), Wu Cheng'en

The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (Tian Long Ba Bu), Jin Yong

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

Harry Potter, JK Rowling

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Blindness, Jose Saramago

Lolita, Nabokov

The Master and Story of the Night, Colm Toibin

The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov

[myself_i_must_remake]

Wow, is Death with Interruptions a new book? Didn't Seeing just hit the market? He's a busy old man, he is.

 

seeing's been out only like two years in english. you're right: he is very prolific, especially for his age. death with interruptions is more of a candy book, but still very fun to read.

[SRevol]

nabokov - lolita, pale fire

saramago - the double, death with interruptions

 

 

Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

Harry Potter, JK Rowling

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Blindness, Jose Saramago

Lolita, Nabokov

 

Good stuff

 

Eleven minutes, Paulo Coelho n_n

[Jack Frost]

ou est madame bovary?

Qui? Who?

[myself_i_must_remake]

if you don't know... start making a noose. the best thing french lit has to offer!

[Mark Arbour]

ou est madame bovary?

 

Madam Bovary est dans la chambre....avec le President de Burundi.

[Sir Galahad]

Madam Bovary est dans la chambre....avec le President de Burundi.

 

Bonjour madame, vous cherchez ravashing ce matin!

[Dolores Esteban]

Pardon?