Your top 5 favorite books are.....

[SpunGirl]

1. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
2. The Season of Passage, by Christopher Pike (yes, I know he wrote a lot of cheesy YA novels but this was an adult one that was really great)
3. Phantom, by Susan Kay
4. Monster, by Sanyika Shakur (Monster Kody Scott)
5. The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

-K

[Caiylania]

Can we list top 5 favorite series???

1. Sword of Truth, Confessors rock. Mordsith rule. ~ Terry Goodkind

2. Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (as if I needed to put his name)

3. Earth's Children ~ Jean M. Auel

4. Rhapsody trilogy +1 ~ Elizabeth Haydon

5. WWII.The Journal ~ COL Earl R. Short

[AnticorRifling]

1. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

2. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card

3. Hannibal - Thomas Harris

4. Dragonsdawn - Ann McCaffrey

5. Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

[Sean]

because i have to fill in for edaarin while he's gone...

i think anticor made those books up, he can't really read. and because this is an edaarin post i must take this moment to call him a "honky"

[Edited on 11-7-2003 by Tijay]

[peam]

No particular order..

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman.
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk.
Harry Potter (All of them.) - J.K. Rowling.
Evasion - Crimthinc Worker's Collective.
On The Road - Jack Kerouac.

im suprised nobody put down any of the Song of Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin... if you have not read any I would suggest picking them up

[Wezas]

The two books I've read since college:

Word Freak - Stefan Fatsis
A man who wants to do a book on the lives of professional scrabble players gets hooked himself. It gets a bit technical in some parts, but a good book.

Blue Nowhere - Jeffrey Deaver
A hacker is released from being imprisoned to try to find another hacker who is killing people. Basically all I can say without starting to give away the whole story. So many twists in this book that you'll never know who is who.

[Miss X]

The count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The consolations of philosophy - Alain De Botton
Bridget Jonses's Diary - Helen Fielding
Harry potter (All, but my fave is the Goblet of Fire) - J.K. Rowling.
Blackbird - Jennifer Lauck.

[theotherjohn]

no order

Conan books by R E Howard

First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephan R Donaldson

Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock

[Tendarian]

Originally posted by Caiylania
Can we list top 5 favorite series???

1. Sword of Truth, Confessors rock. Mordsith rule. ~ Terry Goodkind

2. Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (as if I needed to put his name)

3. Earth's Children ~ Jean M. Auel

4. Rhapsody trilogy +1 ~ Elizabeth Haydon

5. WWII.The Journal ~ COL Earl R. Short

Mine would look a lot like this but for 3 i would have the Axis series by Sara Douglass and for 5 i would have the Belgariad by David Eddings.

[AnticorRifling]

Originally posted by theotherjohn


Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams


I've got all of them in hardbound leather. Classics.

[Weedmage Princess]

No particular order:

Hideaway - Dean Koontz (even though the ending was kinda crap, the rest of the book totally made up for it..it was THAT good.)

Hiroshima - John Hersey

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Enchanter's End Game - David Eddings

Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[Gan]

LOTR - Tolkien
Chronicles of Amber - R. Zelazny
Chronicles of Thomas Convenant - S. R. Donaldson
Shannara series (most anything by T. Brooks)
The Belgariad/Malloreon series by D. Eddings (most anything by D. & L. Eddings)


other authors of note that I like to read:
Tom Clancy
Stephen King
George R. R. Martin (Fevre Dream, Fire & Ice series)
Robert Asprin (Myth Adventures)
Elizabeth Hayden (Rhapsody series)
Michael Moorcock (Elric, The Eternal Champion series)
Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth series)
Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time series)
J.K. Rowling

[Warriorbird]

Hmm.

In no particular order.


Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson
Complete Works- Pablo Neruda
Vurt- Jeff Noon
Imajica- Clive Barker
Stardust- Neil Gaiman

Just some of my favorites, I could hardly do a real top five.

[Caiylania]

Originally posted by Tendarian

Originally posted by Caiylania
Can we list top 5 favorite series???

1. Sword of Truth, Confessors rock. Mordsith rule. ~ Terry Goodkind

2. Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (as if I needed to put his name)

3. Earth's Children ~ Jean M. Auel

4. Rhapsody trilogy +1 ~ Elizabeth Haydon

5. WWII.The Journal ~ COL Earl R. Short

Mine would look a lot like this but for 3 i would have the Axis series by Sara Douglass and for 5 i would have the Belgariad by David Eddings.


Good taste! I doubt though that anyone has read number 5 on my list. That is my Grandfather's journal. After he was captured on Corregidor he wrote it during the 3 1/2 years he spent as a POW.

And Miss X? You are right, I have to add the Count of Monte Cristo and Harry Potter, in that order!


edited for grammar, and my mom was an English maj >sigh<

[Edited on 11-7-2003 by Caiylania]

[Edited on 11-7-2003 by Caiylania]

[Moist Happenings]

1. Timeline by Michael Chrighton
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. The Dragon and the Unicorn by A.A. Anastasio
4. Sphere by Michael Chrighton
5. Les Miserbles(In book form!) by Victor Hugo

[Adhara]

In no order:

The portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Chesapeake - James Michener
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson (Malazan series book 3)
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield

Edit: Ack forgot 2 important ones

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

[Edited on 11-7-2003 by Adhara]

[Moist Happenings]

Originally posted by Wezas in another thread

Check out the favorite books thread. Noone's even called Tayre a tool in that thread yet.



Tayre, you're a tool.

[Drew2]

My day is now complete. :)

[StrayRogue]

Red Dwarf - Grant/Naylor
Adrian Mole's various Diaries - Townsend
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Elric - Moorcock
Dragonlance - Weis/Hickman

[Edited on 7-11-03 by StrayRogue]

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Neff

Originally posted by Wezas in another thread

Check out the favorite books thread. Noone's even called Tayre a tool in that thread yet.



Tayre, you're a tool.

It was only a matter of time.

[Moist Happenings]

Bahahahaha. Kittens give Morbo gas.

[vigilante]

1. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
2. The Stranger, Albert Camus
3. The Black Company, Glen Cook
4. Jhereg, Stephen Brust
5. LOTR, J.R.R. Tolkien

[GSLeloo]

1. Pern Series by Anne McCaffrey
2. Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
3. Exodus by Leon Uris
4. Harry Potter series
5. So you Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane

(Coming in at a close 6 is All Quiet on the Western Front tied with any Amy Tan book)

[GSLeloo]

Daina, how is Wizards First Rule? Someone bought it for me for Christmas years ago and I still haven't read it.

[peam]

My number six book would probably be "Will" by Gordon Liddy. It's an autobiography, and it's awesome.

[Warriorbird]

I thought the first two books of the Sword of Truth were great. You can kinda quit after that.

[GSLeloo]

I bought a bookshelf just to hold all the books I have yet to read! I go to the bookstore and buy like 5 books at a time while I still have tons at home to read, I'm a bookaholic. So I just tended to read the books in a continuation of a series I was already reading or by an author I already knew I liked. I still have all of Anne Rice's series to finish, LOTR series, Tarzan, Flinx, and tons of classic books my grandma gave me.

[Vestarr]

Daina ya have the whole Xanth series theres bout 31 books now the whole series is great

well my list looks like this :

On a Pale horse - Piers Anthony
Being a Green Mother -Peirs Anthony
Weilding a Red Sword-yep Him again
With a Tangled Skein-ya know who
Bearing an Hourglass -yes Peirs agian

Guess Im pretty set on my favorite author huh ?

[Caiylania]

I love the whole Sword of Truth series, I think they all deal with different things. The author really weaves things that seem random at the time together in a way that keeps me reading.

[GuildRat]

Blackhawk Down- Mark Bowden
Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
The Hunt for the Bismarck- Not sure
Lightning- Dean R. Koontz
Chickenhawk- Robert Mason

[EmpressBtch]

The Anita Blake Vampire hunter series - Laurell K. Hamilton

A Kiss of Shadows - Laurell K. Hamilton

A Caress of Twilight - Laurell K. Hamilton

1st to Die - James Patterson

2nd Chance - James Patterson

[Dighn Darkbeam]

1. Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist

2. Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist

3. HP - Order of the Phoenix - Rowling (The best out of an excellent series)

4. A Darkness at Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist

5. Sword of Truth (Book one) - As was said, the Mordsith do rule. Goodkind is skilled at making believable characters and memmorable interactions.

However, I find Raymond Feist and the Rift War series to be its better in every way.

[Back]

Neuromancer - Wiliam Gibson

Animal Farm - Groege Orwell

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche

Legends from the End of Time - Michael Moorcock

[Vestarr]

Daina ye did get the new ones right he's going to bout 50 in the series of Xanth

[Skirmisher]

1- The first four books in "The Wheel of Time" series. Yes, I have read every one after that, and will read them all till its finished, but thats cause he has me hooked, not cause they are as good as the first several books.

2-"The Deed of Paksenarrion" Elizabeth Moon.

3- "Death on a pale horse" My personal favorite of Piers Anthony. I thought that the Incarnation Series also faded signifigantly as it moved on.

4- 'To Kill A Mockingbird" One of my all time favorite books I was ever "made" to read for school.;)

5- "Address Unknown" by Kressmann Taylor. This was published in the sptember-October 1938 issue of Story. Written as a series of letters between an American living in San Francisco and his formoer business partner who returned to Germany.

Its a small book, doesnt take more than an hour or two to read at most but is one of the most poignant books I have read about what the Nazis did to Germany and the world. I strongly recomend this to anyone and everyone.

6-Janet Evanovich(on a lighter note). Her Stephanie Plum Series is tremendous fun to read. One of those books that requires no thinking whatsoever and that you can put down and pick up. Perfect summer reading.

7-Enders Game. I think Anticor listed this one and I agree wholeheartedly although I did not enjoy the followup as much.

8-Heart of Darkness by Robert Conrad. Another of those books that those darned schools made me read that I came to love.

~more to follow~

Edited to add: Oops, I get so hyped up about books I forgot it was to have been only five. :( Ok, no more to follow.

[Edited on 11-7-2003 by Skirmisher]

[Tendarian]

Wizards first rule...... I wouldn't reccomend the most recent one, but the first few are awesome.

Thats funny as the most recent one i liked as much as the first and are two of the best books i own. Guess to each their own tho.

[Hips]

1) the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. They're all too good to pick just one.

2) the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

3) Idoru by William Gibson

4) the Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

5) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

I have tons more, but... I would say those are the top five. I *love* to read. :)

[SpunGirl]

OOoh, Michiko, Memoirs was way good.

Anticor, didn't it blow that Hannibal (the movie) didn't end the way the book did? The ending of the book was SO perfect, and then they went and effed it up.

Since a lot of people say they liked the Dragonlance books (as did I,) I'm going to take a moment to brag that I dated Tracy Hickman's son in High School. ::struts::

-K

[imported_Kranar]

1) Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglar Hofstadler
2) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
3) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
3) Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
5) The Universe In A Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

[Stunseed]

Originally posted by Dighn Darkbeam
1. Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist

2. Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist

3. HP - Order of the Phoenix - Rowling (The best out of an excellent series)

4. A Darkness at Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist

5. Sword of Truth (Book one) - As was said, the Mordsith do rule. Goodkind is skilled at making believable characters and memmorable interactions.

However, I find Raymond Feist and the Rift War series to be its better in every way.

That's what I'm talking about.

1. R.A. Salvatore -- Any
2. Raymond Feist -- Any
3. David Eddings -- Any
4. Piers Anthony -- Any
5. Timeline by Critchton

Love you Jolena!

[GuildRat]

Anyone ever read any of the Necroscope series by Brian Lumley?.....

[Trinitis]

1. The Clerics Quintet (all of them) - R.A. Salvatore
2. The first three Elminster books - Ed Greenwood
3. The Drow Saga(s)..there is like 12 books - R.A. Salvatore
4. The Redwall Books (tons of them) - Bryan Jacques
5. Spellfire Series - Ed Greenwood

I don't even own a book thats not part of a series :P

-Adredrin

[Caiylania]

Originally posted by Lady Daina
I'd highly recommend to people at least check out the Incarnations of Immortality series by P.A. Really makes ya think! :D


A friend loaned these to me 2 months ago and I couldn't put them down. They really work you over... they make you go hmmmmmmmm

[Latrinsorm]

1) Clockwork Orange
2) Free Fall - Robert Crais
3) Stalking the Angel - Robert Crais
4) Lullaby Town - Robert Crais
5) (tied) The Bible
5) (tied) Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross

[Gan]

[i]
However, I find Raymond Feist and the Rift War series to be its better in every way.

ooooh! I knew I was forgetting one! The Riftwar Saga and everything that is Pug and Jimmy the Hand was also a great read, but the book that got me started on Feist was Faerie Tale.

[Jack]

1.) With the Old Breed, by E.B. Sledge
2.) Breakout, by James Brady
3.) Colder than Hell, by Joseph E. Owen
4.) The Marines of Autumn, by James Brady
5.) The Wheel of time Series, by Robert Jordan

Most of the books on that list are Korean War history, concerning the Chosin Resevoir Campaign. For some reason I am obsessed with reading about that. It's amazing what those men went through there. The First Marine Division destroyed 10 Chinese Divisions durring the battles, all the while enduring temperatures as low as -30.

-Jack

[Dighn Darkbeam]

ooooh! I knew I was forgetting one! The Riftwar Saga and everything that is Pug and Jimmy the Hand was also a great read, but the book that got me started on Feist was Faerie Tale. >>

My first attempt at reading Faerie Tale didnt go too well as it is such a radical departure from his normal work. On second viewing I found the story to be just as good as his previous works, showing how truly talented Ray is as a writer.

For those of you who dont know, he still actively writes new novels...only they are currently released in the U.K only. I highly suggest heading over to Amazon.UK and checking out his ongoing works.

[Stunseed]

Bah! I forgot Mercedes Lackey!

Feist, Eddings, Lackey, Salvatore, then Timeline the book.

Love you Jolena!

[Stunseed]

Originally posted by Dighn Darkbeam
ooooh! I knew I was forgetting one! The Riftwar Saga and everything that is Pug and Jimmy the Hand was also a great read, but the book that got me started on Feist was Faerie Tale. >>

My first attempt at reading Faerie Tale didnt go too well as it is such a radical departure from his normal work. On second viewing I found the story to be just as good as his previous works, showing how truly talented Ray is as a writer.

For those of you who dont know, he still actively writes new novels...only they are currently released in the U.K only. I highly suggest heading over to Amazon.UK and checking out his ongoing works.

That's cool, do they have a US release date on his stuff yet. I'm a HUGE fan, and I believe he owes us the 4th book to the Serpentwar Saga.

[Scott]

In no particular order:

1. The Wheel of Time SERIES
2. That Was Then, This is Now
3. To Kill a Mocking Bird
4. 1984
5. Willow

[HarmNone]

Heh. Many of my favorites have been mentioned here, but I am never short of "favorite" books.

Dunston Wood
Watership Down
the Dune series
To Those I Loved
To Kill a Mockingbird

I could go on, and on, and on...but, I shall spare you. :D

HarmNone loves books

[Back]

Originally posted by HarmNone
Heh. Many of my favorites have been mentioned here, but I am never short of "favorite" books.

Dunston Wood
Watership Down
the Dune series
To Those I Loved
To Kill a Mockingbird

I could go on, and on, and on...but, I shall spare you. :D

HarmNone loves books

Yeah, I've seen some good ones posted. I read Watership Down and Dune in elementary school. ;)

[Stunseed]

Yeah, I thought I was odd when I read The Hobbit in 2nd grade. Heh.

Love you Jolena!

[SpunGirl]

Heh. When I was 11 my parents wouldn't let me watch Silence of the Lambs, even though my dad had just returned from the FBI Academy and I really wanted to see the scenes filmed there.

I read the book instead. Seeing the movie three years later, I can say that NOTHING they showed in the movie was as scary as what I imagined while reading the book.

-K

[Stunseed]

Very true, SpunGirl. That and Grisham fans.....The Firm is ten times better the movie. Though in the movie they got Tom Cruise, and he did a pretty good job.

Love you Jolena!

[SpunGirl]

So right, Stunseed. Which reminds me.

Someone else that plays GS was IMing me tonight telling me that "Bless the Child" was on TV. Has anyone seen this movie, or read this book?

I read the book when I was maybe 16 or 17. It is definitely an awesome, engaging, and well thought-out story, and if I had a top 10 list of books it would be on it. It was written by Cathy Cash Spellman.

The movie, on the other hand, is a complete piece of shit. It doesn't follow the book AT ALL. The movie is like... a condensed, warped, and fucked-up version on what's on the back of the book.

If anyone saw this movie, don't judge the book by the movie, more now than in any other instance. It really is a great story.

-K

[Stunseed]

::coughs and mutters something about Sphere::

They completely screwed Sphere by Critchton. If they fuck up Timeline < how you could fuck up such an awesome book, I'd never know >, I'm UPS'ing my size 14 shoe to stick up Crichton's ass. Twice, for a matching pair.

Love you Jolena!

[SpunGirl]

You're both right, it's come to the point where I'm totally surprised when they don't screw up a movie of a book.

Green Mile was PERFECT. They movie followed the book damn near to the letter, and I didn't feel anything was lost. I bawled my eyes out at both of them.

White Oleander, eh. I loved the acting and the characters were as I imagined them, but they left out two of the foster homes she lived in and changed the ending.

Did any of the MZB fans watch The Mists of Avalon on TNT? The casting was awesome, but so much of the story was lost.

-K

[Stunseed]

Referring to QotD;
Soundtrack was good.
Movie was so skewed from the book, I wanted to drag the director out to the side of the street and shoot him in the left foot. Twice.

Love you Jolena!

[Edited on 11-9-2003 by Stunseed]

[Stunseed]

Be very afraid. Anyone think of a movie that actually did justice to the book? It, by Stephen King, maybe.......

ps. 11 was a lil young to read that one. Almost scared me.

Love you Jolena!

[Edited on 11-9-2003 by Stunseed]

[Dighn Darkbeam]

Be very afraid. Anyone think of a movie that actually did justice to the book? It, by Stephen King, maybe....... >>

I take it none of you people liked The Shawshank(SP) Redemption? I didnt read the book but the movie is one of the best put to film.

[Caiylania]

I LOVE Shawshank Redemption!! and the Green Mile, books and movies both.

The Mists of Avalon is an amazing book, and though the movie does not have its depth, I love the movie as well.

I wavered on White Oleander, they rearranged some events, left out others and messed with the ending. But what can you do?

[Zir]

Has anyone read Stephen King's new gunslinger book yet? I've been meaning to pick it up, but that woudl require leaving the house...ahem. That's my current favorite series. Although, I'm sure when "Feast for Crows" comes out, I'll swing back in favor of Ice and Fire.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
Someone else that plays GS was IMing me tonight telling me that "Bless the Child" was on TV. Has anyone seen this movie, or read this book?
-K

I liked the movie. But I haven't read the book. To be clear, it was the one with the autistic girl and Satan, right? And the ending scene was where she turns around in front of the church and scares off some guys? I liked it. :D

[SpunGirl]

Oh, my god.

GO PICK UP THE BOOK AND READ IT IMMEDIATELY.

Seriously. Taken alone I can see how the movie wouldn't be terrible, but if you read the book I'm sure you'd love the depth of the story. And then you'll be like, "What in the HELL was that movie, was it even the same thing at all?"

Cathy Cash Spellman.

-K

[Edited on 11-10-2003 by SpunGirl]

[Stunseed]

Definately worth it, Latrinsorm....It's a great read, the type of the book where you suddenly realize it's 3am and you gotta go to work at 6.

Love you Jolena!

[SpunGirl]

I read the book again after watching the movie just to make myself feel better.

-K

[Kadumi]

Originally posted by theotherjohn
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams


YESSSS

[Kadumi]

R.A. Salvatore came by the local Hastings and I got my book signed when The Thousand Orcs came out. Pretty cool to actually meet the guy.

Wuthering Heights sucked. Thank Kai for Cliff's Notes.

I also liked Elminster: The Making of a Mage by Ed Greenwood and the Avatar trilogy (also forgotten realms) is pretty dang good too.

[Caiylania]

I also liked the Unlikely Ones and Carol Berg's Song of the Beast. Has anyone read those?

[Edaarin]

1. Different Seasons (one of the short stories was Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption), Stephen King
2. Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
3. Robert Jordan's WOT series
4. Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
5. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther

[Fraidycat]

Girlfriend in a coma ~ Douglas Coupland
The good sex guide ~ Margi Clarke (seriously . . got me through my teens ;) )
Veronica Decides To Die ~ Paulo Choelo
Man And Boy ~ Tony Parsons
Pray ~ Steve Perry

I suggest you read these . . .
2 of them changed my life. yey