Favorite book?

[damunzy]

Originally posted by scorch
Rainbow 6 - Tom Clancy


The games crap though.

The game is pretty good.

My vote goes to the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan.

 

[Ohkrana]

Fav read would be Black Cross and Spandua Phoenix would be second; by Greg Iles.

Fav author would be: Brian Lumley!

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by PaleHorse76
My vote goes to the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan.

Mine too!

 

[magic-monkey]

"on the road" by jack kerouac is a really great book

also, "hamlet" is worth a read if i'm you're in a pseudo-intellectual, pretentious student mood. Like me.

 

[Hamlet]

Originally posted by magic-monkey
also, "hamlet" is worth a read if i'm you're in a pseudo-intellectual, pretentious student mood. Like me.

It's not a book, though.

A seperate thread, methinks.

I'd say Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, although only because it holds more of a sentimental attraction for me than anything else. I wouldn't say it was the best book ever written or anything.

 

[CurtSibling]

Mien Kampf! (Only kidding)

No this is a toughie, I think one of my all time fave is obviously the three lord of the rings books...

I enjoy a lot of George R Martin's books though.

 

[Mikoyan]

I would say H.P Lovecraft's Omnibus series.

 

[Hamlet]

/me waits for more than 3 non-sci fi suggestions.

 

[CurtSibling]

Alright!
War and Peace - Tolstoi
Armour at Fulda Gap - John Coon
Scipio - Ross Leckie
Scottish Witches - John Sergeant

 

[Zwelgje]

I really don't have favourite books but I do have some writers I like:
Douglas Coupland
Carl Hiaassen
John Irving
And a bunch of Dutch and Belgian writers I won't bother you with because you don't know them and most of their books will never be translated into your native language anyway.

 

[magic-monkey]

I prefer Hamlet as a read, rather than as a play in performance.
The title of this thread is people's fave "book", rather than novel as you seem to be suggesting, and the thread starter asked what people liked reading.
Unless you're denying that Hamlet is a "literary composition" which can be read, I say that it still counts.

 

[monkeyman116]

JRRT Middle-Earth Collection- From the Silmarillion Onwards
Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Boethius- The Consolation of Philosophy
One you've probably never heard of- World History- A New Perspective- Clive Ponting
Road Atlases No seriously, I find them amusing

 

[Baleog]

Nobody here like Salman Rushdie? Everything I've read by him has been sheer genius. Though the Satanic Verses is the closest i've ever come to reading a masterpiece. Midnight's Children (winner of the Booker of Bookers) is also great.

In Science fiction Frank Herbert's Dune is fantastic. Also the books of Iain M. Banks especially Use of Weapons, though for some reeason his books aren't available in America.

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The ****oo's Nest is another great read.

To alesser extent Chuck Palachunik's Fight Club is worth a go, though it's not as good as the previously listed stuff.

 

[Hitro]

Like some already said, it's hard to point out a few favourite books, it's depends too much on context, mood and time.
I'll give it a try though:

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Homo Faber - Max Frisch
All quiet on the Western Front - E.M. Remarque
and many more...

I'm just reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. It seems to be a very good one as well.

 

[Zwelgje]

Originally posted by Hitro
I'm just reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. It seems to be a very good one as well.

What???
I am too! I'm on page 14 now so just starting. I read a little piece from the book during English lessons in highschool and I liked it so when I saw a copy on sale in the bookstore I immediately bought it.

 

[Hitro]

Scary!
I'm on page 41!

I heard alot of good things about it and I wanted to read something good in English, that's why I decided to buy it.

 

[Lucky]

Oh, that´s a difficult one.
I´ll just mention all those I enjoyed reading most, 1 per author:

Mostly Sci-Fi:
Douglas Adams: The more than complete Hitchhiker´s Guide (the whole series)

Jules Verne: Matthias Sandorf
lot´s more

Robert Doherty: Area 51 (series)

Michael Crichton: Sphere
also lots more

Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Earth
and all before that

Stanislaw Lem: The Invincible

Eberhardt del´Antonio: Titanus and Return of the Forefathers


And some not so Sci-Fi books:
E.M. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Michael Ende: Neverending Story

Karl May: Treasure in the Silver Lake

Jack London: White Fang

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers + Twenty Years Later

Anonymous (Joe Klein): Primary Colors

Tom Clancy: Hunt for Red October
again many more


And some NON-fictional:
by some journalists: Ghandi

Auto-biography of Richard von Weizäcker: Vier Zeiten (4 seasons)


And yes, I do read a lot!

 

[Xeven the God]

I have lots of favorite books.

Into the Darkness (And the other books in the series), by Harry Turtledove

The Belgariad/Malloreon Series, by David Eddings (My most favorite by a landslide.)

The Redemption of Althalus, By David and Leigh Eddings

The Sword of Truth Series, by Terry Goodkind

The Sword of Sannara Series, by Terry Brooks

and

The Dragon Prince/Dragon Star Series, by Melanie Rawn

 

[EdwardTking]

Baleog

"In Science fiction Frank Herbert's Dune is fantastic. Also the books of Iain M. Banks especially Use of Weapons, though for some reeason his books aren't available in America."

Iain's "The Player of Games" is pretty good too.


I am not surprised his books are not available in the USA.

He is an intelligent utopian thinker who is sceptical about money
cultures and has had the impertinence to suggest alternatives!

 

[The Balrog]

LOTR
and
Harry Potter.

(I dont read much)