Which are your three favourite books?

[soul_warrior]

James Clavell - Tai Pan
Ken Follet - Pillars of the Earth
Edward Rutherford - Sarum

all historical novels. all great.
Tai Pan is about the founding of the colony Hong Kong
Pillars of the Earth is about a stone mason in 11th century england.
Sarum is about a group of families on a long time line in the Stonehenge area.

 

[Steph]

I don't really have a favourite book... I could say
LOTR / Silmarillion
Wheel of time series

And many other fantasy books.

I like also a lot Jules Vernes.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Toughy...I'll go for these three:

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Stalingrad by Anthony Beever

All three I loved from the very start, and I've read them many times over. They all had an impact on me.

 

[Rambuchan]

@ Steph: Yes Jules Verne is great!

@ Soul: I've gone on about Clavell's Asia saga in the Opium thread in History.

Here are some great fictional novels, by no means 'the best' but worthy of mention:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~ '100 Years in Solitute' and 'Love in a Time of Cholera'
Umberto Eco ~ 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'
John Steinbeck ~ 'The Grapes of Wrath'
John Fowles ~ 'The Magus'

Loads more of course.

 

[Urederra]

Rambuchan. It is 100 years of Solitude, not 100 days...

That´s a better post than yesterday´s

 

[stormbind]

It appears I am the only one to include an academic title

 

[stormbind]

Rambuchan. It is 100 years of Solitude, not 100 days...

That´s a better post than yesterday´s

I think Rambuchan should be made to post a book review

 

[Urederra]

Well, when varwnos asked us for our three favourite books I think he meant literature, books you read for enjoyment, not to learn a computer language. Although I have to admit that the Perl cookbook has some funny statements.

 

[Rambuchan]

Rambuchan. It is 100 years of Solitude, not 100 days...

Edited thanks for spotting that.

That´s a better post than yesterday´s

That's a matter of taste and opinion really. My post today does nothing for me.

@ Storm: Here are some to read if you're fed up of fiction being posted.

Foucault's ~ 'Madness & Civilisation' & 'The Order of Things'
Edward Said ~ 'Orientalism'
Nietzsche ~ 'Daybreak' then 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'

Roll on the debate and showing off about who knows more about Kant and / or Nietzche

 

[bigfatron]

My bes guide to when I really love a book is when I feel a sense of loss on finishing it - my three would include:

Tolkein: LOTR
The Guy Gavriel Kaye trilogy: Summer Tree, Wandering Fire, Darkest Road
Henry Fielding (IIRC): Tom Jones

I could also add I really enjoyed and re-read occasionally: The Woman in White, A Song for Arbonne, Pride and Prejudice, The Night Life of the Gods, I Claudius and the Morgaine trilogy, for starters...

 

[Masquerouge]

Dune, Frank Herbert
All the Farseer books, 9 of them, by Robbin Hobb, with the Liveship traders being my fav
The Game of Thrones Serie by Georges R. R. Martin. Let's hope he manages to finish it nicely...

it's very hard to name only 3...
Non-fiction I would put
"La crise de la culture" by Hannah Arendt (and her other books rock)
"La Tentation de l'Innocence" by Pascal Bruckner
"6 not so-easy pieces" by Feinman. Or how to understand how the heck did Newton came up with gravity

 

[stormbind]

Well, when varwnos asked us for our three favourite books I think he meant literature, books you read for enjoyment, not to learn a computer language. Although I have to admit that the Perl cookbook has some funny statements.

I do read books about computer languages for enjoyment

 

[Rambuchan]

I do read books about computer languages for fun

You ladies man you.

 

[boogaboo]

I don't read too many books, but from those I have read..:

1. "Introduction to Algorithms" - Corman + someone + someone
2. "Jonathan Livingstone the seagal" (spelling..?) - Who remembers names?!
3. "Harry Potter" - whatshername.. And I read only 4. I had to. I was I'll. I'm 28.

 

[stormbind]

You ladies man you.

Darn, you are right! What a missed opportunity reading quietly to myself has been

I should take my books to the steet and read them aloud..

 

[Turner]

I don't read too many books, but from those I have read..:

2. "Jonathan Livingstone the seagal" (spelling..?) - Who remembers names?!

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach. Awesome book!

 

[Rambuchan]

Darn, you are right! What a missed opportunity reading quietly to myself has been

I should take my books to the steet and read them aloud..

Or follow a friend of mine's approach and read The Marquis De Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" out loud on the underground. Now that was embarassing.

 

[thetrooper]

Or follow a friend of mine's approach and read The Marquis De Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" out loud on the underground. Now that was embarassing.

Impressive!

 

[Rambuchan]

Yeah he is now teaching the world's next generation of philosophers of language and linguistics in NY. :shakehead or do I mean

 

[Kyriakos]

I have heard some things about the jonathan seagull book. I once tried to read some of the first pages i think, but it seems that i didnt like it since i didnt end up buying the book

I have a lot of books by nietzsche, due to my university years. Infact i have written most of my essays on books by him