jon_hill987 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 We have had fave band, It must be time for a fave book thread. Other than LotR mine is Magician by Raymond E. Feist I'm Probably gonna get the other two in the saga tomorow. So what is everyone's fav book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinWalker Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Fiction: Moby Dick, by Melville. Non-Fiction: A Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan and A Devil's Chaplain, by Richard Dawkins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 The Dark Glory War by Michael A. Stackpole. Kicks off the DragonCrown War series and just plain hasn't been topped since. Anyone who likes Fantasy should check this one out. It's just that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Other than LotR, I really liked the Little House series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I like the Harry Potter series, but other than that I'd have to go with The Once and Future King The Count of Monte Cristo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Fiction (it's a toss up): Restaurant at the End of the Universe or Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Both by Douglas Adams Non fiction: The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hidden One Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 The War of the Worlds (unabridged version) By H.G. Wells and The Time Machine by (unabridged version) by H.G. Wells. Two very good books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 The 5th Harry Potter Book. Yeah, I'm lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 What? The 5th book rocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by The Hidden One The War of the Worlds (unabridged version) By H.G. Wells and The Time Machine by (unabridged version) by H.G. Wells. Two very good books. You, sir, have very good taste. I would probably have to pick Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham as my favourite novel. I've read it so many times and never got tired of it. Favourite novel series would have to be The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wassup Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLord60 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 I don't read alot of books but the Count of Monte Cristo is the best of all I read. To bad the newer CoMC movie doesn't cover the whole book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien Angels and Demons - Dan Brown Dracula - Bram Stoker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_hill987 Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by StormHammer Favourite novel series would have to be The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. I really couldn't get into them, I only got halfway thriugh the first book. Anyway I forgot to add the Diskworld books by Terry Pratchett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 There's supposed to be a new Thomas Covenant book out soon, although I'm still trying to figure out how that's going to work due to the ending of the last one... The "Gap" series by the same author was also very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman and LOTR which i've loved since childhood. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant I just about got through them, and really WANTED to love them... but they were very hard work. I like them better in hindsight than when i was actually struggling to finish them. But i don't really have a lot of favorite books in the way i have favorite movies. Not sure why. I tend to get really absorbed in whatever book i am reading at the time... but very few of them stay with me after i've finished them. I think a lost of my (bad) memory is visual, and its mainly the images i remember from films and so on. SO that might be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 wow this is hard, to isolate even just a few.... let me go by genre History : its a Turkish book, about the rise and fall of the Osmanli(Ottoman) Empire Movies : "Lynch on Lynch" awesome interviews with director David Lynch about every aspect of his career Fantasy : any of the Drizzt Do'Udren books, especially the Dark Elf Trilogy and Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A Salvatore Star Wars EU : Traitor by Matt Stover.. makes Zahn and Thrawn look like a Garfield comic Sci Fi/Humour : Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Art History : The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari... this guy was Michelangelo's apprentice and tells interesting tales about all the famous renaissance artists.. great read !! Weird : Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll... so much much more than just kids books as true admirers of Carroll's work surely know.. Mystery/Detective : The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...... Fave story : The Red Headed League Poetry : Emily Dickinson, Ovid, Dante's Comedia Play : you all should know that Shakespeare's Macbeth is the most awesome play in western history, Hamlet trots in a close second Oriental : "Journey to the West" by Wu Cheng En(China) Read the original tales of Monkey and The Havoc in Heaven and Tale of the Genji (Japan) : Part Fantasy/part History : Just awesome !! European : The Illiad & Odyssey by Homer, Faust by Goethe, easy Philosophy : "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" by Friedrich Nietszche ... the man who coined the term "metaphysical consolation" to describe the concept of religion...awesome... Non Fiction : "The Black Magic Rituals of Jack the Ripper" by Ivor Edwards and "Letters from Hell" - a complete collection and analysis of the Ripper Letters hit the library suckers ! mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by Astrotoy7 Play : you all should know that Shakespeare's Macbeth is the most awesome play in western history Matter of opinion. I prefer Romeo and Juliet. Because it's not a tragedy, it's a tale of happiness. True they both die, but it's not a tragedy as some think. They die to be reunited, true devotion. After that I like Caesar and Hamlet. Tales of betrayal and mistrust. You'll most likely see allusion to these in the upcoming Star Wars film as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 yeah, I love all Shakespeare... Macbeth however is soooo awesome, with its witches and crazy people that theatre actors of old would never use the word Macbeth, for fear of jinxing their production... it would always be called "The Scottish Play" ... coolest vesrion of Macbeth that made itto the screen - Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" check it out ! mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by Astrotoy7 coolest vesrion of Macbeth that made itto the screen - Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" check it out ! mtfbwya About 7 years too late to recommend that to me. I'm afraid I've already seen it, though it has been... 7 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by InsaneSith About 7 years too late to recommend that to me. I'm afraid I've already seen it, though it has been... 7 years. geez your a wanker sometimes.... I saw it in 1988(where I taped it off the foreign language channel!!), and Im sure theres others here that may have seen it even earlier.... I would have loved to have been around in the 60s and seen it then There was a Kurosawa festival here a few years back, and I had the divine pleasure of seeing Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortess, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ran and Kagemusha on the big screen awesome ! It came to mind because it has only recently been released locally on DVD, in nice crips presentation, much nicer that the Criterion DVD to anyone else reading, check out "Throne of Blood" by Akira Kurosawa, its a really great adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth to a feudal Japanese Setting... mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by toms I just about got through them, and really WANTED to love them... but they were very hard work. I like them better in hindsight than when i was actually struggling to finish them. The first time I read them they were hard going in parts (I know I got Lord Foul's Bane not long after release in 1977, so I was 10 at the time), but for me the world just came to life. I could 'see' the locations and characters vividly in my minds eye as I was reading. At the time when they were released, they were also 'different' from other fantasies in that they never mentioned Elves, Dwarves or Orcs (although the tale was obviously inspired by Lord Of The Rings). Since then I've read them a few times (last time it was the whole series in order from start to finish), and I appreciated them even more. I know they're not to everyone's taste, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_hill987 Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 Originally posted by StormHammer I know I got Lord Foul's Bane not long after release in 1977, so I was 10 at the time I'm supprised you even got past the first chapter at 10. I found it much harder than LotR, which I first read at 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dole_4 Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 My favourite would probably be Neuromancer by William Gibson. LOTR - hmmm the story was awesome but the actual book wasn't that great. I sort of consider it a flawed masterpiece, JRR's imagination skills didn't match his writing skills (although that didn't stop me from reading the hobbit/silmarillion/lost tales ). Magician - I still think Feist was amateurish when he wrote this and it shows. Especially his character of Jimmy the Hand, god I hated him. Pug was awesome though. The characters themselves weren't that interesting to me, everyone was too perfect. No one had any flaws (well, almost no one). What also made me angry was that his best character (pug) had a somewhat diminished role in the 2nd and 3rd books of the riftwar series. I did hear that the Serpentwar Saga was better than the riftwar saga, I'll pick it up from the library in a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermie Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 O.o An intelligent thread in the swamp, what has the world come to? Not counting Tolkien stuff, I'd say H2G2 are my favourite books, in this order: Resturant at the end of the Universe Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy Life, the Universe and Everything So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish Mostly Harmless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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