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EDIT: Yes there are threads about books, though they are far down the list of threads and are slightly different.

 

This is where we can discuss our favourite books, ask each other for recommendations on what to read, and talk about mutually favoured books. If you are going to discuss the plot of a book, please use spoilers so as not to give away the ending of a book someone would like to read or is currently reading.

 

EDIT: and no, I could not think of an original title. Sorry.

 

I'll start off with my favourite book:

 

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

In Nineteen Eighty Four the world is divided into three parts: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia, all perpetually at war. In Oceania, the Party has created a totalitarian state that eliminates all opposition. In the forefront stands Big Brother, a figure of almost mythical power.

 

The story of Winston Smith's rebellion against the Party, his hatred of Big Brother, and the thoughtcrime which must result in his death was first published in 1949. Now, in our present and after George Orwell's briliantly imagined future, his vision of brutalized and manipulated humanity is still gripping and still supremely relevant.

Nineteen Eighty Four is where the phrase "Big Brother is watching" originated, as well as the words Newspeak, Doublethink, and Thought Police.

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Huh. I didn't think of those...

I didn't really search the site, just my memory, which is obviously terribly unreliable.

 

This thread is different in that you explain the basic storyline of the novel, though.

 

Why is the word "books" red in the second article almost every time it appears?

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This thread is different in that you explain the basic storyline of the novel, though.

 

So your 1984 thread didn't get enough attention on its own, eh?

 

 

Why is the word "books" red in the second article almost every time it appears?

 

"books" was the search term I used for the query since I knew it appeared in the previous thread's title. the highlight shows you where in the found post/thread the search term appears so you don't have to read the whole thing to find it.

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Alright, I'm tired of flying over to this forum and drowning in spam. He asked what your favorite books are. If there is one more off-topic post I will close the thread, and since EVE servers are down, I may tempban someone so they'd learn their lesson.

 

Myself, I really like the NJO book Traitor. As well as most of the EU. Can't really decide on an absolute favorite.

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I love the Harry Potter books. Currently I'm re-reading the fourth book to compare it to the movie. I hadn't read it in a year or so and couldn't remember some of the specific things that they had to edit/cut out of the movie. I think I've read books 1-4 four times each, 5 three times and 6 twice. The 6th is definitely my favorite out of them.

 

I guess if I could find something that was better than those books I wouldn't have read them as many times and instead tried something new, but honestly, compared with those books, everything else I've tried to read is a bore. Well maybe not a bore, but I can't find anything better than these books.

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I'm not reading much right now. I'm reading a handful of French books that are using verb tenses I didn't even know existed (most of the its more like me staring at a page thinking 'is auront imparfait or futur simple?' lol). I'm also reading Ray Bradury's Fahrenheit 451, and I've been flipping through some books at random from the shelf in my room.

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There's a quite a few books I greatly enjoy. Off the top of my head...

 

The Silmarillion

All the Dune books

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

Dante's inferno

Anything by Charles Dickens

Beowulf

Animal Farm

The Narnia books

1984

 

I've just finished re-reading Heretics of Dune. At the moment, I'm reading Beowulf. Soon I'll re-read Chapterhouse Dune.

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I've just finished re-reading Heretics of Dune

Wow! How about that?! I actually read the same books as one of our forum's darkest DS'ers. Who would have thunk it? ;)

 

Just finished reading Frank Herbert's God-Emperor of Dune and started on Heretics of Dune. I find the in-depth analyses of human character and motivations, as presented by Mr. Herbert in the Dune Chronicles, highly intriguing.

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Clumsy - Jeffrey Brown

 

Synopsis

Clumsy is Jeffrey Brown's debut work Clumsy is the bittersweet story of a year long, long distance relationship, told through snippets of everyday life, drawn in a simple and elegantly awkward style that heightens the emotional impact and leaves you reminiscing about your own past love affairs. Oh, and it also has a lot of sex.

 

 

Im a sucker for indie graphic novels.

 

i've been meaning to read Nineteen Eighty Four for a while now really should buy it i guess nect time i get a chance.

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I'm getting ready to get back into Chronicles of Narnia, but my copies of the first three books were apparently destroyed so I'm thinking of picking up the [unfortunately re-ordered] box set, since I know I'll blow through them way too quickly to just get LWW and be satisfied.

 

Thought of some other good young adult fantasy series last night...The Chronicles of Prydain (which eventually spawned the crappy Black Cauldron movie) and Westmark, both by Lloyd Alexander. CoP is a lot rougher and darker than Narnia; Westmark is a lot more gritty and real, and reads more like historical fiction than fantasy.

 

I had planned to spend this winter getting back into Kierkegaard, but that's seeming way too thick and slow for right now and just seems way too much like work, so I think it's back to fantasy for me for a while =)

 

@Fiend_138 you should definitely read Twilight of the Idols (Or, How to Philosophize With a Hammer) when you get done with Will to Power. It's a late Nietzsche work that overturns some of his earlier writings (a standard for Nietzsche) and reinvigorates others that totally questions the right-to-authority of an exercised will-to-power. It's the most punk rock of N.'s books =)

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I finished the LOTR trilogy (again) last week an I started Star Wars: Shatterpoint yesterday.

 

My favourite books:

- everything in the Ryanverse by Tom Clancy (so not that O.P. -center and similar 'co-written' s***)

- The Deathgate series by Weis and Hickman

- LotR & Silmarillion by J.J.R. Tolkien

- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

- Overkill by James Barrington

- some Star Wars EU books:

*Thrawn Trilogy by Tim Zhan,

*NJO: The Unifying Force by James Lucino, Traitor by Matthew Stover

*Clone Wars: The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes, Labyrinth of Evil by James Luceno

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I love the Harry Potter books. Currently I'm re-reading the fourth book to compare it to the movie. I hadn't read it in a year or so and couldn't remember some of the specific things that they had to edit/cut out of the movie. I think I've read books 1-4 four times each, 5 three times and 6 twice. The 6th is definitely my favorite out of them.

 

I guess if I could find something that was better than those books I wouldn't have read them as many times and instead tried something new, but honestly, compared with those books, everything else I've tried to read is a bore. Well maybe not a bore, but I can't find anything better than these books.

 

I too love the Harry Potter Books. Currently, I am reading the 5th book, "Order of the Phoenix" for the second time. I also have read the 6th book, "Half-Blood Prince." Though, I have only read the 4-6 books. My favourite would have to be the Half-Blood Prince.

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Just finished reading Frank Herbert's God-Emperor of Dune and started on Heretics of Dune. I find the in-depth analyses of human character and motivations, as presented by Mr. Herbert in the Dune Chronicles, highly intriguing.

 

It is intruiging, but I thought one of the best parts of Heretics of Dune was the mystery, and how so many things were kept in the dark. All those people coming back from the Scattering, so different from traditional Dune characters... I personally thought Heretics of Dune was the best Dune book.

 

On a side note, play the music from the KOTOR II website when you're reading the book. I thought it really added to the atmosphere, but that's just me.

 

Wait till you get to Chapterhous Dune. They start to go into a bit more depth about the people coming back from the Scattering... and the ones who heaven't yet. It was very interesting when they revealed why the people from the Scattering were returning.

 

given the release of the first Narnia movie, i've decided to go ahead and re-read the series. great stuff.

 

I knew there was something I forgot to add to my list!

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Right now I´m reading a tale book of Charles Buckowsky, and I must say that I find it amusing. It´s hard and it shows hard-bolied characters, but it´s good, very good, and I don´t know why.

 

If you want to read good english humor literature read something from P.G. Wodehouse, they are terribly funny.

 

And if you have access to no english books please read to Pio Baroja, it´s a great spanish (like me!) writer, acid and hard, but very good.

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