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[killerbootsman]

not The Crucible

[biggieandmoe]

My favorite books so far

To Kill a Mocingbird
Huckleberry Finn
Of Mice and Men

I've read these in my English class and I love them. There's some more but these were the only ones I can say off the top of my head.

[Xombe]

Recent big-market novels I've dug:

Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, The DaVinci Code, Digital Fortress, Deception Point.  In that order.  Really great page turners.  I love how he alternates short chapters between sides to keep the pace fast.


Recent Sci-fi I've dug:

Iain M. Bank's The Algebraist.  Great long term, epic span trip galaxy fiction.


Favorite series ever:

Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality.  You heard about this?  Each book is the story of a mortal who occupies the "office" of Death, Time, Fate, War and Nature.  Absolutely fucking fantasic storytelling and plot weaving.  He finished the series off with two books I never thought he'd write, For Love of Evil and And Eternity.. the storys of those who hold the offices of Satan and God, and how they get them.

I can't say enough about them.  The science-fantasy methods of how Anthony dreams up how humans can assume an office, the tools needed to allow a mortal to do the job, and the battles and inner struggles of the oh-so-very human characters overseeing the world.

I even own the audiobook series.

[thewickedjester]

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. By far my favorite book ever. Deffinetly worth a read, so is most of his other stuff. The Wanting seed (A deffinite read for ANY 1984 or Brave New World fans, both good books as well).

Any of my other favorites would have to be:
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1984 (Brave New World was good as well, but Huxley as intelligent as he is, certainly is not a man of words, and the book its just hard to read at times, meaning, hard to keep going on reading it)
Alphabet of Manliness (Maddox > All. Need I say more?)
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (The movie was very well done, but you really have to read the book to get the full story)

[Rylinkus]

QUOTE(metaldevil @ Nov 6 2006, 05:15 AM)

^ I didn't know he'd written Shawshank. I saw the movie and thought it was phenomenal. I'll definitely have to pick up the book next time I hit up B&N.

It's written as a Novella in the Different Seasons book. It's entitled Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.

QUOTE(thewickedjester @ Nov 7 2006, 06:32 PM)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. By far my favorite book ever. Deffinetly worth a read, so is most of his other stuff. The Wanting seed (A deffinite read for ANY 1984 or Brave New World fans, both good books as well).

Any of my other favorites would have to be:
We
1984 (Brave New World was good as well, but Huxley as intelligent as he is, certainly is not a man of words, and the book its just hard to read at times, meaning, hard to keep going on reading it)
Alphabet of Manliness (Maddox > All. Need I say more?)
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (The movie was very well done, but you really have to read the book to get the full story)

Farenheit 451 falls into the same lines as 1984 and Brave New World. Im really not sure which one my favorite is.

Hitchikers guide is ok, but as the books progress it just gets worse and worse.

[Himura]

QUOTE(biggieandmoe @ Nov 6 2006, 09:08 PM)

Of Mice and Men

Oh yeah, forgot that one. that and Beowulf also.  

[Hazanko]

i'd have to say, that my all time favorite book would have to be "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke. If you're down with the whole sci-fi scene, then this book is for you.. it's truly amazing

[CJLee89]

John Grisham

[metaldevil]

^ Yeah, I like Grisham, but his endings feel rushed sometimes (e.g., The Brethren).

Jeffery Deaver's an amazing author, too.

[StrictPuppet]

I read all of Robert R. McCammons books.
Some of my faves are: Wolfs Hour, Blue World, Night Boat, Gone South, Boys Life, and Swan Song.

I also enjoy Dean Koontz and Stephen King.

[lostboyz]

as already mentioned Fight Club
personally i love Chuck Palahniuk i just bought a bunch of them

Lullaby
Survivor
Diary
Invisible Monsters (best sadistical comedy ever)
Choke


Ayn Rand - Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

I just picked up A clockwork orange

and of course maddox  

[lostboyz]

just finished reading slaughterhouse 5, i must say its one of the best books i've read.

[Y26tav]

of course we got the lord of the rings series. By tolkien

Then we have the sword of truth series by terry goodkind\

The eighth habit by steven covey

The road less traveled i think that is Stephen Gould

The world is flat don't remember that author great book though

The Magic of Recluse series by Terry Brooks

I speak Pretty some day

Don't like the series but if you read the lord of the ring trilogy you need to read the first book in the Sword of shanara series it is hilarious a strait rip of those three books but smashed into one.

... I Will think of more....



Ah ha I thought of more. Neromancer by im thinking terry brooks

people are talking about school books so then we have.

Kaffer boy
dunkin ra
Lord of the flies
Brom stokers Dracula

[SICKdimension]

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Currently reading: About a Boy - Nick Hornby

[EverestX]

I'm a Huxley fan Myself, shortly followed by Orwell.  Oddly enough, Huxley taught Orwell for a semester.

Brave New World
The Doors of Perception <--  Rather difficult read for most...
Chrome Yellow

Some other necessary reads IMO are
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Animal Farm
Of mice and Men
Shooting an Elephant
Marxist Theory (Really is a good book.)
Civil Disobedience

Cain by James Byron Huggins, this book got a lot of bad press and horrible reviews but I simply couldn't put the book down from start to finish. I read it in less than 3 and a half days (400 pages).  

And with all these books I like, here's a couple that totally take the cake for being suck-tastic.
Old man & the Sea.
Pride and Prejudice  (it wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't as thick as my mattress)