[mark_h]

Another five

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl - Danny, the Champion of the World
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Herman Melville - Moby Dick

There are just so many more!

 

[Townyj]

I was going to mention Ronald Dahl

Great novelist!

 

[smrtby123]

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Originally Posted by mark_h /img/forum/go_quote.gif Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl - Danny, the Champion of the World Herman Melville - Moby Dick There are just so many more!

I want to know where my BFG movie is!

I read Wuthering Heights no problem, but it took me 3 times to get through Moby Dick. He gets to the part where Ismael is describing all the types of whales and it puts me right to sleep.

 

[limpidglitch]

Oooh, crikey! I forgot all Jens Bjørneboe!
I'm going to hell for this. Moby Dick reminded me about his 'The Sharks', that's a good one.

"(born october 9, 1920) Bjørneboe had a troubled childhood with sickness and depressions.
He was bedbound for several years following severe pneumonia. Already at thirteen he attempted suicide by hanging himself.
He began drinking when he was twelve, and he would often consume large amounts of wine when his parents were away.
It is also rumoured that he drank his father's aftershave on several occasions."

 

[Marados]

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Originally Posted by rogue /img/forum/go_quote.gif Neal Stephenson - Neuromancer

Just a correction, Neuromancer was actually written by William Gibson (who is, along with Stephenson, awesome).

It seems that there are a few Bradbury fans, which is always good. Farenheit 451 was great, although I personally prefer his short stories (I think the collection called 'The Small Assassin' is good enough to rival Philip K. Dick's 'The Preserving Machine and other short stories'.

Ok, perhaps not that good, but still damn good )

 

[Signal2Noise]

"Of all time"?

Well, time hasn't ended yet but I'll play along anyway...

Neil Gaiman
Stephen R. Donaldson
Neal Stephenson
Hunter S. Thompson
Robert Silverberg

 

[appophylite]

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Originally Posted by limpidglitch /img/forum/go_quote.gif Douglas Adams - Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, trilogy of four

No love for Mostly Harmless?

 

[limpidglitch]

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Originally Posted by appophylite /img/forum/go_quote.gif No love for Mostly Harmless?

Oh, my bad! That's one of the best in the series.
One can of course add the 'salmon of doubt' and 'zaphod plays it safe', too.

 

[obobskivich]

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Originally Posted by Marados /img/forum/go_quote.gif Just a correction, Neuromancer was actually written by William Gibson (who is, along with Stephenson, awesome). It seems that there are a few Bradbury fans, which is always good. Farenheit 451 was great, although I personally prefer his short stories (I think the collection called 'The Small Assassin' is good enough to rival Philip K. Dick's 'The Preserving Machine and other short stories'. Ok, perhaps not that good, but still damn good )

Neal Stephenson wrote Snowcrash, correct? (I have a Stephenson book on the shelf, but haven't read it yet, been meaning too)

and I've never been a big Philip K. Dick fan....call me weird

and now that I've seen Lewis Carrol, Roald Dahl, Herman Melville, I don't think five is enough!

 

[appophylite]

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Originally Posted by limpidglitch /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh, my bad! That's one of the best in the series. One can of course add the 'salmon of doubt' and 'zaphod plays it safe', too.

QFT, Good Sir...

 

[vcoheda]

i was a brit lit major. with that said, here are my five.

* DH Lawrence (The Rainbow)
* James Joyce (Dubliners)
* Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure)
* Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights)
* George Eliot (Silas Marner)

 

[obobskivich]

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Originally Posted by vcoheda /img/forum/go_quote.gif i was a brit lit major. with that said, here are my five. * DH Lawrence (The Rainbow) * James Joyce (Dubliners) * Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure) * Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights) * George Eliot (Silas Marner)

I feel un-traveled, I've read none of those books completely, and only read books or short stories by three of those authors....

guess I know I'm doing over the summer

 

[fraseyboy]

1. Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy (especially the amber spyglass).
2. 1984
3. Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
4. Animal Farm
5. Has not happened yet

 

[obobskivich]

ewww, Animal Farm

sorry, that book is just too "over the top" fantasy island for me

that, and I hate anti-communism (

)

still, very well read for a 15 year old (most I know probably haven't read any of those books)

 

[fraseyboy]

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Originally Posted by obobskivich /img/forum/go_quote.gif ewww, Animal Farm sorry, that book is just too "over the top" fantasy island for me that, and I hate anti-communism ( ) still, very well read for a 15 year old (most I know probably haven't read any of those books)

Personally, I'm a big fan of over the top fantasy islands

Strangely, I did not find American Gods to be that incredibly amazing like everyone else says it is. I don't think I got it