What's your favorite book(s)?

[Azure]

I'd have to go with T.H. White's The Once and Future King and Orwell's 1984.

 

[puiah11]

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

 

[Duggeh]

Frank Herberts Dune, and its subsequent expanded universe, including the Brian Herbert novels.

Anything by Frederick Forsythe.

Catch-22 and Something Happened by Joseph Heller.

Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett.

The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy. Clancy got subsequently worse with each new book and he hasnt written anything worthwhile in years.

 

[ZenFountain]

Childhood - The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare (don't get any ideas)

Philosophy - Seneca's letters

War memoir - Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger

Non-fiction - Black Elk Speaks

Cynically non-fiction - 1984 - George Orwell

Sci-fi - Hyperion (Dan Simmons) or The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)

Picture type book - The Complete Roman Army

Really big book i'd want on a deserted island to read alone - Complete works of Plato

Worst book ever - Some book about a theory of geocentricty mailed to me by a Christian revisionist group.

 

[Uncle Erik]

The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Norwood, Charles Portis

I have other favorites, but these are the most fun to read.

 

[kugino]

too many to list, but i'll suggest Charles Darwin's - "Voyage of the Beagle" and "On the Origin of Species" (should be read together). riveting and brilliant.

 

[Teerawit]

Zorba the Greek.

 

[choomanchoo]

The Secret of Nimh
by Robert C. O'Brien

 

[DanielBurns11]

5. Dune-Frank Herbert
4. Rum Diary's-Hunter S. Thompson
3. Hell's Angels-Hunter S. Thompson
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest-Ken Kesey
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Hunter S. Thompson (My favorite movie as well)

I'm a Hunter S. Thompson fan. I don't get to read as much as I'd like to.

 

[Marados]

I'm really enjoying Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. He's writted some other fantastic work.

Also, Neuromancer is a certainly a good book, I really liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and almost anything that K. W. Jeter has written I'll enjoy, Noir especially.

 

[kramer5150]

Slaughterhouse Five

 

[DanielBurns11]

Oh yeah, I'm also reading 'V.' by Thomas Pynchon. So far it's one of the greatest things I've ever read. It will probably make my top 5 when I'm done.

 

[kugino]

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Originally Posted by DanielBurns11 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh yeah, I'm also reading 'V.' by Thomas Pynchon. So far it's one of the greatest things I've ever read. It will probably make my top 5 when I'm done.

this and "gravity's rainbow" are next on my things to read list...looking forward to it. one of these days i'll get to pynchon's latest, "against the day."

 

[Klose]

Pink Box by Joan Sinclair

 

[Marados]

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Originally Posted by kramer5150 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Slaughterhouse Five

So it goes.