What's your favorite book(s)?

[Tyson]

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Particularly the translation by Richard Pevear.

 

[babylon]

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Originally Posted by philodox /img/forum/go_quote.gif Friday is great, it would probably be my second favourite book by Heinlein. I wonder if the movie rumours have any truth? Neuromancer is pretty good, but it is another one of those books that seems to be rated much better than I found it to be in the end. I liked Idoru [sp?] as well.

I've not heard that they where going to make a movie out of Friday, interesting will have to try and find out about that.

I've not read Idoru yet although its on the to read pile with about 20 other books that I'm working my way through at the moment.

 

[kugino]

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Originally Posted by dkjohnso /img/forum/go_quote.gif Mark Helprin - A Soldier of the Great War

i read this while backpacking through europe and really enjoyed it...got me excited to see giorgione's "la tempesta" in venezia.

 

[Superpredator]

Has anyone read Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure By The Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. [size=xx-small](just some poor schmuck)[/size] ?

I read this when I was about 17. It was great then but I'm wondering if it would still be so today (more than a decade later). It was out of print for nearly 20 years, back just recently.

 

[ak622]

2 books that I've really enjoyed is The Great Gatsby and The Alchemist.

 

[sebascrub]

I love the His Dark Materials trilogy, by Phillip Pullman, as well as Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

 

[GlendaleViper]

"The Fool on the Hill" and "Sewer, Gas and Electric (The Public Works Trilogy)" - Matt Ruff

SG&E is one book, FYI. Both are highly recommended.

[Addendum] I recently thoroughly enjoyed "The Cripple and his Talismans" by Anosh Irani. Great anti-hero and a fantastic romp through madness and perdition, to redemption.

 

[Marados]

I should also throw down Elric of Melnibone, by Michael Moorc0ck. Another great book.

 

[Yikes]

Favorite book? That’s impossible. It’s like asking what’s your favorite Album or Movie, entirely too large a category to come up with a single favorite book.

The book that I have read the most is Heinleins The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Time Enough for love.

I also really like Philip K. Dicks Valis

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Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilsons The Illuminatus! Trilogy

And of course the Necronomicon

 

[Ikrit42]

I'd have to go with:
Hyperion (and sequels) - Dan Simmons
Ilium/Olympos - Dan Simmons
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy - Tad Williams
Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard Feynman

 

[Ikrit42]

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Originally Posted by tyrion /img/forum/go_quote.gif "A Game of Thrones" "A Clash of Kings" "A Storm of Swords" "A Feast for Crows" by: George R.R. Martin Any book by Nelson DeMille

I kind of figured that ever since I joined, due to your name.

Any idea when the next one's due?
I missed (if you can call it that) Tyrion in Feast for Crows.

 

[saturnine]

Stephen King's the Dark Tower series, up till the Wizard & Glass.

 

[lionel marechal]

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Originally Posted by dkjohnso /img/forum/go_quote.gif Mark Helprin - A Soldier of the Great War Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo is on my top List as well. I have the french version in 'La Pleiade', in one volume, printed on very thin paper, like 'bible paper' that I enjoy a lot.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch That I highly recommend as well. Amazon link

Linel

 

[hempcamp]

Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
Michael Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot"
DH Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"

--Chris

 

[MarconiSalad]

Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan