favorite book

[Boris Godunov]

There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze

[Skanky Burns]

Starship Troopers

[Juggler]

Homer's Odyssey and Illiad
Hyperion + Fall of hyperion
with a bunch of other ancient books

[Buck Birdseed]

There's also a fine line between displaying your literary knowledge by your fine choice of inclusions and displaying your utter cluelessness and pretentiousness by including trite, ill-written bollocks like The Silmarillon.

[S. Kroeze]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze

I suggest we continue the discussion after you have actually read at least half of my reading recommendations.

Sincerely,

S.Kroeze

[Buck Birdseed]

Ahhh. Elitism, great as a substitute for those who have no actual taste.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I tried reading the Bible once... That's when I became an agnostic, since reading the Bible really showed me that I can't prove God.

* wishes that people will ignore this post and not start a giant religion-agnosticism flamewar *

[Lincoln]

My favorite book is the Bible. Other books that I enjoy include the series on Lincoln by Carl Sandburg, and The Gathering Storm by Churchill. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was another good one and I like to study biology from different authors. Also I enjoy history in general but almost no fiction.

[Imran Siddiqui]

There's a fine line between enjoying good literature and being an elitist, pretentious snot, Kroeze

And it seems like he's crossed it.

Ahhh. Elitism, great as a substitute for those who have no actual taste.

[Provost Harrison]

Stryer, Biochemistry (4th ed.)

[Ecthy]

Seriously, PH, what would be a book you like? I get the feeling you're literature-wise uneducated

[Provost Harrison]

I like a good old textbook. None of that fiction crap

[Ecthy]

come on... there must be something like that you have read and like...

BTW, communist propaganda is also fictional

[devilmunchkin]

Provost: you should try Harlequins.

I am glad to notice that some people on Apolyton like to read a REAL book. Most seem to prefer rubbish, but this also applies for the public at large.

well, i'm an english major..it's what i do! I like sophocles, but i tend to get very depressed when reading the oedipus trilogy. here's a good one though...The Oresteia...awesome stuff. also, for shakespeare fans, try The Tempest.

[alva]

Re: Re: so many books....

Originally posted by S. Kroeze




My favourites:
Homer: 'The Iliad', the greatest of all
The Bible -though a dark, dangerous and bloodthirsty book, the language is superb
Sophocles: 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'
Mahâbhârata, the epic of India
Tacitus: 'Annales', 'Historiae'
T'ang poetry by Wang Wei, Li Taibai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi
Béroul/G.von Strassburg: 'Tristan et Iseult' -the greatest love story ever invented
Dante: 'Divina comedia'
Shakespeare: 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'
Tolstoy: 'War and Peace'

honourable mention:
Cervantes: 'Don Quijote'
Schiller: 'Maria Stuart'
L.Couperus: 'De boeken der kleine zielen' (The Small Souls), 1901-03
Proust: 'À la recherche du temps perdu'
Tolkien: 'The Silmarillion'

get a life!!!

please don't tell me you actually think these are good books!!