Best Books you've read

[Lord_Davinator]

Just wanted to develop an extensive list of books so I can start collecting an readin...

here are mine(not in ranked):
1. Hitchhikers Guide of the Galazy-Douglas Adams
2. Lord of the Rings-Tolkien
3. Catch 22-Joseph Heller
4. Magician-Raymond Fiest
5. Sophies World - Gardner
6. Dragon Strike - forgot the auther, bout a china vs us war.

now let the polis speak

[Jac de Molay]

Lord of the Rings
Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum.
Dune by Frank Herbert.
American Psycho- Bret easton ellis.
Fight Club - chuck palahniuk.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.

there's a new book call Emperor of something Street by stephen carter I want to read

[Zero]

All quiet on the western front - Enrich Maria Remarque
Ender's game - Orson scott card
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Johnny Got his gun - (forgot)

[Jac de Molay]

I think Dalton Trumbo wrote Johnny got this gun

[jdd2007]

science fiction isnt really my thing, but the enders series and Dune are pretty damn good.

hitchikers guide to the galaxy is the worst book i have read. such crap is not fit to be published, much less sucked up by millions of fans.

[Gibsie]

Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth.

Makes me wanna have children, just so I can buy it shame-free.

[Sarxis]

Shardik and its prequel Maia by Richard Adams.

[Graag]

Just for the record, my favourite book is Naked Lunch (though I'm sure I posted similar in another thread).

other books I have enjoyed

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Anything by George Orwell
Most things by James Ellroy
Dune (et al) by Frank Herbet
A number of others I cannot remember
And HHGTTG by Douglas Adams, which is in fact amazing.

But Naked Lunch is by far the most influencial and significant book I've ever read. Read Burroughs. Now.

[Lord_Davinator]

Originally posted by jdd2007

hitchikers guide to the galaxy is the worst book i have read. such crap is not fit to be published, much less sucked up by millions of fans.

how in gods name can you claim hitchikers guide to be the worst book you're ever read? I mean seriously... its amazing...

[Zkribbler]

James Clavell
... esp. Tai-Pan and Shogun
George Orwell
... [see, Graag's recommendation of anything ]
C.S. Forester
... esp. Hornblower and the Hotspur
Bernard Cornwell
... esp. the "Sharpe" series and the "Warlord" trilogy.
Dewey Lambdin
... The King's Coat & other Alan Lewrie novels.
Walter Mosley
... esp. his Easy Rawlins novels: Devil in a Blue Dress etc.
Terry Prachett
... [why has no one mentioned him yet??]
Harriet Beacher Stowe
... Uncle Tom's Cabin

[DRoseDARs]

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (plus a prequel AND a sequel: Antarctica -> Red Mars -> Green Mars -> Blue Mars -> The Martians) is excellent IMO;

Arther C. Clarke's Raman Series (Rendevous with Rama -> Rama II -> Garden of Rama -> Rama Revealed) is good as well;

Carl Sagan's Contact (book AND movie are both great, which is a rare thing) is good reading.

[Lord_Davinator]

oh I gotta add Arther C Clarks Childhood lost is also a swell book.

And the Wheel of time series by robert jordan is also pretty amazing

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Terry Prachett
... [why has no one mentioned him yet??]

who is Terry Prachett? never heard of him... and you don't mention any of his books

[Thrawn05]

I liked (in no particular order)

AL|ENS: Labyrinth - [Can't Remeber Who]
This book is SICK in every sense of the word. If you thought you could stomach the movies, try reading this book for 5 minutes straight.

A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawkings
Excellent book on some of the basics in space. Some chapters he loses me completely but that's alright.

Mythology - Edith Hamilton
A good book on the overview of the greek gods and the major stories.

Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
Last Command - Timothy Zahn
Really the only good Star Wars books out there. Even the Dark Hourse comic versions are great. Worthy to be considered SW Ep. 7, 8, and 9.

The Dig - Alan Dean Foster
Most people think this book came from the game, but it's the other way around. I think it's perhaps the best Sci-Fi books out there thus far.


That's about it.

[Static Universe]

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano
Philip K. Di ck - A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, Man in The High Castle, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, VALIS + Radio Free Albemuth
Thomas Bernhard - Gargoyles, The Lime Works
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch, Interzone, Cities of The Read Night, Place of Dead Road, Western Lands
James Ellroy - LA Confidential, Black Dahlia, Big Nowhere, White Jazz
Alisdair Grey - Lanark
Anthony Burgess - Clockwork Orange
Arthur Nersessian - The F*ck-Up
Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time
Name slips my mind - The Death of Virgil
Hogg - Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Leautremont - Maldoror
Frederick Pohl's HeeChee Books
Douglas Adams - Last Chance to See
The Alpha Centauri Instruction Manual

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Thrawn05
...
A Brief History of Time - Steven Hawkings
Excellent book on some of the basics in space. Some chapters he loses me completely but that's alright.
...

Well, if you're gonna through in some non-fiction, I'll add one too, one I think complements Hawkings book:

Fritjof Capra's (sp?) The Tao of Physics. He goes over the similarities between Taoist philosophical thought and what modern science understands or theorizes about quantum physics. Don't worry, there's very little in the way of advanced mathmatics presented, just like in Hawkings' book.