Favorite Book........?

What is everyone's favorite book? Mine is prolly Maximum Security.

Mine are "Learing VB6" and "Chasing in the Internet".

Well, you didn't actually specify that it HAD to be a computer book....My all time favorite book is the Prince of Tides, followed by any other book written by Pat Conroy. I also love Anne Rivers Siddons, and Dorothea Benton Frank.

Reading is just about my favorite past time, so I could go on for days and days. If anyone is looking for a good book to read just for fun, PM me and I can give you a list that will take up the next couple of years of your life...lol!

Deb :D

Mine would have to be Running on Emptiness, a pathology of civilization by john leavy
i recommend u read it

Unintended Consiquences is mine.

Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.....Although that is more then one book, isn't it....

The most usfull book I got is the Visual Basic 6 Reference Guide. It helps with most peoples problems in VB6 so I use that one alot. But I like to read alot so I can't say I've got a favorite maybe the Karma Sautra book, I use that one alot and it does come in handy.

heh Deb another thing we have in common lol :)
I read like constantly - atm am reading alot of Gerald Seymour's books that he based around the troubles in N.Ireland (Fields of blood, Harry's Game) but my fav book has to be Stephen Kings the Stand - soooooo good :)
Or Stephen King (writing as Richard Bauchman) The Running Man
heh my g/f has stolen all my S.King off me atm tho >_<;
Inc the Stand which she bought for me!! At least I know the real reason so she couyld read it herself......only prob is its me who gets kept up half the night when she can't sleep properly after reading it >_<;

v_Ln

Repairing and upgrading computers by Scott Mueller;)
Prince of tides
King Rat
Bible
Just about any book

Wow, okay....I'm a book freak...I'm trying to start my own library....I have a second room in my apartment which is my office and I'm up to three huge bookcases so far....So, this question is really hard....

I love the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan....
Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
The Art of War by Sun Tsu
Man's Seach for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Anything by Eric Jerome Dickey and Sidney Sheldon

GRRRRRR....I DON'T KNOW....I love too many... *LOL*

Anna Karenina, anything by Tolstoy. Thats my favorite non technical book.
My favorite technical book is Hacking Exposed Network Secrets & Solutions.

My favorite quote is by William Faulkner:
" The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or
a phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful
discription of a woman is by understatment. Remember, all Tolstoy ever
said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see
in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's
beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch,
and let the mind create the tree." William Faulkner

I have three:

Brave New World
1984
Fahrenheit 451

Lessons to be learned...

I would have to go with the Honeynet Project book "Know Your Enemy"

Anything sci-fi. . .C. Clarke, Asimov, Herbert, Bova. . .
Fav qoute Arthur C. "The person one loves, never truly exists, but is a reflection through the lens of the mind, onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion."
Fav King, as Bachman. . .The Long Walk.
Most used tech, Jamsa's Bible C/C++. . .

Anything by Tom Clancy! My favorite book of his is Clear And Present Danger. Way better than the movie ever aspired to be.

Favorite book read recently: The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas - made me think and read more historical accounts of the turn of the "modern era".

I have no, one favorite book. I have several :)

Just for fun - Linus Torvalds
Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
Rogue Warrior (non-fiction) - Richard Marcinko (That guy kicks some serious ass)
Rogue Warrior series (fiction) - Richard Marcinko

But the one thing, that I read the most is words on the web/irc. Its the biggest book of all. :)

give me a book, be it technical, fantastical, true or false, and I will come to delight in it, to be absorbed by it, and it will become one of numerous favorites. Reading is one of the most delightful things one can do, it provides an escape from the dreariness of reality, and takes you to places where dreams come true, to times when things were better (or worse), and lets you experience that which you may never have an oppurtunity to. Reading can bring light and love to your life, or dark and hate. It exposes you to thoughts that are so far from your own that you would never in your normal life come across them, and so close they may frighten you. It provides you with knowledge, real and useful, and false but the things of dreams. Reading makes dreams, fantasies, horrors, and knowledge real. To read is to experience, and to excersice and play with the mind.

My two favorite authors:

Max Haines (True Crime Stories - Series)
Dave Barry (Humour)

Favorite book, AND A SUGGESTED READ, is Dave Barry In Cyberspace.....

there is no question the greatest author and book of all time:

THE FOUNTAIN HEAD AND ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

of course there is also the Ender's Game series....

Wow, I LOVE this thread! All my life people have thought I was odd because I read so much. I'm not weird....Yay! Lol, and I'm also making notes on what to read in the future.

Two more of my favs: Anne Rice, and Stephen King

Deb :D

Mine is the Kama Sutra..... :thumbsup:


System_0verload

the dragonlance chronicles
the vampire chronicles (anne rice)
these are all books you just cant put down.

also...computer books arent really fun to read are they??

Good one on string theory:
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Non-technical, and also covers some of quantum theory and relativity.

As for fiction, much too numerous, though I did love the Ender's Game series[by Orson Scott Card] (would love to read that again, been trying to for a few years now, but I keep spending on other books!). Also:

This Alien Shore (can't remember who by)
The Wiz Biz (unitary of Wizard's Bane & the Wizardry Compiled), the Wizardry Cursed, The Wizardry Consulted, and the Wizardry Quested by Rick Cook
and hundreds (maybe soon thousands(yeah right)) more.

"Normal" book - The Hobbit
Computer book - Hackers Beware

i'd have to say that my favorite all time book has to be the childeren of the earth series by: jean auel. as far as computer books go right now i'm reading hackers: heroes of the computer revolution by Steaven Levy. so far it's the best computer non-fiction i've read.

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the dragonlance chronicles
the vampire chronicles (anne rice)
these are all books you just cant put down.

also...computer books arent really fun to read are they??

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Depends upon which type of computer books you would like to read. :)

Just for fun - Linus Torvalds
Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll

Those are two, very entertaining computer books. :)

Cuckoo's Egg, now that was a fun book to read. Wish there were more computer/hacking books like that one. Gives a good example of a hacker too, instead of the normally negative ones.

Midnight Tyrant...I had forgotten about that one...those were great books too...lol. I told you guys I read a lot!

Deb :D

The fountain head, atlas shrugged, and anthem......ayn rand

The art of war, by sun tzu:
Sun tzu is talking about life in general.....if you plan ahead and you think you will succeed :]

The artists way, by Julia Cameron

:D I liked the book "Wiseguy" that was the basis for GoodFellas. The book is waaaaay better than the movie.

heh awwwwww man am gettin tired >_<;
was browsing the front page galncing at active threads and thought i saw
Favourite bonk...? heh thought it was a bit too private a question to be asking ;)

oh & i 4got to mention Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams <- 2 of the best comical writters ever :)
can't get funnier than discworld or hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

v_Ln

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Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.....Although that is more then one book, isn't it....

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I agree with souleman.. Jordan is one of my favorites.. J.R.R Tolkien another old time favorite.

I like "The Elegant Universe" alot too, Although I have to say my all time favourite popular science book is "Flatterland" by Ian Stewart. It's sort of based on Flatland, only more so - thus Flatterland ;)

Novels, I do not read much any more. It's a shame I can't find the time but I love Buchowski, Kafka and Sartre in no particular order. I can't however, stand russian litterature because I never seem to get through the first three hundred pages which seems to be a test if you're worthy of reading the book in the first place...

Anyway, great thread. Really interesting to read.

My favorite book? Gotta be Spycatcher by Paul Greengrass; it's about how things get screwed up with PHB-types running the show. Sort of. :) Worth a read through if you've not.

PM or re: to me if you've read this; I'd like to think that at least someone else here has read through this!

~N~

Hacking Exposed (3rd Edition) and Viruses Revealed, both very informative books for system administrators. :)

As for non-computing books, Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece, but I have soooo many books I don't know which to choose! ;)

No joke. . .waaaay to many. . .speakin' o'Lords, tho, Lord of the Flies, decent movie, great book!!! Required in Jr. High, didn't wanna read it. . .now I pull it out every now and then.

"Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds

I still remember when my favorite book was lost, It's DOS Programmer's Reference.

I too like Jordans Wheel of Time Series even if the story is being dragged out way too much, (the last book was a bit of a improvement), the next one is out in November (can't wait).

Also I like Raymond E Fiest's earlier work (up to the end ot the serpent war series) and most of the books by David Eddings (even though I thought The Redemption of Althalus was a bit of a dissapointment). I also enjoy, along with many others, books by Terry Pratchett (I'm in the middle of Thief of Time at the moment), Jack Higgins, Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith, Larry Bond, ... etc (I too do a lot of reading).

But I have to say that my all time favourite book is Without Remorse by Tom Clancy (90% of his books are excellent).

another of my favorites The Master and Margarita.