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What are you all's top 10 favorite books?
mine go like this:
10. The Universe in a Nutshell
9. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
8. The Foucault Reader
7. Angels and Demons
6. The Giver - For younger readers but still awesome
5. Fahrenheit 451
4. The Lord of the Rings Series (including the hobbit)
3. Spreading Poison
2. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1. The Harry Potter Series
Well. I assume that n°1 is your preferred book (or the contrary?).
1. Lord of the Ring (plus the hobbit), by Tolkien
2. Dune, by F. Herbert
3. The Amber cycle, by Zelazny (an extraordinary cycle, you should try it)
4. Gormenghast trilogy, by Mervin Peake (it is so poetic)
5. The hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams
6. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
7. The art of war, by Sun Tsu
8. Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
9. Good Omen, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
10. Ender's game, by Orson Scott Card.
yes, i just went in a weird order haha number 1 is my favorite.
1 the discworld seires by terry pratchet
2the wheel of time series by robert jordan
3 the LoTR series(seems manditory :) )
4 the vampire chronicles by ann rice
5 the dark elf trilogy by R.A. salvatore
6The "Ashes" series by william w johnstone. or any of his books actualy
7 The art of war by sun tzu
8 anything by michael chriton
9 the cat who walked throgh walls by robert heinlen
10the xanth series by peirs anthony.
I know only one listed is actualy a book and not a series of books but i cant pick my favorites out of them. It just wouldnt be fair to the rest :) and without the rest of the series the single books arent nearly as good.
1. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
3. The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
4-10. Albanian Books.
1 Beach Music by Pat Conroy
2 The Mayfair Witch Trilogy by Anne Rice
3 The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
4 A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
5 All of the Lincoln Rhymes series of books written by Jeffrey Deaver
6 The St. Simons Island Trilogy by Eugenia Price
7 The House of God by Samuel Shem, MD
8 Bag of Bones by Stephen King
9 It by Stephen King
10 The Stand by Stephen King
er0k, you've been watching too much David Letterman, you counted yours like a Top Ten list ;)
Harry Potter, Angels and Demons, and anything written by Anne Rice is in my pile of "read 'til the binding is torn and the pages are falling out" books, and I like almost all of Anne Rivers Siddons books as well. I will read anything you put in my hands, and I really don't have a favorite genre. I have ones I dislike, those being fantasy and romance, but other than that, I'll read just about anything.
Zombiemann, I read all of the currently released WoT books, but I just didn't like them. Also I don't care for LoTR.
Ten Favorites in no order:
1. Lord of the Rings Series (Including the Hobbit) ~ Tolkien
2. Harry Potter Series ~ Rowling
3. Robot Books ~ Asimov
4. Fahrenheit 451 ~ Bradbury
5. 1984 ~ Orwell
6. Sohpie’s World ~ Gaarder
7. Crime and Punishment ~ Dostoyevsky
8. Brave New World ~ Huxley
9. The Screwtape Letters ~ Lewis
10. Ender’s Game ~ Card
BTW, how many quarters does it take to play the new Lord of the Rings game?
None. It only takes Tolkiens...
~September 2004 Reader's Digest
1 Harry Potter (yes, I, too am a Rowling fan)
2 Anything by Robert Heinlein - I've a full collection of his works.
3 Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
4 LOTR, Hobbit, all things Tolkien
5 Any book involving Dilbert or The Far Side
6 The Underground Lawyer - Michael Minns
7 Left Behind series - LaHaye and Jenkins
8 All things written by Tom Clancy
9 Thomas Covenant series - Stephen Donaldson
10 the GOR books by John Norman (pure s&m fiction by a crappy author)
1. Thinking in C++ - Bruce Eckel
2. Starting out with C++ - Tony Gaddis
3. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
4. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
5. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hoffman
6. The Left Behind Series - Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
7. Brick Lane - Monica Ali
8. Jomini's Art of War - Jomini
9. On War - Clausewitz
10. Most other programming books
In no particular order:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Symbolic Logic by Irvin Copi
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Collected Works by Vladimir Lenin
Dune by Frank Herbert
Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Also in no particular order:
Tom Clancy / Andy McNab / Chris Ryan / Dale Brown - et al: War Faction
Terry Pratchett: Disc World series
Mark Twain: When I was little I wanted to be Huck Finn
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations; Tale of Two Cities:
Of these, probably A Christmas Carol as favourite.
George Orwell: Animal Farm / we are all equal; but some are more equal than others.
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
Graham Green: Read Brighton Rock as part of a school course, the first book to 'get' to me.
John Gribben: Books on Quantum Theory
IT tech books: Anything that grabs me
Biographies: Of people I find / found interesting
History: Military
Old local books, with pictures of the area that I live in. To see what it was, to what it has become.
Sorry, I know it's over 10. But its taken a while to whittle it down to this..................
Imajica by Clive barker
The Stand by Stephem King
Weave Work by Clive Barker
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Crystal Singer Series by Anne McCaffrey
The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Wow a looking at others posts i dont think a top 10 is fair. there were alot of books/series listed by others that i would have put if i hadnt ran out of room.Like the lincoln rhyme series and the left behind books.
Haha, I agree Zombie! I love the Left Behind series too, they're great. Also, some old favorites...The Grapes of Wrath being one of them. Anyone read any of the Alex Cross series by James Sanders? They're really good too, if you like Lincoln Rhymes. Different scenario totally, but still really good suspenseful murders. :)
It's funny to me how across the board some of us read. It doesn't seem to matter what it is, if it strikes us as interesting, we'll read it.
Terrance Strong, Jack Higgins,Fredrick Forsythe etc,etc.Quote:
Tom Clancy / Andy McNab / Chris Ryan / Dale Brown - et al: War Faction
In no order.
Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy: Len Deighton
No Mean Soldier: Peter MacAleese
LOTR: Tolkien
The Three Musketeers: Dumas
Anything by Le Carrie
All the Sharp Books: Bernard Cornwell
The Devils Guard: ?? Cant remember
Most of Leon Uris
All of Gerald Seymours
Virginia Cowel: The fantom Major.
I have been reading, Conrads The Heart Of Darkness for about 4 months. I will finish it one day :D
Ah! A Bukowski fan. :)Quote:
By: Negative
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
My Books:
- Catch-22
- The Complete Reference: C - Fourth Edition
- All The President's Men
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Lord of The Rings: Triology
- The Grapes of Wrath
Thats it for now.
I find it imposiable to give a definite top 10 as it changes as I read but here goes
: Tolkien (JRR for LOTR and Christopher his son for organising all his notes and publishing them in the history of middle earth series)
: Dune
: Ian M banks but especially use of weapons.
: Asmiovs foundation series
: Tom clancys the hunt for red october.
: Alexander kents Bolitho series. One of the best seafaring series I have read.
: Larry Nivean and Jerry Pournel.
: Turtledove for his colinisation series. He is one of the best alternative history writers at the moment.
: Robert A. Heinlein
: Stephan king It
: Stephen R. Donaldson THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER
I will probably want to change this at sometime because I am alwasy reading good books.
In no particular order:
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
LOTR & Hobbit - Tolkien
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Potter Series - JK Rowling
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Junky - William S Burroughs
The Underdogs - Mariano Azuela
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
The Artemis Fowl Series - Eoin Colfer
In particular Order
The Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
Quicksilver
Cryptonomicon
The Lord of the Dragon series (although I wish he would finsih it)
Been Down So long its starting to look like up
1 of God's Equation : Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
The Cuckoos Egg
Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment
Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API, Third Edition
The two system programming books save my a** in college in a couple of classes.
Cheers,
-D
These are 10 of the books that I like most:
And then there were none - Agatha Cristie
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Insomnia - Stephen King
Bag of Bones - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
Introduction to algorithms - Cormen,Leiserson,Rivest...
Oliver Twist - Victor Hugo
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
A journey to the center of earth - Jules Verne
Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
I love reading and as such have many books listed as my favourite, but i strongly recommend the book "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy(A trilogy in five parts)" by douglas adams. its a great book, anyone read it??
Continuing from earlier:
Douglas Adams: any and everything by him.
Ben Elton: Stand up comic turned author, good read.
Spike Milligan: Puckoon --- I always said that I would NEVER write another book. So here it is ...
Simon Singh: The Science of Secrecy - Codes from the ancients to today.
Marcus Chown: The Universe Next Door - Quantum [off the wall] theories
Tom Sharpe: EVERYTHING, but if a choice is required - WILT.
Anything in the local book stores with a title that catches the eye ? [bought a book called - Complexity Theory: Made EASY .....................
Unix made Easy: 3rd Edition ...............[this ones going back; OBVIOUSLY a spelling error]
My Bigelow pocket reference books.
Glad to see some people like Harry Potter as well...
1. Harry Potter series
2. Animal Farm
3. The Great Gatsby
10 is too many, I'd be picking and chosing random ones, its funny to see how much my interest in books has changed from older threads like this.
sun tsu - art of war
musashi - way of the samurai
ira levin - boys from brazil (all his books are pretty good)
steinbeck - grapes of wrath (same goes here)
harper lee - to kill a mockingbird
john brunner - the shockwave rider
Pappillion (dont know who wrote it)
Im busy reading it but its definatly in my top10 list allreadyQuote:
I love reading and as such have many books listed as my favourite, but i strongly recommend the book "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy(A trilogy in five parts)" by douglas adams. its a great book, anyone read it??
The complete and illustrated works of Edgar Allen Poe
(the gold bug/ the raven), you can read lots of his work online at http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Work.html
Guiness Book Of World Records
Thats ten.
There are too many good books too make an _real_ top 10 if you ask me but those are the ones I wanted to mention
Cheers
offcourse I forgot
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Great book,
Thanks for all the list btw, hope the lib has some of these.
Stephen Hawkings universe
The Unabombers manifesto
The enemy within
Shift of the ages
Truth in chaos
I believe cooper said it best, with No More Mr. Nice Guy
Hey er0k, are you still mad because I made fun of you, when you broke up with your boyfriend stormhawk? It's o.k. man. I'm sure you'll *** across another one soon enough. ;)
what do you mean, i have no idea who you are, i was just saying that because of your signature. if you think you had such a significant impact on me for me to even remember your handle, hahahaha
Anything by, Huxley, Garcia Marquez, Orwell, Ondaatjee, Steinbeck, Dotoyevsky, John Ralston Saul, Robertson Davies, Fredrick Phillip Grove, Greene
(yahh i cheated 10 authors instead of ten books, its just impossible to choose)
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what do you mean, i have no idea who you are, i was just saying that because of your signature. if you think you had such a significant impact on me for me to even remember your handle, hahahaha
You know who I am. I am Senior Quad, mi nombre es Anti-Hero! Now bow before me boy.
No particular order
Johnny Got His Gun- Dalton Trumbo
All Quiet On The Western Front- I forget
The Berenstein Bears- No Girls Allowed- Stan and Jan Berenstein
Every Goosebumps EVER
IT- Steven King
Salem's Lot- Steven King
9 Stories- J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
That one where those kids get stuck on the island and theres a pig that talks to them //edit lord of the flies
Fahrenheit 451
Native Son
The blue nowhere
Geeks
The art of deception
Takedown
Roll of thunder hear my cry
To kill a mockingbird
Of mice and men
Harry potter series
ok.. **** you...Quote:
Originally posted here by MrNiceGuy
You know who I am. I am Senior Quad, mi nombre es Anti-Hero! Now bow before me boy.
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