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FotoPlasma 02-09-2002 00:25

Favorite Book?
 
What is your favorite book of all time, in any category?

I'd have to say my favorite is Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, and I highly recommend everyone check it out.

What have you got to say?

Mike Schroeder 02-09-2002 00:32

My favorite books are the Star Wars X-wing series book there are about 11 or so of them and I'v read them all 2 or 3 times


Edit: Now that I think about it my all time favorite books are Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, and Foley Is Good both by Mick Foley aka. Mankind, aka. Dude Love, aka. Cactus Jack




MBiddy 02-09-2002 00:35

Either Cain by James Byron Huggins or Phantoms by Dean Koontz

Ender's Game was ok.

Katie_269 02-09-2002 00:50

Hmmmm...This is not necessarily my favorite...but it is a good one and it was the first thing that popped into my head when i read it. The outsiders. It is an awesome book, and an awesome movie.

Katelyn

Brandon Martus 02-09-2002 01:01

I'm a geek, so I'll have to say:

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence
by Ray Kurzweil

Its a pretty interesting read on the history of modern computing, and then the author's vision of what will happen in the future.

Katie Reynolds 02-09-2002 01:23

Re: Favorite Book?
 
Quote:

Originally posted by FotoPlasma
What is your favorite book of all time, in any category?

I'd have to say my favorite is Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, and I highly recommend everyone check it out.

What have you got to say?

Definitely. I love that book. The other books in the series ( Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind) are all OK - But Ender's Game is by far the best :D

- Katie

George1902 02-09-2002 01:31

Lord of the Rings is always brought up in these kinds of threads... so i'm gonna be the first!

LotR - Tolkien
Timeline, Airframe, Lost World, Sphere - Crichton
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams


and finally, a series of books by a guy named Terry Pratchett... i think they were recommended to me by ash (the meeping one). really a funny bunch of books

/me drops his $0.02 in the bucket on his way out

George
S.P.A.M.
Team 180

Stephanie 02-09-2002 02:42

Ender's Game is very very good. my BF got me Speaker for the Dead for my b-day, and had both books signed :)

D.J. Fluck 02-09-2002 03:19

Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation is probably one of the best collection of stories ive ever read....excellent book. Its a collection of stories from world war II veterans.

My favorite fictional book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller....it starts slow and its really come a long way.

Rob Ribaudo 02-09-2002 08:30

I don't really have a favorite book, so I'll pick one I started reading recently that I liked. It is Star Trek: I'm Working on That A Trek From Science Fiction To Science Fact by William Shatner and Chip Walter. It is an interesting book talking about how certain things from Star Trek could be made in real life. Examples: Warp Drive, Time Travle, Transporter. :)

Melissa Nute 02-09-2002 10:04

My fav book(s in this case) is the Song of The Lioness series by Tamora Pierce.

MissInformation 02-09-2002 10:18

My favorites change all the time, and just like music, I could never pick an absolute favorite. One of my favorites lately has been American Gods by Neil Gaiman. The book I've read the most has got to be Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams (it's a Watership Downs style but from the view point of cats and I've read it over ten times). And my favorite non-fiction is Geeks by Jon Katz

MissInformation

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Judy 02-09-2002 11:17

Hmm.. my favourite?.. I think it's a toss up probably between The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Uther by Jack Whyte. They're both based on Arthurian(sp?) legend and they're both really well written. Actually the whole Mists of Avalon trilogy is great, but The Mists of Avalon itself is still my fave from that. Either way, they're all great books and if you have any interest in the subject, check em out. You'll be amazed at the spin Marion Bradley puts on the legend.

*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie -team 783

Chris Nowak 02-09-2002 11:59

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. There are 4 books, but there are more to come. Very well written novels, with my favorite being the last one: Wizard and Glass.

Madison 02-09-2002 12:09

Weee.
 
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende

(It is neverending. I've yet to finish it, and I've tried twice. Somehow, though, I still love it.)

It was made into a classic movie in 1984. The movie ends very early on in the novel. II somewhat follows a theme in the novel, and III is a bastardization of a classic.

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

This was made into a movie by Disney in 1983. It's not great, but not terribly, either. The book is better, of course.

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

This was the inspirating for Jan de Bont's 'The Haunting' (1999) as well as 'House on Haunted Hill' (1958) and it's remake (1999).

1984 - George Orwell

I'm fairly certain this was made into a movie, but I've never seen it.


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