Favorite Book?

[AdamT]

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds


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

- Katie

What about Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hedgemon and the newest one, Shadow Puppets?????????????? I loved Bean's point of view in Ender's Shadow.

Orson Scott Card lives about 4 hours from me...his publications are wonderful.

This is a horrible question, I work in a bookstore for gods sake!!!

Maichael Marshall Smith is also an awesome author. He also goes by Michael Marshall for his newest book The Straw Men. These are darn good books!

And HERE HERE for Harry Potter!!!!!!


EDIT I have forgotten about two of the greatest authors of all times: William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. These two men are responsible for ever cyber-punk/thriller you will ever read or see in a movie theater. Anyone who ever saw Jonny Neumonic, Blade Runner, Minority Report, or The Matrix enjoyed a good movie because of these two men!!

Another Edit: I also forgot Chuck Palahniuk, the author of such fine novels as Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. These are also wonderful books

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by AdamT


What about Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hedgemon and the newest one, Shadow Puppets?????????????? I loved Bean's point of view in Ender's Shadow.

Shhh!! I haven't read any of those yet! I'm just finishing Xenocide and will soon be starting Children of the Mind.

- Katie

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by AdamT


What about Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hedgemon and the newest one, Shadow Puppets?????????????? I loved Bean's point of view in Ender's Shadow.

Orson Scott Card lives about 4 hours from me...his publications are wonderful.

This is a horrible question, I work in a bookstore for gods sake!!!

Maichael Marshall Smith is also an awesome author. He also goes by Michael Marshall for his newest book The Straw Men. These are darn good books!

And HERE HERE for Harry Potter!!!!!!

I loved Ender's Shadow, too. It was so great to hear the story from Bean's perspective...

I haven't finished Shadow of the Hegemon, but probably will pick it up again, eventually (I stopped reading it, halfway through, about two years ago, if I recall correctly).

And yes, Harry Potter owns...

[ChrisH]

My absolute favorites change from time to time, but generally to even make it to my list of GOOD books I have to be able to read it at least three times. That means it has to have enough depth that I pick up new things each time I read it.

Ender's Game definitely passes that test, though I haven't re-read it in a while.

Lord of the Rings of course, in fact anything by Tolkien. Well maybe not the Silmarillion, but that was never intended for publication. He wrote a short story called Leaf by Niggle that is one of my favorites.

Clancy's Ryan books are good, and prescient in a general sort of way. They are generally about 5 years ahead of what's happening.

For mysteries there's Dorothy Sayers. I just finished re-reading one of her's. I'd like to find her translation of Dante too, though I suspect it's out of print.

Gulag Archapelago is a rather dreary read, but very important. Especially the first few chapters where Solzenitzn (sorry Alex I don't have a reference handy to get the spelling right) describes how the KGB operated to subdue the populace. The scary part is that I see some of those tactics being used today.

I don't think CS Lewis wrote a bad book in his life, though some of the later ones get too deep for me. I'll just have to wait to get older. Most of you are between the ages for the Narnia books, but ought to be able to handle The Space Trilogy and some of his more theological stuff. The Screwtape Letters is a must read. His Experiment in Criticism changed the way I think about books, it's kind of scholarly, but after all he was writing to scholars in that one. (actually Experiment was one of my English-major wife's textbooks)

I don't think CS Lewis wrote a bad book in his life, though some of the later ones get too deep for me. I'll just have to wait to get older. Most of you are between the ages for the Narnia books, but ought to be able to handle The Space Trilogy and some of his more theological stuff. The Screwtape Letters is a must read. His Experiment in Criticism changed the way I think about books, it's kind of scholarly, but after all he was writing to scholars in that one. (actually Experiment was one of my English-major wife's textbooks)

[DanLevin247]

Catcher In the Rye. I think that Mr. Salinger has perfectly encapsulated the tradgedy that is american youth in his masterpiece, which I've read 5 times.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by DanLevin53
Catcher In the Rye. I think that Mr. Salinger has perfectly encapsulated the tradgedy that is american youth in his masterpiece, which I've read 5 times.

Totally agreed there....

[DaBruteForceGuy]

"Time Travel In Einsteins Universe" By J. Richard Gott. OUtstanding book which includes theorums and theorys made by astrophysists including himself and his team at Princeton. I think Definitly shows up any Hawkings Novel published.

ALSO i m a HUGE fan of the techno thriller and have read and enjoyed many of them. Out of all my favorites is the series written by Patrick Robinson. His technothrillers rival all others. Events are deeply intwined with technical problems, war and battle strategies and realistic politics with nations as they r today.

[George1902]

i'm offering this book up as one of my favorites with much confidance that 'm prolly the only one on these boards who has read it...

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole

this novel is funny, disgusting, intelligent, and mad all at the same time... i guess technically it's a comedy, but that barely scratches the surface

the main character, Ignatius J. Reilly, is has been described as "slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one."

any of you who chat with me regularly know how twisted i can be. well, this book was the source of that in me, i believe.

George
S.P.A.M.
Team 180

[Jeff Waegelin]

I've got quite a few that I like. Most have already been said, so I won't explain any reasoning.

Star Wars (especially the X-wing series and all of Timothy Zahn's books), Lord of the Rings, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, and the Hitchhiker's Trilogy.

[AdamT]

Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
and the Hitchhiker's Trilogy.

oh man, you are missing out! there are six books to the series!!!

I even have the official Comic version of Hitchhikers Guide!

[Michael Murphy]

Originally posted by AdamT


oh man, you are missing out! there are six books to the series!!!

I even have the official Comic version of Hitchhikers Guide!

Yeah, but Adams still called it a trilogy

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally posted by AdamT


oh man, you are missing out! there are six books to the series!!!

I even have the official Comic version of Hitchhikers Guide!

I don't know if Young Zaphod Plays it Safe counts as a book.... it's only about 10 pages. Anyways, I have read all the books, but they are still called a trilogy as a joke. It's the "Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchiker's Trilogy"

[Suneet]

There's an amazing series of books by Isaac Asimov, starting with one called Foundation, with a total of 5 books in the series (+ some prequels).

The books are rarely mentioned, for some reason... But this series is a must-read, esp. for sci-fi fans.

[rbayer]

Originally posted by Suneet
There's an amazing series of books by Isaac Asimov, starting with one called Foundation, with a total of 5 books in the series (+ some prequels).

The books are rarely mentioned, for some reason... But this series is a must-read, esp. for sci-fi fans.

Definately agreed, and it's one of the few series where all seven books are good (5 regular +2 prequel). The ideas about predicting/manipulating the future mathematically are mind-boggling, yet not too far-fetched. Another one that hasn't been mentioned yet is Frank Herbert's Dune. The first book and the last two are absolutely amazing (the ones in the middle are mediocre at best). I also like LotR, Ender, Clancy, and Bradbury's short story collections.

[FotoPlasma]

Originally posted by AdamT


oh man, you are missing out! there are six books to the series!!!

I even have the official Comic version of Hitchhikers Guide!

We recently got the BBC dramatization on DVD... I haven't seen that since I was a wee child...