everyone is talking about movies movies movies… let’s hear some BOOKS now people!!
heres mine not in order
perks of being a wallflower by steven chbosky
speak (by??)
return of the king (lotr) by jrr tolkien
hobbit by jrr tolkien
ender’s game by orson scott card
girl by blake nelson
bridgett jones’ diary (by??)
catcher and the rye jd salenger (sp?)
go ask alice by annonomous
and on and on…
Anything by Al Franken
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Harry Potter series (looking forward to The Order of the Phoenix).
The Lord of the Rings series.
Ender’s Game is one of my favorite books of all time. I just love it oh-so-very much.
Just started reading Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson (I’ve heard he’s on par with William Gibson with his writing, but, as opposed to Gibson, he actually knows a thing or two about computers, which is probably beneficial when you’re writing cyberpunk). It’s pretty good, so far (given, that’s 25 pages, or so, out of around 1200 :p)
Just finished Contact, by Carl Sagan. Very cool book… except for the very end. Oh well.
For having a room full of books, I’m drawing a blank as to my favorites…
I can highly recommend Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club, but in that case, the movie was a lot better than the book, imho).
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, comes to mind, along with Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
I will always be a fan of Stephen King hehehe 
Amy Tan is good, and Tolkien…call me old fashioned, but Thomas Hardy can write…wow. And I adore Shakespeare–also a genius. Joseph Conrad (author of Heart of Darkness) is an amazing author as well. Man, I think I’m a nerd or something…look at my list :rolleyes:
Oh yeah, Harry Potter totally rocks my world!! I can’t wait for the fifth book to come out this summer!! Yay!!!
My favorite novels? Yikes.
I don’t read a lot of novels, but. . .
(this is miss america style. . . as in, in no particular order.)
1984 - George Orwell
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
Non-fiction?
Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real - The Imagineers
Designing Disney’s Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance - Karal Ann Marling
Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers - Robert Reynolds
Modern Architecture Since 1900 - William Curtis
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals - Spiro Kostof
Walt Disney’s Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom - Michael Broggie
…for starters.
*Originally posted by D.J. Fluck *
Anything by Al Franken
An excellent writer on SNL, also.
Some of my favorites, most of these are huge novel types that I read back in high school. That, and I have a bad tendency to get hooked on a writer to the point where I must read all of their books (comparing writing styles, use of character metaphor, etc.). No particular order.
Nine Stories J. D. Salinger
I Know This Much Is True and She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Animal Farm by George Orwell (I could read this book over and over.)
Doctors, Love Story, Oliver’s Story, Acts of Faith, etc. by Erich Segal
Courting A Monk by Katherine Min
On Love, How Proust Can Change Your Life, etc. by Alain De Botton
Lots of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Salinger, Bradbury, etc. also. I’m an English major, it’s not like I have anything else to do. :rolleyes:
Novels:
Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald (fellow minnesotan, yay!)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
1984 by George Orwell
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Plays:
W;t by Magaret Edson
Equus by Peters Schaffer
Arcadia by Thomas Stoppard
Macbeth by Shakespeare
I also am very addicted to John Grisham books. Perhaps not the most intellectually stimulating book but hey, there’s a reason why I switched from being an English major to poli sci.
Most anything Asimov- I, robot and the Foundation series are huge. Childhoods End is great, read it.
Most of A. C. Clark. I still don’t get 2001, but hey, thats just me. His short stories are great.
Enders game and the ‘Shadow’ books were great. Does anyone not like Enders game?
Jean Craig George. My side of the mountain. Must have read that book a hundred times.
Night Fall (author? One was Asimov I believe, I can’t recall the other) insanely good book. Read it.
The Tripod series (author?).
Ben bova’s Moonbase books are kinda trashy sci/fi, but hey, thats ok once in a while.
And who can forget the Rold Dahl books. Probably the best childrens stories ever.
Nor Crystal Tears and For Love Of Mother Not by Alan Dean Foster
Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams
The Dark Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
The Edible Woman and Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
The River King and Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
A Slipping Down Life and Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
A Walk Across America, by Peter Jenkins
All of Douglas Adams books (though some are not as good as others).
And more… lots more…
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no such thing as too many books…
Catch-22 is the best book ever. I love it.
anything by James Patterson
White Oleandor by Janet Fitch (in the middle of it now)
Some of the above are favorites of mine, but for variety’s sake I’ll avoid posting any already mentioned…
The Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett (thank you so much for suggesting these to me, Ashlee!!)
Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (amazing book… a must read)
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (better than LotR, imo)
Watership Down by Richard Adams
There are more that I’m neglecting, but this is the best I can do off the top of my head.
Definitely “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card.
Also:
-The Miles Vorkosigan adventures by Lois McMaster Bujold (Sci Fi)
-The Harry Potter series
-The “Joy Luck Club,” and “The Kitchen God’s Wife,” by Amy Tan.
-“To Kill a Mockingbird” (Can’t remember the author off hand)
-“Precious Bane” (Author?)
Non Fiction:
-“Scene of the Crime” A writer’s guide to crime scene investigations by Anne Wingate Ph.D.
-“Art and Physics” Parallel visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain.
*Originally posted by Amber H. *
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-“To Kill a Mockingbird” (Can’t remember the author off hand)
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Harper Lee, the literary world’s most famous one hit wonder. 
*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**Harper Lee, the literary world’s most famous one hit wonder.
Thanks M. All I could remember was that the character “Dill” was based onthe author’s childhood friend, Truman Capote. It’s been about twenty years since I last read it. I loved it because I could relate well to the little tomboy Scout, the chatacter chosen to narrate in the first person.
*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**Harper Lee, the literary world’s most famous one hit wonder.
And thats even questionable too…
To Kill is up high on my list too, but I don’t consider Harper Lee a ‘one hit wonder’ since she only published one book.
A Wrinkle In Time ,
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and
A Wind in the Door,… all by Madeline L’engal (i think that’s how you spell her name) these books make you think a little if you want to understand exactly what’s going on, but they are some of the best books i’ve ever read.:cool
The Matrix and Philosophy
(44 minutes:rolleyes: If you don’t know what this is about by now, find my 47 minutes post:) )
Heinlein’s books are all great.