What's your favourite book?

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caLLous

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Airframe by Michael Crichton
The Chamber by John Grisham
The Client by John Grisham
Stark by Ben Elton
Snuff Fiction by Robert Rankin

hmm, i think that's it at the moment.
 
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throdgrain

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Wow a thread about books, this will not do :)
MY favourite books are the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
Bet theres no-one here who's read them :)
 
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Munkey-

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think i've read one of his books.


anyone heard of English passnegers?
 
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Trebz

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My favourite book (series) would have to be the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, closely followed in second place by the whole riftwar saga and related saga's by Raymon E.Feist. I love my epic fantasy series, creating a whole new world/timeline and gigantic storyline is what i like, you can get lost in it for days, nothing like a bit of escapism.

Currently re-reading LOTR, read it when i was young and missed half of it really due to not understanding it, much more enjoyable read this time though if you skip all the songs and what not, that just gets on my tits, oh and Tom Bombadil should be shot. I've got the belgarion series lined up for when i'm done with this (cough, and Harry Potter ;-) I just love books, i just keep on buying em faster than i can read em.

PS, Back in my younger years I was a great fan of the Hardy Boys and the Famous Five. "Smashing supper Aunt Fanny!"
 
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old.Jas

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The Famous Five was great, much better than the Secret Seven.

Roald Dahl books were slightly strange, but good fun to read
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho is truly a work of genius.
 
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.cage

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To kill a mockingbird, cos it rocks.

Oh and Misery by Stephen King
 
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Orin Askhammare

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English is not my first language and back when in school there was the obligatory Shakespeare stuff of which only I only remember Taming of the Shrew as being somewhat fun. But, I managed to get Lord of the Rings on my reading list which aside from some definate slow parts ranks quite high for me.

Being mostly a fantasy/sci-fi reader I enjoyed Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series so far although some of it has been a bit slow in the later books. Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule series has been good for me also so far. Other than that I've read a shedload of StarWars and D&D related pockets, a few of which were not to good, but R.A. Salvatore's darkelf books and of his other work I have enjoyed a lot.

In the humour department I'd have to go with Douglas Adams (R.I.P. :( ) and while praised by many and slagged by others I found the Harry Potter books a lot of fun even at age 29. Sar is right when he says the books have more to them than the movies so far.

There has been a lot of other stuff, like some Tom Clancy and Steven King. Don't like Steven King too much tbh, although some of his short stories like 'The Marathon' I like. Also funny to see how different 'The Running Man' the story and the movie are.

Although my not being english and love for fantasy/sci-fi has kept me away from books like American Psycho and To kill a mockingbird I'll deffo try to pick those up in the future. Also I'm curious as to how Trainspotting or the author's other works stack up to the movie, might go and read those too. Also I need to start on some David Edings who's supposed to be a very good read also.

Sheesh, seems I couldn't pick ;)
 
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Nibbler

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I don't read much but the *cough*Harry Pott*cough* books are good, and the Resident Evil books are ok.
 
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xenon2000

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Originally posted by Jas
The Famous Five was great, much better than the Secret Seven.
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That was an old debate back in primary school, if I remember correctly. I was always a 'Sevener' :)
 
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Damini

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Originally posted by Trebz
My favourite book (series) would have to be the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
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Trebz and Nucleus, men after my own heart :) Got the whole lot perched rather precariously on a shelf I paid the taxi men across the road to put up (but tell Kenny I put it up, cos I had a huge paddy when he said I couldn't play with the power tools cos I didn't know what I was doing).

Favourite book of all time would probably have to be Blood and Honour by Simon Green. You fantasy fans out there Must Go Read It. Damini has decreed. Favourite series of books - The Deathstalker series by...... ooh, the tension.... Simon Green!!

I also have my John Christopher for those occasions I like to envisage the world blowing up and only weird head shaped remnants of our gene pool staggering about, and the Red Dwarf books for a giggle.


One day you shall all read my books in shops. One day. And that bitch Rowlings will cower at my feet. Get famous before me would she? Pfffftt....!<!22"!
 
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Orin Askhammare

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Originally posted by Trebz
My favourite book (series) would have to be the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, closely followed in second place by the whole riftwar saga and related saga's by Raymon E.Feist. I love my epic fantasy series, creating a whole new world/timeline and gigantic storyline is what i like, you can get lost in it for days, nothing like a bit of escapism.

Currently re-reading LOTR, read it when i was young and missed half of it really due to not understanding it, much more enjoyable read this time though if you skip all the songs and what not, that just gets on my tits, oh and Tom Bombadil should be shot. I've got the belgarion series lined up for when i'm done with this (cough, and Harry Potter ;-) I just love books, i just keep on buying em faster than i can read em.

PS, Back in my younger years I was a great fan of the Hardy Boys and the Famous Five. "Smashing supper Aunt Fanny!"
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Yeah, I got the epic fantasy bug too heh. I've read LoTR twice, although the last time has been close to 10 years ago now. I got it sitting on the shelve here so I can pick it up anytime. I also certainly don't mind Tom Bombadil being scrapped from the movie ;)

Oh and regarding the StarWars books I mentioned before, there is some really enjoyable stuff in there like Timothy Zahn's Heir to The Empire books etc. The fact that all these books by different authors take place in a very large and consistent universe where events in different books are linked on subtle levels makes it that much more enjoyable for me. I pretty much own them all. Depends on what you're looking for really.

When I come home from work I don't feel to much like reading Also Sprach Zarathustra by Nietschze. Scary shit that, I get tired after 3 pages :)
 
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Wij

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Um, don't read much fiction. Mainly I enjoy reading philosophy (proper stuff not new-age vocal-vomit) and various scientific textbooks and summaries.

However I quite enjoy some James Joyce (never completed Ulysses tho, too strange even for me), HP Lovecraft, Dostoyevsky (translated :)) and erm.. can't remember much else, I'll have to think :/

Oh, I read Dune the other month cos I got it free. Normally I hate sci-fi and fantasy but that was pretty good. Oooh, Don Quixote is really funny too :D
 
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Wij

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Originally posted by Nucleus
When I come home from work I don't feel to much like reading Also Sprach Zarathustra by Nietschze. Scary shit that, I get tired after 3 pages :)
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Actually I've read pretty much everything by Neitschze translated into English :D

All I can remember from my Geman lessons is "Wie komme ich am besten zum bahnhof bitte ?" :)
 
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Orin Askhammare

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Dune was great, totally not enjoyed the first book after though, although that was quite a while ago. Might give it another shot, the first book definately merits it.

As for scientific stuff, on hols a m8 of mine said Einstein wrote some pretty nice books on the relativity theory and quantum mechanics that don't require a degree in those fields to comprehend. Could be entertaining.

/me looks at to-do list....
hmmm :) So little time
 
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Orin Askhammare

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Originally posted by Wij


Actually I've read pretty much everything by Neitschze translated into English :D

All I can remember from my Geman lessons is "Wie komme ich am besten zum bahnhof bitte ?" :)
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Heh, I had English, German and French in school (aside from Dutch), dabbled a bit in Latin and Greek for 3 years but oh well. I tried Nietschze in German and Dutch but that was after uni and after a long day of work I can't seem to get my head around reading metaphore after metaphore fs :)

Probably not strange he ended up in the loony bin in the end ;)

And the best way to the train station would be dependant on where you are right now so I can't answer that ;)
 
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mr.Blacky

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well read Feist and Green and loved the lot. my only question about Feist is how many more about that universe hehe think i am at meter with that serie.
Also what other series does Green have?
my recomandation Tad Williams his serie that starts with "The Dragonbone Chair" caus i am not in england had to get this one in dutch so dont ask me how the serie is called
 
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Trebz

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Originally posted by Nucleus

Oh and regarding the StarWars books I mentioned before, there is some really enjoyable stuff in there like Timothy Zahn's Heir to The Empire books etc. The fact that all these books by different authors take place in a very large and consistent universe where events in different books are linked on subtle levels makes it that much more enjoyable for me. I pretty much own them all. Depends on what you're looking for really.
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**warning, may be a slight spoiler for WoT**

That's one of the reasons I rate WoT as my best ever book series, the depth to the world and the breadth of the story adds so many different levels to it, you have things briefly mentioned in one early book and later they come to light as part of a major event. The whole secrecy of it all with the white tower being so dominant and the Aes Sedai splitting, send shivers down my spine.

It does have a downside of course and thats the male-female relationships in the books and the constant downsizing of both sexes by the opposite. Nynaeve is enough to drive any man crazy but its nice to see she gets her come-uppence now and then.
 
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mr.Blacky

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Originally posted by Wij

All I can remember from my Geman lessons is "Wie komme ich am besten zum bahnhof bitte ?" :)
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well the sentence i remember is "Ich habe ess nicht gewust" ;)
 
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Damini

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Originally posted by Mr.Blackshirt

Also what other series does Green have?
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You mean Simon Green? I'm checking because I'm a bit scarily avid a fan, so I need the green light before I speil it all off.
 
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Orin Askhammare

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Originally posted by Mr.Blackshirt


well the sentence i remember is "Ich habe ess nicht gewust" ;)
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ouch!

Reminds me of a story someone at work told once. He was showing some Germans around Rotterdam and one of the Germans asked why a city as old as Rotterdam had so very little old monumental buildings. Painful episode that!
 
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Orin Askhammare

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Originally posted by Trebz

Nynaeve is enough to drive any man crazy but its nice to see she gets her come-uppence now and then.
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Nynaeve is the wet dream of any S&M inclined man in need of a dominatrix rofl ;) Ok that's a bit of an overstatement hehe
 
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Fex

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The best book i've read is the lord of the rings it does take a shit load of reading but its a really good story and unlike other books ive read its bloody hard to put down. Another good one is the green mile, it's so much better than the film.
 
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Sar

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OMFG

I can't believe I forgot Wheel of Time!

I've read everything in that series up to the end of book 8, yet to start on Book 9, and like Damini I have the lot of them sitting on the end of my computer desk. Bought them one after the other and got through the lot of them in about 2½ months :D
 
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