Top 3 books

[zeldasbiggestfan]

If you had to pick 3 favorite books, what would they be?

I'd have to say Redwall, The Summoner, and I dont care what you say, I loved Eragon.

[Guitar Woman]

Rumble Fish
The Metamorphosis
Dune

There can be no others

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Dune is pretty awesome.

[Guitar Woman]

Way to not notice the other two books that are basically a million levels above it.

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Nah mayne, fuck dat.

[RaNkeri]

Hard to list only 3, but

Lord of the rings
Bored of the rings
Rainbow Six

All of 'em have been mind blowing experiences.

Hound of the baskerville, The Hobitt, 6/12 and The unknown soldier were also close to make it to the list. The list may change after I've done readin' some lovecraft and R. A. Salvatore though.

[Guitar Woman]

Way to not notice the other two books that are basically a million levels above it.
In fact, you guys might as well lock this thread, because nobody beats Kafka

[RaNkeri]

In fact, you guys might as well lock this thread, because nobody beats Kafka


I've only read few short stories by him, so they can't be really counted as a book. :/

Kafka fucking kicks ass though.

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Never heard of him. Redwall is seriously the most descriptive book. He wrote for blind kids (why its so descriptive) and someone gave the story to a publisher and they took it. So he got to be an author by luck, which is really cool.

[Guitar Woman]

BECAUSE DESCRIPTIONS = A PHILOSOPHICAL STORY, JACKASS.

This is going to be like the graphics over gameplay argument all over again seriously :x

[zeldasbiggestfan]

I didnt understand that, so that's all I can say.

[MLE]

If you didn't understand that, you need to stop trying to play with the big kids.

[Grislygus]

Asterix and the Big Fight, Asterix the Gladiator, and Asterix in Britain!

They have funny pictures!

[MLE]

I totally just saw the Asterix series at my local comic book store! I was looking for Luis Royo books. ;<

[Grislygus]

Man, where you at? I thought they were only sold in the UK. I've been getting all of mine from the internet.


Some Asterix books have pirates in them!

[MLE]

I saw probably the entire collection sold individually at my local comic book store (privately owned). I'm in Maryland ;o

[RaNkeri]

Asterix pwns too. I think I still have few albums left somewhere

[Grislygus]

Damned lucky East-Coasters. Is it not enough that you hog all the good Italian food?



Wait, I failed Geography, is Maryland on the east coast? You guys should move there if you're not. 'Cause it seems like you should be there. Swap with Rhode Island or something.

[MLE]

Yeah, we have great italian food and we are totally on the east coast

[Grislygus]

Okay I have "Googled" this problem and am now all over the Geography business.

If you turn your head sideways, your state looks like a happy Muppet lizard.

[MLE]

Kinda!

[RaNkeri]

There was a lizard muppet?

[MLE]

I don't believe you were a part of this conversation

[RaNkeri]

Nope, I just wanted some attention :<



EDIT: And I succeeded!

[Grislygus]

Not now Rankeri, the cool professors are talking.

I have obtained a scientific illustration.

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n157/grislygus/muppet.jpg

[MLE]

Honestly, I thought you were about to whine back at me about wanting to play with the big kids. For once you surprised me.

EDIT: lol Gris

[Sethomas]

The Confessions of Saint Augustine
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae

[Emu]

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World as well as his Dragons of Eden top my list. A third would be Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate.

[Rongi]

This thread reminds me I need to start reading regularly again.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (I know everyone read this in school, but you know what? Fuck you.)

[zeldasbiggestfan]

To Kill a Mocking Bird was actually killer. Movie sucked ass for me though.

[Emu]

That's a masterpiece of cinema. you suck

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Yeah totally. Which is why they left out Jem ripping the shit out of Mrs. Dubois's flowers. WHICH WAS FUCKED UP TO READ AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN SEEN.

Other than that I kinda regret saying it blew :/

[Esuohlim]

HARRY POTTER
GREEN EGGS AND HAM
THE HOLY BIBLE BY OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST

[Fathom Zero]

Esuohlim stole my funny, Rumble Fish is an abortion, and Luis Royo's work scares me.

The Chamber
Calvin and Hobbes
Fletch

[arg_zombies]

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
The Brightonomicon - Robert Rankin
1984 - George Orwell

My dad has every single Asterix :rock
But 2000AD is better :<

[Kilgore Cod]

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

[terrva]

Ugh, there's so many awesome books i have read, but don't remember the names of. Here's some i can still remember though:
- Lord of the Flies
- The Dark Tower (the first one was awesome, the second and third were great too)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (i also love the Dirk Gently-books a lot)

[kahljorn]

Kafka is s hit and people who like him have boring taste in literature. I've never been able to enjoy anything that I've read from him except tiny parts of each book. I think that you could get more from reading the stranger by camus than everything that kafka wrote with his asshole because you probably don't know this but kafka actually wrote by sticking the pen in his ass and writing. That's the real reason his writing is so famous. NOT BECAUSE ITS SO PHILOSOPHICALLY BRILLANT.

The best books I've read recently are the Kreutzer sonata by tolstoy, notes from underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky and i like this book by this fellow named EM Cioran called "The trouble with being born." ;o

[Asila]

Only 3, are you kidding?

The entire Sherlock Holmes collection by Sir Arthur Doyle (ha!)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

ugh, now I'm going to pass by my bookshelf and they're all going to glare at me, thanks.

[Tadao]

Small Gods was the first one I read. Not a good first start but I was lucky enough to have bought Reaper Man and Wyrd Sisters at the same time as Small Gods.

I'm not saying that Small Gods is the sux, It's just to dry for an introduction to Pratchett.

My all time favs? Hmmm. I guees the ones that stick out the most is,
Hitchhikers Guide (Entire withought the very very last one)
Fear and Loathing in LV
I guess 3rd is a toss up.

EDIT: 3rd would be anything by Homer.

[Fathom Zero]

The Rising by Brian Keene
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

[AlliSabbah]

Death Angels Shadow by Karl Edwarsd Wagner

The Four Lords of the Diamond by Jack L Chalker

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

[Slick Willy]

1: the hot zone, by richard preston. beautiful.
2: the golden compass. aimed for pre teens, but still full of implied sex. and murder!
3: Jurassic park. :P nuff said.

[Fathom Zero]

I also own a copy of the Hot Zone and I can never seem to put it down when I start reading it.

[MLE]

I can never put down Farenheit 451 when I start it. I've read that book probably 20 times.

[umop apisdn]

1. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
3. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

[dirtyxblondexdame]

-- The Shining
-- She's Come Undone
-- Animal Farm

[Hangie]

The Last Guardian
Monster Manual 1st edition ( both cool and hilarious)
Bobobo-bo-bo-bobo whatever volume I found on a street

[Madman914]

If Chins could Kill
Make love the Bruce Campbell way
1984

[Asila]

Make love the Bruce Campbell way

Really really? My local bookstore had the hardcover of that on sale and I'm soooo tempted to buy it. There would be no question if I hadn't just bought six new books...

[Madman914]

It's a good read,no question. But only if you like Bruce Campbell's style of humor. His literary style alone equals the amount of awesome in any SEVEN books.

[El Oh El]

Breakfast of champions
catcher and the rye
already dead

[Tadao]

Breakfast of champions
catcher and the rye
already dead

Hey, can you do me a favor and go to the Hounds of Baskerville thread and tell me what it is about catcher in the rye that you like?

[glowbelly]

infinite jest - david foster wallace
beloved - toni morrison
everything mark twain has ever written

[Kingofeurope]

Harry Potter *gets shot*

[executioneer]

yeah but WHICH harry potter, you only get 3

[Esuohlim]

If there was a "Harry Potter Gets Shot" I would have to redo my list :(

[executioneer]

well maybe he gets shot in that "barry trotter" parody series, i haven't read those

[JakeOfAllTrades]

Train Man by Hitori Nakano. That book gave me hope that a geek could find love.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. One of the most profound books I've ever read. Dean Moriarty lives one screwed up life and faces the consequences, but he faces them with a smile.
Beowulf by Anonymous. This is the ultimate Fantasy book, it's an epic poem about the three stages of a man's life told in an epic legend. Great achievements are had in life, but even when Death's scythe cuts you down you will be remembered in song by those who appreciated you for who you truly were.

For an 18 year old kid I've read a lot more than my friends have, and have a broad understanding of what being a man in today's society is. Though I could be wrong. But I don't think I am.

[saizo_ogasawara]

The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

These books were the ones I've read with my girlfriend.

[Fat_Hippo]

1. Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet: The Sex Scenes are HOT!:blowme:wank:eek Well, and it's actually a good book.
2. Die 13 1/2 Leben des Kapitän Blaubärs - Fucked up, but still funny. And German. Dunno if it's available in english.
3. To your Scattered Bodies go - 1. Book in the Riverworld series, which I can definitley recommend if you like intelligent science fiction and not, like, Star Trek.

Couple other good books are Rhinegold and Ilium. And nearly anything else by Ken Follet.

[BlackHexen]

George Orwell - 1984: Atmosphere of this book is hopeless. For bohemian and liberal guy like me this is pure horror.
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451: Like 1984 this is also a dystopy-story withauthoritarianism ruining individual's life. Atmosphere isn't in this book so good as meaning: people themself are happy with "working for 6 days and watching tv at freetime" -lifestyle.
Bam STroker - Dracula: I listened Nightwish while reading this. Gothic, aaaahh.

[Pub Lover]

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World normally rounds off that High School dystopia trifecta. :rolleyes

[RPGmaker]

Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Wiess & Hickman (This book got me reading fantasy novels)

Dune

Dracula by Bram Stoker

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I agree with Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

Currently reading the unabridged version of Don Quixote and it's really good so far.

[Pub Lover]

Whose translation? Or the original Spanish?

[Fathom Zero]

My middle school trifecta.

[Pub Lover]

I really have no clue of what ages you have for school grades in the US, all your TV shows about it star 30 year olds. It's confusing, ok?

[Fathom Zero]

Ignorant Maori.

[executioneer]

high schools are generally the last four years before university(grades 9-12), middle schools are a bit more vaguely defined but if i had to guess i'd guess they're usually the three or four years before that (5 or 6-8)

[Fathom Zero]

You'd be correct in that. Mine was 7-8, but the one in this town is 6-8. It used to be 7-9.

[lubna]

EDIT: SPAM POST WEARING A CLEVER DISGUISE :eek

[kahljorn]

I started reading the valis trilogy by phillip k dick and I have to admit that these are probably the best books I've ever read in my entire life.

also chuck pahlanuik is such a crappy writer! I tried to read "Choke" and it was so annoying and pretentious. ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE COOL AND ON THE EDGE AND THEY SAY THINGS SO THAT THEY SOUND COOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOOl. WHAT A REBEL.

To get a better idea of Chuck Pahlnuik whatevers writing I guess you should just imagine fight club starring David Arquette and some other dorky crappy actors playing all their parts and trying to sound cool.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Whose translation? Or the original Spanish?


Walter Starkie translation.


Chuck Palaniuk's Invisible Monsters is really great. I haven't read Fight Club but I didn't like Lullaby or Diary. Most of his books just remind me of M Night Shylamon, where there's a mildly entertaining story with a big twist at the end. "What a twist"

[glowbelly]

all of chuck p's books are the same. he should have stopped at fight club.

[kahljorn]

He shoul dhave stopped at imagining that he's cool and knows what cool is and even defines it which is basically the precursor for all of his books!

[glowbelly]

you should define cool

[kahljorn]

ITS ALREADY BEEN DONE