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| Jun 4th, 2003 12:24 PM | ||
| Protoclown |
1. BATMAN 2. X-MEN 3. SPIDER MAN 4. INCREDIBLE HULK 5. FLASH 6. GREEN ARROW 7. SUPERMAN 8. WONDER WOMAN 9. CAPTAIN AMERICA 10. DAREDEVIL 
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| Jun 4th, 2003 11:34 AM | ||
| The_voice_of_reason |
1. More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon 2. Farenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 3. The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 4. Dune Frank Herbert 5. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert A. Heinlein 6. Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 7. Xenocide Orson Scott Card 8. Elegent Universe Brian Greene 9. The Wanting Seed Anthony Burgess 10. 1984 George Orwell 11. Ubik Philip K Dick 12. The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkein 13. The Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Dante 14. Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney The order is arbitrary, any of these could be first. I love them all just in different ways. There are many more, these just come to mind. |
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| Jun 4th, 2003 10:32 AM | ||
| kellychaos |
Re: Favorite books 1. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 2. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein 3. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 4. Look Back, All The Green Valley by Fred Chappell 5. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 6. The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder 7. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut 8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 9. Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 10. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Quote:
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| Jun 4th, 2003 03:31 AM | ||
| Les Waste |
Favorite books 1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 2. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 3. Candide by Voltaire 4. Hamlet by Shakespeare 5. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 6. 1984 by George Orwell 7. King Lear by Shakespeare 8. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9. The Oddyssey / The Illiad 10. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley 11. A Riot of Our Own: Day and Night with the Clash by Johnny Green (  )This is a list of probably my all-time favorite books that I have read so far. I can only pray that nobody else will write any books, as I will never even be able to read all the books I want to read that have already been written. Or, as Harlan Ellison put it: I don't understand what this lemming-like dementia is about constantly having new stuff. When was the last time you read the totality of Steinbeck or Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter or Shirley Jackson? Everybody always wants something new, new, new—and that's what's killing life for writers. This dementia for "new" is ridiculous. Although only Catch-22, The Sound and the Fury, and Candide are in set-in-stone order as my top three. Everything else is just kind of a guess. I left a lot off cause I don't care. EVERYONE should read Candide. I'm interested in everyone else's favorite books. And not just one, a list. Anyone asked which books are their favorites who can't come up with at least five hasn't read enough. |
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