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« Reply #30 on: September 19, 2006, 07:33:28 PM »
Oops, I thought it was just favorite books.


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« Reply #31 on: September 19, 2006, 07:38:28 PM »
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No one likes Clancy?  Damn.

1.  Rainbow Six - Clancy
2.  Without Remorse - Clancy
3.  Clear and Present Danger - Clancy
4.  Flight of the Intruder - Coonts
5.  Hunt for Red October - Clancy
6.  A Brief History of Time - Hawking
7.  The Elegant Universe - Greene
8.  Into the Storm - Clancy and Gen. Franks
9.  Prey - Crichton
10. The Andrometa Strain - Crichton

Least favorite:  I am not a fan of the classics, so: anything I was forced to read in high school or undergrad english.  With the exception of Animal Farm as that one was pretty good.


Hmm, Clancy is good, but his books all follow the same basic formula.  Oh and your number ten book is like #11 for me, great book
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« Reply #32 on: September 19, 2006, 07:44:15 PM »
Sorry, I didn't think I'd have enough favourites to make a list, but they're coming to me as I'm reading yours!

Was All Quiet on the Western Front Fiction? That was a fantastic book. WWI sucked big time.

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« Reply #33 on: September 19, 2006, 07:49:51 PM »
Andromeda Strain wasn't bad.  Michael Crichton is a great author overall.  Sometime this semester I need to finally read State of Fear.
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« Reply #34 on: September 19, 2006, 07:53:34 PM »
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Andromeda Strain wasn't bad.  Michael Crichton is a great author overall.  Sometime this semester I need to finally read State of Fear.

Prey is another great book of his.


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« Reply #35 on: September 19, 2006, 08:34:18 PM »
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Andromeda Strain wasn't bad.  Michael Crichton is a great author overall.  Sometime this semester I need to finally read State of Fear.


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« Reply #36 on: September 19, 2006, 08:36:26 PM »
ive read a few of the books in this topic... quite decent. but i got hooked on spy books for a few years... awaiting the alex rider movie
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« Reply #37 on: September 19, 2006, 09:06:20 PM »
1. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
2. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
3. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov

The other 7 are immateriel.

... although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" is on there somewhere.
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« Reply #38 on: September 19, 2006, 09:18:52 PM »
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3. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov


Nice.  My roommate is reading that right now.
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« Reply #39 on: September 19, 2006, 09:23:42 PM »
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6. The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

Does this have anything to do with your love of Blind Guardian, dysfunction?

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« Reply #40 on: September 19, 2006, 09:47:01 PM »
Oops  :oops:

I too, thought it was just favourite books....

Bah...

some more:

Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Bismarck - cant remember author

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Lord of the Flies - William Golding


My (nonexistent) God, I hated that book.


sif, classic litearture....




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No one likes Clancy? Damn.

1. Rainbow Six - Clancy
2. Without Remorse - Clancy
3. Clear and Present Danger - Clancy
4. Flight of the Intruder - Coonts
5. Hunt for Red October - Clancy
6. A Brief History of Time - Hawking
7. The Elegant Universe - Greene
8. Into the Storm - Clancy and Gen. Franks
9. Prey - Crichton
10. The Andrometa Strain - Crichton

Least favorite: I am not a fan of the classics, so: anything I was forced to read in high school or undergrad english. With the exception of Animal Farm as that one was pretty good.


sorry, but Clancy is poor attempt at an author, i too can write about Jack Ryan and his wonderful life.....


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Like...O M G ! ! ! He is, like, totally using the gun as like some kind of sexual weapon. O M G ! ! That is like, totally awesome! ! !

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« Reply #41 on: September 19, 2006, 09:57:44 PM »
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee


Truman Capote was the actual author of this book famously attributed to Harper Lee.  Nah, I don't really know that but I read somewhere that it's actually a belief of some people.
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« Reply #42 on: September 19, 2006, 10:04:14 PM »
No one knows Les Norton? Or cares about Wilbur Smith? :oops:  :cry:

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« Reply #43 on: September 19, 2006, 10:05:23 PM »
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifffff

a timeless classic like that would've been proved to be plagurised

Like...O M G ! ! ! He is, like, totally using the gun as like some kind of sexual weapon. O M G ! ! That is like, totally awesome! ! !

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« Reply #44 on: September 19, 2006, 10:22:45 PM »
I can't come up with 10 but i can list a few off the top of my head.

1. A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin
2. The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
3. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
4. LOTR series - J. R. R. Tolkien (greatly influenced by my love of Blind Guardian)

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« Reply #45 on: September 19, 2006, 10:31:57 PM »
I never read any of those Les Norton books, But don't mind Wilbur, hes alright.

Most of the stuff taht I read is Non Fiction though, as you can probably tell. Lotsa war history, biographies and stuff like taht

Like...O M G ! ! ! He is, like, totally using the gun as like some kind of sexual weapon. O M G ! ! That is like, totally awesome! ! !

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« Reply #46 on: September 20, 2006, 06:45:33 AM »
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee


Truman Capote was the actual author of this book famously attributed to Harper Lee.  Nah, I don't really know that but I read somewhere that it's actually a belief of some people.


Yes I find that harder to believe than anything else I've read on this forum.  Source?

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« Reply #47 on: September 20, 2006, 02:30:31 PM »
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good but kinda useless as a philosophy.  Much better by Richard Bach is Jonathan Livingston Seagull.


I loved J.L.S. I forgot to recommend that too - it's short and deceptively simple looking but it's a wonderful book.
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« Reply #48 on: September 20, 2006, 03:43:01 PM »
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Yes I find that harder to believe than anything else I've read on this forum. Source?


Well, I did say that I didn't know if it was true and that it was something I read that people actually believe.  What's there to prove with a source?  That some people actually believe it?  Okay...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird#Literary_significance_.26_criticism

Believe it.  Or don't.
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« Reply #49 on: October 05, 2006, 05:41:23 PM »
kinda old topic but anyways
I just finished John Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
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Amazing book.
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« Reply #50 on: October 05, 2006, 09:00:22 PM »
Hmmm.  A top ten fiction books, hey?


Alright. Off the top of my head...

1. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
2. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
3. A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K Dick
4. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5. The Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
6. There's a Hippopotomus on our roof eating cake - Hazel Edwards
7. Jingo - Terry Pratchett
8. Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
9. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik
10. The Holy Bible

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« Reply #51 on: October 05, 2006, 09:13:59 PM »
In no particular order...

Tomorrow, When The War Began (series) - John Marsden
L.O.T.R - J.R.R Tolkien
The Silmariliian - J.R.R Tolkien
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratcher
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
Artemis Fowl (series) - Eoin Colfer
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« Reply #52 on: October 05, 2006, 09:29:51 PM »
[list=1]
  • Radiant - James Alan Gardner
  • Expendable - James Alan Gardner
  • Hard Sell - Piers Anthony
  • Ascending - James Alan Gardner
  • On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
  • Hunted - James Alan Gardner
  • Bearing an Hourglass - Piers Anthony
  • Trapped - James Alan Gardner
  • Wielding a Red Sword - Piers Anthony
  • For Love of Evil - Piers Anthony
    [/list:o]

    Yeah, those are pretty much the only two authors I read, frankly.  I love sci-fi, but most of it is way too stale--but these two authors write so simply, yet convey so many amazing worlds.  If anyone has any similar suggestions, I certainly wouldn't mind checking them out.  I definitely recommend both of these authors to anyone who likes reading.
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« Reply #53 on: October 06, 2006, 09:30:07 AM »
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee


Truman Capote was the actual author of this book famously attributed to Harper Lee.  Nah, I don't really know that but I read somewhere that it's actually a belief of some people.


actually, when harper lee won the politzer prize for ''to kill a mockingbird'', truman capote denied all alogations of himself having to do with bieng the actual author.

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« Reply #54 on: October 06, 2006, 09:31:31 AM »
Another book that I really like is Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy.

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« Reply #55 on: October 06, 2006, 09:31:56 AM »
i dont know about anybody else, but i love the dan brown books, especially ''angels and demons''

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« Reply #56 on: October 06, 2006, 10:54:26 AM »
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i dont know about anybody else, but i love the dan brown books, especially ''angels and demons''


Dan Brown is good at suspense.
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« Reply #57 on: October 09, 2006, 05:37:00 AM »
But horrible at writing and at fact.  I find it an interesting question as to if that is actually an issue or not.  His books are full of grammatical errors and I hate the way he claims that his books are based on any kind of factual evidence when it's clearly not the case.  That said, he is very good at getting people at reading - and I think that's very important and obviously a very large amount of people enjoy his books; which is also a very good thing; so I don't know if overall he is good or bad, just that I personally find it impossible to read his work.

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« Reply #58 on: October 09, 2006, 07:18:33 AM »
He writes good suspense and has interesting, well-thought-out plot twists/devices, but his characters are exceedingly shallow and much of the plot is formulaic.
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« Reply #59 on: October 09, 2006, 11:02:11 AM »
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He writes good suspense and has interesting, well-thought-out plot twists/devices, but his characters are exceedingly shallow and much of the plot is formulaic.


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