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5 Favourite Books

1) A Confederacy Of Dunces (Toole)
2) Jailbird (Vonnegut)
3) Suttree (McCarthy)
4) Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
5) Red Rabbit (Clancy)
 
Originally posted by savage_henry

Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Stand - Stephen King
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Stephen King knows his Richard Adams, incidentally - you'll note Stu Redman using the word "tharn" in The Stand, and I believe another SK book has a bear called Shardik.

Anyway, my five for today (like many people, they change a lot from day to day, except for the first). I'll stick to fiction this time:

1) Watership Down (Richard Adams) (well, what did you expect...?)

2) The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
3) Mort (Terry Pratchett)
4) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
5) The Chrysalids (John Wyndham)

Cheers,
David.
 
My five favourite books

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
2. The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsyth
3. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
4. Nice Work- David Lodge
5. Widow for a Year - John Irving

Hope it is OK to put two books by the same author in your top 5.
 
hmmm...

Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Remains of the Day-Kazuo Ishiguro
The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby-F.Scott Fitzgerald
Charlie and the Chcolate Factory-Roald Dahl

This is hard...
 
Running Blind - Desmond Bagley (a modern take on Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard story?)
Reflex - Dick Francis
Take Back Plenty - Colin Greenland
Expecting Someone Taller - Tom Holt
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

No great classics there...
 
In no particular order:

On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The "Loop" Trilogy - Chuck Rosenthal
Victory - Joseph Conrad
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
The Nero Wolfe canon - Rex Stout
 
My favorites are

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott card

Icarus Hunt By Timothy Zahn

The Lord Of The Ring Series by J.R.R Tolkien

Net Force by Tom Clancy:)

:rolleyes:
 
My top 3 books came pretty quickly, but I'll have to think a bit longer for the last 2....
1. Captin Corelli's Mandarin...Louis de Bernieres
2. The Blind Assassian...Margaret Attwood
3. The Fire on the Snow... can't remember the author of this factual play I read at school
4.Brave New World...Aldous Huxley
5.Between Males...Fiona Walker...a bit trashy, but oh boy did I love it:D
 
in no particular order apart from no. 1

1) london fields - martin amis
2) all quiet on the orient express - magnus mills
3) a prayer for owen meany - john irving
4) underworld - don delillo
5) our man in havana- graham greene
 
It's tough to pick just 5, but I'll try....

The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice
The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
Possession, by A.S. Byatt
 
Kyptonite, is that the Steve Erikson, by any chance, who wrote Days Between Stations and Rubicon Beach?
 
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut
The Bell Jar - Plath
Collected Short Stories - Greene
Catch-22 - Heller
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
 
1 Herbert's Dune Cycle
2 Herbert's Dosadi Cycle
3 Le Carre's The Russia House
4 Perez-Reverte Club Dumas
5 Perez-Reverte La Tabla de Flandes
6 Perez-Reverte La carta esferica
7 Bradbury's To the Hermitage
8 del Castillo Mort d'un Poete
9 Cervantes Don Quijote
10 Eco The Name of the Rose
11 Eco Foucault's Pendulum
12 Clancy The Hunt for Red October
etc
The numbering means nothing, nitchevo, nada... :)


Morry ;)
 
I haven't read a great deal of books, I only started to read books a couple of years ago, so this list will probably change over time.

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
The Testament - John Grisham
Jurrasic Park - Michael Critchon
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Popcorn - Ben Elton
 
Originally posted by Morry
Hiyah,

did not know there was a book for Fight Club. how's the thingy?

M
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Hi,

The author Chuck Palahniuk writes with minimilism (sp:confused: ). There is not much discription in his prose. His books are short, many of his books started out as short stories.

His books are dark, but have a sense of humour.

The film is a good adaptation of the book, although the book has a different ending.



:cool:
 
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