Favorite books

[Phase_9]

The Belgariad
The Dresden Files
Codex Alera

I know they are all series, but they are universally well-written, have a little bit of biting sarcasm within them.

 

[Quad08]

Just stuff off the top of my head...

1. Heat Wave

2. A Game of Thrones

3. The Man with the Golden Torc

4. Soon I Will Be Invincible

5. Something From the Nightside

 

[oppp7]

I'd ***** about this being a repeat thread and a low content favorite thread, but we get so few book related threads I don't care anymore.
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Favorite book in my favorite series.
2. Hamlet. I liked it more than the other Shakespeare stories.
3. This one scientific book about Paleontology that was forwarded(I think) by Stephen Jay Gould(I haven't read it for years and never really memorized the name, shut up). I used to love Paleontology, and am still a fan of the Cambrian.

 

[Julianking93]

1. La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] - Dante Alighieri (most epic thing ever. If you're looking to read this, I recommend getting the John Ciardi translation as it retains the poetic form and is very easy to read while staying as literal to the original as possible)

Great epic poem. I've only read The Inferno so far but I have all three.

Read them.

NOW!!

But seriously, it's amazing. Though what is this?

3. Vita Nuova, by Dante Alighieri...a series of love poems and explanations of them and what he was thinking of when he wrote them. That book has changed me personally.

I have never heard of this before. I must look into this further.

Actually, I've never read anything in your list. I'll have to check those out.

My favorite Shakespeare play was The Tempest though

 

[DefunctTheory]

Great epic poem. I've only read The Inferno so far but I have all three.

Inferno is the most exciting and arguably the most interesting (but hey, damnation is almost always more interesting than salvation). All the same, the last two chapters are still intensely interesting.

 

[AwesomeExpress]

Anything by Michael Crichton, Terry Goodkind, Chuck Palahniuk, Alexandre Dumas, Patrick O'Brian, Robert E. Howard, Robert Jordan, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Wharton, or Bill Watterson.

 

[Slaanax]

Illusion by Paula Volsky is my favorite

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds he writes some pretty cool science fiction books

Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier its a Warhammer 40k Novel about a Chaos Space Marine.

 

[photog212]

Moveable Feast-Ernest Hemingway (Hell anything by Hemingway)
Down and Out in London and Paris-George Orwell (Again anything by Orwell)
Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk
Great Gatsby-Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Sonofadiddly]

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Awesome apocalyptic comedy weirdness, as one would expect from those 2 authors

I loved that book. The four horsemen were hilarious.

Also:

Weaveworld by Clive Barker

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Catcher in the Rye

Ender's Game

Fuckin' A

Seriously, two of the best books ever written.

 

[Valgee]

...In other words, what are your favorite books/short stories/novellas/poems?...

At first I thought it said porn. . .

1. Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand

2.The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes- Arthur Conan Doyle

3.Watchmen- Alan Moore

 

[Zani]

A Danish book, "En, to, tre, NU!" Literally "One, two, three, NOW!".

And that's about it, I don't read much.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Ender's Game, EndWar, any Harry Potter book(It's a good series! **** off!), and ive read so many I cant even begin to go through my personal library...

 

[Isalan]

1. Literally any book in the Discwolrd series by Terry Pratchett. Personal faves are The Truth and Feet of Clay, but they're all good.

2. Boy by Roald Dahl. His autobiography, a book I still go back and read from time to time.

3. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. Sex, Drugs and Murder set in Toytown. Very weird, but hilarious and possibly mankinds most awesome book title yet.

 

[LivingInStereo]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
are my favorite books.

 

[jake09050]

Umm...
Fight Club-Awesome Book
The Outsiders-Really good if not short
Rumble Fish-See above

 

[smudgey]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest, and anything written by Roald Dahl. His books somehow appealed to kids but were really creepy at the same time.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Mine are more book Series than single books:

1) Pendragon
2) Alex Rider (Before Crocodile Tears)
4) Artemis Fowl

 

[Spaghetti]

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy's Trilogy of Six by Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer

2. 1984 by George Orwell

3. The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. (I can't pick just one!)

4. The Benn Diaries 1940-1990 by Tony Benn

5. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner

6. Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence inside MI5 and MI6 by Gordon Thomas

I could go on, but I think I'll cut it short there

 

[bassdrum]

There are a few Chuck Palahniuk novels I could choose (he's the guy who wrote Fight Club... yes, it's a book... yes, it's good... yes, you should go read it right now), in particular Choke, Invisible Monsters, and Rant. They're all wonderfully fucked up and amusing.

Also, Tom Clancy books are amusing to read, in particular The Hunt for Red October. And Atlas Shrugged is worth reading, particularly if you played/plan to play BioShock.