Favorite/Must Read Books

[dopey]

So we had a thread for what your reading now and a must see movie thread. So now I present the book thread. Ill start with something simple. To Kill a Mockingbird

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

Foucault's Pendulum
Stranger in a Strange Land (read the unabridged version. it's much better)
Vurt
The Man in the High Castle
Watchmen (It's on the Time Magazine list of 100 best novels of the 20th century, so I figure it qualifies)
Neuromancer
A Scanner Darkly
A Study in Scarlet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Danny the Champion of the World
The Phantom Tollbooth
Dracula
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

There's more ... oh goodness there's more. Can you tell that I would like to be a writer instead of a trainer?

 

[Moose]

[link=http://www.shelfari.com/o1518232679/shelf]I like to read.[/link]

 

[Nemo]

I don't like to read. But I like Count of Monte Cristo, Godfather, and Splinter Cell books

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

I like to read too, but there's so many books I've not put on there. Heck, I've been reading for 31 years ... that's a lot of stuff.

 

[Moose]

Well, I may have omitted the stuff I was required to read in school, simply because I don't like being MADE to do something; but basically almost everything I've read recreationally should be in there. I'm adding Stephen R. Lawhead, too.

 

[Monkeybits]

David Eddings: The Belgariad and the Mallorean
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (if you read any fantasy, this started it all)
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
W. Cleon Skousen: The Five Thousand Year Leap (U.S. Political theory, not fiction)
Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern (any/all)
Isaac Asimov (short stories--novels are okay, but he's a short story writer: Nightfall, Bicentennial Man)

There are lots, lots more, but that's off the top of my head at work.

 

[JohnnyOnTheSpot]

Oops, double clicked, real entry is below.

 

[JohnnyOnTheSpot]

Last Exit to Brookly by Hubert Selby Jr. (Same author as Requiem for a dream)

Recently read the Kite Runner and it was an amazing book. Am waiting to watch the movie until my fiancee finishes the novel.

Anything by Jorge Luis Borges, but esp. Ficciones.

And, finally one of my all-time romantic favs, The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.

I have a thing for international writers, esp. of Spanish/Latin origins. Coelho is a portugese writer but seems to be heavily influenced by the Spanish culture.

 

[Glitch]

I used to read for hours a day when I was in school, but I got burned out on anything academic and the only thing I've read in 4 years is Harry Potter.

 

[Monkeybits]

Jorge Luis Borges, really? Wow. After El jardin de los Senderos que se Bifurcan I was pretty much burned out on his work. Maybe it's because while I was fluent at the time, I wasn't a native speaker.

 

[dopey]

I like A Song of Ice and Fire and I currently am finishing up Phillip Pullman's [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials]His Dark Material[/link] with book three, which is based on the poem [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost]Paradise Lost[/link].
I'd also recommend any Weis and Hickman [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels]Dragonlance novels[/link].

 

[VoiDeD]

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Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
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Loved that book.
The sequels were great too. I enjoyed Speaker for the Dead, and I'm still planning on reading the others.

 

[-nocturne=-]

Besides this and that, and all the classics, bla bla bla...

I really enjoy Christopher Moore's books, as they are really off-beat, but incredibly entertaining.

Philip Jose Farmer has some great sci-fi type series, like Riverworld and Dayworld, but some might want to be careful not to pick up one of his 'pornographic' novels.

I also particularly like Carlos Castaneda's books, which follows the life of a researcher that meets a wise man in the southwest deserts of North America. The man is taken on as an apprentice, and learns the ancient wisdoms of life. It's a truly strange series that always makes you wonder if it is real or not. The author even claimed that he found the original story in a diary, and translated it from arabic. From what I understand, Castaneda even gathered a sort of a 'cult' around him over his writings...

Another great read is 'Steppenwolf' by Herman Hesse. Written as a sort of self portrait during his own rough times, this Hesse novel outlines the struggles of a man with his thoughts of existentialism and contemplations of suicide. Not a bad movie, either.