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Post by LadyRebels on Mar 19, 2004 2:01:44 GMT -5
So I thought that I would create one?
So what books do you like?
A few of mine are......
Jennifer Government Crime and Punishment Gone with the Wind War and Peace Charlott's Web Anne Rice Books Stephen King Novels, just not Gerald's Game Dean Kootnz, The Watchers espically. Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre
There are a lot more, but time for some others to have a say on the matter ;D
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Post by Tar A on Mar 19, 2004 2:21:19 GMT -5
*chokes on the water she's drinking*
Crime and Punishment?!
*shudders* Oooooooh the torture that reading that book was... I absolutely detested it. No long, hard to read, pointless Russian novels for me, thank you.
Otherwise, I agree with everything on your list (I'm not to into horror, but I don't mind it every now and then). I (obviously) love Tolkien and some of his books are at the top of my list. I like most fantasies, Ann McCaffrey is also near the top. I've always had a thing for mysteries and have read every Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers I can get my hands on, as well as other assorted authors.
I recently got JG and it rocks, I can't wait to get a chance to get Syrup now 8)
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Post by Warrior Thorin on Mar 19, 2004 9:46:31 GMT -5
I loved Crime and Puishment too, as well as the Tolkien books (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings).
I'm reading The Devil in the White City right now and it is very interesting.
Most of my reading the last few years has been more academic then pleasure. I spent the summer working through a statistics book and had fun with that...geez, what is wrong with me???
Maybe I need another shot on the neck from LadyRebel's gun...
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Post by Abysseria on Mar 19, 2004 11:43:13 GMT -5
Let's see....the problem for me with this list, is that it is always colored by books I've read recently.
From my childhood/adolescence (and I will still read these today) Chronicles of Narnia Tolkein Anything by David Eddings Stephen King
Adulthood Confederates in the Attic Les Miserables Crime and Punishment (not just jumping on the bandwagon) Cold Mountain The Screwtape Letters
Recent Reads The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at home and Abroad Fom Good to Great: What good companies do to succeed The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran DaVinci Code (it's FICTION folks, remember that)
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Post by Sir Paul on Mar 19, 2004 14:54:14 GMT -5
I'm pretentous enough to read Dostoyovski. I just finished the Brothers Karomatzav (warning, my russian spelling is terrible). Syrup was a fun read, and I liked it.
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Post by Lactating Nuns on Mar 19, 2004 15:07:23 GMT -5
I love Kurt Vonnegut, anything by Tom Robbins (though his last one was pretty weak by comparison to the rest of his stuff), Robert Anton Wilson. (The late) Alan Watts is really interesting (he's an East/West philosophy guy). I like John Irving books a lot. Like Aby said, I'm colored by things I've read recently, but there you have it.
I love the Harry Potter books. Like crack, they are.
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Post by Black Adder on Mar 19, 2004 15:13:41 GMT -5
Tar, Russian Lit is wonderful. No one can feel pain and describe it so well like a Russian.
Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy all wonderful writers. The British set of Hardy, Lawrence (TE and DH), Wilde, Tennyson et al.
Yeats wrote incredible Poetry, I re read it all the time. Whitman wrote beautiful rhyme as well.
CS Lewis' fiction and his essay material is fantastic, Orwell much the same.
Probably be easier to say who I don't like Koontz, Saul, Collins all shiite of the highest order. Pulp fiction with little redeeming worth. Stephen King is way overrated. Don't even get me started about JK Rowling, great read for children but then so is Thomas the Tank engine.....
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Post by Jennivier on Mar 19, 2004 15:39:05 GMT -5
I like both the books by Max Barry, Stephen King(Pet Cemetary, Bag of Bones), and Hanibal. I don't read much, as you can see, but I've started reading a lot more, now that I'm finding books that I like.
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Post by Brezhnev on Mar 19, 2004 18:15:22 GMT -5
Edit: This isn't organized at all and it's mostly rambling, so I hope you can understand me . I just finished reading Tom Clancy's Debt of Honorand now I'm reading Executive Orders(1300 pages!). I liked The Hobbit, so I read Lord of the Rings. The first time through I didn't understand it at all. After I read it again it, it was pretty good. Most of the stories in The Silmarillionwere pretty good and the overall history was interesting. I read The Chronicles of Narniawhen I was little. I read them again a little while ago and they sounded a lot different, but even better (and they were good to start out with). I also read Animal Farmwhen I was little and I thought it was just weird, or maybe just stupid. That was probably because I was expecting something like Charlotte's Web, which was my favorite book back then. I liked Trumpet of the Swan too. Before fourth grade I liked Curious George.
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Post by LadyRebels on Mar 20, 2004 0:01:22 GMT -5
Glad to see others interets here as well...... Shogun (people said it would take four weeks to read it, I did it in one) Anne of Green Gables HP series books by Mary Higgins Clark As to not liking some authors, well what can I say, to each their own ;D I am mostly reading my text books these days, but every now and again, I just have to read something more..... and a shot on the neck....I can so do that Thorin as long as I get to lick it off again ;D
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Post by Mammothistan on Mar 20, 2004 0:22:18 GMT -5
Naturally, the works of Marx and Engles.
Dostoevsky. I have a little green book of three short novels written by him. One was "Notes from the Underground", about a man's views on human nature and man's hope for Utopia in the form of a journal; the second half presents the writer of the journal and tells the story of a prostitute who loves him but whom he drives away. "The Double" is about a man who sees his dobbleganger. "The Eternal Husband" is about a betrayed husband and his "slow, subtle, painful revenge upon his wife's former lover."
War and Peace.
Peter the Great: His Life and World. A tyrannical tsar but a symbol of what was later Soviet might. He was so honored by the Soviet people to have the city built by him renamed Leningrad.
Gone with the Wind.
All good works of proper literature, comrade. With the exception of GWtW.
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Post by Tar A on Mar 20, 2004 1:05:01 GMT -5
All right, call me uncultered or whatever, I don't care, I hate Crime and Punishment and refuse to touch any more Russian lit. Edit: not refuse to touch so much as have a bias against it.
I also disliked The Communist Manifesto and The Condition of the Working Class when we had to read them for history.
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Post by Sir Paul on Mar 20, 2004 1:07:25 GMT -5
More of a John Locke person, Tar A?
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Post by Tar A on Mar 20, 2004 1:22:37 GMT -5
I don't mind him... I prefer him over Marx or Descartes...
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Post by Ceaser on Mar 20, 2004 9:33:42 GMT -5
Murder 1 was a good book, you'll have to read it to know why.
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