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Old 20-11-2006, 12:30   #1 (permalink)

 
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Question Your Top 10 Reads
Depending on responses, any chance this thread could be made a sticky?

As this forum has been up & running for a few weeks now, what is everybodies' top ten books?

Currently my top ten is:
  1. The Dark Tower (Volumes 1 - 7) by Stephen King
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  3. The Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger
  4. Use Of Weapons by Iain M Banks
  5. Galilee by Clive Barker
  6. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
  7. Enron: Anatomy of Greed -The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
    by Brian Cruver
  8. American Tabloid by James Ellroy
  9. Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
  10. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
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Old 20-11-2006, 12:48   #2 (permalink)

 
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Depending on responses, any chance this thread could be made a sticky?

As this forum has been up & running for a few weeks now, what is everybodies' top ten books?

Currently my top ten is:
  1. The Dark Tower (Volumes 1 - 7) by Stephen King
  2. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  3. The Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger
  4. Use Of Weapons by Iain M Banks
  5. Galilee by Clive Barker
  6. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
  7. Enron: Anatomy of Greed -The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
    by Brian Cruver
  8. American Tabloid by James Ellroy
  9. Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
  10. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
i can't believe you have the doc as your avatar but not one of his books in your top ten reads list.
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Old 20-11-2006, 12:51   #3 (permalink)

 
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i can't believe you have the doc as your avatar but not one of his books in your top ten reads list.
It's a funny old world, isn't it?
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Old 20-11-2006, 15:55   #4 (permalink)

 
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At the moment:

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
3. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
5. Everything William Gibson has ever written (Except the difference engine...ugh)
6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
8. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
9. Battle Royale by Crazy McJapaneseguy
10. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

I cheated a bit. and put one book in twice, but its really really good.
Also, if the bible keeps rocking then i shall probably put that in there somewhere when im done.
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Shite kids I'm not sure about authors or even proper titles for most of these, but in no particular order...

Life of Pi
Colour of Magic - Prachett
Dublineers - Joyce
Catchalot - Alan Dean Foster
Enders game - Orson Scott Card
White gold weilder (something like that anyway - Thomas Covanent series)
Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
the Black Gryphon - Mercedes Lackey
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My first 40 munro's - Muriel Gray


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'The Gormenghast Trilogy' Mervyn Peake
'A Dance to the Music of Time' Anthony Powell
'The Wind in the Willows' Kenneth Grahame
'The Fan Man' William Kotzwinkle
'Guys and Dolls' Damon Runyon
'The Moving Toyshop' Edmund Crispin
'The End of the Affair' Graham Greene
'In Cold Blood' Truman Capote
'Lilith' George MacDonald
'In the Electric mist with Confederate dead' James Lee Burke
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From Hell by Alan Moore
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
England's Dreaming by John Savage
Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Running Man by Richard Bachman
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'Lilith' George MacDonald
Oooh, I found Lilith in the library on saturday and its sitting on my desk waiting to be read.

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From Hell by Alan Moore
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
England's Dreaming by John Savage
Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Running Man by Richard Bachman
Good choice, nice to see someone else who has read a Bukowski book other than Post Office or Factotum. My top ten is:

1. If This Is a Man/The Truce - Primo Levi
2. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
3. Periodic Table - Primo Levi
4. Portait of the Artist As a Young Man - James Joyce
5. Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
6. The Outsider - Albert Camus
7. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
8. Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
9. The Good Soldier Svjek - Jaroslav Hasek
10. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
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1. Don't Pat The Wombat - Elizabeth Honey
2. Fight Club - Chuck Palahuinuik
3. On The Road - Jack Keroauc
4. The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
5. The Sacred Art Of Stealing - Christopher Brookmyre
6. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
7.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
8. Big Sur - Jack Keroauc
9. Filth - Irvine Welsh
10. Fear and Loathing - Hunter S. Thomson

I didn't put mush effort into that list and the more I read it, the more I think of others.
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