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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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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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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

Silverthorn -

My first 40 munro's - Muriel Gray

pete

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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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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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Oooh, I found Lilith in the library on saturday and its sitting on my desk waiting to be read.

what's it like?

pete

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I found it very absorbing....I had it lying about (possibly for years!), as I'd read his children's fantasies, 'The Princess & the Goblin' and 'The Princess & Curdie', and not been amazed by them, but when I finally started on Lilith I enjoyed it a lot.

(without giving away too much...you'll find a bit very reminiscent to an idea in 'Dune'!!)

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Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

1984 - George Orwell

The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus - P.G. Wodehouse

Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

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We are including comics/graphic fiction yeah? Actually, I'll do two lists, one for prose, one for comics:

Comics

Preacher - Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon

Watchmen - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons

X-Men: From The Ashes - Chris Claremont/Various

Give Me Liberty - Frank Miller/Dave Gibbons

Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis/Darick Robertson

V For Vendetta - Alan Moore/Dave Lloyd

X Men: Days of Future Past - Chris Claremont/Various

Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller

Sin City - Frank Miller

The Crow - James O'Barr

Prose

The Game - Neil Straus

The Dirt - Neil Straus/Motley Crue

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Post Office - Charles Buckowski (HAVE read other Buckowski stuff, just liked this one better)

HP Lovecraft short stories

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S Thompson

Espedair Street - Iain Banks

Please Kill Me - Legs McNeil/Gillian Mcaan

Last Command - Timothy Zahn

Fight Club - Chuck Palahuinuk

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1. We- Yevgeny Zamyatin

2. Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut

3. James Dean is not Dead- Morrissey

4. The Trick is to Keep Breathing- Janice Galloway

5. The Acid House- Irvine Welsh

6. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James

7. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury

8. Blood- Janice Galloway

9. Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh

10. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

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1. j.d salinger - catcher in the rye

2. alan warner - the sopranos

3. chuck palahnuick - invisible monsters

4. ian banks - espedair street

5. ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451

6. haruki murakami - norwegian wood

7. william golding - the lord of the flies

8. jeanette winterson - written on the body

9. hunter s. thompson - hells angels

10. jeffrey eugenides - the virgin suicides

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Um, I generally forget books once I read them since I'm such a dumbass, plus I haven't really read that much good books, mostly just trashy horror, but here's a few that stuck:

1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

2 - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

3 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

4 - Fred & Rose (the story of the gloucester house of horrors) - not sure of author

5 - The Lovely Bones (a bit teenage girlie, but good) - Alice Sebold.

6 - IT - Stephen King

7 - Michael Jackson - J. Randy Tarobarelli (a fascinating insight)

8 - Glue - Irvine Welsh

9 - King of the World - David Remnick (about Muhammed Ali)

10 - Mirror - Graham Masterton (which just edges out The Heirloom, The House That Jack Built, Ritual, Plague, and virtually every other Masterton book I've read - he produces some truly gruesome horror that makes you want to curl up in a ball and wish the words out of your head)

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It's funny how some peoples favourites are my most hated books.

To name a couple,

Gormenghast. I hated this book. (I now think of it as Gormenghastly!) Read 'The Quincunx' by Charles Pallister instead.

Don Quixote. I failed to see the humor intended by the author. (It was meant as a comedy after all.) Voltaire's "Candide" is shorter and gets the message across a lot better.

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