SteveCrisis Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 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:The Dark Tower (Volumes 1 - 7) by Stephen KingTo Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Catcher In The Rye by J D SalingerUse Of Weapons by Iain M Banks Galilee by Clive BarkerThe Crow Road by Iain BanksEnron: Anatomy of Greed -The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider by Brian CruverAmerican Tabloid by James EllroyBerlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony BeevorThe Alienist by Caleb Carr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeromiserY Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 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:The Dark Tower (Volumes 1 - 7) by Stephen KingTo Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Catcher In The Rye by J D SalingerUse Of Weapons by Iain M Banks Galilee by Clive BarkerThe Crow Road by Iain BanksEnron: Anatomy of Greed -The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider by Brian CruverAmerican Tabloid by James EllroyBerlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony BeevorThe Alienist by Caleb Carri can't believe you have the doc as your avatar but not one of his books in your top ten reads list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted November 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 At the moment:1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes2. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes3. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson5. Everything William Gibson has ever written (Except the difference engine...ugh)6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens8. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson9. Battle Royale by Crazy McJapaneseguy10. The Dice Man by Luke RhinehartI 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Shite kids I'm not sure about authors or even proper titles for most of these, but in no particular order...Life of PiColour of Magic - PrachettDublineers - JoyceCatchalot - Alan Dean FosterEnders game - Orson Scott CardWhite gold weilder (something like that anyway - Thomas Covanent series)Notes from a small island - Bill Brysonthe Black Gryphon - Mercedes LackeySilverthorn - My first 40 munro's - Muriel Graypeteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 '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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 From Hell by Alan MooreTrainspotting by Irvine WelshEngland's Dreaming by John SavageGreen River Rising by Tim WillocksHam On Rye by Charles BukowskiThe Sopranos by Alan WarnerAnd The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick CaveThe Dark Knight Returns by Frank MillerRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Running Man by Richard Bachman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 'Lilith' George MacDonaldOooh, I found Lilith in the library on saturday and its sitting on my desk waiting to be read.what's it like?peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 From Hell by Alan MooreTrainspotting by Irvine WelshEngland's Dreaming by John SavageGreen River Rising by Tim WillocksHam On Rye by Charles BukowskiThe Sopranos by Alan WarnerAnd The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick CaveThe Dark Knight Returns by Frank MillerRed Dragon by Thomas HarrisThe Running Man by Richard BachmanGood 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 Levi2. Lanark - Alasdair Gray3. Periodic Table - Primo Levi4. Portait of the Artist As a Young Man - James Joyce5. Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway6. The Outsider - Albert Camus7. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg8. Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard9. The Good Soldier Svjek - Jaroslav Hasek10. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Pel Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 1. Don't Pat The Wombat - Elizabeth Honey2. Fight Club - Chuck Palahuinuik3. On The Road - Jack Keroauc4. The Acid House - Irvine Welsh5. The Sacred Art Of Stealing - Christopher Brookmyre6. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs7.A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess8. Big Sur - Jack Keroauc9. Filth - Irvine Welsh10. Fear and Loathing - Hunter S. ThomsonI didn't put mush effort into that list and the more I read it, the more I think of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Silverthorn - Raymond E Feist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Raymond E Feist?that's the fella. its more the whole series rather than one book.peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Oooh, I found Lilith in the library on saturday and its sitting on my desk waiting to be read.what's it like?peteinthehillsI 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'!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 Catch 22 - Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut1984 - George OrwellThe Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar WildeThe Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera100 years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia MarquezCrime and Punishment - Fyodor DostoyevskyJeeves and Wooster Omnibus - P.G. WodehouseMother Night - Kurt VonnegutBreakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 We are including comics/graphic fiction yeah? Actually, I'll do two lists, one for prose, one for comics:ComicsPreacher - Garth Ennis/Steve DillonWatchmen - Alan Moore/Dave GibbonsX-Men: From The Ashes - Chris Claremont/VariousGive Me Liberty - Frank Miller/Dave GibbonsTransmetropolitan - Warren Ellis/Darick RobertsonV For Vendetta - Alan Moore/Dave LloydX Men: Days of Future Past - Chris Claremont/VariousDark Knight Returns - Frank MillerSin City - Frank MillerThe Crow - James O'BarrProseThe Game - Neil StrausThe Dirt - Neil Straus/Motley CrueOn The Road - Jack KerouacPost Office - Charles Buckowski (HAVE read other Buckowski stuff, just liked this one better)HP Lovecraft short storiesFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Hunter S ThompsonEspedair Street - Iain BanksPlease Kill Me - Legs McNeil/Gillian McaanLast Command - Timothy ZahnFight Club - Chuck Palahuinuk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porter Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 1. We- Yevgeny Zamyatin2. Cat's Cradle- Kurt Vonnegut3. James Dean is not Dead- Morrissey4. The Trick is to Keep Breathing- Janice Galloway5. The Acid House- Irvine Welsh6. The Turn of the Screw- Henry James7. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury8. Blood- Janice Galloway9. Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh10. Brave New World- Aldous Huxleyxxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 that's the fella. its more the whole series rather than one book.peteinthehillsI did wonder why you singled that one out. I would have chosen magician or something from the serpentwar saga personally. Awesome series of books though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 A Confederacy of Dunces should really have been in my list too...and Fahrenheit 451 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 1. j.d salinger - catcher in the rye2. alan warner - the sopranos3. chuck palahnuick - invisible monsters4. ian banks - espedair street5. ray bradbury - fahrenheit 4516. haruki murakami - norwegian wood7. william golding - the lord of the flies8. jeanette winterson - written on the body9. hunter s. thompson - hells angels10. jeffrey eugenides - the virgin suicides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugitive Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 I did wonder why you singled that one out. I would have chosen magician or something from the serpentwar saga personally. Awesome series of books though.Agreed , I've read them all a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 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 Steinbeck2 - To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee3 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis4 - Fred & Rose (the story of the gloucester house of horrors) - not sure of author5 - The Lovely Bones (a bit teenage girlie, but good) - Alice Sebold.6 - IT - Stephen King7 - Michael Jackson - J. Randy Tarobarelli (a fascinating insight)8 - Glue - Irvine Welsh9 - 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Don Quixote. I failed to see the humor intended by the author. (It was meant as a comedy after all.)Which version were you reading? As I understand it the older translations are not nearly as good as the one I read, which was a new translation.I read this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Which version were you reading? As I understand it the older translations are not nearly as good as the one I read, which was a new translation.I read this one.I read this one. I'm sure there can't be much of a difference.Amazon.co.uk: Don Quixote (Penguin Classics): Books: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra,John Rutherford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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