Someone had to do it - List your favourite books

[Shrub_Out]

To start, in no partucular order:

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Messiah - Gore Vidal
Warday - Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann
Exception to the Rulers - Amy Goodman
Blinded by the Right - David Brock
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
The Rights of Women - Olympe de Gouges
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Backlash - Susan Faludi
Slut! - Leora Tanenbaum
Bitch - Edith Wurtzel...to be continued

[zatoichi1]

American Political Traditions by Richard Hofstadter
Radicalization of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood
The Politics of the Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath by Kevin Philps
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Structure of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel
Strip Tease by Carl Hiaason
Sharpe's Eagles by Bernard Cornwell
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
My 60 Most Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
Smylov's 125 Selected Games by Vasily Smyslov
Larsen's Selected Games by Bent Larsen
Chess Traps: Pitfall and Swindles by I.A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld
Hawaii Pono by Lawrence Fuchs
Catch a Wave by Tom Coffman
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Shogun by James Clavell
Hawaii by James Mitchner
Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner

Just to name a few.

[TheBoss(DCA)]

Do comic books count?

The Lord of the rings trilogy
Fooled again by Mark Crispin Miller
Bluesify your Melody by John Gindick
The Life and Death of Superman.
I stand alone by Jesse Ventura
Big George the autobigoraphy of George Foreman
Have a Nice Day the autobiography of Mick Foley
Escaping from the Delta - the Robert Johnson story.

[lil]

anyone interested in a book exchange?

[zatoichi1]

anyone interested in a book exchange?

Sure.

It depends on what you want and what I am willing to give up. But it might be more of a one way deal from my end. I am looking at getting rid of some books.

For me simplifying life is a good thing.:icon_idea:

[Icky]

To start, in no partucular order:

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood...to be continued
Your Top 3 are identical to my Top 3
*Holy Trilogy* if you will.... (incidently, I liked Brave New World Revisited an awful lot!!!)

Been dying for a new good read... glad I finally stumbled across this forum!

[Zemo]

"It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis

Is a good read if you haven't read it yet

[SubstituteTeacher]

The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

[GymGeekAus]

Don't look at me. I play video games.

[Icky]

Oh YEAH! I just remembered another one.

FLATLAND by Abbott

[CD3]

Do comic books count?

The Lord of the rings trilogy
Fooled again by Mark Crispin Miller
Bluesify your Melody by John Gindick
The Life and Death of Superman.
I stand alone by Jesse Ventura
Big George the autobigoraphy of George Foreman
Have a Nice Day the autobiography of Mick Foley
Escaping from the Delta - the Robert Johnson story.

a joke is needed.

[BlueBerry Pick'n]

I'm an author junkie. If my favourite authors write it, I read it.

Scanning a bookshelf from here in the study, I picked a couple of my favourites off a shelf... I've given away all the books that I wouldn't be inclined to re-read... but my *favourites*? :confused0006[1]: that's hard.

But I HAD to share my favourite paragraph...

Fiction, in no particular order:



John Le Carré ([Only registered and activated users can see links]): (The Little Drummer Girl ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) [Only registered and activated users can see links] - the movie sucks)
Kate Elliot ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (Crown of Stars ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) series: the covers are deceptively attractive, yet dorky for the content. Her husband is an archeologist, so she incorporates a lot of modified medieval history, mongol history... brilliant.) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Minette Walters ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
the Nicci French ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) writing team (The Red Room ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), I love the opening paragraph!


Beware of beautiful days. Bad things happen on beautiful days. It may be that when you get happy, you get careless. Beware of having a plan. Your gaze is focused on the plan and that's the moment when things start happening just outside your range of vision" Denise Mina ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (GarnetHill series) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Ian Rankin ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
([Only registered and activated users can see links]) Stephen Erikson ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (Stephen R. Donaldson once wrote of Erikson, "my advice to you? WRITE FASTER! ([Only registered and activated users can see links])") [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Neil ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) Gaiman ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Chuck Palahniuk ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) [Only registered and activated users can see links]
Margaret Atwood ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (although, I've read all her books ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), because she has an amazing vision, but I wouldn't call her a favourite: I find her 'voice' too smug)
Robertson Davies ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (World of Wonder ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) series) [Only registered and activated users can see links]

I'm sure there are others that just don't land in my field of vision... :icon_redface:

[GymGeekAus]

Oh YEAH! I just remembered another one.

FLATLAND by Abbott Oh my, I've read that one!

[FuzzySlippers]

For a novel I'd hafta say "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

[Icky]

Oh my, I've read that one!
Wasn't it cool!?!? Considering it was written in 1884!!!!!

[fairyduster]

Favorite books? Oh my! I don't even know where to begin.

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Angelel's Ashes, Frank McCourt
The Hot Zone (not what you think) Richard Preston




to be continued.........

[Icky]

I'm an author junkie. If my favourite authors write it, I read it...



Done a bit of that as well.. but not nearly as much as you...

Liked Robert A. Heinlein for a while... read just about everything... mighta missed one or two of his very early works...
-Time Enough For Love
-Stranger In A Strange Land
-Citizen of the Galaxy
-Number of the Beast
(But, admittedly, Heinlein got to be rather strange and scarey the longer he went on... )

Like Asimov quite a bit... read a lot of his...
-The Robot Series! SHAZAAM! That was wonderful

Like Arthur C. Clark an awful LOT! Alas, I've only read a handful of his work...
-Songs From Distant Earth was very cool...
-2001 of course...

See? Nowhere near the "completist" you are! :rofl:

[lil]

anything to do with the Magdalene
anything to do with the Templar Knights
anything to do with Politics
anything to do with Tarot, Astrology, Dreams, Remote Viewing and other paranormal things....

[tobyo]

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an excellent little book that I read this year. my first Vonnegut, heh.

[Bird Watcher]

no particular order...The Davinci Code & Angels and Demons - Dan Brown,
Perfectly Legal - David Cay Johnson.

[galilei]

Favorite books? Oh my! I don't even know where to begin.

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Angelel's Ashes, Frank McCourt
The Hot Zone (not what you think) Richard Preston

Baum-chicka baum baum!
Barbara Kingsolver is great. I loved 'High Tide in Tucson'.

My Favs:
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
The Baroque Cycle An amazing trilogy by Neil Stephenson - set in the late seventeenth century.. has Isaac Newton & Gottfried Leibniz as characters, pirates, alchemists, freaky-ass Robert Hooke, imperial age cryptography, etc.
Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut. Also, all other Vonnegut, but this is the best.
Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman.
Burning Chrome William Gibson. (And all other Gibson, but especially 'Hinterlands ([Only registered and activated users can see links])' in Burning Chrome)
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig. Quality.

[Icky]

A short story called "The Puiss of Krrlik" (I think)... can't remember the author... Poop!

The Tao of Pooh ...again, can't remember the Author

AND!!! OF COURSE!!!

Letters From the Earth MARK TWAIN (PLUS: 1.3 metric shitloads of other Twain works! Amazing stuff!)

[galilei]

oooo, Icky!
I loved the Tao of Pooh too! Benjamin Hoff is the author.
I had this cartoon book of the Tao also, called Zhuangzi Speaks that was very interesting.

I've read all kinds of Heinlein as well.. He spans everything from leftish libertarian (like Friday) to full-on fascist (like Starship Troopers), but he tells a good story.

I loved the short story about the girl who gives guided tours of Luna City and flies in the central air circulation chamber for fun. I gave the book away and have been looking for it ever since. For years now. Any idea what that story is called?

[Zemo]

D.T. Suzuki for all things Zen.

Hermann Hesse (Just finished "Rosshalde", not his best), but his "Narcissus and Goldmund" and "Siddhartha" are great.

Jack McLaughlin's "Jefferson and Monticello"

Serge Bramly's "Leonardo"

James Burke's "Connections"

[Icky]

oooo, Icky!
I loved the Tao of Pooh too! Benjamin Hoff is the author.
I had this cartoon book of the Tao also, called Zhuangzi Speaks that was very interesting.

I've read all kinds of Heinlein as well.. He spans everything from leftish libertarian (like Friday) to full-on fascist (like Starship Troopers), but he tells a good story.

I loved the short story about the girl who gives guided tours of Luna City and flies in the central air circulation chamber for fun. I gave the book away and have been looking for it ever since. For years now. Any idea what that story is called?
no... strangely I don't recall that particular story... Hmmm....

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a story all about Luna City... but I don't recall that 'scene' in the book... though it's been 15 years since I read it...

Varoius SciFi Compendiums out there with Shorts from Many writers... I have a couple of those that have Heinlein stories in them... on story is called He Built A Crooked House (or something close to that) Very cool.


I''ll give it some more thought and get back to you...

[Christine]

anything to do with the Magdalene
anything to do with the Templar Knights
anything to do with Politics
anything to do with Tarot, Astrology, Dreams, Remote Viewing and other paranormal things....

Me too! I loved Mysts of Avalon....the whole series...also The Secret Life of Bees. To Kill a Mockingbird, I read as a chid. That stays with me. Arthurian legends...Da Vinci Code..

[lil]

no particular order...The Davinci Code & Angels and Demons - Dan Brown,


These 2 books of Brown's are fantastic. Loved them both and mistakenly went and bought more Dan Brown books and was dissappointed. They all follow a formula and are very predictable (the other books of his). One was ok...Deception Point is worth the read if you want an easy fluff read otherise they are a waste of money. Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a great read for this line of thought.
If you like those and their subject matter you might like books on the Templar Knights and Mary Magdalene. I have several and would be willing to send ya some if you are interested as I have an online book exchange here at DW.

[Icky]

oooo, Icky!
I loved the Tao of Pooh too! Benjamin Hoff is the author.
I had this cartoon book of the Tao also, called Zhuangzi Speaks that was very interesting.

I've read all kinds of Heinlein as well.. He spans everything from leftish libertarian (like Friday) to full-on fascist (like Starship Troopers), but he tells a good story.

I loved the short story about the girl who gives guided tours of Luna City and flies in the central air circulation chamber for fun. I gave the book away and have been looking for it ever since. For years now. Any idea what that story is called?
I think I found it!


Storer-Gulls Wings Recreational aid for lunar colonists; lightweight wings for cave flying.

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This excellent short story is about a 15 year-old school-girl named Holly Jones. Holly was born on the Moon; her hobbies are designing star-ships and flying in a natural cavern called "Bats' Cave", Luna City's air reservoir. Just as people on Earth use water reservoirs for recreation, so the people of Luna use the Bat's Cave for recreational flying, using specially designed bat's wings. Remember, with one-sixth of Earth's gravity, it is much easier to stay aloft. With the right equipment, of course.

They're lovely! - titanalloy struts as light and strong as bird-bones, tension-compensated wrist-pinion and shoulder joints, natural action in the alula slots, and automatic flap action in stalling. The wing skeleton is dressed in styrene feather-foils, with individual quilling of scapulars and primaries. They almost fly themselves. I folded my wings and went into the lock. While it was cycling I opened my left wing and thumbed the alula control -- I had noticed a tendency to sideslip the last time I was airborne. But the alula opened properly and I decided I must have been overcontrolling, easy to do with Storer-Gulls; they're extremely maneuverable. Then the door showed green and I folded the wing and hurried out, while glancing at the barometer. Seventeen pounds -- two more than Earth sea-level and nearly twice what we use in the city; even an ostrich could fly in that. I perked up and felt sorry for all groundhogs, tied down by six times proper weight, who never, never, never could fly. Not even I could, on Earth. My wing loading is less than a pound per square foot, as wings and all I weigh less than twenty pounds. Earthside that would be over a hundred pounds and I could flap forever and never get off the ground.
From The Menace From Earth ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), by Robert Heinlein ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).
Published by Fantasy House in 1957
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But I can find it neither on Amazon, nor Ebay, nor BarnesAndNoble... so... :/

But now you have the Title of the Book & the Title of the Short Story...

Hope that helped!

BTW, I haven't read this at all... I will look for it as well...

[KyndCulture]

Kyndie's fav books of the moment.


All the Harry Potter Books
A prayer for america - Dennis Kucinch
My Life - Bill Clinton
Happiness - The Dalai Lama
America - Jon Stewart
Long Strange Trip - Jerry Garcia's Biography

[galilei]

I think I found it!


But I can find it neither on Amazon, nor Ebay, nor BarnesAndNoble... so... :/

But now you have the Title of the Book & the Title of the Short Story...

Hope that helped!

BTW, I haven't read this at all... I will look for it as well...

Thanks, Icky!! Great indirect research strategy.

I found the book: [Only registered and activated users can see links]

[Kbob]

oooo, Icky!
I loved the Tao of Pooh too! Benjamin Hoff is the author.
I had this cartoon book of the Tao also, called Zhuangzi Speaks that was very interesting.

FYI: Hoff has a companion book to Tao of Pooh titled Te of Piglet.

Fav books: (Bearing in mind that in recent years I've read primarrily children's books and YA novels.)

9 Stories - J.D. Salinger (Probably my all-time favorite)

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me - Roald Dahl
Holes - Louis Sachar
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

and just because...
Paradise Lost - Milton
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift

[Icky]

FYI: Hoff has a companion book to Tao of Pooh titled Te of Piglet.

Fav books: (Bearing in mind that in recent years I've read primarrily children's books and YA novels.)

9 Stories - J.D. Salinger (Probably my all-time favorite)

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me - Roald Dahl
Holes - Louis Sachar
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

and just because...
Paradise Lost - Milton
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
Got The Te of Piglet too... somewhere!!! (I've moved 5 times in the last year and 2 months!!!!) but haven't read it yet...

Thanks for the other suggestions, too...

(BTW, reading MESSIAH - Gore Vidal at the moment per a previous reccomendation... it's most excellent so far!)

[BlueBerry Pick'n]

Quality.


yeah.

:o060:

[BlueBerry Pick'n]

Nowhere near the "completist" you are! :rofl:

:confused0062[1]:

[Icky]

To start, in no partucular order:

1984 - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Messiah - Gore Vidal
Warday - Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann
Exception to the Rulers - Amy Goodman
Blinded by the Right - David Brock
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft
The Rights of Women - Olympe de Gouges
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
Backlash - Susan Faludi
Slut! - Leora Tanenbaum
Bitch - Edith Wurtzel...to be continued
Just finished MESSIAH - Gore Vidal

A good read, thanks for the tip!

[Christine]

The Assault On Reason by Al Gore Incredible!:clapping: