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Authors/Books - Grandpa Gohan - 02-10-2007
While I don't really read for fun anymore, there are some books that I enjoy that I have to read for class, currently, its The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I was only assigned to pages 70 something, and now I'm past 220 something. I'm never really emotional with books, but this book has had me on the verge of crying many times.
Before that was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I really enjoyed this a lot, a great story and an amazing read. Real page turner with many twists and turns and ups and downs, funny and on the sad side a little too.
I also like Brian Jacques Redwall Series. Great fantasy stories. Little woodland creatures becoming bigger than life characters. Salamandastron is probably my favorite, though I have to catch up with his more recent books(He releases a good sized book every year.. so I have A LOT of catching up to do XD)
I was never really into reading The Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter, though I have to admit to owning the 3rd (when he blows up his aunt, that shit was hilarious) and 4th book.
I just wish I was 1/10 as talented as the authors I've listed, I read their books and hope to high heaven that some of their techniques show through in my work, though I highly doubt that they do.
Anyways, share your favorite authors/books.
Authors/Books - Olibu - 02-10-2007
I hate Hemmingway, I just wanted to express that first off. Seriously, he sucks. He was idolized for writting stuff that was socially exceptable that would not be now. Also, his dialouge is shit, I never know who's talking. I hated "Farewell to Arms" the most.
Yea, all the Harry Potters are golden =/
There was a book I read like freshmen year that I was really into, I'm not sure if it was cause I was at a low level then or if the book was good tho. Anyway, it's called "The Giver"
Authors/Books - Krillin - 02-10-2007
The Giver is a fantastic book. Probably my absolute favorite.
I'm going through a lot of the classics right now, so, in no particular order:
Augustine's Confessions
Dante's Divine Comedy: Vol I - Inferno
Abelard's The Story of My Misfortunes
Song of Roland
Anything Aristotle. Just went through a bit from the Nicomachean Ethics.
Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica is quite good as well.
Authors/Books - Vegeta - 02-10-2007
The Lion Bridge by Michael Palmer
he's a poet though.
Authors/Books - Raditzu - 02-10-2007
My favorite book is either The Number of the Beast or A Stranger in a Strange Land. Both are by Robert Heinlein. I'm a huge Heinlein fan.
Honorable mention goes to Now You See It... by Richard Matheson. The way he integrates serious prose with an off-hand kind of humor is absolutely amazing.
Authors/Books - Violet - 02-10-2007
Pretty much anything by Laurell K. Hamilton. I became a fan of hers about 5 years ago with her book Narcissis in Chains, one of the newer of her Anita Blake books, and later came to love the Merry Gentry series she has. I swear, this woman is my idol. For those who haven't heard of her, she writes books that combine many different genres, mainly dealing with the fantasy type. Her Anita Blake series is about a chick who is a bounty hunter, going around killing Vampires, but is also an animator(raises the dead for a living). Merry Gentry is a literal fairytale, about a fairy princess who has to get pregnant to take over the throne of Faerie, and save her land from her Aunt's very twisted and psychotic son. You'll have to read it to get the gist of it.
I've actually read a 68 chapter book of hers, Cerulean Sins and The Laughing Corpse in 2 days, together. That's how awesome this chick is.
I like the classics, too, but Hamilton is by far my favorite.
Authors/Books - Kirano - 02-10-2007
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S Lewis
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Visitor - Maeve Brennan
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
Gulliver Travel's - Jonathan Swift ( Loved this book as a child. The first I read which inspired me)
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
A midsummer's Nights dream - William Shakespeare
Much Ado about Nothin - William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
A room with a view - E.M. Foster
Authors/Books - Aero - 02-10-2007
Beowulf - unknown
The Shining - Stephen King
The Most Dangerous Game - Gavyn Lyell
Battleground - Stephen King
Jerusalem's Lot - Stephen King
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
I don't read a lot.
Authors/Books - Krillin - 02-10-2007
Gulliver's Travels is a BITCH to read. If you loved it as a child, Bulma, you must have read a heavily abridged version.
Authors/Books - Kirano - 02-10-2007
One with lots of illustrations. I didn't read the proper version till I was older.
Authors/Books - Violet - 02-10-2007
I enjoyed Huck Finn and Oliver Twist as a kid, not the picture books, the chapter ones. Oh yeah. Those rocked hardcore.
Authors/Books - Aero - 02-10-2007
Quote:Originally posted by Violet
I enjoyed Huck Finn and Oliver Twist as a kid, not the picture books, the chapter ones. Oh yeah. Those rocked hardcore.
No Tom Sawyer? D=
Authors/Books - Krillin - 02-10-2007
Gulliver's Travels abridged owns.
Gulliver's Travels "proper" blows.
I forgot to mention The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The latter book is probably my favorite book ever.
Authors/Books - Kirano - 02-10-2007
Quote:Originally posted by Krillin
I forgot to mention The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The latter book is probably my favorite book ever.
Not in my favourites, but the latter version was pretty damn good.
Authors/Books - Violet - 02-10-2007
Quote:Originally posted by Gokua
Quote:Originally posted by Violet
I enjoyed Huck Finn and Oliver Twist as a kid, not the picture books, the chapter ones. Oh yeah. Those rocked hardcore.
No Tom Sawyer? D=
I don't remember reading that one. Just Oliver Twist and Huck finn. Along with about 90% of my mom's Cassie Edwards collection. =\ I grew up to be a perv.
Authors/Books - Aero - 02-10-2007
Tom Sawyer is a classic. Yup, Mark Twain's first novel, and his best one, in my opinion.
Authors/Books - Aero - 02-10-2007
Oh yeah, I forgot that Eragon and Eldest (by Christopher Paolini) are also good reads.
Authors/Books - Metal Teemer - 02-10-2007
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
All Star Wars novels (I own far too many of them)
Wicked (still waiting on getting the sequel)
Any Bruce Coville book (loved those when I was a kid)
Authors/Books - CoolSpice - 02-10-2007
The Virgin Suicides
Rainbow Boys
The Magus
Eye of the Dragon
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
Angels and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Exorcist
Anything in the Redwall series, though Redwall or Mattimeao would probably be my favs.
The Amulet of Samarkand
Authors/Books - Grandpa Gohan - 02-10-2007
Quote:Originally posted by Metal 15.1
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
All Star Wars novels (I own far too many of them)
Wicked (still waiting on getting the sequel)
Any Bruce Coville book (loved those when I was a kid)
I saw the movie for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I guess the movie is pretty good, though I wont try and compare it to the books since I havent read it yet. It's good? :o