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« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2005, 02:58:16 pm »
Geez it\'s really hard to put my favourite book down, there\'s so many to choose from; instead a list of liked authors methinks:
Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Tad williams, Katherine Kerr, Weis and Hickman (that includes individual books), David Gemmel, David Eddings, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Ludlum, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Miller, George R R Martin, Arthur C Clarke, E.E. Doc smith, Stephen Donaldson, Orson Scott Card, Orson Wells, Robert Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Raymod E Fesit, Robert Jordan, Tolkien (all the family), Tom Clancy, Poul and Karen Anderson, Robert Rankin, Sebastian Faulks, Leo Tolstoy, Sun Tzsu, Frank Kafka, Freidrich Nietszche, Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Hunter S Thompson, Cornelius Ryan, Keith Feilling, Thomas Allen, J D Salinger, Erich Von Daniken, Gordon Stevenson, Clayton Emery, Douglas Niles, James Herbert, David Cook, Douglas Adams, Keith Baker, Richard Lee Byers, Thomas Reid, Richard Baker, Philip Athans, Matt Forbeck, Ree Hoesbee, Dale Donovan, Ella Wheeler Willcox, Tennyson, Beatrix Potter....I must stop typing now my room is full of books!!!!

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« Reply #31 on: February 08, 2005, 03:45:45 pm »
Can i say lord of the fly?
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« Reply #32 on: February 08, 2005, 09:12:47 pm »
Lord of the Flies!!!! What a great book :D:D:D:D
I had to go find it out after i saw that post :D:D:D
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« Reply #33 on: February 08, 2005, 10:20:11 pm »
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I just started reading Neuromancer, love it so far. I\'m a CyberPunk freak


You\'re in for a treat.  I\'ve read it numerous times and I still find myself mezmerized by the book.
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« Reply #34 on: February 08, 2005, 10:43:52 pm »
Hmmm... George Orwell - 1984.
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« Reply #35 on: February 09, 2005, 10:26:58 am »
alright, i try to pick some some of the best books i read (random order):

stephen king: the stand, the dark tower series 1-7
neal stephenson: cryptonomicon
thomas gefferson: assasini, ghomorra
hans bemann: stein & floete (stone&flute, not sure if it\'s available in english)
ken follett: eye of the needle, on wings of eagels, the pillars of the earth, a dangerous fortune
alexandre dumas: the count of monte christo
peter berling: die kinder des grals (children of the gral, not sure if it\'s available in english)
breat ellis: american psycho
f. goethe: Faust 1 & 2
suelette dreyfus: underground (free ebook: http://www.underground-book.com)
linux walleij: copyright does not exist (free ebook download [1])
dale dougherty: sed & awk (technical book, but i love it)
stephen hawking: a brief history of time
niccolo machiavelli: the prince
george orwell: 1984
james redfield: the celestine prophecy

hmm, did i forget one? well, not a book but a great story is \'babylon 5\' though one can watch it as reading a book.

i was once a fan of carlos castaneda, but after reading 9 of his books i was pretty sure that this man was just a money-making crazed lunatic ;)

the book(s) i am now reading is the series \'the view from the mirror\' a fantasy epic from ian irvine. i may be killed for this but i found LOTR rather borring. did not read dan brown so far but a lot friends of mine are recommending it.

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« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2005, 12:03:52 pm »
i dont read much, and i guess i dont have any favorite real favorite books, but the one series that did catch my attention was the Drizzt Do\'Urden series by R.A. Salvatore ....

anyway as i said i dont read much, i can say ive never read a harry potter book, dont want to, never will, ive read Tolkien\'s books, those were good... well any way there ya go...
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« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2005, 02:30:51 pm »
if you like cyber punk go find Alfred Bester\'s\" the stars my destination\".

some of the stuff i like.
Stephen king\'s dark tower series.
Douglas adams hitchhiker\'s guide to the galaxy.
Alastair Reynolds chasm city (another nice cyber punk book)
Terry Pratchett\'s disc world novels (all good)

the dictonary :P :D (j/k)
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« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2005, 02:50:03 pm »
Some of my favorites:

  - Dan Simmons:
  •    Illium
  •    The Hyperion Cantos
  •    Carrion Comfort

  - J.R.R.Tolkien
  •    Lord Of The Rings
  •    Silmarilion
  •    The Hobbit

  - Clifford Simak (City)
  - Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time series (but mostly the first books))
  - Terry Pratchett (everything)

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« Reply #39 on: February 10, 2005, 02:07:27 am »
Wheel of Time
LOTR
GA Henty <I kinda liked Chronilces of Narnia
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« Reply #40 on: February 10, 2005, 09:07:23 pm »
I\'m a big fan of both Tolkien and CS Lewis.  Other fantasy/sci-fi books often end up boring me or entertaining me with cheesiness, depending on the mood I\'m in, although I liked the beginning of the Wheel of Time, some random Asimov, and goodness knows what else I can\'t remember.  I used to read Hardy Boys mysteries when I was a kid, now I can\'t *believe* how formulaic they are.

I also enjoyed Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which is an enjoyable computer-sciency mind trip.
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« Reply #41 on: February 11, 2005, 12:12:22 am »
Oh yea, a childhood favorite of mine, Enders Game.
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« Reply #42 on: February 11, 2005, 08:34:49 pm »
I recently read a report in a P.C magazine that I had to read twice just to make sure that my eyes werent deceiving me....Google recently announced a programme to digitise 15 million books stored by the worlds biggest libraries and make them searchable online....Google will invest around $150 million (?77 million) in scanning books from Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the New York Oublic Library and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

:D  If this works then I think our lists of favourite books are going to grow a little eh? :D
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« Reply #43 on: February 11, 2005, 08:48:32 pm »
1) A Song of Ice and Fire series
2) The RiftWar Saga / Shannara Saga / Middle Earth
3) Wheel of Time

Any Stephen King book is also good :) Very sick and twisted though, not for the faint of heart ;)

A Song of Ice and Fire I don\'t think anything I\'ve read comes close to beating. Everything is pretty unpredictable, due to the writer who has no problems with killing off the main characters at any time :) With all the others, you know who\'s going to win, who\'s going to live/die and the general outcome before you\'ve got past the first few chapters.
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« Reply #44 on: February 11, 2005, 11:07:13 pm »
Wheel Of Time has me completely gripped right now. I\'m on book 8 and have 9 and 10 just sitting there calling out \"reeeead meee!\". I don\'t think there\'s much hope of Robert Jordan actually finishing the series before he kicks the bucket though.

Obviously, LotR is a favourite, and (slightly worryingly) Harry Potter, although I detest the films. No one\'s mentioned \'His Dark Materials\' by Philip Pullman yet (I think) :o. I thought they were good, but that\'s partially due to all the anti-religious content, hehe.

And there\'s a ton of other books I want to read, once I conquer the Wheel Of Time mountain (and it is verging on a mountain if you stack all the books up..) like Animal Farm, 1984, e.t.c. I\'ve also read \"War and Peace\" in Russian, which was quite an experience..

Oh, and R.I.P Arthur Miller, whose play \"View From A Bridge\" is one of the few I\'ve been forced to study and have actually liked.
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