Posted by mahkoy
try to share to everyone else what's behind the covers you get to explore....
Posted by kimcheeboi
Leo Tolstoy--War and Peace
It's one of the longest books ever
but its worth the hassle!
also george orowell and nitezsche make very interesting reading.
OH! and Brave New World by Alduous Huxley.
Posted by Ayush
Charles dicken's great expectations :-)
Posted by kimcheeboi
EXCELLENT BOOK!
Posted by Ayush
Yeah also this story by count leo tolstoy, too dear. You've read it-
Posted by kimcheeboi
t9 strikes again?
anna kariena or resurrection?
excellt books IMHO
oh man my spelling is horrible tonight!
Posted by Ayush
Huh? It did not strike again!?
Posted by kimcheeboi
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huh? I didn't get what you meant!
Posted by Ayush
I asked you whether you've read that story dude!
Posted by kimcheeboi
it seemed like you were saying:
" you;ve read that story by count leo tolstoy too, dear?"
no i haven't read that one...
Posted by Ayush
But that is exactly what i meant saying
Posted by plasmadog
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
Posted by masseur
@plasmadog, I have to agree... the 4 books in the Douglas Adams trilogy
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Restaurant at the end of the universe
Life, the universe and everything
and
So long, and thanks for all the fish
never read any of his detective ones though
looking forward to the HHGTTG movie next year
Posted by absinthebri
I think Anna Karinera is a great author! Bwahahahaha... And seriously, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is stunning.
Posted by whizkidd
'Unlimited Power' by Anthony Robbins. Great book. Also, 'Awaken the Giant within You' by the same author.
Posted by kimcheeboi
@massuer-never heard of those books. What are they about?
@absinthebri-have you read East of Eden! Absolutely BRILLIANT!
@ayush-im confused.
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Posted by absinthebri
No, Kim, newer read East of Eden. Another good book is "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
Posted by Ayush
@kim so am I!
Posted by kimcheeboi
that's the one with the machine that etches out sins into the prisoner's backs right?
no wait thats the penal colony i think
and you should definitely read East of Eden. Awesome book!
Posted by masseur
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG is the story of a most remarkeable elsectronic book called "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"
it starts off with Arthur Dent waking up to find builders wanting to knock his house down to make way for a bypass. It turns out that Arthur didn't know about this, mostly because the plans had been buried in a cabinet in a basement at the local council. While he is trying to stop the bulldozer from knocking his house down his friend, Ford Prefect (who Arthur doesn't know is from another planet somewhere in the vicinity of beetlejuice) comes along and tries to take Arthur off to the pub for some alcohol because he has found out that the vogon constructor fleet is coming to demolish the earth to make way for a intergalactic highway. Of course the earthlings don't know about that because the plans have been on display at their "local" star system Alpha Centauri for 50 years. The reason for the alcohol at the pub is to prepare the body for the shock of the matter transfer when Ford Prefect gets them picked up by workers on the Vogon ships.... and so the story goes on etc etc.
They meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, inventor of the pan galactic gargle blaster, the most potent drink in the universe, get picked up from deep space moments before they would die, and when it seems very improbably they will live, by the ship which Zahpod has stolen with the improbability drive in it after being thrown of the vogon ship. They go to the mythical planet of Magrathea where the earth was originally commissioned by the mice who are, in fact, beings from another dimension who project themselves into our space as mice and built with the sole purpose of finding the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. There they meet Slartibartfast who did the coastlines and fijords of scandinavia.
oh there is so much more...
it started as a book which the BBC made into a famous radio series in the 70'sand then became a BBC series which you can buy on DVD and next year there is a movie version
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Posted by kimcheeboi
that's kind of trippy!
I definitely want to check that out although sci fi isnt my fav.
Posted by mahkoy
tnx for the replies.. mine would have to be, catcher in the rye.. by j.d salinger..
Posted by absinthebri
I *LOVE* "Catcher"! Stunning book.
Posted by methylated_spirit
Never heard of hitchhikers guide?? Where have you been?
Alistair Mclean books aint bad, HMS Ulysses is a brilliant read. Dune by Frank Herbert is great. That one by Bruce Sterling, oh crap whats the book called, aww crap! Its great anyway. Its about a guy who goes on a whaling expedition on a planet where the sea is actually dust, but really he's away to score some drugs that the whales produce. Its quite different, but its good.
Posted by kimcheeboi
i've been around, too busy getting my fair share of fun perhaps
Posted by knight4led
for a few great, short reads you must pick up The Gambler by Dostoevsky, Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway and Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut.
Posted by masseur
another one I just remembered is pretty much any book by Dave Barry.
Dave Barry started out writing humourous articles for some US papers incuding things like how to make a board.
his books include "Babies and other hazards of sex", "homes and other black holes" etc etc
worth checking out if you never heard of him
Posted by vckay
I like dragonlance. The dark tower series by stephen king are excellent as are all of douglas adams books. The best however is of mice and men . @masseur: you just gave away the entire hitchhiker's guide plot. ;-)
Posted by plasmadog
@masseur,
dave barry is really awesome!!
haa.. we seem to have the same taste in books!
u read his weekly columns? very good
http://www.miami.com/mld/miam[....]/living/columnists/dave_barry/
have u seen the movie big trouble starring tim allen?
its based on a dave barry book. very funny film!!! it has all the situations he writes about.
i've seen a few episodes of the hitchiker's tv series. its pretty authentic i must say!
Posted by masseur
I don't think I gave too much away about hitchhikers. I was just trying to give the "feel" of it
I haven't seen big trouble yet but I do like Tim Allens humour too and have seen most tool time episodes and also his movies. I'll add that one to my list then if its based on Dave Barry!
Posted by boto43
Joseph Heller - Catch 22.I've read this book in Slovak,Czech and English.And maybe 1000 times.Be sure today I'm reading this book as well.
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Posted by Asterix
Tlon, Ukbar & Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges
Posted by vckay
I have not seen any hitch hiker' episodes yet. Hope they are as good as the book. Oh and I think that Terry Pratchett's discworld series is really good. Everyone should read them!
Posted by o44wen
"the life of pi" by Yann MartelAnd "the lord of the flies" by William Golding. And "the girl who loved tom gordon" by Steven King
Posted by plasmadog
life of pi is another great book... yeah
i've been to pondicherry, and there are some places there that u know yann martel has written about... like some corner of that town has come to life after he wrote it.!!
Posted by marik
All 5 of the harry potter books. And the whole animorph series. Great books
Posted by soichiro
to kill a mocking bird by harper lee. and that was years ago!
still a classic, tho i've never seen the movie version of it.
Posted by Gigs
Ack 1fave book.. I'd probably have to roll it down to Anne Rice's The Mummy. Great entertainment.
other honorable mentions though inclue Stephen Kings Misery (OMG so much nastier than the movie lol) and the Armageddon trilogy by Robert Rankin. (such a laugh!)
Posted by Lynx69
I cant remember what it was called, i read it about 4 years ago.
I think it was called Phoenix, ill have a look on the net and see if i can find out what its called and whos the author.
Posted by kristaga
I read a lot! At least compaired to my friends, the reason might be that I am a bachelor and have plenty of time by myself.
It is difficult to choose a single book, and usually the ones you have read the last year is stronges in your mind. Most of my reading material is Science Fiction. I like to dream myself away to a remote future, to a remote planet, to a distant past or to a galaxy far, far away.
I have written down the books I have read the last years on this page: http://folk.uio.no/kristaga/bok.html
Some authors/series I will recommend (in random order):
C. J. Cherryh: Foreigner series
Orson Scott Card: Ender series
Isaac Asimov: Foundation universe
Larry Niven: Known space universe
James P. Hogan: Giants series
Zenna Henderson: The people short stories
C. S. Lewis: Narnia series
Frank Herbert: Dune series
Julian May: The Milieu universe
J. R. R. Tolkien: Middle Earth universe
Alexandre Dumas: The musketeers series
Some single books (still in random order):
Englar alheimsins, by Einar Már Guðmundsson (eng. translation title: Angels of the Universe)
The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Rediscovery of man, by Cordwainer Smith
Gateway, by Frederick Pohl
And a lot more. Ask me...
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Posted by kimcheeboi
OH and how could I forget Victor Hugo?!?!!
also Ray Bradbury and Plato
Posted by RichLok
"Where's Waldo?" LMFAO
J/k.. I like this book called "Black Boy" - Richard Wright.
Posted by kimcheeboi
thats the book with the story of the kid in it right: he has to go to the market to buy food but then these bullies won't let him go and take his money, and his mom gives him a stick to defend himself...
right?
Posted by scotsboyuk
I would find it difficult to name one book as my all time favourite as there are so many to choose from, but some of my favourites, in no particular order, are;
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Call of Cthulhu (and various other stories by H.P. Lovecraft)
Various collected stories by P.G. Woodehouse (especially the Jeeves ones)
Churchill (the Roy Jenkins biography)
The Iliad (Homer)
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colunus, Antigone (Sophocles))
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Brothers Menaechmus (Plautus)
The Brothers (Terence)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Song of Roland (although this is a poem, I include it for its literary value (anonymous))
Consolation Philosophiae (Boethius)
Canzoniere (Petrarch)
The Pedestrian (Ray Bradbury)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln)
I know I have included a rather long list, but hopefully this will mean that more people get to hear of books (and poems) I consider to be excellent reading material and perhaps read some of them themselves.
Posted by Asterix
@scotsboyuk, you really love classical literature, congratulations..... Have you ever read latin american writers like Jorge L. Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa or Gabriel García Marquez?
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you forgot the fifth book - "Mostly Harmless"
Adams' Dirk Gently novels aren't bad, but definitely an acquired taste.
other than HHTGTTG books, my other faves would be:
any Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett (but specifically Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Sourcery, Men at Arms, Small Gods, Maskerade, Thief of Time)
The Belgariad (set of five) - David Eddings
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov with Robert Silverburg (the novel, not the short story)
1984 - George Orwell
and too many others to name. i used to say my favourite book was the one i'm reading now.
Posted by plasmadog
well,
u can make it 6 if u include: young zaphod plays it safe.
Posted by gelfen
Posted by cisiri
The Holy Bible
Posted by RichLok
@Kimchee: That's right... he gets punked by some kids so his mom tells him to beat them with a stick. His dad tells him to kill that damn cat.. LOL.. crazy ish...