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Dtesmoac -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 6:54:34 PM)

Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkein I like his other stuff but there is sometning about this one that is so simple but good.




Level -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:02:26 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MistressWolfen


Science Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut
Ray Bradbury
Isaac Asimov
Michael Moorcock
*just realised this list would go on forever *lol*



What do you think of Harlan Ellison? (He should send me a check, I keep dragging his name into the light lol)



Level -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:07:24 PM)

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ORIGINAL: CreoleCook


If you prefer a more crime based detective novel, I highly recommend Robert Parker.  Between the vivacious interaction within characters, the subplots within plots, and the humorous reality of any given situation at any time of the day, the man, although dead,  was very well versed in both police forensics, as well as true literary talent.

CC


I may be misreading, but you aren't saying Robert B. Parker is dead? He isn't, he is still churning books out. I wouldn't say his work is very heavy on forensics, either, they're far more character driven. Love his work.



MistressWolfen -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:08:08 PM)

I very much enjoy his work, my dirty little secret is that although an academic I have about 30 library feet of sci-fi. Everything from the old old pulp to the modern. I admit that I have not kept up with a lot of the new authors as I am not a huge fan of space-opera or sci-fantasy. I like fantasy as a genre but prefer "hard" sci-fi or social? sci-fi (Ursula LeGuin type)



Level -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:13:44 PM)

I'm a huge fan of his, but I've backed away from science fiction the last few years.... I'll always give the "oldies" a read, Phillip Dick, Alfred Bester, Ted Sturgeon.
 
Come on, throw off the shroud of shame, tell your academia pals you love you some sci-fi [:D].



bandit25 -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:15:01 PM)

I love the Anita Blake series.  There's another author but her name escapes me now.  She writes about werewolves...some vampires also.  I've been reading Douglas Preston also.  Well, I read just about everything.  I have truly gone into Barnes and Noble and gone over to the tables..."read that"..."read that"..."read that"...etc., etc. and I belong to two different libraries.



subinside -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:26:52 PM)

i don't think there's been a book by Nora Roberts aka J.D. Robb that i haven't enjoyed, although my favorites are her "in Death" series under the JD Robb pen name.  Probably has to do with the fact that i studied Criminology in University and i understand the way the main character thinks.

All time favorite would have to be Tolkein, but the Narnia Chronicles are looking good too.



MistressWolfen -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:44:47 PM)

*sits shuffling feet and looking tense* hello my name is Wolfen and I am a sci-fi reader



Level -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:53:54 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MistressWolfen

*sits shuffling feet and looking tense* hello my name is Wolfen and I am a sci-fi reader


*looks at the group*
 
Look, Wolfen had the courage to speak up. Won't you do the same? [:D]



DiurnalVampire -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 7:57:24 PM)

I'm a psychological thriller junkie.  Any book that is going to scare me i'll probably read. That, sci fi, horror and the occasional fantasy.
And just about anything that has to do with a Vampire... even if i think its going to suck (no pun intended)

DV



MistressWolfen -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 8:43:12 PM)

lol good one DiurnalVampire...want to join the self help group for readers of questionable and totally entertaining books? You have taken the first step and admitted to it *grins*



StrongButKind -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 8:53:40 PM)

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

I cant believe no one has mentioned George Orwell - excellent, easy to read and thought provoking. (not too much erotic in them though).

Animal Farm - can be read in a couple of hours
1984 - takes a while but well worth it (beware crippling depression about the future though!)
E


If you're going to read this, do yourself a favor and read the book that inspired him -- "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which in my opinion has not been surpassed in the dystopia novel genre.



StrongButKind -> RE: Favorite books (9/5/2006 9:04:16 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MrMister

Anyone care to share some titles of favorite books, either recently read or all time favorites. I am curious to know, for I haven 't read much of anything lately other than technical and industry related material. Kinda starving for a good read or two.


David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
W. P. Kinsella: Brother Frank's Gospel Hour, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace, Elizabeth Costello
E. L. Doctorow: The Waterworks, World's Fair, Billy Bathgate
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
John Updike: Marry Me, the Rabbit Angstrom books



CreoleCook -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 3:48:57 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Level


I may be misreading, but you aren't saying Robert B. Parker is dead? He isn't, he is still churning books out. I wouldn't say his work is very heavy on forensics, either, they're far more character driven. Love his work.



damn, I sit corrected.  I was mis-informed!  Thats what I get for not seeing a body!!!!

Thanks Level... I had heard he was actually shot, greiviously, while on a ride along in boston.

CC



calamitysandra -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 4:26:52 AM)

"The little Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", altough somewhat tedious, I pull them out once in a  while to re-read.
"The Peacewar" by Vernor Vinge. Not wideley known, but worth a read.
I adore almost everything David Eddings writes, my favourites are "The Belgriad" and it's follow up "The Malloreon" saga, and "The Ellenium" and it's follow up "The Tamuli" saga. I will take his new series on holiday with me.
I like the "Mrs. Murphy" series by Rita Mae Brown and the "Kay Scarpetta" books by Patricia Cornwell.
And I confess to loving Harry Potter.

I dig history novels, and I made it through "The Children of the Gral" series by Peter Berling, but it was tedious  in the end.
"The Name of the Rose" was very much liked, too.

I could go on for pages, but that should suffice for know.



philosophy -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 5:27:17 AM)

ooooooh, gives Level a prize for remembering Alfred Bester.........

but if we're talking SF, we have to mention John Brunner.........



jesskitty -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 1:01:24 PM)

i don't read much novels, most of my book reading is more focused on japanese comics(manga)..but there was a couple of books that i loved. i love the type of fiction books that make you think, attach to the characters and get invovled with their growth or decline(aka screaming at the book, being anxious, swooning during romance sections, etc), and make you feel like you've changed after reading it. one of them was the man from mars(i don't remember the author, someone in a store i met bought the book for me) and another was american gods by neil gaimen. i find the last one funny because i was suggested that i should read this when i asked this lady and said i somewhat like sci-fi and i was underage(around 14,15) at the time and it has lots of gratiutios sex invovled. but it is really good! a book i didn't like and suggest you do not read at any cost is memiors of a gehisa..though i would suspect i'll probably get bombarded after making that statement.



jesskitty -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 1:04:31 PM)

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

I cant believe no one has mentioned George Orwell - excellent, easy to read and thought provoking. (not too much erotic in them though).

Animal Farm - can be read in a couple of hours
1984 - takes a while but well worth it (beware crippling depression about the future though!)
E

that's an understatement. i was extremly depressed for about 5 hours after the ending of 1984. definatly made me cry but one of the only school books i actually read(including animal farm). even though i hated it because the ending was so 'violent' with me, i ended up liking it taking another look/think back.



MrMister -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 1:22:34 PM)

My, this is really great. Never thought I would get so many folks to pitch in. Looks like I'll be in for quite a bit of reading during the fall and winter months. Thanks once again for all the helpful insight.



CreoleCook -> RE: Favorite books (9/6/2006 6:06:59 PM)

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ORIGINAL: subinside 

All time favorite would have to be Tolkein, but the Narnia Chronicles are looking good too.


J.R.R. Tolkein is definitely the classic read, but you talk about the Narnia chronicles?  C.S. Lewis is a wonderfully english writer who specialized in children's novels, which have recently made a comeback, with the movie.  I would suggest to anybody who likes the recent Narnia movie to also pick a movie entitled "Shadowlands."  It is the story of CS Lewis, a drama to be certain, which helps any reader better understand the author, and his attitude/aptitude.

CC



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