Your favourite books

[rimmy]

List one or twenty or however many you'd like. Considering this is quite a decent literary crowd I think we will all get some good suggestions. Here are some of mine in no particular order save the first one.

Swan Song - Robert McCammon
LOTR trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
All Is Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

There's a book I read a few months ago that for some reason I can't remember the title to or the author and it's pissing me off royally. I'll add it when I go to the library to get Perfume by Patrick Suskind and check my history.

 

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[snugglestruggle]

The Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien. (The Genesis of Middle Earth if you will).

 

[MNGuy]

Right now my favorite book is:

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Good reading in the shitter.

 

[WolfMann63]

List one or twenty or however many you'd like. Considering this is quite a decent literary crowd I think we will all get some good suggestions. Here are some of mine in no particular order save the first one.

Swan Song - Robert McCammon
LOTR trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
All Is Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

There's a book I read a few months ago that for some reason I can't remember the title to or the author and it's pissing me off royally. I'll add it when I go to the library to get Perfume by Patrick Suskind and check my history.

Definitely a good list, I really like McCammon's writing. Have you read any of his other books?

 

[rimmy]

The Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien. (The Genesis of Middle Earth if you will).

I found it quite difficult to read. Too much genealogy at the beginning and I couldn't get into it.

 

[rimmy]

Right now my favorite book is:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/candh/images/d/dd/The_Essential_Calvin_and_Hobbes.png/revision/latest?cb=20060316165656

Good reading in the shitter.

I have that book in my bathroom as well.

Definitely a good list, I really like McCammon's writing. Have you read any of his other books?

Boy's Life was great as well.

 

[pointless]

no vonnegut? man, you guys are assholes.

 

[Muscadine_Eyes]

The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki
Mort and Wyrd Sisters, both by Terry Pratchett
As I Lay Dying and other works by William Faulkner
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
A Sand County Almanac, Leopold Odessy (short stories)
Sentimental Education, Gustav Flaubert

 

[Killswitch]

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[rimmy]

no vonnegut? man, you guys are assholes.

I was thinking of some Vonnegut but couldn't decide which one.

 

[Muscadine_Eyes]

no vonnegut? man, you guys are assholes.

I legitimately forgot. I am reading Jailbird.

Oh, and Ray Bradbury.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I found it quite difficult to read. Too much genealogy at the beginning and I couldn't get into it.

It's worth the effort, The One & whole Aniur stuff is boring. Read The Fall of Gondolin or Turin Turambar and you'll be hooked.

 

[Farrah]

East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
The Stand, The Dark Tower Series--Stephen King
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe--Fannie Flagg
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest--Ken Kesey
A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Hotel New Hampshire--John Irving
A Confederacy of Dunces--John Kennedy Toole
The Giver--Lois Lowery
Enduring--Donald Harington

 

[Siren_Smiles]

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
On Killing & On Combat, Dave Grossman

 

[dirtwrench]

Ok, remember this is favs, not literary gold...

Prey series by John Sandford- God I'd love to be Lucas Davenport some days
Scot Harvath books by Brad Thor
Pretty much any fiction about the Templars


Yes, I am weird. But I read to enjoy the time that I fall down the rabbit hole into the story.

 

[Learnsmith]

The Road ~ Cormac McCarthy
Only Revolutions ~ Mark Danielewski
Collected Poems ~ Jack Gilbert
Cloud Atlas ~ David Mitchell
Libra ~ Don Delillo
Nightwood ~ Djuna Barnes
South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
Dune ~ Frank Herbert

 

[Wife of Bath]

The Glass Castle~ Jeanette Walls
Flowers for Algernon gets me every fucking time~ Daniel Keyes
Lonesome Dove ~ Larry McMurtry
The Elegance of the Hedgehog ~ Muriel Barbery
Dune ~ Frank Herbert
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry
Les Francais Aussi Ont Un Accent ~ Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Candide ~ Voltaire
Jurassic Park/The Lost World ~ Michael Crichton
Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea ~ Chelsea Handler
Me Talk Pretty One Day ~ David Sedaris
The Outlander series ~ Diana Gabaldon

+ a million more that aren't rattling around in my head right now

 

[Learnsmith]

The Glass Castle~ Jeanette Walls
Flowers for Algernon gets me every fucking time~ Daniel Keyes
Lonesome Dove ~ Larry McMurtry
The Elegance of the Hedgehog ~ Muriel Barbery
Dune ~ Frank Herbert
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry
Les Francais Aussi Ont Un Accent ~ Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Candide ~ Voltaire
Jurassic Park/The Lost World ~ Michael Crichton
Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea ~ Chelsea Handler
Me Talk Pretty One Day ~ David Sedaris
The Outlander series ~ Diana Gabaldon

+ a million more that aren't rattling around in my head right now

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[Wife of Bath]

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I just remembered Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) and World War Z, which was a masterpiece ruined in the film adaptation. Ruined I say!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The Parker Series by Donald Westlake
Any George Smiley book by John LeCarre
Anything by Raymond Chandler
Anything by Talmage Powell
Most of George V, Higgins books
Most of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings books
Chester Himes Harlem Series
Books by David Goodis
Elmore Leonard's western novels
The Searchers and The Unforgiven by Alan Le May

 

[Noor]

Princess Bride
Alice in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass
Simple isn't easy
Civility
Most Wodehouse
Sherlock Holmes
the 11th edition of the encyclopedia britannic
All about Wool, All about Cotton, All about Silk
Pattern drafting book by FIT
Vionnet
Letters of Lewis Carroll.
The OED.

I am sure there are more.

 

[Erochic]

The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler

I was just reading that, along with:

Guns, Germs and Steel (a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years) by Jared Diamond.
It's a fascinating book. It answers the question "why dad history unfold so differently on different continents", and basically why some of us got "civilization" and others didn't.

 

[Never]

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
The Sound and the Fury

 

[oggbashan]

The obvious ones:

Shakespeare
Chaucer
Moliere

Oddities:
Ernest Bramah: The Kai Lung stories
Thomas Love Peacock: Headlong Hall
Richard Powell: Don Quixote USA
Van Gulik: Judge Dee stories