Favorite books?

[Domino]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / Robert C. O'Brien ----- I like rats, especially the ones that are really F*ing smart

Why I want to name my first-born "Jenner". *morbid laugh*

 

[wildcat]

I find your assessment of these books very amusing. That is, I think you're funny (in a good way).

Are you German or Russian? Or a philosophy student?

'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' --> "too much sugar".

Happiness is the beginning and the axiom of existence.

Never set my foot in Russia.
Too many Kolnikovs there .. and Putins.
To say nothing of Raskolnikovs.. and Rasputins.

Germany is a beautiful country. I was happy to live there for a while.

Philosophy is all right if you do not study it.

I live in Finland. A foreign country.
I call it Mars.

 

[CzeCze]

Happiness is the beginning and the axiom of existence.

Never set my foot in Russia.
Too many Kolnikovs there .. and Putins.
To say nothing of Raskolnikovs.. and Rasputins.

Germany is a beautiful country. I was happy to live there for a while.

Philosophy is all right if you do not study it.

I live in Finland. A foreign country.
I call it Mars.

Wildcat, I am going to be your fanboy now and respond to you with tangential comments just to hear you say, "Nonsense!" Or even better "Complete gibberish!"

 

[Roger Mexico]

Ulysess
The Crying of Lot 49
...................

And Gravity's Rainbow doesn't make your list? Hmmm.

That book changed my life. Well, my perceptions of my relative lack of a life, but still... Fucking incredible work of literature.

 

[wildcat]

Wildcat, I am going to be your fanboy now and respond to you with tangential comments just to hear you say, "Nonsense!" Or even better "Complete gibberish!"

Is it customary that you decorate your bane with froth?

 

[CzeCze]

Is it customary that you decorate your bane with froth?

No, but for you, I will.

 

[swordpath]

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Just bought this. I'm not a big reader but hopefully I can get into it. I assume I'll enjoy it. Seems like an interesting story. I want to see the movie.

 

[cascadeco]

My favourite book is Don Quixote. I loved it because Don Quixote was a hilarious character... I also could kind of relate on some level, being the dreamer I am. I guess I can also relate to the part where people switch from thinking hes a madman to thinking he is sensible and intelligent, because that happens to me a lot. People think I'm dumb or on drugs but later say "oh, you're actually smart". I particularly enjoyed Don Quixote and Sancho's debates on philosophical ideas, and their differences in perspective. It was also hilarious how Sancho bought into Don Quixote's fantasies.

GZA - I just started this book a week ago, and I had some trepidation going into it. Just thinking...ug...this was written 5 centuries ago..it's going to be tedious.... but it is **so** clever and really really funny. I'm pleasantly surprised and am enjoying it immensely!! Only 700 or so pages to go...

 

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snow crash
slaughterhouse five

 

[Valiant]

The Count of Montecristo - Alexandre Dumas
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Wheel of Time series - "Robert Jordan" James Oliver Rigney, Jr.
The Deverry novels - Katharine Kerr
The Belgariad - David Eddings
The Malloreon - David Eddings
The Elenium - David Eddings
The Tamuli - David Eddings
The Net Force series - Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Steve Perry
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy (cheesy to like Tom Clancy, I know, but I do)


Since I read about a book every week for leisure, it's kind of hard to remember all of them, but those are some of the most important.

 

[Nicodemus]

Death in Venice is good in translation only. Thomas could not write German.

Well, he certainly could not do anything but that.

 

[KLessard]

You would probably enjoy Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. I always recommend it even though no one ever checks it out. Maybe you will, though!

I have read that and am now reading Leaven of Malice. I have to admit I find his writing a bit dull. Somewhat didactic. I guess I'd need a good teacher to analyze his work for me and explain the depth I have missed.

 

[KLessard]

-The Bible
-C.S. Lewis':
Surprised by Joy
Screwtape Letters
Mere Christianity
The Four Loves

-Foxes' Book of Martyrs (John Foxe)
-Jeanne d'Arc par elle-même et ses témoins (Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses) (Régine Pernoud)
-Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
-Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
-Visions beyond the Veil (H. A. Baker)
-Du côté de chez Swann (Marcel Proust)
-Atonement (Ian McEwan)
-The Member of the Wedding (Carson McCullers)
-Mister God, this is Anna (Fynn)
-The Moorchild (Eloise McGraw)

Local authors (Canadian):
-La Sagouine (Antonine Maillet)
-Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

 

[Aquarelle]

(The whole series, but Order of the Phoenix is my favorite one)

 

[Malice]

My favourite book. I re-read it about once a year.

This was also pretty badass, way better than the movie.

 

[human101]

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle - George V Higgins
Waiting For Valdez - Elmore Leonard

 

[Randomnity]

If you like McCaffrey and MZB, I bet you'd like Mercedes Lackey, who has a similar writing style and subject. She's probably my favourite author, for "fluff" reading (which is most of what I read ). If you haven't read her before, I'd probably start with mostly any book in the heralds of valdemar series - Foundation is a recently published one that I liked. A few of her many, many series aren't that great though (imo) but the rest are wonderful.

Ender's game is possibly my favourite book ever, and I have many many favourites.

Most of the rest I would have suggested you already have on your list so...

 

[CheshireCat]

Political Ponerology- Andrew M. Lobacezewski
The Plight of The Individual in Modern Society- Carls Jung
The Disowned Self- Nathaniel Brandon
Deep Nutrition: Why your genes Need Traditional Food- Catherine Shanahan
Dabrowskis Theory of Positive Disintegration- Sal Mendaglio
Siddhartha- Herman Hesse

 

[RaptorWizard]

HYPERSPACE

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[Mole]

I like books I don't quite understand like From Cliche to Archetype by Marshall McLuhan.

And also on a site devoted to types and informed by cliche, I might be able to understand what we are doing here.