What is your favourite book?

[Ninjja]

I've got a gift certificate from work to Borders (from Christmas last year) and I want to spend it on a good book. I love reading things that people have previously enjoyed.

As for me, I like

Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel García-Marquez.
It's just a cool read and you feel like you really get to know the characters by the end of the book. It's like you lived their life with them.

The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty.
I'll recommend this book to anyone. He's so sharp and witty and cool. Seriously, I wish I was as cool as this guy.

So anyhow, post what books you like to read here. I'd like to start finding out what other people have enjoyed.

 

[Chaotic42]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as if you couldn't tell from my name)

Why? It's just... pure hilarity.

 

[Kadarin]

I have no one favorite book, but on the short list are:

The Long Run, by Daniel Keyes Moran (fantastic storytelling that just flows like few other scifi novels) Out of print, unfortunately.
The Dragon Never Sleeps, by Glen Cook (scifi from a primarily fantasy writer, this story is complex and very engaging, and retains a sense of mystery that appeals greatly to me)
The Number of the Beast, by Robert Heinlein (not that it's particularly deep, but that it's just a lot of fun)
Changewinds, by Jack L Chalker (excellent once you get into it, and it has one of the more interesting settings i've ever come across)

There are some others that will come to mind.

 

[Ninjja]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
I have no one favorite book, but on the short list are:

The Long Run, by Daniel Keyes Moran (fantastic storytelling that just flows like few other scifi novels) Out of print, unfortunately.
The Dragon Never Sleeps, by Glen Cook (scifi from a primarily fantasy writer, this story is complex and very engaging, and retains a sense of mystery that appeals greatly to me)
The Number of the Beast, by Robert Heinlein (not that it's particularly deep, but that it's just a lot of fun)
Changewinds, by Jack L Chalker (excellent once you get into it, and it has one of the more interesting settings i've ever come across)

There are some others that will come to mind.

That's cool. See, I'm a closet trekky, but I've never really read a sci-fi book. I'll check these out. Also the hitchhiker's guide, it's one of those books I've just got to get. I've heard so much about it, but I've never read it.

 

[NissanGurl]

Are you looking for a single book or a series? I'd recomment the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (I haven't finished them yet so don't blame me if the final ending is no good). I also would say anything by Hunter S. Thompson. Good non-fiction peek into the world of drugs and chaos (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). Past that I'd need more of an idea of the type of book....funny, romance, non-fiction, fiction, etc. I'm reading some Robert Ludlem books right now that I got at a library sale for $0.50 and they are good if you like government/conspiracy thrillers.

 

[Rudee]

We Were Soldiers Once and Young was an awesome read.

Two of my other favs are "The Dirt" an autobiography of Motley Crue. I'm currently reading Tommy Lee's book "Tommyland" Another great read.

 

[djheater]

The entire works of J.D. Salinger are a favorite of mine. I pore over them and have for a few years now.

I reccomend the short story collection: "Nine Stories", or if you're in Europe I believe it's titled "For Esme with Love and Squalor"

 

[Ninjja]

Originally posted by: NissanGurl
Are you looking for a single book or a series? I'd recomment the Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (I haven't finished them yet so don't blame me if the final ending is no good). I also would say anything by Hunter S. Thompson. Good non-fiction peek into the world of drugs and chaos (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). Past that I'd need more of an idea of the type of book....funny, romance, non-fiction, fiction, etc. I'm reading some Robert Ludlem books right now that I got at a library sale for $0.50 and they are good if you like government/conspiracy thrillers.

I'm open to anything that people are reading. Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Another that I've heard about but never read.

 

[nakedfrog]

Time Enough for Love - Robert Heinlein
Closely followed by the inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.

 

[Brutuskend]

The Bible.


If you get an old one that has onion leaf paper, you can use the pages to roll joints if you ever run out of rolling papers!

 

[HardcoreRobot]

atlas shrugged / the fountainhead
count of monte cristo

 

[MikeMike]

i liked Rainbow Six.

need to get some other books to read though.

MIKE

 

[Hankerton]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
The Bible.


If you get an old one that has onion leaf paper, you can use the pages to roll joints if you ever run out of rolling papers!

hmmmm, yeah, I've uumm, never done that

<starts walking down steps to big sign that says "Welcome to Hell">

 

[asleepwalking00]

The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) - Great book of Arthurian legend told from the women's perspectives. It deals a lot with the theme of the old goddess religion vs. patriarchal christianity.

Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut) - Its about society after the third industrial revolution. Everything has become automated, so the only people with real jobs are engineers who make the machines and managers who run the plants.

Skinny Legs and All (Tom Robbins) - All his characters are great. Its adventure of a can o'beans, a spoon, and a dirty sock across America. This also deals a lot with christianity and the turmoil in the mid east.

Thats just a few of the ones I've read recently. Can't go wrong with anything by salinger, robbins, or vonnegut.

 

[Mr N8]

Most of the Louis Lamour books are good.

Black Hawk Down &amp; Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden.

Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games - Tom Clancy

 

[SirStev0]

id say

a clockwork orange...
LOTR and the Simirillion...
Catcher in the Rye....
anything by Kurt Vonnegut...
the trial...

all good choices

 

[MithShrike]

I can't believe no has put this up yet.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott card. Great book and then tge series is great as well. Don't bother with the 'Shadow' books, they suck.

 

[maddogchen]

Ender's Game

That really got me into Sci-Fi. From there I started reading Dune and others. But I still have the fondness for my very first sci-fi novel.

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: Mith
I can't believe no has put this up yet.

Ender's Game[/b] by Orson Scott card. Great book and then tge series is great as well. Don't bother with the 'Shadow' books, they suck.

I've just started the Shadow books. Bean's story is interesting, I don't think it sucks.

 

[MithShrike]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
Ender's Game

That really got me into Sci-Fi. From there I started reading Dune and others. But I still have the fondness for my very first sci-fi novel.

Haha I win. The Dune series was very good. Ooh. Stanger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein is good too.

 

[DivideBYZero]

The Dice Man - Luke Reinhart.


Just read it.

 

[PanzerIV]

Hmmm...there are too many I like to narrow it down to a specific one. One would be the complete works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote Sherlock Holmes or any story by Edgar Allan Poe. Some great stuff came out of the 19th century.

 

[MaxDSP]

Rainbox Six by Tom Clancy

I'm not much of a reader, I've only read a handful of fictional works in my adult life

 

[MithShrike]

Originally posted by: maddogchen

Originally posted by: Mith
I can't believe no has put this up yet.

Ender's Game[/b] by Orson Scott card. Great book and then tge series is great as well. Don't bother with the 'Shadow' books, they suck.

I've just started the Shadow books. Bean's story is interesting, I don't think it sucks.

Yes the story is interesting but really there isn't the same feel. I don't think OSC really put much effort in the characters as he did in the first series. I like OSC's Alvin Maker series as well.

 

[Zeeky Boogy Doog]

dragon weather, and the dragon society by lawrence watt-evans, those are two separate books, the dragon society is the sequel to the first, just really really good books, dunno, they hit my fancy