Carolian wrote:George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
You'll also like Guy Gavriel Kay. i recommend starting with "The Lions of Al-Rassen" or "Tigana"
Carolian wrote:George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
monorail77 wrote:I'm liking the William Gibson right now. Just finished "Idoru".
SilentBobX wrote: I love WW2 books,
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Jose Luis Borges (astounding short stories
mushookie wrote:One thing i have to add: To Kill a Mockingbird blows balls!!!!!!!!!
Lady Sheridan wrote:Picking a favorite book is almost impossible for me. Many of my favorites remain books I read as a kid, like Paddington, who still makes me laugh out loud, or Bunnicula.
One of my absolute favorites (as mentioned in the quotes thread) is "Wuthering Heights." Yeah, it's a "chick" book but it's so wonderfully twisted. Heathcliff is a masterpiece of characterization--a man you absolutely loathe and yet can't help rooting for because he's just so carelessly vicious. Plus, how many chick books are there with heavy doses of necrophilia?
Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book" remains my favorite sci-fi/historical fiction book ever. Every time travel book pales in comparison. Why no one has optioned this into a film is beyond me.
If "Beowulf" counts as a book, it's on my favorites list. I've loved it since the first time I read it and if anything sucks me into an English MA, it will be that poem.
My favorite short story is Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog," I've read it so many times and I am always sighing by the end.
Doc Holliday wrote:I have a "Paddington Bear Hundred Yard Stare". Or was it thousand? Dammit
St. Alphonzo wrote:mushookie wrote:One thing i have to add: To Kill a Mockingbird blows balls!!!!!!!!!
Wow. I just... wow.
I weep for the future.
RaulMonkey wrote:St. Alphonzo wrote:mushookie wrote:One thing i have to add: To Kill a Mockingbird blows balls!!!!!!!!!
Wow. I just... wow.
I weep for the future.
My guess is mushookie is in High School and has been recently forced to read TKAMB by the cirriculum. Books always seem shittier when you're forced to read them (though it's different in University since you're electing to be there in the first place.) Like, I had to read Henrik Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE in grade 12, and was completely soured on the man. Then I had to direct a scene from HEDDA GABLER for my third-year directing class in University, so I had to teach myself how to like him. And I'm glad to say that I was successful, and as a matter of fact I just finished a collective creation based on the works of Ibsen, where his characters live on in the purgatory of his stroke-addled mind after the plays have ended.
Next, I sincerely believe that I have to teach myself to like Aldous Huxley, after being soured on him by reading BRAVE NEW WORLD in grade 11. And Timothy Findley, whose WARS I was forced to read in grade 10.
Logan5 wrote:My list (fiction):
J.G. Ballard: Super-Cannes, Cocaine Nights, Crash, Running Wild, Atrocity Exhibition
Orson Scott Card: Ender and Bean series.
G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
H.P. Lovecraft: Almost everything
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Clive Barker: Imajica
Didn't see any of these names above.
LeFlambeur wrote:Fiction:
Crime and Punishment
Fight Club
Moby Dick
Brave New World
Dubliners (I don't know if that counts)
A Christmas Carol
Graphic Novels:
The Dark Knight Returns
Kingdom Come
Blankets
Sin City: That Yellow Bastard
Maus
Understanding Comics
Osamu Tezuka's: Phoenix Vol. 4 (or was it 3?)
Peven wrote:Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allen Poe are probably my two favorite short story specialists.
DDMAN26 wrote:The Bible-Please note this is not a religious endorsement of any sort but I do read it once in awhile for the stories.
DDMAN26 wrote:books I like:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
The Once and Future King
Lord of the Rings
Grande Rojo Potter series
Treasure Island
Of Mice and Men(second favorite)
Grapes of Wrath
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Bible
Nachokoolaid wrote:I'm throwing my shout out once again. Long ago in this thread I mentioned PREACHER, and it's still great, but Watchmen and Sandman are both great graphic novels.
Also, AMERICAN GODS (Gaiman) is the greatest piece of contemporary fiction. I'd be willing to argue it with someone, but why? Just check it out. And if you don't enjoy it, shit... I can't imagine that happening.
Ribbons wrote:DDMAN26 wrote:books I like:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
The Once and Future King
Lord of the Rings
Grande Rojo Potter series
Treasure Island
Of Mice and Men(second favorite)
Grapes of Wrath
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Bible
You ever read Kidnapped, DDMAN? It's not especially well-known, but it's by RLS, and it's structured very similarly to Treasure Island. I think you might like it.
The Todd wrote:Stephen King's The Dark Tower books. And for the literature quiz players, I'm being serious and no I didn't pick the questions.
minstrel wrote:The Todd wrote:Stephen King's The Dark Tower books. And for the literature quiz players, I'm being serious and no I didn't pick the questions.
But you PAID the people who pick the questions, didn't you?
Nachokoolaid wrote:Also, AMERICAN GODS (Gaiman) is the greatest piece of contemporary fiction. I'd be willing to argue it with someone, but why? Just check it out. And if you don't enjoy it, shit... I can't imagine that happening.
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