Topic: favourite book
started by: LiNeY
my favourites would be:
Douglas Coupland - Generation X
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
and of course...
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Cryptonimicon - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. - J.R.R. Tolkein
1984 - Orson Wells
Couple of those are classics, but they're classics for a reason 
. Yeah, just about any Heinlein you can pick up is good, and also Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles" series aren't bad.
This message has been edited by DeadAnztac on May 15, 2001 at 02:32 PM
But really:
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Eye of the Dragon - Stephen King
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Freidrich Nietzsche
Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Piers Anthony:
Incarnations of Immortality:
Book 1: On a Pale Horse (Death)
Book 2: Bearing an Hourglass (Time)
Book 3: With a Tangled Skein (Fate)
Book 4: Wielding a Red Sword (War)
Book 5: Being a Green Mother (Nature)
Book 6: For Love Of Evil (Evil)
Book 7: And Eternity (Good)
This message has been edited by Dysorderia on May 15, 2001 at 02:48 PM
this topic seems so oddly familiar, hmmm...
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and < here. >
I recommend posting to one of the other three.
PG, care to pick one for us and close the others?
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Originally posted by Observer:
PG, care to pick one for us and close the others?
Hrm... Book or b00x0rz is definately the EXACT same subject. What I'd like to be able to do is the MERGE the two threads. By closing one, it assumes that when this thread dies, they'll bring back THIS one. But most likely is that a NEW book thread will start later on, and then we'll just have TWO closed book threads (and an open one that everyone forgets about). ETC.
My point is, if by some small chance someone DOES reserect one of the 2 threads later on... it really wouldn't matter which one.
MABEY we need a thread directory... like:
code:
Media
-Music
--Making
--CDs
--Napster
--Suggestions
-Movies
--Favorite
--Independent
--Specific titles
-TV
--Shows
--Cartoons
Litterature
-Books
--Favorite
--General
-Plays
Body
-Farts
--Pyrotecnics
-Ass
--Enimas
--General
-Boobs
--kuru's boobs
--celebrity boobs
...etc...
And it would have links to all the theads and stuff... that way people could look for old topics before they start a thread.
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But then maybe that's just me. I like to use that little < search > feature to get info that's already been posted. I figure now that we actually have moderators maybe we could actually see some more organization here.
Ah, fuck it. There will always be people complaining on both sides. Those who say to post to existing topics, and those who whine about so-called dead threads which are still open for discussion.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dysorderia:
Here are my favorites:
Piers Anthony:
Incarnations of Immortality:Book 1: On a Pale Horse ([b]Death)
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Been reading that for 1.9 years now.. its damned good... Whenever I get majorly bored, i go to my schools library and read it.. i have a bookmark in it.. and its on the shelve. heheh Noone else touches it though, so its all good. I can't read though in my spare time, too much other stuff I'd rather do.
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Originally posted by PersonGuy:
code:
-Boobs
--kuru's boobs
Hahahaha
Am i the only to notice?
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Originally posted by beuges:
The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien.If I remember correctly, it was voted best book of the past century by some country.
It kicks ass.
That would be New Zealand. And with good reason - New Zealand IS Middle Earth (scenery wise).
My fave book - 'Honey for a childs heart' I forget who it's by, but it's a book that refrences all the best childrens classics.
C.S. Lewis would have to be my fave author.
But I'll give this one a shot, seems like they're actually making an effort to make a decent movie this time, and if they fuck it up, I can always re-read the books a few more times
If I remember correctly, it was voted best book of the past century by some country.
It kicks ass. And Tolkien was born in South Africa
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Not much of a book reader but the last one I read and enjoyed and will have to choose as my favourite which got ripped off by The Phantom Menace but would still make a fucking awesome film if done by the right person iiiiiiiiis:
Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
cheers
Damn I love living here . I think everyone in New Zealand knows someone who's somehow connected with the movie. As to if I trust Peter Jackson with the making of it = totally.
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