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ITT: Your top ten favorite books

Started by Maharishi Miyagi Yoda, June 13, 2006, 02:17:11 PM

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Slithis

Make Your Own Damn Movie - Lloyd Kaufman
Where the Wild Things Are - ?
The Rats in the Walls - Lovecraft
America the Book - Jon Stewart
...
I don't much fancy reading due to poor time management.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

East Coast Hustle

Quote from: SlithisMake Your Own Damn Movie - Lloyd Kaufman
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
The Rats in the Walls - Lovecraft
America the Book - Jon Stewart
...
I don't much fancy reading due to poor time management.
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Slithis

You'll have to excuse my poor memory, I was in 1st grade when I read it and at that age, I didn't care who bloody wrote the thing because there were monsters in it and that made it cool.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

East Coast Hustle

agreed.

Where the Wild Things Are is dope as fuck.
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

LMNO

Sendak was always fairly amoral.

I dug that.

Fizzwitz Glorypoop

Where The Wild Things are = thumbs up

These aren't really my favorites, but they are good. Be warned: High literature, they are not. Oh, and some are series.

1. Cyteen, by CJ Cherryh - This book is so good! It's really long, and it's sci fi and has incredible characterisation. It centers around genetic programming, cloning, etc. and the ethics thereof, but fascinating.

2. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter, by Astrid Lindgren - I loved this book as a girl, and Ronia was my very first online screenname.

3. The Little White Horse, by Elizabeth Goudge - I grew up on Elizabeth Goudge, people. This is the stuff of my childhood.

4. A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket - I don't care what you all have to say, Snicket is the bomb.

5. Sandman: Brief Lives, by Neil Gaiman - The story of how Dream and Delirium go looking for their brother. This story is near and dear to my heart.

6. GURPS: Illuminati University - Yes, this is a RPG supplement. Sorry, is my geek showing?  :oops: Srsly, though, it's a good read, and if I was going to run a campaign, this is what it would be.

7. Jerlane, by Lynn Abbery - Plot is interesting; world building is ACE.

8. Golden Compass and sequels, by Phillip Pullman - Pretentiousness aside, interesting and fun.

9. War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull - If you like urban fantasy (and who doesn't?), read this.

10. Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke - Alternate history: if Faerie took over England in the 14th century. My latest favorite.
Fizzwitz Glorypoop, Baroness of Paradox, Episkopos of the Cabal of Innocent Absurdity



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Cain

The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
The Rebel, by Camus
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
Revelation X - The Subgenius Foundation
The Will to Power by Nietzsche
Candide, by Voltaire
The Iliad by Homer (and supporting artists)
The Simarillion by Tolkein
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

DJRubberducky

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, Ursula K. LeGuin

War for the Oaks, Emma Bull (squee@fizz!)

Illusions, Richard Bach

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

...um, I guess fill spaces 5-10 with any of Frank Miller's "Sin City" graphic novels.  They don't really count as books to most people, but I'd never be able to list ten favorite books without resorting to "What did I read and enjoy recently?", so hey.
- DJRubberducky
Quote from: LMNODJ's post is sort of like those pills you drop into a glass of water, and they expand into a dinosaur, or something.

Black sheep are still sheep.

AFK

I'm probably the least avid reader on these boards so I don't have much to offer really. 
That said I'm a big fan of Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles" is definitely my favorite book I've ever read, and "The Illustrated Man" is a favorite as well. 

I'm also a Poe fan so any of his poetry and short-story collections would be on my list. 

And in total sci-fi geek mode, Star Wars:  The Bounty Hunter Trilogy.  Which is basically three books about why one does never fuck with Boba Fett. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

P3nT4gR4m

Saga of the Exiles - Julian May
Best fantasy series ever written, bar none.

Diary of a drugfiend - Crowley
First Crowley book I ever read and the reason I still love him even though I've since found out he was an arse

Anarchists Cookbook - Anon
Never even read much of it but the fact that I had an encrypted disk version of this back when the US of A-holes announced that they considered file encryption an act of war filled me with a warm glow

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition - ?
Book about really wierd, almost sc-fi scientific and cultural predictions

The Far Side Gallery - Gary Larson
Every one a classic. My personal fave - "The nose fairy left me a quarter"

The Damnation Game - Clive barker
Stephen King for grownups

Ladder of Lights - WG Gray
Pwnt Fortune's effort for my money

Alchemy & Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum - Alexander Roob
Its got lots of nice pictures in it.

1984 - George Orwell
Chirpy cheerful trip down memory lane

The Watchmen - Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons
If you only ever read one comic - this should be it

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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Cain

Just so you know, the Anarchists Cookbook was the creation of the son of a far-right US senator (several names have been floated), filled with purposefully bad advice intended to blow up hippies during the Vietnam War.  The man who claims to have written in, William Powell, is almost certainly a fake, if he even exists at all.

Still, the mystique of the book is incredible and upsetting the encryption nazis is never a bad thing.

Thurnez Isa

"Uncle Silas" and "In a Glass Darkley" by Joseph Le Fanu (added them together so I dont put 2 Fanu books)

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Juliette by De Sade

All Quiet Along the Western Front by Remarque

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Dick

A wringle in Time by L'Engle

Moby Dick by Melville

Great Gatsby by F Scot
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Dante

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 14, 2007, 03:42:24 PM

Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong


Can't believe I forgot that one  :argh!:

Nobody read my list it's lies!

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

hunter s.durden

Quote from: SillyCybin on March 14, 2007, 02:33:19 PM
The Watchmen - Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons
If you only ever read one comic - this should be it

This was all you needed.
This space for rent.

P3nT4gR4m

http://www.threekingdoms.com/

If anyone can link me a downloadable watchmen I'll swallow their man juice

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark