ITT: Your top ten favorite books

[Triple Zero]

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[P3nT4gR4m]

you want me lying down or kneeling?

[Triple Zero]

BETTER MAKE THAT GROVELING, PARIAH 

[Kimmy Gibbler]

In no particular order...

The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
Candide by Voltaire
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (actually, pretty much anything written by him)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:  A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

[Anch]

"Don Quijote de la Mancha" - Miguel de Cervantes
"The Three Pillars of Zen" - Philip Kapleau
"The world according to Garp" - John Irving
"Watermusic" - T. C. Boyle
as above, almost anything Pratchett
"Die Physiker" (The Physicists) - Duerrenmatt
The Dune-series - FRANK Herbert, mind you
The Dark Tower-series - Stephen King
"Siddharta" - Hermann Hesse
everything Max Goldt

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

The Tao Te Ching
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Illuminatus! Trilogy  (Yeah, I'll admit it.)
Lullabye - Chuck Palahniuk (I hope I spelled that correctly)
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut

And some others I've forgotten to mention.

And for bottom three (because I felt like adding extra)

1. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Worst. Book. Ever.

2. Little Children - Whatever that douchebag's name is

I actually felt insulted reading this. I now have a very personal hatred of this man who I've never met.

3. The Republic - Plato

Plato was a douchebag with stupid and/or really fucking obvious ideas.

[Cain]

And Plato was an elitist crypto-fascist douchebag.  People overlook that.  Socrates pwned, but Plato is a total moron.

[awake]

10 books that made me feel blessed i can read


hunter s. thompson - fear and loathing in las vegas
(funniest book i have ever read)

philip k dick - valis / do androids dream... / the 3 stigmata of palmer eldritch
(pkd = genius)

frank herbert - dune
(epic)

ayn rand - the fountainhead
(howard roark laughed.i will always remember the first line of this book)

george orwell - 1984
(it nay be written in 1948(84) but it is years ahead.chillingly genius)

aldous huxley - brave new world
(1984 has a brother)

chuck palahniuk - fight club
(the voice inside my head)

raw - the illuminatus! trilogy
(different than anything i had written until then)


+1 graphic novel that blew me away


transmetropolitan
(in spider jerusalem we trust)


reading is great.

[Kai]

Question that all the regulars will be thinking upon reading your post:

Why The Fountainhead?

[awake]

Question that all the regulars will be thinking upon reading your post:

Why The Fountainhead?

i read it without knowing anything about rand so i focused on the book no the writer.
the character,howard roark,i totally related with him.
plus i enjoyed it reading it.

[Kai]

fair enough. 

[Z³]

Dune, Frank Herbert
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Master and Margarita, Bulgakov (thanks LMNO for introducing me to this one)
A Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi (not surprised to see this on your list as well, CAIN)
Hot Water Music, Charles Bukowski
Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs
Beowulf, some fucking Saxon
Valis, Phillip K. Dick
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien (a childhood favorite)
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina

I tried not to include plays, collected works, or short stories... so I have to give some mention to stuff being left out.

H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Sartre, Charles Fort, Thomas Ligotti, Euripides, Sophocles, Joseph Conrad, etc.

Honorable mention: 120 days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade (COMEDY GOLD. I wish somebody would make a comic out of this.)