Whoa a fellow Lovecraft fan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
My fav book is Crime and Punishment by dostojevsky
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Whoa a fellow Lovecraft fan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
My fav book is Crime and Punishment by dostojevsky
What the best book I have ever read - and one I would read over and over again.
a little know book by called The Final Blackout by L Ron Hubbard. Have read this book at least 10 times - it was initially a series of short stories published back around 1939.
Also I have read the following books more then once
I have also read Starship Troopers Several times.
George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm
Michael Morcock - and his books concerning Elric the last prince of a dying race.
To many books to name - many of them fiction but many non-fiction books also.
oh, let me add the winter of our discontent to my previous round-up. by far and away my favorite steinbeck.
I like Steinbeck also - several of his books are very good reads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big_John
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
fantastic story
ichi :bow:
ps before I read it my fav was LOTR
the 4th Protocol by Frederick Forsythe...seriously guys I couldnt put the damn book down :book: ......way better than the lamentable film, which was bloody awful
Wow, I can't believe no-one has mentioned my personal favourite, Catch-22.
Catch 22 was fantastic, too bad the sequel kind of sucked. Another great Heller book is Something Happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
My favorite Steinbeck (greatest American author maybe?) has to be The Wayward Bus.
Argh! I forgot Catch-22.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
One of my favourite books also. I read it at a time when I was becoming much more of a pacifist, and it had a profound impact on me.
When Heller was asked if it annoyed him that he hadn't written anything nearly as good since Catch 22 was published, he replied, "No, because nobody else has either".Quote:
Catch 22 was fantastic, too bad the sequel kind of sucked.
~D
hey ichi,
i saw the movie/documentary version of 'touching the void' haven't read it though. and the film was quite good.
The Prince - Niccolo Macchiavelli
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Julius Cæsar - William Shakespeare
Catcher in the Rye - Saligner
The Iliad - Homer
Sharpe's Rifles - Cornwell
A Goodfella's Guide to New York - Henry Hill
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Kiss Me, Kill Me - Anne Rule
In Cold Blood - Capote
I'll have more later.
BOOKS THAT I AM CURRENTLY READING THAT MIGHT GO THERE
Mein Kampf - Hitler
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Made men - Whatshisnuts
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
I've read many other books (Old Man and the Sea, Romeo and Juliet, Siddhartha, most of the Sharpe series, October Sky, Animal Farm, Some stuff by Bill O'Reilly, etc etc) but those are the best up there.
Dare I make a comment about you putting this as a possible 'greatest book'?....Quote:
Mein Kampf - Hitler
No probably not. :no:
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Originally Posted by JAG
I'm curious, too. I've never read it, but I had never heard someone describe it as fine literature. Maybe you like it for other reasons, I'm guessing.
I have read some of it but I had to put it down because I just could not face reading much more of it. I would definitely not describe it as anywhere near 'the greatest book'.
Because of his ideas? Or because it was just poor literature? Although in this case I suspect it would be hard to separate the two.
On topic:
Hmmm, maybe All Quiet on the Western Front
Another excellent book along the same lines as this one - is the Red Badge of CourageQuote:
Originally Posted by discovery1
Now that is one hell of a decent book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
Its interesting you say that BKS, I know a lot of people regard it as an anti-war book, whereas I don't think it is. Its a book that makes fun of the English language and its a book that ridicules the military and its style of operation, especially the latter, but not so much of an anti-war book. Anyone with any experience of the military can recognise the ridiculous events that take place - the bit where the plane crashes and everyone thinks that Doc Daneeka is dead, even though he alive and walking round the base is a classic. My dad was in the RAF, so I've seen and heard enough about the military to recognise many of the goings on in the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
Its one of those few books that can have you laughing out loud on one page then almost in tears the next. It also contains probly the best love scene I've ever read - the bit with Yossarian and Nurse Duckett on the beach describes the passion of 2 young lovers better than anything I have ever read.
Harry Potter is AWESOME. I love them all to death, it is all so light and witty. Best fiction book, probably 'atomised' by Houellebeque. Best non-fiction book I have read for a while 'Jihad, the trail of political Islam' by Gilles Kepel.Quote:
Originally Posted by evil_maniac from mars
The best book ever written - well one must include the Dictionary by Webster in the catergory. Where else can one find almost every word defined and spelled correctly.
Go Ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAG
I veiw it more like a novel into the mind of a madman. Not as a political philosiphy we should follow.
It's actually very interesting.
When I say good books I mean fo enjoyment. If they can provide a window onto the human soul or state of mind then all the better.
Catch 22 is an amazing book, I really should buy it and re-read it.
Enders Game, by Orson Scott Card is brilliant, most certainly Card's most gripping work.
All of Tolkiens works are very good, simply because of the sheer scale of it.
Then of course we get to the Pratchett books, I'm shocked and horrified that not one has been mentioned so far. I would say that my favourite one has to be Jingo, and the whole Guards series is brilliant.
And lest we forget, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, I'm going to die!" The ever cowardly rincewind. ~D
But the reason I really love the discworld series is the sheer breadth of it, and coupled with Pratchetts rich imagination and character detail, backed up by funny jokes that can get you laughing out loud.