Books you can't live without
POSTED BY: BadgersHat
UPDATED: Thursday, May 12, 2005 14:58
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Well...
Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Job: a Comedy of Justice - Heinlein
The Dune novels - Frank Herbert
Chuck Palahniuk - all of his books
The Hithchikers Guide, All of them - Douglas Adams
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
That's all I can think of for now.
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The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
The increasingly inaccurately named Hitch-Hiker's guide to the Galaxy trilogy
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David Brin:
The Uplift series, all 6 books
Long list from Orson Scott Card:
Ender's books, esp Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
Alvin Maker series
Douglas Adam's:
HitchHiker's Guide
The Dirk Gently books, love 'em more than the HitchHiker
Frank Herbert:
Dune series: "Children" being my favorite
I could go on for a while probably but just about any books above will get picked up when I feel like reading something but don't have something new on hand. I ride mass-transit to work so I enjoy my regular reading time every day.
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Okay... This one took some thinking...
Anything Written by:
Kathy Reichs
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwell
Dan Brown
Janet Evanovich (The Stephanie Plum novels)
J.K Rowling
Then theres...
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Alanna: Song of the lioness by Tamora Pierce
And a few other hundred I can't think of off the to of my head!
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Submarine! By Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN
(Ever useful) Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide 2nd Edition
Blind Man’s Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew. (Best book on the Cold War period)
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.
Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts.
The Star Wars: X-Wing Novels by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston
Bravo Two Zero by Sgt. Andy McNab, UK SAS
With Hostile Intent and Acts of Vengeance by Robert Gandt.
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The Secret Garden
Wuthering Heights
Anything by Michael Crichton
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
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All books in The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
The Book of Words Trilogy by J V Jones
The Sword of Shadows Trilogy by J V Jones
All books in the Starfist series by Dan Cragg and David Sherman
Books by Lurlene McDaniel (though if I had to I'd let them burn)
The Lord of the Rings
All of my Military History books (especially those written by veterans (not historians))
My useful technical books from school.
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"Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
by Douglas Hofstadter
If I could only find a woman who appreciates this book...
SergeantX
"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock
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There are no books I can't live without. However, there are a good many that, if something happened and I lost all my books, I'd buy again just so I could have them to read if the mood strikes me.
These include (but are not limited to):
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
1984, by George Orwell
Jumper, by Steven Gould
The Hooded Swan/Star Pilot Grainger stories, by Brian Stableford
a number of Stephen King books, like The Stand, Firestarter, The Bachman Books, and now, the Dark Tower series
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Quite a lot.
Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6
http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions
(some of the above-listed books are reviewed in the forums section of my website)
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