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UPDATED: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 16:13
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KAYLEESTHEGREATEST

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:06 PM

Books are in my opion awsome. I have read many of them tough the course of my 14 yrs of exsistance and i would like to know, what are the best books that anyone has read.

Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
one day
one plan
one mission
one army of browncoats
june 23rd serenity day

-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.

FOLLOWMAL

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:11 PM

I would recommend "Dune" by Frank Herbert.

And then all the Dune series, but wow they are long and it's quite difficult and involving.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

SHINYDS

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:12 PM

Hmm... I was never a huge booklover, and my first year of college has reinforced that, lol. Nevertheless, there are some good ones out there. Let's see...
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Aliens: Earthhive by Steve Perry
Firestarter, Carrie, and The Running Man by Stephen King
The Switch by R.L. Stein (much better than those Goosebumps books, imho)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
the Germanic legend "Das Nibelungenlied"
the Icelandic legend "Grettir's Saga"
and the shortstory Der Wolf by Hermann Hesse

"If I hear the words 'that's final' coming out of your mouth again, they truely will be."

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:28 PM

since you like Firefly ,try Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The main character is alot like Mal.

Or if you prefer a little humor try The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, By Douglas Adams.
I could go on & on & on.I love my books !
Bryce
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I swallowed a bug.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:28 PM

Hey Kayleesthegreatest :D

Ok my personal favourite books are as follows:

(1) One Hundred years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(2) Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

(3) Genesis - Eduardo Galeano

(4) Love and other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(5)The Never Ending Story - Michael Ende

(6)A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway

(7)Don Quixote - Cervantes

(8)The Arabian Nights

(9)Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In fact if I don't stop know I'll just go on and on...

Anyway how about you - you didn't mention your favourite books?

Cheers
The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

MORWEN112

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:37 PM

Ah books! I personally couldn't live without books. And anyone who burns or descrates books deserves to die!!

That little rant over, moving on to my personal favourites:

The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion- JRR Tolkien (the father of modern fantasy)

The Harry Potter books- JK Rowling

A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels- Libba Bray

The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown (really have to go see the movie soon)

The Dear America and Royal Diaries series- by various authors

The Claidi Diaries- Tanith Lee

anything written by Donna Jo Napoli, examples include Zel, Spinner, Daughter of Venice...

anything by Shakespeare, though I'm not sure those count as books...

The list could go on awhile but those are the books that I'm always picking up to reread.

I'm also currently reading Beowulf (in modern English, though I want to get the Old English version) and it's proving to be really good.

Mine is an evil sugar high laugh! Bwahahahaha!

Morwen

SOULQUAKE

Monday, May 22, 2006 11:41 PM

"Memoirs of A Geisha" is a fantastic book :)

Also "Wonder Boys" and "The Lovely Bones"

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"Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away."

DC4BS

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:02 AM

Again in the humor vein...

Look for ANYTHING by Terry Pratchett. You will NOT be sorry. They can be found in 3 sections in most book stores (childrens, teens, fantasy/sci-fi) depending on the story/series.

Personaly, I head for the childrens section of every bookstore I enter hoping to find a copy of "Johny and the bomb" as it's the only book he's written I don't own a copy of (near 40 books now) aside from "Thud" which hasn't hit paperback yet.

I read his first diskworld novel "The Color of Magic" in Jr. highschool (library loan) and have been a die-hard fan ever since.

One thing though. He is fantastic at hiding loads of politics & subtle humor and things in the books along with the straight up obvious jokes so don't expect to get every single joke the first time you read it.

I loved em when I was a teen and having recently reread a bunch of the early books, I got a lot more out of them that I missed the first time through. Im almost 40 now and I'm sure there is still stuff in there I havn't "gotten" yet so I'm looking forward to mining more goodness from them in another 10 years or so. ;)

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Next, you might look at Piers Anthony.
The Blue Adept series and the Xanth series. The first 5-6 books of Xanth were prety good. After that, I started losing intrest in them.

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H. Beam Piper: The Fuzzy series. Very good books about fuzzy little aliens that man stumbles across while exploring the universe and how they eventualy become our friends and partners.

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Kieth Laumer: The Stainless Steel Rat series about the universes greatest high-tech thief. It's slightly dated in some of the tech now but still worth reading.

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Prety much anything by Isaac Asimov.

COOLNESS NOTE: ;) I got to meet him once! He gave a comencement speech at my university and had a party/book sighning afterwords.

Hope this helps give you some ideas and directions to look next time you are in a library or book store.

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dc4bs

GIXXER

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:06 AM

The Princess Bride - The Good Parts version by S Morgenstern (OK, William Goldman)

The Killing Floor - Lee Child.

First Light - Geoffrey Wellum

The Jolly Rogers - Tom Blackburn

Spitfire - Geoffrey Quill

Anything by P G Wodehouse

Chickenhawk - Robert Mason

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe

Anything by William Diehl

Anything by Christopher Brookmyre. (Serious recommendation. Like Carl Haissen, except good.)

Anything by Mark Berent

Anything by James Nelson

Anything by Harold Coyle

Anything by Allan Mallinson

Anything by Joseph Wambaugh.

Yeager - Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos. Then go and visit an aviation museum. His trademark was a slow roll at 50 feet. Find an F-4 Phantom, "...Gulp..."

That's him in the title sequence of "Enterprise" In a Bell X-1, unique experimental rocket plane, and he's actually doing aerobatics with it? He was laconic in Flight School.

All the above are excellent in terms of content, emotion, soul and effective and often beautiful writing.

For brain out stuff, early Clive Cussler. Shocking writer, but sort of sucks you in. Later stuff is really terrible, though.

Matthew Reilly. Cardboard cutout characters, not the greatest writing in the world, but damn good fun. Exactly the same as watching Aliens. Weirdly, reading the books is somehow deafening.

SLAYER730

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:17 AM

1. ANYTHING by Chuck Palahniuk (he wrote Fight Club among many other things) I own every book he's ever written.

2. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (the man's a GOD) This is the fantasy book you always wished you could write, but never had the words.

3. I have to re-recommend Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I kinda live and die by them. (Say thank-ya!)

4. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Anyone that says books can't be terrifying never read it.

5. The Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony. A PHENOMENAL fantasy series where normal people take the jobs of Death, Time, War, etc. This is the most expertly interwoven series I've ever read.

6. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. (Yes, it was a book first.) It's one of my all-time favorite books and a fantasy classic.

7. Lord of the Flies by William Golding. That book kicks my butt and I've read it a million times.

8. The Sword-Dancer Saga by Jennifer Roberson. It's pretty typical sword and sorcery fare, but with a twist. AND - it shows girls can kick butt too.

9. Beloved by Toni Morrison. Never have I been more moved. Morrison is a master at her craft and makes a seemingly un-relatable incident poignant and relevant.

10. Johhny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. If you can get past the stream of consciousness pov, you're golden. This book is a brilliant anti-war novel, and at the very least, a great story.

***Never judge a book by its movie***

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