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(Message started by: Carl_D on May 23^rd, 2004, 11:06pm)

Title: Favorite Books?
Post by Carl_D on May 23^rd, 2004, 11:06pm

Thought I'd also ask everyones top ten books.
Yes Jonny, you can count books (or posts) on tape - lmao.

1. The Hobbit/ The Lord of the Rings - trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Four Past Midnight - 4 stories - Stephen King
3. The Dark Half - Stephen King
4. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous (a teen girls diary chronicling her struggle with drugs)
5. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi
6. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
7. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
8. That Was Then, This Is Now - S.E. Hinton
9. This Present Darkness - Frank Peretti
10. Taltos - Anne Rice

Peace,
Carl D

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Kevin_M on May 23^rd, 2004, 11:33pm

Carl,

Nice diversion, I know how you are feeling. This CH is really a THE b*tch. Keep the creativity going.

My list is very boring, strickly non-fiction reader.
In no particular order:

1. The Tending Instinct, Shelley E. Taylor
2. What It Means To Be 98% Chimpanzee, Jonathan Marks
3. The Ape and the Sushi Master, Franz De Waal
4. Hydrogen, John S. Rigden
5. The Octopus and the Orangutang, Eugene Linden
6. The First Americans, J. M. Adovasio
7. Our Posthuman Future, Francis Fukuyama
8. The Delphic Boat, Antoine Danchin
9. When Life Nearly Died, Michael J. Benton
10. The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker
11. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
12. Lost World, Tom Koppel
13. The Essential Difference, Simon Baron-Cohen
14. Love At Goon Park, Deborah Blum
15. No Bone Unturned, Jeff Benedict
16. Snowball Earth, Gabrielle Walker
17. A Pelican In The Wilderness, Isabel Colegate
18. In The Blink Of An Eye, Andrew Parker
19. Upright, Craig Stanford
20. The Hedgehog, The Fox, and the Magister's Pox, Stephen J. Gould.
21. My Search For Absolutes, Paul Tillich
22. The Courage To Create, Rollo May
Best to you Carl, keep positive.

Kevin M

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Charlie on May 24^th, 2004, 4:32am

I read so much history that really doesn't qualify.

My favortie:

Tale Of Two Cities

A Christmas Carol (short, I know)
Sherlock Holmes series
Most of Mark Twain
No Ordinary Time
Childhood's End
Ringworld

Tons of SF over the years.

Most of the rest is biography and history. Boring

Charlie

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Svenn on May 24^th, 2004, 4:46am

ROOTS

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by sandie99 on May 24^th, 2004, 5:47am

I love this question! :)

Here's my TOP10 for time being:

1. Joseph Murphy: Power of your subconcious mind
2. Joan Brady: God on a Harley
3. Louise L. Hay: You Can Heal Your Life
4. Annastina Vrethammar: Think Yourself A Better Life
5. Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
6. Claire Calman: Love is a four letter word
7. Jane Green: Mr Maybe
8. Agatha Christie: Death On The Nile
9. Belinda JOnes: Divas Las Vegas
10. Hillary Clinton: Living History

There you have it! ;;D

Naturally I have plenty of more favourites. Thank goodness nobody asked top 10 CDs; that would have been a top 100 in a heatbeat...

Best wishes & PFdays,
sandie99

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Jeepgun on May 24^th, 2004, 9:41am

In no particular order:
(And no, I can't reduce it down to 10 items. Tough shit.) ;;D

Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Hardboiled Wonderland At The End Of The World - Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Anything by Ray Bradbury
Virtual Light - William Gibson
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Johnny Mnemonic - William Gibson
Handbook to Higher Consciousness - Ken Keyes Jr.
I Heard God Laughing; Renderings Of Hafiz - tr. by Daniel Ladinsky
Anything by Anne Rice but none of her erotica. (Exit To Eden and the Beauty Trilogy; YUCK!)
Nearly anything by Stephen King
The Essential Rumi - tr. by Coleman Barks
The Spiritual Notebook - Paul Twitchell
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu
The Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
Anything by Shel Silverstein
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wind, Sand, & Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anything by Maria Rainer Rilke
The Jeep Owner's Bible
Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking 1&2 - Tage Frid
Living Presence - Kabir Helminsky
Wild Mind - Natalie Goldberg
Illusions - Richard Bach
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
A Course In Miracles
How To Know God - Deepak Chopra
The Heart Of The Mind - Jane Katra & Russell Targ
Journeys Out Of The Body - Robert Monroe
Taiko - Eiji Yoshikawa
Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
Tales From The 1001 Arabian Nights - Various
Conversations With God - Neale Donald Walsch

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by thomas on May 24^th, 2004, 10:04am

1. Crime and Punishment
2. How to get up and Down (it's about golf, you pervs)
3. A Tale of Two Cities
4. The Iliad
5. Pride and Predjudice
6. The Gunslinger
7. Apt Pupil
8. The Joy of Sex
9. Tales of Mystery and Imagination
10. The Count of Monte Cristo

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Racer1_NC on May 24^th, 2004, 10:13am

on 05/24/04 at 10:04:35, thomas wrote:

2. How to get up and Down (it's about golf, you pervs)

8. The Joy of Sex

I suppose #8 is about golf as well? ;;D

Bill

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Melissa on May 24^th, 2004, 10:25am

New Orleans Legacy
The Tao of Inner Peace
Gone With the Wind
P.S. I Love You
Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution ;;D
Little Women
Guiness Book of World Records
Better Homes & Gardens "New Garden Book"
Merck Manual of Medial Information
Prevention Magazines' Books of Home, Herbal & Vitamin Remedies
Joey Greens' "Magic Brands"
All volumes of my Mom's old World Book Encylopedia
Websters Dictionary
The Complete Book of Food Counts

;;Dmel

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Karla on May 24^th, 2004, 2:40pm

The Outsiders SE Hinton
That was then, this is now SE Hinton
Rumble Fish SE Hinton
Are you there God its Me Margret
Who moved the cheese?
How to win friends and influence people
In search of Holiness
Spiritual warfare
The Bible
comic books Amazing and Ultimate Spiderman, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Xman

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Charlie on May 24^th, 2004, 4:41pm

OK. You got into some different stuff

Fads and Fallacies In the Name of Science
Bloodletters & Badmen series
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Faith and Treason
Stillness At Appomattox
Night Raider Of the Atlantic
The Fifties
The Day Lincoln Was Shot

Fahrenheit 451
Matians Go Home

Charlie

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by john123 on May 24^th, 2004, 4:51pm

I only read magazines, and they are all of the utmost geekness...

Game Developer Magazine
Dr. Dobb's Journal
C/C++ Users Journal
Scientific American

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Linda_Howell on May 24^th, 2004, 4:57pm

OMG Charlie, Edna will kill me, but you and I must have been something in another life. Married. Brother and sister....SOMETHING!

Tale of two cities/Sherlock Holmes/Mark Twain....

Hello? I can hear the beginning notes to:

"the twilight zone"

Linda

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by FZfan on May 24^th, 2004, 6:10pm

1. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
2. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Restaurant at the end of the Universe - Douglas Adams
4. Live, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
5. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
6. To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
7. The Fabulous Riverboat - Phillip Jose Farmer
8. Dune - Frank Herbert
9. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues - Tom Robbins

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by jonny on May 24^th, 2004, 8:12pm

Hustler

I cant stand even reading your sorry posts never mind books ;;D

.................................jonny

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Drk^Angel on May 24^th, 2004, 9:22pm

All by Stephen King:

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands
The Dark Tower IV: Wizards and Glass
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Everything else written by Stephen King

PFDAN......................... Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Jeepgun on May 25^th, 2004, 1:36pm

King's gunslinger series ROCKS!! I just finished "Wolves of the Calla" a couple weeks ago. Nice...

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Leesa on May 25^th, 2004, 1:50pm

Well.........anything by Stephen King, John Grisham (sp) Ann Rice, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Tom Clancey. If I have to pic a favorite. I cant. :-[
Leesa ;;D

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Melton on May 25^th, 2004, 2:09pm

Skippy the Wonder Lizard Goes to Washington

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Tiannia on May 25^th, 2004, 3:00pm

I am insane about reading, I have gone through my books at least 10 times and given away cases of books and still have 3 book shevles full... I can not list just 10 books...

I used to read anything and everything Stephen King... I only got to the 3rd Gunslinger Book. Not sure if it was just my mindset at the time, but I just could not follow it.

Ann Rice is one of my favorite writers, The Vanpire Chronicles, I have read them all. A few where not my favorites, but as a whole a wonderful collection. The Mayfare Witches Chronicles are amazing as well. There is the connection between her stories as well, if you read them. It is wonderful to see how the stories intertwine.

Anne McCaffery's Pern Novels and the Rowan novels are some of my favorites that I have read and re-read numerous times.

Melanie Rawn is an amazing wrotter, she writes trilogies. The 3rd book of the Mage born trilogy I have been waiting years for, but her dragon Prince sets (2 trilogies) are wonderful.

The Mists of Avalon is an amazing book. To see the story of Arthur and Merlin from the womens' view is very interesting.

The Tao of Pooh and the Tae of Piglet are really good and can give you a wonderful insight into looking at the world a little differently.

Classics like the LoTR and the Hobbit go without saying.

(Carl - Go ask Alice was the first play that I was in. It is a wonderful story)

Frank Herburts Dune Books are another that I have read until the covers fall off. Chapter House Dune was a bit hard to follow but you know after Frank died what can you expect.

Fahrenhiet 451 and the Hitchickers Guide the the Galaxy, where books that I had to read in Junior High for my 9th grade English class... Think Mr. Eidler got me started in a wonderful direction with literature.

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Paigelle on May 25^th, 2004, 3:17pm

on 05/24/04 at 10:04:35, thomas wrote:

The Joy of Sex dude? lmao

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by thomas on May 25^th, 2004, 3:26pm

on 05/25/04 at 15:17:08, Paigelle wrote:

The Joy of Sex dude? lmao

Hey, ~~tit's~~ it's a good read. ;;D :-[

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Cerberus on May 25^th, 2004, 5:09pm

Incarnations of Immortality - Piers Anthony
Door to December- Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz
Twighlight Eyes - Dean Koontz
Wish You Well - cant remember the author
Harry Potter series

Ramon

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by no-one on May 25^th, 2004, 6:19pm

There is no way I could list 10 Favorite books. I love to read anywhere from 5-6 books a week on a good week. If I am having a bad time with my head I will only read maybe 2. I read anything and everything. The only thing I really don't read is smutty romance novels (but I have).

The last few books I read were:

Where is the Mango Princess Cathy Crimmins
Don't Tell Karen Rose
Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
Memoirs of a Geish Arthur Golden
Tales of a Female Nomad Gelman
Sickened Julie Gregory
Ghost Girl Hayden
Blinded Stephen White
The Face Dean Koontz
Nite time is my Time S. Brown
Just one Look Harlan Coben

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Dads angel on May 25^th, 2004, 6:28pm

Eragon-Dad (cluster chuck) and I have recently read this book. If you like the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings trilogy, you should like this one.
Anne Rice's Vampire chronicles are AWSOME!
Also, there's a book about a man with downsyndrome. I read it when I was a kid. The man likes clowns I think, and I believe the title has something about clowns in it. I know it's not much to go off of, but if any of you have the faintest idea of the book I'm talking about please let me know. Thanks. -Stephanie-

Title: Re: Favorite Books?
Post by Tiannia on May 25^th, 2004, 7:24pm

on 05/25/04 at 17:09:35, Cerberus wrote:

Incarnations of Immortality - Piers Anthony

Ramon

I husband got me the first one and I loved it, i just keep forgetting to get the rest of them. They really are great Bus

The Harry Potter books are great. They have done a good job with the movies, really looking forward to the 3rd one coming out on the 4th