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What is your favorite book?

Started by Jessie, April 05, 2005, 07:40:07 AM

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Jessie

I guess mine is To Kill a Mockingbird.

I also loved  the HHGTTG.

we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

OBB

So far, it's Winston Churchill's "History of the Second World War" volumes 1-3.

BigDun

My favorite books as a teen were the first 3 books in series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson. As an adult, it would be either Snow Crash or The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
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Jessie

I really liked I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb.

It's been quite a while since I read that one.
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

OBB

Quote from: jessie on April 05, 2005, 07:52:56 AM
I really liked I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb.

It's been quite a while since I read that one.

Ooo ooo ooo OOO OOO, I know this much is true...

nishi

"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.

ReBurn

Quote from: OBB on April 05, 2005, 07:55:00 AM
Quote from: jessie on April 05, 2005, 07:52:56 AM
I really liked I Know This Much is True, by Wally Lamb.

It's been quite a while since I read that one.

Ooo ooo ooo OOO OOO, I know this much is true...
*SMACK*
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ignom

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Jessie

Would your answers be different if you were asked what is your favorite book for entertainment vs what is your favorite book because it moved you or spoke to you?
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

cnamon

I liked The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

ReBurn

I'm glad this thread came along.  I am uncultured swine and I was thinking of picking up a book to read, since all I ever read is programming stuff and textbooks.  I'll have to try one of these.
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Jessie

we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

Beefy

I don't think I have one.  I really loved reading Great Expectations in school, though.  The Cider House Rules would also be up there.

Jessie

I keep meaning to read The Cider House Rules.
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

DownSouth

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ReBurn

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Jessie

we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

DownSouth

16:15:43 [Gamplayerx] Juneau, I could really go for some pie. You better Belize it!

Gamplayerx

One of my favorite books is The Talisman by Stephen King and some other dude. 

Beefy

Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 05, 2005, 11:23:37 AM
One of my favorite books is The Talisman by Stephen King and some other dude. 

Straub?

Bishamonten

One of my favorite reads is a series of books called "The Deathgate Cycle" by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman.  I adored the characters and the world they created.  link

Staples like HHGTTG, LOTR, and a slew of PK Dick, Neil Stephenson, and William Gibson works are also up there.   

Beefy

Quote from: Bishamonten on April 05, 2005, 11:29:00 AM
One of my favorite reads is a series of books called "The Deathgate Cycle" by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman.  I adored the characters and the world they created.  link

Staples like HHGTTG, LOTR, and a slew of PK Dick, Neil Stephenson, and William Gibson works are also up there.   

You forgot the Kama Sutra.

Bishamonten

Quote from: Beef on April 05, 2005, 11:30:16 AM
Quote from: Bishamonten on April 05, 2005, 11:29:00 AM
One of my favorite reads is a series of books called "The Deathgate Cycle" by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman.  I adored the characters and the world they created.  link

Staples like HHGTTG, LOTR, and a slew of PK Dick, Neil Stephenson, and William Gibson works are also up there.   

You forgot the Kama Sutra.

I read it in college, it is suprisingly short on wank material.

ignom

I read the Kama Sutra in college. I had the version with no pictoral aids.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

ursus

Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions" (it's been a realllly long time though)
Chandler "The Long Goodbye" (re-reading it now)
Langguth "Patriots"
Mingus "Beneath the Underdog"

I'd take those to that "dessert island", maybe a few others...
I was just wondering...

Gamplayerx

Quote from: Beef on April 05, 2005, 11:25:49 AM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 05, 2005, 11:23:37 AM
One of my favorite books is The Talisman by Stephen King and some other dude. 

Straub?

Yes!  Thank you.  I was having a brain cramp and was too lazy to google.

Dry then Catch

Quote from: Beef on April 05, 2005, 11:25:49 AM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 05, 2005, 11:23:37 AM
One of my favorite books is The Talisman by Stephen King and some other dude. 

Straub?

have you read Straub's Ghost Story?

Gamplayerx

No, I haven't.  Is it good?

And there's something funky going on with your signature.

Dry then Catch

I loved it but it was sort of slow moving and long.  But the payoff is great.  It was supposed to be a good ole fashion Ghost Story of vegeance and not being able to hide your past. 

yeah it was made into a mediocre 80s horror movie starring Fred Astaire and the old guy who played Ricky's grandfather in Silver Spoons.


D

My favorite book is either The Lost Princess by George McDonald, or Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis.  I really love a puritan prayer book that was reprinted back in the early 90s i think?  It is called The Valley of Vision.  It really gives me a perspective on what that group was thinking and feeling during the early stages of our nation's development.

dazie

Quote from: ursus on April 05, 2005, 12:27:18 PM
Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions" (it's been a realllly long time though)
Chandler "The Long Goodbye" (re-reading it now)
Langguth "Patriots"
Mingus "Beneath the Underdog"

I'd take those to that "dessert island", maybe a few others...

Damn you.  You stole mine.  "Cryptonomicon" is MY fave, not yours. 

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

eo000


ReBurn

Dang I need to read more.  I haven't read a novel in years.
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dazie

Join a book club.  You'll read crap you never thought you would.  And probably dislike it, but the food's usually good.
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

ReBurn

I go to Barnes and Noble to check out the chicks in glasses.
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dazie

ahem...

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

ReBurn

See?  That's what I'm talking about!
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dazie

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

ursus

Knickolas Knickleby, by Edmund Wells  :P 8) ;D

...or Grate Expectations, also by Edmund Wells...
I was just wondering...

Youphoric

Jean Auel's Earth's Children series, but it's almost like pron books there's so much sex in it.

And I have to skip over it because I feel dirty reading such vivid material in my favorite series.


DownSouth

16:15:43 [Gamplayerx] Juneau, I could really go for some pie. You better Belize it!

cnamon

#43

ignom

I know you all watch Pamela's new TV show religiously.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

ReBurn

QuoteThis thinly veiled novelization of her own life doesn't pretend to be anything but trashy and cheesy, which gives it an amiable charm.
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Gamplayerx

Quote from: ReBurninator on April 20, 2005, 04:08:07 PM
QuoteThis thinly veiled novelization of her own life doesn't pretend to be anything but trashy and cheesy, which gives it an amiable charm.

An amiable charm which is apparantly hidden behind the can of pickled beets.

kelbel

A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.
:)

Gamplayerx

Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

What's it about?  What kind of book? 

kelbel

Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 07:25:57 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

What's it about?  What kind of book? 

It is about a girl who gets murdered and she goes to heaven and watches her family and murderer. I am not very articluate so I will let this link do the talking for me.
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/98/0316666343/
:)

Gamplayerx

QuoteThe Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories.

Sounds interesting.  I'll check it out.  Thanks, kelbel!

kelbel

Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 07:32:25 PM
QuoteThe Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories.

Sounds interesting.  I'll check it out.  Thanks, kelbel!

If you want I can send you my copy.
:)

Gamplayerx

That's very sweet of you!  If the library doesn't have it, I just may take you up on that.

ignom

I don't read books written by women, who do they think they are?
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Beefy

Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

Gamplayerx

There's a new King Kong coming?

kelbel

Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.
:)

Beefy

Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:52:18 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.

Peter Jackson did the fantastic film Heavenly Creatures, which was also not an action film.


kelbel

Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:57:25 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:52:18 PM
Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 07:49:51 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

Peter Jackson is doing it after he finishes King Kong.

Anything Peter Jackson does is inherently bad ass.

This is not a bad ass book. No action like King Kong.

Peter Jackson did the fantastic film Heavenly Creatures, which was also not an action film.

Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.
:)

Beefy

Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 08:03:09 PM
Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.

I recommend watching Heavenly Creatures.  It's good, dark, and very well done.  And, frighteningly enough, a true story.

It's also the film that brought Kate Winslet into the mainstream film world.

kelbel

Quote from: Beef on April 20, 2005, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 08:03:09 PM
Well that is good to hear. I just couldn't imagine him doing this book.

I recommend watching Heavenly Creatures.  It's good, dark, and very well done.  And, frighteningly enough, a true story.

It's also the film that brought Kate Winslet into the mainstream film world.

I will have to get my boyfriend to rent it this weekend.
:)

ignom

I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Gamplayerx

Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

kelbel

Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

Well said.
:)

Jessie

Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

ignom

Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Jessie

Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 09:28:16 PM
Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?

He might.  You don't know.
we should have kept the quote pyramid up to rape Jessie in the face.

Number 6

some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

dazie

Quote from: Number 6 on May 28, 2005, 12:53:58 PM
some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

There are times when you make me feel like the dumbest person EVER.  I havent' read ANY of those.  I've only heard of two of them.   :-\
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
I think so, Brain, but how will we get the Spice Girls into the paella?

eo000

the Valachi Papers, by Peter Maas.

Gamplayerx

Quote from: dazie on May 28, 2005, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: Number 6 on May 28, 2005, 12:53:58 PM
some books that changed and shape the person i am.....

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade
Mother Knight by Kurt Vonnegut
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Invisible monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
People of the Abyss by Jack London
Might is Right by Raganard Redbeard
Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola
Spring Snow(Sea of Fertility 1) by Yukio Mishima
Runaway Horses(Sea of Fertility 2)  by Yukio Mishima
The Temple of Dawn (The Sea of Fertility 3) by Yukio Mishima
The Decay of the Angel (Sea of Fertility 4) by Yukio Mishima

the Sea of Fertility series is...to me....the most important work of fiction ever

There are times when you make me feel like the dumbest person EVER.  I havent' read ANY of those.  I've only heard of two of them.   :-\

I've only read East of Eden and Invisible Monsters from his list, the first for school, the second for the TF book club. 

nishi

Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 09:28:16 PM
Quote from: jessie on April 20, 2005, 09:20:24 PM
Quote from: Gamplayerx on April 20, 2005, 08:12:38 PM
Quote from: ignom on April 20, 2005, 08:10:08 PM
I just offended all women, and all I get is ignored. Well hell.

Not true.  I totally smoted you.

He totally deserved it.  Pig.

I just bought 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.  I heard him read some of it on NPR a few weeks ago and wanted to read it.  I think I'm really going to like it.  I will report back when I'm done.

I'm sure it would be better if he had a vagina though, ignom!

He DOESN'T though.  Male authors are just plain better. Who was the last female writer to win a fiction pulitzer?

um - marilynne robinson, for 2005, with Gilead.
"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.

nishi

p.s. to ignom.

i know you were just being a shit. but that was too perfect a setup to pass by.

you didn't know she'd won the pulitzer, did you? who was the last one before her, carol shields? and that was several years ago.

gilead is good. i didn't finish reading it and think "pulitzer", though.

of course, there were no tentacled monsters with too many consonants in their names, so that's understandable. it would have been better if cthluhu had been in it. right at the end.
"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.

meredith

#74
Quote from: nishi on May 30, 2005, 12:36:31 AM
it would have been better if cthluhu had been in it. right at the end.

typo (transposition) forgiven. :)

Really, what isn't better with a touch of his sunshine?

ursus

The first thing after the move is locating a book store, preferably a shop with java and many used titles. I'm going to read the first "Sin City" and "Moby Dick".
I was just wondering...

sapphirehart

Quote from: kelbel on April 20, 2005, 07:24:26 PM
A book I have recently read is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. I really liked it and have heard they are planning turning it into a movie.

I've also read that book.  It was a very good read.  I loaned it to a friend of mine and never got it back. *sigh*

nishi

Quote from: hattmoward on May 30, 2005, 02:24:31 AM
Quote from: nishi on May 30, 2005, 12:36:31 AM
it would have been better if cthluhu had been in it. right at the end.

typo (transposition) forgiven. :)

Really, what isn't better with a touch of his sunshine?

everything is better if it includes the unspeakable!
"we left the motherland to settle a colony on Juntoo.  hats with belt buckles."
-catchr

<- this is a prankapple.