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Being the bibliophile that I am, I'm curious as to what are everyone's favorites. You can name two or you can name a hundred and two. Let's hear them!
Writers:
J.R.R. Tolkien
H.P. Lovecraft
George R.R. Martin
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen King
Lewis Carroll
L. Frank Baum
Neil Gaiman
Anne Rice
Lord Byron
Dante
Bukowski
Poppy Z Brite
Just to name a few to start
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1984 is my favorite book.
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Favorite books:
11-22-63 (Stephen King)
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkein)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick)
The Bourne Identity (Ludlum)
The Company (Littell)
Authors:
King
Dick
Moorcock (Can't pick one for the above list; maybe Gloriana, but probably not)
Ludlum
Chandler
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I will admit i've not read many actual fictional novels in my time but here's what I have read :
Chuck Palahniuk :
Fight Club
Survivor
Invisible Monsters
Lullaby
Diary
Choke
Will Self : Great Apes.
I bought the Will Self one just to challenge myself as I knew it would be hard to understand in places. I enjoyed Palahniuk's writing until Choke and Diary. Didn't bother with his
deliberately disgusting horror stuff and short stories. I'm not into reading stuff that's designed to only make you feel sick.
After that - the synopses for his later works haven't interested me at all. Fight Club was an excellent movie but Choke was not.
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Stephen King (IT)
Anne Rice (Witching Hour)
Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)
Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
Tolkien (LOTR)
George RR Martin (I've only read so far the first three books, but so far Storm is my favorite)
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
Mark Twain (Huck Finn)
James Michener (Hawaii)
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Stephen King - The Stand
Lawrence Block - Can't decide, a lot of the Scudder books are really good and it's hard to pick a favorite
Donald E. Westlake - Again I can't decide, I love the Dortmunder series
Terry Pratchett - I only got into him shortly before his death and I'm only a few books into discworld, So far Mort is my favorite.
J.K Rowling/Robert Galbraith - Goblet of fire/The Silkworm
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The Bourne Identity (Ludlum)
I re-read this recently, and had a hard time connecting with it. It is well-crafted, and a page-turner, in the sense that I wanted to see what happened next, but I never got emotionally invested in any way to the story.
Moorcock
Is that a real name?
Stephen King (IT)
My favorite author and book. My other top King works: Bag of Bones, The Stand, Christine.
Other favorite authors, without any specific favorite works:
Lee Child
Jonathan Kellerman
Nelson DeMille
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The Bible - God
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Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment (my favorite book), The Idiot (also read some shorter stories)
Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf, Demian (I read many of his books but these two are my favorites)
Max Frisch: Homo Faber
Dennis Lehane: Kenzie & Gennaro series
Dan Simmons: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express (her books got me into reading when I was kid)
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Stephen King: Insomnia, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
...and I love Harry Potter series :azn:
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Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf, Demian (I read many of his books but these two are my favorites)
My ex gave me her copy of Demian and told me I should read it. I haven't got around to it yet but I'm told by others it's an excellent book.
Authors:
Dick
Moorcock (Can't pick one for the above list; maybe Gloriana, but probably not)
This is just a coincidence, right? ;)
Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
I just finished the first part. It has been an interesting read so far. I love the part with the carousel.
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I could read Carl Sagan's work all day.
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Dan Brown (all time-favorite)
Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Series)
Preston & Child (Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child - Pendergast Series)
Lee Child (I love the handful of Jack Reacher books that I've read)
John Grisham
Dean Koontz
Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch/Lincoln Lawyer series)
JK Rowling / Harry Potter series
My train station has books out for commuters to take while riding the train, so I've checked out a lot of detective/thrillers by Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Stuart Woods, and other authors as well that I've enjoyed, but just don't have the time or money to really dig into.
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All time favourite book: The Lord Of The Rings
Favourite authors:
Fantasy
JRRT (LoTR)
GRRM (GoT)
Robert Jordan (WoT)
Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, Way Of Kings, The Reckoners)
Robin Hobb (Farseer Trilogy, Liveship Traders)
Non fantasy
Lee Child (Jack Reacher series)
Others I've recently dipped into:
David Baldacci
Michael Connelly
Peter May
Others I've read lots of in the past but not recently:
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King
What I would typically do is to alternate between a heavier fantasy series novel, and a short easy read like a Reacher novel.
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The Bourne Identity (Ludlum)
I re-read this recently, and had a hard time connecting with it. It is well-crafted, and a page-turner, in the sense that I wanted to see what happened next, but I never got emotionally invested in any way to the story.
For some reason, I did. I don't know why. And then they made a TV movie with Richard Chamberlain (ok) and Jaclyn Smith (possibly the woman on the planet I've you know what to the most) and that sealed the deal. I've read the book like five or six times and I always picture her as Marie. I liked the tie-in with real life, too (Carlos the Jackal).
Moorcock
Is that a real name?
Uh, I'm surprised that he's not better known, especially on a music site. Yes, it's a real name: Michael Moorcock. He wrote the Elric of Melnibone series (I think there's 8 books now, plus a trilogy about his offspring). He also wrote a ton of lyrics for Hawkwind (the albums The Warrior At The Edge of Time, and the Chronicles Of The Black Sword) and Blue Oyster Cult (the songs "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", "Black Blade" and a couple others). He coined the term "the Multiverse" and part of his ouvre is an "Eternal Champion" - of which Elric is but one - that span space and time. Elric's sword (and one of the books in the series) is named "Stormbringer" (that is also the subject of "Black Blade" and "The Chronicles of the Black Sword"). You may have heard of a little Deep Purple album by that name (though Coverdale denied knowledge of the Elric connection until after the album was released).
Elric and the sword have influenced aspects of the Elder Scrolls games (I'm actually playing Oblivion right now) and the Zelda series (Girahim).
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Just for fun I read the first chapter of " The Da Vinci Code ".
I couldn't believe an adult wrote it.
It was like someone in twelfth grade wrote it and was overly descriptive because they thought it would sound clever.
When Chuck Palahniuk writes sentences like " Her coat was white. Like a holiday in the french alps kind of white ".. It's because he's also saying something about the person wearing the coat.
They can afford to go ski-ing in the French Alps. Where the snow is particularly fresh. They have a lot of money and are used to the finer things.
When Dan Brown writes sentences like " It was a Rolex Datejust 41 Steel and Yellow Gold Champagne/Index Jubilee 126333 with a Steel/Yellow Gold case, Jubilee Steel/Yellow Gold strap, Champagne/
Index dial and Automatic movement. " It's because his "research" was to go on Google and search "expensive watch". That's it.
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I get that I'm not always a great example of someone who savors the delicacies of fine literature, but the two writers I can think of in recent times that simply ruined a story by their horrible prose were Dan Brown and E. L. James.
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Stephen King (always emotionally invested... even if I try not to be. IT and Salem's Lot still take the cake for me)
Jack Ketchum (may be a little less known, but very potent stuff. Off Season and The Lost)
Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness)
Jack London (Call of the Wild)
David Moody (the Autumn books; I have the original Infected Books versions of these titles)
Charles H. Spurgeon (the Prince of Preachers indeed... likely seems out of place with the other authors here)
Robert Frost (Country Things and Other Things... contains my all-time favorite poem The Road Not Taken)
Peter Straub (Ghost Story)
Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked this way Comes)
Jon Krakauer (Into Thin Air... somewhat appropriate he is mentioned in light of what has happened on Everest this past week and in the past 5-years as well)
The Bible - God
I'll second that. 2nd Timothy 3:16-17 KJV
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
:rollin
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" I hate when people's beliefs are shoved down my throat :angry: "
" dawkins should be mandatory reading ! :angry: "
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Favourite writers:
Stephen King
Clive Barker
Wally Lamb
Michael Crichton
Bret Easton Ellis
Dennis Lehane
Chuck Palahniuk
Ransom Riggs
Gillian Flynn
William Peter Blatty
Favourite novels:
It - Stephen King
We Are Water - Wally Lamb
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
Weaveworld - Clive Barker
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Shining - Stephen King
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Holy shit, I can go on forever. As somebody trying to be a published novelist, I guess I can list a thousand books that have inspired me. But I think these are the ones that come to my mind immediately when asked about influences/favourites.
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
Hitchens was brilliant. Whenever something major happens in politics, I always wonder what Hitch would have said.
Just for fun I read the first chapter of " The Da Vinci Code ".
I couldn't believe an adult wrote it.
It was like someone in twelfth grade wrote it and was overly descriptive because they thought it would sound clever.
I felt the same thing when I read the first couple of chapters of Fifty Shades of Grey. The writing was terrible.
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Nobody reads Tempus Vox?
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" I hate when people's beliefs are shoved down my throat :angry: "
" dawkins should be mandatory reading ! :angry: "
Er, why are you attacking someone (and a reasonably new member at that) for something they never said?
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Sorry it sounded funnier in my head :)
Perhaps I should have used green font. :heart
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Sorry it sounded funnier in my head :)
Perhaps I should have used green font. :heart
Damn British humor. :P
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humour
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You're right. Sourry about that.
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no proublem
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My favorite book is probably Dune by Frank Herbert.
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When pressed for an answer, I say that House of Leaves is my favorite book of all time.
Other top contenders include:
It, by Stephen King
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
I, Lucifer, by Glenn Duncan
Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
The Collector, by John Fowles
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
The Presitge, by Christopher Priest
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Illusions, by Richard Bach
How to Set a Fire and Why, by Jesse Ball
Legion, by William Peter Blatty
As for favorite authors overall, I would say my list has to include Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman, Lois Lowry, Glenn Duncan, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, and J.K. Rowling.
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You prefer Invisible Monsters to Survivor ?
Survivor is awesome. I wish it was a film - even though it would never be as good as the film in my head whilst reading it.
Choke was a crap film. Lullaby could be cool in this superhero obsessed world !
Diary is boring.
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Invisible Monsters is definitely my favorite Palahniuk novel. To be fair, it was also the first Palahniuk novel I read, so that may have something to do with my love for it. Palahniuk makes a hell of a first impression.
Survivor is also great, though. I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've read by him.
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I didn't like Diary. It was really boring compared to the previous ones. Took ages to get to any point.
If Invisible Monsters was ever a film - I don't know how you'd conceal the twist that the supermodel with no jaw and the male character ( i forget their names ) are twins.
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Diary was definitely I low point, I would agree. But I still enjoyed it overall.
Yeah, I don't really know how Invisible Monsters could be pulled off as a film. I mean, to be fair, I wouldn't have thought it would be easy to pull off the Fight Club twist on the screen either, and that one worked out pretty well. But Invisible Monsters feels like it would be difficult to film in general. You'd have to have approximately one billion jump cuts, for starters.
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I'd want a Survivor movie before all those.
It's been 16 years since September 11. Enough time has passed...
Do you think Tender Branson dies in the plane crash or did he leave a tape recorder playing the message whilst he parachuted out ?
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I'm a big Michael Crichton fan here. Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, Airframe, Sphere, Congo, The Great Train Robbery, Rising Sun, Prey...fantastic works
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Didn't he write Jurassic Park 2 quickly after the success of the 1st movie and ret conned the original book so that Goldblum could be in the movie ?
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Yeah, I believe he was pressured by fans to write a sequel, but that was before the movie came out. The publication of Jurassic Park was 1990, and the Jurassic Park film came out in 1993. The reason he brought back Ian Malcom from the dead in the second book was because he felt he could do more with that character than the others. Probably because he keeps telling people things are going to go bad lol
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Fun fact, around 97, both books were republished to become one story, and the title was called Jurassic World
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The Lost World (the novel) gets flack for not being a good novel. Gotta say I disagree. I thought it was great, and it pisses me off that Spielberg hounded Crichton to write a sequel when Chrichton was dubious about it since he didn't want to be seen as a "cash-grabber", only to when Crichton did get around to starting a first draft and told Spielberg about it, he sheepishly told Crichton he'd already hired David Koepp (co-wrote the Jurassic Park screenplay with Crichton) to go ahead and write a sequel anyway. That's why there's about 3% of the novel in The Lost World, and the other 97% is original material. And bad original material, I might add. I mean, what was the point of pigeonholing Crichton into doing something he didn't want to do, only to stab him in the back in the end?
Well, money, of course. But still, missed opportunity to make a great sequel to a great movie based on an incredible novel. Lost World wasn't all that great, Jurassic Park III was as cookie-cutter as you could get. Jurassic World was at least a decent step in the right direction.
Anyway, Crichton just posthomously released a novel called Dragon Teeth, which is about digging for dinosaur bones in the 1800s. I'm anxiously awaiting for Amazon to send it to me.
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Dan Brown (all time-favorite)
Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Series)
Preston & Child (Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child - Pendergast Series)
Lee Child (I love the handful of Jack Reacher books that I've read)
John Grisham
Dean Koontz
Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch/Lincoln Lawyer series)
JK Rowling / Harry Potter series
My train station has books out for commuters to take while riding the train, so I've checked out a lot of detective/thrillers by Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Stuart Woods, and other authors as well that I've enjoyed, but just don't have the time or money to really dig into.
I started the first Wheel of Time book, but it was moving slowly so I put it down to start something else. My brother told me once you get past that beginning it picks up, so I'll have to go back to it eventually.
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The Lost World (the novel) gets flack for not being a good novel. Gotta say I disagree. I thought it was great, and it pisses me off that Spielberg hounded Crichton to write a sequel when Chrichton was dubious about it since he didn't want to be seen as a "cash-grabber", only to when Crichton did get around to starting a first draft and told Spielberg about it, he sheepishly told Crichton he'd already hired David Koepp (co-wrote the Jurassic Park screenplay with Crichton) to go ahead and write a sequel anyway. That's why there's about 3% of the novel in The Lost World, and the other 97% is original material. And bad original material, I might add. I mean, what was the point of pigeonholing Crichton into doing something he didn't want to do, only to stab him in the back in the end.
Well, money, of course. But still, missed opportunity to make a great sequel to a great movie based on an incredible novel. Lost World wasn't all that great, Jurassic Park III was as cookie-cutter as you could get. Jurassic World was at least a decet step in the right direction.
Anyway, Cricchton just posthomously released a novel called Dragon Teeth, which is about digging for dinosaur bones in the 1800s. I'm anxiously awaiting for Amazon to send it to me.
Just ordered my copy as sell! :tup
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I agree about The Lost World - I really enjoyed the book, but the movie wasn't very good. It led me on to read some of his other books, like Airframe and Rising Sun. I'll look out for Dragon Teeth..
I started the first Wheel of Time book, but it was moving slowly so I put it down to start something else. My brother told me once you get past that beginning it picks up, so I'll have to go back to it eventually.
I am a fan of the WoT books, but I have to agree that they are very slow moving, and a couple in particular are like wading through treacle. Quite a few of them follow a pattern of plodding along for 90% of the book and then the last 10% exploding into action. Still, the world building and the "magic system" (hate that expression) is very impressive.
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I am a fan of the WoT books, but I have to agree that they are very slow moving, and a couple in particular are like wading through treacle. Quite a few of them follow a pattern of plodding along for 90% of the book and then the last 10% exploding into action. Still, the world building and the "magic system" (hate that expression) is very impressive.
I love that there is a massive world building effect going on. My two favorite series are obviously Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire. As much as I love Tolkien as an author, I like what Martin created more. It's far more realistic as far as the good guy/bad guy delineation.
My brother said there are two or three books in the WoT series that are literally boring as fuck. :lol Do you agree?
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Like to see the (little bit of) love for Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, particularly the former.
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
Hitchens was brilliant. Whenever something major happens in politics, I always wonder what Hitch would have said.
He would probably make the same egregious and self-serving logical leaps that he made with respect to the existence of God. Very smart? Sure. Very savvy? Sure. Intellectual genius? I think there are other worthy candidates. I don't really have any problem with him as required reading, but only as an example of how NOT to structure a logical argument. It's not the atheism angle - I could honestly care less about that - it's the disingenuous way in which particularly Hitchens goes about flame-baiting those that don't see the world as he does.
Positing religion, and the bad deeds done by mankind in it's name, as proof that there is "no God" (or, to steal the bumper sticker, that "God is not great") - is like positing that Justin Beiber, and the bad records he's foisted on the public since 2008, as proof that music isn't an art form.
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
Hitchens was brilliant. Whenever something major happens in politics, I always wonder what Hitch would have said.
He would probably make the same egregious and self-serving logical leaps that he made with respect to the existence of God. Very smart? Sure. Very savvy? Sure. Intellectual genius? I think there are other worthy candidates. I don't really have any problem with him as required reading, but only as an example of how NOT to structure a logical argument. It's not the atheism angle - I could honestly care less about that - it's the disingenuous way in which particularly Hitchens goes about flame-baiting those that don't see the world as he does.
Positing religion, and the bad deeds done by mankind in it's name, as proof that there is "no God" (or, to steal the bumper sticker, that "God is not great") - is like positing that Justin Beiber, and the bad records he's foisted on the public since 2008, as proof that music isn't an art form.
Based on your response, I take it you haven't read any of his books. Sure he's made plenty of controversial comments, like plenty others, but until you've read his other work, especially his books regarding the founding of this country, pushing him into one corner is exceedingly inaccurate.
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Off the top of my head:
George Orwell: Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Apostolos Doxiadis: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (such a beautiful and unique novel, check it out if you have any interest in mathematics)
Stephen King: It, The Stand, The Tommyknockers, 11.22.63, Christine, Different Seasons
Clive Barker: Imajica
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Shakespeare: King Lear
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Dean Koontz: Watchers
John Grisham: The Firm, The Pelican Brief
Thomas Harris: Hannibal (the chapter set in Florence is some of the greatest prose I've ever read)
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I love that there is a massive world building effect going on. My two favorite series are obviously Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire. As much as I love Tolkien as an author, I like what Martin created more. It's far more realistic as far as the good guy/bad guy delineation.
My brother said there are two or three books in the WoT series that are literally boring as fuck. :lol Do you agree?
Yeah - Crossroads of Twilight in particular is a real struggle. Literally nothing seems to happen in that book. I've read that a lot of people gave up on the series at that point.
I feel a similar way about A Feast For Crows in GoT. There's a lot of action 'elsewhere', with new characters, when all you want to read about is what happens next with Tyrion Lannister, the Starks, and Daenerys.
I agree that one of the best things about GoT is that the characters are not 100% bad or good. Each has elements of good and evil, and is perfectly capable of either. Compare that with Sauron, who is just 100% baddie, or Gandalf, who's 100% goodie.
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Christopher Hitchens
and Richard Dawkins
both authors should be mandatory reading in high school IMHO
Hitchens was brilliant. Whenever something major happens in politics, I always wonder what Hitch would have said.
He would probably make the same egregious and self-serving logical leaps that he made with respect to the existence of God. Very smart? Sure. Very savvy? Sure. Intellectual genius? I think there are other worthy candidates. I don't really have any problem with him as required reading, but only as an example of how NOT to structure a logical argument. It's not the atheism angle - I could honestly care less about that - it's the disingenuous way in which particularly Hitchens goes about flame-baiting those that don't see the world as he does.
Positing religion, and the bad deeds done by mankind in it's name, as proof that there is "no God" (or, to steal the bumper sticker, that "God is not great") - is like positing that Justin Beiber, and the bad records he's foisted on the public since 2008, as proof that music isn't an art form.
Based on your response, I take it you haven't read any of his books. Sure he's made plenty of controversial comments, like plenty others, but until you've read his other work, especially his books regarding the founding of this country, pushing him into one corner is exceedingly inaccurate.
Do you honestly think I would make that statement without having read at least some of his work? Not an amateur. :)
I've read the entirety of "God Is Not Great", part of "Hitch-22" (until I left the book in an airport :(), a selection of his essays, and I have watched, with great pleasure I might add, several of his debates, particularly the ones with his brother (who also shares my opinion, by the way).
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Yeah - Crossroads of Twilight in particular is a real struggle. Literally nothing seems to happen in that book. I've read that a lot of people gave up on the series at that point.
I feel a similar way about A Feast For Crows in GoT. There's a lot of action 'elsewhere', with new characters, when all you want to read about is what happens next with Tyrion Lannister, the Starks, and Daenerys.
I agree that one of the best things about GoT is that the characters are not 100% bad or good. Each has elements of good and evil, and is perfectly capable of either. Compare that with Sauron, who is just 100% baddie, or Gandalf, who's 100% goodie.
A Feast For Crows is my least favorite of the five books. It spends a lot of time on the Greyjoys who don't really do much for me, except for Euron. The Kingsmoot seemed to last an eternity.
Do you honestly think I would make that statement without having read at least some of his work? Not an amateur. :)
I've read the entirety of "God Is Not Great", part of "Hitch-22" (until I left the book in an airport :(), a selection of his essays, and I have watched, with great pleasure I might add, several of his debates, particularly the ones with his brother (who also shares my opinion, by the way).
God Is Not Great is clearly one-sided, which is the only thing I don't like about it. He talks about all of the bad things that happened in the name of one's god but he does so as if no good has come from actions in the name of a god. I can see how that would paint him in a certain light. I don't always agree with him but his ability to recall random facts and his knowledge of history is impressive. He was in deep admiration of the government the Founding Fathers put together. He said that he considered it to be one of the greatest political achievements ever.
I don't want to turn this thread into a political/religious discussion, so I'll just stop right there. :lol
The bottom line is that I think people can learn a lot from him, but like with anything else people need to use their discretion and not fault him for whatever inaccuracies he might proselytize. He's no different, in that aspect, from any political pundit you like better than him.
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^^^Look at my book selection(s). I'm clearly not a fan of "political pundits" of any stripe. :)
Though in terms of this thread, I do like the history writings of Joseph Ellis (he has done great work regarding the Founding Fathers) as well as Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Persico.
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This probably belongs in P/R but I read online that like 2% of all wars were started over religious matters.
But long story short - It's really amusing when a militant atheist cannot see the irony in forcing his atheist views on others whilst hating when people of religion do the same.
They literally cannot see it's the same thing.
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Back to books. I'd love to read more but there's so many authors that i'd have no idea what to choose.
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Well, what tickles your fancy? Lots of authors, yes, but that also means there's plenty of great stories out there just waiting to be read.
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Just wanted to give a shout out to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in celebrating it's 20th Anniversary today!
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Authors:
Dick
Moorcock
:lol
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Ok...
Robert Silverberg (Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, the Majipoor novels)
Ray Bradbury (Dandelion Wine)
SM Stirling (the Change novels, Conquistador)
Robert Sawyer (the Quintaglio series, Flashforward, the Neanderthal Parralax series)
Tolkien
Alan Dean Foster (pretty much everything, his books are like candy, one is never enough)
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Ok...
Robert Silverberg (Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, the Majipoor novels)
Ray Bradbury (Dandelion Wine)
SM Stirling (the Change novels, Conquistador)
Robert Sawyer (the Quintaglio series, Flashforward, the Neanderthal Parralax series)
Tolkien
Alan Dean Foster (pretty much everything, his books are like candy, one is never enough)
Too bad his last name isn't Pringle.
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Almost halfway through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I think it's safe to say I'll be adding Stieg Larsson to the list, too. It gets a little exhausting sometimes with the long monologues, but I'm digging him a lot so far. A damn shame he didn't live to write all ten books he had planned for this series.
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Almost halfway through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I think it's safe to say I'll be adding Stieg Larsson to the list, too. It gets a little exhausting sometimes with the long monologues, but I'm digging him a lot so far. A damn shame he didn't live to write all ten books he had planned for this series.
I quite enjoyed Dragon Tattoo, but really struggled with the two Larsson sequels, the 3rd in particular is weak. I actually think the 4th book 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' is the best since the first novel, depict not written by Larsson.
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1. Michael Crichton .. Greatest ever still can't read the books published since his death... they are on the shelf, just not read yet...
2. Stephen King .. Shawshank, Stand by Me, and so many more....
3. Anne Rice .. Lestat, Louis and Claudia three great characters along with many more
4. James Lee Burke .. Dave Robicheaux
5. Lee Child .. Reacher
6. Harlan Coben .. Suspense, Thriller
7. Linwood Barclay .. Suspense, Thriller
8. Matthew Reilly .. Australia's Michael Crichton more action & more character development
9. Michael Connolly ..
10. Neil Gaiman ..
Dean Koontz
Dennis Lehane
Jasper Fforde
John Connolly
Mitch Albom
John Irving
Kellermans Faye & Jonathan & Jesse
so many more.... just can't think....
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It's impossible to remember all of them. That's a nice list you have. Nice mix. You have Mitch Albom in there with Neil Gaiman.
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I think our reading taste can be like our music and movie/tv show taste, different times and moods call for different books.
Since I read 5 people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom I can't get it out of my head.
Neil Gaiman I haven't read anything of his I didn't like... I recently purchased his book The view from the cheap seats.
I remembered some authors I forgot previously
John Grisham
Karin Slaughter
Jodi Picoult
Terry Pratchett .. I was collecting his discworld books when he passed, I have read all of his non fiction, but I want all the discworld series before I start .. I have about roughly 14 so far ..
I love Biographies too .. I have every edition of Lifting Shadows as well as about 30 other Biographies.. Kevin Smith, Chelsea Handler
Bill Bryson and anything travel memoir wise.
So many Books, so little time.....
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Authors are King, Lee Child, Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore.
Favorites from those authors : The Dark Tower (except Waste Lands), Killing Floor, Villa Incognito, Lamb.
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I guess i should list Rice too since i have a shelf full of her books, but her last 2 or 3 weren't very good.
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Weis/Hickman - Dragonlance
Pretty much the major authors for me, other than the obligatory fantasy/sci-fi classics, and George R.R. Martin. I tend to gravitate to a series, rather than individual books by an author.
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There a few authors that I will read anything they publish.
Steven Brust
John Sanford - Great summertime, reading by the pool, crime stuff.
Tad Williams
Patrick Rothfuss
Henning Mankell
and lately Mark Lawrence - His latest book Red Sister is fantastic.
Books or Series that I've read multiple times and will probably read again.
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (of course)
Earthsea Quartet - Ursula K Le Guin
The Belgariad - David Eddings
The Elenium - David Eddings
Song of Ice and Fire - GRR Martin (even though it's not finished, of course)
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The "Prey" books - John Sanford
The Elric books - Michael Moorcock
The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
The Vlad Taltos series - Steven Brust
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens
Countless other books and authors that I've really enjoyed but probably wouldn't revisit.
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I guess i should list Rice too since i have a shelf full of her books, but her last 2 or 3 weren't very good.
I list Rice for her earlier novels in the Vampire Chronicles, particular The Tale of the Bodythief ... hanging out for Universal (I think it is Universal with the rights now) to do a movie or TV Show.
I like Christopher Moore as well ... but I want to read his in order as well.. ::)
It is great reading these lists they make you remember the authors you forget are on your shelf.... :corn
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I guess i should list Rice too since i have a shelf full of her books, but her last 2 or 3 weren't very good.
I list Rice for her earlier novels in the Vampire Chronicles, particular The Tale of the Bodythief ... hanging out for Universal (I think it is Universal with the rights now) to do a movie or TV Show.
I like Christopher Moore as well ... but I want to read his in order as well.. ::)
It is great reading these lists they make you remember the authors you forget are on your shelf.... :corn
Body Thief was actually the first one i read way back as a teen. Just a pulled a book of my mom's shelf and went with it lol.
As for Moore, most are stand alone stories, but characters cross paths from time to time. Most of his books are just fantastic too!
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I guess i should list Rice too since i have a shelf full of her books, but her last 2 or 3 weren't very good.
I list Rice for her earlier novels in the Vampire Chronicles, particular The Tale of the Bodythief ... hanging out for Universal (I think it is Universal with the rights now) to do a movie or TV Show.
What did you think of The Sleeping Beauty Quartet?
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^^^^ I would prefer she sticks to her Vampires. :)
Was probably marginally better than 50 shades... but the last one was .. too much time between the others. It is not a genre I usually read, her son Christopher writes better in the genre as well as other books, .. The Vines is pretty good, not too long. Heavens Rise etc etc. Another author I left off my list... ::)