Fave Books?

[SpaceOddity]

'Cos it requires its own thread. *insists*

Mine...

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove,
Antoine De Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince,
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights,
Marguerite Duras - The Ravishing of Lol Stein,
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth,
Borges - Dreamtigers,
Oscar Wilde's Fairytales,
George Eliot - Daniel Deronda,
C.S. Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe,
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle,
Virginia Woolf- Orlando,
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Ubervilles,
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago,
J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan (the novel),
Andre Gide - Strait is the Gate,
C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces,
Marguerite Duras - The Lover,
Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses,
E. Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet,
Lermontov - A Hero of our Time,
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love,
Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath her Feet,
Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South,
Simone de Beauvoir - All Men are Mortal,
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited,
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Graham Greene - The End of the Affair,
John Masefield - The Box of Delights,
Angela Carter - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman,
Zola - Nana,
Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters,
Zamyatin - We,
Genet - Miracle of the Rose,
Hans Christian Anderson's Fairytales,
Juan Rulfo- Pedro Paramo,
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables,
Alain-Fournier - Les Grand Meaulnes,
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris,
Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown,
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart,
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma

[megladon8]

Jane Austen - "Persuasion"
Richard Matheson - "I Am Legend"
Stephen King - "'Salem's Lot"
Theodor Dostoyevsky - "Crime and Punishment"
Charles Dickens - "Great Expectations"
Ian McEwan - "Atonement"
Jules Verne - "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game"
Charlie Huston - "Already Dead"
Kurt Vonnegut - "Cat's Cradle"


That's all I can think of right now that I would want to put in a favorites list.

[Lucky]

Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

I love this book as well. Always great to find another person who appreciates it as much as I do.

[Morris Schæffer]

I've enjoyed every Dan Brown novel immensely. Yes, I'm that guy.

Crichton's Sphere and Airframe were tremendously absorbing also, especially the former.

and Harry Potter of course, possibly my fave novels of all time!

[lovejuice]

Crichton's Sphere and Airframe were tremendously absorbing also, especially the former.

sphere is actually a damn good, intense read. so is airframe to some degree. if you like both, i strongly recommend congo and...yes...jurassic park. (but no, sphere is his best.)

like stephen king, crichton used to be my favorite auther. his scientific tidbits are very enjoyable to read. and in a way, it sets him apart from many sci-fi writers. the guy is a harvard graduated after all, you know.

our falling out comes when he wrote that abyssmal jurassic park with knights and time-machine book.

[SpaceOddity]

I love this book as well. Always great to find another person who appreciates it as much as I do.

I loved it so much I bit it.
*grins*

[Thirdy]

some of my favourites, one per author:

The Waves (Woolf)
The Magic Mountain (Mann)
Ficciones (Borges)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez)
Ocean Sea (Baricco)
Jane Eyre (Brönte)
Orthodoxy (Chesterton)
A Grief Observed (Lewis)
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
1984 (Orwell)
A Handful of Dust (Waugh)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Lolita (Nabokov)
On the Road (Kerouac)
Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
The Plague (Camus)
Niebla (Unamuno)
In Cold Blood (Capote)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevski)
Rosa Krüger (Sánchez-Mazas)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
Persuasion (Austen)
The Virgin Suicides (Eugenides)
The Trial (Kafka)
The Leopard (Lampedusa)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Platero and I (Jiménez)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Four Quartets (Eliot)
The Bell-Jar (Plath)
The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
GreguerÃ*as (Gómez de la Serna)

[Qrazy]

I really need to watch fewer films and read more... but I'm 80 percent done 1,001 films to see before you die and I'm fiend-ing to finish it.

Some favorite authors:

Gogol
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
Steinbeck
Camus
Dostoyevsky
TS Elliot
Wallace Stevens
Spinoza
Dickens
Huxley
George Orwell
Joseph Heller
Voltaire
Keats
Eugene O'Neill
Kafka
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Joyce
Isaac Asimov
Stephen Crane
Robert Jordan
William James
Ibsen
Beckett
Zola
Balzac
Hume
Sartre
Heidegger
Kant
Nietszche
Faulkner
Nabokov
Maugham
Moore

[Qrazy]

So is Ayn Rand worth reading or not? I've heard so many bad things about the author and objectivism in general over the years that I've stayed away. However I don't feel like I can really condemn her without reading at least one of her works.

[Melville]

I really need to watch fewer films and read more... but I'm 80 percent done 1,001 films to see before you die and I'm fiend-ing to finish it.

Some favorite authors:

Gogol
Camus
Dostoyevsky
Kafka
Joyce
Sartre
Heidegger
Kant
Nietszche
Faulkner
Nabokov

Excellent choices. But no Hegel?

I've also avoided Ayn Rand, and I'll probably keep it that way. It doesn't seem worth reading an 800 page book just to find out whether I should condemn the author.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I'm going to hold off on this until I finish The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, because if the last 100 pages is as good as the first 250, it'll make my list for sure.

[Benny Profane]

I'm going to hold off on this until I finish The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, because if the last 100 pages is as good as the first 250, it'll make my list for sure.

Have I ever steered you wrong?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Have I ever steered you wrong?

Definitely not. Though I'm still ashamed that I never got around to writing you a review of Go Tell it on the Mountain. I just have no desire to write any reviews anymore, be it for film or books.

[Benny Profane]

Definitely not. Though I'm still ashamed that I never got around to writing you a review of Go Tell it on the Mountain. I just have no desire to write any reviews anymore, be it for film or books.

No worries, that's fully understandable. The important thing is that it was read and liked.

[Benny Profane]

Copy and pasted from the larger thread.

Favorite Books without repeating authors:

One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Marquez
Crime and Punishment -- Dostoevsky
Ham on Rye -- Bukowski
The Master and Margarita -- Bulgakov
Go Tell it on the Mountain -- Baldwin
V. -- Thomas Pynchon
The Sound and the Fury -- Faulkner
1984 -- Orwell
East of Eden -- Steinbeck
War and Peace -- Tolstoy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- McCullers
Herzog -- Bellow
Slaughterhouse Five -- Vonnegut
Under the Banner of Heaven -- Krakauer
Darkness at Noon -- Koestler
A Handful of Dust -- Waugh
Tender is the Night -- Fitzgerald
The Road -- McCarthy
Rabbit, Run -- Updike
Nostromo -- Conrad
Catch 22 -- Heller
Atonement -- McEwan
The Remains of the Day -- Ishiguro
A Confederacy of Dunces -- Toole
The Fountainhead -- Rand
The Stranger -- Camus

[Melville]

Antoine De Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince,
Marguerite Duras - The Lover,
Lermontov - A Hero of our Time

Great choices.

Andre Gide - Strait is the Gate

How does this compare to The Immoralist? I loved that book, but I've never heard of anything else by Gide.

[MadMan]

Some ones off the top of my head:

The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemmingway
Jurassic Park-Micheal Crichton
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
Dracula-Bram Stoker
LOTR trilogy-JRR Tolkien
Dark Tower series-Stephen King
King Solmon's Mines-H. Rider Haggard
The Lost World-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Matilda-Ronald Dahl
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy-Greg Palast

[SpaceOddity]

How does this compare to The Immoralist? I loved that book, but I've never heard of anything else by Gide.

It's soooooo superior. *insists*

"You think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for as long as that? ... And that life can breath upon it everyday without extinguishing it?"

*sniffs*

[D_Davis]

An updated top 10 I can live with...

1. Einstein's Dreams - Lightman (I don't really know if this is my favorite book of all time, but it is the book I've read the most - once per year)
2. Days of Life and Death and a Trip to the Moon - William Saroyan
3. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
4. The Stars My Destination - Bester
5. The Best Short Stories of JG Ballard - Ballard
6. More than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
7. The Dark Tower series - King
8. Sirius - Olaf Stapledon
9. The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
10. The Ninth Configuration - William Peter Blatty

This is a good mix of fiction and non-fiction, secular and religious, speculative, horror, and science fiction.

[MacGuffin]

^ Nerd.

[D_Davis]

^ Nerd.

I'm a lit gangster, hanging out in the ghettos where the real excitement is.