Favourite books.

[LuxoJr]

Whilst everybody's in the polling mood, it might be interested to find out what our favourite novels/reading materials and authors are.

Mine?


George Orwell: 1984
Douglas Adams: Hitch-hiker series (first and last...the level of quality in these books can be measured with an inverted bell curve!)
Roald Dahl Can't go wrong here! Best children's author EVER.
Paul Auster Great reads... 'Mr Vertigo' is one of my favourite novels.


and probably Frank Miller's Sin City comics - none of that pansy Aeon Flux crap in this series.

[ODDBODD]

C S LEWIS: the chronicles of narnia
K W JETER: the bounty hunter wars is my best star wars book trilogy
J.K ROWLING: gotta love harry potter
ROALD DAHL: who doesn't?
R L STEINE: yeah right, if i had a gun ill shoot him in the nust if i had a chance!!

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

Lessee...I love reading...
Bram Stoker racula
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe
Richard matheson:I Am Legend
Clive Barker:The Thief Of Always
Stephen King:The Shining and Salem's Lot
Ray Bradbury:The Illustrated Man and Something Wicked this way comes
Terry Jones:Nicobobunis and his fairy tales
Almost every sureal,dark humored and not in the mainstream comic book.

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

Oops, i made a mistake.It should say Dracula.oh, I wanted to say to LuxoJr that I'm gonna soon read 1984 and to say to ODDBODD that hes right.R.L stine is pathetic.

[Pacen]

Bryce Courtenay: The Power of One - My favourite novel ever.

Stephen King: Never read his work but heard about them & his movies & plots are awesome.


That's about it really, I don't do a lot of reading other than for school and our school novels generally suck.

[glukkon_daniel]

I LOVE The Shining by Stephen King and The Giver by Lois Lowry. I also really liked Jurassic Park. Those are the only three REALLY good books I remember reading. I'm also going to begin reading The Exorcist because my friends read it and loved it, and I saw the movie just the other night at my friend's house. *shudder*... That movie messed me up... I loved it.

[ODDBODD]

I SEEN NEARLY ALL OF SK'S FILMS.

I LOVE "PET CEMETARY" BUT I WAS PISSING MYSELF AFTER THAT.

[Dakkan Blackblade]

That C.S. Lewis guy
Ummm... King, The Watchtower was awesome!
there are a whole bunch but they are not coming to my head! I really hate that!

[Sydney]

Pacen, I really like Bryce Courtenay. I haven't read the Power of One yet, but I will one day. I recently read "The Family Frying Pan" by Courtenay, it's good reading.

Other authors I like are Anne Rice, Thomas Harris, Stephen King and some John Grisham.

Picture books are fun, too. Anything by Edward Gorey. An Australian picturebook I got ages ago by Gary Crew and Stephen Woolman is "The Watertower." It's very creepy, about a watertower in an outback Australian town, a couple of kids go swimming in there and strange things start to happen...

[ODDBODD]

DINOTOPIA RULES!!!!!!!
I LOVE RIVERQUEST BECAUSE IT HAS PADDLEFOOT IN IT.

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

Edward Gorey is also great like sydney said.His books are like...well there kind of dark children's books.(I think adults read them more any way.)My sister loves Thomas Harris and I liked what I read of silence of the lambs.Gahan Whilson is pretty funny.I also love Harvey Kurtzman's(Bill elder,John Severan,Jack Davis, and Wally wood as artists)MAD comic From 1952-1955.It was so perverse, surreal and subversive for the 1950's.It's still surreal and crazy nowadays too.HAIL MAD!!!!!

[Danny]

i disagree about hitch-hiker's guide series. i was really disappointed with the 5th, and i'd say it followed a normal bell curve.

i like:

Iain Banks [you gotta love his Culture novels]

Ben Elton [Popcorn: a classic]

Terry Pratchett [The Discworld: need i say more?]

J. R. R. Tolkein [only the Hobbit and TLOTR. the others are too hard to read.]

Douglas Adams [not just Hitch-Hiker series, but has anyone read the Dirk Gently series?]

Nick Hornby [High Fidelity]

[lady_elum]

doo dee doo

i am legend
hell house
phantom tollbooth
sound of the fury
nicobobinus
encyclopedia of goblins
silence of the lambs
red dragon
hannibal(book is better than movie!)
pop goes the weasel
redwall
outcast of redwall
good faeries/bad faeries
'salem's lot
archangel
yes...
i read like a rabid monkey on speed so... get ready for more

[Wil]

My favourite author is Douglas Adams. I like him as much as a writer as I do Mike Oldfield a musician, Lorne Lanning a, er, computer game director I suppose, and Rowan Atkinson a comedian and actor.

[LuxoJr]

Yeah - I've read Dirk Gently's Holistic....Agency, or whatever it was. I wasn't really impressed, except for the concept of Electric Monks, which was funny.

So did you actually like the third and fourth Hitchiker books? The first is generally regarded as Adams' best, but I haven't met many people who liked the sequels very much.

[Danny]

the third was the best, then the first, then the second, then the fourth, and the fifth was the worst.

have you read "The Long, Dark, Tea-time of the Soul"? it's the sequel to dirk gently.

[Wil]

I don't think the fourth or fifth Hitchhiker Books are any worse than the original Trilogy. Maybe it's just because they're 'tacked on'. If Doug had the plots for all five books in his head before he wrote the first, then the whole thing would seem better.

I've only just finished reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and I certainly was impressed. I'm always impressed by his work. I've yet to read The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

However, I have read his 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff', and am currently on chapter three of his 'Last Chance to See'.

[Danny]

does anyone else like Iain Banks? i've read all of his Culture novels [except the latest], and some of his gothic ones. they rule! he is definately my favourite author at the moment.

[Lantra]

j.r.r tolkein the lord of the rings.

[Haz1]

Ok, where do I start?

Stephen King, Graham Masterton, Thomas Harris, James Patterson, Richard Laymon, Gary Brandner, Dean Koontz, F Paul Wilson. Anyone see a pattern? Yes, I am a horror buff!

[Silversnow]

I just love Terry Pratchett, i read "Man at Arms" three times! Also i like Jules Verne, Roald Dalh, J.K Rowling and C.S Lewis. I just love fantasy books. Im writing one myself.

[Danny]

i also love terry pratchett! his best book was 'Small Gods', definately, but they're all good, especially the city watch stories.

[LuxoJr]

I haven't read the sequel to the first Dirk Gently book - mainly because I didn't find the series' beginning very interesting.

'Men at Arms' was my favourite Pratchett book, closely followed by 'Small Gods' and 'The Colour of Magic.'

[ODDBODD]

Originally posted by Silversnow:
Roald Dalh, J.K Rowling and C.S Lewis.

THERE MY FAV AUTHERS TOO..
HARRY POTTER ROX
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA ROCKS
AND ALL OF DAHLS BOOKS ROCK...I READ THEM ALL, EVEN THE ONES FOR TODS..LIKE THE POEM ONES.

[Silversnow]

My favourite Roald Dalh book is "Matilda", thats just so cool.

[Yemmling]

hmmmm....

in no particular order....

a clockwork orange -by anthony burgess

snow crash-by neal stephenson

vurt- by jeff noon

battlefield earth-by l. ron hubbard

only hyoo'mun-by niteowl(ya'll know it, ya'll love it)

fight club- i forgot who by

the lord of the rings-by tolkien

pixel juice- by jeff noon

the doubtfull guest- by edward gorey

the ghastleycrumb tinys- by edward gorey

[Cloverfield]

I am a reader of classic science fiction and fantasy... but classic I mean books from the 50s and 60s... so probably not many people would know about the authors and titles from back then.

I can't remember too many names as I have read heaps of books... but some of the books I love are The Wanderer and The Skylark Series. I wish I could remember more titles, but my mind is at a blank at the moment.

Some of my favorite authors include Isacc Azimov and E.E. "Doc" Smith.

I also enjoy reading short story compilations of the sci-fi and fantasy genres.

Abe Babe...

[Sydney]

Yemmling, I own Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies. It's hillarious!

Abe Babe, I read a "classic" Science Fiction novel a while back. It's called "Childhood's End" and I think it was by Arthur C. Clark. It's really good, you might have read it. It's about huge ships that arive over all the major cities, and they communicate to the earth through one man, but even he doesn't know what they look like. The suspense builds around the fact that they hide their appearance to great lengths, until they finally reveal themselves.

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

I love classic sci-fi.I like the Time Machine and Ray Bradbury and others.If ya like sci-fi check out E.C comic books,they might be comics but they aare considered literature.They were published in the 1950s but were banned because they were too crazy. There are many titles including horror sci-fi and humor.(the humor went on to be MAD magazine.)Great twist/surprise endings.
I love Edward Gorey!