favourite books (not comic books)
 

inspired by jarrah's bond book thread and driven by a scandalous lack of good literature i decided to open this topic

question is simple: what are your favourite books that are not comic books?

mine are:

- escape from NY
- 20000 leagues under the sea
- hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- the animorphs series
- the encyclopedia of useless knowledge

-The Hobbit
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-Eaters of the Dead
-Dracula
-The Wonder Years: Kevin goes to 'Nam

Enders Game
Harry Potter books
The star wars NJO
Zahn's heir to the empire trilogy
Fallen Angels(this book ****ing rules)

The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Resident Evil books

Dragonlance series
Forgotten Realms series (Drizzt Do' Urden and Clerc Quintet especially)
Harry Potter (obviously I love fantasy novels)
LOTR imo are overrated as books. I enjoyed the Hobbit quite a bit, but I just don't have the intrest to finish them. I got the entire set for my birthday over 5 months ago and I'm still only part way through the Two Towers. Unlike the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legacy of the Drow which I finished both, a total of 7 books, in less than 2 weeks. I just couldn't stop reading them. Dragonlance was the same. Especially the first three books.

I enjoyed Jurassic Park, the book. It was so much better than the movie. Oh and their a few Star Wars books but I can't remember what the name of those were.

Hobbit
Jurrasic Park
Hellboy: Lost Army
All the Spider-Man novels
Batman: No Mans Land novel
Any Stephen King book
Any Jonathan Kellerman book

Jurassic park
the roadside geology series
the horse whisperer
Lost moon

Choke (All time greatest.)
Fight Club
Survivor (The book by the dude who wrote FC, not some tv show ****)
Resident Evil: City Of The Dead
A Child Called It (Scared the piss out of me)
It
The Long Walk (I've read this 16 times....2nd favorite book.)

Plato's Phaedrus (or any work by Plato, really...)

Candide by Voltaire
Flatland by Edwin T. Abbott
Great Mischief by Josephine Pinckney
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

And anything by Kafka, Poe, or Hawthorne...

Oh, and Flannery O'Connor's short stories are excellent too.

Harry Potter series
Any Steven King
I love my collected works of Shakespeare and Poe...
Hehe, and I read computer books for fun. I love reading those!

I'll have to think of some more and post more later... :)

Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Candide by Voltaire
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
A Margin in Time by Laura Hayden (Okay, yeah... she's my mum, but she rocks nevertheless!)
The Horatio Hornblower Series by C.S. Forester
And most anything Patrick O'Brian related.

Wheel of Time series - Robert Jordan
Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Memiors of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
Dark Tower series - Stephen King

A Brave New World and 1984.

Ooh, yeah! I like those books, too. I just bought 1984 again...

when I was a kid, I collected the saddle club and Black stallion books

-memiors of a geisha
-lord of the flies
-to kill a mockingbird
-riverside complete works of shakespeare
-OED (oxford english dictionary)

what kind of an idiot am i to forget these? God, that just ain't true

Raptor Red (still think this is like, the best book ever)
The Hitchhiker's Trilogy (includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and four other stories)
The Harry Potter series (well, the first four anyway. Haven't gotten the fifth yet)

I used to be a big reader, but I haven't had much time for it lately.

I can't believe I forgot "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Of Mice and Men". I aslo just finished read "Cavalier and Clay" and that was really good, too.

I FORGOT!
IF CHINS COULD KILL

While I find Bruce Campbell to be a funny and amusing guy, I didn't make it very far into that book. Found it to be a bit boring.

i like comic bo--- awww :cry:

i also forgot.... and don't start a religious debate....please

-Bible
-left behind series
-da vinci code

can i just say the left behind series isn't really any great work of fiction....but it totally feeds my addiction to revalation theroy/end times speculation....and its just a fun read.

da vinci code...what can i say? an interesting look into a theroy that is many years old (it didn't just bust on the scene last year.)

lesee...


Raptor Red (best book ever!)
Jurassic Park
Almost everything by Alexander Dumas (thanks for the writing genes! :D )
The Perfect storm (read the book, watch the movie, listen to the music!)

there's others, I just cant think of the titles... :goofygri:

I'm not a very religous person (or at all), but there is one religious book I find extremely inspirational for some reason. Its called "A Wolf Story" by James Byron Huggins. It is sitting on my shelf, waiting to be re-read. I haven't read it since I first found it on used book rack, in the sci-fi section of all places.

Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Animorphs (most all... there were a few books I have to force my self through in that series, like the last 2 Megamorphs)
Harry Potter
the Dragonlance series
Eragon wasn't bad... not too great though.
the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evonovich. Some funny stuff there.

I forgot to mention a book...

Battle Royale.

Favorit book The Hobbit

The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
The Sword of Shannara Series
The Sword in the Stone

Hmm

First and foremost The Bible, regardless of how boring some parts are.
Death and Life of Superman (actually I forgot the title and the author of this monster novelization)
Legend of Huma by Richard A Knack
Jurassic Park 2 by Michael Crichton
Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid
Boy Meets Girl by Joshua Harris
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry
Star Wars The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton
Little Pilgrim's Progress by Helen L. Taylor
Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Hmm I know there's a bunch of other books that stuck out, but I just don't remember...

But I do have a couple other books I want to read that are sitting on my shelf like
Da Vinci Code
When God Writes your Love Story
Under Cover

SNOW CRASH--Neal Stephenson

love that book. *does cartwheels* it's a VUNDAFUL read!


um... and lots of fantasy stuff;

wheel of time
anything anne Mcaffrey
anything douglas adams
anything patricia McKillip
the "of Shanara" series
1984
the Lethe
the good master
anything Madeline L'engle.


i love fairytale stuffs too.
so collections of folklore...
and the secret garden
and the little princess
and all kinds of "happily ever after" stuff....

I thought I would have been the only member that's read any of the Shanara books....They're not my favorites, but they're still really good.

I'm not a big fan of fiction... Dune by Frank Herbet and Orwell's Animal Farm are okay.

But, I prefer to read about actual events.