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firepixiestranger
30 posts
Location: Plymouth, Devon


Posted:
from one of my other posts, I discovered that a lot of people are reading some pretty good books at the mo!

So this begs the question, what is your favourite book of all time? Answers on a postcard please!! Haha!

Loves ya! xxxxx ubbangel

If at first you don't succeed.......get someone else to do it for you!

shimmy! x


_Clare_BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)


Posted:
ubbrollsmile

I've just read Platform by Michel Houellebecq.... it was incredible... excellent writing style, exploring some interesting ideas - highly recommended.

So now, I'm reading Atomised (also by Houellebecq).

smile

Getting to the other side smile


Red_RaveNGOLD Member
Neo - Hippie
358 posts
Location: Sala, Slovakia


Posted:
any Terry Pratchett, probably the Sixth Continent

Smile.. It confuses people..:)

Wonders never cease as long as you never cease to wonder.


margitaSILVER Member
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia


Posted:
i recently read 'the bride stripped bare' by anonymous. awesome book! and just what i needed to make me laugh after the end of a long relationship! biggrin

'the power of one' by bryce courtenay was a fantastic book too - the movie was sh*t though!! it's one of my all time faves!

and one for the naughty folk out there - 'eat me' by linda jaivin is deliciously naughty!!! ubbangel

do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!



if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!



smile! :grin: it confuses people!


oliSILVER Member
not with cactus
2,052 posts
Location: bristol/ southern eastern devon, United Kingdom


Posted:
hard to say what my favourite book of all time was... ive read some quite nice ones.

i remember i once read one about a seagull, that was a good book. i cant remember what it was called now though.

Me train running low on soul coal
They push+pull tactics are driving me loco
They shouldn't do that no no no


ado-pGOLD Member
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland


Posted:
'I am David', I read this when I was just a boy and I can still imagine the journey.

'The Aclhemist' The only time I ever cried a tear of happiness.

'TLOTR' Because its what an epic is meant to be. Epic...

+Catch 22, Bangkok Hilton, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Filth, Animal Farm, The lord of the Flies

+Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchet, Stephen Donaldson, James Redfield, Ian M Banks, Neal Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Peter F Hamilton


Tao Te Ching, The Art of War,

Darn, do I have to choose?

Love is the law.


Pink...?BRONZE Member
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
Now you are asking the impossible. I have no favourite books.

I love Anne Rice books though,
And reading quite a good book now. Though can't remember the name.

I read so many books. I go to my local Oxfam 5 books for 99p. So i just pick any 5 and see if they are any good. I have found so many good books i would have otherwise not read.

ubbangel

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...


DurbsBRONZE Member
Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England


Posted:
I've read "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" about 4 times, absolutlely love them, I think they have have such a depth to them that gives a better sense of history than even LOTR. Well, the first trilogy is good, the 2nd is a bit dodgy...

Also Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is fantastic

Plus any Terry Pratchett

...and Winnie the Pooh

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Spinner of poi
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stregAi*member
44 posts
Location: Rome


Posted:
It's quite hard to say, but my favourite book of all time is probably "Alice's adventure's in wonderland". It's just great.

Apart from that, anything by H.Hesse and M.Kundera that I read was really really good.
Let's see, in English it should be "The unbearable lightness of being", right?
waveS

The adventures first! Explanations take such a dreadful time...


VixenSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,276 posts
Location: Oxfordshire/Wiltshire, United Kingdom


Posted:
wow!! I love reading, when we moved house not so long ago we didnt have enuff room for my books.... so my parents made me throw loadz out - i had over a thousand!

Junk - thats a good book
Im currently reading "King of the Castle" but its a bit crappy!

i like naughty books! hehehe - does anybody know any good ones?

tHeReS gOoD aNd EvIl iN EaCh InDiViDuAl fIrE, iDeNtIfIeS nEeDs AnD fEeDs OuR dEsIrEs.


strooSILVER Member
trusty sidekick to superman
799 posts
Location: oxford, england, uk


Posted:
naughty books are are always good. lol. uuurm my fav books (these arent naught by the way) are probably After you'd gone by Maggie O'Farrell, this is the ultimate book, pretty girlie, but soo touching. 1984 by George Orwell comes pretty close tho. Just read The curious incident of the dog in the night-time which took me about a day so im reading Notes on a Scandal. x

Livin' on dreams and custard creams


pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA


Posted:
The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**


vaperloc...the mightylook @my member
466 posts
Location: Ft worth Texas


Posted:
Anything by Dean koontz or clive cussler.I love the dirk pitt adventures but i think watchers by dean koonts.they made a really shytty movie aboot it with corey haim ,but it was so far off the book (and really cheezy)that i dont recommend watching it

There are no obstacles only challenges.
Very funny scotty now beam down my pants.
[colour."green"}What would willie do?

AHH theres too many wee leprechauns i cannae squash them all


Stormy, Queen of VodkaThe HoP Industrial Rainbow Fairy
385 posts
Location: Near Portsmouth, UK


Posted:
Nostradamus Ate My Hamster by I forget who umm! He also did Raiders of the Lost Car Park and I loved that too biggrin biggrin

†.You've got invisible fangs and cherry nun bangs,
Your erotic cabaret is non stop
You're wearing too many belts
And I bet they leave welts
Shut up and dance cause I wanna pop.†


SunriseIvetka
211 posts

Posted:
hi,

i like to read books from p.coelho...

www.paulocoelho.com

my favourite one is ALCHIMIST....

smile

sunny
grouphug


borismcnorrisprofessional pedant
137 posts
Location: Bristol


Posted:
The Alchemist is ace. I think my favourite ever would have to be The Princess Bride. There's a lot of books out there that I've not read yet though... wink

weavesmiley biggrin

A warrior always returns to the fray. He never does so out of stubbornness, but because he has noticed a change in the weather - Paulo Coelho


colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
i'd have to agree with stregai* here - the alice books are some of the most fun i've had with just myself and lots of paper.





vurt by jeff noon is a regular recommendation of mine and is one of the few books i've read more than once.





oli - 'jonathan livingstone seagull' by any chance? fookin amazing little book that one.



stormfeather - that's robert rankin i believe - he of the brentford trilogy fame biggrin





gonna start the paulo coelho collection real soon, providing i can convince moohaahaa's mum to lend them all to me wink

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


SunriseIvetka
211 posts

Posted:
Written by: coleman


oli - 'jonathan livingstone seagull' by any chance? fookin amazing little book that one.





oh now i noticed... redface

very nice little book... smile

sunny
grouphug


The Real Fryed FishGod's illgitament son
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion


Posted:
i just finished Anne Rice's Taltos, and that ties for first with me along with her other novel Servent of the Bones. Taltos ties in with the Mayfair witches, but Servent is no tied in with any of them, and has a great quote at the end (cannt remember it right now)

You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too


margitaSILVER Member
.:*distracted by shiny things*:.
3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia


Posted:
coleman wrote: vurt by jeff noon is a regular recommendation of mine and is one of the few books i've read more than once.

i've read that!!! at least i'm pretty sure it's the same one!! it's the feather one right? if it is, then i've read it and loved it!! biggrin

do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!



if at first you do succeed, try not to look too astonished!



smile! :grin: it confuses people!


duballstarSILVER Member
slack rating - 9.5
2,216 posts
Location: Suburbiton, Yoo-Kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
i gotta be cliche and say LOTR (including the hobbit and silmarillion) just cos of the number of times i've read them! i love pratchet too + anything by Neil Gaiman is a masterpiece (Good Omens sees these two ledgends combine!). Stardust was beautiful for a kids book. there's many more good books but these are the ones i re-read... biggrin

It is our fantasies that make us real. Without our fantasies we're just a blank monkey' - Terry Pratchett


pounceSILVER Member
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA


Posted:
i agree....neil gaiman is genius

I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

**giggles**


MiGGOLD Member
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia


Posted:
i like a lot of the stuff by Ben Elton. dont think he's in the real big time league though. If you ever get a chance to read his stuff, do it. especially 'Stark'. That is the only time i have seen environmentalism become funny.

"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA

"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie


nativeSILVER Member
sleeping with angels
508 posts
Location: anaheim CA usa


Posted:
favrote book is

world of darkness sins of the father

SLEEP WITH ANGELS muckieha


RixatrixBRONZE Member
paranoid of gov't conspiracies
217 posts
Location: USA


Posted:
one of my favorite books that i read alot when i was younger was The Giver, I dont remember who it's by and I haven't read it in forever but right now I'm reading The Odessy and then I'm on to The Divinci (sp?) Code.

MiGGOLD Member
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia


Posted:
And i love the 'tomorrow when the war began' series, by John Marsden. there is 7 fairly short books, and a second series has come out, continuing the originals. well worth a read.

"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA

"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie


NOnactivist for HoPper liberation.
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac


Posted:
Written by: duballstar


i love pratchet too + anything by Neil Gaiman is a masterpiece (Good Omens sees these two ledgends combine!).




hell yeah, I was going to put that one down as my favourite, actually most of my favouritest books have already been listed like Anne Rice's books, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and 1984. But also, Roald Dahl - the Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories, for a childrens author he had a dark, dark sense of humour....

Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006

if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.


FunkFishWatch out as ultimate Cute and Funkyness arives...
191 posts
Location: Holland, Zaandam (next to Amsterdam)


Posted:
i like sword of truth by terry goodkind

Push me, and then just hurt me, till i can get my satisfaction...


RadzynSILVER Member
HoP Star Wars Aficionado
183 posts
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA


Posted:
House of Leaves
Fight Club
Ishamael, My Ishmael, etc...
Ender's Game
Boomer Bible
Bush Hater's Handbook

And a thousand others... I read far too much

~Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.


LyraSILVER Member
spiny norman
314 posts
Location: Cincinnati,damn it, USA


Posted:
NOn, i totally agree, some of Roald Dalhs, short stories(not for kids) are really graphic/desturbing, he was a genius though

im reading a book of short stories by neil gaiman right now called smoke and mirrors, its very good, alot of it reminds me of stuff i would write if i was brilliant and could actually spell, alas it is not so, hes a great author though

lullaby, which is by the same author as fight club, is also very good, desturbing and sad, but very good(only in this book will you read of people having sex inside a chandelier)

peace>

if you think that our kiss was all in the lips, come on you got it all wrong man, and if you think that our dance was all in the hips then, oh well, do the twist -The White Stripes


stripesSILVER Member
stranger
41 posts
Location: england


Posted:
omg you have to read the DaVinci code- totally unputdownable! Started reading it at 4pm and finally finished and managed to go to bed at 6.30 AM! very very good book.

Am a huge harry potter fan (books not films), love Terry Pratchett, Tolkein (obviously), Terry Goodkind, Feist- anything fantasy. interesting that most people in here like fantasy books, when so few of my saner friends (I mean people who don't regularly whirl chains of fire around their heads) will even try them.

And Ben Elton is a god amoung men. everyone should read his Dead Famous.

remember; they can't break you if you don't have a spine


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