Favorite Books

[Julius Rain]

Hannibal Rising the book, is far better than the movie.

I enjoy Jack Whyte's Templar Novels a whole lot. One of my favorite has to be Knights of the Black and White.

A.J. Hartley's On The Fifth Day is a good one i can remember.

James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight were two good ones that also stands out.

Well those are what I came up with that I had enjoyed reading. I'll look into the titles you guys listed, I do miss reading and I'm glad this topic was made. Now I have some recommendations, haven't had any for a while.

[global]

For me anything by Dostoevsky, Camus, or Milan Kundera. For more modern stuff I like some Thomas Pynchon, and really enjoyed the Dirty Havana Trilogy and Tropical Animal, both by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. If you are into philosophy type stuff that is a bit out there, read Imaginary Landscapes or The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light by William Irwin Thompson.

[Trainer Monkey]

For me anything by Dostoevsky, Camus, or Milan Kundera. For more modern stuff I like some Thomas Pynchon, and really enjoyed the Dirty Havana Trilogy and Tropical Animal, both by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. If you are into philosophy type stuff that is a bit out there, read Imaginary Landscapes or The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light by William Irwin Thompson.

The Plague is an incredible book

[superheavyrhun]

CC LEGION, in this modern world it contiually seems that nobody seems to read books anymore. Most of my friends don't and I don't think many of my workmates do either, and they think that my going outside to read a book at lunchtime is a waste of gossiping time or whatever they do with their lunch.

And nice to see so many books I like picked up by everyone. Anyhow, here's how my top 10 stands, and as I've read LOTR every summer since I turned 13, and once or twice in the winters in between too, that gets my no1.

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Terry Brooks - (The first Shannara trilogy)
3. Conn Iggulden - (The Emperor Series - Julius Caesar)
4. Bernard Cornwell - The Arthur Series
5. Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule (its the best...but the rest of the sword of truth series is oft read too)
6. Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth (currently reading the new one, World without End)
7. Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood (I find myself going back to this one so frequently because its a fairly quick read, but I love the flow of it too. I have been caught before whispering or saying the words out loud.)
8. Kate Mosse - Labyrinth
9. RS Thomas - Collected Poems (I've had this one since school, but I have never got rid of it because I always like to go back to it and read one or two poems if I've only got five minutes. He's a celebrated Welsh poet writing in English, and he captures some of the Wales and Welsh of the late 20th century amazingly.
10. Stephen King - Gunslinger Series (I know, I know, it's the literary equivalent of McDonalds, but its a cracking read and not too taxing, so ideal if it's hectic at work.

After a brief look around my study, I realise just quite how many books I have, and how many books I truly do love to read, and have read many times. I won't pretend to be a great literary mind, or have any affinity to most of the "classics", I just like a good well-written book with a great story and good pace.

[LEGION]

CC back Super, and thanks. I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised at the response on this topic. Nice to see people still enjoy the written word not to mention the quality of all the responses. Actually CC to everyone and thanks for the input. I am 36 and have read the LOTR at least once every year since I was 18, but mostly I read it twice a year and still can get lost in the story. And Tolkien's Silmarillion is a masterpiece IMO. Pillars of the Earth is my favorite book and I too am currently reading World without End, and can say that it is almost as good as Pillars, and gets better as it goes along. I'm about 4/5th's the way through and getting antsy towards the end. Stephen King is a genius, but I don't read much of him anymore; but my favorites are Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Desperation and Bag of Bones. Anyways, thanks all

[Andre]

CC back Super, and thanks. I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised at the response on this topic. Nice to see people still enjoy the written word not to mention the quality of all the responses. Actually CC to everyone and thanks for the input. I am 36 and have read the LOTR at least once every year since I was 18, but mostly I read it twice a year and still can get lost in the story. And Tolkien's Silmarillion is a masterpiece IMO. Pillars of the Earth is my favorite book and I too am currently reading World without End, and can say that it is almost as good as Pillars, and gets better as it goes along. I'm about 4/5th's the way through and getting antsy towards the end. Stephen King is a genius, but I don't read much of him anymore; but my favorites are Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Desperation and Bag of Bones. Anyways, thanks all

Pillars of the Earth..

Bitch!!! my misses put me off reading the sequel! Im going to read it depite her now...bum critic.

[LEGION]

CC back Super, and thanks. I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised at the response on this topic. Nice to see people still enjoy the written word not to mention the quality of all the responses. Actually CC to everyone and thanks for the input. I am 36 and have read the LOTR at least once every year since I was 18, but mostly I read it twice a year and still can get lost in the story. And Tolkien's Silmarillion is a masterpiece IMO. Pillars of the Earth is my favorite book and I too am currently reading World without End, and can say that it is almost as good as Pillars, and gets better as it goes along. I'm about 4/5th's the way through and getting antsy towards the end. Stephen King is a genius, but I don't read much of him anymore; but my favorites are Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Desperation and Bag of Bones. Anyways, thanks all

Pillars of the Earth..

Bitch!!! my misses put me off reading the sequel! Im going to read it depite her now...bum critic.

Well everyone sees things differently, so maybe your missus just didn't get into it. It started out slower than Pillars, but once it finds it's rhythym, it gets good and I started hating 2 characters with a passion. Can't wait to see what they get. Pillars was so strong that a sequel will get judged more harshly. Cabinet of Curiousities is one I recommend highly for a creepy read.

[JohnnyKickAss]

Wow...alot of Fantasy fans here...
I read only Fantasy and a bit Science Fiction...

Favorite author is definitly Roger Zelazny...which makes "The complete book of Amber" my favorite book...
I also like the Warhammer 40000 stuff by Dan Abnett...
I don't know what to choose I've read so much...
Right now I'm reading a Warhammer novel Felix&Gotrek:Manslayer by Nathan Long and
Shadowfall by James Clemens...

[Andre]

CC back Super, and thanks. I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised at the response on this topic. Nice to see people still enjoy the written word not to mention the quality of all the responses. Actually CC to everyone and thanks for the input. I am 36 and have read the LOTR at least once every year since I was 18, but mostly I read it twice a year and still can get lost in the story. And Tolkien's Silmarillion is a masterpiece IMO. Pillars of the Earth is my favorite book and I too am currently reading World without End, and can say that it is almost as good as Pillars, and gets better as it goes along. I'm about 4/5th's the way through and getting antsy towards the end. Stephen King is a genius, but I don't read much of him anymore; but my favorites are Needful Things, Tommyknockers, Desperation and Bag of Bones. Anyways, thanks all

Pillars of the Earth..

Bitch!!! my misses put me off reading the sequel! Im going to read it depite her now...bum critic.

Well everyone sees things differently, so maybe your missus just didn't get into it. It started out slower than Pillars, but once it finds it's rhythym, it gets good and I started hating 2 characters with a passion. Can't wait to see what they get. Pillars was so strong that a sequel will get judged more harshly. Cabinet of Curiousities is one I recommend highly for a creepy read.

Cabinet of Curiosites ....whos that by bro?

[Trainer Monkey]

Wow...alot of Fantasy fans here...
I read only Fantasy and a bit Science Fiction...

Favorite author is definitly Roger Zelazny...which makes "The complete book of Amber" my favorite book...
I also like the Warhammer 40000 stuff by Dan Abnett...
I don't know what to choose I've read so much...
Right now I'm reading a Warhammer novel Felix&Gotrek:Manslayer by Nathan Long and
Shadowfall by James Clemens...

So how much would you give me for my autographed copy of Bridge Of Ashes
Its not for sale,call it for insurance purposes

[donnydarkoIRL]

CC for the thread Legion. Reading is actually one of the things that I love, yet it's apparently something that people don't associate with me at all as it clashes with my persona somehow!!!
I do love boxing books, Hauser's Ali biography is essential for any real boxing fan, Following that I would reccomend John Allen Rayvern's "Punches on the Page," there's something in that for everybody, from Chavez to Naseem Hamed to Marcel Cerdan.

As regards other books, I like the more factual genre, Donnie Brasco was an enjoyable read, an Irish short Novel I liked was "The wrong kind of Blood".....

[Andre]

A fortunate life by A facey is great fun factual read.

[CutMeMick]

- American Psycho (I read this well before the movie ever came out as always the book is 10 times better)
- Of Mice and Men
- Hands of Stone : The Life and Legend of Roberto Duran
- My Life and Battles : by Jack Johnson
- The Great Fights: A Pictorial History of Boxing's Greatest Bouts

I haven't even started the Duran book but it's already my favourite.

[boozeboxer]

Postal Service by Charles Bukowski
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

Everyone I meet says the Bible is the favorite. Has anyone sat down and read the bible? The Bible is like a book of statutes, important but hardly a favorite.

[Trainer Monkey]

Postal Service by Charles Bukowski
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley

Everyone I meet says the Bible is the favorite. Has anyone sat down and read the bible? The Bible is like a book of statutes, important but hardly a favorite.

What,not Those Barren Leaves?
Or Running With The Wolves