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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:06 pm
by adok
kay here is a place for all you wonderfull people to post your top five favourite books that you think everyone should read.
mine are
1. lord of the rings - jrr toilken ( it just a truly excellent story)
2. the thousand orcs - r.a salavtore ( gotta love drizzit)
3. execution hour/ shadow point - gordon rennie ( sci fi trash but read them).
4. the rincewind triology - terry pratchet ( funny as fuck)
5. the hollow choclate bunnies of the apocolypse - ian rankin (hillarious)
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:33 pm
by berwick upon tweed
demian - hermann hesse
siddharta - hermann hesse
the hobbit - j.r.r tolkien
consider the lilies of the field - erico verissimo
crime and punishment - fiodor dostoievsky
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:05 pm
by Melana
I have a list of 50 books that everyone should read...as prescribed by the books alive board in Australia....
And i'm not so much about books as I am about authors.
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:22 am
by Massacre
1. Hitchhker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
2.Lord of the Rings-if u dont kno the author go away
3.The Chocolate War-cant remember this one
4.Holes-Louis Sachar
5.The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:58 am
by Evil Matt
1984 - George Orwell
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Screwtape Letters - C. S. Lewis
Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:04 am
by Murton
I recommend anything and everything by JRR Tolkien. Any badmouthing of this godly author will be met with lethal force
I also recommend the Star Wars novels but depending on what aspects of Star Wars you like there are some to steer clear of, so many different authors in that franchise they can't all be gold. Just a case of reading the prologue in the shop before you buy.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:25 pm
by Matt
*waits for someone to bad mouth tolkien,awaits with baseball bat*
im like halfway through the lord of this rings,i heard that the book has so much more that the films,i want the hobbit too
alan,is the rincewind trilogy the same as that game?,the same guy?
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:34 pm
by Melana
I find it amusing that you people go all "you bad mouth tolkien i'll wipe your ass" crap, this forum isn't about abusing people because they dislike or have different opinions than you on shit.
I personally dislike tolkien's naration style and find it hard to read his novels.
I really do dislike reading his books. I appreciate what he has given to literature, i dont mind the movies but make me read another 5 fucking pages to describe a hill and i'm going to puke.
and yeah, come on try and kick my ass with all your might because my dears... I have more clout than you.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:44 pm
by Matt
yeah that is sommat i find hard,thus the amount of time i have spent ion that book, i spent most of it re-reading a page to understand it,the first page was a pain in th ass,but,i love descriptiveness,and my RP posts have improved as a result
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:56 pm
by Melana
See I didn't mind the world he created and thats why i didn't mind reading the simarralion or whatever it's called. But he's not a perfect writer, I expect certain things from my books and need them and they are most definately lacking with tolkien.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:08 pm
by Matt
he did write them over 70 years ago,i think
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:04 pm
by adok
the rincewind triology does feature rincewind the same character as the game, but it has different story
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:53 pm
by Matt
ahhhh,i mght invest in that book then
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:12 pm
by Chewi
Rincewind rocks.
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 3:46 pm
by Mik
I couldn't take the whole LOTR story seriously, for fuck sake he said 'gay' like 30 times in the first chapter .. I don't care that the book was written in 1912 I'm reading it now and calling someone gay is just going to male me laught cause I'm an immature bastard.
