10-04-2003, 06:25 AM | #1 |
Elf Lord
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Favourites among fiction
Kipling's The Jungle Books
Shute's A Town Like Alice Burnett's A little Princess Burnett's The Secret Garden Auel's The Earth's Children-series (the first four) F. MacDonald's The Pyrates W. Strieber's Warday W. Strieber's The Wild P. Theroux's The Kingdom by the sea R. Pilcher's The Shellseekers McCullough's Rome-series might just be added to this list after I've read them. |
10-04-2003, 08:49 AM | #2 |
Elven Warrior
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(excluding Tolkien)
Kurt Vonnegut--"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" KV--"Breakfast of Champions" KV--"Slapstick" Philip K. Dick--"The Man in the High Castle" PKD--"A Scanner Darkly" James Joyce--"A Potrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Eugene Zamiatin--"We" Jack Womack--"Random Acts of Senseless Violence" Jonathan Lethem--"Gun, With Occasional Music" William Gibson--"Neuromancer" Joseph Heller--"Catch-22" Don Delillo--"White Noise" George Orwell--"1984" |
10-06-2003, 01:46 AM | #3 |
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There are actually two really old threads on this subject, Favorite Books and Favourite Novel? but they've both been dead for a good while, and aren't quite as general and encompassing as simply "favourites among fiction", so I'm leaving this thread open.
My contributions: a few immediately come to mind. Interestingly, many of them have been mentioned already. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and sequels) Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland L. Frank Baum - The Oz series, notably Nos. 1, 3 and 6 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep William Horwood - Duncton Wood (and first two sequels) Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey There are a lot, lot more but these ones are particularly special to me.
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10-08-2003, 06:17 PM | #4 |
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besides tolkien...
Willaim Gibson - Pattern Recognition Anne McCaffrey - The Dragonriders of Pern series Anne McCaffrey (and a few other authors) - Acorna series Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials Trilogy Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy (and the other sequels that followed) JK Rowling - Harry Potter series Herbie Brennan - Faerie Wars
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10-08-2003, 07:04 PM | #5 |
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all Tolkien...
Alexandre Dumas...The Count of Monte Cristo Sir Walter Scott...Ivanhoe Ken Kesey...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Chaucer...The Canterbury Tales Glendon Swarthout...Bless the Beasts and Children lots more but I'll have to post em later.
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10-10-2003, 11:24 AM | #6 |
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I'm bad at making lists like this - I can never remember everything at one time. But the ones I love that I can remember are:
Jane Austen - All six novels, plus fragments and juvenilia Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisisted Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbevilles and Far From the Madding Crowd George Eliot - Middlemarch C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia Shakespeare - lots, but in particular Hamlet Various classic children's books, too many to name
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12-21-2003, 10:05 PM | #7 |
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My English class just finished reading Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. I really liked that.
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12-21-2003, 11:34 PM | #8 |
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oh what a nice thread....
J.R.R Tolkien's -"The Lord Of The Rings" Dostoyevsky-The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky-The Possessed Dickens-Great Expectations Brian Jacques-REDWALL Timothy Zhan's "The Heir to the Empire Trilogy" Orson Scott Card- Enders Game.
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Dostoyevsky- planning to read soon, expect to be wonderful Dickens- I prefer A Tale of Two Cities to Great Expectations (For some reason, the French Revolution captivates me) Redwall- enjoyable series to read I would add, being quite brief: the Scarlet Pimpernel Three Musketeers A Separate Peace Dorothy Sayer's mystery novels Harry Potter (they are cute!) To Kill a Mockingbird
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