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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: What's the best book you've ever read? | ||||
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| Son of Psycho Mark | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:19 PM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00  | That was a good one too. He also wrote "Shardik". Call me crazy, but The Regulators was better than Desperation. (A BIG King fan, could you tell?) | ||||
| Just Jon | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:20 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | My absolute fave is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The first three Anne Rice Vamp novels (the movie they're making is Queen of the Damned, which will cover Lestat and Queen) Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll Neuromancer by Willaim Gibson and I'm sure I'll think of others... -----  E-mail: [email protected] | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:20 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | i know son of PM, when i was doing that top 10 i was throwing out like 30 other books it's a tough one to narrow down to a top 10. with other classics like Great Gatsby, streetcar named desire, east of eden, oliver twist, great expectations, the verdict and on and on.  Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws --Jim Morrison (An American Prayer) | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | The Dragon Lance Chronicles Series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman or The Stand by Mr. King Of course, the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings are always a great read. Anyone read Ayn Rand out there?? adopted by Joey BigArms  | ||||
| Opie696 G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Soldier of Fortune Spec Ops Division | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Hey i could say something funny like my favorite book is Spots on a wall by Who-Flung-Poo but that is so old. So im just gonna say that my favorite book is The Last Don by Mario Puzo. | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:24 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Spitfire, I heard they were making hte Queen of the Damned into a movie right now, haven't heard anything about a Lestat movie. Would rather if they followed the story line and did them in order though!! adopted by Joey BigArms | ||||
| Son of Psycho Mark | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:26 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Which is better from a literary standpoint, the Bile or the Koran? Someone please fill me in, as I've only read the Bible. | ||||
| spitfire421 | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:27 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | My bad, I stand corrected by Jon about the Chronicles... (Jon, you didn't bother to read the rest? After this last one Merrick, they're going to get a lot better because Lestat's back) GonzoStyle--I'm reading that same book Lord of the Dead (read my 1st post for another suggestion) other books I love- --any nonfiction on Jimi like "'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky"- but not too much other nonfiction, except philosophy books --anything by Tom Robbins, what a fucking trip his books are!:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas --Watership Down --Great Expectations --The Stranger by Camus --anything Shakespeare, especially King Lear and Much Ado about Nothing  Is it just I should take And never endings are glad To carry out the dead Your idols burn in the fire The mob comes crawling out (take us down and out) I'm reclaiming their minds Destroying everyone There's no one here And people everywhere, you're all alone | ||||
| Arthur Dent | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:27 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | Damn Jon, you picked some of my favorites. I just got a copy of Ender's Shadow. Word is that they are going to film Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow simultaneously and then release them six months apart. I'm a big science fiction, horror, and fantasy fan. Some of my favorite authors: Terry Brooks : Sword of Shannarra, Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold, and Running with the Demons are the first books of three of the best series I've ever read. Isaac Asimov : 'Nuff said Ann Rice : The movie doesn't do her work justice. Timothy Zahn : His were the first new Star Wars books Lucas authorized. That trilogy is the only MUST READ of the whole series. And also Tom Clancy : Read them in order. Great stuff.  "I thought I had a great idea today, but it never really took off. In fact, it didn't even get on the runway. I guess you could say it exploded in the hangar." - Calvin and Hobbes Where in the | ||||
| That Guy | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:35 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | Off the top of my head. Here a few. The Great Gatsby/Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise/Fitzgerald Civilization and Its Discontents/Freud Dispatches/Herr All Quiet on the Western Front/Remarque A Seperate Peace/Knowles American Psycho/Ellis Catcher in the Rye/Salinger "Cry havoc...and let slip the dogs of war!" This message was edited by That Guy on 2-27-01 @ 4:44 PM | ||||
| DoughBoy | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:37 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Actually, the dark tower books take place in a post-Stand world. They are deff. my favorite books (can't wait till they're done). Two other great books, both by Dean Koontz: Watchers Strangers  Proud mentor of: Hellspawn warrior (Graduate) Lazy Boy Fire Zeus Snipe_Junk Bud Dwyer Hornygoatweed23 FedEx Racer DumperHumper and my biggest challenge Evil Barney | ||||
| Dan
| posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:39 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jul. 00 | OK, so Gonzostyle lists many of my alltime favorite reads... The question I have now is whether I should slit my wrists or hang myself.... | ||||
| Rommel | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:40 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Some of you have mentioned my fave reads. Celestine Prophesy On The Road Following The Equator- A Journey Around The World by Twain Brave New World, The Doors Of Perception-Huxley Weave World - Barker The Alienist -Caleb Carr Almost anything by Elmore Leonard, Charles Bukowski, Dean Koontz. Bios No One Gets Out Of Here Alive Hell's Angels Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Jimi Hendrix-The Ultimate Experience When Pride Still Mattered Not much candle-power left in these eyes...  Jeder oder Keiner, Alles oder Nichts | ||||
| CaptinCrash | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:44 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | Many of my favs have been mentioned already such as the Dark Tower series and others but a few of mine are.. Anne Rice- Servert of the Bones (excellent work from cover to cover, no lagging points) Stephen King- The Regulators and Desperation.(both have somthing to do with each other) Stphen King and Peter Strab-Talisman (excellent story of a boy caught between 2 worlds, travling from one cost to the other to save his mother) Clive Barker- the Great and Secret Show and Everville (both have somthing to do with each other excelent story) And also from the Bachman books (early Stephen King work under a different name) The Long Walk Excellent Short Story about a contest that young men enter, where they begin there walk from maine and countinue down the cost and they cannot stop or the the military that overseas the entire contest ....removes you. | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:47 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Doughboy, Steven King is currently writing the latest installment of the Dark tower series, and it should be out sometime next year... adopted by Joey BigArms | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:47 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Dan i say you just show your true colors, genious and insanity is only seperated by a very thin line. Join me for a beer and a nice discussion about Dostoyevsky and Kid Touching. Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws --Jim Morrison (An American Prayer) | ||||
| Brokenjaw Always will bow down to the power of the Faceman!!!! | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | I have many some of my favorites aer.. 1. No one here gats out a live 2. Are You Experienced- Bio-Jimi Hendrix 3. The Invisable Man 4. The Red Badge of Courage 5. The Great Gatsby 6. Of Mice and Men 7. The Works of Edgar Alan Poe 8. 1001 Arabian Knights 9. Storm of the Century 10.Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky   | ||||
| Arthur Dent | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:52 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | skitchr4u : The "Queen of the Damned" movie will be a combination of the two books "The Vampire Lestat" and "Queen of the Damned". From what I understand, they are dropping all the background on Lestat from the book "Lestat" and focusing on the whole rock career leading into the events of "Damned". Remember "Lestat" ended in "sorta, kindov a" cliff-hanger that was resolved in "Damned". And as for the "Dark Tower" series (one of my all time favorites I can't wait for), it is not definite that the story is in the distant future of the Stand world. It IS in the world of "Dragon Eyes", but it seems more like all the other King books take place in "parallel universes". Except all the stories that take place in Castlerock. All those characters are aware of all the other stories that accur in that town. Damn...now I'm rambling... "I thought I had a great idea today, but it never really took off. In fact, it didn't even get on the runway. I guess you could say it exploded in the hangar." - Calvin and Hobbes Where in the | ||||
| slackjaw The Cunt-Twat is my WORLD! The Great Pumpkin | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:55 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Ok, I have too many to decide any absolute favorites, but here are some: The Dragonlance series (but I only count the Weis and Hickmann books) On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony MacBeth (um... that Bill guy) Animal Farm .. Orwell most Clancy novels Beowulf (not really a book, just a real long poem) and of course, I will always have a soft spot for Encyclopedia Brown :)  Say hello to my little friend! I have officialy adopted:Monstertaz | ||||
| Dan
| posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:56 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jul. 00 | Gonzostyle: I'll join you for that beer anytime, but Dostoyevsky frustrates me and kid touching is something best kept in private... | ||||
| CaptinCrash | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:59 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jan. 01 | Skitchr4u way cool information. I have been waiting a long time since Wizard and Glass. Have you read any other Stephen King books and found references to the the Dark Tower Series? There is one in Insomnia another in the Desperation I believe and also the biggest reference is the first half of the book Hearts in Atlantis. The First Half of that book was very interesting. Actually its more than a reference its....well...if you have not read it yet i recomend it for Dark Tower Fans. | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:59 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | thanks spirfire, i'm in the middle of reading crime and punishment yet again. I'll wait till you're done maybe you give me the thumbs up or down on it. But i love the work of Byron so it might be worth the read. Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws --Jim Morrison (An American Prayer) | ||||
| spitfire421 | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 4:59 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Damn, I keep forgetting shit, I read too much goddamn it! all my favorite Clive Barker books!! like Everville, The Great and Secret Show, and one of my favorite books of all time: Imajica kewl, gs, I'll give you a review when I finally finish Is it just I should take And never endings are glad To carry out the dead Your idols burn in the fire The mob comes crawling out (take us down and out) I'm reclaiming their minds Destroying everyone There's no one here And people everywhere, you're all alone This message was edited by spitfire421 on 2-27-01 @ 5:03 PM | ||||
| Dana Dillon | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 5:00 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | The Shining scared the Bejesus out of me!!!Hooked ever since!!:) Graduate of Newbie School..And many "Thanks" for the Sig Pic JustJon! | ||||
| Calm Your Nut | posted on 02-27-2001 @ 5:09 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | Book ehhhh whats that? Proud to watch over "Mud Juice and Drunken GW" | ||||
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