Favorite Novels?

[VictoryGardener]

After posting on the Favorite Movies thread, I thought I'd start one for Favorite Novels, Novelettes, Short Stories, etc

my favorite five

- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (book)

so how bout you guys??

 

[Tarkus]

Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
Dune: House Atreides, House Harkonnen, House Corrino by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Butlerian Jihad, Machine Crusades by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
If you can't tell, I love Dune....

Currently reading The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe....not bad, kinda odd wording though. I hate when authors think they have a unique style, when in fact they just suck at putting a sentence together. Still a good book though.

 

[VictoryGardener]

I like tom wolfe but the ekaat isn't up to par with the rest of his stuff

so uhh.. do you like Dune?

 

[Tarkus]

A tad. It is more of an addiction really....you know it is bad when you have dreams about not only being in the book, but dreams where you are just sitting at home reading it.

My name is Tarkus, and I have a Dune problem.

 

[bartender187]

1984 - orwell
animal farm
ecology of commerce - hawken
many others.. havin a brain fart atm

 

[Guest]

dayum tarkas... i'm a philip k. dick kinda guy myself... but mine would have to be.

moby dick - melville
another roadside attraction - tom robins
the dark half - steven king


peace

bILL

 

[VictoryGardener]

Tarkus, I know what you mean... I've done that a few times

 

[abc123xyz]

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit and the Lord of the Ring series
Frederik Pohl - Heechee Saga
Fred Saberhagen - Berserker series and the Sword series
Any Heinlein. I love Have Spacesuit Will Travel. Love the way this man wrote.
1984 by George Orwell. 1984 is now!

You guys read real books or use a Ebook reader? I have a Ebookwise 1150 and love the sucker. Get all my books for free off of newsgroups.

 

[Guest]

Ghost in the shell

 

[VictoryGardener]

I just go to the library...

 

[Tarkus]

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
You guys read real books or use a Ebook reader? I have a Ebookwise 1150 and love the sucker. Get all my books for free off of newsgroups.

Man, I love the Hobbit. It was my favorite book in middle school, then I met Dune....and yeah. Obsession soon followed. The Hobbit is still a fantastic book though.
What is Ebook reader?? I have never even heard of that. I like the feel of a book though, there is just something oddly satisfying about it. I also love the smell of books. I guess I am something of a bibliophile. I love books, and I would love to have a library at my disposal. I have had people tell me I am weird because I do not like to damage my books. I never dogear the pages, never write in them, never fold them in half (damaging the spine) and never write in them. Even though they are mine, I do not like to do any of this, as I plan to pass them along someday. I love really old books that are still in good condition.

 

[Guest]

fellas come on seriously ekaat is the bomb! u want boring square english when ur talking about ken kesey and the merry pranksters? i think that kind of criticism is better directed at hunter thompson or james joyce...

i'm not big on fiction but i really like kurt vonnegut, jailbird and cat's cradle are my favorites...i guess i will just make a list...

1) Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
2) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
3) Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
4) The Satyricon by Petronius
5) Native Son by Richard Wright

edit: While maybe not of the same gravity as my above choices I'm going to make "The Hitchhiker's Guide" trilogy 5a...tarkus talking about dune made me think of how much i loved it...i even had the books read on cassette tapes and they were awesome, the voices were all really sweet...i haven't read the trilogy in years, i have to get a new copy!

 

[Who?]

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Manson in His Own Words by Charles Manson as told to Nuel Emmons
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

These three are probably my favorite.

 

[VictoryGardener]

I read give a boy a gun...

 

[Guest]

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

i remember some assfuck priest had us read this in high school and then tied it in to some D.A.R.E. bullshit, it was a cool book but he made it totally suck, the administration at my high school made everything suck...

 

[Guest]

i remember some assfuck priest had us read this in high school

a priest in high school?

 

[Who?]

a priest in high school?

Yeah, some people go to private schools
I was in private schools up until 6th grade. 7th bieng my first public school year.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, some people go to private schools
I was in private schools up until 6th grade. 7th bieng my first public school year.

 

[T-type]

1984 gets my vote too, Its the only book I can actually remember finishing, and I have read it more than once... But if any of those guys in suits are reading this post I think that book is total bullshit, and don't think america will be like that soon, please don't come get me.

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

 

[VictoryGardener]

the last one is VERY true for the US... Ignorant, blindly patriotic, hateful people in America really fucked us all over right after 9/11.. and are still doing it today

for the second one... half true... freedom is slavery if the enslaved truly believe that they are free.. then they ARE truly free.. at least from their minds.. not so true for the rest of us..