Favorite Novels?

[Guest]

'Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls' by ROBERT RANKIN
I think many more are amazing reads, Orwell, P K Dick, I really like alot of O S Card's, Ender's Game especially.
But the Rankin book gets it for comic relief.
Peace.

 

[Tarkus]

I enjoyed the 2001: a Space Odyssey set, it was pretty good. I also liked the Rendezvous with Rama set. Arthur C. Clarke isn't too bad. Pretty easy reads.


Oh, and I am not saying Tom Wolfe had to write with perfect grammar and all that jazz, but I just get a little annoyed when a sentence makes no sense what so ever. It is one thing to have an abstract style, but not using punctuation correctly is just annoying.

 

[Guest]

its just his attempt to convey dissociative experiences...the fact that they just don't make sense a lot of times...i've only had cid once that was anything like what they describe in the book...

 

[Tarkus]

He describes tripping pretty well, its just. I don't know, some of the sentences are really obscure.
He did describe Kesey's first trip really well, and it was more or less the way I felt when I first took it.

 

[Guest]

Robert A. Heinlein - The Past Through Tomorrow

It's a collection of his short stories, arranged in a pseudo chronological order. I've read it innumerable times.

IMHO - the master of sci-fi.

Oh, and pretty much anything by Hunter S.

IMHO - the master, period.

ws

 

[ItsGrowTime]

I guess Im more Bestseller List/mainstream. I love all good legal stories (Grisham) and good horror suspense (oh old Steven King where have you gone?!?). Throw a 1000 page Clancy in there and Im happy.

I dont read much anymore though. Reminds me too much of jail.

 

[duggy]

If it's Heinlein, it's gotta be Stranger in a Strange Land.

also:

the Water Method Man by John Irving (hilarious)
Lolita by Nabakov (not porn--the best prose styling found in English--written by a Russian!)
Light by M. John Harrison (science fiction like it should be written)
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (also science fiction with some depth and characterization)
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (complete freaky weirdness)
Cosmic Comics by Italo Calvino (metaphysical meta-fiction)
Perfume by Patrick Suskind (creepy delicious horror and the inpiration for Cobain's Scentless Apprentice)

Anything by Vonnegut, anything by Philip K. Dick.

Books give me a boner.

duggy

edit: oh, and I love the Science vs. Faith graphic, Hedonism Bot!! Has anyone read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins? Yow! That's a good read!

 

[Guest]

Dunno if I have favorites... enjoyed Anne Rice books... for awhile didn't read alot of novels... but a hell of alot of textbooks... so nice to be reading novels again...

Lately I have been enjoying Gregory Maguire's books... I've read Wicked.. the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West... just finished the sequel... Son of a Witch and going to start another of his books... Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella's stepsister)... love that he takes children's classics and picks a background character and writes about them...

Peace~

Hippie Chic

 

[Guest]

Stephen king:
The Talisman
Talisman 2 (black house)
Needful Things
All of these were great reads.
Also I've been reading all the H.S.T books I can get my hands on.

 

[Guest]

jitterbug perfume- tom robbins

...in fact, i love and cherish EVERY SINGLE tom robbins book and have read each many times. the man is a genius!

only tom robbins and hunter s thompson are authors i cant ever get tired of.

i have read a few of tom wolfe books as well, they are entertaining but none are really literary masterpieces. of his, i have read electric cool-aid acid test, a man in full, bonfire of the vanities, and i am charlotte simmons.

 

[Tarkus]

Not a novel, but I did enjoy the Cartoon History of the Universe by Larry Gonick. Ha, I am also nuts for Calvin and Hobbes (got them all), The Far Side (Gary Larson is THE man), and Garfield (have a whole shit load of em).


Ha, when I was a child I really enjoyed the Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson. Also, Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

 

[Guest]

Far Side (Gary Larson is THE man),

Love the Far Side... Great sense of humor Gary Larson has...

 

[Guest]

nobody has mentioned the karma sutra

 

[GoodbyeBlueSky]

Trainspotting... one of the most difficult to read books i've ever encountered, but well worth the struggle...

Irvine Welsh rocks...

And Hunter S. Thompson... though his books are mostly non-fiction...

 

[newbieb]

harry potter the series among others

 

[Nikijad4210]

"Congo" by Michael Crichton.....The movie was ok, but the book was MUCH better....

 

[GMT]

i sure hope the harry potter series was merely a joke.

I cant believe no one has mentioned A BRAVE NEW WORLD

Oh and the funniest thing I've ever read was Good Omens.

 

[Guest]

harry potter the series among others

 

[newbieb]

no it wasnt i really do like it it gets you from the begining, the only reasothat i can think of is that they didnt give it a try when i first read it i was very skeptical but after a while i really grew fond of it

 

[Lofty]

the unedited version of the stand by stephen king