Black Hawk Down, True Storue of Failed US mission in Somalia, Shows how even soldiers get Scared

Never be afraid to try something new, Remember Amatuers built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic

Chasm City (Alastair Reynolds), Trading in Danger (Elizabeth Moon) and Daughter of the Empire (Raymond E. Fiest and Janny Wurts). Best books ever. Altough "Daghter of the Empire" is a series of book it's also the name of the first one in the trilogy and, in my opinion, the first one is the best.

Edited by - Orillion.net on 8/28/2005 11:02:28 AM

damn, i know i read the best book i've ever read, but i've forgotten what it is. Bah.

Oh wait. Now i remember , at least, i think i do.... i'll bet you i've forgotten the best book i ever read

Stormbreaker, Scorpio (god i love that series ), and, i have to say this, Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone. Reason? There was a lot of mystery involved, and it glued me to my seat when i read it. Wondering "WTF?!?!" half the time, espiecally with those odd letters... J.K. Rowling has a thing with keeping you hooked

Lord of the Ring. I read the four books once every year lol.

Blessed Be to all those that still dream of the flight to the stars.

3. Hadassah by Tommy Tenney About a young girls look at an ancester named Esther. About trust and faith.

2. First Light by Brock & Bodie Thoene About the first century look at a time period from a group of comman folk. The message is deep. 1st of a 4 book set.

1. The Bible by The Lord Somewhat self explaintory.



Edited by - Finalday on 8/28/2005 12:39:12 PM

This is difficult...

1984 by George Orwell
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Quake III Arena Source Code by John Carmack et. al.

idk, i'm leaning toards eragon

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. probably the most searing and insightful depiction of the confusion and emptiness of the human existence and the evil that can result from the noblest motives when unrestrained by any mores or social conventions, and how at all levels humans have to lie to get by, because we just can't cope with truth; the truth of our own natures and desires is just too dark, too overwhelming. nothing I have read before or since ever spoke to me in quite the same way.

then probably Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - I just really enjoyed it, it was a witty and erudite novel that I though was fun and filled with historical and philosophical imagery.

then possibly The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, difficult book written in bizarre archaic style, but the concept and imagery was stunning. a dark Earth billions of years in the future, the Sun is a dead cinder and the stars have gone out, where whats left of humanity resides in a vast metal Pyramid, under siege by monsters and mutated beast-men, which are controlled by alien supernatural forces that destroy soul as well as body. pain in the @ss to read a lot of the time but worth it!

such an unfair question though - 3 fave books. thats like in Fahrenheit-451 when everyone who escapes has to choose one book to memorise out of all the books that have ever existed... my choice would have to be H-o-D though; or The Holy Q'u'ran by the same author as FD's choice, different publisher

other choices

Moby Dick Hermann Melville
Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
War of the Worlds HG Wells
1984 George Orwell (coming truer ever day sadly)
La Divina Commedia Dante Alighieri
That Hideous Strength CS Lewis
Julian Gore Vidal
Emperor Julian Henrik Ibsen (ok its a stageplay not a novel but it reads like a novel and no-one ever performs it anyway)
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
Ringworld Larry Niven
Protector also by Larry Niven
Hawksmoor Peter Ackroyd
The House of Doctor Dee also by Peter Ackroyd
Seven Pillars of Wisdom TE Lawrence
Perfume Patrick Susskind (not for the squeamish!)
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
Quo Vadis? Henryk Sienkiewicz
Winter Quarters Alfred Duggan
Spartacus Howard Fast
The Robe also by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliffe
The Drowned World John Wyndham (particularly apt these days..)
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon (again not for the faint-hearted)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
Gulliver's Travels Jonathon Swift
Call of Cthulhu HP Lovecraft
Watership Down Richard Adams
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje (but should be read withthe others in the series or you don't understand why the characters do a lot of the things they do.

ah, there are so very very many....

there ws also a book aI read as a child about some animals that had banded together after all humans died out from plague or war, amaged to find an old boat and sailed down the Thames (or up it) and eventually ended up at Stonehenge where other animals had set up a bizarre pagan religion. I can't remember forthe life of me what it was called or who wrote it but I'd love to read it again. it was *something* like the Voyage of the R100 - vaguely, but it wasn't that. actually it was the Voyage of QV66, by Penelope Lively, and it's much btter than you think.




Edited by - Tawakalna (Reloaded) on 9/4/2005 8:09:27 AM

Too bad taht the earth would have been burnt to a cinder long before the sun gave out. And the stars just don't "Go out". Oh well, you can't have perfectly sceintifically accurate books everywhere

Patton

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

1984

it was written nearly a hundred years ago, blackhole. and the sun and stars were consumed by vast alien beings that were disastrously brought into our dimension by highly advanced but ill-advised inter-dimensional scientific experiments (a la Doom, I suppose..)

it's a novel! its about the survival of the human spirit and the will to persevere no matter how bleak the circumstances. the Pyramid is full of light and is the last refuge of Man in a world thats dark and hostile.

i was just musing...

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes:
A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

The Pretty Good Jim's Journal Treasury

All of the above for the following reasons:

1. You never outgrow your favorite sunday comics.
2. Jim's Journal is so bland it's hilarious.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Earth's Children Series (The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage and The Shelters of Stone ) - Jean M. Auel

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

I've also read 2 books from author Johannes Mario Simmel which were very good, but I only know the Dutch translation titles and not the English titles (though the originals are in German btw). And I've read pretty much every book from John Grisham as well and also Filth and Trainspotting from Irvin Welsh. And even much more than that, but I can't remember them all of course

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