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| Nevyn |
 Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: Novels |
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What are peoples favourite books? I absolutly love Sience Fiction so i am putting down:
The Gap Cycle by Steven Donaldson (a series of books which are absolutely fantastic, warning, if under the agfe of 15 i recomend not reading them as they are very graphic)
Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Hamilton (another fantastic sience fiction book)
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| Chemboy |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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i read Robinson Crusoe in 6th grade. I remember really enjoying it. I also love Where The Red Fern Grows. that's all i can think of right now...
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| Not read much fiction in my time but one that I do remember I enjoyed very much was 'Lord of the flies'. Other than that I've read most of the works of Conan Doyle and Shakespeare [does he count?]. |
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| Nevyn |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: |
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I have read Lord of the Flies for my GCSE's, it was a good book, i also like 'The Belgariad' series by David Eddings *By the way, i can keep going for ever, i have a couple of bookshelves full of books i've read. Yes I know i am sad*
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| Chemboy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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Lord of the Flies is good, read that in 8th grade. I really enjoyed The Great Gatsby. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is excellent. Time Windows. The Cay.
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| Chemboy |
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i guess this isn't really a novel, but I kind of like The Canterbury Tales.
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| The P-manator |
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In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Oondatje
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| Nevyn |
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| TvEye |
| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: |
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Top 5:
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"The Space Merchants" by Frederik Pohl
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| Chemboy |
| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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I recently finished reading Pet Sematary by Stephen King. It was quite good.
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| paralith |
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My favorites are the Xenogenesis series by Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago), followed closely by The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
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| Dimension |
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Top 5 for me would be
1. The Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy: A trilogy in 5 parts-Douglas Adams
2. It-Stephen King
3. Stranger In a Strange Land -Robert Heinlan
4. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
5. The Prince of Nothing - I can't remember the author right now
I don't normally read alot of fiction though so most of my favorite books overall are not on here.
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| Bunbury |
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Not necessarily favorites, but recent recommended reads are:
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M.Coetzee
Brilliant writing. Depressing story – abuses and wrongs served up by life, and by people more powerful than us, but we accept it because, well what else you gonna do?
Saturday, Ian McEwan
The apparent paradox of free will and determinism, presented in a brilliant novel about a brain surgeon’s bad day.
Liverpool Fantasy, Larry Kirwan
Strictly for grins. The alternative history of the Beatles. They break up before they become famous. McCartney’s a lounge singer in Vegas; Lennon’s a lout in Liverpool, Etc. etc. Funny and a bit grim too. |
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| serpicojr |
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| I love Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (I happen to be reading a literary fiction novel based on it at the moment--Finn.) I'm also a big fan of Mark Helprin's Memoir from Antproof Case. |
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| SkinWalker |
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I haven't had the opportunity to read many novels in the last year or so, my reading pile is mostly non-fiction these days (currently I'm reading Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen), but I did read two or three novels by James Rollins, starting with Map of Bones. I enjoy his writing style and, while some of his take on archaeology and antiquity makes heavy use of literary license, he keeps the action and mystery going well throughout the book.
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