Most Beloved Books

[manuelgv]

Mario Vargas Llosa, I was thining of reading feast of the goat, Ive heard good things about it, its about the hitleresque dictator of the dominican republic right?

It's an amazing book,you should read it when you have a chance.
and yes,it's about the guy in dominican republic

 

[Psychonaut]

I think my all time favorite is Stephen King's The Stand. Next would have to be the Tolkein trilogy and there was tons of excellent fantasy books I read that I can't remember.

 

[manuelgv]

If you like fantasy Psychonaut you should check out Gene Wolff's series,they are very very good.

 

[Voice of God]

I think my all time favorite is Stephen King's The Stand.

Ah. I forgot this. Definitely one of my favorites too. Ever since reading it I've had this weird perverted dream of living in an "empty" world.

 

[mourningstar]

s. beckett - waiting for godot
k. popper - conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge
w. shakespeare - hamlet
o. wilde - the picture of dorian gray
a. christie - and then there were none

a good investment for everyone: "the new fontana dictionary of modern thought"

MAdame Bovary by Flaubert

i've always thought that book is too similar to a soap opera

 

[Hitori]

argh i wrote a long message here and i lost it!
anyways, they are:

Montaigne's Essays
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Dostoievsky Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Tolkien's lotr and silmarilion
JK Rowling Harry Potter series

I also love Ionesco, Mario Vargas Llosa (party of the goat, pantaleon y las visitadoras), Roal Dahl, all medieval stories by Chetrien de Troyes and Marie de France's lais, amongst other anonymous writers... Choderlos de Laclos' Liasons Dangerouses, David Copperfield of Dickens... 100 years of solitude/cuentos peregrinos by Garcia Marquez, Chejov... too many!

 

[mourningstar]

I also love [...] Roal Dahl

thumbs up.

edit: have you read "more tales of the unexpected"?

 

[Silver Surfer]

Stephen King - The Gunslinger
George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series
Robert Jordan - Some of the Wheel of Time series

 

[Erendis]

The Fall by Albert Camus
Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Lord of the rings/The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien
The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte
The King's Way: Recollections of Françoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon, Wife to the King of France by Françoise Chandernagor
Last Love Poems by Paul Eluard
Melmoth by Charles Robert Maturin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Contes et récits fantastiques by Theophile Gautier

I'm sure i forgot many...

 

[~metal_maiden~]

I forgot to mention "Things to Think About"... unfortunately I don't remember the author's name.

 

[Hitori]

@mourningstar
noooo... but i will as soon as i find it!

 

[poltergeist]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

 

[charnee]

I don't like to read, but out of the books I've read I really like The Count of Monte Cristo

 

[Melinbonean_King]

Elric, Stealer of Souls. Michael Moorcock

Sword of Shanara. Terry Brooks

Art of War. Sun Tzu

Homeland. R.A. Slavatore

 

[dia_hain]

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. Although it is a feminist book, men would also enjoy the very, vile descriptive short stories.

 

[Profanity]

hARRY pOTTER AND tHE pHILOSOPHERS sTONE

 

[BigBronco4x4]

All of Brian Jacques's Redwall books, which were what I grew up reading, and which I still have. OK, they're teen fantasy novels and not the best literature on Earth, but they gave me many happy hours back in the day.

I couldn't have said it better, although I think Jacques is a excellent writer, even though is stuff is geared to young people.

R.A. Salvatore (anything by this author is the greatest)

The dragonlance chronicles by MArgaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series
Robert Jordan - Some of the Wheel of Time series

 

[Profanity]

Books suck cats urine.

 

[Naggamanteh]

John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany, his other books too
Jean Giono: The Man Who Planted Trees (not sure if that's the English name)
J.R.R. Tolkien: LOTR
Nick Hornby: Fever Pitch
Thomas Keneally: Schindler's List

Also various stuff by the following authors:
Jan Fridegard
Guy de Maupassant (various stories)
H. P. Lovecraft (some stories)
Rabindranath Thakur
Roald Dahl
Sandor Marai
Herman Hesse
Madeleine L'Engle
Michael Ondaatje
Patrick Suskind
Kurt Vonnegut
and other

 

[Hitori]

@nagga....

youve got good taste