top 5 favorite books

[Black Winter Day]

1) THE FOUNTAINHEAD - Ayn Rand
2) CATCH-22 - Joseph Heller
3) 1984 - George Orwell
4) THE STAND - Stephen King
5) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - Anthony Burgess

damn. . . that was tough, i feel bad to leave so many out. . .

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

BWD is going to make my choices look like filth flarn filth, but what the hey...

Stephen King - The Stand (best book of all time IMO)
Tolkien - Lord of the Rings trilogy
Margaret Weis & Tracey Hickman - Dragonlance trilogy (fine, I'm an old-school D&D geek, sue me)
Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land (and damn good Maiden song, btw)
Mankind - Have A Nice Day

j/k about the last one, though it was funny as shit. For the real last one, erm, um...
(tie) Clancy - Red Storm Rising and Eric L. Harry - Arc Light (I'm also a sucker for WWIII scenarios)

Cheers!

 

[ZANEX]

I tend to like non-fiction and autobiographies. Some of my favorites include:

*KISS AND MAKE UP-GENE SIMMONS
*CRAZY FROM THE HEAT, DAVID LEE ROTH AUTOBIOGRAPHY
*WALK THIS WAY, AEROSMITH AUTOBIOGRAPHY
*SATAN'S UNDERGROUND- BY LAUREN ??? (This book is about a woman who was made to pose nude with animals, and forced into prostitution at a young age.(maybe metallica sucks whatever will like this). She eventually wound up with drug dealers, pimps, thugs, etc... and people into Satanism as a young woman. She tells of Satanic rituals and demon possession among other things. This book is very graphic ans supposedely autobiographical.
*MISERY- STEPHEN KING (FICTION)

 

[Black Winter Day]

zanex, those are scary. scary that someone would read them!

just kidding

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

uhh donut reed buuks, mane. Kannt yoo tull? ha!

 

[Black Winter Day]

**notice that bwd and ct thrash will never have a remotely intelligent conversation**

aye hav wun thowsand

 

[neal]

1)cherri
2)juggs
3)barely legal
4)asian dreams
5)midget mania
-neal

 

[Unregistered]

can say....those are ones i love

everything by pratchett....
doug adams is cool too...
nietzsche...
the dark tower (or smth) by stephen king
also loved woyzeck....yeh...ppl hate it...

 

[speed]

I'll never understand why Ayn Rand is popular in america, I suppose it is the fact that she is such a primitive and simplistic write. If you want to be a individualistic Superman- or a godman- why not just read nietzsche, or better yet read some dostoevsky- the man who proposed and then refuted the idea of the superman, years before nietzsche. Sorry for my rant, but I really do not understand after reading ayn rand, how anyone believes she is a great writer. So Black Winter Day will you please explain why her book is so special to you?

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

dostoevsky

never heard of him....i should check it!

 

[Caeros]

Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein
The Shining-Stephen King
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress-Robert Heinlien
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card
The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy-Douglas Adams

 

[WarHead]

clock work orange any good?

 

[The_Witch_King]

The Lord Of The Rings -> Tolkien
Star Trek : Imzadi -> Peter David
Do Androids Dream Of Eletric Sheep -> Philip K. Dick
Star Trek : The Return -> William Shatner
Paradise Lost -> Milton

 

[chemicalgroom]

Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte)
Lord of the Rings
The Game of Our Lives (Gzowski)
Coming Into the Country (McPhee)
Black Sun (Rhodes)
Any Dickens novel

 

[White Rabbit]

STEPPENWOLF hermann hesse

 

[Tee]

1- Colleen McCoullough: "The Thorn Birds"
2- A. Schnitzler : "Leutnant Gustl"
3- Thomas Mann: "Buddenbrooks"
4- Patrick Süskind: "Das Parfum"
5- Herman Hesse: "Siddharta"

 

[terria]

well, well, well...
this is a hard one so i'll stretch the rules a bit and take everything those authors wrote and just pick out their bestest and most beautifullest one
1. William Fucking Shakespeare - Much ado about nothing
2. terry pratchett - thief of time
3. nail gaiman - neverwhere
4. hermann hesse - das glasperlenspiel
5. tad williams - otherland

dadoobidoobidoo

 

[terria]

goddammit: georg trakl/g. büchner/houellebeque/janosch

 

[Dragonlord]

hermann hesse - siddharta
tolkien - lord of the rings
leo buscaglia - living loving and learning
tom robins - even cowgirls get the blues
stephen king - hearts in atlantis

there are far more,can't point out just 5.these are just the first 5 that popped in my mind.

 

[Chromatose]

Originally posted by Dragonlord
tom robins - even cowgirls get the blues

Have you read any of his other stuff, Dragonlord?

I recently finished up Tom Robbin's "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates," and am currently reading "Jitterbug Perfume." They're both incredible!! I think I have a new favorite author...

some other favorites..
Tolkien - Lord Of The Rings
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
George Orwell - 1984
Daniel Quinn - Ishmael
Arthur C Clarke - 2001