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i don't have a single favorite. but i always recommend these (in no order): Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem City Of Saints and Madmen - Jeff VanDerMeer The Ghastlycrumb Tinies - Richard Gorey A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole and if i think you're the type, i'll recommend: Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon Infinite Jest - Wallace
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Too hard to pick one. But my faves: Hitchhiker's trilogy - Douglass Adams Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Mirror of Her Dreams - Stephen Donaldson I'm sure there's about 50 more if I spent another 5 mins thinking...
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Recently I read a book by Greg Iles -- Blood Memory. It is my recent favorite. All time favorites include - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. All the books by Stephen King, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham, Harold Robbins . . . . and the list goes on and on and on. (:badger:)
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Summer of Katya by Trevanian always comes to mind when someone asks about a good book. The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov is another classic. Saturday by Ian McEwan is brilliant. Anything by Philip Roth is excellent. Ian M. Banks for SF. There is no best though. I could never choose :)
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Hard to say. Maybe Crime and Punishment[^] by Dostoevsky.
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Too hard to pick one. But my faves: Hitchhiker's trilogy - Douglass Adams Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett Mirror of Her Dreams - Stephen Donaldson I'm sure there's about 50 more if I spent another 5 mins thinking...
cheers, Chris Maunder
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I think he would have had a good chuckle over that.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Lord of the Rings trilogy. definitaly ! :-D
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:jig: :badger:Gets my 5. I'd include the Silmarillion - the breadth of background and depth of internal history that pervades all of Tolkien's writings gives it a feeling of consistency you just don't get in most other fantasy.
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The Bible - God The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith Grace Walk - Steve McVey Humility - Andrew Murray The Rest of the Gospel - Dan Stone Just to name a few.
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Gets my 5. I'd include the Silmarillion - the breadth of background and depth of internal history that pervades all of Tolkien's writings gives it a feeling of consistency you just don't get in most other fantasy.
"He's got a lot on his mind, and it's not a load-bearing structure." - John Weak
Yep, I've read about every book available about LOTR, the bottom line is, it's not enough... :sigh:
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The Sherlock Holmes collection.
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Non-fiction: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West [^] Science Fiction: The Foundation Trilogy[^] Fiction: A Darkness More Than Night[^]
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i don't have a single favorite. but i always recommend these (in no order): Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan Lethem City Of Saints and Madmen - Jeff VanDerMeer The Ghastlycrumb Tinies - Richard Gorey A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole and if i think you're the type, i'll recommend: Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon Infinite Jest - Wallace
You might enjoy Harry Crews ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Harry%20Crews&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank/104-8102370-9561559[^] )
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
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I can't pick a favorite... but a couple I've read recently that were really good: Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood Wicked, by Gregory Macguire
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At the risk of becoming branded a child, I will say that Harry Potter books are my favorites. But again I don't read non-tech books much. In the following order: 1. The Half Blood Prince 2. Goblet of Fire 3. Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Order of Phoenix
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