BOC - BlackBlade?
a bizarre song. But then again, all of the eternal champion series are a little warped.
I think Elric Of Melnibone was definately the best.
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BOC - BlackBlade?
a bizarre song. But then again, all of the eternal champion series are a little warped.
I think Elric Of Melnibone was definately the best.
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Cussler's Pitt books are great. He's also started a new series with a different character - Kurt Austin - but I haven't read any of those yet.
Check out this site for all of his books.
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here are a few of my favourites:
* Best Of Bevan - Bevo himself
* Prophecies - Tony Allan
* Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
* The prophecies of Nostradamus - Francis King and Steven Anderson
* Steve Waugh's Captain's diary 2002 - good read
...plus lots of Star Wars books (the old ones, none of the new ****) and Simpsons comics
* Best Of Bevan - Bevo himself
* Prophecies - Tony Allan
* Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
* The prophecies of Nostradamus - Francis King and Steven Anderson
* Steve Waugh's Captain's diary 2002 - good read
...plus lots of Star Wars books (the old ones, none of the new ****) and Simpsons comics
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Books are great. However in the last 5 years I have read hardly any as my life seems to be full of other stuff.
However before that I used to read a lot. Very interested in you guys who read phislosophy as I did this brielfy at Uni and found it very difficult to read.
Some of my favourites over the years have been.
Tolkkein - Lord of the Rings - great depth and structure as well as being a super story. Very hard to beat.
Dickens -I am a huge fan, with perhaps Barnaby Rudge being my favourtie but Copperfield, Bleak House and others come close.
Iain Banks - Crow Road, The Bridge and a couple of others.
Edward Rutherford (I think) - London, Sarem and the New Forrest - excellent story books that also tell the history of the areas, really good reads.
Ludlum - have read all of them. Most of them are smilar but would say the Bourne Identity or the Matarase Circle were the best ones.
Feist - The Magician - A great book but I thought that the others that followed were not nearly as good.
The War of Powers - Robert E Vardman and Victor Milan I think - loved it as an ealry teen as it had heaps of sex in it.
Peter Carey - True Story of the Kelly Gang - great read
Like many others I loved to Kill a Mocking Bird and it was great to see the movie after reading the book as it brought it all to life.
Ben Elton - Gridlock probably my favourite of the five or so of his that I have read, as I thought it was hillaious.
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Pillars of Stone - Ken Follet
Anything by Wilbur Smith, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, John Grisham.
The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay.
On the second read I thought the Mayor of Casterbrige by Thomas Hardy was a good book. Took a while to get into it though.
(Pride and Prejudice is crap and boring though).
Probably so many more.
However before that I used to read a lot. Very interested in you guys who read phislosophy as I did this brielfy at Uni and found it very difficult to read.
Some of my favourites over the years have been.
Tolkkein - Lord of the Rings - great depth and structure as well as being a super story. Very hard to beat.
Dickens -I am a huge fan, with perhaps Barnaby Rudge being my favourtie but Copperfield, Bleak House and others come close.
Iain Banks - Crow Road, The Bridge and a couple of others.
Edward Rutherford (I think) - London, Sarem and the New Forrest - excellent story books that also tell the history of the areas, really good reads.
Ludlum - have read all of them. Most of them are smilar but would say the Bourne Identity or the Matarase Circle were the best ones.
Feist - The Magician - A great book but I thought that the others that followed were not nearly as good.
The War of Powers - Robert E Vardman and Victor Milan I think - loved it as an ealry teen as it had heaps of sex in it.
Peter Carey - True Story of the Kelly Gang - great read
Like many others I loved to Kill a Mocking Bird and it was great to see the movie after reading the book as it brought it all to life.
Ben Elton - Gridlock probably my favourite of the five or so of his that I have read, as I thought it was hillaious.
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Pillars of Stone - Ken Follet
Anything by Wilbur Smith, Stephen King, Tom Clancy, John Grisham.
The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay.
On the second read I thought the Mayor of Casterbrige by Thomas Hardy was a good book. Took a while to get into it though.
(Pride and Prejudice is crap and boring though).
Probably so many more.
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I reckon everyone should nearly always be able to find time to do a bit of reading.
Yep - I particularly liked that one, although I think Dead Famous is pretty damn good too.
I like Archer's books, although they became a bit too much the same after a while (two separated brothers crossing paths).
A Follett book I really enjoyed was A Dangerous Fortune.
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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (the movie was horrible)
Mila 18
Topaz
Armageddon
Exodus all by Leon Uris
Centennial
Chesapeake Bay
Sayonara
Space
Caravans all by James Michener
Shogun by James Clavell
Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler (the movie stunk)
The Making of the African Queen by Katherine Hepburn
The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Shipkiller by Justin Scott
Titan
Wizard both by John Varley
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of Our Discontent all by John Steinbeck
The Dune series by Frank Herbert
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
The Lensman series by E.E."Doc"Smith
the 14 war novels by Sven Hassel
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
The Stand
Christine
Salem's Lot
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The Shining all by Stephen King
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Golden Turkey Awards
The Son of Golden Turkey Awards
The Hollywood Hall of Shame
The 50 Worst Films of all Time all by the Medved Brothers
The Waste Makers by Vance Packard
Cult TV by Jon Lewis
The Crash of 79 by Paul Erdman
Firefox by Craig Thomas
The 1st & 2nd chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
anything written by HG Wells
Mila 18
Topaz
Armageddon
Exodus all by Leon Uris
Centennial
Chesapeake Bay
Sayonara
Space
Caravans all by James Michener
Shogun by James Clavell
Raise the Titanic by Clive Cussler (the movie stunk)
The Making of the African Queen by Katherine Hepburn
The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Shipkiller by Justin Scott
Titan
Wizard both by John Varley
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of Our Discontent all by John Steinbeck
The Dune series by Frank Herbert
The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
The Lensman series by E.E."Doc"Smith
the 14 war novels by Sven Hassel
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
The Stand
Christine
Salem's Lot
Cujo
The Shining all by Stephen King
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Golden Turkey Awards
The Son of Golden Turkey Awards
The Hollywood Hall of Shame
The 50 Worst Films of all Time all by the Medved Brothers
The Waste Makers by Vance Packard
Cult TV by Jon Lewis
The Crash of 79 by Paul Erdman
Firefox by Craig Thomas
The 1st & 2nd chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson
anything written by HG Wells
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I can fill everyone in on what makes the most boring reading:-
Professional Indemnity Insurance policy wordings...ugh
closely followed by The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Professional Indemnity Insurance policy wordings...ugh
closely followed by The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't read much, but lately I've made an effort. This year I've read Guns Germs and Steel by I can't remember who, The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker (I think), 1984 by you-know-who, and Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon... very interesting, though long, read on some historical stuff on the ex-yugoslavia.
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Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Peeling The Onion - Wendy Orr
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Lance Armstrong - It's not about the bike.
(The book had a slightly brash tone - a slightly more unassuming take on his achievements would have made him a more endearing athlete - but nonethless a phenomenal effort and inspiring story.)
Frank Hardy - Power Without Glory.
Oh, and when I was a kid, every Asterix and Tintin comic ever published!
(The book had a slightly brash tone - a slightly more unassuming take on his achievements would have made him a more endearing athlete - but nonethless a phenomenal effort and inspiring story.)
Frank Hardy - Power Without Glory.
Oh, and when I was a kid, every Asterix and Tintin comic ever published!
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Like Archer. Liked Kane and Abel, though I prefer As The Crow Flies.
Grisham is my favourite. Just about every book review I had to do in English class from years 8, 9 and 10 was on a Grisham novel. The Rainmaker is my favourite, followed by The Pelican Brief and The Runaway Jury.
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Originally posted by Shaitan
Not sure if this has been posted yet, I haven't read the entire thread, but here's a list of the greatest novels ever.
here
Should generate some good discussion.
The distinct lack of 20th Century novels shows...
"Ulysses" at #45? That book is top ten at the very least. Similarly for "The Brothers Karazmavov", although it fares better at #29.
"Lord of the Rings" at #64 is a little high. I love that book, but a great literary work it is not.
I was pleased to see Calvino get a mention at #82, he is a severely unrecognised author. But I was flabbergasted that his fellow countryman Umberto Eco did not get a mention. "The Name of the Rose" is an extremely fine novel.
Salman Rushdie only gets in at #94, and not even with his best novel. "Midnight's Children", "The Satanic Verses" and "The Moor's Last Sigh" all have a strong case for being in the top 100.
Very disappointed that Halldor Laxness failed to get a mention. He won a Nobel prize. How many people have heard of him?
The top 10 is rather disappointing, IMO. All those books deserve to be top 100, but not top 10.
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I don't have enough time to read this entire thread so apologies if this has already been recommended, but Them by Jon Ronson is the most engrossing book I've read this year. He's an English journalist kind of similar in style to someone like Louis Theroux. It's about extremists and conspiracy theorists and it's extremely well-written. I've been giving it to everyone I know for their birthdays.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye and The Lord of the Rings trilogy are amongst my all time favourites.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, Catch 22, Catcher in the Rye and The Lord of the Rings trilogy are amongst my all time favourites.
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catcher in the rye was good. i was expecting more however.
i've hardly read anything of note since i left school
so here's a list of excellent books i read at school:
crime and punishment (gripping. slow to get going, but couldn't put it down at stages)
in the lake of the woods (about a soldier returning from vietnam)
the great gatsby
on the road
oedipus rex
i've hardly read anything of note since i left school
so here's a list of excellent books i read at school:
crime and punishment (gripping. slow to get going, but couldn't put it down at stages)
in the lake of the woods (about a soldier returning from vietnam)
the great gatsby
on the road
oedipus rex
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If you like thrillers, James Pattersons (alex cross series) is brilliant. Start with Along Came A Spider. The movies were absolute rubbish compared to the books.
