| 26 Jun 2006 08:26 pm |
Regular Rep: 1  Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 379 OFFLINE | I love to read. While I enjoy the information that I gain from reading non-fiction, my true love is literature. There’s nothing like a good book to provide entertainment, insight and self-examination and realisation; but the best part is the story itself. I love that you can pick up a book and hold the whole thing in your hands all at once, beginning, middle and end, but that you have to sit down and ENJOY it to appreciate it. It’s an active form of entertainment that forces you to use your imagination, interpretive skills and logic to enjoy, something that I find to be very rare in our age of t.v., videogames and internet. So, what’s your favourite novel? What books have inspired you? Which ones have made you laugh out loud or cry? Which have just awed you with their ingenuity and creativity?
Mine are:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and Illusions, both by Richard Bach. Kinda hippie-dippy flower child philosophy, but they changed my outlook on life.
The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King. The single most creative work of literature I have ever read, hands down; and that’s saying something, cuz I’ve read a lot of really unique fantasy.
All of the Drizzt Do’Urden books, by R.A. Salvatore, because no one, and I mean no one writes a fantasy fight scene like him.
The Arthurian Legends. All of them. From the earliest to the most modern, they capture my sense of wonder, heroism and mystery like no other.
Almost anything by Guy Gavriel Kay. If you enjoy fantasy, give it a shot. Phenomenal story telling combined with beautiful prose. Works of art. Especially the Fionavar Tapestry.
So, anyone?
Rev. Mat Storring
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| 26 Jun 2006 08:31 pm |
Who Dares Wins Rep: 24 Joined: 24 Dec 2005 Posts: 19,023 OFFLINE | Hum.....The outsiders
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| 26 Jun 2006 08:34 pm |
Regular Rep: 1Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 379 OFFLINE | Excellent choice! Stay gold pony-boy, stay gold.
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| 26 Jun 2006 08:35 pm |
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| 26 Jun 2006 08:37 pm |
Going Sentimental Rep: 25 Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 7,781 | Patriot Games By Tom Clancy
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| 26 Jun 2006 09:00 pm |
UBER 1337 Poster Rep: 6 Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 3,460 OFFLINE | smartbomb
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| 26 Jun 2006 11:09 pm |
The Diabolical One... Rep: 2 Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 5,320 OFFLINE | ender’s game...
the inferno...
that’s about all I can think of now...
oh the anthem was interesting too...
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| 26 Jun 2006 11:43 pm |
The Other Name Guest | Question:
Where do you get your novels?
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| 26 Jun 2006 11:45 pm |
The Diabolical One... Rep: 2Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 5,320 OFFLINE | talking to me or in general...
umm... from a bookstore... or library...
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| 26 Jun 2006 11:45 pm |
Corrupted... Rep: 19 Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 8,580 | The Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Damn good books.
And there’s also the Halo novels...
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| 26 Jun 2006 11:47 pm |
The Other Name Guest | dark99 wrote:
talking to me or in general...
umm... from a bookstore... or library...
In general.
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| 27 Jun 2006 02:24 am |
King of the Gamer Army Rep: 34 Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 14,674 OFFLINE | Sword of Shanarra
Star Wars III
To Kill a Mockingbird
so on
books i despise
of mice and men
the book with the naked kids on the island fighting each other
so stupid and sick minded
stolen years, just gross and not even written well
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| 27 Jun 2006 03:26 am |
Regular Rep: 0 Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 108 OFFLINE | Crime and Punishment
Great Gatsby
Song of Solomon
Anything by Douglas Adams
Books i hate
Obasan
Grapes of Wrath
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| 27 Jun 2006 08:24 am |
I have a silly rank Rep: 46 Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 1,291 | "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”
-Philip K. Dick
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| 27 Jun 2006 12:37 pm |
Regular Rep: 0 Joined: 19 Jun 2006 Posts: 530 OFFLINE | Ringworld
Starship Troopers
The Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Rainbow Six
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| 27 Jun 2006 12:45 pm |
The Other Name Guest | Mine:
The Alphabet Pals
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| 27 Jun 2006 03:37 pm |
lonnnliness Guest | I don’t read fiction the last one I read was the The outsider by Camus. Good. Beautifull language even in translation. Dense.
The smile at the foot of the ladder !
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| 27 Jun 2006 05:02 pm |
Thee legit G_QQ Rep: 9 Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 5,261 OFFLINE | Yes I love reading !! .. but picking just one favourite novel is not going to happen .. although I do have favourite authors !
Clive Clussler
Stephen King
Brian Jacques
They are my top three .
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| 27 Jun 2006 05:38 pm |
Regular Rep: 1Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 379 OFFLINE | The Other Name wrote:
Question:
Where do you get your novels?
Library, bookstores, or, my favourite, USED bookstores.
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| 27 Jun 2006 05:42 pm |
Regular Rep: 1Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 379 OFFLINE | dark99 wrote:
ender’s game...
the inferno...
that’s about all I can think of now...
oh the anthem was interesting too...
Ender’s game, is that by Orson Scott Card?
Whether or not it is, I thought I would like to mention the Tales of Alvin Maker, by Card. Almost as good as Stephen King’s Dark Tower, I just forgot to mention it. I read sooo much it’s hard to remember everything I love.
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