List your favourite books

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Pantalaimon1	List your favourite books		Lead	[-]
Posts: 152 11-May-08 12:29 AM	It is with grateful thanks to my loving mumboo who has given me unlimited use of her fantastic library, that I have had the privilege to read some of the greatest books of all time. My list in no particular order, are: CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie THE BIBLE ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh KIM by Rudyard Kipling A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller And by ADAM HALL: The Striker Portfolio, 1968 The Warsaw Document, 1971 The Tango Briefing, 1973 The Mandarin Cypher, 1975 The Kobra Manifesto, 1976 The Sinkiang Executive, 1978 The Sibling, 1979 The Scorpion Signal, 1979 The Pekin Target, 1981 (US as The Peking Target, 1982) Northlight, 1985 (US as Quiller, 1985) Quiller's Run, 1988 Quiller KGB, 1989 Quiller Barracuda, 1990 Quiller Bamboo, 1991 Quiller Solitaire, 1992 Quiller Meridian, 1993 Quiller Salamander, 1994 Quiller Balalaika, 1996 Lyra
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Jibril Ammon		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2498 11-May-08 6:39 AM munificent member I felt so automated	That's an impressive list! I only have a few favorites, I'm rather picky about what I read as well as never got around to reading things in college that I wanted to. The Great Gatsby Little Women Farewell, My Lovely Sherlock Holmes (I have the big, thick, could injure a man, complete stories of Sherlock Holmes... everything Sir Arthur wrote on Holmes) Good Omens Neverwhere and though I don't think it counts as a book per sae, but along the lines of Good Omens and Neverewhere, I consider the Sandman series a book really... just in graphic form. I don't like many contemporary authors, but I love Neil Gaimen. Maybe one day I'll find the time to read more... course I said that 15 years ago when I left college as well Maybe I should do that in this next year, but with a baby on the way, not sure if I have the time. Anyone think Raymond Chandler is good for bedtime stories for a kid?
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Boudica21		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 113 11-May-08 8:03 AM	I don't see why your children can't read Ray Chandler. I was 14 when I was avidly reading his books. OK, I was impressionable because Chandler's main character Philip Marlowe related to me in real life. At 16 I was a young hellion, a hard drinker, a wisecracking remarker and I was tough. So Ray Chandler's books identified something in me to stay up late at night reading his gumshoe detective stories under the blankets with the torch on long after mum told me to go to sleep. Mum let me watch an old video The Big Sleep which was played by Robert Mitchum, who also was one of my late father's favourite actors. It was during my convalescence from cancer that I fell in love with reading. There was little else to do in the hospice but it had a huge library, hundreds of books having been donated by previous patients and their relatives. I read them all. I was hooked; hooked in a world of my own if only to help take my mind off the illness. Now, I have a personal library all of my own and every week it grows. Books is how I educated myself and Jibril, I hope your kids will find the joy in reading that I had. A very useful source of high quality pre-used books may be found at: http://www.abebooks.com/ I have an account with them. They'll send anywhere in the world; even to Greece, where some 5,400 other books at racked, under the Dewey System. Among my literature favourites, are: Jane Eyre Lord of the Rings Beloved (by Tony Morrison, not Lyra's 'Beloved') Pride and Prejudice To Kill a Mockingbird The Old Man and the Sea The Count of Monte Cristo Mists of Avalon Tess of the D'Urbervilles Age of Innocence Fried Green Tomatoes Gone with the Wind David Copperfield The Catcher in the Rye Slaughterhouse Five Love, Boo
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Bad to the Bone Bob		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 342 11-May-08 9:45 AM	Books are good, but how sometimes they just don't convey the picture the author is trying to present...
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trofeo50		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 287 11-May-08 9:52 AM	everybody poops yes, thats a book, not just an observation
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TaraBallerina		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 11-May-08 11:40 AM	You peeople can take the mick, but it were Bookins whta gvae me the love for books, n it was the GR8est gift of all. She gvae me a tawking e-book whta has a huge amouwnt of books, like on SD cards whta slide in to give me the bestest of all her books whta I can not read. I love my Bookins and Lyra Pipkin hwta gawn and helpered me lots with my reading. We tawk bout diffrent authors, like Emily Bronte and her life of hard ship whne she walked the moors. Brontes books theys inspire me, n like Bookins whta reelates to Phil Marlow whne she was my age, so in refleckshun I can relate my erly child hood to Emily Bronte. I lisstne to all her books over n over again. And more. Cos there ent nuttin nicer thna after a long day, you put your feet up n if the telly ent good, thne get out your fave book like me. Theres heroes in evvery book you read or lissten to. But all my frneds n those here whta love me, all you is heroes, alos. With some helps I wrote this poem a long time ago. It for you. Heroes heroes are everyone. my heroes, are any one what has made me cry, or made me laugh, or made me feel I doin well or becuase you helped me to be a happir person. everyone who i has ever been mean to me, becuase you have helped me become a nicer person. anyone who has ever called me diffycult, becuase you helped me relize, just how shallow i am. whoever has ever made me laugh, becuase it added life to my spirit. anyone who has ever made me upset, becuase now Ive experienced dissatisfacshun. anyone who has ever made me feel shy, because now i am flammboyant. anyone who has ever controlled me, becuase now i can control myself. who ever that made me smile, becuase now i know how to make others smile too. anyone who has ever helped me, has tawt me how to lend a helping hand. to anyone who has used me, i have a giving, lovving heart. and, anyone who has ever let me cry on their shulder, becuase now my arms are open to others tears. anyone who has ever been a frend, that makes me frendlier to other peeople. to the enemys, and haters, for showing me that they do care, now, i care bout evveryone. anyone who has complymented me, so now, i see what others have that i dont. a hero. is someone who has had an impact on my life, good or bad, that has molded my spirit and soul to what it is today. without all you all, i wouldnt be who i am now. Thanak you for lissening to me. Love, Tara x
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TheYorkshireRambler		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 126 11-May-08 1:28 PM	That was lovely Tara (((hugs))). I do struggle to read because it takes me so long to read that I forget what I read. What I try to do is read the book then get the talking book. Eventually it makes sense. It takes me about 3 months to read a book. I do like Patricia Cornwell books.
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exstreamuser		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1168 11-May-08 2:33 PM	Oh, I've read all of hers apart from the very latest. I think they are great!
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alison		#8	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 9023 11-May-08 3:19 PM pink goddess	You've got some good classics in there. I don't think I would have appreciated "To kill a mockingbird" anywhere near as much as I did if we'd not studied it at school. That is pretty much the opposite of every other book we studied - picked to death until I hated every word in them. Since it's not been mentioned, I'll add one of my favourites - Gormanghast, by Mervyn Peake. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtenay
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Jibril Ammon		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2498 11-May-08 6:39 PM munificent member I felt so automated	I forgot about To Kill A Mockingbird, that one was a wonderful book. At the same time, I think they did a great job with the movie too, even though they had to cut so much. But the parts left in followed the book so well.
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TaraBallerina		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1 12-May-08 12:58 AM	Bookins tol me shes gonna get me the e-book Gormangast cos it is a big read to lissten to, like Shakespeare. Its on You-Tube all ready and I see the movie clips nd its jutsa the sort of movie I wnta want to see. Like the Golden Compass! Thtas annotther for my list. I lisstned to Northern Lihgts, and Suttle Knife whta was part of a trillogy of books by the GR8 Phillip Pullman. Now I been in thme three books whta include Amber Spyglass and I read thme bout 5 x now. ^_^ Now I gtg cos Bookins tol my math tutor is coming in 20 mins, its home school today you see. I am doing my fave - Math for AS Levvel. Its the BEST! Hvae a GR8 day. It luvverly to tawk to you my frends. Love, Tara xx
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favafoyo		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 428 13-May-08 6:33 AM Begging for 2 S's munificent member	A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. possibly one of my favorites. and then the Harry Potter series. Kite Runner.
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