The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy!!! All 5 books.
heh...im reading the first one...it's pretty damn funny ^.^
heh...im reading the first one...it's pretty damn funny ^.^
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heh...im reading the first one...it's pretty damn funny ^.^
Playboy, Penthouse.. Hustler.. the list goes on..
Seriously Anything by Dean Koontz, John Grisholm and Stephen King.. those are my favorite authors
Ooh, goodness, I have so many favourite books! It'd be much easier for me to list things by author than book...so here goes:
(1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia.
(2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too!
(3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too.
(4) Oscare Wilde - A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and of course, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(5) Moliere and Shakespeare probably tie here. I just really enjoy reading their works. The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Tartuffe, and The Misanthrope are just awesome.
(6) J.R.R. Tolkien - Duh. I love Smith of Wootton Major and Roverandom. That's not to say that I don't adore all of his other works, because I do. I just think those are brilliant, for him.
(7) J.K. Rowling - The whole series was genius. She may not be the best grammatically, but her storytelling is definitely top-notch. And she's better than anyone else I've read at including layer after layer of detail that never gets picked up in her writing. I've learned more about alchemy from her....
(8) H. Rider Haggard, L.M. Montgomery, Lemony Snickets, Gaston Leroux, Cervantes, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and Alexandre Dumas all get honorary mention. Because they're awesome, but I think my list is too long already. Oh yeah, Patrick O'Brian and Ted Dekker are great too, and Frank Perretti. And Francis Schaeffer. Yeah.
Ja ne!
(1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia.
(2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too!
(3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too.
(4) Oscare Wilde - A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and of course, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(5) Moliere and Shakespeare probably tie here. I just really enjoy reading their works. The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Tartuffe, and The Misanthrope are just awesome.
(6) J.R.R. Tolkien - Duh. I love Smith of Wootton Major and Roverandom. That's not to say that I don't adore all of his other works, because I do. I just think those are brilliant, for him.
(7) J.K. Rowling - The whole series was genius. She may not be the best grammatically, but her storytelling is definitely top-notch. And she's better than anyone else I've read at including layer after layer of detail that never gets picked up in her writing. I've learned more about alchemy from her....
(8) H. Rider Haggard, L.M. Montgomery, Lemony Snickets, Gaston Leroux, Cervantes, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and Alexandre Dumas all get honorary mention. Because they're awesome, but I think my list is too long already. Oh yeah, Patrick O'Brian and Ted Dekker are great too, and Frank Perretti. And Francis Schaeffer. Yeah.
Ja ne!
(7) J.K. Rowling - The whole series was genius. She may not be the best grammatically, but her storytelling is definitely top-notch. And she's better than anyone else I've read at including layer after layer of detail that never gets picked up in her writing. I've learned more about alchemy from her....
I think the grammatical part is what makes the conversations very interesting, in how she makes them sound. After all, the characters ARE British!
Ki o tsukete.
" Various selections from George Orwell"
...Alli's only saying that to cunningly cover the fact that she's never read any of Eric's books and doesn't want to tie herself down to answering specific questions about them...
:-)"
- As ever, you are too clever to be tricked, Paul! ;^)
"1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia."
- I agree with you there, MetzgerR. He is an awesome writer.
"(2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too!"
- I also enjoy Jane Austen's work. Right now I am reading Sense and Sensibility for my British Lit class (we had a choice between a couple of female authors and I chose to read this book). I was a bit disappointed I couldn't choose "Pride and Prejudice" because that is my favorite of her work. :^)
"(3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too."
- Have you ever read "The Birthmark" by Hawthorne? It is an interesting little short story and tragic in Hawthorne's own way.
Agreed about Frank Peretti, too. :^) lol
I have to add Roald Dahl to my list. Loved his work since I was little and I enjoy both his adult and children's books even now.
Also I think Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" should be added to my list. I had to read it for American Lit (although I had wanted to read it before then, but never got around to it) and it is the first book that I can recall making me cry. It's a very effective and powerful book.
...Alli's only saying that to cunningly cover the fact that she's never read any of Eric's books and doesn't want to tie herself down to answering specific questions about them...
:-)"
- As ever, you are too clever to be tricked, Paul! ;^)
"1) C.S. Lewis - I especially love his nonfiction and adult fiction (The Abolition of Man, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, Reflections on the Psalms, Surprised By Joy, The Four Loves, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, The Business of Heaven), as well as The Chronicles of Narnia."
- I agree with you there, MetzgerR. He is an awesome writer.
"(2) Jane Austen - Everything by her, though Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey are probably my favourites. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park are wonderful too!"
- I also enjoy Jane Austen's work. Right now I am reading Sense and Sensibility for my British Lit class (we had a choice between a couple of female authors and I chose to read this book). I was a bit disappointed I couldn't choose "Pride and Prejudice" because that is my favorite of her work. :^)
"(3) Nathaniel Hawthorne - I think I was the only person in my lit class to actually enjoy reading The Scarlett Letter, which I adored. I also really like The Minister's Black Veil, and The Blithedale Romance. The House of Seven Gables was great, too."
- Have you ever read "The Birthmark" by Hawthorne? It is an interesting little short story and tragic in Hawthorne's own way.
Agreed about Frank Peretti, too. :^) lol
I have to add Roald Dahl to my list. Loved his work since I was little and I enjoy both his adult and children's books even now.
Also I think Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" should be added to my list. I had to read it for American Lit (although I had wanted to read it before then, but never got around to it) and it is the first book that I can recall making me cry. It's a very effective and powerful book.
A child called it - Dave Pelzer
The lord of the rings - Tolkien
No Irish, Blacks or Dogs - John Lydon
2001 Space Odyssey Trilogy - Arthur C Clark.
The Bible.
I have loads more just can't think of them all.
whoa Johnny Rotten did a book?
I know that my absolute favorite book in the world is Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. So exciting! I love that book and highly reccomend it! :D
Other than that though, I like ... The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, The Hitchhiker's Guide, The Canterbury Tales, A Spaniard in the Works, Dracula, Bridget Jones (both) and, let's say ... C'est Qui?
The Picture of Dorian Gray was good, but the end was too predicible and very lame in my opinion. It's a good novel, just not the end. Oscar had a good thing going with Dorian. I don't think he fulfilled it to it's potential. Shame. Oh well.
Well, that seems to be what I can come up with.
Oh Wait! How could I forget America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. Hilarious :D
Okay, NOW I'm done. :)
Other than that though, I like ... The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi, The Hitchhiker's Guide, The Canterbury Tales, A Spaniard in the Works, Dracula, Bridget Jones (both) and, let's say ... C'est Qui?
The Picture of Dorian Gray was good, but the end was too predicible and very lame in my opinion. It's a good novel, just not the end. Oscar had a good thing going with Dorian. I don't think he fulfilled it to it's potential. Shame. Oh well.
Well, that seems to be what I can come up with.
Oh Wait! How could I forget America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. Hilarious :D
Okay, NOW I'm done. :)
(8)...Gaston Leroux
Thank you! Someone else who likes his works! By mentioning him, have you by any chance read "The Phantom of the Opera"?
OH YEAH! My favourite books...
Well, I have a TON of favourite books, so I'll just name a few.
1- "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux (hehe bet you never expected that one)
2- "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" by General Lew Wallace
3- "Elwood's Blues" by Dan Aykroyd and... uh... momentary blank. Can't remember the other guy's name... when I do I'll edit this.
4- the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
5- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare (it counts because we read it in a book)
6- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
7- "Superstitious" by R.L. Stine
I can't think of others right now. If I do, I'll post them.