I want to know what your favourate books are. Now, you all should be reading because, weather you like it or not, we're all nerds. Only a person like us can waste our lives spending time trying to get to that next level, shunning ourselves in the darkness, only to emerge from the depths to feast on whatever mom made for us last night at dinner... which you didn't attend to because you were too busy playing Lusternia.

Anyhow, going off topic. What is your favourate book/book series? I've fallen in love with the House of Serpents series writen by Lisa Smedman. (For those who don't know her, she wrote the 6th book in the War of the Spider Queen series, which is the series that seriously gave critics an orgy, they thought it was so good)

I think you meant favorite (or favourite) .

Anyways, I really love Harry Potter and Love in the Time of Cholera.

Don't mock my Grammar skills!!!

YES! I Harry Potter. Can't wait for the new movie and the new book to come out!

My favourite is Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, a highly satirical novel about the end of the world.

My second favourite is Dawn, by Elie Wiesel, an absolutely beautiful novel about terrorism in Israel.

I also loved Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Patan, a novel about the oppression of blacks in South Africa, which contained some of the most amazing poetic prose I've ever read.

For fun books, Neverwhere and American Gods, both by Neil Gaiman. Also, The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. LeGuin.

For series, The Tales of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson - warning, it's HIGHLY depressing.

For plays, The Physicists, by Friedrich Durrenmatt, a play about morality, science, and insanity. Also, Zoo Story, by Edward Albee, a play from the "Theatre of the Absurd," comes very close.

For poems, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (click for text), by T.S. Eliot. Never have more beautiful words been scribed to a page, as far as I'm concerned. I've had this entire poem memorized for the past eight years, ever since I first read it. Bits of The Wasteland, also by T.S. Eliot, are also very, very good, especially this passage:


If you can't tell, I love Absurdism and Modernist works. Post-Modernism is quite interesting as well, but Modernism is so much more awesome.

I didn't really like that book, never really got into to it...

Some of my favorite books:
Anthem, by Ayn Rand
Mother Night, Timequake, and Cat's Cradle, all by Vonnegut (I liked Slaughterhouse 5, but liked those more)
Most of the books by Stephen King
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and all books in that series, by Douglas Adams

I don't really have one favorite book, and the above list isn't in order of how I rate them.

Ivory sword!

Spelling skills.

My favourite books are probably still Virginia Woolf's. I say 'still' because it's been that way for a couple of years now, and usually I'm more fickle about changing my choices. I just really like my Woolf, what can I say...

Dune.

Rush wrote an awesome song about that book, so I'll likely read it.

My Favourite books: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel - Susana Clark- It's kinda ever category of fantasy at once and just ... wow

OR

Ender's game by Orson Scott Card - Read my first copy like 8 times and brought it everywhere it fell apart so my GF bought a new one a year or so later and then I read it AGAIN Simple book, but really, really good.

Honourable mention: Bartemaous trilogy. Yes, it's for 14 - 16 year olds. Yes, you have to go to the kids section in chapters. But damn. It's good! My light reading for two days

Sword of Truth Series, Lord of the Rings and Harrypotter.

Sword of Truth is awesome, getting long though and I dont like what Terry Hoodkind did in Chainfire to be honest.

Recently discovered Neil Gaiman myself. I found American Gods to be a fairly powerful book, actually. In addition to being a fun read. I'm reading Anansi Boys now.

Books with meaning behind them...

Time Enough for Love - Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein (Not that movie! Personal responsibility FTW!)
Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank

Literature, if not a book:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Amusing stuff, I'd have to go with Terry Pratchett in general, and the first few Myth books. They got dull after a while though.

The Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Almost all books by Robin Hobb count as my favorites (Farseer Triloligy, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, Soldier's Son.)

Tad Wylliam's 'Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn' books are also books I greatly like.

I used to like George R.R. Martin's 'Song of Ice and Fire' until that last book...

The first couple of books from Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' are worth a good read, but they get bleh after a while.

House of Leaves

Midnight's Children

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Shalimar the Clown

...almost anything by Salman Rushdie actually.

Kissing in Manhattan

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë has been my favourite for a long time now.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire.

Also, much love for Hiriako and Isaac Asimov.

Can't say I have a favourite... peering into the old thread on the subject, I see myself listing Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's trilogy), Terry Pratchett (Anything discworld), Neil Gaiman (Anansi boys) and Mal2+OKR (The Principia Discordia). From there I'd like to add Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash and The Diamond Age) and Paul Graham on the nonfiction section.

I loved those. I still have my dog-eared copies of every one.

My favorites right now are by George R.R. Martin. The depth of his characters is amazing, and it is actually painful when they die. Even the wicked ones.

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