Favourite books

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What are some of your favourite books? No, comics and magazines dont count, plays do.

Mine in no order:

- Fate is the Hunter: Ernest K. Gann (a memoir of his time as a army airline pilot before and during WWII)

- 1984: George Orwell

- Those Who Fall: John Muirhead (Memoir of B17 pilots missions over Austria/Germany and Romania)

- The Last Enemy: Richard Hillary (Memoir of Hurricane pilot in WWII. He died before it was published.)

- Three Corvettes: Nicolas Monserrat (Diary of experiences aboard navy corvettes in WWII)
 
1984 was entirely too depressing.
I don't read a lot, but I've read most of Michael Crichton's books. 'Timeline' is definitely my favorite book by him, but I also really enjoyed the original 'Jurassic Park' and more recently 'Prey'.


-Mark
 
South - Ernest Shackelton

written from the notes of the explorer himself, it tells the story of the Trans-antarctic expedition of 1914 which ended in disaster when the Endurance got curshed my ice and sank and the whole crew had to get from the frozen wastes of Antartica back to civilisation without food or supplies or a radio....

its a true story and a stunning account of courage and leadership,

and ofcourse my great great grandfather was on the expedition and was one of the original rescue party that went back for the men once help was reached....i heartily reccomend it.
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I read Fate is the Hunter a month ago and really enjoyed it.

Neal Stephenson is a good author - his Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash are both excellent. While we're on the future-noir theme, Neuromancer by William Gibson is awesome.

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is probably the funniest thing I've ever read.

I don't read fiction much any more, I would recommend Flat Out Flat Broke, and Piers Courage: Last of the Genlemen Racers as really good motor racing books.
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie

I don't read fiction much any more, I would recommend Flat Out Flat Broke, and Piers Courage: Last of the Genlemen Racers as really good motor racing books.
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I dont touch fiction either.

Say, who are the authors of Flat Out and Piers Courage?


EDIT: Gasp - I omitted Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Brilliant too.
 
Flat Out Flat Broke is Perry McCarthy's autobiography.

Last of the Gentlemen Racers was written by Adam Cooper.
 
1984 - Orwell
Frankenstein - Shelly
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
Story of the Eye - Bataille
The Sheltering Sky - Bowles
 
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Stand (uncut version) - Stephen King
The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Once... - James Herbert

I read a lot, so narrowing it down is hard. It'd be easier for me to just list favourite authors...
 
Dune (The entire series from Frank Herbert - not his son). Dune was just soooo awesome. Hands down, this is my favourite series of all time. Oh, and yea, the 5 or so books are all interrelated so the story is continued from book to book.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...i gotta reread it, it's been too long. But it was pretty funny - in an odd sort of way :p.

Encounter With Tiber - Buzz Aldrin; i just loved this book. i managed to finish all 600 or so pages in like 2 days

Sigma Protocol - Robert Ludlum; again, i was glued to the book for the 2 days it took me to read it. i can't reccomend this book enough
 

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