What is your most favourite book(s)?

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Too many to properly list, but I'll try.

Kurt Vonnegut:
"Player Piano"
"Sirens of Titan"
"Breakfast of Champions"

F Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"

Ayn Rand
"The Fountainhead"
"Atlas Shrugged"

Herman Hesse
"Siddhartha"
"Beneath the Wheel"

Hunter S Thompson
"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"
"The Rum Diaries"

Robert Heinlin
"Stranger in a Strange Land"

and a ton more that I don't feel like thinking of this early.
 
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F Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
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Is this really one of your favorites? I must confess I do not share the same opinion... High School nightmares are flashing in front of me... AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!

Had to read this book in High School for English... Didnt really appeal to me to begin with and the final nail in the coffin was analyzing the bejesus out of this novel in class... Really didnt do the novel justice, since it made me hate it even more.. The symbolism of the Valley of Ashes... :rolleyes: Thank god for Cliff notes 👍 Oh and by no means is this in any offence to you... I was just expressing my experience with this novel :D
 
Do people oversees get Matthew Reilly?

Like Tom Clancy only better.

It'd have to be Ice Station - or Hover Car Racer.
 
Oh damn, those two books are awesome. Matthew Reilly is king, I cant wait to read the five greatest warriors. Ice Station was very good indeed, another good series is the Cherub series, I read them all and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island and a Walk in the Woods, both are very funny and something I can relate to. I've read both probably a half a dozen times.

Other favs include:
- The Saxon Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. A brilliantly funny book that sadly didn't get published until after the author had committed suicide.
 
Just saw that in previous post, ranting about The Great Gatsby, I forgot to list some books I DID like...

I must admit lately I have not been reading often but I do remember being a real Michael Crichton nerd when I was younger.... Loved Terminal Man, Sphere and Andromeda Strain.

Read books by Alan Watts as well... The Way of Zen is a good one. Although I like listening to his lectures more.. :)
 
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Do people oversees get Matthew Reilly?

Like Tom Clancy only better.

It'd have to be Ice Station - or Hover Car Racer.
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Yeah we do, I've only read Hover Car Racer though. It was pretty good, must say I enjoyed it whilst I was reading it. 👍

I don't tend to read book very often nowdays, tend to read some of the TG boy's books and often car/photography magazines. Need to start reading again to be perfectly honest.
 
I should also add, while they aren't really books in the modern sense, stories I rather like too.

- I love the tales from the Arthurian Legend, although I suppose I could accredit that to Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
- I also really enjoy the Norse Myths, which also could be attributed to the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda which was authored by Snorri Sturluson.

Both have to do with my heritage and I just love old tales like this that talk about a fantasy world.
 
Marine Sniper
Silent Warrior
Shooter, no relation to the movie
H.O.G.s in the Shawdows

I love sniper books :D
 
80Y 2C2
Do people oversees get Matthew Reilly?

Like Tom Clancy only better.

It'd have to be Ice Station - or Hover Car Racer.
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OMGOMGOMG, Hover Car Racer was awesome, don't ya think?
 
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Nineteen-Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
 
NISM0_SKYLINE
Marine Sniper
Silent Warrior
Shooter, no relation to the movie
H.O.G.s in the Shawdows

I love sniper books :D
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I've read Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior like girls read Twilight. Those are seriously good books. I went on a sniper book kick, there was another particularly good one, One Shot, One Kill by Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts, it tells the stories of several snipers, including Hathcock and Vasily Zaytsev, others I can't think of...

Marshalling the Faithful is another Charles Henderson book that is not too bad, but I could not get sucked into it like the Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior books.
 
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I've read Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior like girls read Twilight. Those are seriously good books. I went on a sniper book kick, there was another particularly good one, One Shot, One Kill by Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts, it tells the stories of several snipers, including Hathcock and Vasily Zaytsev, others I can't think of...

Marshalling the Faithful is another Charles Henderson book that is not too bad, but I could not get sucked into it like the Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior books.
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Yep, I read them the same way. I'm not a big reader, but I got those done quick.

I have a couple other sniper books I haven't read yet and I'll look up the other ones you mentioned.
 
LSX
I've read Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior like girls read Twilight. Those are seriously good books. I went on a sniper book kick, there was another particularly good one, One Shot, One Kill by Charles W. Sasser and Craig Roberts, it tells the stories of several snipers, including Hathcock and Vasily Zaytsev, others I can't think of...

Marshalling the Faithful is another Charles Henderson book that is not too bad, but I could not get sucked into it like the Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior books.
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By Saying the two words "One Shot", you made me think of the Lee Child Novel.
Here's the blurb:
A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd in a public plaza in a small Indiana City. Five random die in a senseless massacre. But the shooter leaves a perfect trail behind him and the police quickly track him down. his name is James Barr. It's a watertight case.

Jack Reacher is working on his tan with a Norwegian blond in Miami. He is so cool you can skate in him. but he doesnt like to stick around. He likes to be on the move. He was in the machine his whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat him out. Now he mostly rocks and sways and dozes on buses, watching the passing scene, observing the chaos of America.

After his arrest, James Barr refuses to talk. Then, to his lawyer, he utters a single phrase: 'Get Jack Reacher for me.' What past event connects this obvious psychopath with the wandering ex-cop?
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Mine would have to be Lord of the Rings and Hitchhikers Galaxy. There are probably a lot of others that would come under a 'favourite' list but both these series I will read over and over.
 
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Max Powers
Herman Hesse
"Siddhartha"
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Definitely NOT one of my favorites. Being forced to read it sophomore year in a class with a dillusional/ignorant English teacher is NOT fun IMO. But, whatever floats your boat. (Catch the connection? Boat>River>Siddhartha)

Anyway, my favorites would be:

Asimov's Foundation novels
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 in one)
2001/2010/2061/3001 (books are WAY better than the movies IMO; they really need to make 2061 and 3001 movies.)
i guess Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
 
Roadwork by Stephen King has always been one of my favorites, as is Tom Clancy's Without Remorse.
 
Clearly not many fans of the Great Gatsby here. It's been a few years since I've read it last, but I always thought of it as a very well written story with some very powerful moments in it for me anyway. Here's a few more, some inspired by posts I just read.

George Orwell
"1984"
"Animal Farm"

Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451"

Isaac Asimov
any Foundation book

John Steinbeck
"Cannery Row"
"Sweet Thursday"
"The Moon Is Down"

If I had to pick a top three out of these it would probably go

1.The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
2.Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
3. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
 
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George Orwell
"Animal Farm"
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I liked that one two... :) Makes up for The Great Gatsby :lol:

I totally forgot to mention before... one of my REAL favorites is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card...
 
Three Kingdoms
Into the Wild
The Great Gatsby
The Giver
Ender's Game
Animal Farm
 
Max Powers
Clearly not many fans of the Great Gatsby here. It's been a few years since I've read it last, but I always thought of it as a very well written story with some very powerful moments in it for me anyway.
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I think it's a brilliant book... Probably because I managed to relate to Gatsby in a rather twisted way...
 

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