Originally posted by WulebgrJack of Shadows and Isle of the Dead would be on my reserve list too - and the Amber series starts well beofre drifting. Good to talk to the man though!
I read a few of his books a long time ago and enjoyed talking with him about fifteen years ago at a sf/fantasy convention that I happened to attend when my S.O. was a fantasy writer. His The Last Defender Of Camelot, and Other Stories would have made my top ten if you had asked the question twenty years ago.
Top 10 Books so far:
1: Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2: Catch 22, Joseph Keller
3: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
4: Dune, Frank Herbert
5: Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
6: The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
7: 1984, George Orwel
8: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
9: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Joint 10th position is shared by:
Shogun, James Clavell
Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shikasta, Dorris Lessing
Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
The King, Donald Barthelme
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Ullyses, James Joyce....
Originally posted by c99uxno more new ideas???
Top 10 Books so far:
1: Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2: Catch 22, Joseph Keller
3: War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
4: Dune, Frank Herbert
5: Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
6: The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
7: 1984, George Orwel
8: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
9: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Joint 10th position ...[text shortened]... rthelme
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Ullyses, James Joyce....
anybody like Steppenwolf by Hesse?
1. Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
3. Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell
4. Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell
5. Holy Grail Series, Bernard Cornwell
6. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
7. Catcher In the Rye, JD Salinger
8. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
9. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
10. Can't really think of anymore
in no particular order,
the remains of the day by kazou isiguro (i may have spelled his name wrong though...)
the curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon,
do butlers burgle banks? by P.G. Wodehouse,
the hitchikers guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
and to kill a mocking bird by harper lee,
fermats last theorem, simon sighn
i borrowed a book off one of my friends for some -ahem- light reading, as one of my lecturers dubbers it "the best book in the world". it was intresting, and surprisingly un-boring. can't remember what it was called though...
and some terry pratchetts too
Originally posted by genius"Hey you! Yeah you, you pasty albino freak!"
to kill a mocking bird by harper lee
"Huh? You talkin' to me?"
"Yeah I'm talkin' to you Casper, see any other freaks around?"
"I... uh... sorry, I didn't know birds could speak."
"Yeah well you could fill that massive underbite of yours with what you don't know, Poo Madley. Ha ha."
"I'll effing KILL you!"
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Originally posted by darvlayIf the book were set in modern America, Boo Radley would have been hounded out of the community as a suspected paedophile by about p30.
"Hey you! Yeah you, you pasty albino freak!"
"Huh? You talkin' to me?"
"Yeah I'm talkin' to you Casper, see any other freaks around?"
"I... uh... sorry, I didn't know birds could speak."
"Yeah well you could fill that massive underbite of yours with what you don't know, Poo Madley. Ha ha."
"I'll effing KILL you!"
Originally posted by Ramiri15thought Glass Bead Game was good but quite hard
How The Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha as our honorary Hesse representatives? Also, Lord of the Flies is another great book that hasn't been mentioned yet.
I have less stamina for difficult stuff these days (its the sound bite and comic book era)
anybody read CP Snow? I Liked Corridors of Power, Strangers and Brothers etc.