What are your favorite books?

[wolverine]

I noticed a comment in another thread about ppl who don't read. I love a good novel myself. Some of my all-time favorites:
- "microserfs" by Douglas Coupland
- "American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis
- "Books of Blood" by Clive Barker
- "The Best a Man Can Get" by John O'Farrell
- "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
- "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby
- "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby
- "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
- "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk
- "Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien
- "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien
- "DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown
- "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown

 

[lenny]

I prefer paperbacks like the Georgia Straight.

Especially the last few pages...

 

[georgebushmoron]

I'm illiterate.

 

[ghostie]

a bit more of the perb stereotype out the window

wolverine, you and I might be the only two of a kind on this board.

Not trying set myself apart, just stating what seems to be the case:

The 10 books on the shelf nearest to where my computer is are:

"Monkey Beach" Eden Robinson (B.C. authour)
"Regeneration" Pat Barker
"Resistance, Rebellion and Death" Albert Camus
"Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison
"Tracks" Lousie Erdrich
"Amerika" Franz Kaftka
"The Art of the Novel" Milan Kundera
"My Traitor's Heart" Rian Malan
"Billy Budd, Sailor" Herman Melville
"Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov

 

[hitrack]

Ya know it really sucks but I really don't read books.....at all.

Just don't have the friggen patience to sit and pass time reading.

 

[georgebushmoron]

Ya know it really sucks but I really don't read books.....at all.

Just don't have the friggen patience to sit and pass time reading.

Why don't you try reading while getting a blowjob?

 

[Verb]

The hannibal series...but RED DRAGON is my fav....

 

[hitrack]

Why don't you try reading while getting a blowjob?

Perhaps with the appropriate tutor I might read more.

 

[lenny]

I'm illiterate.

Mr. Bush,

Maybe comedian would be a more suitable occupation for you...

 

[Dakota Wood]

The Stand (complete and uncut) - Stephen King
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
The Blooding - Joseph Wambaugh
Bare Naked Ladies-Public Stunts, Private Stories - Paul Myers
It's Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
The Art of Happiness-A Handbook for Living - Dalai Lama

 

[lenny]

Playboy...

Good reading...

 

[Gruss-ly]

"Les Miserables" Victor Hugo
"Rich Man Poor Man" Irwin Shaw
"Testimony of Two Men" Taylor Cadwell
"Of Human Bondage" Somerset Maugham
"Arrowsmith" Sinclair Lewis
"The Chrysalids" ? can't remember

"Tai Pan"
"Nobel House"
"Shogun"
"King Rat" James Clavell

"Hawaii"
"Space"
"Caravans"
"The Drifters" James Michener


"The Matt Helm series" Donald Hamilton
"The Travis Macgee series" John D Macdonald

"The Power of One" Bryce Courtnay


"Bully for Brontosaurus" Steven Jay Gould

 

[zlmmm]

Books are the cheapest entertainment around

The Stand / IT by Stephen King

The Bourne Trilogy (Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum), Icarus Agenda and Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum

Titanic / Sahara / Inca Gold by Clive Cussler [The Movie Sahara really sucked IMOHO.]

The Gold Coast / Plum Island by Nelson Demille

The Firm / Runaway Jury by John Grisham

Watchers / Strangers / Lightning by Dean Koontz

Jurassic Park by Michael Crighton

Some of the old Blackford Oaks novels by W. F. Buckley (great historical fiction / early Cold War espionage)

Snow Crash by Neil Stehpenson

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Trip by Tom Wolfe

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

On The Road by Jack Keroac

 

[Herb_The_Perb]

Mr. Bush,
Maybe comedian would be a more suitable occupation for you...

Being a comedian is hard work.

 

[sirlickheralot]

Cat in the Hat

 

[noneasgood]

I don't read as many books as I use to but that's because The Economist comes once a week and that's almost a book in itself.

Excellent magazine if you want to keep up on world events.


Books I've read include:

When I was a teenager - Most of Louis L'Amours books

About 10 years ago mostly fiction

The Stand (many other King books)
The Bourne Trilogy (most of Ludlums books)

About 5 years ago (mostly mob related bios)

Every Mafia book you can imagine, ie Goodfellows, Contract Killer

Game Misconduct - Alan Eagleson and the corruption of hockey Russ Conway

Last couple of years. (mostly Bios)

Across The Great Divide - The Band bio - Barney Hoskyns

Last of the good ol boys (Ronnie Hawkins) Peter Goddard

This Wheel's on Fire (bio of Levon Helm, member of The Band) Stephen Davis

Unforgiveable Blackness (boxing book about Jack Johnson) Geoffrey Ward

A Flame of Pure Fire (Bio on Jack Dempsey) Roger Kahn

Pure Dynamite, Bio on Tom Billington (Dynamite Kid)

Taking to the Matt (bio on Hart Brothers and company)

Most recently

Plan of Attack - Bob Woodward

Clinton's autobiography - Early Years

 

[The Lizard King]

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzche
No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugerman
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

 

[Sunset]

A few of my favorites are:

The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint Exupery

A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

Nonlinear Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
by Ferdinand Verhulst

Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov

 

[S.G. Gibson]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet.

Most of the books I read are non-fiction usually related to my career etc. I just find reading fiction boring. When I am learning something I am interested.

 

[JustAGuy]

Anything written by Thomas Hardy or Hunter S. Thompson.