Just curious to know what the GB community looks like literature-wise. So yeah, what's your favorite book? Please keep lists to a maximum of two choices (I know its hard, but we don't need thirty people posting ten book long lists). As for me? Definitely The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Anything Robert Ludlum or Frederick Forsyth I'm a fan of. No true favorites, really. I have read way too many novels and in all honesty can hardly remember half of them. The Road was a fantastic book.
If you haven't read the book, do so now. It's a cracking technofear thriller that was severely watered down into a 'OOOOH LOOK AT CGI' movie.
That said, it does contain THE most annoying character ever written. That little girl whinged her way through the entire book so much so that you want to throw the fucking book into a fire.
If you haven't read the book, do so now. It's a cracking technofear thriller that was severely watered down into a 'OOOOH LOOK AT CGI' movie.
That said, it does contain THE most annoying character ever written. That little girl whinged her way through the entire book so much so that you want to throw the fucking book into a fire."
I don't care what people say about Michael Crichton's later work, that dude wrote a damn good technothriller with Jurassic Park. Really good book.
There's no way I could ever pin this down to two choices. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad would be up there, as would John Steinbeck's To A God Unknown. Goddamn, maybe Hemingway's A Movable Feast.
Choosing just two is too hard. I mostly read Fantasy stuff so anything from Robert Jordans WoT series does it for me and anything Raymond Feist pre Serpent War Saga as well. Then you got your Tolkiens, Eddings and Salvatores etc.
"Just got done reading these two, they aren't my favorites but they are damn good, they are definitely recommended.
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I was going to get out Hitlers Priests from the libarary, so if you reccomend it I will definately get it."
Hitler had his own pope and quoted Martin Luther many times when proclaiming that Jews were a vial race, I would go on, but the book explains it better, shit is crazy.
For me, probably The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck and The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I recognize that most people tend to love other Steinbeck books more than The Moon is Down, but I personally found it to be a more enjoyable and poignant work than some of his other stuff. As for The Catcher and the Rye, really, a number of Salinger's works could go in there, too, if you were to count his short stories. Having said that, I picked what I did predominantly because I ended up reading it during an especially pivotal time in my life and, as someone who hopes to one day write a novel as well, I also find it to be one of the gold standards of American literature and its influence on my fictional compositions probably can't be overestimated.
"Watchmen isn't a novel so it isn't considered a book"
Bad joke post? If not:
A book is a set or collection of written, printed,illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
(Wikipedia)
More or less directed at the "omg, comics aren't novels/books!!!11" people. not so much jimbo. Sorta. :p
To all those who said 1984, it is a plagiarised work and shouldn't get any of the acclaim people give it. It's entirely ripped off from Zamyatin's 'We'. Don't support this plagiarism!
I liek captain unddeeeerrrppaaannntttss!!!!!1111! :D In all seriousness though, One of my favorites is Black Hawk Down; however, I've really have enjoyed the Mass Effect books, Revelation and Ascension.
"To all those who said 1984, it is a plagiarised work and shouldn't get any of the acclaim people give it. It's entirely ripped off from Zamyatin's 'We'. Don't support this plagiarism!"
Isn't We somewhat more sci-fi? And 1984, Brave New World and We are all regarded as the Triforce of dystopian society books, they didn't rip each other off.
I like Harry Potter and LotR...I know, clishe, but I love what is essentially a really looooooong book (each series is thousands of pages, I love detail and being immersed in a world). Otherwise I'd say Carl Sagan, mostly A Demon Haunted World.
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