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favorite all time books

what book that you read would you make you want to read again and again or just read it and like it mine are:

eragon(all time favorite)

artimas fowl(all time favorite)

harry potter

holes(all time favorite)

the magic tree house series

captain underpants

starting now are some comics

garfield

manga

foxtrot

calvin and hobbs

pickles

peanuts

get fuzzy

now the comics stop

beverly clery book

i can't think of any more so it ends here.

ps.what is a sticky?

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  • KerbouchardKerbouchard Member Posts: 106

    The walking drum, Louis L'amour.

    Sphere, Michael Chrichton

    Timeline, Michael Chrichton


    Eaters of the dead, Michael Chrichton

    The lake house, James patterson

    Tick Tock, Dean koontz

    The Windmill, Dean Koontz

    LOTR series

  • Some of my favorites are...

    The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

    Neuromancer by William Gibson 'the Sprawl Trilogy'
                             
    Count Zero

    Mona Lisa Overdrive

    The Bad Place by Dean Koonz

    The Stand by Stephen King

    Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

    The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

    Foundation by Isaac Asimov 'The Foundation Trilogy'

    Foundation and Empire

    Second Foundation

    Dune by Frank Herbert

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick

    A Scanner Darkly by Philip Dick

    Ringworld by Larry Niven

    The Stars My Destination by G. Alfred Bester

    Blood Music by Greg Bear






  • PhoenixsPhoenixs Member Posts: 2,646

    I hate lists like this. I always forget things when I list up my favourite things.

    Here are some atleast:

    Frank Herbert's Dune.

    J.R.R Tolkien: Lord of the Rings trilogy

    Henning Mankell: His Wallander books.

    Nancy Farmers: The Scorpion House (Not sure if that is the english title)

    The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

    And alot of other books covering Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thrillers and so on.





  • RefnuRefnu Member Posts: 140

    Drizzt series

    Any of the Dragonlance series.

    Elminster series

    Spiderman: Sinister Six series.

    Mainly any book written by R. A. Salvatore

    Thats all I can think of for now...

    Current: Puzzle Pirates
    Waiting: SWTOR,Aion, CO
    Played: AC, WoW, SB, EVE
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  • nero666nero666 Member Posts: 205

    what about Göthe?

    or Shakespeare?


    i think they roxx...even more then harry potter roflcopter

  • albinofreakalbinofreak Member Posts: 449

    Mine are:

    Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk. The rest of his books are all my favorites too, but I won't list them all cause that'd be dumb.

    Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway.

    Hamlet-Shakespeare.

    Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger.

    1984-George Orwell.

    Reasons to Live-Amy Hempel.

    Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane.

    The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories-HP Lovecraft.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera.

    The Stranger-Albert Camus.

  • VanillacreamVanillacream Member Posts: 344
    Anne Rice : The Witching Hours (alot better then here vampire stuff!!)
    Stephen King: The Shining
    Mario Puzo: The Godfather (all 3 also the new 4th book by Mark Winegardner was pretty good not a fav tho).
    Edgar Allan Poe: No real fav, love most of his works.



    Hmm, pretty dark picks...I must have a sinister mind. lol
  • CowinspaceCowinspace Member Posts: 671
    His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass)

    The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy triology (all five of them )

    The Silmarillion (only one of Tolkeins books I have read more than once)

    Forever War


    All of these I have read at least 4 times.


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  • AnofalyeAnofalye Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 7,433

    Lord of the Ring

    Mist of Avalon (By Marion Zimmer Bradley)

    Anne Rice vampires books (most of the them up to Queen of the Damned, pas that I lost some interest)

    Dune, Drizzt 10 books, DragonLance first trilogy all get a good mention, was pretty good as well, but try to split them in a second category.

    - "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren

  • VaterexVaterex Member UncommonPosts: 379

    Halo - First Strike (Eric Nylund)

    Halo - The Flood (William C. Dietz)

    Halo - The Fall of Reach (Eric Nylund)

    Black Hawk Down (Mark Bowden)

    Inside Delta Force (Erick L. Haney)

    Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers)

    Robot Blues (Margaret Weis & Don Perrin)

    The Scope of Justice (Michael Z. Williamson)

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  • 8hammer88hammer8 Member Posts: 1,812

    Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time series (dispite books 6-8, the last book made up for them and saved the story line)

    L.E. Modesitt - Saga of Recluse

    Frank Herbert - Dune

    J.R.R. Tolkien - LoTR series

    Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (I suggest re-reading this if you have not read it since you were young - currently reading "Life, The Universe and Everything" and my life looks at me like I am on crack every time I laugh out loud at the books.

    Ayn Rand - Anthem / Atlas Shrugged

    Michael Crichton - Andromeda Strain / Congo / Jurassic Park /(soon to read Eaters Of The Dead)

    Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code / Angels and Demons / Deception Point / Digital Fortress

    "It is easier to be cruel than wise. The road to wisdom is long and difficult... so most people just turn out to be assholes" Feng (Christopher Walken)

  • XeximaXexima Member UncommonPosts: 2,698
    Lets see...

    Anthem
    The Fountainhead>Ayn Rand

    Angels and Demons
    Da Vinci Code>Dan Brown

    Lord of the Rings(all of em)> J.R.R. Tolkien

    Chronicles of Narnia>C.S. Lewis

    The Harry Potters... for the most part.

    Farenhiet 451

    I like Madeline L'Engles books too

    well, thats All i can think of right now.



  • Vertex1980Vertex1980 Member Posts: 951
    The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck

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  • mozismozis Member Posts: 436

    The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, the single greatest Sci-Fi writer of all time.

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  • TayLynnTayLynn Member Posts: 2

    We have some well read people here ;-) ...

    a few of my favorites:

    (of course Herbert's Dune series and JR Tolkien's LOTR books those 2 go without mention)

    a few authors that haven't been mentioned:

    Melanie Rawn's DragonPrince series

    McCaffery's DragonRiders of Pern series and her Crystal Singer series

    one of my favorite authors is Patricia Kennely Morrison (widow of Jim Morrison of the Doors): All of her books are great!

  • Rreka'alRreka'al Member Posts: 450

    Peter Watts - Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth

    Tad Williams - The Otherland Series

    Heinlen - Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land

    John Marco - the Eyes of God, the Devil's armor

    Larry Niven - The Ringworld Trilogy

    The Myst series

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  • KzinKillerKzinKiller Member Posts: 625
    Many of these are 'first books' in a series, all of them have been worth at least one re-read, if not several:

    Dune, Frank Herbert

    Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson

    The Winter King, Bernard Cornwell

    Hyperion, Dan Simmons

    Ringworld, Larry Niven

    To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

    The Man In the High Castle, Philip K. Dick

    When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger

    A Distant Mirror - The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman

    Catch 22, Joseph Heller

    Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

    Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

    Gateway, Frederick Pohl

    The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. LeGuin

    Three Hearts & Three Lions, Poul Anderson

    Ill Met in Lankhmar, Fritz Leiber

    Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson




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  • AsterivethAsteriveth Member UncommonPosts: 109


    Originally posted by albinofreak

    Mine are:
    Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk. The rest of his books are all my favorites too, but I won't list them all cause that'd be dumb.
    Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway.
    Hamlet-Shakespeare.
    Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger.
    1984-George Orwell.
    Reasons to Live-Amy Hempel.
    Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane.
    The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories-HP Lovecraft.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera.
    The Stranger-Albert Camus.


    This is a fine list I would add War and Peace , Imajica, and anything by Michael Moorcock.
  • KzinKillerKzinKiller Member Posts: 625


    Originally posted by Asteriveth

    Originally posted by albinofreak

    Mine are:
    Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk. The rest of his books are all my favorites too, but I won't list them all cause that'd be dumb.
    Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway.
    Hamlet-Shakespeare.
    Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger.
    1984-George Orwell.
    Reasons to Live-Amy Hempel.
    Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane.
    The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories-HP Lovecraft.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera.
    The Stranger-Albert Camus.

    This is a fine list I would add War and Peace , Imajica, and anything by Michael Moorcock.

    Oh crap I forgot "Stormbringer" .....

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  • xxSymphonyxxxxSymphonyxx Member Posts: 194
    Twilight-Stephanie Meyer
    Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card
    Speaker for the Dead-Orson Scott Card
    It-Stephen King
    Cujo-Stephen King
    Carrie-Stephen King
    Angels and Demons-Dan Brown
    Fiend-Jemiah Jefferson
    Red October-Tom Clancy
    Patriot Games-Tom Clancy
    Splinter Cell-Tom Clancy




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  • dratinidratini Member Posts: 74
    well when it comes too books i dont read alot of books, but my favorit books is

    Lord of the rings triology
    The hitch hickers guide to the galaxy
    Døden på oslo s (Norwegian book)
    The hobbit and sirmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien


    I got two Words for you

    SUCK IT!

  • maxdomaxdo Member Posts: 284

    Books

    Hitch hickers guide to the galaxy(only read the first one)

    Alphabit of manliennises (The book is soooooo funny and it will replace the bible praz maddox) 

    Star Wars New Jedi order Stars By Stars (my favorit star wars book i read yet got over 50 read) 

    The drizzit books  

    Comics

    Walking dead vol 1 (i just read that last night in one sitting and have to say wow)  

  • cornoffcobcornoffcob Member Posts: 860
    The DaVinci Code
    Brave New World
    Farenheit 451
    We
    Anthem
    The Fountain Head
    Guns Germs and Steel



    I hope some day we can all put aside our racisms and prejudices and just laugh at people


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  • nero666nero666 Member Posts: 205

    Originally posted by KzinKiller


    Originally posted by Asteriveth
    Originally posted by albinofreak
    Mine are:
    Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk. The rest of his books are all my favorites too, but I won't list them all cause that'd be dumb.
    Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway.
    Hamlet-Shakespeare.
    Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger.
    1984-George Orwell.
    Reasons to Live-Amy Hempel.
    Red Badge of Courage-Stephen Crane.
    The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories-HP Lovecraft.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera.
    The Stranger-Albert Camus.
    This is a fine list I would add War and Peace , Imajica, and anything by Michael Moorcock.
    Oh crap I forgot "Stormbringer" .....


    sorry dude

    you quoted the guy who posted the nice books

    ...but for you you should add harry potter too

    wtf with imajica?
    barker is a kitch autor
    moorcock no comments at all

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