Novels (adventure And Fiction!)

[Skillian]

Very nice of you to offer Curley, but I just found a used copy on amazon.co.uk. Winging it's way to me this week for £1.75 (£4.50 with p&p). Not bad eh? Thanks for the recommendation

[Curley]

Hey, thats where I got mine from lol. I just hope you enjoy it though, I hate to think i've caused you to spend money for something you don't like!

[Skillian]

If I don't like it I will throw £4.50's worth of peanuts at you!

Seriously, picking a book is always kind of luck of the draw so I won't mind even if it doesn't turn out to be to my taste. But it does sound like my sort of thing, and even if I don't like it maybe I'll sell it on amazon and make a bit of profit!

[J'Pol]

Originally posted by Skweeky@28 April 2003 - 23:00
Catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Spider - Patrick McGrath
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
Grotesque - Patrick McGrath




those are my favourites, when I think of more, i'll post them

Kurt Vonnegut is the greatest ever American author.

Have you read "God Bless You Mr Rosewater (Pearls before Swine)" the first time I read that I was in my early teens. It is an experience I will never forget.

I also like the Discworld books, excellent and surprisingly deep stuff.

[insanebassman]

Almost anything Stephen King
Anything Piers Anthony
All the series by David Eddings
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series
Anything Asimov
Anything Terry Goodkind
Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently and Hitch Hiker series)
Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles
The Iliad
Dante's Inferno (Devin Comedy, what ever)
The Bible, Qu'ran and Kabala (SP?)
Almost any Dean Koontz
Terry Pratchet

I do not have favorite books, just authors and whatever I see that catches my fancy at the moment. (That is how I got into the Xanth series.)

Farenhiet 451 was good, as a single mention

the list continues!

[pyromonkey]

Originally posted by Skillian@28 April 2003 - 20:57
Not really adventure but "The Shining" is still my favourite book. Still creeps me out when I read it

YES YES the shining is my favorite book ever! much better than the movie... i'm still trying to find sources for the miniseries(the miniseries is supposed to stick to the book much more than the movie did)

[Skweeky]

Originally posted by JmiF+28 April 2003 - 23:51--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JmiF @ 28 April 2003 - 23:51)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Skweeky@28 April 2003 - 23:00
Catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Spider - Patrick McGrath
The Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
Grotesque - Patrick McGrath




those are my favourites, when I think of more, i&#39;ll post them

Kurt Vonnegut is the greatest ever American author.

Have you read "God Bless You Mr Rosewater (Pearls before Swine)" the first time I read that I was in my early teens. It is an experience I will never forget.

I also like the Discworld books, excellent and surprisingly deep stuff. [/b][/quote]
No, I only read two Vonnegut books so far I&#39;m afraid, can&#39;t remember the title of the other one right now.

The discworld series are just wonderful. Every time I read a book again I discover new jokes in it, just love it.

[MagicNakor]

See, more reason for a Bookworld.

I can&#39;t say I have any favourite books. It&#39;d be unfair to the other books. So here are the books that are sitting on my desk right now.

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Hitchhiker&#39;s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts - Douglas Adams
A Song of Fire and Ice (series): George R.R. Martin
Bullfinch&#39;s Mythology - Thomas Bullfinch
The Prince - Nicolo Machiavelli
Illusions - Richard Bach

[FuNkY CaPrIcOrN]

Originally posted by MagicNakor@28 April 2003 - 18:32
See, more reason for a Bookworld.

I have to agree MagicNakor.Just reading this thread has got me thinking about Books again.

Lords knows I have worried to much about Music the past year and need to maybe start moving on to other things that are not Evil like Movies are.

[Rat Faced]

Another great Author is Raymond Feist.....and his Riftwar Saga ie Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness in Sethanon.

He&#39;s wrote loads of great books based on this world, but you need to read that set of books first.